Thank you for your help. I understand what you are saying here. I will try installing under /usr/local. My question, though, is what do I do about all the modules I've installed under /usr? How do I deal with them? Do I need to re-install them under /usr/local? Do I then need to somehow remove them from /usr? Or can I have modules under both directories, leaving the ones that work under /usr and place new ones under /usr/local?
-----Original Message----- From: Peter J. Acklam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 1:40 AM To: Gary Nielson Cc: Peter J. Acklam; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Perl CPAN module help "Gary Nielson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am getting somewhere. I used setup and installed needed > executables such as gcc. Did a force install in cpan for LWP > modules and it seemed to be go great. All tests were successful > in make test. But when running make install I got the error: You shouldn't use "force install" unless you really know what you're doing. If your module fails a regular "install" you should investigate the problem and find the solution rather than do a "force install". With a "force install" you are likely to install modules which fail some way on your system and hence shouldn't have been installed. > "Cannot forceunlink /usr/bin/HEAD: No such file or directory at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/File/Find.pm line 873. > make: *** [pure_site_install] Error 255 > /usr/bin/make install -- NOT OK. > > The Find.pm line in question is: { $wanted_callback->() }; # > protect against wild "next" When installing LWP you are asked whether you want to install the GET, HEAD, and POST programs. You have chosed "yes" or the "force install" did it for you. Either way, it was discovered that HEAD exists (as /usr/bin/head.exe) and Perl is trying to remove it, but although "which head" says "/usr/bin/HEAD", there really is no "/usr/bin/HEAD.exe", it's "/usr/bin/head.exe". The problem is that "which" matches case insensitively, but "rm" doesn't. The solution is: Don't install CPAN modules under "/usr", use "/usr/local"! When you install modules without CPAN, use the steps perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/usr/local make make test make install this is done with the CPAN shell by setting cpan> o conf makepl_arg PREFIX=/usr/local cpan> o conf commit > Any idea what is going wrong, or is the question better posed to > a perl forum? The "head" vs "HEAD" is a Cygwin thing, so I think it belongs equally well here. Peter -- Peter J. Acklam - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://home.online.no/~pjacklam -- 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/
