From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 76412 invoked by alias); 15 Aug 2019 16:22:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 76405 invoked by uid 89); 15 Aug 2019 16:22:45 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=H*UA:1.3.8, H*u:1.3.8, proposition, deserves X-HELO: www16.qth.com Received: from www16.qth.com (HELO www16.qth.com) (69.16.238.67) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 16:22:43 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (port=41980 helo=www16.qth.com) by www16.qth.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hyIWO-005uml-KV for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 11:22:40 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 16:22:00 -0000 From: Chris Wagner To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Perl Illegal Instruction In-Reply-To: <87zhleee0j.fsf@Rainer.invalid> References: <1a666ba9c75538fb2d246545a6e06343@plebeian.com> <87ims3nkrw.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <802fce1aec7fcce7b453fafc36b0b310@plebeian.com> <87zhleee0j.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Message-ID: <5bf2dbe26a4630ae03d229f869c3f4b8@plebeian.com> X-Sender: wagnerc@plebeian.com User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.3.8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-08/txt/msg00206.txt.bz2 Apologies for the necropost but the solution deserves to be documented. I suspected that it could be a rebasing issue and sure enough having Setup do a rebase fixed the problem. Rebasing should probably be the first thing to do whenever you get some weird execution error from a Cygwin program. Thanks. On 2019-07-16 1:37 am, Achim Gratz wrote: > Chris Wagner writes: >> Of course it's up to date... > > I'll let that stand, although I've seen sufficiently many Win7 systems > lately to be wary of any such statement. > >> That is not BLODA. That's the standard list of libraries. I changed >> nothing; it worked yesterday; today it didn't. Every other Cygwin >> executable I've tried works without problem. I even tried >> reextracting the files from perl_base. > > So again, something changed and you have no idea what. If you rule out > a hardware error (memory most likely if it always strikes at the same > place) and you didn't actively made changes (not limited to Cygwin), > then the culprit must by definition be some change that occured > elsewhere in the system. If it was some automatic update there might > be a restore point pertaining to those changes and certainly something > in the event logs. > >>>> $ uname -a >>>> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 applejack 3.0.7(0.338/5/3) 2019-04-30 18:08 x86_64 >>>> Cygwin >>> >>> A current Cygwin... >>> >>>> $ cygcheck -c perl perl_base >>>> Cygwin Package Information >>>> Package Version Status >>>> perl 5.22.4-1 OK >>>> perl_base 5.22.4-1 OK >>> >>> combined with an outdated Perl (Cygwin is at 5.26.3 now). What are >>> you >>> trying to achieve? Please fully update Cygwin after checking your >>> system. Also, you might want to clean up your PATH a bit. >> >> I'm not going to recompile all my modules and rework the new lib paths >> until I have a really good reason to. > > As they say, "you break it, you get to keep the broken pieces". Trying > to lock down part(s) of Cygwin is a losing proposition unless you are > building everything yourself, at which point building a bunch of Perl > modules after an update ceases to be an issue anyway. > >> I'ld be happy to run any other diagnostic command anyone can think of. > > Well, as I said, try to start with some halfway sane PATH perhaps? In > other words, something like > > env PATH=/bin perl --version > > for starters. > > > Regards, > Achim. -- 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