Hi Reini, Reini Urban wrote: > Linda W schrieb: >> Any ideas of how to 'proceed'? I tried placing a "C:\\" in front of >> any path in the cpan config that started with "/var" (histfile >> and build_dir), but it had no effect (maybe stripped off in path >> normalization?). > > A "C:\\" prefix is not good. --- I agree, it's an abomination, but hey, it is windows, I thought it "deserved" a try... > I have my cpan at ~/.cpan as default. --- My home directory (/home) on my windows machine is backed up daily. I reasoned that since the 'build' specification is a 'cache' directory of recent builds, putting under /var/cache would be a logical choice (as it doesn't get backed up daily on my windows machine....:-)). >> It doesn't "appear" to be a "cygwin" specific problem but use of "//" >> as an equivalent for "/". > > Can you please post your cygcheck as described in > http://cygwin.com/problems.html. --- (Context(list) check?) You want me to post a cygcheck output to perl5-porters to debug a perl problem? I said it *does not* look like it is a cygwin specific bug. > Esp. the mount points would be interesting. --- You mean the cygwin mount params, like (output of "mount -m"): mount -f -s -b "C:/bin" "/usr/bin" mount -f -s -b "C:/lib" "/usr/lib" mount -f -s -b "C:" "/" mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/" or drive mappings/linkings? : "/Share@ -> /s" /s = network drive ('S:\') pointing to resource //IServer/Share and (from MyConfig.pm): 'keep_source_where' => q[/Share/CPAN/sources], I'm pretty sure it's the same bug as http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32813 LindaThread Previous