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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Soren A Subject: Re: problems with CPAN and cygwin >1.3.12 Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 06:55:22 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Occasionally Sporadically Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <20021207150436.80346.qmail@web41012.mail.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ny-kenton2a-951.buf.adelphia.net X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039330522 22823 24.51.95.183 (8 Dec 2002 06:55:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 06:55:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Xnews/L5 X-Archive: encrypt JoNO ZzZ wrote around 07 Dec 2002 news:20021207150436.80346.qmail@web41012.mail.yahoo.com: > CPAN.pm: Going to build > M/MS/MSISK/HTML-TableExtract-1.08.tar.gz > > Checking if your kit is complete... > Looks good > Unable to find a perl 5 (by these names: > /usr/bin/perl.exe perl.exe perl5.exe perl5.8.0.exe miniperl.exe, in these dirs: > /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin [... snip] It is a problem in MakeMaker, which CPAN.pm is calling to build the module. It isn't strictly speaking a CPAN.pm problem per se. Try downloading the module package manually (search.cpan.org) and unpacking the targz ball, then cd'ing into the dir thus created. Follow the traditional steps to build and install a Perl module from that point (if you do not know what they are I strongly suggest that you RTFperlM). Does the module build, test and install without hang-up? Please do not forget that all support for all Cygwin packages, such as Perl, is supplied by volunteers on their own time. Beyond the immediacy of your desire to get something working for you, which isn't right now, you will create better karma by manifesting a willingness to go to greater lengths to work out some answers yourself. If you follow the above instructions and still cannot install this module, then get back to "us" (this List), we will all know more than before about what might be wrong. If you leave it to someone else to take these steps you *may* get a "free answer" eventually but you'll have done nothing for your karma in the process. Best, Soren A -- "So, tell me, my little one-eyed one, on what poor, pitiful, defenseless planet has my MONSTROSITY been unleashed?" - Dr. Jumba, Disney's "Lilo & Stitch" -- 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/