Re: DBI/module debugging?

Greetings,

So what's preventing you to just fire up perl -d <your script> and go from there? You can go inside DBI.pm and debug it just fine.
And yes, your perl is old and mouldy. It needs updating.(*)
Cheers,
alf

(*)From an old .aiff file that once shipped with SGIs...

You can't have everything: where would you put it?

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Re: Re: DBI/module debugging? by IlyaM (Parson) on May 29, 2002 at 18:08 UTC
So what's preventing you to just fire up perl -d <your script> and go from there? You can go inside DBI.pm and debug it just fine. It is not that easy. Parts of DBI are writen in C so you just cannot use perl debugger to "go inside" them. And even if DBI were pure Perl it is quite complex software (i.e. debuging it with perl -d can be PITA especially for newbie). Maybe better (easier) method is enabling DBI debug trace. See DBI documentation for description of method `trace` and section `DEBUGGING`. -- Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Re: DBI/module debugging?
by IlyaM (Parson) on May 29, 2002 at 18:08 UTC

So what's preventing you to just fire up perl -d <your script> and go from there? You can go inside DBI.pm and debug it just fine.

It is not that easy. Parts of DBI are writen in C so you just cannot use perl debugger to "go inside" them. And even if DBI were pure Perl it is quite complex software (i.e. debuging it with perl -d can be PITA especially for newbie).

Maybe better (easier) method is enabling DBI debug trace. See DBI documentation for description of method trace and section DEBUGGING.

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Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)

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