From 407fbfbd3125fa714ed7c95dd248e96cd5b581a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Olly Betts <olly@survex.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 18:33:59 +1300
Subject: [PATCH] Recommend lcov 1.11 as it uses much less memory

---
 xapian-core/HACKING | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/xapian-core/HACKING b/xapian-core/HACKING
index b5e4907eb..bf09f0894 100644
--- a/xapian-core/HACKING
+++ b/xapian-core/HACKING
@@ -278,6 +278,9 @@ targets:
 
     make coverage-check GENHTML_ARGS=--html-gzip
 
+You ideally want lcov 1.11 or later, since 1.11 includes patches to reduce
+memory usage significantly - lcov 1.10 would run out of memory in a 1GB VM.
+
 If you have runes for using other tools, please add them above, or send them
 to us so we can.
 
-- 
2.11.4.GIT