perl -MCPAN -e shell crashes w98se

[Nicholas Wourms]

Steve Coleman wrote:
> Graham Lamont wrote:
> 
>> perl -MCPAN -e shell
>>
>>
>> Anybody experience similar ?
>>  
>>
> I've been having problems with the latest version of Perl (5.8.0-3) 
> while running/installing from CPAN on WinME. Using the previous version 
> (5.6.1-2) seems to work fine for me when installing from CPAN. I'm not 
> sure about what is causing your problems but mine were from dll's having 
> errors, and 'rebaseall' did not seem to help any. I just reverted to the 
> older version until someone can figure this out or a new version comes 
> out with the 64 bit stuff. If I find the time I will try building perl 
> myself and look into this further, unfortunately my WinME system is 
> 'remote' and one 'hang' means try again tomorrow....
> 
> You can message me off line if there are any specific questions on this.

Steve,

You might want to give Gerrit's 5.8.1-RC4 a try, it *seems* to be 
working better then 5.8.0.  It still freezes when building some modules, 
but at least automake/autoheader/autoupdate work.  Also, it now seem to 
not freeze gdb anymore, so executing a perl command should allow you to 
trace.  However, wait until he announces the new version which has a few 
bug fixes.

Cheers,
Nicholas



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