diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 72b0d16..00d6405 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,49 +1,25 @@
-# xo-stringliteral/CMakeLists.txt
+# xo-flatstring/CMakeLists.txt
 
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.25)
 
 project(xo_flatstring VERSION 1.0)
-enable_language(CXX)
+#enable_language(CXX)
 
 # common XO cmake macros (see proj/xo-cmake)
 include(GNUInstallDirs)
 include(cmake/xo-bootstrap-macros.cmake)
 
-# ----------------------------------------------------------------
-# unit test setup
+xo_cxx_toplevel_options2()
 
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------
+# unit test + coverage setup
+#
 enable_testing()
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------
 # cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=coverage
-
-if (NOT DEFINED PROJECT_CXX_FLAGS_COVERAGE)
-    # note: for clang would use -fprofile-instr-generate -fcoverage-mapping here instead and also at link time
-    set(PROJECT_CXX_FLAGS_COVERAGE ${PROJECT_CXX_FLAGS} -ggdb -Og -fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage
-        CACHE STRING "coverage c++ compiler flags")
-endif()
-message("-- PROJECT_CXX_FLAGS_COVERAGE: coverage c++ flags are [${PROJECT_CXX_FLAGS_COVERAGE}]")
-
-add_compile_options("$<$<CONFIG:COVERAGE>:${PROJECT_CXX_FLAGS_COVERAGE}>")
-# when -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=coverage, link executables with gcov
-link_libraries("$<$<CONFIG:COVERAGE>:gcov>")
-
-find_program(LCOV_EXECUTABLE NAMES lcov)
-find_program(GENHTML_EXECUTABLE NAMES genhtml)
-
-# with coverage build:
-# 1. invoke instrumented executables for which you want coverage:
-#     (cd path/to/build && ctest)
-# 2. post-process low-level coverage data
-#     (path/to/build/gen-ccov)
-# 3. point browser to generated html data
-#     file:///path/to/build/ccov/html/index.html
 #
-configure_file(
-    ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/gen-ccov.in
-    ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/gen-ccov)
-
-file(CHMOD ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/gen-ccov PERMISSIONS OWNER_READ OWNER_EXECUTE GROUP_READ GROUP_EXECUTE WORLD_READ WORLD_EXECUTE)
+xo_toplevel_coverage_config2()
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------
 # c++ settings
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 344cead..20bc516 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ $ cmake --install .build
 $ cd xo-flatstring
 $ cmake --build .build -- docs
 ```
+
+Must invoke `docs` target explicitly to prepare documentation
 When complete, point local browser to `xo-flatstring/.build/docs/sphinx/index.html`
 
 ### build with test coverage
@@ -70,7 +72,12 @@ generate html+text coverage report
 $ cmake --build .build-ccov -- ccov
 ```
 
-browse to `.build-ccov/ccov/html/index.html`
+For html test coverage browse to `.build-ccov/ccov/html/index.html`
+
+install documentation only, along with test-coverage report
+```
+$ cmake --install .build-ccov --component Documentation
+```
 
