in reply to (CamelPack) PathTools 3.17 installation hangs

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.

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Re^2: (CamelPack) PathTools 3.17 installation hangs
by xdg (Monsignor) on Apr 01, 2006 at 10:35 UTC

    Likewise, I've been experimenting with VanillaPerl, which uses MinGW and dmake, and it has been fairly successful for me.

    While the original CamelPack used nmake, you might try installing dmake, and see if that works better for you. Also, be sure to set INCLUDE and LIB environment variables. (Change the mingw path to wherever CamelPack installed it.)

    INCLUDE=C:\mingw\include
LIB=C:\mingw\lib;C:\perl\bin

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    -xdg

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