From: Chris Wagner <wagnerc@plebeian.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Perl Illegal Instruction
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 20:36:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <802fce1aec7fcce7b453fafc36b0b310@plebeian.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ims3nkrw.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
On 2019-07-15 3:46 pm, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Chris Wagner writes:
>> For some reason this afternoon, after having worked fine, my Perl
>> stopped working. There was no error message. It just silently died
>> with status 0 no less.
>>
>> Windows 7 SP1.
>
> Terribly out of date and no longer safe to use on a networked system.
Of course it's up to date...
>> So I turn to strace and it states Illegal Instruction. Any ideas?
>
> BLODA or worse, assuming that _you_ didn't change anything recently.
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.
>> $ 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 combined with an outdated Perl (Cygwin is at 5.26.3 now).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.
I'ld be happy to run any other diagnostic command anyone can think of.
Thanks.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-15 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-15 17:57 Chris Wagner
2019-07-15 18:50 ` Andrey Repin
2019-07-15 19:46 ` Achim Gratz
2019-07-15 19:58 ` Achim Gratz
2019-07-15 20:36 ` Chris Wagner [this message]
2019-07-15 21:01 ` Vince Rice
2019-07-16 5:37 ` Achim Gratz
2019-08-15 16:22 ` Chris Wagner
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