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Re: Issue with 'cpan' program
- From: David Christensen <dpchrist at holgerdanske dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 18:36:21 -0800
- Subject: Re: Issue with 'cpan' program
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- References: <60e57956-b670-b482-09cd-097696ed635d@holgerdanske.com> <87r369rihs.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
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
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