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Re:Strace – My Favourite Secret Weapon (2011) by bmn__ on Monday February 12, 2018 @08:33AM (#16358428)
To be fair, Perl emits a pretty good error message for the very common problem of a missing library and strace is generally not necessary to understand what's going on.

    > /usr/bin/perl -mblahlib
    Can't locate blahlib.pm in @INC (you may need to install
    the blahlib module) (@INC contains:
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.1
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.26.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.26.1
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.26.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.26.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl).
    BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
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