Re: windows smoke tester (was Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2010, #02; Wed, 11))

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 14, 2010, 00:46 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTimqhESzC6-1WOpmSNoNzr_=9hq4Egi3OMST0jNE@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4C65E660.9030707@gmail.com>

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 00:42, Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 12/08/10 18:01, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> If it comes with its own perl it should also have a cpan shell:
>>
>>     perl -MCPAN -e 'install TAP::Harness::Archive'
>>
>> That should be easier than installing strawberry in addition to the
>> mingw perl.
>
> OK this is me officially giving up on windows (or at least this
> particular windows box).
>
> I couldn't install any perl modules with the environment provided by
> msysgit, I couldn't make msys play nice with strawberry perl. In
> desperation I tried cygwin and again I failed to get any perl modules
> installed (although it did get further than msys).
>
> I think a major part of the problem is the way the box was setup by the
> IT department at work. It has its home drive set to a network share
> which both cygwin and msys pick up on. This seems to cause problems for
> the CPAN module when it tries to download and build stuff there.
>
> I'd like to be able to help, but I lack the windows knowledge to change
> any of the setup that was made by the IT team. If I get my hands on
> another windows box with a more standard install I'll give it another
> try. For now, I'm admitting defeat.

Thanks for trying. But since you have perl (but not any modules) I might try to just produce some self-contained script that smokers can drop in that has the needed Perl parts.

Can you try this though:

    curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl --self-upgrade -s

That should install cpanminus, then try to install the archive module.