debugger dies at 'x' command

[jkeenan]

Today, while working on #261, I had occasion to run the Perl (7) debugger. It died at the x command.

$ ./perl -Ilib -d Porting/sync-with-cpan ExtUtils::Install

Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.57
Editor support available.

Enter h or 'h h' for help, or 'man perldebug' for more help.

Maintainers::(Porting/sync-with-cpan:144):
144:	$| = 1;
  DB<1> c 322
Maintainers::(Porting/sync-with-cpan:322):
322:	if (defined $tarball) {
  DB<2> x $tarball
Died at lib/perl5db.pl line 6391.
 at lib/perl5db.pl line 6391.
	DB::dumpit(GLOB(0x5621e73333c0), ARRAY(0x5621e836bc78)) called at lib/perl5db.pl line 767
	DB::eval called at lib/perl5db.pl line 3138
	DB::DB called at Porting/sync-with-cpan line 322
Debugged program terminated.  Use q to quit or R to restart,
use o inhibit_exit to avoid stopping after program termination,
h q, h R or h o to get additional info.

ISTR seeing this problem before. #14 ? #193 ?

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

[jkeenan]

I should qualify that the debugger does not always die at the x command in Perl 7. Today I was able to issue the following command in a different context.

  DB<9> 
HTTP::Tiny::request(/home/jkeenan/testing/alpha-dev-02-strict/lib/perl7/7.0.0/HTTP/Tiny.pm:435):
435:	        $response = eval { $self->_request($method, $url, $args) };
  DB<9> x $response
0  undef
  DB<10> n
HTTP::Tiny::mirror(/home/jkeenan/testing/alpha-dev-02-strict/lib/perl7/7.0.0/HTTP/Tiny.pm:305):
305:	    close $fh
306:	        or _croak(qq/Error: Caught error closing temporary file $tempfile: $!\n/);
  DB<10> x $response
0  HASH(0x560ea90da5c0)
   'content' => 'IO::Socket::SSL 1.42 must be installed for https support
Net::SSLeay 1.49 must be installed for https support
'
   'headers' => HASH(0x560ea90668a8)
      'content-length' => 110
      'content-type' => 'text/plain'
   'reason' => 'Internal Exception'
   'status' => 599
   'success' => ''
   'url' => 'https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/B/BI/BINGOS/ExtUtils-Install-2.16.tar.gz'

I don't as yet have any insight into what's different in the two situations.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan