Can't reproduce the issue, i.e. it works fine for me without the debugger:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Getopt::Long::Descriptive;
my ($opt, $usage) = describe_options(
'my-program %o <some-arg>',
[ 'server|s=s', "the server to connect to" ],
[ 'port|p=i', "the port to connect to", { default => 79 } ],
[],
[ 'verbose|v', "print extra stuff" ],
[ 'help', "print usage message and exit" ],
);
print($usage->text), exit if $opt->help;
$ ./877972.pl --help
my-program [-psv] [long options...] <some-arg>
-s --server the server to connect to
-p --port the port to connect to
-v --verbose print extra stuff
--help print usage message and exit
(tested with v5.10.1 (*) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi)
Update: as the first problem happens here:
sub _validate_with {
my (%arg) = validate(@_, { # <-- line 442
name => 1,
params => 1,
spec => 1,
opts => 1,
usage => 1,
});
and validate() is from Params::Validate, maybe there's some problem with this module? Which version are you using? (0.95 here)
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