Hi all, I think there's a bug with cpan and names containing spaces. E.g., my username is Joe Schmoe, and I get:
>>> $ cpan Error CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /home/Joe Schmoe/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:16:19 GMT LWP not available CPAN: Net::FTP loaded ok Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Going to read /home/Joe Schmoe/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok LWP not available Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Going to read /home/Joe Schmoe/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Database was generated on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:14:09 GMT HTTP::Date not available There's a new CPAN.pm version (v1.84) available! [Current version is v1.7601] You might want to try install Bundle::CPAN reload cpan without quitting the current session. It should be a seamless upgrade while we are running... LWP not available Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz Going to read /home/Joe Schmoe/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz Going to write /home/Joe Schmoe/.cpan/Metadata Running install for module Error Running make for U/UA/UARUN/Error-0.15.tar.gz LWP not available Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/U/UA/UARUN/Error-0.15.tar.gz CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok LWP not available Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/U/UA/UARUN/CHECKSUMS Checksum for /home/Joe Schmoe/.cpan/sources/authors/id/U/UA/UARUN/Error-0.15.tar.gz ok Scanning cache /home/Joe Schmoe/.cpan/build for sizes gzip: Schmoe/.cpan/sources/authors/id/U/UA/UARUN/Error-0.15.tar.gz: No such file or directory Package seems to come without Makefile.PL. (The test -f "/home/Joe Schmoe/.cpan/build/UARUN000/Makefile.PL" returned false.) Writing one on our own (setting NAME to Error) CPAN.pm: Going to build U/UA/UARUN/Error-0.15.tar.gz Writing Makefile for Error /usr/bin/make -- OK Running make test No tests defined for Error extension. /usr/bin/make test -- OK Running make install Writing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Error/.packlist Appending installation info to /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/perllocal.pod /usr/bin/make install -- OK >>> Otherwise, how do I install cpan modules to the 'global' directories (instead of my user's ~/.cpan)? (Cygwin has no 'su') Thanks in advance. -- 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/
