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Re: Perl output dropped when invoking itself
- From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna at efn dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: mad2 at tapil dot com
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:46:49 -0800
- Subject: Re: Perl output dropped when invoking itself
- Bcc: sthoenna at efn dot org
- References: <4559F85D.50404@tapil.com>
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 12:09:49PM -0500, Michael Adler wrote:
> I'm having Perl I/O problems on one machine that keep me from getting
> CPAN installations to work. On this machine if I execte:
>
> perl -e 'print `perl -e "require 5; print qq{VER_OK\n}"`;'
>
> from bash there is no output. On all my other machines it prints
> VER_OK. ExtUtils::MM_Unix does this test and fails.
>
> I've looked at all environment variables I can think of, especially
> CYGWIN, and it is identical on a machine that works and one that fails.
> Cygwin is up to date on both and Perl version is 5.8.7. I've tried
> multiple values of the PERLIO variable with no success. Replacing the
> inner invocation of perl with some other command, like cat of a file,
> works on both machines! I tried blowing away the entire perl
> environment and reinstalling.
>
> I assume I'm missing something simple. Hints would be appreciated.
What do these do:
perl -e 'print `perl -v`'
perl -e 'print `perl -f -e "require 5; print qq{VER_OK\n}"`;'
perl -e 'print `perl -f -e "print qq{VER_OK\n}"`;'
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