Re: Perl Illegal Instruction

2019-08-15 Thread Chris Wagner
Apologies for the necropost but the solution deserves to be documented. I suspected that it could be a rebasing issue and sure enough having Setup do a rebase fixed the problem. Rebasing should probably be the first thing to do whenever you get some weird execution error from a Cygwin program

Re: Perl Illegal Instruction

2019-07-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Chris Wagner writes: > Of course it's up to date... I'll let that stand, although I've seen sufficiently many Win7 systems lately to be wary of any such statement. > That is not BLODA. That's the standard list of libraries. I changed > nothing; it worked yesterday; today it didn't. Every other

Re: Perl Illegal Instruction

2019-07-15 Thread Vince Rice
> On Jul 15, 2019, at 3:36 PM, Chris Wagner wrote: > > On 2019-07-15 3:46 pm, Achim Gratz wrote: >> Terribly out of date and no longer safe to use on a networked system. > > Of course it's up to date… There is no "of course" in troubleshooting. As Achim noted and you didn't quote, whether a "Wi

Re: Perl Illegal Instruction

2019-07-15 Thread Chris Wagner
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 Terribly out of date and no longer safe to use on a netwo

Re: Perl Illegal Instruction

2019-07-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: >> Windows 7 SP1. > > Terribly out of date and no longer safe to use on a networked system. ...assuming you literally meant SP1 and not SP1 plus the hundreds of patches on top to fully patch it up (or the rollup that must not be called SP2 plus the over 100 patches that have ac

Re: Perl Illegal Instruction

2019-07-15 Thread Achim Gratz
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 Terribly out of date and no longer safe to use on a networked system. > So I turn to strace a

Re: Perl Illegal Instruction

2019-07-15 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Chris Wagner! > Hi folks. > 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. > $ /usr/bin/perl.exe -v > $ echo $? > 0 > So I turn to strace and it stat

Perl Illegal Instruction

2019-07-15 Thread Chris Wagner
Hi folks. 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. $ /usr/bin/perl.exe -v $ echo $? 0 So I turn to strace and it states Illegal Instruction. Any ideas? Tha