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? -- Jim Reisert AD1C, <[email protected]>, http://www.ad1c.us -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
