Subject: Re: Unable to debug perl 5.8.0 program
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[email-masked]>
To: Andrew DeFaria <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:46:52 +0200

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.

-- 
Best regards,
 Gerrit                            mailto:[email-masked]

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