Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:01:13 +0100 From: Wolfgang Schnerring To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: WML (perl-based program) segfaults Message-ID: <20040212100113.GD1228@nautis.wosc.de> References: <2934478737 DOT 20040211233539 AT familiehaase DOT de> <20040212090742 DOT GA1228 AT nautis DOT wosc DOT de> <129240678667 DOT 20040212102414 AT familiehaase DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <129240678667.20040212102414@familiehaase.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i * Gerrit P. Haase [2004-02-12 10:24]: > >> ./configure --with-openworld --enable-debug > >> runing make ends here: > >> mp4h: ERROR: failed to initialise modules: unknown error > > This can be circumvented by specifying --without-modules ... :-/ Forgot to say: The subcomponents (mp4h, eperl, etc.) are pretty much independent from each other. And as it seems, only eperl broke down... > > Do you think the possible results warrant the effort of rebuilding > > perl? > I have a debugging version of perl online[1] Now, that's good news. 8-) I'll try this and see if I catch something. > however it seems that the problem is with malloc() which was changed > sometimes back in Cygwin (between 1.3.x and 1.5). There is also an > option for WML to use dmalloc[2], maybe that helps to track this > down? The --with-dmalloc option also only affects mp4h, which doesn't cause trouble at the moment. Additionally, specifying this breaks the build for me; so I'd rather not wake any sleeping seamonsters here. %-) Wolfgang -- 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/