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Re: perl.exe has wrong base address (was Re: git-svn hang starting with 20110721 snapshot.)


2011/8/3 Christopher Faylor:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 04:56:05PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>Is git-svn using perl?
>
> Yes, very heavily. ?Setting CYGWIN_DEBUG=perl filled my screen with gdb
> windows.
>
>>I have constant problems using perl after a rebase. ?The problem starts
>>with perl.exe(!) being rebased(!) to 0x50000000(!).
>
> So, it is. ?How odd.
>
>>However, when rebasing perl.exe to 0x400000 where it belongs, it
>>doesn't work either. ?Only reinstalling perl helped afterwards.
>
> perl itself seems to still work but rebasing doesn't solve the hang.
>
>>Reini, could you please update the perl package so that the executable
>>is in its default place at 0x400000?
>
> Or at least explain why it's sitting up there where it interferes with
> dlls?

That is an error in my perlrebase script. Locally I already fixed it.
I'll also rewrite it to use rebase -s with our user-installed site_perl dll's.

Now that rebase 3.0.2 is almost ready I'll roll a perl-5.14.1-1 after that.
-- 
Reini

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