CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10
Jim Reisert AD1C
jjreisert@alum.mit.edu
Thu Dec 8 20:58:00 GMT 2011
I'm having problems with cpan/perl run in an xterm. I searched the
recent list archives for cpan/perl but found nothing.
Running Windows XP SP3 and this snapshot:
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 LTDENA-REISERT 1.7.10s(0.255/5/3) 20111208 06:50:31 i686 Cygwin
This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for i686-cygwin-thread-multi-64int
It's pretty easy to reproduce, in an xterm (Cygwin-X):
1. start cpan
2. install a package
3. when cpan returns to a prompt, start typing another command. The
X window will ultimately hang (hourglass)
Clicking on the red X in the upper-right of the X terminal kills the
xterm (and Xwin!!!!) but the perl process is still running. I even
killed only the perl process, and the xterm was still hung.
I tried the same in mintty and there was no hang.
The problem gets stranger:
I ran rebaseall, re-started the X server then created a new xterm.
I ran cpan, but didn't have the package name to cut/paste, so typed quit.
I changed to the directory with my Perl program. I typed:
perl -v <program.pl>
by mistake. Then when I tried to recall the last command to edit it
(up-arrow), the xterm hung. Perl wasn't even running.
I have the .dll and .dbg for this cygwin1 version, how can we go about
debugging the problem?
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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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