CPAN - Make install consistently fails

Posted on Sat Mar 22 17:08:46 2008 by fabor15
Make install consistently fails
Hi,
I am running CPAN in a Windows 2000 / Cygwin environment successfully supporting a TWiki installation since quite a while.

However, since this month something is wrong with the CPAN configuration. The CPAN commands are working properly until they come to "make install" like in the following example:

local/protosub..........ok All tests successful. Files=31, Tests=751, 21 wallclock secs ( 0.35 usr 0.12 sys + 4.64 cusr 2.11 csys = 7.22 CPU) Result: PASS GAAS/libwww-perl-5.808.tar.gz /usr/bin/make test -- OK Warning (usually harmless): 'YAML' not installed, will not store persistent state Running make install Prepending /home/apacheserver/.cpan/build/libwww-perl-5.808-Om9msA/blib/arch /home/apacheserver/.cp +a n/build/libwww-perl-5.808-Om9msA/blib/lib to PERL5LIB for 'install' Use of uninitialized value in <HANDLE> at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/CPAN.pm line 8981. readline() on unopened filehandle at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/CPAN.pm line 8981. Catching error: 'Can\'t call method "close" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/CPAN.pm lin +e 8987. ' at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/CPAN.pm line 281 CPAN::shell() called at /usr/bin/cpan line 198 cpan[7]>

Can anybody give me a hint, what to do in order to fix this problem?
Thanks for your help!

Mike
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