I am seeing a very odd behavior with ActivePerl 5.8.8 build 822, however I don't think it's specific to this build as I've seen similar problems in the past. It is however a Windows thing.

The problem I'm having is for no readily apparent reason, a subroutine call is being skipped over. In this instance it is File::Copy::Recursive::pathempty, but I've also seen this happen in other modules. It is only happening on one of a dozen identical systems.

I first noticed a problem when one of our in-house tools was throwing a lot of errors while using File::Copy::Recursive. I wrote a 2 line script to call pathrm on an explicitly specified path. I stepped into pathrm in the debugger, and when it called pathempty I tried to step into that, but it just skipped over the line. I put a print statement in pathempty and ran my script from the command line and it never printed.

I tried reinstalling perl, with no change. Can anyone offer a pointer of what else to look at, or an explanation of why this happens ?

Thanks!

In reply to Perl under windows: mysteriously skipping over subroutine by UnstoppableDrew

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.