bug report: cygwin 1.7.5, perl *** fatal error TP_NUM_W_BUFS too smal

Tue Jun 8 07:49:00 GMT 2010

Err, 'very deep' was a bit misleading, the error seemed to show up at
2-3 levels according to the last post in that thread.
On 6/8/10, Alexander T <mittspamkonto@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a similar post from 2009 where the conclusion is that this
> can be caused by very deep forking
> (http://readlist.com/lists/cygwin.com/cygwin/6/34359.html). Is it
> possible that the make script does very deep, or is stuck in infinite,
> recursion?
>> On 6/8/10, Nasser M. Abbasi <nma@12000.org> wrote:
>> On 6/7/2010 7:03 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>> On 6/7/2010 8:49 PM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>>>>>>>> $ make test
>>>> ....
>>>> 0 [main] perl 5308 C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error -
>>>> Internal error: TP_NUM_W_BUFS too small.
>>>>>>>> Error while converting image: No such file or directory
>>>>>>>> Error: Cannot read 'img2.png': No such file or directory
>>>> Converting image #1
>>>> 0 [main] perl 4824 C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error -
>>>> Internal error: TP_NUM_W_BUFS too small.
>>>>>>>>>> I wonder if the 'test' procedure for latex2hmtl sets the $PATH to your
>>> installed LaTeX implementation.
>>>>>> Or worse, somehow sets a PERL5_INCPATH variable to point at the
>>> perl/lib/ directory under G:\LATEX\. If THAT happened, then your
>>> cygwin-perl would be trying to use native-perl's libraries (including
>>> binary extensions)...
>>>>>> Try, temporarily, moving G:/LATEX/perl out of the way.
>>>>>> --
>>> Chuck
>>>>>>> Ok, I did. I renamed my windows perl folder, but I still get the same
>> error.
>>>> May be someone can try to install Latex2html on their cygwin as I did
>> and try this? May be this has nothing to do with windows 64 bit or
>> windows 7, so any windows version might show this problem as well?
>>>> Installation of l2h is easy on cygwin, just need to download l2h and
>> untar and type ./configure, make, make install, make test
>>>> Instructions how to install l2h on cygwin are on my page below:
>>>> http://12000.org/my_notes/l2hwin/index.htm
>>>> (need to edit one file, to make sure to tell l2h is under Unix)
>>>> Not many people use l2h under cygwin, may be I am the first to try to do
>> this on cygwin 1.7?
>>>> ==============================
>>>> $ ls /cygdrive/G/LATEX | grep -i perl
>> perl_NOT_USED_FOR_MINUTE
>>>> $ echo $PATH
>> /usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/Windows:/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/Wbem
>>>> $ which perl
>> /usr/bin/perl
>>>> $ perl -v
>>>> This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for i686-cygwin-thread-multi-64int
>> (with 12 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
>>>> $ make test
>> ....
>> Converting image #2
>> 0 [main] perl 4396 C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error -
>> Internal error: TP_NUM_W_BUFS too small.
>>>> Error while converting image: No such file or directory
>>>> Error: Cannot read 'img2.png': No such file or directory
>> Converting image #1
>> 0 [main] perl 712 C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error -
>> Internal error: TP_NUM_W_BUFS too small.
>>>> ======================
>>>> --Nasser
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