 ### LSP support
 ```
diff --git a/cmake/gen-ccov.in b/cmake/gen-ccov.in
deleted file mode 100644
index e335aed..0000000
--- a/cmake/gen-ccov.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-srcdir=@PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR@
-builddir=@PROJECT_BINARY_DIR@
-lcov=@LCOV_EXECUTABLE@
-genhtml=@GENHTML_EXECUTABLE@
-
-if [[ $lcov == "LCOV_EXECUTABLE-NOTFOUND" ]]; then
-    echo "gen-ccov: lcov executable not found"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-if [[ $genhtml == "GENHTML_EXECUTABLE-NOTFOUND" ]]; then
-    echo "gen-ccov: genhtml executable not found"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-mkdir $builddir/ccov
-
-$srcdir/cmake/lcov-harness $srcdir $builddir $builddir/ccov/out $lcov $genhtml
diff --git a/cmake/lcov-harness b/cmake/lcov-harness
deleted file mode 100755
index 27ac8be..0000000
--- a/cmake/lcov-harness
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,114 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-srcdir=$1
-builddir=$2
-outputstem=$3
-lcov=$4
-genhtml=$5
-
-if [[ -z "${srcdir}" ]]; then
-    echo "lcov-harness: expected non-empty srcdir"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-if [[ -z ${builddir} ]]; then
-    echo "lcov-harness: expected non-empty builddir"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-if [[ -z ${outputstem} ]]; then
-    echo "lcov-harness: expected non-empty outputstem"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-if [[ -z ${lcov} ]]; then
-    echo "lcov-harness: exepcted non-empty lcov"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-if [[ -z ${genhtml} ]]; then
-    echo "lcov-harness: expected non-empty genhtml"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-# directory stems for location of {.gcda, gcno} coverage information,
-#
-# if we have source tree:
-#
-#   ${srcdir}
-#   +- foo
-#   |  \- foo.cpp
-#   \- bar
-#      \- quux
-#         +- quux.cpp
-#         \- quux_main.cpp
-#
-# then we expect build tree:
-#
-#   ${builddir}
-#   +- foo
-#   |  \- CMakeFiles
-#   |     \- foo_target.dir
-#   |        +- foo.cpp.gcda
-#   |        \- foo.cpp.gcno
-#   +- bar
-#      \- quux
-#         \- CMakeFiles
-#            \- target4quux.dir
-#               +- quux.cpp.gcda
-#               +- quux.cpp.gcno
-#               +- quux_main.cpp.gcda
-#               \- quux_main.cpp.gcno
-#
-# in which case will have cmd_body:
-#
-#   ${primarydirs}
-#      ./foo/CMakeFiles/foo_target.dir
-#      ./bar/quux/CMakeFiles/target4quux.dir
-#
-# here foo_target, quux_target are whatever build is using for corresponding cmake target names.
-#
-# We want to invoke lcov like:
-#
-#   lcov --capture \
-#        --output ${builddir}/ccov \
-#        --exclude /utest/ \
-#        --base-directory ${srcdir}/foo --directory ${builddir}/foo/CMakeFiles/foo_target.dir \
-#        --base-directory ${srcdir}/bar/quux --directory ${builddir}/bar/quux/CMakeFiles/target4quux.dir
-#
-primarydirs=$(cd ${builddir} && find -name '*.gcno' \
-                  | xargs --replace=xx dirname xx \
-                  | uniq \
-                  | sed -e 's:^\./::')
-
-#echo "primarydirs=${primarydirs}"
-
-cmd="${lcov} --output ${outputstem}.info --capture --ignore-errors source"
-
-for bdir in ${primarydirs}; do
-    sdir=$(dirname $(dirname ${bdir}))
-
-    cmd="${cmd} --base-directory ${srcdir}/${sdir} --directory ${builddir}/${bdir}"
-done
-
-#echo cmd=${cmd}
-
-set -x
-
-# capture
-${cmd}
-
-# keep only files with paths under source tree
-# (don't want coverage for external libraries such as libstdc++ etc)
-${lcov} --extract ${outputstem}.info "${srcdir}/*" --output ${outputstem}2.info
-
-# remove unit test dirs
-# (we're interested in coverage of our installed code,  not of the unit tests that exercise it)
-${lcov} --remove ${outputstem}2.info '*/utest/*' --output ${outputstem}3.info
-
-# generate .html tree
-mkdir -p ${builddir}/ccov/html
-${genhtml} --ignore-errors source --show-details --prefix ${srcdir} --output-directory ${builddir}/ccov/html ${outputstem}3.info
-
-# also send report to stdout
-${lcov} --list ${outputstem}3.info
diff --git a/cmake/xo-bootstrap-macros.cmake b/cmake/xo-bootstrap-macros.cmake
index 1542d35..b45fa40 100644
--- a/cmake/xo-bootstrap-macros.cmake
+++ b/cmake/xo-bootstrap-macros.cmake
@@ -9,15 +9,19 @@
 #   /usr/local/share/cmake/xo_macros/xo-project-macros.cmake
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------
 
+find_program(XO_CMAKE_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE NAMES xo-cmake-config REQUIRED)
+
+if ("${XO_CMAKE_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE}" STREQUAL "XO_CMAKE_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE-NOT_FOUND")
+    message(FATAL "could not find xo-cmake-config executable")
+endif()
+
 if (("${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH}" STREQUAL "") OR ("${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH}" STREQUAL prefix))
     # default to typical install location for xo-project-macros
-    set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/cmake)
+    execute_process(COMMAND ${XO_CMAKE_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE} --cmake-module-path OUTPUT_VARIABLE CMAKE_MODULE_PATH)
 endif()
 
 if (NOT XO_SUBMODULE_BUILD)
-    message("-- GUESSED_CMAKE_CMD=cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=${CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD} -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX} -DCMAKE_MODULE_PATH=${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH} -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=${CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH} -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE} -DCMAKE_INSTALL_DOCDIR=${CMAKE_INSTALL_DOCDIR} -B ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}")
-    message("-- CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}")
-    message("-- CMAKE_MODULE_PATH=${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH}")
+    message(STATUS "CMAKE_MODULE_PATH=${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH}")
 endif()
 
 # needs to have been installed somewhere on CMAKE_MODULE_PATH,
@@ -25,3 +29,5 @@ endif()
 #
 #include(xo_macros/xo-project-macros)
 include(xo_macros/xo_cxx)   # not using v1 code-coverage; testing cmake-examples impl instead
+
+xo_cxx_bootstrap_message()