Perl under cygwin in CPAN problem
Gerrit P. Haase
freeweb@nyckelpiga.de
Tue Jan 31 21:28:00 GMT 2006
Hello,
sorry, my mailer is stupid and doesn't know how to create
linefeed in UTF-8, however it sends mail in UTF-8 quite
happily ;)
reformatted:
Linda wrote:
> Was trying to load some new packages in CPAN under perl
> in cygwin. I noticed a problem when it asked for prereqs:
> It wouldn't accept "CR" to terminate the input -- only "LF".
I don't think I get this right. How do I distinguish between
LF and CR? Just hitting <ENTER> at the keyboard should do it?
> I tried reloading CPAN -- that pulled up the reconfigure
> dialog for some new parameters -- then I find the same
> problem in the config dialog where CPAN wants all of it's
> parameters (to create a new "~/.cpan/CPAN/Myconfig.pm").
> I try typing the first param and hitting "LF" and the the
> configure dialogue whips by takin the defaults for all of
> the configure questions.
> At this point, I don't know if it is "cygwin", cygwin-perl
> or something else. I don't get the same behavior on my
> linux box but the installed packages are not identical.
> Anyone else seeing problems like this or have ideas
> how to find where the problem might be?
http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Gerrit
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