Gerrit, Thanks for helping me out. 8/6/03 1:19:06 AM, "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hallo Graham, > >the crashing with perl-5.8 seems to be the problem which was already >reported several times and we have no fix for this yet. > Is it easy to install 5.61 instead ? >Why there was an ActiveState directory created is dubios. > >What is in your /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN/Config.pm (there are the >user defined settings)? $CPAN::Config = { 'build_cache' => q[10], 'build_dir' => q[/.cpan/build], 'cache_metadata' => q[1], 'cpan_home' => q[/.cpan], 'dontload_hash' => { }, 'ftp' => q[/usr/bin/ftp], 'ftp_proxy' => q[], 'getcwd' => q[cwd], 'gzip' => q[/usr/bin/gzip], 'histfile' => q[/.cpan/histfile], 'histsize' => q[1000], 'http_proxy' => q[], 'inactivity_timeout' => q[0], 'index_expire' => q[1], 'inhibit_startup_message' => q[0], 'keep_source_where' => q[/.cpan/sources], 'lynx' => q[/usr/bin/lynx], 'make' => q[/usr/bin/make], 'make_arg' => q[], 'make_install_arg' => q[], 'makepl_arg' => q[], 'ncftpget' => q[/usr/bin/ncftpget], 'no_proxy' => q[], 'pager' => q[/usr/bin/less], 'prerequisites_policy' => q[ask], 'scan_cache' => q[never], 'shell' => q[/usr/bin/bash], 'tar' => q[/usr/bin/tar], 'term_is_latin' => q[1], 'unzip' => q[/usr/bin/unzip], 'urllist' => [q[ftp://cpan-du.viaverio.com/pub/CPAN/], q[ftp://cpan- sj.viaverio.com/pub/CPAN/], q[ftp://cpan.cse.msu.edu/], q [ftp://ftp.mirrorcentral.com/pub/CPAN/], q [ftp://cpan.digisle.net/pub/CPAN], q[ftp://cpan.erlbaum.net/], q [ftp://cpan.llarian.net/pub/CPAN/], q [ftp://cpan.nas.nasa.gov/pub/perl/CPAN/]], 'wget' => q[/usr/bin/wget], }; 1; __END__> With the requested paths (unzip,gzip,tar..) I just gave the path that which gives (/usr/bin) even though this is empty and everything is in /bin. I don't understand why this is. > >Gerrit >-- >=^..^= > > Kind Regards Graham Lamont -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/