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 Message-ID: <41AE0306.5000702@familiehaase.de> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 18:44:38 +0100 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Axehult , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin build of perl5.8.5 (cygwin-thread-multi-64int) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Tom Axehult wrote: > Can anyone explain the outcome of running what follows on an XP, SP2? [...] > 10:06:24 ~ > perldoc -v perldoc [...] > C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe (4076): *** couldn't release memory 0xA04000(1032192) > for 'C:\cygwin\lib\perl5\5.8.5\cygwin-thread-multi-6 > 4int\auto\Fcntl\Fcntl.dll' alignment, Win32 error 487 > > 4 [main] perl 3944 sync_with_child: child 4076(0x6A4) died before > initialization with status code 0x1 > 242 [main] perl 3944 sync_with_child: *** child state child loading dlls No sorry, I cannot explain this. It works here with my XP/SP2 so it is not a generic problem. I'm seeing that perl writes a file to /tmp instead this error. Maybe perl doesn't like your TMP drive: > TEMP = `C:\DOCUME~1\TOMAXE~1\LOKALA~1\Temp' > TMP = `C:\DOCUME~1\TOMAXE~1\LOKALA~1\Temp' Create /tmp and set TMP & TEMP to /tmp. HTH, Gerrit -- =^..^= -- 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/