A recent gettext release (0.25 via Homebrew) installs the M4 macros in a
different location (<prefix>/share/gettext/m4 instead of
<prefix>/share/aclocal). According to the commit messages to avoid "bad
interactions between autoreconf and autopoint". Since we only depend
on gettext for that macro and this move makes it complicated, we can also
just integrate the macro from gnulib directly (which gettext 0.18+ relies
on anyway).
This configure flag enables lcov [1] coverage generation and is intended
to be used with unit tests (--enable-unit-tests is implied).
A html coverage report can be generated by issuing the following command
in the toplevel build directory:
make coverage
[1] - http://ltp.sourceforge.net/coverage/lcov.php
Based on a patch by Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger.
This configure option enables check-based unit testing. Check is a unit
test framework for C [1].
The unit tests can be executed by issuing the following command in the
toplevel build directory:
make check
[1] - http://check.sourceforge.net/
