Mail Archives: cygwin/2012/03/05/05:03:24
On Mar 4 17:11, Scott wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 15:08:33 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Mar 3 10:04, Scott wrote:
> > > With the introduction of cygwin 1.7.11-1, perl scripts that use
> > > dynamic loading fail with dll errors when another program is exec'ed.
> > >
> > > The host OS is windows 7 professional, 32-bit. The error message
> > > looks like the familiar perl problem fixed by rebaseall, but this
> > > time, that remedy did not fix the problem.
> > >
> > > A perl one-liner is enough to demonstrate:
> > >
> > > win7% perl -MParams::Util -e 'system q{date}'
> > > 3 [main] perl 3428 child_copy: loaded dll data write copy failed, 0x721D6000..0x721D635C, done 0, windows pi
> > d 5360, Win32 error 487
> >
> > Thanks for the report. I fixed that in CVS. I really hope this has
> > no other side effects this time :-P
> >
> > I'm just generating a developers snapshot for testing. Please give the
> > today's snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ a try.
>
> I installed the snapshot cygwin1.dll in place of the 1.7.10-1 version,
> crossed my fingers, and ran the perl one-liner. I am delighted to
> report you've fixed it!
>
> Corinna, you rock! Thank you!
Thanks, but I'm still not quite sure if the patch is really doing the
right thing in all circumstances. It would be nice if you could use the
snapshot for a longer while to see if any similar proboem crops up.
Corinna
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