Hello Reini, the Perl README states: === - The CPAN repository and build directory *must* reside in a path mounted in binmode:
mount -s -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan mount -u -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan where username is your home path and cygwin / windows username. After mounting like this it should work with only few warnings or completely without problems, depending on your environment settings for the CYGWIN variable. === However there were changes, obviously the mount utility changed: $ mount -s -b -f c:/cygwin/home/Gerrit/.cpan /home/Gerrit/.cpan mount: unknown option -- s Usage: mount [OPTION] [<win32path> <posixpath>] mount -a mount <posixpath> Display information about mounted filesystems, or mount a filesystem -a, --all mount all filesystems mentioned in fstab -c, --change-cygdrive-prefix change the cygdrive path prefix to <posixpath> -f, --force force mount, don't warn about missing mount point directories -h, --help output usage information and exit -m, --mount-entries write fstab entries to replicate mount points and cygdrive prefixes -o, --options X[,X...] specify mount options -p, --show-cygdrive-prefix show user and/or system cygdrive path prefix -v, --version output version information and exit Valid options are: acl,auto,binary,bind,cygexec,dos,exec,ihash,noacl,nosuid,notexec,nouser ,override,posix=0,posix=1,text,user I just noticed this, no idea if it is still needed, and which command to issue to ensure the binmode option for the CPAN path. regards, Gerrit -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple