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Re: perl problem with cygwin path


Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

<snip>


You may have used a "3rd-party" site as well. There are sites out there that have set themselves up to deliver packages in the 'setup.exe' format. Once you add one of these sites to your list, 'setup.exe' continues to use it until you tell it now to. So if you're curious, you should check
                           ^^^
                           not
the sites that 'setup.exe' presents on the machine with Perl 5.8.8.  You
can also pull to you local system a package from another site and install
                   ^^^
                   your
it that way with 'setup.exe'.  The point is that there are ways of
installing packages that aren't part of the distribution.  Somehow, you've
managed to do that here, since 5.8.8 isn't part of the Cygwin distribution.




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