Hello Again, Cygwinistas; On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM I wrote: > > Hello Cygwinstas, > > I've got a question about the cygwin perl package installed with cygwin > setup. I'm having a failure in some perl code not written by me but rather in > a CPAN module I am seeking to install. This failure does not occur on > Gnu/Linux. The first 10 lines of that module are: > > package Array::Contains; > > > use 5.010_001; > use strict; > use warnings; > use diagnostics; > use mro 'c3'; > use English; > our $VERSION = 2.8; > use Carp; > > Line 6 contains the directive to use the diagnostics pragma as you see. But > when the perl compiler hits that line, it dies with the following long and > slightly confusing messages: > > $ perl '-Mdiagnostics' -le 'print $diagnostics::VERSION' > couldn't find diagnostic data in /usr/share/perl5/5.40/pods/perldiag.pod > /usr/share/perl5 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.40/x86_64-cygwin-threads > /usr/local/share/perl5/site_perl/5.40 > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.40/x86_64-cygwin-threads > /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/5.40 /usr/lib/perl5/5.40/x86_64-cygwin-threads > /usr/share/perl5/5.40 -e at /usr/share/perl5/5.40/diagnostics.pm line 259, > <POD_DIAG> line 718. > Compilation failed in require. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
I'm following up on my own message here. I've been discussing it with monks over at perlmonks (https://perlmonks.org) and someone there (monk named choroba) knew what was wrong; the file /usr/share/perl5/5.40/pods/perldiag.pod is, on Cygwin, not installed automatically with the base perl executable, library and core modules. It's in, rather, the optional package <<perl_pods>>. So I installed that package and the problem went away. Ref: https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11164726 With regards, Soren Andersen -- 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
