On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 01:49:58PM -0700, Ovid wrote: > After much research, I've managed to reduce a Devel::Cover bug down to > a one-liner which only fails on one box. This box is unique because > it's ActiveState Perl for Linux (not my choice!). However, that might > be a red herring. My 'perl -V' is below the test case. Does anyone > have a similar setup which they can check this against?
I think the key is that it is perl version 5.6.1. I can reproduce the problem on a stock 5.6.1 on linux (well, hacked just enough to get it to build). Is there any chance that we can just say it is a bug in 5.6.1 that has been fixed? I think that is actually the case. Devel::Cover uses the B modules which were still a little immature in 5.6.1. The test works (in that the bug does not show) for 5.8.0, 5.8.1, maintperl and bleadperl. Actually, I wonder whether 5.6.1 should be supported or not. It generally works, but then you get cases like this. The results are also different between different versions of perl, and often it is 5.6.1 and the rest. But this is a problem which will only get worse. In any case, thanks a lot for tracking this down. I'm sure it wasn't trivial. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net
