X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <7634A226C4C245868140309A0F3A952F@desktop2> From: "Sisyphus" To: Subject: Perl documentation inaccessible via 'perldoc'. Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 16:02:12 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16480 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Hi, Just installed the latest cygwin (including Cygwin's build of perl 5.8.7) on Windows Vista Business (64) on an AMD64 box. Trying to access perl documentation using 'perldoc' throws an error: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rob@desktop2 /cygdrive/c/_32/working/math-gmpz/Math-GMPz-0.22 $ perldoc ExtUtils::MakeMaker Error in tempfile() using ./XXXXXXXXXX: Parent directory (./) is not writable at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 1483 Rob@desktop2 /cygdrive/c/_32/working/math-gmpz/Math-GMPz-0.22 $ perldoc -f glob Error in tempfile() using ./XXXXXXXXXX: Parent directory (./) is not writable at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 1483 ------------------------------------------------------------------- If I cd to (eg) my home directory, then the perldoc commands work fine. Do I really have to make the cwd writable before the command will work ? I've not had to do that in my previous Cygwin installations (on Windows 2000). Cheers, Rob -- 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/