I'm running Gentoo, which does not yet have version 5.10 in the tree. I downloaded and installed version 5.10 from source. (I'm not certain that this is the cause of the issue, but it's the only thing I can think of.) Now, Perl/CPAN appears to be putting packages into my root directory:
root / # ls -al total 161 drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:40 . drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:40 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:39 Class drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:40 PortageXS -r--r--r-- 1 root root 2965 Jan 19 14:48 PortageXS.pm drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:40 Shell drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:38 Sys drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:38 Term drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 14 19:11 Test drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 14 19:11 YAML -r--r--r-- 1 root root 23904 Jan 14 19:11 YAML.pm drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:40 auto drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 12 15:40 bin drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Nov 2 06:48 boot drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 14180 Jan 18 15:40 dev drwxr-xr-x 73 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:48 etc drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 2 05:02 home lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Nov 1 21:09 lib -> lib64 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 4 19:06 lib32 drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jan 2 19:32 lib64 drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Sep 1 17:29 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 18 19:40 mnt drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Dec 14 20:00 opt dr-xr-xr-x 100 root root 0 Jan 18 12:49 proc drwx------ 17 root root 4096 Jan 19 15:14 root drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 12 15:40 sbin drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 0 Jan 18 12:49 sys drwxrwxrwt 19 root root 12288 Jan 19 15:14 tmp drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Nov 27 07:52 usr drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Sep 2 06:28 var -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10431 Jan 14 19:11 ysh -r--r--r-- 1 root root 7352 Jan 14 19:11 ysh.1 Any idea what config is hosed on my system? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
