X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <461551DC.9020706@agilent.com> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:45:32 -0700 From: Mike R Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; HP-UX 9000/785; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030707 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: perl problem with cygwin path References: <461504C3 DOT 8090907 AT agilent DOT com> <02f901c7778d$8cd100b0$2e08a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> <4615254D DOT 60608 AT agilent DOT com> <31b7d2790704051002l495585b3o8c999dd14f7b05e0 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <46153DB6 DOT 8060007 AT agilent DOT com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Mike R Brown wrote: > >> [snip] >> Nope. With a current updatedb locate found one perl.exe under >> /usr/bin. When I renamed this perl.exe to perly.exe and copied the >> version that worked from my machine and did a version check while in >> /usr/bin I get >> >> ./perly - v returned 5.8.8 (original questionable perl) >> ./perl -v returned 5.8.7 (perl from working box) >> >> Everything I have checked points to just one Perl installation. So >> maybe the question here is where did this version come from? > > > That is indeed a good question, since the latest available 'perl' from > kernel.org is 5.8.7-5. The full output of 'perly -v' (that's the > questionable perl) may tell you something. > They look very simular other than revision. ---------------------- This is perl, v5.8.7 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail) Copyright 1987-2005, Larry Wall Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit. Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'. If you have access to the Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page. --------------------- - and - --------------------- This is perl, v5.8.8 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int (with 33 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail) Copyright 1987-2006, Larry Wall Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit. Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'. If you have access to the Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page. --------------------- Looking closer I see there is a perl -V test that shows much more information. I didn't check that out. Unfortunately the other machine won't be back on line until next week. Will to the -V test and see what it looks like. Still curious as to how it got uploaded to at least one mirror. Mike -- 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/