From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29651 invoked by alias); 12 Jul 2012 05:20:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 29628 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Jul 2012 05:20:14 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from plane.gmane.org (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 05:19:55 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SpBof-0001GL-GU for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:19:53 +0200 Received: from pd9eb3983.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.235.57.131]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:19:53 +0200 Received: from Stromeko by pd9eb3983.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:19:53 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Achim Gratz Subject: Re: perl-5.14.2 switch Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 05:20:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87pq81d09k.fsf@Rainer.invalid> References: <87mx36z0yo.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <7FA8477365204CA6B4617E7279967C24@multiplay.co.uk> <87a9z6ywvp.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <60B4845A414A4F228982AB4DEAF4D4FE@multiplay.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2012-07/txt/msg00210.txt.bz2 Steven Hartland writes: > Unfortunately the current perl_vendor install is so broken cpan > won't allow you to fix it with simple "install" unless you know > the exact missing modules and just breaks in some very strange > and random ways. Like missing protocol for ftp in LWP I suggested to use cpanminus — not cpan — for a reason. It is possible to get things to eventually work as you want via CPAN, but it is much less effort to do so via cpanminus. You can then continue using CPAN for new modules if you wish. Remove perl_vendor first, in the end this is much easier than papering over it via site-perl. Also, make sure you have removed all remnants from perl-5.10 (including locally installed modules). The ability of 5.14 to fall back to modules that were installed for 5.10 is a double-edged sword, the two versions are sufficiently different so that I would not want to mix them at the module level. Last but not least, Reini has asked for testers of the new perl quite a while back and didn't get all that many responses. Even with those kinks in perl_vendor (which I'm sure he'll fix) the 5.14 to me is the least problematic perl version on Cygwin so far. I have only a glimpse of how much work that must have been and I really appreciate it. I'm sure Reini wouldn't mind if someone just took the sources for perl_vendor and fixed whatever needs fixing and feed back the changes to him... Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf microQ V2.22R2: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada -- 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