Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:12:15 -0800 From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: CPAN module in Cygwin Message-ID: <20041031221215.GA7736@efn.org> References: <20041030201408 DOT 5926 DOT qmail AT web52203 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> <20041031200538 DOT GA5664 AT efn DOT org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041031200538.GA5664@efn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: bs"d X-IsSubscribed: yes On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 12:05:38PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 01:14:08PM -0700, Elvin Peterson wrote: Sorry for originally not removing email address on the above line. > > Hello, > > The CPAN command: > > > > perl -MCPAN -e shell > > > > fails with: > > > > Cannot open >/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN/Config.pm at > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 1219 > > > > CPAN::Config::_configpmtest('/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN', > > '/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN/Config.pm') called at > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 1253 > > CPAN::Config::load('CPAN::Config') called at > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 92 > > CPAN::shell() called at -e line 1 > > > > It looks like it is trying to write to a file owned by > > Administrator. Is there a workaround to install > > modules as a user? > > After a *very* quick look at CPAN.pm, it looks like your > CPAN/Config.pm is incomplete, so it tries to rebuild it, but trips up > because it is not expecting the Config.pm file to not be writable when > the CPAN/ directory is writable. > > This is IMO a CPAN bug. It's more complicated than that; I wasn't able to duplicate this with a writable CPAN dir and a non-writable CPAN/Config.pm. If the CPAN dir is writable, CPAN.pm will unlink CPAN/Config.pm.bak, rename CPAN/Config.pm to CPAN/Config.pm.bak, and try to create a new CPAN/Config.pm. I am unable to envision how you could have permissions set so that this wouldn't succeed. > You can find out what's missing by: > > perl -MCPAN::Config -MCPAN -wle'print for CPAN::Config->missing_config_data' Ouf of curiousity, what was missing? Was the CPAN/Config.pm just the original 3 byte stub? -- 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/