Perl documentation inaccessible via 'perldoc'.

["Sisyphus" <sisyphus1 at optusnet dot com dot au>]

Hi,
Just installed the latest cygwin (including Cygwin's build of perl 5.8.7) on 
Windows Vista Business (64) on an AMD64 box.

Trying to access perl documentation using 'perldoc' throws an error:

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Rob@desktop2 /cygdrive/c/_32/working/math-gmpz/Math-GMPz-0.22
$ perldoc ExtUtils::MakeMaker
Error in tempfile() using ./XXXXXXXXXX: Parent directory (./) is not 
writable
at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 1483

Rob@desktop2 /cygdrive/c/_32/working/math-gmpz/Math-GMPz-0.22
$ perldoc -f glob
Error in tempfile() using ./XXXXXXXXXX: Parent directory (./) is not 
writable
at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 1483
-------------------------------------------------------------------

If I cd to (eg) my home directory, then the perldoc commands work fine.

Do I really have to make the cwd writable before the command will work ? 
I've not had to do that in my previous Cygwin installations (on Windows 
2000).

Cheers,
Rob 


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