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Subject: Re: ppm disappeared
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:35:31 +1000
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <paul DOT hermeneutic AT gmail DOT com>
.
.
> $ ppm
> Can't locate ActivePerl/PPM/limited_inc.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/i686-cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/5.10 /usr/
> lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8 .) at
> /cygdrive/c/Perl/bin/ppm line 4.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /cygdrive/c/Perl/bin/ppm line 4.

You're running /cygdrive/c/Perl/bin/ppm - which is the ActivePerl ppm 
utility, *not* the Cygwin ppm utility. (I didn't know Cygwin had a ppm 
utility btw.) Apparently, the ActivePerl ppm utility needs 
ActivePerl/PPM/limited_inc.pm, but can't find that file in your Cygwin build 
of perl - which is hardly surprising.

(Not exactly sure of the mechanism that leads to ActivePerl's ppm finding 
Cygwin's perl instead of ActivePerl's perl - but that's what's happening.)

The problem would probably go away if you removed /cygdrive/c/Perl/bin/ppm 
from Cygwin's $PATH - or at least put it at the end of $PATH.

In installing ActivePerl, the system environment variable was probably 
altered to include C:/Perl/bin, and your bash shell is picking it up from 
there.

Cheers,
Rob 


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