Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell crashes w98se

2003-08-14 Thread Graham Lamont
Gerrit, > >> Is it easy to install 5.61 instead ? > >Yes, using setup.exe should make it as easy as possible, I installed 5.61, and managed to install DBI. However the system still froze completely (mouse/keyboard completely locked for 2+ minutes) partway through the install. Installing CPANPLUS

Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell crashes w98se

2003-08-14 Thread Graham Lamont
8/11/03 12:02:16 AM, "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I installed 5.61, and managed to install DBI. However the system still >> froze completely (mouse/keyboard completely locked for 2+ minutes) >> partway through the install. > >Hmm, at which point did this happen? Can't recolle

perl -MCPAN -e shell crashes w98se

2003-08-14 Thread Graham Lamont
perl -MCPAN -e shell + install DBI or install CPANPLUS both completely crash windows under cygwin. The files: DBI-1.37.tar.gz CPANPLUS-0.042.tar.gz are downloaded and the last action seems to have been starting zlib and doing some checksums. I have activestate also and somehow it has created a

Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell crashes w98se

2003-08-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Graham, Am Mittwoch, 6. August 2003 um 03:15 schriebst du: > Is it easy to install 5.61 instead ? Yes, using setup.exe should make it as easy as possible, you find perl in the category 'Interpreter' or the full listing (and setup.exe is here: http://cygwin.com/setup.exe ). >>Why there w

Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell crashes w98se

2003-08-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Graham, Am Mittwoch, 6. August 2003 um 20:16 schriebst du: > Gerrit, >> >>> Is it easy to install 5.61 instead ? >> >>Yes, using setup.exe should make it as easy as possible, > I installed 5.61, and managed to install DBI. However the system still > froze completely (mouse/keyboard comple

Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell crashes w98se

2003-08-14 Thread Nicholas Wourms
Steve Coleman wrote: Graham Lamont wrote: perl -MCPAN -e shell Anybody experience similar ? I've been having problems with the latest version of Perl (5.8.0-3) while running/installing from CPAN on WinME. Using the previous version (5.6.1-2) seems to work fine for me when installing from CPA

Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell crashes w98se

2003-08-07 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Graham, Am Dienstag, 5. August 2003 um 20:26 schriebst du: > perl -MCPAN -e shell > + > install DBI or > install CPANPLUS > both completely crash windows under cygwin. > The files: > DBI-1.37.tar.gz > CPANPLUS-0.042.tar.gz > are downloaded and the last action seems to have been starting

Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell crashes w98se

2003-08-06 Thread Graham Lamont
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 wa

Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell crashes w98se

2003-08-05 Thread Graham Lamont
8/5/03 8:55:26 PM, "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hallo Graham, >What says which perl? And can you please send the output of >cygcheck -svr as an attachment? > > bash-2.05b$ which perl /usr/bin/perl bash-2.05b$ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) c

Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell crashes w98se

2003-08-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
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. 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)? Mine: $

Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell crashes w98se

2003-08-05 Thread Steve Coleman
Graham Lamont wrote: perl -MCPAN -e shell Anybody experience similar ? I've been having problems with the latest version of Perl (5.8.0-3) while running/installing from CPAN on WinME. Using the previous version (5.6.1-2) seems to work fine for me when installing from CPAN. I'm not sure abou