Per my earlier mail, I have uninstalled Active Perl - but continue to see
the same error.
--Sunny

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:00 PM, John Sullivan <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> [resend - sorry if you get a dupe!]
>
> On Thursday, October 16, 2008, 10:22:48 PM, Anders Broman wrote:
> > Gussing something with Perl?
>
> > Your path perl: /cygdrive/c/Perl/bin/perl
>
> > Mine:
>
> > perl: /usr/bin/perl do you have Cygwin Perl?
>
> Ooh, ooh! I might have an idea here:
>
> ActiveState ActivePerl currently installs itself under C:\Perl or
> C:\Perl64 by default.
>
> cygwin installs itself wherever you tell it and does really funky
> things to %PATH% to convert it into a sane $PATH.
>
> Normal Win32 binary paths under cygwin generally end up like the
> former perl-path.
>
> Cygwin's own binaries generally end up like the latter (it aliases
> /usr/bin to whatever its own genuine Win32 path actually is.)
>
> If you had *both* installed, and ActiveState was ahead in the Windows
> search path, but for some reason the cygwin perl.exe was getting
> executed for the pod2html (which is just a hashbang perl script), you
> might end up executing random cygwin binaries under the ActiveState
> environment. Both environments are pretty weird. They were weird and
> incompatible the last time I tried several years back, and AFAICT
> they've only got weirder since, cygwin particularly so.
>
> I find running one or the other on a particular machine, but not both,
> to be the only reliable way.
>
> John
> --
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