kcov crashes on ubuntu-latest: kcov: error while loading shared libraries: libopcodes-2.38-system.so

[kforner]

Here's my github actions script:

jobs:
  build:
    name: Build on ${{ matrix.os }}
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    strategy:
      matrix:
        include:
          # - os:  windows-2022
          #   compiler: msvc
          - os: windows-latest
            compiler: gcc 
          - os: ubuntu-latest
          - os: macos-latest

    steps:

    #checkout the git repo
    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
    
    # install common c++ software: here gcc, cmake, make, git...
    - name: Setup Cpp
      uses: aminya/setup-cpp@v1
      with:
        compiler: ${{ matrix.compiler }}
        cmake: true
        make: true
        kcov: true

when executing on Linux I get:

 kcov: error while loading shared libraries: libopcodes-2.38-system.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Digging a bit I see that kcov is installed via:

   Installing kcov v42 x64 via direct downloading
  Download kcov v42
  Trying https://github.com/SimonKagstrom/kcov/releases/download/v42/kcov-amd64.tar.gz #1 at 1:31:49 PM
  Extracting /home/runner/work/_temp/1758115909109-setup-cpp-kcov-amd64.tar.gz to /home/runner/kcov
  tar already installed at /usr/bin/tar
  Add /home/runner/kcov/usr/local/bin to PATH
  Installing libbinutils  via apt-get

From what I understand the libbinutils deb package is supposed to install that libopcodes-2.38-system.so lib.

But I checked on ubuntu-24.04, the libopcodes version is 2.42: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopcodes-2.42-system.so so that is the explanation.

In order to fix it, maybe do a static build to be more independent?