Perl Illegal Instruction

[Chris Wagner]

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 Terribly out of date and no longer safe to use on a networked system.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 combined with an outdated Perl (Cygwin is at 5.26.3 now).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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