X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:14:43 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Perl-5.10.README: outdated information From: Reini Urban To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 2010/11/27 Gerrit P. Haase: > the Perl README states: > =3D=3D=3D > - The CPAN repository and build directory *must* reside in a path > =A0mounted in binmode: > > =A0 =A0mount -s -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan > =A0 =A0mount -u -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan > > =A0where username is your home path and cygwin / windows username. > =A0After mounting like this it should work with only few warnings or > =A0completely without problems, depending on your environment settings > =A0for the CYGWIN variable. Thanks for the reminder. > I just noticed this, no idea if it is still needed, and which command > to issue to ensure the binmode option for the CPAN path. text is new a POSIX-conformant option to mount, and hopefully nobody uses it in /usr/src. But better be precise. The mount option -o text is invalid for the perl src and ~/.cpan paths --=20 Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=A0 http://murbreak.at/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple