Bug 176042 - Perl debugger won't start
Summary: Perl debugger won't start
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: perl
Version: 3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jason Vas Dias
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-12-18 07:24 UTC by Peter Gordon
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: perl-5.8.5-24.FC3
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-12-19 17:52:45 UTC
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Description Peter Gordon 2005-12-18 07:24:13 UTC 
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Description of problem:
When starting a program with the perl debugger, the program crashes.
This is because of an error in file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/perl5db.pl

On line 5814 of the file there is a line that reads 
my $rv = $ENV{PERLDB_NOTTY} || ( $ENV{HOME} ? $ENV{HOME} : /tmp ) ."/perldbtty$$";

The /tmp should be in quotes

my $rv = $ENV{PERLDB_NOTTY} || ( $ENV{HOME} ? $ENV{HOME} : "/tmp" ) ."/perldbtty$$";

That fixes the problem





Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
perl-5.8.5-22.FC3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
perl -d anyprogram


Additional info:
Comment 1 Paul Howarth 2005-12-18 10:46:18 UTC 
Looks like a duplicate of Bug 175953, which should be fixed by the recent
perl-5.8.5-24.FC3 errata update.
Comment 2 Jason Vas Dias 2005-12-19 17:52:45 UTC 
Yes, apologies - this typo was fixed with the perl-5.8.5-24.FC3 errata update .
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