Re: Using cpan

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 04:30:17PM -0600, Brad Morgan wrote:
> I'm not having much luck with Perl and Cygwin...
> 
> I want to install the module MIME::Tools and any dependencies under Cygwin.
> 
> I tried "$ cpan MIME::Tools" and I get the errors below.  My Perl program
> can't find MIME::Parser

> $ cpan MIME::Tools

> Settings/brad.morgan/.cpan/sources/authors/id/E/ER/ERYQ/MIME-
> tools-5.411a.tar.gz ok
> Scanning cache /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/brad.morgan/.cpan/build
> for sizes
> gzip: and.gz: No such file or directory
> gzip:
> Settings/brad.morgan/.cpan/sources/authors/id/E/ER/ERYQ/MIME-tools-5.411a.ta
> r.gz: No such file
>  or directory
> Package seems to come without Makefile.PL.

Looks like it's choking on the space in your directory name.
Try setting HOME to /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/brad.morgan or creating a mount
point like: mount -u 'c:\Documents and Settings\brad.morgan' /home/brad.morgan


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