I try to install gcov to be able to generate coverage reports. I'm on machine Ubuntu 19.04 and have installed gcov-8, which is working pretty well.
The problem is (as I can understand) that lcov tries to use gcov instead gcov-8. If I install gcc-9, the gcov is going to be installed, but in this case, I'm getting version mismatch problems.
Can anyone help me to figure out what to do to?
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On Ubuntu there is a standard approach using update-alternatives command
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcov gcov /usr/bin/gcov-8 800
Which is basically almost the same as creating a symlink from /usr/bin/gcov to /usr/bin/gcov-8, but has better maintainability
800 is just a random number, "priority" which will make sense only when you have several alternatives
The problem resolved. Just removed and reinstalled
gcc.