Hello Monks and Nuns. I was working with cpan (the installer) on CygPerl today and tried the command recent; it didn't work and this is what I saw:


cpan2> recent
CPAN: XML::LibXML loaded ok (v2.0210)
Fetching 'http://search.cpan.org/uploads.rdf'
CPAN: LWP loaded ok (v6.80)
DONE

Catching error: "XML::LibXML::Error=HASH(0xa01ebe148)" at /usr/local/share/perl5/site_perl/5.40/CPAN.pm line 397.
        CPAN::shell() called at -e line 1

Could anyone else try this and see what happens? I'd appreciate it.

My system setup is:

This is perl 5, version 40, subversion 3 (v5.40.3) built for x86_64-cygwin-threads-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.40/x86_64-cygwin-threads/XML/LibXML.pm
XML::LibXML version 2.0210
CPAN        version 2.38
@INC:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.40/x86_64-cygwin-threads
/usr/local/share/perl5/site_perl/5.40
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.40/x86_64-cygwin-threads
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/5.40
/usr/lib/perl5/5.40/x86_64-cygwin-threads
/usr/share/perl5/5.40
Nov 05, 2025 at 18:08 UTC

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