Thanks Perrin.
The reasons are mostly legal, the client simply won't allow me to set it
up outside the dedicated server. There are also technical reasons, the
system is massive and too tight up to the rest of their internal
infrastructure. I'm working with an ssh session with the code pulled to
my home and mapped to a virtual host in apache 2.2, the rest of the devs
are working in the same manner under that same Apache server. So as you
can probably imagine its a PITA. Interactive debugging would speed up
development tremendously.
With my brief preliminary research, I found xdebug for PHP, its build
upon DBGp and it does not require to run apache in detached mode, so in
theory at least, mod_perl can support the same. I'm not suggesting to
buildin support for DBGp (unless Perl's debugger already has it, which I
doubt), but having the ability to debug without the single apache
process limitation would be of great help - with out of the box remote
debugging being a plus.
So, as stated bellow, I'm willing to invest time into getting this
working. To repeat my question, are there any specific reasons, besides
output redirection that prevent the debugger running in a
multiprocess/multi-threaded host? I would greatly appreciate any
insights pointers in where to look for answers in the mod_perl sources
and documentation.
Eagerly awaiting for your answers. Please don't let this sleep through,
I'm quite serious about this ;-).
Thanks,
Dmitriy.
P.S
Print and Data::Dumper debugging will drive me crazy pretty soon - we
need this ASAP.
On 11/18/2011 12:42 PM, Perrin Harkins wrote:
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Dmitriy Ryajov<drya...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm running in a shared development environment. I can't run httpd in non
detached mode on that machine because the server is used by other devs at
the same time, and there is absolutely no way I can get my own sandbox set
up.
I suspect that finding a way to run your own is going to be easier
than inventing a new way to debug perl. Can you tell us anything
about the barriers to running your own server? We might be able to
suggest something.
Is there a way that I can run an interactive debug session without
running http -x?
You need a console attached, so I don't think so. You could look at
what others have done with trying to debug forked programs, but
daemons like apache try pretty hard to detach from everything.
I'm willing to invest time into adding the required functionality into
mod_perl/Apache::DB if necessary, so any pointers into why and how, are
greatly appreciated.
If I were going to try to do this, I'd probably start with
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Devel-ebug/ and see if it can be hacked to
work as a remote debugger for mod_perl.
- Perrin
