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Re: can not install libwww-perl-5.61
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 23:52:21 -0500
- Subject: Re: can not install libwww-perl-5.61
- References: <3.0.5.32.20011128233313.0082ccd0@pop.ne.mediaone.net>
perl's dbm interface is handled by the gdbm library (in its ndbm
emulation mode). Unfortunately, gdbm(dbm-mode) has problems on FAT
drives (which is all W98 has...and you're running on W98).
--Chuck
Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> Is it a dbm problem or is the following coincidental?
>
> main()
> {
> DBM *dbp;
> dbp = dbm_open("xxx", O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0644);
> if (dbp == NULL) perror("dbm_open");
> }
> yields:
> dbm_open: Permission denied
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg01391.html reported
>
>>robot/rules-dbm.....Can't open test-436657: Permission denied at
>>
> robot/rules-dbm.t line 9
>
>
> Cygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
> Windows 98 SE Ver 4.10 build 67766446 A
>
> Cygwin DLL version info:
> DLL version: 1.3.5
> DLL epoch: 19
>
> Pierre
>
> *********
> From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
> To: "Arkadi Gelfond" <arkadig at usa dot net>
> Cc: "Gerrit P. Haase" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, cpan-testers at cpan dot
> org
> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:28:33 +0100
>
> Hallo Arkadi,
>
> 2001-11-21 16:25:01, du schriebst:
>
>
>>Gerrit,
>> sorry, for not providing enough details:
>>
>
>>Perl 5.6.1 the distribution that currently comes with Cygwin.
>>
>
> 5.6.1-1 or 5.6.1-2?
>
>
>>After sending mail to this list I noticed the new Cygwin version:
>>cygwin-1.3.5-3, so I installed it and then tried to install LWP again and
>>failed again.
>>
>
>>'Works for me' - is it under W98?
>>
>
> No, NT4.0 Sp6a
>
> Why should it fail on Win98? There are no permissions which can be denied?
> I have no idea. Unfortunately my wife has accidently clobbered my Win98
> installation with a Linux evaluation CD last weekend, now she is running
> Win2K on her box;)
>
> Gerrit
>
>
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