Re: building Inline:: on cygwin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sam"

> David Moore <dmoore@...> writes:
>
>>
>> I've been having trouble building on cygwin, and finally just decided to
>> uninstall and reinstall perl.  Using the cygwin default perl 5.10 & gcc
>> 454, Inline::C gets into an infinite test loop on taint.  Am I the only
>> person using Inline with cygwin?
>>
>> t/00init.t .............. ok
>> t/01syntax.t ............ ok
>> t/02config.t ............ ok
>>        3 [main] perl 9284 fork: child 4640 - died waiting for dll
>> loading, errno 11
>> 5087654 [main] perl 8540 C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error -
>> unable to remap
>
> David, I don't know whether you managed to solve the issue above. I have
> exactly the same problem and I couldn't solve it. I've tried to rebaseall 
> and
> peflagsall as suggested in several forums but I had no luck.

This is an error that's specific to Cygwin. I don't know of anything (short 
of removing the taint.t file from the source distro) that Inline can do to 
alleviate the problem.
Now, that doesn't mean that there *isn't* anything that Inline could do ... 
it just literally means that "I don't *know* of anything" it could do.

Does the above error kill the entire build process ? ... or does it merely 
cause a test failure ?
If it just causes a test failure, you could install by using force (with 
CPAN).

But if it kills the entire build process, then I would:

1) Download and extract the Inline source;
2) Remove t/taint.t from the extracted source;
3)'cd' to the top level Inline source folder and build Inline manually (ie 
run 'perl Makefile.PL' and 'make test');
4)Then run 'make install' if I was happy with the output of the previous 
commands.

Obviously, Inline's taint capabilities have not been tested by the above 
build method - and they probably don't work. As long as you don't want to 
utilise those capabilities, all should be fine.
It has been suggested to me that you'd need rocks in your head to use 
Inline's taint capabilities, anyway. I don't know whether that's a fair 
appraisal or not - I do know that Inline cautions you when you turn tainting 
on, and I do know that *I* wouldn't make use of those capabilities.

Cheers,
Rob