perl debugger not working in xterm

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:51:04PM -0800, Tom Goetze wrote:
>Something very strange I discovered today, however, is that if I try to use
>the perl debugger like this:
>
>perl -d -e 0
>
>then the perl debugging prompt does not appear in the xterm window, but
>instead it appears (with mangled characters) in the cygwin terminal from
>which I ran "startx".
>
>2. The version of perl is the ActiveState one that I installed outside of
>cygwin, but that gets picked up from my Windows user's PATH.
>
>In particular, 
>$ which perl
>/cygdrive/c/Perl/bin/perl
> 
>Anything jump out as a potential problem for me (or a quick fix)?

Use cygwin's perl?  ActiveState perl obviously doesn't understand cygwin's
ptys.

cgf