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Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 10:05:24 -0500
From: Ken Dibble <kdibbleNOSPAM AT alltel DOT net>
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Subject: Re: perl 5.82  libwww 5.800 fails tests
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Responding to both of Gerrit's posts below

Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

>Ken wrote:
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>>I googled and couldn't find anything (or didn't use the correct words).
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>>I looked on cpan and perl.org and didn't see anything similiar.
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>>This doesn't happen on my debian woody machine (perl 5.6.1), so I don't know
>>if it a perl thing or a cygwin-perl thing.
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>>This is my first go round with perl so be gentle :)
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>>cygcheck attached
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>There I see:
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>HOME = `C:\cygwin\home\Ken Dibble'
>PWD = `/home/Ken Dibble'
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>Maybe it is a problem with the space in your HOME path?
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>Gerrit
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GRRRRRRRR. 

/home/kdibble has always been a link to /home/Ken Dibble for this reason
I neglected to cd ../kdibble
this fixes the test problem.

to try and make sure this doesn't happen again, I changed /etc/passwd
but.....

$ grep kdibble /etc/passwd
kdibble:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1006:545:U-BECCOMPUTER\Ken 
Dibble,S-1-5-21-3608352237-884828134-1278401143-1006:/home/kdibble:/bin/bash

$ cygcheck -s -v -r | grep home
HOME = `C:\cygwin\home\Ken Dibble'
PWD = `/home/kdibble'
OLDPWD = `/home/kdibble'

$ echo $HOME
/home/kdibble


So obviously there is something weird going on, any idea why cygcheck
says home is one thing, but bash says it is another?

>Have you used the CPAN shell (just call `cpan` in a bash shell)?
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Well, I tried.  I only installed perl this AM and already the cpan shell 
is telling me that it recommends that
I update a bunch of packages (some of which I only installed this 
morning, using www.cpan.org to find the
modules and download them.

Being a perl newbie (this AM was my first explicit try at using it), I 
bailed on cpan quickly.

Thanks for all your help.

Ken


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