On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 08:25:36PM -0500, James E Keenan wrote: > When I began to write this posting, it was to get an answer to a > question. But I figured out a workaround halfway through, so now I'm > posting an answer. > > I have happily been using Devel::Cover for more than a year on Perl > 5.8.4 on Darwin (Mac OS X 10.3). Recently I upgraded to Perl 5.8.7. > Tonight I went to use Devel::Cover (v0.55, as previously) for the first > time since that Perl upgrade. At first, it no longer DWIMmed. > Specifically: > > 1. When I ran 'make test HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES=MDevel::Cover', I got > this message: > > t/01_test.......... > This version of Devel::Cover was built with Perl version 5.008004. > It is now being run with Perl version 5.008007. > Attempting to make adjustments, but you may find that some of your > modules do > not have coverage data collected. You may need to alter the +-inc, > +-ignore > and +-select options. > > t/01_test..........ok > > I'd never had to set these options before; previously, D::C just worked. > Also, D::C took much longer to run. > > 2. I was testing coverage of a new module I'm developing called > File::Save::Home. When I called 'cover', I got a report on this module, > but also on every core module as well: > > [snip] > ---------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ > ------ ------ > File stmt bran cond sub pod > time total > ---------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ > ------ ------ > ...perl5/5.8.7/AutoLoader.pm 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 > n/a 0.0 > ...l/lib/perl5/5.8.7/Carp.pm 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 > n/a 0.0 > ...erl5/5.8.7/Digest/base.pm 0.0 0.0 n/a 0.0 0.0 > n/a 0.0 > ...b/perl5/5.8.7/Exporter.pm 50.0 57.1 44.7 33.3 0.0 > 0.3 44.8 > ...5/5.8.7/Exporter/Heavy.pm 10.4 8.8 12.5 11.1 0.0 > 0.1 9.8 > ...l5/5.8.7/File/Basename.pm 28.2 25.8 7.7 50.0 100.0 > 0.1 27.8 > [snip] > ....8.7/warnings/register.pm 100.0 50.0 n/a 100.0 0.0 > 0.1 89.5 > blib/lib/File/Save/Home.pm 77.1 44.4 n/a 100.0 100.0 > 0.3 73.4 > Total 10.8 6.2 4.3 12.3 14.0 > 100.0 9.0 > ---------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ > ------ ------ > > > Writing HTML output to > /Users/jimk/work/fsh/File-Save-Home/cover_db/coverage.html ... > done. > > This problem of excessive output is the same one I typically experience > using D::C (v0.47, I believe) on Windows. This is much more output than > I want or need. > > I hypothesized that if I were to upgrade to a new version of D::C, it > would be compiled against Perl 5.8.7 and these problems might go away. > But 'cpan' did nothing because it detected that I was using the most > recent version of D::C. > > So I downloaded the latest version of Devel::Cover from CPAN and > installed it manually. (I did call 'make install UNINSTALL=1'.) This > solved the problem. The message described above went away, and 'cover' > reported only the results for the module under development. >
I don't know if that is in the documentation for Devel::Cover or not, but an upgrade in Perl usually requires and reinstall of Devel::Cover. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
