On Mar 7 09:30, Kelly, Brian wrote: > On two systems I tested this on, the latest cygwin base release breaks > both releases of Perl. The problem appears to be some type of DLL > collision with some types of compiled Perl modules on Windows XP > Professional. Below is a simple example using the Data::Dump::Streamer > module: > > > use Data::Dump::Streamer; > my $out=`ls`; > print "OUT=$out\n"; > > > When run, it produces the following output: > > $ perl test.pl > 8 [main] perl 3692 child_copy: loaded dll data write copy failed, > 0x57573000..0x575733E0, done 0, windows pid 2320, Win32 error 487 > > > If you comment out the module, the backtick `ls` and print run fine. > If you comment out the backtick line, the module loads fine. But > together, I see the problem. > > I have already attempted to run rebaseall and perlrebase (multiple > times in fact), but these do not correct the problem. When I roll back > to release 1.7.10-1, (with *NO* other changes), the problem goes away.
Did you also rebase the DLL providing Data::Dump::Streamer? I'm not fluent in perl so I don't know how to get this DLL. The above is definitely a collision problem, but it may be persistent for you because the self-built(?) DLL is never taken into account when rebasing. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
