On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 00:42, Chris Packham <judge.packham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/08/10 18:01, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >> If it comes with its own perl it should also have a cpan shell: >> >> perl -MCPAN -e 'install TAP::Harness::Archive' >> >> That should be easier than installing strawberry in addition to the >> mingw perl. > > OK this is me officially giving up on windows (or at least this > particular windows box). > > I couldn't install any perl modules with the environment provided by > msysgit, I couldn't make msys play nice with strawberry perl. In > desperation I tried cygwin and again I failed to get any perl modules > installed (although it did get further than msys). > > I think a major part of the problem is the way the box was setup by the > IT department at work. It has its home drive set to a network share > which both cygwin and msys pick up on. This seems to cause problems for > the CPAN module when it tries to download and build stuff there. > > I'd like to be able to help, but I lack the windows knowledge to change > any of the setup that was made by the IT team. If I get my hands on > another windows box with a more standard install I'll give it another > try. For now, I'm admitting defeat. Thanks for trying. But since you have perl (but not any modules) I might try to just produce some self-contained script that smokers can drop in that has the needed Perl parts. Can you try this though: curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl --self-upgrade -s That should install cpanminus, then try to install the archive module. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html