[Dbix-class] Windows installation failure logs please

[Peter Edwards]

Hi James,

 

It seems likely to me the problem is with ActiveState's Perl build,
particularly as Matt says it goes away by recompiling DBI with gcc, so it
would be worth raising another bug on their issues database and quoting the
different situations and versions it failed under. Or you could leave it and
when the DBI maintainers get round to reproducing it I expect they will
raise one themselves.

 

XS is C language + macros used to interface C libraries to perl. "perldoc
perlxs", "perldoc perlxstut". If a C routine or the chosen C compiler starts
writing to incorrect memory addresses you could get this sort of problem.

 

Regards, Peter

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From: dbix-class-bounces at lists.rawmode.org
[mailto:dbix-class-bounces at lists.rawmode.org] On Behalf Of James Masters
Sent: 06 September 2006 23:44
To: dbix-class at lists.rawmode.org
Subject: Re: [Dbix-class] Windows installation failure logs please

 

I have had this problem on 2 different Windows XP machines using ASPerl and
DBI.  I saw it with Rose and DBIx.  I'm pretty confident that I can
reproduce it at will simply by installing a fresh version of ASPerl and then
running my script which invokes DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader.

 

I was told that if I took ASPerl and recompiled DBI using gcc, the problem
would go away.  I did this and it did indeed go away.

 

So it's not 100% proven but based upon my experience and reading a variety
of discussions, it seems likely that the problem manifests itself only when
using DBI under ASPerl.  (or will I immediately be contradicted?)

 

So do people think the problem belongs to Active State or the DBI authors?
To me it seems like an Active State problem because firstly I don't think it
crops up with Unix and secondly, recompiling DBI kills it.  But I am not
experienced enough to be sure.

 

If there is a definitive answer to the above, should I file a bug report
accordingly?  I've not done this before and not sure how to but would like
to help.

 

PS What is XS?

 

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