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 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BBEF70.ACC4E0E0.cygnus.gnu-win32@coyote.pnut.agrar.tu-muenchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Original-To: "'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com 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 ---------- 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 - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".