Update 1: I just noticed one can use an option -ignore to skip certain files when using Devel::Cover. I will check if this works for me.
Update 2: Did not work for me, I suspect the option only determines for which files reports are being generated, but please correct me if I am wrong.
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Dear fellow monks,
I was trying to run build testcover for one of my modules and it failed. If I understood the error message correctly, the reason was that a module I use (DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader) is not taint-safe, but maybe I mis-read the error messages. If it really is the case that the used module is the reason for the current problem, I would be very interested to know about what I can do to run build testcover anyway. Since I am only interested in coverage of my own module, it would be nice if an external dependency would not prevent testing this.
I reproduced the problem with a quite minimal example, creating a distribution with a package of name "Test::DbicTaint" using Module::Starter and only adding the external Module to the prerequisites, i.e. in build.PL we have
...
requires => {
'DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader' => 0, # <----- added line
},
...
and in DbicTaint.pm there is the additional line "use DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader;".
Even with this setup, I got the following error message (xubuntu, Perl 5.14.2 / also Windows 7, Strawberry Perl 5.16.2.1:
jose@jose-Aspire-1410:~/temp/perl/Test-DbicTaint$ ./Build testcover
t/00-load.t ....... 1/?
# Failed test 'use Test::DbicTaint;'
# at t/00-load.t line 10.
Bailout called. Further testing stopped:
# Tried to use 'Test::DbicTaint'.
# Error: Insecure dependency in eval while running with -T switch
+ at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2/Params/Util.pm line 167.
# Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/Packag
+e/DeprecationManager.pm line 11.
# BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/Pa
+ckage/DeprecationManager.pm line 11.
# Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/Packag
+e/Stash.pm line 56.
# BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/Pa
+ckage/Stash.pm line 56.
# Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/namesp
+ace/clean.pm line 6.
# BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/na
+mespace/clean.pm line 6.
# Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/DBIx/C
+lass/Carp.pm line 18.
# BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/DB
+Ix/Class/Carp.pm line 18.
# Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/DBIx/C
+lass/Exception.pm line 6.
# BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/DB
+Ix/Class/Exception.pm line 6.
# Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/DBIx/C
+lass/Schema.pm line 6.
# BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/DB
+Ix/Class/Schema.pm line 6.
# Compilation failed in require at (eval 65)[/usr/share/perl/5.14/base
+.pm:90] line 2.
# ...propagated at /usr/share/perl/5.14/base.pm line 93.
# BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2/DB
+Ix/Class/Schema/Loader.pm line 5.
# Compilation failed in require at /home/jose/temp/perl/Test-DbicTaint
+/blib/lib/Test/DbicTaint.pm line 7.
# BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/jose/temp/perl/Test-DbicT
+aint/blib/lib/Test/DbicTaint.pm line 7.
# Compilation failed in require at (eval 64)[/usr/share/perl/5.14/Test
+/More.pm:885] line 2.
# BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 64)[/usr/share/perl/5.14/
+Test/More.pm:885] line 2.
Use of uninitialized value $Test::DbicTaint::VERSION in concatenation
+(.) or string at t/00-load.t line 13.
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 1.
# Looks like your test exited with 255 just after 1.
FAILED--Further testing stopped.
José
