I've tried this with MinGW (3.2.3) as my compiler, with both PXPerl as with the new ActivePerl 5.8.8/Win32 (as of november, ActivePerl supports MinGW, like Limbic~Region recently remarked in a recent post), and it doesn't hang (forever) for either.

Well, PXPerl just flies through it all, and ActivePerl hangs for a minute after the line 

C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e chmod 644 blib\arch\auto\C
+wd\Cwd.bs

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which is a few lines down from where it hangs for you, with my hard disk furiously spinning.

I'd just exit the CPAN shell and try again, maybe it was just a fluke.

BTW I used the command in the command shell 

cpan>test K/KW/KWILLIAMS/PathTools-3.17.tar.gz

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For some reason, just specifiying PathTools or anything else that's easy to remember, doesn't suffice.

update p.s. I'm using nmake as my make tool.

In reply to Re: (CamelPack) PathTools 3.17 installation hangs by bart
in thread (CamelPack) PathTools 3.17 installation hangs by Anonymous Monk

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