[Bioperl-l] problem installing bioperl on cygwin

Yoram Burak yorambu at kitp.ucsb.edu
Sat Dec 18 17:31:40 EST 2004


I am trying to isntall bioperl on cygwin.

When I run perl -MCPAN -e "install Bundle::BioPerl" it 
works for a while but then exits with an error (see 
below). Help will be highly appreciated.

Yoram

CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded OK
LWP not available
Fetching with Net::FTP:ftp:
   //ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/C/CR/CRAFFI/CHECKSUMS
Checksum for 
/home/yorambu/.cpan/sources/authors/id/C/CR/CRAFFI/Bundle-BioPerl-2.1.5.tar.gz 
ok
Scanning cache /home/yorambu/.cpan/build for sizes
C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe (3512): *** couldn't release memory
0xDE4000(1032192) for 
'C:\cygwin\lib\perl5\5.8.5\cygwin-thread-multi-64int\auto\Cwd\Cwd.dll' 
alignment, Win32 error 487

      4 [main] perl 1008 sync_with_child: child 
3512(0x628) died before initialization with status code 
0x1
  38547 [main] perl 1008 sync_with_child: *** child state 
child loading dlls


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