On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 11:26:14PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Elvin Peterson wrote: > >Thanks for all the suggestions. Are these part of > >cygwin (or do they have to be installed separately? > >:-))? In any case running CPAN sends my machine to > >OOM, so I am sticking to precompiled binaries for now. > > You can fetch any source package via ftp or from http://search.cpan.org/ > and build and install them manually: > $ tar xzf package-name.tar.gz > $ cd package-name > $ perl Makefile.PL > $ make > $ make test > $ make install
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