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FW: How to install Date::Manip on cygwin perl?
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| Siegfried Heintze 2008-03-17, 7:08 pm |
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Hmm... I did not see this appear on the list so I'm posting it again. I'm using cygwin perl on windows and as you can see below, cpan seems to choking on the path name "/cygdrive/c/Documents and settings/a-siehei/My Documents" because of the spaces.
Surely someone else has a workaround!
My apologies if this appears twice.
Siegfried
From: Siegfried Heintze (Aditi)
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 12:42 PM
To: 'beginners-help@perl.org'
Subject: How to install Date::Manip on cygwin perl?
It looks like the CPAN program does not anticipate paths with spaces in them. I did a google search with no luck. Surely someone has already fixed this problem! How do I fix it?
Thanks,
Siegfried
$ perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Manip'
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/Metadata
Database was generated on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:30:46 GMT
Running install for module Date::Manip
Running make for S/SB/SBECK/Date-Manip-5.48.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
Checksum for /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/sources/authors/i
d/S/SB/SBECK/Date-Manip-5.48.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/build for sizes
sh: /cygdrive/c/Documents: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive
/usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Uncompressed /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/sources/authors/i
d/S/SB/SBECK/Date-Manip-5.48.tar.gz successfully
Using Tar:/usr/bin/tar xvf /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/sou
rces/authors/id/S/SB/SBECK/Date-Manip-5.48.tar:
/usr/bin/tar: /cygdrive/c/Documents: Cannot open: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Couldn't untar /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/sources/authors
/id/S/SB/SBECK/Date-Manip-5.48.tar
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| Bob McConnell 2008-03-18, 7:03 pm |
| I have always avoided the "Program Files" default directory when
installing anything with a Unix flavor to it. For Perl, everything gets
installed at "D:\perl", just to avoid this problem. Even Microsoft
applications don't all know how to handle paths with spaces. It was not
one of their better innovations.
Bob McConnell
-----Original Message-----
From: Gunnar Hjalmarsson [mailto:noreply@gunnar.cc]=20
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:37 PM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: FW: How to install Date::Manip on cygwin perl?
Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote:
> It looks like the CPAN program does not anticipate paths with spaces=20
> in them.
So it seems. You may want to try other methods to install the module.
http://search.cpan.org/src/SBECK/Da...ip-5.48/INSTALL
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| Siegfried Heintze 2008-03-20, 7:02 pm |
| Ah! Good idea! How do I do that with CPAN?
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob McConnell [mailto:rvm@CBORD.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:46 PM
To: Gunnar Hjalmarsson; beginners@perl.org
Subject: RE: FW: How to install Date::Manip on cygwin perl?
I have always avoided the "Program Files" default directory when
installing anything with a Unix flavor to it. For Perl, everything gets
installed at "D:\perl", just to avoid this problem. Even Microsoft
applications don't all know how to handle paths with spaces. It was not
one of their better innovations.
Bob McConnell
-----Original Message-----
From: Gunnar Hjalmarsson [mailto:noreply@gunnar.cc]
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:37 PM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: FW: How to install Date::Manip on cygwin perl?
Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote:
> It looks like the CPAN program does not anticipate paths with spaces
> in them.
So it seems. You may want to try other methods to install the module.
http://search.cpan.org/src/SBECK/Da...ip-5.48/INSTALL
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| Bob McConnell 2008-03-20, 7:02 pm |
| Normally the installer will show "C:\Program Files\ActiveState\Perl", or
something similar as the location where it will put the package. I
change that to "D:\perl" before proceding. The entire tree, including
CPAN will be installed at that location. You may have to remove the
package and reinstall it to get this done. Don't forget to save off
anything you have written or added before you do that. I don't know how
careful the installer is about cleaning up after itself. You may have to
reboot after the install to get all of the search paths set up
correctly. I didn't have to fiddle with anything in the MS-Windows setup
afterwards. It just worked.
Bob McConnell
-----Original Message-----
From: Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) [mailto:a-siehei@microsoft.com]=20
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 3:32 PM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: RE: FW: How to install Date::Manip on cygwin perl?
Ah! Good idea! How do I do that with CPAN?
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob McConnell [mailto:rvm@CBORD.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:46 PM
To: Gunnar Hjalmarsson; beginners@perl.org
Subject: RE: FW: How to install Date::Manip on cygwin perl?
