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Re: install Crypt::CBC in cpan shell in Cygwin
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Igor Peshansky wrote:
> As Reini rather forcefully alluded to, using ':' in filenames is
> non-portable. You really should complain upstream about using that
> character in their filenames. The standard Perl convention is to replace
> '::' by '_', anyway.
This file is just a readme containing a security advisory, and doesn't
get handled by the /::/_/ magic.
> However, another workaround is
>
> mount -u -o managed `cygpath -m /home/$USER/.cpan` /home/$USER/.cpan
>
> This will set up .cpan as a managed mount, which supports all kinds of
> special characters in filenames. Don't expect Windows programs to
> understand them, though. And you might have trouble actually installing
> the package (if it uses those characters in installed files).
Since this readme doesn't get installed, this is not a problem.
Alternatively, build this module with cygport and the attached .cygport
file.
Yaakov
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CPAN_AUTHOR=lds
inherit perl
USE_MANAGED_MOUNT=1
DOCS+=" README.compatibility"
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