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?
------------------------------ $ perl -MDevel::Cover -e 'local *{"foo"} = sub {}' Devel::Cover 0.26: Collecting coverage data for branch, condition, statement, subroutine and time. Pod coverage is unvailable. Please install Pod::Coverage from CPAN. Selecting packages matching: Ignoring packages matching: Ignoring packages in: . /dp/usr/cxp/perl/lib /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux-multi /usr/local/stow/perl-5.6.1-a633/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /usr/local/stow/perl-5.6.1-a633/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i686-linux-multi /usr/local/stow/perl-5.6.1-a633/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/stow/perl-5.6.1-a633/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/stow/perl-5.6.1-a633/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux-multi Can't locate object method "find_cv" via package "B::SPECIAL" (perhaps you forgot to load "B::SPECIAL"?) at /usr/local/stow/perl-5.6.1-a633/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i686-linux-multi/B.pm line 213. END failed--call queue aborted. ------------------------------ And the Perl -V ------------------------------ $ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.4.9-e.3, archname=i686-linux-multi uname='linux bulkmailer 2.4.9-e.3 #1 fri may 3 17:02:43 edt 2002 i686 unknown ' config_args='-d -O -Dinstallstyle=lib/perl5 -Dprefix=/usr/local/stow/perl-5.6.1-a633 -Uinstallusrbinperl -Dd_dosuid=define -Dotherlibdirs=/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl -Dusemultiplicity' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=define useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O2', cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-108.1)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil libc=/lib/libc-2.2.4.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic' cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_LARGE_FILES PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT Locally applied patches: ActivePerl Build 633 Built under linux Compiled at Mar 24 2003 17:43:39 %ENV: PERL5LIB="/dp/usr/cxp/perl/lib" @INC: /dp/usr/cxp/perl/lib/i686-linux-multi /dp/usr/cxp/perl/lib /usr/local/stow/perl-5.6.1-a633/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i686-linux-multi /usr/local/stow/perl-5.6.1-a633/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /usr/local/stow/perl-5.6.1-a633/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux-multi /usr/local/stow/perl-5.6.1-a633/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/stow/perl-5.6.1-a633/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux-multi /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl ------------------------------ Any ideas on where to look next? Cheers, Ovid ===== Silence is Evil http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/philosophy/indexdecency.htm Ovid http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=17000 Web Programming with Perl http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com