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Re: Perl instabilities
- From: lemkemch at t-online dot de (Michael Lemke)
- To: "cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:10:07 +0200
- Subject: Re: Perl instabilities
4/30/03 22:22:19, "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp@familiehaase.de> wrote:
>Hallo,
>
>> Michael wrote:
>>>> I just had the problem when I tried to build perl on VMS. Threads and
>>>> 64bit stuff wouldn't work. Just a thought.
>
>> Elfyn:
>>> Just a WAG, maybe it's down to the 64-int support. Perhaps re-building from
>>> source without 64-int might do something...
>
>> Ok, I'll build a version without 65-int support tomorrow, will send
>> you a the download URL when ready.
>
>Ok, here it is, I don't know exactely where, but I lost the 65th bit;)
>http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/perl/perl-5.8.0-no64bit.tar.bz2
>http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/perl/md5sums
>
>Sourcepackage available on request.
>
>Can you try to reproduce the problem with this perl?
>
Thanks. I just did. Behaves exactly as the old one. Doesn't work.
However, I also tried 5.6.1 reinstalled with setup and it works.
>Just extract it from the root dir '/', probably it is better to
>uninstall previous perl-5.8.0 versions with setup.exe.
I did that.
Is there anything we can achieve with gdb? I tried
(gdb /usr/bin/perl; set follow child; run Makefile.PL on Gerrit's debug
version) but nothing showed up. strace?
Hm, am I the only one having problems with this on W98?
Michael
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