Subject: Re: CPAN module in Cygwin
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[email-masked]>
To: Elvin Peterson <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 23:26:14 +0100

Elvin Peterson wrote:
> Thanks for all the suggestions.  Are these part of
> cygwin (or do they have to be installed separately?
> :-))?  In any case running CPAN sends my machine to
> OOM, so I am sticking to precompiled binaries for now.

You can fetch any source package via ftp or from http://search.cpan.org/
and build and install them manually:
$ tar xzf package-name.tar.gz
$ cd package-name
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ make test
$ make install

Gerrit
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