CPAN module in Cygwin

[Elvin Peterson]

--- Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 01:14:08PM -0700, Elvin
> Peterson <elvin_peterson@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >    The CPAN command:
> > 
> > perl -MCPAN -e shell 
> > 
> > fails with:
> > 
> > Cannot open >/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN/Config.pm
> at
> > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 1219
> > 
> >
>
CPAN::Config::_configpmtest('/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN',
> > '/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN/Config.pm') called at
> > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 1253
> > 	CPAN::Config::load('CPAN::Config') called at
> > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/CPAN.pm line 92
> > 	CPAN::shell() called at -e line 1
> > 
> > It looks like it is trying to write to a file
> owned by
> > Administrator.  Is there a workaround to install
> > modules as a user?
> 
> After a *very* quick look at CPAN.pm, it looks like
> your
> CPAN/Config.pm is incomplete, so it tries to rebuild
> it, but trips up
> because it is not expecting the Config.pm file to
> not be writable when
> the CPAN/ directory is writable.
> 
> This is IMO a CPAN bug.
> 
> You can find out what's missing by:
> 
> perl -MCPAN::Config -MCPAN -wle'print for
> CPAN::Config->missing_config_data'
> 
> As a workaround, you may just want to copy it to
> ~/.cpan/CPAN/Config.pm and use
> 
> perl -Mlib=$HOME/.cpan -MCPAN -eshell

I've done that and it started up fine!  Thanks for the
help.




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