On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, at 4:36 PM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > > not on usr/local > > perl-Stow: Perl library for stow > > 2020-02-04 19:14 0 usr/share/perl5/ > 2020-02-04 19:14 0 usr/share/perl5/site_perl/ > 2020-02-04 19:14 0 usr/share/perl5/site_perl/5.30/ > 2020-02-04 19:14 0 usr/share/perl5/site_perl/5.30/Stow/ > 2020-02-04 19:14 5559 > usr/share/perl5/site_perl/5.30/Stow/Util.pm > 2020-02-04 19:14 70081 usr/share/perl5/site_perl/5.30/Stow.pm >
Correct. And of course that means this Stow package doesn't actually work: % perl -MStow -e '' Can't locate Stow.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Stow module) (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.30/x86_64-cygwin-threads /usr/local/share/perl5/site_perl/5.30 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.30/x86_64-cygwin-threads /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/5.30 /usr/lib/perl5/5.30/x86_64-cygwin-threads /usr/share/perl5/5.30). Similar to your reference to the FHS, the corresponding Perl policy intends that "site_perl" is to be used by the local SA. There is a "vendor_perl" concept instead to support this kind of cygwin packaging, as you can see referenced in the default path above. But the Stow example is a distraction which compounds two problems, so let's leave that aside. At core, this is catch 22. - The perl build reserves, creates, and expects to exist, an empty directory for the sole use of the SA: "site_perl". - Cygwin perl assigns that directory location into the tree similarly intended for the SA: "/usr/local" - Your strict interpretation of the FHS disallows the empty site_perl directory to be created for use by the SA because it's positioned within a tree reserved for use by the SA I dunno, Marco, I'm not so dogmatic, and I can fix my own installation. I just thought this would be a helpful bug report for others. It sounds like we can find enough conflicting Cygwin policy documents to ensure that there is no solution, so that's delightful. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
