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Subject: Install error on Perl PROC::Background under Cygwin
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:17:36 -0800
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Hi,

I'm not sure if this is a Perl module or Cygwin specific problem, so I'll
try here first. Anyone got any idea what's going wrong here?:

I have perl 5.10.0 installed in cygwin, and I'm getting an error trying to
install the Proc::Background module for it. I downloaded the module from
cpan.org, untarred it, ran perl Makefile.pl; make and make test, and those
all ran fine, but then running "make install" reported "ERROR: Can't create
'/usr/bin'; Do not have write permissions on '/usr/bin'"

I hacked the generated Makefile to remove the no-echo to see that its doing:

[Proc-Background-1.08]: make install
/usr/bin/perl.exe -MExtUtils::Install -e 'install({@ARGV}, '\''0'\'', 0,
'\''0'\'');' -- \
                read
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin/auto/Proc/Background/.packlist \
                write
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin/auto/Proc/Background/.packlist \
                blib/lib /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10 \
                blib/arch /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin \
                blib/bin /usr/bin \
                blib/script /usr/bin \
                blib/man1 /usr/share/man/man1 \
                blib/man3 /usr/share/man/man3
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ERROR: Can't create '/usr/bin'
Do not have write permissions on '/usr/bin'
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 at -e line 1
make: *** [pure_site_install] Error 2

This is under Vista. I'm using an administrative account and tried running
it from an elevated shell window (run as administrator) which made no
difference. Other perl modules install fine.

Ideas?
Ian



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