On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 07:48:48AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 01:46:05AM -0800, linda w <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tried this...some scripts ran. One that didn't wanted lanman.pm located in > > Win32::lanman. > > > > Queerly enough, doing a "i" /lanman" comes up zip even though it is in > > CPAN at > > /CPAN/sources/authors/id/J/JH/JHELBERG/lanman.1.0.10.0.zip. > > > > How would one normally go about installing lanman.pm without manually > > unpacking > > the zip and putting it someplace (which I'm just randomly guessing > > wouldn't work for > > some other reason -- like the lanman dll not being installed in the > > right place. > > lanman doesn't seem to be packaged like a normal CPAN module; > presumably the author is expecting most people to use ActiveState and > ppm to install it. You should download the zip file and unzip it into > a temporary directory and follow the readme's build instructions to > the extent possible, and it may or may not work.
Looks like "may not". The author has completely gone without the normal perl module build facilities (e.g. MakeMaker); even ActiveState users have to manually change path settings, etc. to get the (nmake, MSVC++) makefile to work. -- 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/
