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Date: Tue Jul 12 08:45:26 2005
From: Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: perl's automagic CPAN.pm shell ignores job control

Topics:
   Re: perl's automagic CPAN.pm shell ignores job control 
   Re: perl's automagic CPAN.pm shell ignores job control 
   perl's automagic CPAN.pm shell ignores job control


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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 09:14:43 -0600
From: Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cc: Andreas Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: perl's automagic CPAN.pm shell ignores job control 
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Note that this job-control zapping also affects the perl debugger,
which can no longer be controlled!

% perl -de 0
Default die handler restored.
Default die handler restored.
warn set to 0, die set to 0

Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.07
Editor support available.

Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help.

main::(-e:1):   0
  DB<1> x \%INC                                                                 
              0  HASH(0xa90cc)
   '/home/tchrist/.perldb' => '/home/tchrist/.perldb'
   'AutoLoader.pm' => '/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/AutoLoader.pm'
   'Carp.pm' => '/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/Carp.pm'
   'DynaLoader.pm' => 
'/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/DynaLoader.pm'
   'Exporter.pm' => '/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/Exporter.pm'
   'SelfLoader.pm' => '/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/SelfLoader.pm'
   'Term/Cap.pm' => '/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/Term/Cap.pm'
   'Term/ReadKey.pm' => 
'/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.00554/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/Term/ReadKey.pm'
   'Term/ReadLine.pm' => '/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/Term/ReadLine.pm'
   'Term/ReadLine/Perl.pm' => 
'/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Term/ReadLine/Perl.pm'
   'Term/ReadLine/readline.pm' => 
'/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Term/ReadLine/readline.pm'
   'dumpvar.pl' => '/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/dumpvar.pl'
   'perl5db.pl' => '/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/perl5db.pl'
  DB<2> system "ls", "-lct", values %INC                                        
              -r--r--r--  1 root     users    3799 Aug 29 08:43 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Term/ReadLine/Perl.pm
- r--r--r--  1 root     users  109615 Aug 29 08:43 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Term/ReadLine/readline.pm
- r--r--r--  1 root     users   84629 Mar 27 17:02 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/perl5db.pl
- r--r--r--  1 root     users   11982 Mar 27 17:02 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/dumpvar.pl
- rw-r--r--  1 tchrist  wheel     294 Mar 25 11:13 /home/tchrist/.perldb
- r--r--r--  1 root     users   14164 Mar 25 09:27 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.00554/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/Term/ReadKey.pm
- r--r--r--  1 root     users   27554 Mar 25 09:24 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/DynaLoader.pm
- r--r--r--  1 root     users   12043 Mar 25 09:23 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/SelfLoader.pm
- r--r--r--  1 root     users   10377 Mar 25 09:23 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/Exporter.pm
- r--r--r--  1 root     users    4166 Mar 25 09:23 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/Carp.pm
- r--r--r--  1 root     users   10167 Mar 25 09:23 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/AutoLoader.pm
- r--r--r--  1 root     users   10011 Mar 25 09:21 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/Term/ReadLine.pm
- r--r--r--  1 root     users   11745 Mar 25 09:21 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/Term/Cap.pm


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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 09:07:05 -0600
From: Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Andreas Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: perl's automagic CPAN.pm shell ignores job control 
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I resent that message because it seemed to fall into a black 
hole; that is, I got back neither acknowledgement nor a copy 
of the bug report submitted. 

I imagine the job control annihilation is really a function of some
of the tty reading modules that CPAN.pm is using.  As for the
installation times, this is certainly debatable, but I found it
surprising.

- -tom


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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:55:23 -0600
From: Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andreas Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: perl's automagic CPAN.pm shell ignores job control
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I decided to (try) use CPAN to install LWP, since there are millions
of dependencies.  After some dicey configuration foo, it appeared
to work.  So for the first time, I took its suggestion to install
an updated CPAN bundle, too.  It of course installed a *lot* of
stuff.

Twenty minutes later, after reload CPAN, I could no longer type ^Z
to suspend the job, ^D to provide an EOF, etc.  This is very annoying.
It shouldn't destroy my ability to use job control!

Here's what version it was:

    % perl -MCPAN -le 'print CPAN->VERSION()'
    1.57

Also, I can't simply figure out what got installed, because the 
mtimes are all ancient.  I have to scan for new ctimes.  That seems
very bizarre.

    % find /usr/local/lib/perl5/ -type f -mtime -2 -print 
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/HTML/Tagset/.packlist
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/HTML/Parser/Parser.so
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/HTML/Parser/Parser.bs
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/HTML/Parser/.packlist
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Net/.packlist
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Net/Telnet/.packlist
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/URI/.packlist
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Digest/SHA1/SHA1.so
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Digest/SHA1/SHA1.bs
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Digest/MD2/MD2.so
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Digest/MD2/MD2.bs
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Digest/MD5/MD5.so
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Digest/MD5/MD5.bs
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Digest/MD5/.packlist
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/libwww-perl/.packlist
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Compress/Zlib/Zlib.so
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Compress/Zlib/Zlib.bs
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Compress/Zlib/autosplit.ix
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Compress/Zlib/.packlist
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Archive/Tar/.packlist
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Term/ReadLine/.packlist
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/CPAN/WAIT/.packlist
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/libnet.cfg
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/File/Spec/.packlist
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/CPAN/.packlist
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/perllocal.pod

See, there's all kinds of stuff missing.  I'll try again.

