2010/11/27 Gerrit P. Haase: > the Perl README states: > === > - The CPAN repository and build directory *must* reside in a path > mounted in binmode: > > mount -s -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan > mount -u -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan > > where username is your home path and cygwin / windows username. > After mounting like this it should work with only few warnings or > completely without problems, depending on your environment settings > for the CYGWIN variable.
Thanks for the reminder. > I just noticed this, no idea if it is still needed, and which command > to issue to ensure the binmode option for the CPAN path. text is new a POSIX-conformant option to mount, and hopefully nobody uses it in /usr/src. But better be precise. The mount option -o text is invalid for the perl src and ~/.cpan paths -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple