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Puneet Singh Lamba schrieb:
> Mark,
> 
> Many thanks for the response.
> 
> When I installed Cygwin, I had used the view "Category" and clicked on
> "Default" next to "All" at the root of the tree so that it would
> change to "Install".
> 
> My understanding is that doing so should install everything available
> on the mirror from which you are installing.
> 
> I performed the check you recommended. When I toggle the view to
> "Uninstalled" I only see five obscure packages listed and the list
> does not include "perl" or "util-linux". However, I do see these two
> packages listed when I toggle the view to either "Category" or "Full".
> And the "New" column is set to "Keep" in both cases. This seems to
> suggest that these libraries are indeed installed. Do you agree?
> 
> If so, then it would appear as if somehow they are not on the PATH.
> 
> Again, here is the output I get when I do "echo $PATH".
> 
> /cygdrive/c/oraclexe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/sy
> stem32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Program
>  Files/Intel/Wireless/Bin/:/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin:/cygdrive/c/apache-ant-1.6.5/b
> in:/cygdrive/c/jvmstat/bat:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Roxio Shared/D
> LLShared/:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Roxio Shared/DLLShared/:/cygdri
> ve/c/Program Files/Common Files/Roxio Shared/9.0/DLLShared/:/cygdrive/c/Program
> Files/QuickTime/QTSystem/
> 
> I see that perl.exe is located here:
> 
> C:\cygwin\installation_files\ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.cise.ufl.edu%2fpub%2fmirrors%2fcygwin%2f\release\perl\bin
> 
> There is a cygwin.bat one folder up that seems to do a chdir to
> ...\perl\bin prior to lauching Cygwin. But bash is still not able to
> find perl. And in any case, I'd like to be able to start Cygwin in one
> consistent manner and have it find everything that is installed.
> 
> Do I need to adjust the PATH? If so, how do I find out what to add to
> the PATH for util-linux and perl?
> 
> By the way, I also just reinstalled perl, just to make sure. And I
> still see perl.exe only in the installation_files tree, not in
> cygwin/bin, where I am hoping to see it.
> 
> Any ideas?

Oracle likes to put its own perl onto the PATH upfront. It pollutes 
PERL5LIB also.

Check
$ which perl
and
$ perl -V

and send the report as described in http://cygwin.com/problems.html
-- 
Reini Urban
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