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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:13:36 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT de>
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Subject: Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails
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Thomas schrieb:

> Gerrit: Compress::Zlib is *not* included in perl-5.8.5,
> maybe that triggered the problem

I see, thanks for the (packaging) bug report.  Will fix it ASAP.

> As to the binmode issue (as in Stephan's situation I'm
> running a completely text mode installation):

> I introduced an additional mount parallel to my
> ususal /home:

> mkdir /binhome
> mount -b "C:/cygwin/home/" /binhome

> and reconfigured CPAN.PM (rather edit
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN/Config.pm  than struggle with the
> various "o conf" settings in CPAN's shell).

> Now the first attempt still fails because of the my "nobinmode" setting
> in $CYGWIN (cpan.pm executes
> gzip --decompress --stdout < ...tar.gz | tar xfv - > ...
> and the pipe is affected by "nobinmode". However the second attempt
> succeeds since either Compress::Zlib is used or gunzipping
> gzip -dc ....tar.gz > ....tar
> is now executed on a binary mounted FS.

Sigh.  If I were the god of Cygwin, I would have not created textmode
mounts at all.  I cannot see the point why it is neccessary to use it.
The only real reason why textmode is needed is that notepad cannot
handle binmode (unix) textfiles.

[...]

> The fix would be to add a short sentence to the release notes
> that .cpan *must* reside in a binmode mounted filesystem

Ok, I'll ad a sentence similar to what you wrote here.


Gerrit
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