threads::shared 1.24 (phase 2)

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / lib / perl5db.pl

diff --git a/lib/perl5db.pl b/lib/perl5db.pl
index 2167f78..40d2361 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/perl5db.pl
+++ b/lib/perl5db.pl
@@ -1363,7 +1363,9 @@ running interactively, this is C<.perldb>; if not, it's C<perldb.ini>.
 # As noted, this test really doesn't check accurately that the debugger
 # is running at a terminal or not.
 
-if ( -e "/dev/tty" ) {                      # this is the wrong metric!
+my $dev_tty = '/dev/tty';
+   $dev_tty = 'TT:' if ($^O eq 'VMS');
+if ( -e $dev_tty ) {                      # this is the wrong metric!
     $rcfile = ".perldb";
 }
 else {
@@ -6100,6 +6102,16 @@ qq[3>&1 xterm -title "Daughter Perl debugger $pids $name" -e sh -c 'tty 1>&3;\
 
     $pidprompt = '';    # Shown anyway in titlebar
 
+    # We need $term defined or we can not switch to the newly created xterm
+    if ($tty ne '' && !defined $term) {
+        eval { require Term::ReadLine } or die $@;
+        if ( !$rl ) {
+            $term = new Term::ReadLine::Stub 'perldb', $IN, $OUT;
+        }
+        else {
+            $term = new Term::ReadLine 'perldb', $IN, $OUT;
+        }
+    }
     # There's our new TTY.
     return $tty;
 } ## end sub xterm_get_fork_TTY
@@ -6766,18 +6778,6 @@ we go ahead and set C<$console> and C<$tty> to the file indicated.
 
 sub TTY {
 
-    # With VMS we can get here with $term undefined, so we do not
-    # switch to this terminal.  There may be a better place to make
-    # sure that $term is defined on VMS
-    if ( @_ and ($^O eq 'VMS') and !defined($term) ) {
-       eval { require Term::ReadLine } or die $@;
-        if ( !$rl ) {
-           $term = new Term::ReadLine::Stub 'perldb', $IN, $OUT;
-       }
-       else {
-           $term = new Term::ReadLine 'perldb', $IN, $OUT;
-       }
-    }
     if ( @_ and $term and $term->Features->{newTTY} ) {
 
         # This terminal supports switching to a new TTY.