Re: missing perl directories

2021-01-24 Thread Anthony Heading
On Sat, Jan 23, 2021, at 7:08 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Anthony Heading writes: > […] > > What approach do you want? (Choose 'local::lib', 'sudo' or 'manual') > > [local::lib] > > Well, just say "manual" at this prompt to override the heuristics for > switching to local::lib, then. Alternatively

Re: missing perl directories

2021-01-23 Thread Achim Gratz
Anthony Heading writes: […] > What approach do you want? (Choose 'local::lib', 'sudo' or 'manual') > [local::lib] Well, just say "manual" at this prompt to override the heuristics for switching to local::lib, then. Alternatively you can report it upstream so that this check is properly guarded

Re: missing perl directories

2021-01-22 Thread Anthony Heading
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, at 7:35 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > > For good measure I repeated this with /usr/local not existing at all and > the result stays the same. Achim, that was a helpful test, thankyou. Digging further, the triggering perl code in /usr/share/perl5/5.30/CPAN/FirstTime.pm, so to

Re: missing perl directories

2021-01-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Anthony Heading writes: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, at 4:36 PM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: >> 2020-02-04 19:14 70081 usr/share/perl5/site_perl/5.30/Stow.pm That's a known packaging error caused by the stow configury / Makefile using its own special idea of installsitelib instead of inst

Re: missing perl directories

2021-01-22 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 1/22/2021 12:53 PM, Anthony Heading wrote: 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 1

Re: missing perl directories

2021-01-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Anthony Heading writes: > Whenever I have a new cygwin setup, I get an error/warning when trying to > install perl modules: > > % cpan install Win32::Symlink > Loading internal logger. Log::Log4perl recommended for better logging > [...] > Use of uninitialized value $what in concatenation (.) or

Re: missing perl directories

2021-01-22 Thread Anthony Heading
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/sit

Re: missing perl directories

2021-01-22 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
On 22.01.2021 17:15, Anthony Heading wrote: Hi Brian! On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, at 7:33 AM, Brian Inglis wrote: either something has not completed correctly, or something is missing in recent installations. I think that's right. Those the directories which are referenced in the binary, I kn

Re: missing perl directories

2021-01-22 Thread Anthony Heading
Hi Brian! On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, at 7:33 AM, Brian Inglis wrote: > either something has not completed correctly, or something is missing in > recent > installations. I think that's right. Those the directories which are referenced in the binary, I know the generic upstream perl source process

Re: missing perl directories

2021-01-21 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2021-01-21 09:09, Anthony Heading wrote: Whenever I have a new cygwin setup, I get an error/warning when trying to install perl modules: % cpan install Win32::Symlink Loading internal logger. Log::Log4perl recommended for better logging [...] Use of uninitialized value $what in concatenatio

Re: missing perl directories

2021-01-21 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
On 21.01.2021 17:09, Anthony Heading wrote: Hi, Whenever I have a new cygwin setup, I get an error/warning when trying to install perl modules: ls: cannot access '/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.30/x86_64-cygwin-threads': No such file or directory ls: cannot access '/usr/local/share/per

missing perl directories

2021-01-21 Thread Anthony Heading
Hi, Whenever I have a new cygwin setup, I get an error/warning when trying to install perl modules: % cpan install Win32::Symlink Loading internal logger. Log::Log4perl recommended for better logging [...] Use of uninitialized value $what in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/5.30