rtems-tools: coverage covoar GSoC merge

[Joel Sherrill]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2018, 3:08 AM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This patch is the covoar work from GSOC that I have simplied so symbol
> loading
> from the component libraries is managed by an INI file that defines the
> symbol
> set that is directly loaded from the archive ELF files in the archive by
> the RLD
> toolkit code.
>
> I detect the build target and BSP from the test executable's path as the
> test and the libraries need to match. This dependence is important and
> needed.
>
> Some of the rtems-test support that was in the orignal patches has been
> reworked
> but it needs other changes I do not have for me to test.
>
> Finally, covoar needs to be fix before we do anything else. It is exec'ing
> shell
> commands with redirects, pipes and embeddied command like `dos2unix` which
> cannot stay. There is no dos2unix command in a standard FreeBSD install and
> this means I cannot run covoar. All exec calls need to be review and
> cleaned up.
>

You mentioned the addr2line usage to me. Can the elf library do that
functionality?

What else is there? I am out of town without a computer

Fwiw this was written before we had the elf library and Ian recommended
parsing the output of binutils because that was a stable thing.

>
> Chris
>
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