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Id: 79338
Status: rejected
Priority: 0/
Queue: Devel-Cover
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: SHLOMIF [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Critical
Broken in: 0.93
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Sat Sep 01 05:31:36 2012 SHLOMIF [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Adding "use Devel::Cover;" causes some of the bleadperl's "perl -d" tests to segfault
Hi, in this branch of bleadperl: https://github.com/shlomif/perl/tree/shlomif-Devel-Cover-perl-dash-d-crash (commit bb10a76756703e1681164492aad844d09e184741 ) I notice that building bleadperl (using #!/bin/sh rm -f config.sh Policy.sh sh Configure -de -Dprefix=$HOME/apps/perl/bleadperl -Dusedevel and then "make" and "make install"), and then installing Devel::Cover and running from the bleadperl working copy, this command: make -j12 test_harness TEST_FILES='../lib/perl5db.t' Fails many tests, which report that the "perl -d" process segfaulted. The branch was branched from shlomif-perl-d-add-tests-take-3 and the only commit is to add "use Devel::Cover" at the top of lib/perl5db.pl . Let me know if you want me to try to isolate the problem. Regards, -- Shlomi Fish
  Mon Sep 17 19:11:37 2012 PJCJ [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Hi Shlomi, I'm not overly surprised that Devel::Cover doesn't play nicely with the debugger. Amongst other nasty tricks, Devel::Cover messes with $^P. But having said that, I'd be very happy if they could get along better. To that end, I'd be very grateful for any extra information you can provide and, if you can isolate the problem, so much the better. You mentioned bleadperl. Is that just because that's where you are working, or does this work with stable releases and the problems are only in blead? Thanks,
  Mon Sep 17 19:11:38 2012 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Tue Sep 18 03:13:29 2012 SHLOMIF [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Hi Paul, On Mon Sep 17 19:11:37 2012, PJCJ wrote: Show quoted text
> Hi Shlomi, > > I'm not overly surprised that Devel::Cover doesn't play nicely with the > debugger. Amongst other nasty tricks, Devel::Cover messes with $^P. >
I see. Show quoted text
> But having said that, I'd be very happy if they could get along better. > To that end, I'd be very grateful for any extra information you can > provide and, if you can isolate the problem, so much the better. >
OK, I'll try. Show quoted text
> You mentioned bleadperl. Is that just because that's where you are > working, or does this work with stable releases and the problems are only > in blead?
I'm working on bleadperl, so I have not checked in stable releases yet. That's all. I can try checking there as well. Regards, -- Shlomi Fish
  Tue Sep 18 04:53:34 2012 SHLOMIF [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Tue Sep 18 03:13:29 2012, SHLOMIF wrote: Show quoted text
> Hi Paul, > > On Mon Sep 17 19:11:37 2012, PJCJ wrote:
> > Hi Shlomi, > > > > I'm not overly surprised that Devel::Cover doesn't play nicely with the > > debugger. Amongst other nasty tricks, Devel::Cover messes with $^P. > >
> > I see. >
> > But having said that, I'd be very happy if they could get along
better. Show quoted text
> > To that end, I'd be very grateful for any extra information you can > > provide and, if you can isolate the problem, so much the better. > >
> > OK, I'll try. >
> > You mentioned bleadperl. Is that just because that's where you are > > working, or does this work with stable releases and the problems are
only Show quoted text
> > in blead?
> > I'm working on bleadperl, so I have not checked in stable releases yet. > That's all. I can try checking there as well. >
well, I have now checked in perl-5.16.1, built using this script: #!/bin/sh rm -f config.sh Policy.sh sh Configure -de -Dprefix="$HOME"/apps/perl/5.16.1 -Dusedevel and adding "use Devel::Cover" at the top of lib/perl5db.pl and running make -j12 test_harness TEST_FILES='../lib/perl5db.t' causes many of the invocations to segfault. Regards, Shlomi Fish
  Fri May 12 06:08:27 2017 PJCJ [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
I'm going to reject this ticket. Not because it is incorrect, but because it's not useful sitting here in RT where I never even look at it. I have a long running TODO item to provide coverage to core perl, and these sort of problem will get looked at then. Thanks for the report!
  Fri May 12 06:08:38 2017 PJCJ [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'