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Re: Perl documentation inaccessible via 'perldoc'.
- From: Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epa dot gov>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:26:17 -0400
- Subject: Re: Perl documentation inaccessible via 'perldoc'.
- References: <7634A226C4C245868140309A0F3A952F@desktop2>
> Rob@desktop2 /cygdrive/c/_32/working/math-gmpz/Math-GMPz-0.22
> $ perldoc ExtUtils::MakeMaker
> Error in tempfile() using ./XXXXXXXXXX: Parent directory (./) is not
> writable
> at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 1483
tempfile() is trying to create the tempfile in the current directory,
rather than a standard temporary directory such as /tmp. 'perldoc
File::Temp' says that if you don't specify a tempfile directory, tempfile()
puts it in the location returned by File::Spec::tempdir(). Normally that
should be /tmp. I wonder, do you have TMPDIR set? Try setting it, e.g.
export TMPDIR=/tmp/Rob
and see if that solves the problem.
A.
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