Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 07:40:02 +0200 (MEST) To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Cc: Peter Buckley Cc: Peter Buckley Subject: Re: dynamic perl shipped with cygwin References: <3BA6765C DOT D97CA853 AT cportcorp DOT com> Message-ID: <28921.1000791602@www27.gmx.net> From: "S. L." MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Authenticated-Sender: #0006551723 AT gmx DOT net X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 1.5 (Global Message Exchange) X-Authenticated-IP: [194.102.244.61] X-Flags: 0001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [...] > I don't understand why the perl-5.6.1.README says > "This package is configured to support dynamic loading" > and I am getting an error that seems to contradict that statement. [...] Except the fact that your libperl.dll could be damaged or that you affected the perl environment so that it can't find IO.dll or the above, a good thing would be to "ln -s /libperl.dll /lib/libperl.dll" or /usr/local/lib/libperl.dll. It seems that there are some modules searching for dynamic loading using this name; although the CPAN modules I'm using don't have this problem, the postgresql perl5 and plperl do. And the "ln -s [...]" above solves it. SLao -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/