Perl Debugger Problem

hillside_dweller has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am using Perl 5.24 on Windows 7.
On trying out the debugger I find it has issues:

Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.49
Editor support available.

Enter h or 'h h' for help, or 'perldoc perldebug' for more help.

main::(consolidator.pl:20):     my $test = 0; my $debug = 1;

SetConsoleMode failed, LastError=|6| at C:/Strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/
+Term/ReadK
ey.pm line 334.
 at C:/Strawberry/perl/vendor/lib/Term/ReadLine/readline.pm line 1581.
        readline::readline("  DB<1> ") called at C:/Strawberry/perl/ve
+ndor/lib/T
erm/ReadLine/Perl.pm line 11
        Term::ReadLine::Perl::readline(Term::ReadLine::Perl=ARRAY(0x56
+a004), "
DB<1> ") called at C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/perl5db.pl line 7339
        DB::readline("  DB<1> ") called at C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/perl
+5db.pl lin
e 1841
        DB::_DB__read_next_cmd(undef) called at C:/Strawberry/perl/lib
+/perl5db.p
l line 2761
        DB::DB called at consolidator.pl line 20
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I read a post from roho that seemed to have some similar problem and it mentioned TERM. That is not set on my system.

I have checked that Term::ReadLine is installed.

I'd rather not have to debug the debugger at the moment !

Any pointers to what to do would be much appreciated.

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Re: Perl Debugger Problem (non-fatal) by tye (Sage) on Dec 18, 2016 at 14:34 UTC
I find the "SetConsoleMode failed" error is pretty common. But I don't find it preventing the debugger from working. Perhaps your script does something like load Carp::Always or similar that makes this error more fatal? - tye	[reply]
Re: Perl Debugger Problem by Anonymous Monk on Dec 18, 2016 at 20:06 UTC
`set TERM=dumb` or `$ENV{TERM}='dumb';` to silence the terminal warning	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Perl Debugger Problem by hillside_dweller (Initiate) on Dec 19, 2016 at 09:09 UTC
Thanks, that did it. Debugger working fine since I did that. .	[reply]
Re: Perl Debugger Problem by Laurent_R (Canon) on Dec 18, 2016 at 16:38 UTC
my $test = 0; my $debug = 1; I am not entirely sure of what you are doing, but you probably don't want to use `my` when typing interactively statements under the debugger.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Perl Debugger Problem (code tags) by LanX (Saint) on Dec 18, 2016 at 14:21 UTC
Welcome to the monastery! Posts are HTML formatted and we can't read much at the moment. In order to help you best, please put `<p> </p>` tags around your paragraphs. Put `<code> </code>` tags around your code and data. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Je suis Charlie!}	[reply] [d/l] [select]