Hmm... I did not see this appear on the list so I'm posting it again. I'm using cygwin perl on windows and as you can see below, cpan seems to choking on the path name "/cygdrive/c/Documents and settings/a-siehei/My Documents" because of the spaces.
Surely someone else has a workaround! My apologies if this appears twice. Siegfried From: Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 12:42 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: How to install Date::Manip on cygwin perl? It looks like the CPAN program does not anticipate paths with spaces in them. I did a google search with no luck. Surely someone has already fixed this problem! How do I fix it? Thanks, Siegfried $ perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Manip' CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:30:46 GMT Running install for module Date::Manip Running make for S/SB/SBECK/Date-Manip-5.48.tar.gz CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok Checksum for /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/sources/authors/i d/S/SB/SBECK/Date-Manip-5.48.tar.gz ok Scanning cache /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/build for sizes sh: /cygdrive/c/Documents: No such file or directory /usr/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive /usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Uncompressed /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/sources/authors/i d/S/SB/SBECK/Date-Manip-5.48.tar.gz successfully Using Tar:/usr/bin/tar xvf /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/sou rces/authors/id/S/SB/SBECK/Date-Manip-5.48.tar: /usr/bin/tar: /cygdrive/c/Documents: Cannot open: No such file or directory /usr/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Couldn't untar /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/sources/authors /id/S/SB/SBECK/Date-Manip-5.48.tar
