Re: perl problem with cygwin path

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

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
> > >
> > > ./perly - v   returned 5.8.8 (original questionable perl)
> > > ./perl -v     returned 5.8.7 (perl from working box)
> > >
> > > 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 full output of 'perly -v' (that's the 
> > questionable perl) may tell you something.
> They look very simular other than revision.
>
> ----------------------
> This is perl, v5.8.7 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int
> (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
>
> Copyright 1987-2005, Larry Wall
>
> Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License 
> or the
> GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.
>
> Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
> this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'.  If you have access to the
> Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.
> ---------------------
> - and -
> ---------------------
> This is perl, v5.8.8 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int
> (with 33 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
>
> Copyright 1987-2006, Larry Wall
>
> Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License 
> or the
> GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.
>
> Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
> this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'.  If you have access to the
> Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.
> ---------------------
>
> Looking closer I see there is a perl -V test that shows much more 
> information. I didn't check that out.  Unfortunately the other machine 
> won't be back on line until next week.  Will to the -V test and see what 
> it looks like.  Still curious as to how it got uploaded to at least one 
> mirror.


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 curious, you should check
the sites that 'setup.exe' presents on the machine with Perl 5.8.8.  You
can also pull to you local system a package from another site and install
it that way with 'setup.exe'.  The point is that there are ways of
installing packages that aren't part of the distribution.  Somehow, you've
managed to do that here, since 5.8.8 isn't part of the Cygwin distribution.


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