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 Message-ID: <41139E34.70507@alltel.net> Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 10:05:24 -0500 From: Ken Dibble User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin Subject: Re: perl 5.82 libwww 5.800 fails tests References: <411370A8.5080503@alltel.net> <154192412754.20040806160902@familiehaase.de> In-Reply-To: <154192412754.20040806160902@familiehaase.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Responding to both of Gerrit's posts below Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >Ken wrote: > > > >>I googled and couldn't find anything (or didn't use the correct words). >> >> > > > >>I looked on cpan and perl.org and didn't see anything similiar. >> >> > > > >>This doesn't happen on my debian woody machine (perl 5.6.1), so I don't know >>if it a perl thing or a cygwin-perl thing. >> >> > > > >>This is my first go round with perl so be gentle :) >> >> > > > >>cygcheck attached >> >> > >There I see: > >HOME = `C:\cygwin\home\Ken Dibble' >PWD = `/home/Ken Dibble' > > >Maybe it is a problem with the space in your HOME path? > >Gerrit > GRRRRRRRR. /home/kdibble has always been a link to /home/Ken Dibble for this reason I neglected to cd ../kdibble this fixes the test problem. to try and make sure this doesn't happen again, I changed /etc/passwd but..... $ grep kdibble /etc/passwd kdibble:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1006:545:U-BECCOMPUTER\Ken Dibble,S-1-5-21-3608352237-884828134-1278401143-1006:/home/kdibble:/bin/bash $ cygcheck -s -v -r | grep home HOME = `C:\cygwin\home\Ken Dibble' PWD = `/home/kdibble' OLDPWD = `/home/kdibble' $ echo $HOME /home/kdibble So obviously there is something weird going on, any idea why cygcheck says home is one thing, but bash says it is another? >Have you used the CPAN shell (just call `cpan` in a bash shell)? > Well, I tried. I only installed perl this AM and already the cpan shell is telling me that it recommends that I update a bunch of packages (some of which I only installed this morning, using www.cpan.org to find the modules and download them. Being a perl newbie (this AM was my first explicit try at using it), I bailed on cpan quickly. Thanks for all your help. Ken -- 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/