G'day Special_K,

On my Cygwin installation, I believe the directory to which you're referring is ~/.cpan/build. When running cpan, o conf build_dir reports this directory. I installed Dancer2 (v0.300004) yesterday; I see a Dancer2-0.300004-0 directory in which there's Makefile.PL and friends.

If you just run o conf, you'll see all options; possibly some which are closer to what you're currently looking for, or perhaps useful for future reference (e.g. cpan_home, keep_source_where, and so on).

Take a look at "CPAN: CONFIGURATION" for more information about the terse listing you get from o conf.

— Ken

In reply to Re: Where does CPAN store its build directories and logs under cygwin? by kcott
in thread Where does CPAN store its build directories and logs under cygwin? by Special_K

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