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Re: CPAN module in Cygwin


--- Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 12:05:38PM -0800, Yitzchak
> Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 01:14:08PM -0700, Elvin
> Peterson wrote:
> 
> Sorry for originally not removing email address on
> the above line.
> 
> > > Hello,
> > >    The CPAN command:
> > > 
> > > perl -MCPAN -e shell 
> > > 
> > > fails with:
> > > 
> > > Cannot open >/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN/Config.pm
> at
> > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 1219
> > > 
> > >
>
CPAN::Config::_configpmtest('/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN',
> > > '/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN/Config.pm') called at
> > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 1253
> > > 	CPAN::Config::load('CPAN::Config') called at
> > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 92
> > > 	CPAN::shell() called at -e line 1
> > > 
> > > It looks like it is trying to write to a file
> owned by
> > > Administrator.  Is there a workaround to install
> > > modules as a user?
> > 
> > After a *very* quick look at CPAN.pm, it looks
> like your
> > CPAN/Config.pm is incomplete, so it tries to
> rebuild it, but trips up
> > because it is not expecting the Config.pm file to
> not be writable when
> > the CPAN/ directory is writable.
> > 
> > This is IMO a CPAN bug.
> 
> It's more complicated than that; I wasn't able to
> duplicate this with a
> writable CPAN dir and a non-writable CPAN/Config.pm.
>  If the CPAN dir
> is writable, CPAN.pm will unlink CPAN/Config.pm.bak,
> rename CPAN/Config.pm
> to CPAN/Config.pm.bak, and try to create a new
> CPAN/Config.pm.  I am
> unable to envision how you could have permissions
> set so that this wouldn't
> succeed.

The directory has full permissions for me, and the
file Config.pm has only read permission.

>  
> > You can find out what's missing by:
> > 
> > perl -MCPAN::Config -MCPAN -wle'print for
> CPAN::Config->missing_config_data'
> 
> Ouf of curiousity, what was missing?  Was the
> CPAN/Config.pm just the
> original 3 byte stub?

Yes, the file had just 3 bytes in it.  I managed to
compile one package after performing the workaround,
but it tried to install in the system directory, with
partial success (appending to some pod files failed).

What do people here use to install perl modules (other
than CPAN)?

TIA.

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