Unable to debug perl 5.8.0 program

[Andrew DeFaria]

Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> Hello Andrew,
>
> Thursday, September 4, 2003, 10:57:02 PM, you wrote:
>
> AD> Recently I started receiving the following error when trying to user
> AD> perl -d. It only seems to happen with some perl scripts and not 
> other,
> AD> more simple perl scripts:
>
> AD> $ perl -d CheckinPreop.pl
>
> AD> Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.19
> AD> Editor support available.
>
> AD> Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help.
>
> AD> main::(CheckinPreop.pl:42): my $site;
> AD> Unable to get Terminal Size. The TIOCGWINSZ ioctl didn't work. The
> AD> COLUMNS and LINES environment variables didn't work. The resize 
> program
> AD> didn't work. at
> AD> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/cygwin-multi-64int/Term/ReadKey.pm 
> line 343.
> AD> Compilation failed in require at
> AD> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Term/ReadLine/Perl.pm line 58.
>
> AD> 
> Term::ReadLine::Perl::new('Term::ReadLine','perldb','GLOB(0x10164648)','GLOB(0x1014a8e8)')
> AD> called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/perl5db.pl line 2225
> AD> DB::setterm called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/perl5db.pl line 773
> AD> DB::DB called at CheckinPreop.pl line 42
> AD> 
> cqc::CODE(0x10279bdc)(//sons-clearcase/Views/official/Tools/lib/cqc.pm:101):
> AD> 101: Disconnect;
> AD> DB<1> q
> AD> $ echo -e "Lines: $LINES\nColumns: $COLUMNS"
> AD> Lines: 24
> AD> Columns: 80
>
> AD> This happens in an rxvt window as well as a Windows console window.
>
> From your cygcheck:
> perl 5.8.0-3
>
> Please try to upgrade to 5.8.0-5 at first. There are good chances that 
> the binmode bug fixed in 5.8.0-5 resolves this problem.

Thanks that did the trick. Also caused me to finally update to 1.5.3. 
That was a little scary but all's been smooth so far.
Obligatory witty saying: I hit the CTRL key but I'm still not in control!



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