Re: Perl Illegal Instruction

[Chris Wagner <wagnerc at plebeian dot com>]

On 2019-07-15 3:46 pm, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Chris Wagner writes:
> > For some reason this afternoon, after having worked fine, my Perl
> > stopped working.  There was no error message.  It just silently died
> > with status 0 no less.
> >
> > Windows 7 SP1.
>
> Terribly out of date and no longer safe to use on a networked system.

Of course it's up to date...



> > So I turn to strace and it states Illegal Instruction.  Any ideas?
>
> BLODA or worse, assuming that _you_ didn't change anything recently.

That is not BLODA.  That's the standard list of libraries.  I changed 
nothing; it worked yesterday; today it didn't.  Every other Cygwin 
executable I've tried works without problem.  I even tried reextracting 
the files from perl_base.



> > $ uname -a
> > CYGWIN_NT-6.1 applejack 3.0.7(0.338/5/3) 2019-04-30 18:08 x86_64 
> > Cygwin
>
> A current Cygwin...
>
> > $ cygcheck -c perl perl_base
> > Cygwin Package Information
> > Package              Version        Status
> > perl                 5.22.4-1       OK
> > perl_base            5.22.4-1       OK
>
> combined with an outdated Perl (Cygwin is at 5.26.3 now).  What are you
> trying to achieve?  Please fully update Cygwin after checking your
> system.  Also, you might want to clean up your PATH a bit.

I'm not going to recompile all my modules and rework the new lib paths 
until I have a really good reason to.

I'ld be happy to run any other diagnostic command anyone can think of.


Thanks.









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