Re: perl 5.14 perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/auto/IO/IO.dll missing or broken

[schilpfamily <schilpfamily at gmail dot com>]

well i didn't want to update everything because of the mess the
cygwin/x people have made of the X port. but after updating everything
it now works. of course cygwin/x doesn't....
i guess it's time to purchase some kind of X windows emulator as i
don't think the cygwin/x people care if they break their X port...
oh well, sorry to have bothered you guys.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:
> William J. Schilp, PhD writes:
>> i updated to the latest version of perl on cygwin and i get the
>> following failure:
>
> Your Cygwin installation is most certainly not up-to-date, so I think
> you tried to mix-and-match instead of updating.  If you do that, you
> shouldn't hide the OBSOLETE category and you really are on your own if
> you break things this way.  Besides, you might have an msys perl in
> path, which could be interfering further.  But fix your installation
> first, please.
>
>> Package                               Version            Status
>> _autorebase                           000651-1           OK
>
> That is old.
>
>> perl_autorebase                       5.14.4-3           OK
>
> Doesn't work due to the wrong _autorebase version-
>
>> perl_base                             5.14.4-3           OK
>> perl_vendor                           5.14.2-3           OK
>
> This comes from the previous Perl and has been obsoleted.  You need to
> install the obsoletion package to get the distributions formerly
> packaged in perl_vendor into your installation.  You will have to
> reinstall all other perl packages on your system when fixing that.
>
>
> Regards,
> Achim.
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