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 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:25:01 +0100 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <18024239671.20031114162501@familiehaase.de> To: "Gary Nielson" CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Perl CPAN module help In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hello Gary, Wednesday, November 12, 2003, 7:57:42 PM, you wrote: > I tried installing several perl modules today, but make test failed on > several in the LWP package and for HTML::Parser etc. Couldn't find modules > I'd already installed in the INC path. With HTML::Parser it couldn't run gcc > because it was not found. How do you use CPAN under cygwin? Is there a web > page that outlines how to configure CPAN for cygwin, is that what is needed? > Are others having problems and how did you fix them. I successfully install > some and have force installed others and notice that if you do a perldoc > perllocal you only get the first three modules listed, whereas if you do a > more on the perllocal file, you see a lot more listed. What's up with that, > can anyonw explain? Just start the `cpan` script: $ /usr/bin/cpan It asks some questions to configure itself when it runs the first time. -- Best regards, Gerrit -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/