Quite some time ago, someone suggested that if I was using cygwin perl instead of activestate perl, I could use some additional features (not available in activestate) concerning the control of cron jobs.
So I am using cygwin perl which does not give you the option of installing elsewhere. But that is not the problem anyway because there are no spaces in c:\cygwin\lib\perl5 (the location where perl is installed, I think). The problem is either hardcoded in CPAN.pm or in some little file in ~/. Something is probably expanding $HOME and not quoting the result. I looked in CPAN.pm but could not figure out where it is untaring it. I looked in ~/ for a configuration file with no luck. Is there a place to log a bug with CPAN? Gunnar: I tried your suggestion and that worked for Date::Manip but I was quickly overwhelmed with DateTime as there were many dependencies to download first. Brian: I see you are the author of CPAN. Do you have any suggestions? Scroll way down for the log where I reproduce it on windows/cygwin. Thanks, Siegfried -----Original Message----- From: Bob McConnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:08 PM To: Siegfried Heintze (Aditi); beginners@perl.org Subject: RE: FW: How to install Date::Manip on cygwin perl? Normally the installer will show "C:\Program Files\ActiveState\Perl", or something similar as the location where it will put the package. I change that to "D:\perl" before proceding. The entire tree, including CPAN will be installed at that location. You may have to remove the package and reinstall it to get this done. Don't forget to save off anything you have written or added before you do that. I don't know how careful the installer is about cleaning up after itself. You may have to reboot after the install to get all of the search paths set up correctly. I didn't have to fiddle with anything in the MS-Windows setup afterwards. It just worked. Bob McConnell -----Original Message----- From: Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 3:32 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: RE: FW: How to install Date::Manip on cygwin perl? Ah! Good idea! How do I do that with CPAN? -----Original Message----- From: Bob McConnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:46 PM To: Gunnar Hjalmarsson; beginners@perl.org Subject: RE: FW: How to install Date::Manip on cygwin perl? I have always avoided the "Program Files" default directory when installing anything with a Unix flavor to it. For Perl, everything gets installed at "D:\perl", just to avoid this problem. Even Microsoft applications don't all know how to handle paths with spaces. It was not one of their better innovations. Bob McConnell -----Original Message----- From: Gunnar Hjalmarsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:37 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: FW: How to install Date::Manip on cygwin perl? Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote: > It looks like the CPAN program does not anticipate paths with spaces > in them. So it seems. You may want to try other methods to install the module. cd c:/temp/temp/temp/ perl -MCPAN -e 'install DateTime' CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:30:58 GMT Running install for module DateTime Running make for D/DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.42.tar.gz CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok Checksum for /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/sources/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.42.tar.gz ok Scanning cache /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/build for sizes sh: /cygdrive/c/Documents: No such file or directory /usr/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive /usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Uncompressed /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/sources/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.42.tar.gz successfully Using Tar:/usr/bin/tar xvf /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/sources/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.42.tar: /usr/bin/tar: /cygdrive/c/Documents: Cannot open: No such file or directory /usr/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Couldn't untar /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/sources/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.42.tar -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
