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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Failure in the `gcov` processing `find` command, whose test is AWOL","articleBody":"The `gcov` processing command issued by `codecov` contains malformed `find` predicates, and always fails. The failure looks like this:\r\n\r\n![Screen Shot 2020-04-08 at 1 45 10 AM](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/378969/78748792-dceff980-793a-11ea-84c6-c059c0c836c4.jpg)\r\n\r\n… this is on macOS, which offers BSD `find` as the default. I verified the failure by [installing GNU `findutils` with Homebrew](https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/findutils#default) and changing a local clone of `codecov` to use that (as `/usr/local/bin/gfind`) – the error message is slightly more helpful:\r\n\r\n```bash\r\n`/usr/local/bin/gfind /Users/fish/Dropbox/CLU/clu -not -path './bower_components/**' -not -path './node_modules/**' -not -path './vendor/**' -type f -name *.gcno  -exec gcov -pb  {} +` exited with status 1, error: “gfind: paths must precede expression: `'”\r\n```\r\n\r\n… the relevant `gcov`-related test is, I think, the only test in the `codecov` suite that is [completely commented out and skipped](https://github.com/codecov/codecov-python/blob/800d1ad035e65987b094781bb328fb06e1c0e8a1/tests/test.py#L250-L259):\r\n\r\n```python\r\n    def test_gcov(self):\r\n        self.skipTest(\"Need to fix this test...\")\r\n        # if self._env.get('TRAVIS') == 'true':\r\n        #     self.write_c()\r\n        #     output = self.run_cli(token='a', branch='b', commit='c')\r\n        #     self.assertEqual(os.path.exists('hello.c.gcov'), True)\r\n        #     report = output['reports'].split('\u003c\u003c\u003c\u003c\u003c\u003c network\\n')[1].splitlines()\r\n        #     self.assertIn('hello.c.gcov', report[0])\r\n        # else:\r\n        #     self.skipTest(\"Skipped, works on Travis only.\")\r\n```\r\n\r\n… which suggests at least an acknowledgement of the problem, if not a genesis of same.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/fish2000","@type":"Person","name":"fish2000"},"datePublished":"2020-04-08T05:59:19.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":4},"url":"https://github.com/247/codecov-python/issues/247"}