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From: "Gary Nielson" <gary AT garynielson DOT com>
To: "Peter J. Acklam" <pjacklam AT online DOT no>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Perl CPAN module help
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 15:29:49 -0500
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Hi,

I am getting somewhere. I used setup and installed needed executables such
as gcc. Did a force install in cpan for LWP modules and it seemed to be go
great. All tests were successful in make test. But when running make install
I got the error:

"Cannot forceunlink /usr/bin/HEAD: No such file or directory at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/File/Find.pm line 873.
make: *** [pure_site_install] Error 255
/usr/bin/make install -- NOT OK.

The Find.pm line in question is: { $wanted_callback->() }; # protect against
wild "next"

Any idea what is going wrong, or is the question better posed to a perl
forum? Any help appreciated.


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter J. Acklam [mailto:pjacklam AT online DOT no]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 2:52 AM
To: Gary Nielson; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Perl CPAN module help


"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



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