Can't install Perl modules with new Cygwin because of gcc version

[Sisyphus]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chloe" <starrychloe@oliveyou.net>

> I might be able to add a cc flag in cpan, but I don't know how to take one
> out.

One hack (which I think should work) would be to remove " -fstack-protector" 
from the ccflags spec in cygwin/lib/perl5/5.10/cygwin/Config_heavy.pl. (I'm 
guessing that's the location of Config_heavy.pl - in my aging version of 
Cygwin it's in cygwin/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/ .)

Cheers,
Rob 


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