Rake fails with rcov warning for getc

[dchelimsky]

The following rcov issue was reported to rspec-core (http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/issues/19):

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If I comment out line 340 in rcov, it works:

Zlib::GzipReader.open(file){|gz| old_data = Marshal.load(gz) }

Stack trace below:

/Users/coreyhaines/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p249/bin/ruby -I "/Users/coreyhaines/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p249/gems/cucumber-0.6.4/lib:lib" -S rcov -Ilib -Ispec --exclude "mocks,expectations,gems/,features,spec/ruby_forker,spec/rspec,spec/resources,spec/lib,spec/spec_helper.rb,db/,/Library/Ruby/,config/" --text-report --sort coverage --aggregate coverage.data "/Users/coreyhaines/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p249/gems/cucumber-0.6.4/bin/cucumber" -- --format progress /Users/coreyhaines/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p249/gems/rcov-0.9.8/bin/rcov:340: warning: getc is obsolete; use STDIN.getc instead

[abedra]

Does this happen all the time, or is there certain things that provoke it? Is there a small sample app that can demonstrate this? I will make sure to fix the warning sometime today or tomorrow, but I would like to make sure I get the real issue taken care of asap.

[dchelimsky]

I just moved it over from rspec's issues :) Haven't actually reproduced it on my own machine, but my recollection is it had to do with an old version of zlib. See http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core/issues/issue/18 for more context - I think they're related.

[abedra]

We might be able to do away with that LoC all together. I need to look a the code a little more and make sure i'm not missing something important, but I don't think this is even necessary anymore.

[abedra]

Update: It looks like there are still some corner cases where this is useful and required. I will see what I can do about making this work. A sample application would be really helpful in making sure I get things patched up.

[abedra]

I'm interested to see if this is still an issue. @dchelimsky can we chat about this sometime soon?