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From: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Problems with building Perl modules after upgrade to g++ (GCC) 6.4.0
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 20:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK-n8j7T87K9bNFsaSyC4NRzAQg0_+BoH41e_dw-fWevCNOhPg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o9qhw2cu.fsf@Rainer.invalid>

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:

> Unless you know what you're doing and can navigate the inevitable
> obstacles, do not use cpan on Cygwin.

I have been building Perl packages for years without problems.  I use
WWW::Mechanize in several programs, and it has a lot of
pre-requisites.

>> SSLeay.xs:163:25: fatal error: openssl/err.h: No such file or directory
>>  #include <openssl/err.h>
>
> The most likely reason is that you do not have the *-devel package for
> openssl installed.

Missed that, thanks!


I don't know why Cygwin "upgraded" me from Perl 5.22 to Perl 5.24.  I
am building a new Cygwin installation from scratch (via setup) and it
has Perl 5.22 (as expected) and gcc 6.4.  I seem to remember this
problem happening in the not-too-distant past when gcc 6.x was
experimental, so I probably picked up the experimantal Perl 5.24 as
well.  I tried to roll back Perl from 5.24 -> 5.22 in my existing
Cygwin (non-experimental) installation but "perl --version" still
returned version 5.24

Anyway, I'll have a clean installation soon, I hope.

- Jim

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      reply	other threads:[~2017-09-11 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-11 16:27 Jim Reisert AD1C
2017-09-11 16:33 ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2017-09-11 17:01   ` Ken Brown
2017-09-11 17:51 ` Achim Gratz
2017-09-11 20:55   ` Jim Reisert AD1C [this message]

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