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