First: if you're using a distro supplied perl, make sure you've got the perl-debug package installed
... otherwise, just compile your own debugging perl. It is quite easy:
- Get the http://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/src perl source from CPAN
- Unpack it and cd into the directory
- Run ./Configure accepting the defaults for all the questions but these two:
- Where do you want to place the debugging perl?, for instance:
Installation prefix to use? (~name ok) [/usr/local] /usr/local/perl/5.10.1-debug
- Which C optimizer flags to use:
What optimizer/debugger flag should be used? [-O2] -g -O0
- well, maybe you would like to also activate threads or other minor features.
- make && make test && sudo make install
Then, to compile your module using this new perl, all you have to do is run Makefile.PL with it. For instance:
$ cd Foo-Bar-1.0
$ /usr/local/perl/5.10.1/bin/perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ make test
-
Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
-
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
-
Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
-
Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
|
