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Subject:  upgrading to perl-5.8.8-4
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 01:21:18 +0000 (UTC)
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I'm upgrading an older installation of cygwin that was previously running perl 
5.6.1 and ran into some problems with @INC:

5.6.1 version perl -V:
  @INC:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/cygwin-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/cygwin-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

5.8.8 verstion perl -V:
  @INC:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8
    .

A few questions arose in the process:
1. Why is /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl not listed on 5.8.8 ?
2. why are there "duplicate" entries for:
   /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8
   /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8
3. Even though /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin and 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 are listed in @INC,
the /lib/perl5/site_perl directory does not get created when the package is 
installed and is missing.

Are these expected behaviours?






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