What did work was to add the following symbols to global.sym ....

Seems that's one way to make those symbols public. Nice hack - though if you ever need to access a different private symbol, you'll have to rebuild perl again.

I'm curious to know whether the Devel::Cover that you built with this hacked perl-5.10.0 will work on an unhacked perl-5.10.0. (Others would probably know the answer to that without needing to test it.) Have you tried that out ? If it works on the unhacked version of perl, then it could be handy for others if the binary of your build of Devel::Cover (either ppm package or just a tar.gz of blib) was made available.

Cheers,
Rob

---

---

• Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
• Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:

  <code> <a> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br /> <dd> <dl> <dt> <em> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr /> <i> <li> <nbsp> <ol> <p> <small> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <td> <th> <tr> <tt> <u> <ul>

• Snippets of code should be wrapped in <code> tags not <pre> tags. In fact, <pre> tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor intervention).
• Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.