Problem installing CPAN module

[Lasse]

Sonam Chauhan wrote:
> Hi - While doing a fresh install of Cygwin, I have run into errors
> installing a CPAN Perl module that worked last month. The module is
> Proc::ProcessTable. It now reports a "`PID_ZOMBIE' undeclared" error message
> during compilation. The relevant snippet is below. 

Hmm... This rings a bell... *digging through old CPAN build cache*

Yup, here it is... Appearantly the cygwin.h include file changed at some 
point and the PID_ZOMBIE definition disappeared. Seems like the 
PID_UNUSED definition replaced it though. At least it has the same value.

So, I just replaced PID_ZOMBIE with PID_UNUSED in Proc::ProcessTable's 
os/cygwin.c and voila! It builds...

Whether that's the correct definition to be used there, I have no idea 
but it seems to work fine...

I actually thought I had submitted a patch for this but I must have 
forgotten...

> Back in May, I reported a different problem with this module:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg54579.html 
> At that time, cygcheck showed the core 'cygwin' version as 1.5.16-1. The
> 'cygwin' version is now 1.5.17-1. The versions of Cygwin Perl (5.8.6-4) and
> CPAN Proc::ProcessTable version (0.39) have not changed. 
> 
> Any thought on what the problem might be? 

It seems the problem with Proc::ProcessTable picking up the wrong PID 
(i.e. Win PID instead of Cygwin PID) is still around... I'm not really 
familiar with cygwin's internals so I'm not sure what to do about that...

But at least it builds now.. ;-)

-- 
/Lasse


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