Hi Brian! On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, at 7:33 AM, Brian Inglis wrote: > either something has not completed correctly, or something is missing in > recent > installations.
I think that's right. Those the directories which are referenced in the binary, I know the generic upstream perl source process has always created them, but they're not included in the current cygwin package. As a total guess, empty directories are maybe now being elided in the cygwin packaging process? % strings - /bin/cygperl5_30.dll | grep /usr/local /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.30/x86_64-cygwin-threads /usr/local/share/perl5/site_perl/5.30 % cygcheck -p site_perl Found 4 matches for site_perl grepmail-5.3033-2 - grepmail: search mailboxes for mail matching an expression (installed binaries and support files) perl-Stow-2.3.1-1 - perl-Stow: perl library for stow perl-Stow-2.3.1-2 - perl-Stow: Perl library for stow perl-Stow-2.3.1-3 - perl-Stow: Perl library for stow On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, at 4:22 PM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > /usr/local/* are "local" > > no package should touch them Marco, I have no idea how to interpret that statement constructively. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple