Bug #57890 for Module-Build: ./Build testcover fails on Module-Build itself

Wed May 26 22:00:48 2010 jkeenan [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

./Build testcover fails on Module-Build itself

I forked dagolden's module-build from github.com, so I was working with version 0.36_11. I wanted to see how thoroughly Module-Build's test suite exercised its code. So I ran Build.PL && ./Build and ./Build testcover. Three tests failed outright: t/ppm.t; t/properties/needs_compiler.t; t/xs.t. This prevented the 'testcover' target from completing, which meant that I could not run 'cover'. Hence, no coverage analysis and no way to know where to start writing additional tests. I got the same results with: perl Makefile.PL; make; harness (my own alias for running make test with Devel::Cover). I don't know whether this should be thought of as a Module-Build bug or a Devel-Cover limitation. But xdg suggested I file an RT here. Thank you very much. Jim Keenan

Subject:

build.testcover.fails.txt

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Wed May 26 22:04:39 2010 jkeenan [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Wed May 26 22:00:48 2010, JKEENAN wrote: Show quoted text

> > Three tests failed outright: t/ppm.t; t/properties/needs_compiler.t; > t/xs.t.

I should have added: These 3 test files passed with regular ./Build test or with prove -vb. So the problem is definitely related to the testcover target.

Wed May 26 22:04:40 2010 jkeenan [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Wed May 26 22:09:35 2010 jkeenan [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

This problem was alluded to in another RT by Eric Wilhelm in August 2008: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=38318#txn-553147

Sun Dec 05 23:16:42 2010 dagolden [...] cpan.org - Severity Normal changed to Unimportant