The /usr/pkgs/perl/... in that message is the location in Perl code where the error was found and has nothing to do with code being tested for coverage. That error is complaining that a file expected to be in JSON instead had a Storable header. First, make sure to delete all of the Devel::Cover databases, and try again. If you get the same error again, one of your perl installations does not have JSON; either figure out which and install it there, or set DEVEL_COVER_DB_FORMAT to Storable, delete all of your Devel::Cover databases, and try again.

Storable has been a core module longer than JSON has been in the Perl core, so you might have an older perl installation that has Storable but not JSON. Note that the troublesome installation is not the one producing the error — the error occurs when attempting to read a Storable file as JSON. Something else wrote the file in Storable format.

In reply to Re^9: Creating coverage big report by jcb
in thread Creating coverage big report by ovedpo15

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