X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 16:54:36 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Both versions of Perl (5.10 and 5.14) DLL collision on XP Pro, rebase does not work - serious problem with latest Cygwin base Release - 1.7.11-1 Message-ID: <20120307155436.GK5159@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <50BA2F81CF76F7438BD87069FCFD413501BB608EE1 AT cexchmb1 DOT bcbsa DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50BA2F81CF76F7438BD87069FCFD413501BB608EE1@cexchmb1.bcbsa.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Mar 7 09:30, Kelly, Brian wrote: > On two systems I tested this on, the latest cygwin base release breaks > both releases of Perl. The problem appears to be some type of DLL > collision with some types of compiled Perl modules on Windows XP > Professional. Below is a simple example using the Data::Dump::Streamer > module: > > > use Data::Dump::Streamer; > my $out=`ls`; > print "OUT=$out\n"; > > > When run, it produces the following output: > > $ perl test.pl > 8 [main] perl 3692 child_copy: loaded dll data write copy failed, 0x57573000..0x575733E0, done 0, windows pid 2320, Win32 error 487 > > > If you comment out the module, the backtick `ls` and print run fine. > If you comment out the backtick line, the module loads fine. But > together, I see the problem. > > I have already attempted to run rebaseall and perlrebase (multiple > times in fact), but these do not correct the problem. When I roll back > to release 1.7.10-1, (with *NO* other changes), the problem goes away. Did you also rebase the DLL providing Data::Dump::Streamer? I'm not fluent in perl so I don't know how to get this DLL. The above is definitely a collision problem, but it may be persistent for you because the self-built(?) DLL is never taken into account when rebasing. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple