Description of problem: When using the Perl command line debugger the "y" and "X" commands no longer work. (They fail silently.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): perl-5.18.2-289.fc20 perl-PadWalker-1.98-1.fc20.x86_64 How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Debug a test program with "perl -d testprog.pl 2. Use "n" and enter a few lines until a variable you want to examine is loaded. 3. Use "y" or "X" on that variable. Actual results: Nothing returned. Expected results: The contents of the variable should be displayed. Additional info: The "p" command will print a variable, it is very narrow in scope. It will not display the contents of an entire hash variable like "X" or "y" will. ("y" shows the contents of the variable for all types in the current package. "X" does the same for global variables. Neither work at this point.
Created attachment 926559 [details] An example of how it should work.
Created attachment 926560 [details] An example how it works now. This is what it does now. Notice nothing is returned by the y or X command.
The X does not work even in CentoOS 5. The perl debugger is doomed. It has been broken for ages. Ask upstream for help <https://rt.perl.org//Public/>.
(In reply to Petr Pisar from comment #3) > The X does not work even in CentoOS 5. The perl debugger is doomed. It has > been broken for ages. Ask upstream for help <https://rt.perl.org//Public/>. The example that I posted was from CentOS 5.10. It works fine there. The question is *why* it is broken. I will talk to upstream and see if they have ideas as to what is going wrong. I will also build it from scratch and see if that works.
Created attachment 926984 [details] Fix for 'y' command in debugger This is a fix for the problem. It will conflict on the version number, but that is not important. The second part of the patch fixes the problem. (It is an off by one error.)
(In reply to Alan Olsen from comment #4) > (In reply to Petr Pisar from comment #3) > > The X does not work even in CentoOS 5. The perl debugger is doomed. It has > > been broken for ages. Ask upstream for help <https://rt.perl.org//Public/>. > > The example that I posted was from CentOS 5.10. It works fine there. > The example showed only "y". I tested in RHEL-5.11 the "X" too. "y" worked for me, "X" didn't. I even tested RHEL-6 (perl-5.10.1) and Fedora 19 and Perl development tree (5.21.x) and both commands are broken there too. > I will talk to upstream and see if they have ideas as to what is going > wrong. When you do that, post the link here please.
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perl-5.20.3-328.fc22 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 22. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-16582
perl-5.18.4-310.fc21 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 21. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-b4c6dd8cd3
perl-5.20.3-328.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with $ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update perl' You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-16582
perl-5.18.4-310.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with $ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update perl' You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-b4c6dd8cd3
perl-5.20.3-328.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
perl-5.18.4-310.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.