cant untar

[Andy Armstrong]

Scanning cache /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/noah/.cpan/build
for sizes
gzip: and.gz: No such file or directory
gzip: Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/Bundle-
No such file or directory
/usr/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive
/usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

tar is getting an unquoted pathname containing spaces - so it sees the
name as three distinct arguments.

A local fix would be to move your cygwin cpan to ~/.cpan (which
probably maps to something like C:\cygwin\home\noah\.cpan in Windows)
- no spaces.

[Noah]

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Post by Andy Armstrong

Scanning cache /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/noah/.cpan/build for
sizes
gzip: and.gz: No such file or directory
No such file or directory
/usr/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive
/usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

tar is getting an unquoted pathname containing spaces - so it sees the
name as three distinct arguments.
A local fix would be to move your cygwin cpan to ~/.cpan (which probably
maps to something like C:\cygwin\home\noah\.cpan in Windows) - no spaces.

I am very new to cygwin. can you explain how I can do that

[Mark J. Reed]

tar is getting an unquoted pathname containing spaces - so it sees the name
as three distinct arguments.

Which is an example of horribly sloppy programming somewhere in CPAN.
I can't believe we still have issues with spaces in filenames...

A local fix would be to move your cygwin cpan to ~/.cpan (which probably
maps to something like C:\cygwin\home\noah\.cpan in Windows) - no spaces.

I would guess rather that the reason the OP's .cpan is in C:\Documents
and Settings\noah is because that *is* ~. In which case he would need
to change his home directory in cygwin's passwd file (or rerun cpan
config and point it someplace else..)

[Noah]

Post by Mark J. Reed

tar is getting an unquoted pathname containing spaces - so it sees the name
as three distinct arguments.

Which is an example of horribly sloppy programming somewhere in CPAN.
I can't believe we still have issues with spaces in filenames...

A local fix would be to move your cygwin cpan to ~/.cpan (which probably
maps to something like C:\cygwin\home\noah\.cpan in Windows) - no spaces.

I would guess rather that the reason the OP's .cpan is in C:\Documents
and Settings\noah is because that *is* ~. In which case he would need
to change his home directory in cygwin's passwd file (or rerun cpan
config and point it someplace else..)

Hi,

I pointed everything to /tmp :)