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Date: | Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:04:49 -0500 |
From: | Michael Adler <mad2 AT tapil DOT com> |
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To: | Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org> |
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Subject: | Re: Perl output dropped when invoking itself |
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Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 12:09:49PM -0500, Michael Adler wrote: > >> I'm having Perl I/O problems on one machine that keep me from getting >> CPAN installations to work. On this machine if I execte: >> >> perl -e 'print `perl -e "require 5; print qq{VER_OK\n}"`;' >> >> from bash there is no output. On all my other machines it prints >> VER_OK. ExtUtils::MM_Unix does this test and fails. >> >> I've looked at all environment variables I can think of, especially >> CYGWIN, and it is identical on a machine that works and one that fails. >> Cygwin is up to date on both and Perl version is 5.8.7. I've tried >> multiple values of the PERLIO variable with no success. Replacing the >> inner invocation of perl with some other command, like cat of a file, >> works on both machines! I tried blowing away the entire perl >> environment and reinstalling. >> >> I assume I'm missing something simple. Hints would be appreciated. >> > > What do these do: > perl -e 'print `perl -v`' > perl -e 'print `perl -f -e "require 5; print qq{VER_OK\n}"`;' > perl -e 'print `perl -f -e "print qq{VER_OK\n}"`;' > Thank you for the reply. I did finally figure it out. Some post-install script had apparently failed in the past and /bin/sh was old -- it wasn't bash. -Michael -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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