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