git-email missing module

john doe johndoe65534@mail.com
Sat Aug 4 20:09:00 GMT 2018


Hi Adam,

On 8/4/2018 7:49 PM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 at 15:11, john doe wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On a fresh install of Cygwin_x86_64, I have installed "git,git-email"
>> packages and I'm getting the following:
>>
>> $ git send-email master --confirm=always --to=xxx@example.com
>> BUG: The 'Mail::Address' module is not here, but NO_PERL_CPAN_FALLBACKS
>> was set!
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> The relevant Perl module should have been installed as a dependency of
> the git-email package, which is how I (as the Cygwin Git maintainer)
> meet that promise to provide the Mail::Address module. It's possible
> that I've made an error in the package dependency records; I'm not
> immediately able to check the details, but I should be able to look at
> it next week.
> 

Installing the package (perl-MailTools) suggested by  "Achim Gratz 
<Stromeko@nexgo.de>" fixes the issue.

> In the interim, are you able to provide a cygcheck output file per the
> instructions at http://cygwin.com/problems.html? That'll let me /
> others on the list check if something has gone wrong with your
> installation to mean things weren't installed correctly.
> 

I'll be happy to provide that file (cygcheck -s -v -r), if I can send it 
privately.

Thanks Adam for your answer and thanks to any one who has contributed to 
this thread.

-- 
John Doe

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