Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/08/31/09:30:49
Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted.
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Liora Milbaum wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liora Milbaum
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 18:03
> To: cygwin AT XXXXXX DOT XXX
> Subject: RE: Windows popup/message box?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Igor Peshansky [mailto:pechtcha AT XX DOT XXX DOT XXX]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 00:20
> > To: Liora Milbaum
> > Cc: cygwin AT XXXXXX DOT XXX
> > Subject: Re: Windows popup/message box?
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks.
> > > Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted.
> > >
> > > On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, liora milbaum wrote:
> > >
> > > > Reini Urban wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >> Interesting. Does it go away a rebaseall?
> > > > >
> > > > > I meant: Interesting. Does it go away after a rebaseall?
> > > >
> > > > Have you managed fixing the missing dll problem? I have the same
> > > > problem as you do with different module.
> > >
> > > Liora,
> > >
> > > Sorry, no, I didn't spend much more time on this, as it wasn't
> > > something that affected me directly, but rather a curious failure
> > > I've discovered by accident. Since you're obviously interested in
> > > getting this fixed, perhaps you could help Reini track this down
> > > further.
> > >
> > > And, to answer Reini's question: I still see the same problem after
> > > a rebaseall. You might want to try this anyway, to see if it fixes
> > > things for you.
> > > Igor
> >
> > Igor,
> >
> > I investigated this issue a little more. I changed my cron command to:
> > * * * * * perl -e 'use GD;' >& /usr/tmp/test.log
> >
> > Here is the content of the test.log file:
> >
> > "Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/GD/GD.dll' for
> > module GD: No such file or directory at
> > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
> > at -e line 1
> > Compilation failed in require at -e line 1.
> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1."
> >
> >
> > The only issue here that the perl module tries to load a dll file. It
> > works just fine from the command line.
> >
> > I think that it is a bug of cygwin cron or cygwin perl.
> >
> > I have also tried to use the perl2exe for this command but it didn't
> > work. Perl2exe doesn't work with cygwin perl.
> >
> > I am in a dead end.
> >
> > Thanks for the help,
> > Liora
>
> I found a solution to my problem. As soon as I changed the crontab
> command to:
> * * * * * bash --login -c 'perl -e "use GD;"' >& /usr/tmp/test.log
>
> It worked.
Then you don't have the same problem as me. For me, the DLL is in the
PATH, and perl still can't find it. I'm running everything from a bash
login prompt.
Igor
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