I've run across this problem a few times and I'm wondering if anyone has tips for dealing with this.

Basically what happens is I'll make a large number of changes (manually apply some patches, for instance) and I'll try perl -Tc file.pl. It dies with "Undefined subroutine &main::reallyisdefined..."

Now reallyisdefined REALLY IS DEFINED, so that's not the problem. It is in a seperately "require"d file, that file checks out fine (and in fact it wasn't changed).

I'm sure that if I spend the time looking at the code line by line, eventually I will find a syntax error in file.pl, but isn't there an easier way?

No, I'm not going to post the code, we're taking about > 15k lines.

In reply to Tips for dealing with bogus syntax errors by rucker

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