Re: upgrading to perl-5.8.8-4

2008-09-12 Thread Reini Urban
Rob schrieb: Yes, as I mentioned we use an internal packaging tool to install stuff and not CPAN, so I will just need to create this dir manually and add it to @INC. On a related note, while searching for (an easy) way to do this, I found an awesome but ill-documented feature to do so: Luckily

Re: upgrading to perl-5.8.8-4

2008-09-10 Thread Rob
Brian Dessent writes: > > 1. Why is /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl not listed on 5.8.8 ? > Because having an unversioned directory in @INC was a mistake that was > corrected. OK, that's cool, but unfortunately we have some dependencies on perl modules that get installed there via our own packaging tool

Re: upgrading to perl-5.8.8-4

2008-09-09 Thread Brian Dessent
Rob wrote: > 1. Why is /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl not listed on 5.8.8 ? Because having an unversioned directory in @INC was a mistake that was corrected. > 2. why are there "duplicate" entries for: >/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 >/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8 vendor_perl contains modules

upgrading to perl-5.8.8-4

2008-09-08 Thread Rob
I'm upgrading an older installation of cygwin that was previously running perl 5.6.1 and ran into some problems with @INC: 5.6.1 version perl -V: @INC: /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/cygwin-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/cygwin-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6