On 11/17/2016 11:53 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: > David Christensen writes: >> Today, I did a fresh install of Cygwin 64-bit on a recently built (and >> fully updated) Windows 7 Professional 64-bit computer. ... >> When I run the command: >> >> cpan local::lib >> >> One core goes to 100% and the program hangs indefinitely. >> >> >> When I run the command: >> >> cpan >> >> I see an endless stream of: >> >> Press SPACE and ENTER to disable ftp >> Press SPACE and ENTER to disable ftp >> Press SPACE and ENTER to disable ftp >> ... > It looks like you're picking up an FTP program from Windows. You should > configure cpan to use something else instead (you may have to install > some other Cygwin packages, like wget or lftp in order to do so).
Thanks for the reply. The machine is at another site; I'll try that the next time I work on it. David -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
