I have ubuntu 18.04 and I had gcc version 7 on there.
I updated gcc to version 8 using alternatives and slaved my gcov version to gcc also to keep them compatible (which worked nicley), but gcovr itself is stuck at version 3.4 and it needs to be ~version 4.x
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-7 700 \
--slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-7 \
--slave /usr/bin/gcov gcov /usr/bin/gcov-7
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-8 800 \
--slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-8 \
--slave /usr/bin/gcov gcov /usr/bin/gcov-8
I had a bit of a dig around and I think gcovr i sjust a python script. I have python 2.7 installed and I also have python .36 installed.
I tried installing gcovr with pip:
sudo -H pip install gcovr
Requirement already satisfied: gcovr in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
This website shows the versions I need: here
Here is the relevant table:
Python gcovr
2.6 3.4
3.4 4.1
So I know what I want and where I need to get to, but I don't know how to get there. I think my pip install command invokes python 2.7 pip (my python knowledge is basically zero) so I get the feeling I need to invoke pip for python 3.6 to get the gcovr version I want (could be way off here). Knowing that I have various versions of python, it looks like my default version is 2.7: python --version: 2.7
Any clues how I can get gcovr updated (and maybe even my python version to default to 3.x)?
Update 1
I got a tiny bit further. I installed python alternatives:
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python2 1
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3 2
Now I can swtich between python 2.x and 3.x. When I set python to 3.x and try to install gcovr I get:
sudo -H pip install gcovr
Collecting gcovr
Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:852)'),)': /simple/gcovr/
Retrying (Retry(total=3, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:852)'),)': /simple/gcovr/
Retrying (Retry(total=2, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:852)'),)': /simple/gcovr/
Retrying (Retry(total=1, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:852)'),)': /simple/gcovr/
Retrying (Retry(total=0, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:852)'),)': /simple/gcovr/
Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement gcovr (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for gcovr
I suppose I could just download a newer version of the gcovr script...