From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10121 invoked by alias); 29 Nov 2001 04:51:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 10043 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2001 04:51:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com) (24.0.95.81) by hostedprojects.ges.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 Nov 2001 04:51:47 -0000 Received: from ece.gatech.edu ([24.5.105.154]) by femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20011129045144.KJPZ13622.femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com@ece.gatech.edu>; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:51:44 -0800 Message-ID: <3C05BF05.5070705@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 11:53:00 -0000 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Pierre A. Humblet" CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: can not install libwww-perl-5.61 References: <3.0.5.32.20011128233313.0082ccd0@pop.ne.mediaone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg01205.txt.bz2 perl's dbm interface is handled by the gdbm library (in its ndbm emulation mode). Unfortunately, gdbm(dbm-mode) has problems on FAT drives (which is all W98 has...and you're running on W98). --Chuck Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > Is it a dbm problem or is the following coincidental? > > main() > { > DBM *dbp; > dbp = dbm_open("xxx", O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0644); > if (dbp == NULL) perror("dbm_open"); > } > yields: > dbm_open: Permission denied > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg01391.html reported > >>robot/rules-dbm.....Can't open test-436657: Permission denied at >> > robot/rules-dbm.t line 9 > > > Cygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics > Windows 98 SE Ver 4.10 build 67766446 A > > Cygwin DLL version info: > DLL version: 1.3.5 > DLL epoch: 19 > > Pierre > > ********* > From: "Gerrit P. Haase" > To: "Arkadi Gelfond" > Cc: "Gerrit P. Haase" , cpan-testers at cpan dot > org > Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:28:33 +0100 > > Hallo Arkadi, > > 2001-11-21 16:25:01, du schriebst: > > >>Gerrit, >> sorry, for not providing enough details: >> > >>Perl 5.6.1 the distribution that currently comes with Cygwin. >> > > 5.6.1-1 or 5.6.1-2? > > >>After sending mail to this list I noticed the new Cygwin version: >>cygwin-1.3.5-3, so I installed it and then tried to install LWP again and >>failed again. >> > >>'Works for me' - is it under W98? >> > > No, NT4.0 Sp6a > > Why should it fail on Win98? There are no permissions which can be denied? > I have no idea. Unfortunately my wife has accidently clobbered my Win98 > installation with a Linux evaluation CD last weekend, now she is running > Win2K on her box;) > > Gerrit > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Charles Wilson To: "Pierre A. Humblet" Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: can not install libwww-perl-5.61 Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:51:00 -0000 Message-ID: <3C05BF05.5070705@ece.gatech.edu> References: <3.0.5.32.20011128233313.0082ccd0@pop.ne.mediaone.net> X-SW-Source: 2001-11/msg01793.html Message-ID: <20011128205100.5qXBJus4NI36aGVBjut9fySe4HOaLl1NHT4bb59IHf4@z> perl's dbm interface is handled by the gdbm library (in its ndbm emulation mode). Unfortunately, gdbm(dbm-mode) has problems on FAT drives (which is all W98 has...and you're running on W98). --Chuck Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > Is it a dbm problem or is the following coincidental? > > main() > { > DBM *dbp; > dbp = dbm_open("xxx", O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0644); > if (dbp == NULL) perror("dbm_open"); > } > yields: > dbm_open: Permission denied > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg01391.html reported > >>robot/rules-dbm.....Can't open test-436657: Permission denied at >> > robot/rules-dbm.t line 9 > > > Cygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics > Windows 98 SE Ver 4.10 build 67766446 A > > Cygwin DLL version info: > DLL version: 1.3.5 > DLL epoch: 19 > > Pierre > > ********* > From: "Gerrit P. Haase" > To: "Arkadi Gelfond" > Cc: "Gerrit P. Haase" , cpan-testers at cpan dot > org > Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:28:33 +0100 > > Hallo Arkadi, > > 2001-11-21 16:25:01, du schriebst: > > >>Gerrit, >> sorry, for not providing enough details: >> > >>Perl 5.6.1 the distribution that currently comes with Cygwin. >> > > 5.6.1-1 or 5.6.1-2? > > >>After sending mail to this list I noticed the new Cygwin version: >>cygwin-1.3.5-3, so I installed it and then tried to install LWP again and >>failed again. >> > >>'Works for me' - is it under W98? >> > > No, NT4.0 Sp6a > > Why should it fail on Win98? There are no permissions which can be denied? > I have no idea. Unfortunately my wife has accidently clobbered my Win98 > installation with a Linux evaluation CD last weekend, now she is running > Win2K on her box;) > > Gerrit > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/