From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 121323 invoked by alias); 19 Dec 2017 01:29:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 121307 invoked by uid 89); 19 Dec 2017 01:29:54 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Norton, Hx-languages-length:1919, personal, Allen X-HELO: endymion.arp.harvard.edu Received: from endymion.arp.harvard.edu (HELO endymion.arp.harvard.edu) (140.247.179.94) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 19 Dec 2017 01:29:53 +0000 Received: from [192.168.2.4] (pool-74-104-144-50.bstnma.fios.verizon.net [74.104.144.50]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by endymion.arp.harvard.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 645326C2B5E for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 20:29:51 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Whither perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements? To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <243a28a7-eda4-0e86-0fcb-9452cd0dea44@huarp.harvard.edu> <87o9mv25to.fsf@Rainer.invalid> From: Norton Allen Message-ID: <20cefd73-2a72-04af-698c-687fd4738129@huarp.harvard.edu> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 05:35:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87o9mv25to.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-12/txt/msg00187.txt.bz2 On 12/18/2017 2:29 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Norton Allen writes: >> I am trying to install a perl module using cpan (target module not >> available via cygwin setup), and the process is failing due to an >> out-of-date CPAN::Meta::Requirements module. > […] > > This module (like a few others) is built into Perl core itself and no > newer version is available on CPAN yet. Hence currently there is only a > dummy module available for Cygwin which ensures that any installations > from older Perl versions get uninstalled (you couldn't use them anyway > since they'd be in the installation for the old Perl). > >> Did these get absorbed into some other package? I do see some of the >> files exist in perl_base-5.26.1-1, which I have installed, but that >> apparently does not provide a recent enough version of >> CPAN::Meta::Requirements. > The installed version is exactly what you are asking for: > > $ corelist -v 5.026001 CPAN::Meta::Requirements > CPAN::Meta::Requirements 2.140 > > You probably also need to install the perl package itself if you > haven't, perl_base is there only for satisfying some common dependencies > without incurring the overhead of a full installation. > > Running the cpan shell works for me and it's not requesting me to do any > updates either. > >> Have I entered version hell by using cpan? > I'm not sure what exactly you did, so I can't comment. Maybe clean up > your installation, re-install perl and try again? > > > Regards, > Achim. Thanks Achim! I think what happened was that somewhere along the line I installed something with cpan that wanted to upgrade that module, and I had setup to add my cpan updates to a personal directory which I put at the front of my Perl5 lib path... When the core got updated, the newer version was hidden behind the personal directory. It's always something! Reinstalling was next on my list. -N -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple