Re: Question for perl gurus: what creates /bin/{HEAD|GET|POST}?

2002-09-30 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Max schrieb: Max Bowsher wrote: I have found the problem! If an alternate perl library directory is passed like so: $ perl Makefile.PL LIB=/opt/perl5lib Then LWP's Makefile.PL fails to ask the questions. So the answer is to fix Makefile.PL. The following 1 line patch fixes the

Re: Question for perl gurus: what creates /bin/{HEAD|GET|POST}?

2002-09-29 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Max, Am Freitag, 27. September 2002 um 19:39 schriebst du: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: The LWP module isn't part of the Cygwin perl distribution. If you install LWP you are asked if you want to install these shortcuts This was included in

Re: Question for perl gurus: what creates /bin/{HEAD|GET|POST}?

2002-09-29 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Greg, Am Samstag, 28. September 2002 um 06:06 schriebst du: On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Max Bowsher wrote: On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: The LWP module isn't part of the Cygwin perl distribution. If you install LWP you are asked if you want to install these shortcuts

Re: Question for perl gurus: what creates /bin/{HEAD|GET|POST}?

2002-09-29 Thread Max Bowsher
Max Bowsher wrote: I have found the problem! If an alternate perl library directory is passed like so: $ perl Makefile.PL LIB=/opt/perl5lib Then LWP's Makefile.PL fails to ask the questions. So the answer is to fix Makefile.PL. The following 1 line patch fixes the problem. Anyone familiar

Question for perl gurus: what creates /bin/{HEAD|GET|POST}?

2002-09-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
A question for the perl gurus: I noticed that I have 3 files in /bin: HEAD, GET, and POST. These are interfaces to the LWP library. Does anyone know what creates them? Looking at the creation times, the most likely culprit is the CPAN perl module, but I'd like to confirm that. The reason I'm

Re: Question for perl gurus: what creates /bin/{HEAD|GET|POST}?

2002-09-27 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Igor schrieb: A question for the perl gurus: I noticed that I have 3 files in /bin: HEAD, GET, and POST. These are interfaces to the LWP library. Does anyone know what creates them? Looking at the creation times, the most likely culprit is the CPAN perl module, but I'd like to confirm

Re: Question for perl gurus: what creates /bin/{HEAD|GET|POST}?

2002-09-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Gerrit, Thanks for a quick reply. On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Igor schrieb: A question for the perl gurus: I noticed that I have 3 files in /bin: HEAD, GET, and POST. These are interfaces to the LWP library. Does anyone know what creates them? Looking at the

Re: Question for perl gurus: what creates /bin/{HEAD|GET|POST}?

2002-09-27 Thread Lynn Wilson
alias head=/bin/head works for me from the bash command line. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Question for perl gurus: what creates /bin/{HEAD|GET|POST}?

2002-09-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: The LWP module isn't part of the Cygwin perl distribution. If you install LWP you are asked if you want to install these shortcuts This was included in the LWP setup because

Re: Question for perl gurus: what creates /bin/{HEAD|GET|POST}?

2002-09-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Lynn Wilson wrote: alias head=/bin/head works for me from the bash command line. Doesn't address the 'which head' issue and /bin/sh scripts calling head... Also doesn't help with 'ls /bin/head', '[ -x /bin/head ]', etc. Igor --

Re: Question for perl gurus: what creates /bin/{HEAD|GET|POST}?

2002-09-27 Thread Greg Matheson
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Max Bowsher wrote: On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: The LWP module isn't part of the Cygwin perl distribution. If you install LWP you are asked if you want to install these shortcuts This was included in the LWP setup because of the problems with