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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Perl Illegal Instruction
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 19:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ims3nkrw.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1a666ba9c75538fb2d246545a6e06343@plebeian.com> (Chris Wagner's	message of "Mon, 15 Jul 2019 13:56:56 -0400")

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Terribly out of date and no longer safe to use on a networked system.

> So I turn to strace and it states Illegal Instruction.  Any ideas?

BLODA or worse, assuming that _you_ didn't change anything recently.

> $ 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combined with an outdated Perl (Cygwin is at 5.26.3 now).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.


Regards,
Achim.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-15 19:46 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 [this message]
2019-07-15 19:58   ` Achim Gratz
2019-07-15 20:36   ` Chris Wagner
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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