X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <461A41B0.9070101@agilent.com> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:37:52 -0700 From: Mike R Brown Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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> <461551DC DOT 9020706 AT agilent DOT com> <46155D47 DOT 20308 AT cygwin DOT com> In-Reply-To: <46155D47.20308@cygwin.com> 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 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Mike R Brown wrote: > >> >> >> 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. > > > > You may have used a "3rd-party" site as well. There are sites out there > that have set themselves up to deliver packages in the 'setup.exe' format. > Once you add one of these sites to your list, 'setup.exe' continues to > use it until you tell it now to. So if you're curious, you should check > the sites that 'setup.exe' presents on the machine with Perl 5.8.8. You > can also pull to you local system a package from another site and install > it that way with 'setup.exe'. The point is that there are ways of > installing packages that aren't part of the distribution. Somehow, you've > managed to do that here, since 5.8.8 isn't part of the Cygwin distribution. > > I assumed that she just picked a mirror from the setup.exe supplied list. I guess she may have done something other. I will ask. I also did a perl -V and yes this version of perl was not compiled for cygwin... Built under MSWin32 Compiled at Aug 29 2006 12:42:41 @INC: c:/Perl/site/lib c:/Perl/lib This whole thing is a bit strange. I will find out just what site she used and see if that leads to anything. I had thought it was the same site she install all of Cygwin from. Hopefully she didn't get other odd packages as well. Thanks for the help, 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/