I have always avoided the "Program Files" default directory when
installing anything with a Unix flavor to it. For Perl, everything gets
installed at "D:\perl", just to avoid this problem. Even Microsoft
applications don't all know how to handle paths with spaces. It was not
one of their better innovations.
Bob McConnell
-----Original Message-----
From: Gunnar Hjalmarsson [mailto:noreply@gunnar.cc]
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:37 PM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: FW: How to install Date::Manip on cygwin perl?
Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote:
> It looks like the CPAN program does not anticipate paths with spaces
> in them.
So it seems. You may want to try other methods to install the module.
http://search.cpan.org/src/SBECK/Da...ip-5.48/INSTALL
--
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl
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| Siegfried Heintze 2008-03-21, 7:04 pm |
| Quite some time ago, someone suggested that if I was using cygwin perl inst=
ead of activestate perl, I could use some additional features (not availabl=
e in activestate) concerning the control of cron jobs.
So I am using cygwin perl which does not give you the option of installing =
elsewhere.
But that is not the problem anyway because there are no spaces in c:\cygwin=
\lib\perl5 (the location where perl is installed, I think).
The problem is either hardcoded in CPAN.pm or in some little file in ~/. So=
mething is probably expanding $HOME and not quoting the result. I looked in=
CPAN.pm but could not figure out where it is untaring it. I looked in ~/ f=
or a configuration file with no luck.
Is there a place to log a bug with CPAN?
Gunnar: I tried your suggestion and that worked for Date::Manip but I was q=
uickly overwhelmed with DateTime as there were many dependencies to downloa=
d first.
Brian: I see you are the author of CPAN. Do you have any suggestions? Scrol=
l way down for the log where I reproduce it on windows/cygwin.
Thanks,
Siegfried
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob McConnell [mailto:rvm@CBORD.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:08 PM
To: Siegfried Heintze (Aditi); beginners@perl.org
Subject: RE: FW: How to install Date::Manip on cygwin perl?
Normally the installer will show "C:\Program Files\ActiveState\Perl", or
something similar as the location where it will put the package. I
change that to "D:\perl" before proceding. The entire tree, including
CPAN will be installed at that location. You may have to remove the
package and reinstall it to get this done. Don't forget to save off
anything you have written or added before you do that. I don't know how
careful the installer is about cleaning up after itself. You may have to
reboot after the install to get all of the search paths set up
correctly. I didn't have to fiddle with anything in the MS-Windows setup
afterwards. It just worked.
Bob McConnell
-----Original Message-----
From: Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) [mailto:a-siehei@microsoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 3:32 PM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: RE: FW: How to install Date::Manip on cygwin perl?
Ah! Good idea! How do I do that with CPAN?
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob McConnell [mailto:rvm@CBORD.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:46 PM
To: Gunnar Hjalmarsson; beginners@perl.org
Subject: RE: FW: How to install Date::Manip on cygwin perl?
I have always avoided the "Program Files" default directory when
installing anything with a Unix flavor to it. For Perl, everything gets
installed at "D:\perl", just to avoid this problem. Even Microsoft
applications don't all know how to handle paths with spaces. It was not
one of their better innovations.
Bob McConnell
-----Original Message-----
From: Gunnar Hjalmarsson [mailto:noreply@gunnar.cc]
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:37 PM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: FW: How to install Date::Manip on cygwin perl?
Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote:
> It looks like the CPAN program does not anticipate paths with spaces
> in them.
So it seems. You may want to try other methods to install the module.
cd c:/temp/temp/temp/
perl -MCPAN -e 'install DateTime'
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/Metadata
Database was generated on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:30:58 GMT
Running install for module DateTime
Running make for D/DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.42.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
Checksum for /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/sources/auth=
ors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.42.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/build for =
sizes
sh: /cygdrive/c/Documents: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive
/usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Uncompressed /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/sources/auth=
ors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.42.tar.gz successfully
Using Tar:/usr/bin/tar xvf /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpa=
n/sources/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.42.tar:
/usr/bin/tar: /cygdrive/c/Documents: Cannot open: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Couldn't untar /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/a-siehei/.cpan/sources/au=
thors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/DateTime-0.42.tar
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