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Re: cygwin 1.7.11-1 broke perl using dynamic loading


On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 15:08:33 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar  3 10:04, Scott wrote:
> >   With the introduction of cygwin 1.7.11-1, perl scripts that use
> >   dynamic loading fail with dll errors when another program is exec'ed.
> > 
> >   The host OS is windows 7 professional, 32-bit.  The error message
> >   looks like the familiar perl problem fixed by rebaseall, but this
> >   time, that remedy did not fix the problem.
> > 
> >   A perl one-liner is enough to demonstrate:
> > 
> > 	win7% perl -MParams::Util -e 'system q{date}'
> > 	      3 [main] perl 3428 child_copy: loaded dll data write copy failed, 0x721D6000..0x721D635C, done 0, windows pi
> d 5360, Win32 error 487
> 
> Thanks for the report.  I fixed that in CVS.  I really hope this has
> no other side effects this time :-P
> 
> I'm just generating a developers snapshot for testing.  Please give the
> today's snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ a try.

	I installed the snapshot cygwin1.dll in place of the 1.7.10-1 version,
	crossed my fingers, and ran the perl one-liner. I am delighted to
	report you've fixed it!

	Corinna, you rock! Thank you!

		Scott

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