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Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 17:47:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
cc: Michael Lemke <lemkemch AT t-online DOT de>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Perl instabilities
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On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> Hallo Michael,
>
> Am Samstag, 26. April 2003 um 21:49 schriebst du:
>
> > Hi, I see the same.  Haven't tried to track it down, though.
> > When I run the perl Makefile.PL for the spamassassin 2.53 package
> > perl crashes in CWD.DLL
>
> >  micha> uname -a
> > CYGWIN_98-4.10 micha 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i586 unknown unknown Cygwin
> >  micha> perl -v
>
> > This is perl, v5.8.0 built for cygwin-multi-64int
> > ...
> >  micha> perl Makefile.PL
> > Checking if your kit is complete...
> > Looks good
> > Warning: prerequisite HTML::Parser 3 not found.
> >    1924 [main] perl 898827 sync_with_child: child -861851(0xF0) died before initialization with status code 0xFFFFFFFF
> >    2054 [main] perl 898827 sync_with_child: *** child state child loading dlls
>
> > After a while two instances (processes) of perl crash.
>
> [...]
>
> > Any ideas?
>
> There is a debudding versiopn of perl available:
> Ok, a debugging version is here (two packages, 8MB sourcetree and
> 10MB binaries):
> http://koeln.convey.de/cywgin/perl/perl-5.8.0-debugging.tar.bz2
> http://koeln.convey.de/cywgin/perl/perl-5.8.0-debugging-srctree.tar.bz2
> http://koeln.convey.de/cywgin/perl/md5sums
>
> And a source package with the additional patches and scripts to
> build a debugging version: perl-5.8.0-debugging-src.tar.bz2, is
> available on request.
>
> As C. Faylor wrote:
>
> Now 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.
> Gerrit

Gerrit,

FYI, cmd.exe (and command.com) will barf at a "=" in a variable value.
The following should work, though:

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

Hope this helps,
	Igor
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