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Re: perl debugger not working in xterm
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:02:09 -0500
- Subject: Re: perl debugger not working in xterm
- References: <20041222215303.6FCC01B401@cgf.cx>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:51:04PM -0800, Tom Goetze wrote:
>Something very strange I discovered today, however, is that if I try to use
>the perl debugger like this:
>
>perl -d -e 0
>
>then the perl debugging prompt does not appear in the xterm window, but
>instead it appears (with mangled characters) in the cygwin terminal from
>which I ran "startx".
>
>2. The version of perl is the ActiveState one that I installed outside of
>cygwin, but that gets picked up from my Windows user's PATH.
>
>In particular,
>$ which perl
>/cygdrive/c/Perl/bin/perl
>
>Anything jump out as a potential problem for me (or a quick fix)?
Use cygwin's perl? ActiveState perl obviously doesn't understand cygwin's
ptys.
cgf