Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe my memory is going, but I thought the reason you suggested > he switch to /usr/local was so that he wouldn't have the > HEAD/head.exe conflict and it would go ahead and successfully > install /usr/local/bin/HEAD.
Well, yes, but many people, including me, have /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin in their PATH, so when calling "head", it's the /usr/local/bin/HEAD that is chosen. I should have mentioned this specifically since it's not an issue if you have /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin in your path. Is there a way to make path searches case insensitive? On the other hand, if you have /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin you'll not get the latest versions when Perl scripts, like "cpan", are updated. > Rather than specify PREFIX for every module build and set a > PERL5LIB, you might just build your own perl with the > -Uusrbinperl configure option, so it defaults to /usr/local/. > (There are just a few non-core modules included in the cygwin > distribution that you would probably want to start by building: > Archive::Tar, Compress::Zlib, Term::ReadKey, MD5, Net::Telnet, > Term::ReadLine::Perl.) True, but I'm not sure whether someone who has problems installing CPAN modules is yet capable of building a new version of Perl. Peter -- Peter J. Acklam - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://home.online.no/~pjacklam -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
