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: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:13:36 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere Message-ID: <791319485950.20040819171336@familiehaase.de> To: Thomas Berger CC: ThB.com@t-online.de, Stephan Petersen , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails In-Reply-To: <4124A107.2070403@gymel.com> References: <41235C84.7060300@gtt-technologies.de> <4123B56F.6010003@gymel.com> <41245BEE.4090900@gtt-technologies.de> <921297065040.20040819105955@familiehaase.de> <41247824.2070901@gymel.com> <412481BC.3010000@gymel.com> <4124A107.2070403@gymel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Thomas schrieb: > Gerrit: Compress::Zlib is *not* included in perl-5.8.5, > maybe that triggered the problem I see, thanks for the (packaging) bug report. Will fix it ASAP. > As to the binmode issue (as in Stephan's situation I'm > running a completely text mode installation): > I introduced an additional mount parallel to my > ususal /home: > mkdir /binhome > mount -b "C:/cygwin/home/" /binhome > and reconfigured CPAN.PM (rather edit > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN/Config.pm than struggle with the > various "o conf" settings in CPAN's shell). > Now the first attempt still fails because of the my "nobinmode" setting > in $CYGWIN (cpan.pm executes > gzip --decompress --stdout < ...tar.gz | tar xfv - > ... > and the pipe is affected by "nobinmode". However the second attempt > succeeds since either Compress::Zlib is used or gunzipping > gzip -dc ....tar.gz > ....tar > is now executed on a binary mounted FS. Sigh. If I were the god of Cygwin, I would have not created textmode mounts at all. I cannot see the point why it is neccessary to use it. The only real reason why textmode is needed is that notepad cannot handle binmode (unix) textfiles. [...] > The fix would be to add a short sentence to the release notes > that .cpan *must* reside in a binmode mounted filesystem Ok, I'll ad a sentence similar to what you wrote here. 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/