Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:59:27 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Perl CPAN module help Message-ID: <20031114155927.GA16568@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <18024239671.20031114162501@familiehaase.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18024239671.20031114162501@familiehaase.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 04:25:01PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >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. Is there a cygwin question or observation somewhere? It seems like we've wandered into territory which would be best served in a forum devoted strictly to perl. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/