On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 3:45 PM, pierre masci wrote: > Hi all, > CPAN does strange things here. > I installed Cygwin 1.7.17 on WinXP a few days ago, and am using Perl 5.14.2. > > Often when i'm installing a module from CPAN, it stops near the start > on an error, telling me that it "Couldn't move > $temporary_module_folder to $cpan_build_folder". I have put the > complete copy-pasted error below this text that explains the problem. > > The very strange thing is that it only does it "sometimes" (too > often), and it seems to be unpredictable : the same module will > sometimes start installing, and sometimes just die on this error 20 > times in a row; and then 10 minutes later it will work. > > It is extremely annoying : i start an install, stay for the first > minute just in case this error happens, then start to do other work > related tasks, and when i come back to it one of the dependencies has > failed with this error. And keep on failing for 10 minutes, until > suddenly it works. It takes me hours/days to install all the > dependencies of a single module that i need. And i have to keep on > checking every 5 minutes that the install hasn't been stopped. Or > sometimes realize after an hour that it had stopped after only 2 > minutes. > > If anybody has an idea, please help :-) > Pierre aka mascip
I also sometimes get this error, and it's an upstream CPAN error with the unpacking logic. https://rt.cpan.org//Dist/Display.html?Queue=CPAN doesn't list it, though I remember having it reported some time ago. Please file a new report there, Andy will remember maybe. -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
