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Date:	Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:25:01 +0100
From:	"Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
Reply-To:	"Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
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To:	"Gary Nielson" <gary AT garynielson DOT com>
CC:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Perl CPAN module help
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Hello Gary,

Wednesday, November 12, 2003, 7:57:42 PM, you wrote:

> I tried installing several perl modules today, but make test failed on
> several in the LWP package and for HTML::Parser etc. Couldn't find modules
> I'd already installed in the INC path. With HTML::Parser it couldn't run gcc
> because it was not found. How do you use CPAN under cygwin? Is there a web
> page that outlines how to configure CPAN for cygwin, is that what is needed?
> Are others having problems and how did you fix them. I successfully install
> some and have force installed others and notice that if you do a perldoc
> perllocal you only get the first three modules listed, whereas if you do a
> more on the perllocal file, you see a lot more listed. What's up with that,
> can anyonw explain?

Just start the `cpan` script:
$ /usr/bin/cpan

It asks some questions to configure itself when it runs the first time.


-- 
Best regards,
 Gerrit 


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