Re^4: What is cpan (the installer) doing prepending all these directories to the PERL5LIB path?

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Re^5: What is cpan (the installer) doing prepending all these directories to the PERL5LIB path? by Intrepid (Curate) on Nov 18, 2025 at 23:12 UTC
It should be clearer if I provide some context. The lines in bold below are directly or possibly relevant to the reported behavior. HTH. $ perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan1> install XML::RSS CPAN: Term::ANSIColor loaded ok (v5.01) CPAN: HTTP::Tiny loaded ok (v0.090) CPAN: Net::SSLeay loaded ok (v1.94) CPAN: IO::Socket::SSL loaded ok (v2.095) Fetching with HTTP::Tiny: https://cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz CPAN: CPAN::SQLite loaded ok (v0.220) Fetching with HTTP::Tiny: https://cpan.org/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Fetching with HTTP::Tiny: https://cpan.org/modules/03modlist.data.gz CPAN: YAML::XS loaded ok (vv0.902.0) Reading 109 yaml files from /cygdrive/C/Users/somia/cygwin-perl-cpan/build/ ............................................................................DONE Restored the state of 19 (in 1.4501 secs) Database was generated on Sun, 16 Nov 2025 19:26:16 GMT Updating database file ... Done! Running install for module 'XML::RSS' CPAN: CPAN::Kwalify loaded ok (v5.50) Prepending blib/arch and blib/lib of 19 build dirs to PERL5LIB, reaching size 2952; for 'get' Fetching with HTTP::Tiny: https://cpan.org/authors/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/XML-RSS-1.65.tar.gz CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v6.04) CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.213) Checksum for C:/Users/somia/AppData/strawberry-perl-sourcecache/authors/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/XML-RSS-1.65.tar.gz ok CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok (v3.04) XML-RSS-1.65 XML-RSS-1.65/TODO XML-RSS-1.65/README XML-RSS-1.65/Changes ... Result: PASS (C:/ix/cygwin/bin/make test exited with 0) CPAN::Reporter: Test result is 'pass', All tests successful. CPAN::Reporter: preparing a CPAN Testers report for XML-RSS-1.65 Do you want to send the report? (yes/no) yes CPAN::Reporter: sending test report with 'pass' via Metabase SHLOMIF/XML-RSS-1.65.tar.gz C:/ix/cygwin/bin/make test -- OK Running make install for SHLOMIF/XML-RSS-1.65.tar.gz Prepending blib/arch and blib/lib of 20 build dirs to PERL5LIB, reaching size 3095; for 'install' ... — Soren Nov 18, 2025 at 23:07 UTC	[reply]

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Re^5: What is cpan (the installer) doing prepending all these directories to the PERL5LIB path?
by Intrepid (Curate) on Nov 18, 2025 at 23:12 UTC

It should be clearer if I provide some context. The lines in bold below are directly or possibly relevant to the reported behavior. HTH.

$ perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan1> install XML::RSS CPAN: Term::ANSIColor loaded ok (v5.01) CPAN: HTTP::Tiny loaded ok (v0.090) CPAN: Net::SSLeay loaded ok (v1.94) CPAN: IO::Socket::SSL loaded ok (v2.095) Fetching with HTTP::Tiny: https://cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz CPAN: CPAN::SQLite loaded ok (v0.220) Fetching with HTTP::Tiny: https://cpan.org/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Fetching with HTTP::Tiny: https://cpan.org/modules/03modlist.data.gz CPAN: YAML::XS loaded ok (vv0.902.0) Reading 109 yaml files from /cygdrive/C/Users/somia/cygwin-perl-cpan/build/ ............................................................................DONE Restored the state of 19 (in 1.4501 secs) Database was generated on Sun, 16 Nov 2025 19:26:16 GMT Updating database file ... Done! Running install for module 'XML::RSS' CPAN: CPAN::Kwalify loaded ok (v5.50) Prepending blib/arch and blib/lib of 19 build dirs to PERL5LIB, reaching size 2952; for 'get' Fetching with HTTP::Tiny: https://cpan.org/authors/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/XML-RSS-1.65.tar.gz CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v6.04) CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.213) Checksum for C:/Users/somia/AppData/strawberry-perl-sourcecache/authors/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/XML-RSS-1.65.tar.gz ok CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok (v3.04) XML-RSS-1.65 XML-RSS-1.65/TODO XML-RSS-1.65/README XML-RSS-1.65/Changes ... Result: PASS (C:/ix/cygwin/bin/make test exited with 0) CPAN::Reporter: Test result is 'pass', All tests successful. CPAN::Reporter: preparing a CPAN Testers report for XML-RSS-1.65 Do you want to send the report? (yes/no) yes CPAN::Reporter: sending test report with 'pass' via Metabase SHLOMIF/XML-RSS-1.65.tar.gz C:/ix/cygwin/bin/make test -- OK Running make install for SHLOMIF/XML-RSS-1.65.tar.gz Prepending blib/arch and blib/lib of 20 build dirs to PERL5LIB, reaching size 3095; for 'install' ...

— Soren

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