Perl Illegal Instruction
Chris Wagner
wagnerc@plebeian.com
Mon Jul 15 20:36:00 GMT 2019
On 2019-07-15 3:46 pm, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Chris Wagner writes:
>> For some reason this afternoon, after having worked fine, my Perl
>> stopped working. There was no error message. It just silently died
>> with status 0 no less.
>>
>> Windows 7 SP1.
>
> Terribly out of date and no longer safe to use on a networked system.
Of course it's up to date...
>> So I turn to strace and it states Illegal Instruction. Any ideas?
>
> BLODA or worse, assuming that _you_ didn't change anything recently.
That is not BLODA. That's the standard list of libraries. I changed
nothing; it worked yesterday; today it didn't. Every other Cygwin
executable I've tried works without problem. I even tried reextracting
the files from perl_base.
>> $ uname -a
>> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 applejack 3.0.7(0.338/5/3) 2019-04-30 18:08 x86_64
>> Cygwin
>
> A current Cygwin...
>
>> $ cygcheck -c perl perl_base
>> Cygwin Package Information
>> Package Version Status
>> perl 5.22.4-1 OK
>> perl_base 5.22.4-1 OK
>
> combined with an outdated Perl (Cygwin is at 5.26.3 now). What are you
> trying to achieve? Please fully update Cygwin after checking your
> system. Also, you might want to clean up your PATH a bit.
I'm not going to recompile all my modules and rework the new lib paths
until I have a really good reason to.
I'ld be happy to run any other diagnostic command anyone can think of.
Thanks.
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