Re: Apache::DB with Emacs editor support

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Out of curiostiy, will this also work with ActiveState's perl5db.pl for
Komodo?

  Issac

Dominique Quatravaux wrote:
> Kim X Goldov wrote:
> 
> | Is it possible to use the Emacs GUD debugger when debugging
> | handlers using Apache::DB? I've been successfully using Apache::DB
> | with mod_perl1, and find the Emacs debugger useful for Perl
> | scripts.
> 
> Yes you can: you need the latest version of Apache::DB. For now, you
> have to run httpd -X to prevent it from forking, but I'm working on
> that limitation.
> 
> You have to run a wrapper script around Apache, because Emacs insists
> on fiddling with command line switches assuming that the real
> /usr/bin/perl is used as the interpreter (which it won't). That
> wrapper should run apache -X, after setting the following environment
> variables:
> 
> ~    * PERLDB_OPTS="TTY=$tty ReadLine=0 ornaments=0" where $tty is the
> ~      tty the wrapper script is attached to (obtained e.g. with
> ~      `/usr/bin/tty`)
> ~    * MOD_PERL_TRACE="dshg" (only relevant if mod_perl was compiled
> ~      with debugging on)
> 
> Here are appropriate httpd.conf snippets to honor this setup:
> 
> PerlPassEnv PERLDB_OPTS
> PerlPassEnv MOD_PERL_TRACE
> PerlPassEnv TERM
> 
> <Perl>
> ~   BEGIN { if ($ENV{PERLDB_OPTS}) {
> ~        require Apache::DB;
> ~        Apache::DB->init;
> ~        require 'Apache/perl5db.pl';
> ~        warn "Support for editor embedding (e.g. Emacs) enabled\n\n";
> ~        $DB::slave_editor=1;
> ~   }}
> 
> ~    $DB::single = 1;
> 
> # Your usual <Perl> stuff goes here
> </Perl>
> 
> Now launch Emacs, type M-x perldb <ret>, erase the minibuffer
> contents, type in the path of your wrapper script followed by a bogus
> command-line argument (e.g. "/home/dom/bin/apache-gud mod_perl"). The
> debugger should stop at the "$DB::single = 1" line above.
> 
> Regards,
>