You might have better luck with the activestate.com version of perl. In my experience people needing perl for win32 have had fewest problems with it.
-- Jeff On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, David Kirol wrote: > Hi All, > New to list and perl. System: WinNT with cygwin (perl from the cygwin > dist). I get an error on install (after all tests pass): > > Installing /usr/man/man3/WWW.RobotRules.3 > Installing /usr/man/man3/WWW.RobotRules.AnyDBM_File.3 > Installing /usr/bin/GET > Cannot forceunlink /usr/bin/HEAD: No such file or directory at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/cygwin-multi/File/Find.pm line 769 > make: *** [pure_site_install] Error 255 > > Is this an error I need to be concerned with or an artifact of a > 'pure_perl_install' on cygwin. Should I continue with 'make clean' and try > to repair? > > Thanks > >
