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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 01:17:51 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: frequent crashes with perl under win98
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On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 07:01:35AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>Hallo Johann,
>
>Am Montag, 7. April 2003 um 10:14 schriebst du:
>
>> I am getting frequent crashes with perl under Windows 98: packages
>> Pod::Usage and POSIX seem to cause all kinds of crashes in subsequent
>> code only by using them. The same perl programs work flawlessly on
>> a Windows NT system.
>
>> Crashes occur in CWD.dll and POSIX.dll
>
>> I have perl 5.8.0-2 installed on the Window 98 system.
>
>> Any ideas?
>
>Unfortunately not.  We tried a perl version without increased stack,
>because N. Wourms believed it may be the cause, but using perl without
>the increased stack didn't change this behaviour.  It also seems to be
>no rebase issue.
>
>You could try to build Perl from source on this Win98 box and see if
>it works better then.  Just use the source provided at the Cygwin
>mirrors, there is a buildscript 'build.sh' included for easy building.
>
>If you try it, please send the generated logs to my hands (not to the
>list, please).

Do you have a version of perl with debugging symbols that could be
used?  Then you could do something like:

set CYGWIN=error_start=c:/cygwin/bin/gdb

and when gdb pops up, type "bt" to get a stack trace.

cgf

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