[GNC] Finance Quote problem MacOS High Sierra.

[Bruce Schuck]

Thanks John.

Coincidentally I just managed to install a High Sierra VM under 
VirtualBox on my MacBook w/Catalina.

I'll be taking a look at this soon.

- Bruce S.

On 3/25/23 3:47 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> Bruce,
> 
> Versions:
> Module::Load 0.36
> Module::Load::Conditional 0.74
> SelfLoader 1.24
> AutoLoader 5.74
> 
> and for good measure
> Perl 5.18.2
> 
> I ran perl -d:Trace .cpan/build/Finance-Quote-blah-blah/Examples/currency-lookup.pl EUR USD and attached the zipped result below. You might see a couple of unfamiliar strings, those are from print statements I'd inserted to try to see what was going on.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mar 23, 2023, at 7:33 PM, Bruce Schuck <bschuck at asgard-systems.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 03/23/23 9:21 PM, Bruce Schuck wrote:
>>
>> What versions of those modules are on the 10.13 OS you have access to?
>>
>> Can you update Module::Load and test again?
>>
>> Perl does have two modules, Devel::Trace and Devel::DumpTrace.
>>
>> I think the output of Devel::Trace may be more useful.
>>
>> "perl -d:Trace /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-dump -v currency EUR USD 2>/tmp/foobar"
>>
>> It creates a fairly large file, over 300k lines on my Catalina system where it is working. Starting on line 246638 I see the call to autoload and subsequent perl lines executed.
>>
>> Just starting it as "perl -d /Applications/..." runs the script in a sort of gdb like environment. But I've always debugged using prints to stdout or Smart::Comments.
>>
>> So if you or whoever is having issues on a High Sierra OS can install install Devel::Trace and provide me the output (I checked mine, my ALPHAVANTAGE API key is not exposed, but double check your output), I can maybe compare.
>>
>> Thanks again.
>>
>> - Bruce S.
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