Re: perl problem with cygwin path

2007-04-09 Thread Mike R Brown
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Mike R Brown wrote: Matthew Woehlke wrote: Mike R Brown wrote: [snip] Nope. With a current updatedb locate found one perl.exe under /usr/bin. When I renamed this perl.exe to perly.exe and copied the version that worked from my machine and did a version

Re: perl problem with cygwin path

2007-04-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: You may have used a "3rd-party" site as well. There are sites out there that have set themselves up to deliver packages in the 'setup.exe' format. Once you add one of these sites to your list, 'setup.exe' continues to use it until you tell it now to. So if you're

Re: perl problem with cygwin path

2007-04-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Mike R Brown wrote: Matthew Woehlke wrote: Mike R Brown wrote: [snip] Nope. With a current updatedb locate found one perl.exe under /usr/bin. When I renamed this perl.exe to perly.exe and copied the version that worked from my machine and did a version check while in /usr/bin I get

Re: perl problem with cygwin path

2007-04-05 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Mike R Brown wrote: Matthew Woehlke wrote: Mike R Brown wrote: Everything I have checked points to just one Perl installation. So maybe the question here is where did this version come from? That is indeed a good question, since the latest available 'perl' from kernel.org is 5.8.7-5. The fu

Re: perl problem with cygwin path

2007-04-05 Thread Mike R Brown
Matthew Woehlke wrote: Mike R Brown wrote: [snip] Nope. With a current updatedb locate found one perl.exe under /usr/bin. When I renamed this perl.exe to perly.exe and copied the version that worked from my machine and did a version check while in /usr/bin I get ./perly - v retu

Re: perl problem with cygwin path

2007-04-05 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Mike R Brown wrote: [snip] Nope. With a current updatedb locate found one perl.exe under /usr/bin. When I renamed this perl.exe to perly.exe and copied the version that worked from my machine and did a version check while in /usr/bin I get ./perly - v returned 5.8.8 (original questi

Re: perl problem with cygwin path

2007-04-05 Thread Mike R Brown
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 4/5/07, Mike R Brown wrote: Dave, Activestate perl is not installed on that box. The first thing I checked for. The only Perl is installed /use/bin/perl. A 'which perl' also confirms that. Another thing I did to confirm this is rename the perl.exe

Re: perl problem with cygwin path

2007-04-05 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 4/5/07, Mike R Brown wrote: Dave, Activestate perl is not installed on that box. The first thing I checked for. The only Perl is installed /use/bin/perl. A 'which perl' also confirms that. Another thing I did to confirm this is rename the perl.exe under /usr/bin/ and copy the p

Re: perl problem with cygwin path

2007-04-05 Thread Mike R Brown
Dave Korn wrote: On 05 April 2007 15:17, Mike R Brown wrote: For example 'echo $HOME' within a bash shell returns /cygdrive/c/users/charlie which is the correct path. On previous version of Cygwin's Perl the statement... $home = $ENV{HOME} , which should just return the environmental var

RE: perl problem with cygwin path

2007-04-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 April 2007 15:17, Mike R Brown wrote: > For example 'echo $HOME' within a bash shell returns > /cygdrive/c/users/charlie which is the correct path. On previous version of > Cygwin's Perl the statement... $home = $ENV{HOME} , which should just > return the environmental variable HOME, r