A follow-up question to Set breakpoint from .perldb init file. I am trying to set a breakpoint in a module that is loaded at run time. For testing purposes I have created the following files:
/home/hakon/test/perl/perldb/p.pl
:
use feature qw(say);
use strict;
use warnings;
use lib "./lib";
say "Line 6";
say "Line 7";
require My::Module;
say "Line 9";
/home/hakon/test/perl/perldb/lib/My/Module.pm
package My::Module;
use feature qw(say);
use strict;
use warnings;
say "MM Line 6";
say "MM Line 7";
say "MM Line 8";
1;
/home/hakon/test/perl/perldb/.perldb
sub afterinit {
push @DB::typeahead,
"b p.pl:8",
"c",
"b /home/hakon/test/perl/perldb/lib/My/Module.pm:7",
"c"
;
}
When I run the script with the debugger, I get:
$ perl -d p.pl
Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.55
Editor support available.
Enter h or 'h h' for help, or 'man perldebug' for more help.
main::(p.pl:6): say "Line 6";
auto(-4) DB<1> b p.pl:8
auto(-3) DB<2> c
Line 6
Line 7
main::(p.pl:8): require My::Module;
auto(-2) DB<2> b /home/hakon/test/perl/perldb/lib/My/Module.pm:7
auto(-1) DB<3> c
MM Line 6
MM Line 7
MM Line 8
Line 9
Debugged program terminated. Use q to quit or R to restart,
use o inhibit_exit to avoid stopping after program termination,
h q, h R or h o to get additional info.
So the the breakpoint at line 7 of Module.pm
is ignored. How can I make the debugger stop at the breakpoint?
It seems that one cannot set a breakpoint in the required module before it has been compiled, but it is possible to work around the issue by using the b load filename
command first, and then setting the breakpoint since then the required module will already have been compiled:
sub afterinit {
push @DB::typeahead,
"b p.pl:8",
"c",
"b load lib/My/Module.pm",
"c",
"b lib/My/Module.pm:7",
"c"
;
}
This works for me.
If I had used
use FindBin qw/$Bin/;
use lib "$Bin/lib";
instead of
use lib './lib';
in the script p.pl
, I would have to use absolute paths with the b
commmand instead of relative paths:
sub afterinit {
push @DB::typeahead,
"b p.pl:8",
"c",
"b load /home/hakon/test/perl/perldb/lib/My/Module.pm",
"c",
"b /home/hakon/test/perl/perldb/lib/My/Module.pm:7",
"c"
;
}