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On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Reini Urban wrote:
> Avoid to load a possibly binary incompatible Term::ReadLine::Gnu
>
> leading to
> not ok 1 - The ${main::_<filename} variable in the debugger was not destroyed
> # Failed at lib/perl5db.t line 71
> # got 'main::(../lib/perl5db/t/eval-line-bug:6):
> # 6: my $i = 5;
> # support available.
> #
> # Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help.
> #
> # Signal SEGV at
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.11/i686-debug-cygwin/Term/ReadLine/Gnu.pm line
> 100
> # require Term/ReadLine/Gnu.pm called at (eval
> 4)[../lib/Term/ReadLine.pm:320] line 1
> # Term::ReadLine::BEGIN() called at
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.11/i686-debug-cygwin/Term/ReadLine/Gnu.pm line 0
> # eval {...} called at
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.11/i686-debug-cygwin/Term/ReadLine/Gnu.pm line 0
> # eval 'use Term::ReadLine::Gnu; 1
> # ;' called at ../lib/Term/ReadLine.pm line 320
> # require Term/ReadLine.pm called at ../lib/perl5db.pl line 5957
> # eval {...} called at ../lib/perl5db.pl line 5957
> # DB::setterm called at ../lib/perl5db.pl line 2229
> # DB::DB called at ../lib/perl5db/t/eval-line-bug line 6
> # '
> # expected /(?-xism:sub factorial)/
But doesn't this just paper over the problem? If the user then installs
the version of perl being installed and tries to run the debugger, won't
this exact same problem arise?
--
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
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