X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:08:09 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: perl5.8.8 SEGfault and corrupt stack Message-ID: <20070729160809.GA11984@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <46AA5F93.4060404@tlinx.org> <46AB1AFF.40304@x-ray.at> <46AC0728.5000009@tlinx.org> <46AC1680.502C59A2@dessent.net> <46AC7696.4080403@tlinx.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46AC7696.4080403@tlinx.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 04:14:30AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: >On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 08:19:04PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: >> Reini Urban wrote: >>> Linda Walsh schrieb: >>>> I'm having problems with perl5.8.8. I tried running it under gdb, but >>>> it won't load: >>>> > gdb perl.exe >>>> GNU gdb 6.3.50_2004-12-28-cvs (cygwin-special) >>>> (gdb) run >>>> Starting program: /usr/bin/perl.exe >>>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. >>>> 0x610b48b6 in pthread_key_create () from /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll >>> Cannot reproduce. Is this a fresh re-install without site_perl or with your >>> broken setup as stated in perl5-porters? >> >>My "broken setup" was caused by trying to upgrade to 5.8.8 from 5.8.7. >>I ran into incompatibilities and decided to re-install & update the >>modules from scratch. I 1st removed "site_perl" then installed 5.8.8. >>I then used the CPAN to upgrade itself then the new "update" command to >>bring my module list back to current. After some manual installs to >>get around cygwin-specific ".dll" replacement issues, I'm only left >>with "Image::Magick" that won't update. Fails with many errors, >>starting with bad compiler options. >> >>Calling my "setup" broken after I detailed on p5p steps to fix it seems >>unnecessarily confrontational, but this is the cygwin list....1/2 :-) > >Brian Dessent wrote: >>You're using an outdated version of gdb and you're seeing this phony >>SIGSEGV because of it. > >Awesome! Thanks. Not sure why, but 'setup' didn't think I had gdb >installed, so it never offered me a newer version...weird. Maybe you shouldn't be quite so indignant about the notion of your setup being "broken". cgf -- 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/