in reply to cpan problems when /tmp and /var are existing symbolic links

Can you show the output of o conf entered into the cpan prompt? I don't think cpan should even try to extract files to /tmp, unless it was configured to do so.

Alexander

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Re^2: cpan problems when /tmp and /var are existing symbolic links
by davido (Cardinal) on Jan 23, 2019 at 08:40 UTC

    I watched /tmp on my computer while doing the make, make test dance and saw that it's the tests that tinker around inside /tmp. Skimming through the scripts in t/ confirmed this.


    Dave

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