DDD can't start Perl debugger

[Huang, Jack]

Hello,

I am having troubles getting DDD to start and run the Perl debugger. The source code would not be loaded and the status bar displays “Searching vsllib/ddd.vsl” or “Waiting until Perl gets ready.”

 

 

Thanks!

 

=== ddd config ==

{132} $ ddd --configuration

GNU DDD 3.3.9 (i686-pc-cygwin)

Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany.

Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Universität Passau, Germany.

Copyright (C) 2001 Universität des Saarlandes, Germany.

Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

 

Compiled with GCC 3.3.1 (cygming special)

Requires X11R6, Xt11R6, Motif 2.1 (GNU/LessTif Version 2.1 Release 0.93.91)

Includes XPM 3.4.11, Athena Panner (7000002L), DDD core

Built 2004-07-15 by U-HUNTHARO <harold@172.16.0.2>.

 

==== ddd log =====

{118} $ ddd commadify.pl --trace

GNU DDD 3.3.9 (i686-pc-cygwin)

Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany.

Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Universität Passau, Germany.

Copyright (C) 2001 Universität des Saarlandes, Germany.

Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

 

Compiled with GCC 3.3.1 (cygming special)

Requires X11R6, Xt11R6, Motif 2.1 (GNU/LessTif Version 2.1 Release 0.93.91)

Includes XPM 3.4.11, Athena Panner (7000002L), DDD core

Built 2004-07-15 by U-HUNTHARO <harold@172.16.0.2>.

$  ddd commadify.pl --trace

+  /bin/sh -c 'exec perl -d '\''commadify.pl'\'''

#  Hello, world!

#  Starting Perl...

#  Running Perl (pid 8048, tty /dev/tty0)...

#  Current language: Perl

#  Searching "vsllib/ddd.vsl"...

#  Trying "/home/huangj/.ddd/vsllib/ddd.vsl"

#  Trying "/usr/share/ddd-3.3.9/vsllib/ddd.vsl"

#  Searching "vsllib/ddd.vsl"..."/usr/share/ddd-3.3.9/vsllib/ddd.vsl".

 

Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.28

Editor support available.

 

Enter h or `h h' for help, or `perldoc perldebug' for more help.

 

main::(commadify.pl:3): my $num = rand(10_000);

 

=== Perl info ====

{131} $ perl -v

 

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread

(with 25 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

 

Copyright 1987-2006, Larry Wall

 

Binary build 817 [257965] provided by ActiveState http://www.ActiveState.com

Built Mar 20 2006 17:54:25

 

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