Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/09/01/17:26:35
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, John Seeliger wrote:
> I have had cygwin installed on this PC for quite some time, but hadn't
> updated it for a while. I wanted to run yahoo2mbox.pl and found it wouldn't
> work with the perl 5.6.1 I had installed, so I downloaded ActivePerl 5.8.?
Why? Cygwin has Perl 5.8.? as well...
> and tried running the script from a Windows XP prompt, but it used the
> cygwin perl.
Make sure ActivePerl appears in the WinXP PATH variable before Cygwin's
/bin.
> So, I just copied the ActivePerl over the cygwin perl (yeah, I know, not
> a good idea) and then it still wouldn't work because some of the lib
> files used by it weren't there either. I copied a few of those as well,
> but still to no avail.
Yep, not a good idea.
> Have I just hosed my cygwin?
You did hose Cygwin's perl.
> Will downloading the updated perl help?
Downloading and reinstalling the perl package should fix this. You can
install version 5.8.0-5, BTW.
> How can I download just perl without going through the installer and
> selecting "keep" on every single other item?
Use the "Keep" view of the installer.
Igor
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