Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
X-WebMail-UserID:  pjacklam AT online DOT no
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:52:00 +0100
From: "Peter J. Acklam" <pjacklam AT online DOT no>
To: "Gary Nielson" <gary AT garynielson DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
X-EXP32-SerialNo: 50000140
Subject: RE: Perl CPAN module help
Message-ID: <3FB3B2CB@epostleser.online.no>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

"Gary Nielson" <gary AT garynielson DOT com> 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.

That's strange.  Which module is not found?  Since you have
installed it, where is it?  What is your @INC?  You can see your
@INC with

   perl -wle 'print for @INC'

>With HTML::Parser it couldn't run gcc because it was not found.

Then you must install it.  :-)  Run setup.exe and install gcc.

>How do you use CPAN under cygwin?

   perldoc cpan

To fire up the cpan shell, just type, at the cygwin shell

   cpan

>Is there a web page that outlines how to configure CPAN for
>cygwin, is that what is needed?

I found it to be quite straight forward.  Please be specific and
tell where you run into problems.

>Are others having problems and how did you fix them.

We'll take one thing at a time.  I've used the cpan shell a lot,
but I need some more information about where you run into
problems.

>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?

I have never used "perldoc perllocal" to see what modules I have
installed, so at this point I can't tell you what is wrong.

Peter

-- 
Peter J. Acklam - pjacklam AT online DOT no - http://home.online.no/~pjacklam


--
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/