Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell crashes w98se

[Graham Lamont <grahamlamont at ntlworld dot com>]

Gerrit,

Thanks for helping me out.
8/6/03 1:19:06 AM, "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp@familiehaase.de> 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 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)?
$CPAN::Config = {
  'build_cache' => q[10],
  'build_dir' => q[/.cpan/build],
  'cache_metadata' => q[1],
  'cpan_home' => q[/.cpan],
  'dontload_hash' => {  },
  'ftp' => q[/usr/bin/ftp],
  'ftp_proxy' => q[],
  'getcwd' => q[cwd],
  'gzip' => q[/usr/bin/gzip],
  'histfile' => q[/.cpan/histfile],
  'histsize' => q[1000],
  'http_proxy' => q[],
  'inactivity_timeout' => q[0],
  'index_expire' => q[1],
  'inhibit_startup_message' => q[0],
  'keep_source_where' => q[/.cpan/sources],
  'lynx' => q[/usr/bin/lynx],
  'make' => q[/usr/bin/make],
  'make_arg' => q[],
  'make_install_arg' => q[],
  'makepl_arg' => q[],
  'ncftpget' => q[/usr/bin/ncftpget],
  'no_proxy' => q[],
  'pager' => q[/usr/bin/less],
  'prerequisites_policy' => q[ask],
  'scan_cache' => q[never],
  'shell' => q[/usr/bin/bash],
  'tar' => q[/usr/bin/tar],
  'term_is_latin' => q[1],
  'unzip' => q[/usr/bin/unzip],
  'urllist' => [q[ftp://cpan-du.viaverio.com/pub/CPAN/], q[ftp://cpan-
sj.viaverio.com/pub/CPAN/], q[ftp://cpan.cse.msu.edu/], q
[ftp://ftp.mirrorcentral.com/pub/CPAN/], q
[ftp://cpan.digisle.net/pub/CPAN], q[ftp://cpan.erlbaum.net/], q
[ftp://cpan.llarian.net/pub/CPAN/], q
[ftp://cpan.nas.nasa.gov/pub/perl/CPAN/]],
  'wget' => q[/usr/bin/wget],
};
1;
__END__>

With the requested paths (unzip,gzip,tar..) I just gave the path that 
which gives (/usr/bin) even though this is empty and everything is in 
/bin. I don't understand why this is.
>
>Gerrit
>-- 
>=^..^=
>
>
Kind Regards

Graham Lamont 



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