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Re: perl-5.6.1 cygwin problem
- To: Reini Urban <rurban at sbox dot tu-graz dot ac dot at>
- Subject: Re: perl-5.6.1 cygwin problem
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 13:51:28 -0500
- CC: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com, Eric Fifer <egf7 at columbia dot edu>
- References: <3A5605B3.AAC25D7F@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at>
Reini Urban wrote:
>
> Where to discuss perl-5.6.1 cygwin problems?
> In the perl-porters group or here?
>
> in perl-5.6.1-TRIAL1 gdbm fails for me.
> (Could not tie... on both read and write)
> having cygwin-1.1.7, cyggdbm.dll from gdbm-1.8.0-3
>
> Most of the other cpan packages work fine. Installed and tested a lot.
>
> >Since Eric has released a perl package based on the 5.6.1-TRIAL1 code,
> >and since his package is slated become an official contribution to the
> >cygwin distro, the perl-5.6.0 at CygUtils is obsolete and a dead-end.
> >If you want to upgrade to the newer perl, you should do the following:
Could also be a problem with gdbm itself. A few questions:
Does this error occur while perl is testing the ndbm emulation routines
within gdbm?
If so, then are you running on a FAT drive?
---> gdbm's ndbm emulation doesn't work on FAT.
--Chuck
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