Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <009e01c26800$2852a9f0$0100a8c0@bowsher.foo> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Max Bowsher" , "Gerrit P. Haase" , Cc: "Igor Pechtchanski" References: <010901c2664e$61de3530$0100a8c0@bowsher.foo> <63214208345.20020929203540@familiehaase.de> <007501c267fa$f2208e60$0100a8c0@bowsher.foo> Subject: Re: Question for perl gurus: what creates /bin/{HEAD|GET|POST}? Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 22:35:36 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Max Bowsher wrote: > 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. The following 1 line patch fixes the problem. Anyone familiar with LWP patch procedures? Otherwise, I'll go and subscribe to YAML :-) Max. --- Makefile.PL.orig 2002-05-31 21:51:03.000000000 +0100 +++ Makefile.PL 2002-09-29 22:26:08.000000000 +0100 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ unless (getopts("n")) { die "Usage: $0 [-n]\n"; } -@programs_to_install = () if $opt_n || grep /^LIB=/, @ARGV; +@programs_to_install = @request_aliases = () if $opt_n || grep /^LIB=/, @ARGV; # Check if we should try to run the live tests open(CHANGES, "Changes") || die "Can't open Changes: $!"; -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/