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Re: Perl page fault - old news ??


Hallo Gerrit,

(Whats the spelling of "vie geits" (what's up)?)

Thanks for the reply. Cygwin is amazing and fun.

Yes - W98 is a  umm .... flakey (I am being nice). XP is way better (duh).

Anyway, I'll try the updated version.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp@familiehaase.de>
To: "John K" <joki@eskimo.com>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: Perl page fault - old news ??


> Hallo John,
>
> Am Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2003 um 22:13 schriebst du:
>
> >    I'm learning Cygwin and Perl. Perl is currently 5.8.0 under Windows
> > 98. I have run setup today so I think everything is current.
>
> >    $ perldoc CGI
>
> > results in a Windows pop which contains ...
>
> > PERL caused an invalid page fault in
> > module FCNTL.DLL at 017f:00b931b8.
>
> Windows 98 is known to have problems with Cygwin Perl.
>
>
> >    Is there something I can do or should do to make this work better?
>
> Yes, you may try to use perl-5.8.1 which was reported to behave
> better.  That means only one error where you get several with 5.8.0.
> There is also a debugging version of perl-5.8.1 available if you're
> interested in tracking down what goes wrong:
> ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GE/GERRIT/
> There are two tarballs needed for debugging, the
> perl_debug-5.8.1-2-srctree.tar.bz2 and the binaries
> perl_debug-5.8.1-2.tar.bz2, both extracted from the Cygwin root.
>
>
> I've no Win98 since about three years now and I feel much better!
>
> Gerrit
> -- 
> =^..^=
>
>



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