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From: Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu>
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On 8/4/2018 10:11 AM, john doe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On a fresh install of Cygwin_x86_64, I have installed "git,git-email" packages 
> and I'm getting the following:
> 
> $ git send-email master --confirm=always --to=xxx AT example DOT com
> BUG: The 'Mail::Address' module is not here, but NO_PERL_CPAN_FALLBACKS was set!

I don't get this error.

> Git needs this Perl module from the CPAN, and will by default ship
> with a copy of it. This Git was built with NO_PERL_CPAN_FALLBACKS,
> meaning that whoever built it promised to provide this module.
> 
> You're seeing this error because they broke that promise, and we can't
> load our fallback version, since we were asked not to install it.
> 
> If you're seeing this error and didn't package Git yourself the
> package you're using is broken, or your system is broken. This error
> won't appear if Git is built without NO_PERL_CPAN_FALLBACKS (instead
> we'll use our fallback version of the module). at 
> /usr/share/perl5/Git/LoadCPAN.pm line 76.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at 
> /usr/share/perl5/Git/LoadCPAN/Mail/Address.pm line 8.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-send-email line 36.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-send-email line 36.
> 
> I had to install "Mail::Address" manually using cpan.

You shouldn't have had to do that:

$ cygcheck -l git | grep Mail/Address.pm
/usr/share/perl5/FromCPAN/Mail/Address.pm
/usr/share/perl5/Git/LoadCPAN/Mail/Address.pm

Do you have these files?

Ken

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