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Re: Perl instabilities


> >If you're setting it from bash, make sure to escape the backslashes (or
> >use forward slashes).  You might also have to set error_start before
> >starting any Cygwin processes (if I'm wrong, someone please correct
me)...
>
> Thanks for the warning, Igor.  I set it in the .cmd file which starts my
cygwin.
> To make sure I just ran a test case by writing a program that crashes.
dumper started
> as supposed to.  But it wrote an empty core file.... :-(
>
> Anyway, what next to try with perl?  Could it have anything to do with
threads?
> I just had the problem when I tried to build perl on VMS.  Threads and
64bit stuff
> wouldn't work.  Just a thought.

Just a WAG, maybe it's down to the 64-int support. Perhaps re-building from
source without 64-int might do something...

Elfyn


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