Just started work on getting perl6-debug to work again. Some help:
There is a commit to rakudo-debug - pmurias <https://github.com/pmurias> committed on 26 Mar This is about the time the debugger went AWOL. So I thought to reverse the commit locally to verify. But I'm having a problem getting the local version to work. I used rakudobrew to set up my system. I tried to change perl6-debug.nqp in a subdirectory of .rakudobrew/moar-nom The change went through, but the executable (perl6-debug-m) was not changed in .rakudobrew/bin It seems the executable in .rakudobrew/bin is a complex script and is different from the executable in .rakudobrew/moar-nom Is there some documentation about the build process? Or how do I get an executable in the form in .rakudobrew/bin No need for a full description, just some clues that I can work on. I am working through the Makefile in .rakudobrew/moar-nom, but it is not simple. Regards, Richard On Wednesday, June 07, 2017 06:12 PM, Zoffix Znet via RT wrote: > On Tue, 06 Jun 2017 19:50:32 -0700, rnhainswo...@gmail.com wrote: >> I would like to work on perl6-debug. But where to start? >> >> I am daunted by the prospect. >> >> Some questions - hopefully easy to answer. >> >> 1) In earlier updates there was a perl6-debug executable. Was this >> just >> a link to perl6-debug-m? > Most likely. > >> 2) perl6-debug worked before, and then stopped working. You said >> 'bit-rotted'. I would think that it would help to discover at what >> point >> the debug version stopped working and then to look at the commits to >> see >> what changed. That would narrow down what needs modifying. >> >> Do you think this is a good strategy? > Maybe. It broke around slang rework (around 2017.02-2017.03 releases). > > On our dev IRC channel ( https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#perl6-dev ) > we have a bisectable bot ( > https://github.com/perl6/whateverable/wiki/Bisectable ) > that can take a chunk of code and tell you when its output changed. > > perl6-debug-m currently dies with this error. Hunting what's causing it is a > good start: > > ``` > Non ast passed to WANTED: NQPMu > ===SORRY!=== > Cannot find method 'named' on object of type NQPMu > ``` > >> More difficult questions, but you may know answer. >> >> 3) Why is it not possible to arrange for a break inside a module? > No idea. Never used perl6-debug-m > >> I realise it is because modules are 'pre-compiled', but is there a way >> either (1) to prevent pre-compilation > Yes, use `no precompilation` pragma. > >
