On Jan 19, 3:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel D Jones) wrote: > I'm running Gentoo, which does not yet have version 5.10 in the tree. I > downloaded and installed version 5.10 from source. (I'm not certain that > this is the cause of the issue, but it's the only thing I can think of.) > Now, Perl/CPAN appears to be putting packages into my root directory: > > root / # ls -al > total 161 > drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:40 . > drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:40 .. > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:39 Class > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:40 PortageXS > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 2965 Jan 19 14:48 PortageXS.pm > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:40 Shell > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:38 Sys > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:38 Term > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 14 19:11 Test > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 14 19:11 YAML > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 23904 Jan 14 19:11 YAML.pm > drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:40 auto > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 12 15:40 bin > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Nov 2 06:48 boot > drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 14180 Jan 18 15:40 dev > drwxr-xr-x 73 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:48 etc > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 2 05:02 home > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Nov 1 21:09 lib -> lib64 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 4 19:06 lib32 > drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jan 2 19:32 lib64 > drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Sep 1 17:29 lost+found > drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 18 19:40 mnt > drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Dec 14 20:00 opt > dr-xr-xr-x 100 root root 0 Jan 18 12:49 proc > drwx------ 17 root root 4096 Jan 19 15:14 root > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 12 15:40 sbin > drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 0 Jan 18 12:49 sys > drwxrwxrwt 19 root root 12288 Jan 19 15:14 tmp > drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Nov 27 07:52 usr > drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Sep 2 06:28 var > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10431 Jan 14 19:11 ysh > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 7352 Jan 14 19:11 ysh.1 > > Any idea what config is hosed on my system?
Your cpan config probably needs some adjstment. You can see what cpan has it set to by doing the followg: perl -MCPAN -e shell then 'o conf' Tri -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
