jweed has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello

I use perl (up-to-date) running under cygwin (up-to-date) to do all my development, and I recently have had a recent LWP install snag.

Running cpan LWP does a download of the tar, followed by an extraction. The relavent portion occurs at the end of this untar step: 

----List of filenames being untarred----
/usr/bin/tar: libwww-perl-5.75/README: Cannot utime: Invalid argument
libwww-perl-5.75/lwpcook.pod

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The question is: Am I experiencing a cygwin problem (tar is messed up) or a LWP/perl/cpan problem?

Any help would be appreciated



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Re: LWP installation - tar error [possibly OT?]
by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Nov 18, 2003 at 07:34 UTC

    IIRC libwww-perl is a prerequisite of LWP. Is your cpan set up to follow or ask about installing prerequisites? It sounds like you are missing that.

    After Compline,
    Zaxo

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      cpan is set to follow for prerequisites.


      Who is Kayser Söze?
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      libwww-perl is not a prerequisite of LWP, it _is_ LWP. LibWww-Perl.

      We're not surrounded, we're in a target-rich environment!
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Re: LWP installation - tar error [possibly OT?]
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Nov 18, 2003 at 10:12 UTC
    It's a tar issue - it says so in the error message.

    Abigail

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Re: LWP installation - tar error [possibly OT?]
by holo (Monk) on Nov 18, 2003 at 07:47 UTC

    You could locate the tarball in your cache and try to untar it manually. At least you would know if the problem is coming from tar.

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Re: LWP installation - tar error [possibly OT?]
by ysth (Canon) on Nov 18, 2003 at 14:41 UTC
    I'm also using up-to-date cygwin and can't duplicate your problem--it untar's fine for me, either via cpan or manual download/tar xvfz libwww-perl-5.57.tar.gz. If you ask cygwin@cygwin.com for help, be sure to follow the instructions in http://cygwin.com/problems.html (particularly attaching cygcheck -s -v -r output) or they will yell at you.
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