Re: Compress::Zlib Clobbers CPAN shell

["Neil Lunn" <corrosion99 at hotmail dot com>]

Geez,

Answering my own questions now. It was Zlib that was broken. I was using the 
pre-built from "Cygutils".

I just ran a vanilla make on Zlib and everything works fine.

Neil



>From: "Neil Lunn" <corrosion99@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: corrosion@connect.to
>To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
>Subject: Compress::Zlib Clobbers CPAN shell
>Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:16:10 EST
>
>Hi,
>
>I have a really strange result with the CPAN shell program after the
>Compress::Zlib module has been installed. If this module is removed the
>problem goes away.
>
>Compress::Zlib passes 'make' and 'make test' without any error at all. 
>After
>this module has been installed, the CPAN shell will not do much at all. I
>include the output from trying to install a simple module as an example.
>
>This only happens on Cygwin, and I've done this now on both a Win98 and a
>Win2000 box. Likely the Break is in CPAN.pm Compress::Zlib or zlib itself?
>
>Any pointers or similar experience? This does't seem to be anything like
>this in the list archives.
>
>Neil Lunn
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Output from perl -V
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
>  Platform:
>    osname=cygwin, osvers=1.1.0(0.1832), archname=cygwin
>    uname='cygwin_nt-4.0 belgarion 1.1.0(0.1832) 2000-03-29 00:20:35 i586
>unknown '
>    config_args='-d'
>    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
>    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef
>usemultiplicity=undef
>    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define
>    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef
>  Compiler:
>    cc='gcc', optimize='-O', gccversion=2.95.2 19991024 (release)
>    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
>    ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
>    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=false
>    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
>    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
>    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
>lseeksize=4
>    alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
>  Linker and Libraries:
>    ld='ld2', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
>    libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/i686-pc-cygwin/lib /usr/lib
>    libs=-lgdbm -ldb -lm -lcrypt -lcygipc -lcygwin -lkernel32
>    libc=/usr/i686-pc-cygwin/lib/libc.a, so=dll, useshrplib=true,
>libperl=libperl5_6_0.a
>  Dynamic Linking:
>    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
>    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -L/usr/local/lib'
>
>
>Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
>  Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES
>  Built under cygwin
>  Compiled at Mar 30 2000 01:27:02
>  @INC:
>    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/cygwin
>    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0
>    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/cygwin
>    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
>    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
>    .
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>cpan output
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>cpan> install Business::CreditCard
>Going to read /u/neillunn/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
>CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
>Going to read /u/neillunn/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
>Scanning cache /u/neillunn/.cpan/build for sizes
>Going to read /u/neillunn/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
>Running make for J/JO/JONO/Business-CreditCard-0.21.tar.gz
>CPAN: MD5 loaded ok
>Checksum for
>/u/neillunn/.cpan/sources/authors/id/J/JO/JONO/Business-CreditCard-0.21.tar.gz
>ok
>d:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\perl.exe: *** unable to remap (null) to same 
>address
>as parent -- 0x0
>      0 [main] perl 22584 sync_with_child: child 2024(0x104) died before
>initialization with status code 0x1
>    633 [main] perl 22584 sync_with_child: *** child state child loading
>dlls
>d:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\perl.exe: *** unable to remap (null) to same 
>address
>as parent -- 0x0
>5176475 [main] perl 22584 sync_with_child: child 112(0x104) died before
>initialization with status code 0x1
>5177054 [main] perl 22584 sync_with_child: *** child state child loading
>dlls
>
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