exim with embedded perl v5.8.2 broken

[Patrick Eisenacher]

I don't know why, but the first mails didn't make it through onto the 
list, but now I subscribed, so this one should make it.

I attached the output of strace. Perhaps anybody can see where the 
problem is. I'm still clueless.

And yes, perl.o was indeed recompiled when I rebuilt exim. I even 
removed the compiler optimization flag, but that didn't help neither.

If more info is needed to get this beast going, please let me know.


Thanks,
Patrick

Pierre A. Humblet schrieb:

> Sorry to hear that, Patrick.
> 
> There have been reports like that on Win9x, I think it was also
> a perl version issue.
> 
> I am not using exim with perl and have refrained from distributing
> a version precompiled with perl, to avoid having to support perl 
> issues :(
> 
> Was perl.o recompiled when you rebuilt exim?  
> 
> You may want to run under strace, simplifying the arguments as much
> as possible, and see where it crashes.
> 
> strace -o trace.txt exim-4.24-1.exe -d -ps
> (assuming your exim is still 4.24-1 and not -2 or -3)
> 
> Pierre
> 
> At 12:48 AM 11/11/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>this morning I upgraded from perl v5.8.0-5 to v5.8.2-1.
>>
>>I'm using exim with embedded perl support, so I rebuilt exim v4.24-1 and 
>>now exim doesn't like its embedded perl anymore. Exim works fine until 
>>it starts the perl interpreter at which time it crashes, generating an 
>>empty exim-4.24-1.exe.stackdump.
>>
>>$ exim -d -bd -q30m -ps
>>Exim version 4.24 uid=1000 gid=513 pid=1612 D=fbb95cfd
>>Probably GDBM (native mode)
>>Support for: iconv() PAM Perl OpenSSL
>>Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext spa
>>Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
>>Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply pipe smtp
>>changed uid/gid: forcing real = effective
>>  uid=1000 gid=513 pid=1612
>>  auxiliary group list: 513 544 545
>>configuration file is /etc/exim.conf
>>log selector = 0c1d99f8
>>Starting Perl interpreter
>>
>>If I don't start exim with perl_at_startup, it crashes once it loads 
>>perl, 'Starting Perl interpreter' is again the last line of debugging 
>>output that I get and the mail is stuck on the mailqueue. Running as a 
>>demon doesn't crash the main process, so I guess it's the childs that crash.
>>
>>Unfortunately I can not downgrade to perl v5.8.x via Cygwin Setup, but 
>>only to v5.6.x, which I don't want to. I used my own local cache to 
>>downgrade to perl v5.8.0-5, but now installing the cpan modules again 
>>doesn't work anymore. It's far after midnight now and I'm pretty 
>>frustrated. Can anybody cheer me up again? Why are the cpan modules 
>>throwing up problems? And what could be the culprit with perl v5.8.2 and 
>>exim v4.24?
>>
>>Your help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Patrick
>>
>>
>>

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