Bug #129878 for Perl-Dist-Strawberry: Problem with cpan upgrade

# Fri Jun 21 16:03:52 2019 fdavidg [...] gunseor.com - Ticket created

Subject:	Problem with cpan upgrade
Date:	Fri, 21 Jun 2019 13:03:27 -0700
To:	bug-Perl-Dist-Strawberry [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Frank Gunseor <fdavidg [...] gunseor.com>

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Dear Sirs: an attempt to upgrade cpan using the command "install CPAN" faile because of the use of dmake. how do I fix this problem? See screen shot. Frank Gunseor

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# Fri Jun 21 16:52:16 2019 csjewell [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

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On Fri Jun 21 16:03:52 2019, fdavidg@gunseor.com wrote: Show quoted text

> Dear Sirs: > > an attempt to upgrade cpan using the command "install CPAN" faile because > of the use of dmake. how do I fix this problem? See screen shot. > > Frank Gunseor

I have to ask: Which version of Strawberry Perl do you have? The newest one (5.30.0.1) is setting the CPAN::Config file within itself to use gmake - and already HAS the version of the CPAN module you're trying to upgrade to, anyway. However, if you have an older CPAN::Config file in your own user settings, it might override it, which is why it is telling you what to do - delete the older file. Follow its directions, try to install a different module, and see if the problem persists.

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# Fri Jun 21 16:57:18 2019 csjewell [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

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On Fri Jun 21 16:03:52 2019, fdavidg@gunseor.com wrote: Show quoted text

> Dear Sirs: > > an attempt to upgrade cpan using the command "install CPAN" faile because > of the use of dmake. how do I fix this problem? See screen shot. > > Frank Gunseor

I also see that you have two perl installations. It's easier on Unix boxes to do this, but is hard to support on Windows. Please run these two commands: C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe -V C:\strawberry\bin\perl.exe -V and put the output here. You may end up wanting to uninstall one, so that they do not conflict with one another.