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Re: How can I completely remove Perl 5.22?


On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C  wrote:
> I did not get time to try to to fix this last night, other than
> un-installing all the ActiveState stuff (to eventually re-install).
>
> I noticed a bunch of stuff in my ~/.bashrc file, how much of this is
> necessary for Cygwin Perl 5.22?
>
> PATH="/cygdrive/D/Home/perl5/bin${PATH+:}${PATH}"; export PATH;
> PERL5LIB="/cygdrive/D/Home/perl5/lib/perl5${PERL5LIB+:}${PERL5LIB}";
> export PERL5LIB;
> PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT="/cygdrive/D/Home/perl5${PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT+:}${PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT}";
> export PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT;
> PERL_MB_OPT="--install_base \"/cygdrive/D/Home/perl5\""; export PERL_MB_OPT;
> PERL_MM_OPT="INSTALL_BASE=/cygdrive/D/Home/perl5"; export PERL_MM_OPT;

I suspect none of it. Those env variables sound like an attempt to
marry some non-Cygwin Perl into Cygwin.

Cygwin Perl lives under /usr/bin; the binary is never in a directory
named perl5/bin :

https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=perl5%2Fbin&arch=x86_64

What's in D:\Home\perl5 ?

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