From: Jan Stancek on gitlab.com
https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/1433#note_709281351
> I am not sure if that hides other things that should be enabled
It does, but gcov was always best-effort kind of feature. It's not built by
default in ARK or RHEL. So I didn't think
From: Don Zickus on gitlab.com
https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/1433#note_708131064
@jstancek - i tried to spend about a half hour thinking about this. As I saw
other config changes using 'sed' in the kernel.spec file, I thought about
using something like kernel.local
From: Jan Stancek on gitlab.com
https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/1433#note_707987552
I'm exploring the idea of new config variant, so far ran into !1436 and !1437
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From: Jan Stancek on gitlab.com
https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/1433#note_706658593
I think reason for handling this as build option (in spec file) was that you
could build everything from one srpm. Right now we have 'generic' and 'debug'
config variants, we could add
From: Don Zickus on gitlab.com
https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/1433#note_706578162
I ran into this too. I am not a fan of this approach. It solves the problem,
sure. However, part of the problem is that the gcov stuff is hidden behind
the spec file magic. This makes
From: Jan Stancek
redhat: relax configchecks for gcov build
gcov build patches config file during build, which can lead to
configchecks failing with either unset variable or because it
finds a difference between options in source tree and buildroot.
Relax the check for gcov builds to prevent
