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 Subject: Re: Perl CPAN module help References: <20031118231527.GA1776@efn.org> From: pjacklam@online.no (Peter J. Acklam) Organization: Private Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:00:51 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20031118231527.GA1776@efn.org> (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes's message of "Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:15:27 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > Maybe my memory is going, but I thought the reason you suggested > he switch to /usr/local was so that he wouldn't have the > HEAD/head.exe conflict and it would go ahead and successfully > install /usr/local/bin/HEAD. Well, yes, but many people, including me, have /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin in their PATH, so when calling "head", it's the /usr/local/bin/HEAD that is chosen. I should have mentioned this specifically since it's not an issue if you have /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin in your path. Is there a way to make path searches case insensitive? On the other hand, if you have /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin you'll not get the latest versions when Perl scripts, like "cpan", are updated. > Rather than specify PREFIX for every module build and set a > PERL5LIB, you might just build your own perl with the > -Uusrbinperl configure option, so it defaults to /usr/local/. > (There are just a few non-core modules included in the cygwin > distribution that you would probably want to start by building: > Archive::Tar, Compress::Zlib, Term::ReadKey, MD5, Net::Telnet, > Term::ReadLine::Perl.) True, but I'm not sure whether someone who has problems installing CPAN modules is yet capable of building a new version of Perl. Peter -- Peter J. Acklam - pjacklam@online.no - http://home.online.no/~pjacklam -- 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/