On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Paul King <oaei...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have run into unusual problems in configuring Perl from the time I > began using perl on my new Windows 7 installation (which was two days > ago). > > I wanted to introduce libraries into the Perl distro, and my customary > way of doing this is to invoke: > perl -MCPAN -e shell > which brings up the Perl config shell. Usually, when I do this for the > first time on a new installation, it asks me to configure stuff, and I > chose "yes" (as I always do) to auto-configure. It ended with an error > (sorry I forget what the error was), which has never happened before. > > Would anyone know how to re-run this config (which seemed to go on its > own) so that I can reproduce the error? > > Paul King > > -- > 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 >
Try 'o conf init' in the CPAN shell. You also might try cpanminus ( http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/App-cpanminus-1.6941/lib/App/cpanminus.pm ), which is easier to use than CPAN and less fiddly. Jeremy Hetzler -- 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