    % find /usr/local/lib/perl5/ -type f -ctime -2 -print 

    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/HTML/Tagset/.packlist
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/HTML/Parser/Parser.so
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/HTML/Parser/Parser.bs
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/HTML/Parser/.packlist
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Net/.packlist
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Net/Telnet/.packlist
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/URI/.packlist
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Digest/SHA1/SHA1.so
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Digest/SHA1/SHA1.bs
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Digest/MD2/MD2.so
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Digest/MD2/MD2.bs
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Digest/MD5/MD5.so
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Digest/MD5/MD5.bs
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Digest/MD5/.packlist
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/libwww-perl/.packlist
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Compress/Zlib/Zlib.so
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Compress/Zlib/Zlib.bs
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Compress/Zlib/autosplit.ix
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Compress/Zlib/.packlist
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Archive/Tar/.packlist
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/Term/ReadLine/.packlist
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/CPAN/WAIT/.packlist
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/HTML/HeadParser.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/HTML/LinkExtor.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/HTML/Parser.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/HTML/Entities.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/HTML/TokeParser.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/HTML/Filter.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/MD5.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/Digest.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/SHA.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/Digest/HMAC_MD5.pm
    
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/Digest/HMAC_SHA1.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/Digest/HMAC.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/Digest/MD5.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/Digest/MD2.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/Digest/SHA1.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/Compress/Zlib.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/File/Listing.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/HTML/Tagset.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/HTML/Form.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/Config.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/Domain.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/SMTP.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/DummyInetd.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/Time.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/NNTP.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/PH.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/libnet.cfg
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/POP3.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/libnetFAQ.pod
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/SNPP.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/Cmd.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/Netrc.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/FTP.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/FTP/dataconn.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/FTP/A.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/FTP/I.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/FTP/L.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/FTP/E.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/Telnet.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/Escape.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/pop.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/mailto.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/_generic.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/data.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/_segment.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/file.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/ldap.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/telnet.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/_query.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/_server.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/_login.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/Heuristic.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/http.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/WithBase.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/snews.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/nntp.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/gopher.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/rlogin.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/rsync.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/news.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/https.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/_userpass.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/URL.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/ftp.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/file/QNX.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/file/Win32.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/file/FAT.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/file/Base.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/file/Mac.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/file/OS2.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/file/Unix.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/URI/_foreign.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/LWP.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/lwpcook.pod
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/WWW/RobotRules.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/WWW/RobotRules/AnyDBM_File.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/HTTP/Cookies.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/HTTP/Daemon.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/HTTP/Status.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/HTTP/Message.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/HTTP/Negotiate.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/HTTP/Headers.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/HTTP/Request.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/HTTP/Response.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/HTTP/Date.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/HTTP/Headers/Util.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/HTTP/Headers/Auth.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/HTTP/Headers/ETag.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/HTTP/Request/Common.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Bundle/LWP.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/LWP/Protocol.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/LWP/RobotUA.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/LWP/MemberMixin.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/LWP/Simple.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/LWP/media.types
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/LWP/Debug.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/LWP/UserAgent.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/LWP/MediaTypes.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/LWP/Authen/Digest.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/LWP/Authen/Basic.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/LWP/Protocol/nntp.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/LWP/Protocol/ftp.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/LWP/Protocol/mailto.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/LWP/Protocol/data.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/LWP/Protocol/https.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/LWP/Protocol/file.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/LWP/Protocol/gopher.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/LWP/Protocol/http.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Archive/Tar.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Term/ReadLine/readline.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Term/ReadLine/Perl.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/WAIT/Client.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/CPAN/WAIT.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/File/Spec/.packlist
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/auto/CPAN/.packlist
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd/perllocal.pod
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/File/Spec/Functions.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/File/Spec/Mac.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/File/Spec/OS2.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/File/Spec/Unix.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/File/Spec/VMS.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/File/Spec/Win32.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/File/Spec.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/CPAN.pm
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/Bundle/CPAN.pm

Remarkable, eh?  Here's the problem:

    % ls -lt /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd 
    total 35
    drwxr-xr-x  19 root  users    512 Aug 29 08:44 auto
    drwxr-xr-x   2 root  users    512 Aug 29 08:40 Compress
    drwxr-xr-x   2 root  users    512 Aug 29 08:35 Digest
    drwxr-xr-x   2 root  users    512 Aug 29 08:31 HTML
    drwxr-xr-x   3 root  users    512 Mar 30 18:14 Filter
    -r--r--r--   1 root  users  20818 Dec 10  1999 perlfilter.pod
    -r--r--r--   1 root  users   1159 Aug  5  1999 MD5.pm
    -r--r--r--   1 root  users   4733 Aug  5  1999 Digest.pm
    -r--r--r--   1 root  users   1608 Mar  8  1999 SHA.pm

Those mtimes are too ancient to be picked up.  Whyever would it install
something in the past?


- -tom

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=openbsd, osvers=2.6, archname=OpenBSD.i386-openbsd
    uname='openbsd chthon 2.6 generic#696 i386 '
    config_args='-des'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef 
usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define 
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=2.95.1 19990816 (release)
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=true
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', 
lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='ld', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lgdbm -lm -lc
    libc=/usr/lib/libc.so.23.1, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=define, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-DPIC -fPIC ', lddlflags='-Bshareable  -L/usr/local/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES
  Built under openbsd
  Compiled at Mar 28 2000 06:16:04
  @INC:
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.00554/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.00554
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .


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