cygwin 1.7.5, perl *** fatal error TP_NUM_W_BUFS too smal

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 6/3/2010 4:19 PM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> On 6/3/2010 12:17 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> On 6/3/2010 3:02 PM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>>> Should I try building cygwin from sources on my PC?
>>
>
>> Debugging it further would certainly be helpful. But if you don't actually
>> want to build Cygwin from source, you can always use a recent snapshot
>> with its source and debugging information as a shortcut.
>>
>> <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>
>>
>
> I did. I installed the latest snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
>
> cygwin-inst-20100602.tar.bz2
>
> Followed instructions on
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.snapshots
>
> started the cygwin shell again:
>
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 me-PC 1.7.5s(0.227/5/3) 20100602 12:11:53 i686 Cygwin
>
> Run make again, and I still get the same perl error.
>
> I do not know perl much at all. I wonder if there is a way to turn some
> perl global debugging somehow, may be if there is a perl message files,
> that will help find the problem? I need to google this.

Actually, my thought was to install the complete source and debugging
symbols from <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/> too so that you could set a
breakpoint in the code that issues the error and get a better understanding
as to why.  For that, you don't need to know or even debug Perl (one would
hope ;-) ).

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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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