Cygwin 1.7.7: intermittent Perl "unable to remap *.dll" error with Windows 7/2008R2

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 12/16/2010 9:21 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> On 12/16/10 4:25 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> On 12/16/2010 5:34 PM, Manfred Brabec wrote:
>>> Hello Corinna,
>>> Cygwin is really great, but has huge stability problems running on top of
>>> Windows 7 or Windows 2008R2 (both 64Bit).
>>>
>>> When running Perl scipts, they intermittent stop with fatal error
>>> "unable to
>>> remap" any dll. When you try to run the perl script several times,
>>> then it
>>> will work again for one or if you are lucky for many times.
>>>
>>> Unsuccessful workarounds so far:
>>>
>>> 1. ash ->  rebaseall: does not solve the problem.
>>
>> For perl, you need perlrebase.  rebaseall doesn't know about all the perl
>> modules that you may have installed.
>>
>
> Why doesn't rebase just look for all DLLs in the usual Cygwin locations
> instead of using the package database?

I suppose it could.  But the rebase package was developed to address the
rebase problem for Cygwin packages that are part of the distribution.  That
includes perl.  But perl can pull in its own stuff, particularly stuff that
isn't in the distro.  The rebase package would have to be taught how to find
and handle those.  Presumably, this could be done by leveraging what
perlrebase does but that requires coordination and effort, even if Reini and
Jason want it to happen.  It's really their call since it's their packages
that would be directly affected by any work to address your question.

-- 
Larry

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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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