When I run the debugger on any program from one particular directory, it does not stop at the first executable line, but runs to completion as if I'd given the 'c' debugger command to continue. 

The-Air:~/private/lewis_folder/client$ cat wjma.pl
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use warnings;
use strict;
print "HEY\n";

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Here's my perl executable: 
The-Air:~/private/lewis_folder/client$ which perl
/Users/chap/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.34.0/bin/perl

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Demonstrating that the program works: 
The-Air:~/private/lewis_folder/client$ ./wjma.pl
HEY

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Demonstrating running debugger on program, from within the problem directory. Note that it automatically runs to completion. 
The-Air:~/private/lewis_folder/client$ perl -d wjma.pl

Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.60
Editor support available.

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

main::(wjma.pl:4):    print "HEY\n";
  DB<1> HEY
The-Air:~/private/lewis_folder/client$

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Now I run the debugger on the same program while in a different directory. Note that it behaves correctly, stopping on the first statement. 
The-Air:~$ /bin/pwd
/Users/chap
The-Air:~$ perl -d /Users/chap/private/lewis_folder/client/wjma.pl

Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.60
Editor support available.

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

main::(/Users/chap/private/lewis_folder/client/wjma.pl:4):
4:    print "HEY\n";
  DB<1>

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Now I run the debugger from the problem directory on the same program, located in a different directory. Note that again it runs to completion rather than stopping: 
The-Air:~/private/lewis_folder/client$ perl -d /Users/chap/private/per
+l/wjma.pl

Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.60
Editor support available.

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

main::(/Users/chap/private/perl/wjma.pl:4):
4:    print "HEY\n";
  DB<1> HEY
The-Air:~/private/lewis_folder/client$

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So the problem occurs when I run perl -d from this one directory, which contains: 
The-Air:~/private/lewis_folder/client$ ls -al
total 56
drwxrwxr-x  8 chap  staff    256 Jan 18 08:43 .
drwxrwxr-x  7 chap  staff    224 Apr  2  2020 ..
drwxrwxr-x  3 chap  staff     96 Jul 13  2013 con
lrwxrwxr-x  1 chap  staff     25 Nov 27  2015 dict -> /Users/chap/priv
+ate/text/
drwxrwxr-x  4 chap  staff    128 Sep 29  2010 dictorg
-rwxrwxr-x  1 chap  staff  15749 Jan 18 07:29 lewis-client
-rw-rw-r--  1 chap  staff   4880 Jan 17 19:56 lewis-client.config
-rwxr-xr-x  1 chap  staff     61 Jan 18 08:22 wjma.pl
The-Air:~/private/lewis_folder/client$

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I'm scratching my head here. Any suggestions?

In reply to perl -d myprog autostarts - but only in one specific directory by ibm1620

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