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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb@ukf.net>
To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp@familiehaase.de>, <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: "Igor Pechtchanski" <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Question for perl gurus: what creates /bin/{HEAD|GET|POST}?
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 21:57:02 +0100
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Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Hallo Max,
> Am Freitag, 27. September 2002 um 19:39 schriebst du:
> > I installed LWP via the CPAN shell yesterday - no questions were asked, ...
>
> cpan> force install LWP
...
>   CPAN.pm: Going to build G/GA/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.65.tar.gz
...
> Do you want to install lwp-request? [y] y
...
> Do you want to install the GET alias? [y] n

I have found the problem! If an alternate perl library directory is passed like
so:
$ perl Makefile.PL LIB=/opt/perl5lib

Then LWP's Makefile.PL fails to ask the questions.

So the answer is to fix Makefile.PL.

Max.


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