in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Fernando Gleiser thusly... > > On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, parv wrote: > > > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > > > mind you that perl5.6 port w/ "-DDEBUGGING" option alone didn't > > build w/ the debugging support the last time i tried. "-g" option > > was necessary in addition. > > That's because "-DDEBUGGING" is for enabling the -D command line switch > (see perlrun(1) for details). If you want to attach a debugger to perl(1), > you need "-g".
i take it you mean that "perl -Dr" (regex debugging) would/should work w/ "-DDEBUGGING" option alone, w/o the need of "-g" to the compiler. if that's the case, i did not find it to be. first i did try (perl 5.6 port) w/ "-DDEBUGGING" option alone; tried "perl -Dr -e 'm/moo/'" which produced an error message on the lines that "-D" is not supported/complied. after compiling w/ "-g" option, things worked as expected. from what you say & from perlrun(1), it does seem that if perl is configured w/ "-DDEBUGGING" alone, it should Just Work, but doesn't... possibly a bug(?). - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
