From:	syring AT pollux DOT edv DOT agrar DOT tu-muenchen DOT de (Karl Martin Syring)
Subject:	RE: Perl5 dies...(and a new bug)
21 Dec 1996 10:55:44 -0800 :
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Finally found the reason:
The test scripts try to execute a symbolic link to =
/usr/local/perl5.003/perl.exe in the /t directory. Of course the name =
"perl" is used which would be fine if the file invoked is an executable. =
But as it is only a symbolic link, the script dies. Just copying the =
real pearl.exe to the /t directory cures the problem and the test =
scripts are running quite fine (it says 89% successfull) and the final =
install is successful to.

Regards
Karl


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From: 	Karl Martin Syring
Sent: 	Montag, 16. Dezember 1996 20:04
To: 	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
Subject: 	Bug: Perl5 dies...

While trying to get Perl5 installed (see my last mail related to perl), =
I have the following error messages if I run the "test" script on NT =
4.0:

/usr/local/perl5.003/t%../perl test
base/cond......ok
base/if........ok
base/lex.......fork copy: failed, 0x455000..0x45C978, res is 0, done is =
16777426
fork_helper: copy of data/bss failed
fork copy: failed, 0x455000..0x45C978, res is 0, done is 167774256
fork_helper: copy of data/bss failed
.... continued forever

Obviously, it dies while executing the lex.t script. The interesting =
thing is, the lex.t alone script will run without any problems. So I =
think the problem is somewhere in cygwin.dll. If anybody wants to check =
this out, my perl5.003 .exes are available at:
http://www.edv.agrar.tu-muenchen.de/~syring/gnu-win32/perl.zip





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