From aichner@ecf.teradyne.com

Hello Andy!

tar (GNU tar) 1.12 as distributed for NT by Cygnus cannot handle DOS
path names.

Attached patch against
Distribution ANDK/CPAN-1.50.tar.gz
fixes the problem.

If the patch is acceptable it would be nice to see it included in one
of the next releases of CPAN.

Thanks for the great module!

BTW​: Do you require ChangeLog bits with patches?

Regards,

Adrian

diff -u c:\perl\5.00503\lib\CPAN.pm.orig c:\perl\5.00503\lib\CPAN.pm
--- c:\perl\5.00503\lib\CPAN.pm.orig	Tue Oct 19 03:32:42 1999
+++ c:\perl\5.00503\lib\CPAN.pm	Tue Oct 19 03:32:42 1999
@@ -4273,7 +4273,9 @@
 				  );
 	}
 	$file =~ s/\.gz$//;
-	$system = "$CPAN::Config->{tar} xvf $file";
+	chdir File::Basename::dirname($file);
+	$system = "$CPAN::Config->{tar} xvf " 
+	  . File::Basename::basename($file);
 	if (system($system)==0) {
 	    $CPAN::Frontend->myprint(qq{Untarred $file successfully\n});
 	} else {

-----------------------------------------------------------------

---

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 03) configuration​:
  Platform​:
  osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86
  uname=''
  hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
  usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='cl.exe', optimize='-Od -MD -DNDEBUG', gccversion=
  cppflags='-DWIN32'
  ccflags ='-Od -MD -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT '
  stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
  intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
  d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10
  alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -release -machine​:x86'
  libpth=\lib
  libs= oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib uuid.lib wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib
  libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=yes, libperl=perl.lib
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
  cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -release -machine​:x86'

Locally applied patches​:
 

@​INC for perl 5.00503​:
  d​:\Users\AichnerAd\pl
  c​:\perl\5.00503\lib/MSWin32-x86
  c​:\perl\5.00503\lib
  c​:\perl\site\5.00503\lib/MSWin32-x86
  c​:\perl\site\5.00503\lib
  .

Environment for perl 5.00503​:
  HOME=d​:\Users\AichnerAd
  LANG (unset)
  LANGUAGE (unset)
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
  LOGDIR (unset)
  PATH=c​:\perl\5.00503\bin;c​:\perl\5.00503\bin\MSWin32-x86;c​:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\H-i586-cygwin32\bin;c​:\mks\mkssi;c​:\mks\mksnt;c​:\gcisdn;C​:\WINNT\system32;C​:\WINNT;C​:\NTRESKIT;c​:\mks\mkssi;c​:\cvs;c​:\enscript;c​:\gnuserv-2_1p1\gnuserv;C​:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools\WinNT;C​:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin;C​:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools;C​:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin
  PERL5LIB=d​:\Users\AichnerAd\pl
  PERL_BADLANG (unset)
  SHELL (unset)

From @andk

On 19 Oct 1999 05​:20​:53 +0200, Adrian Aichner <aichner@​ecf.teradyne.com> said​:

diff -u c​:\perl\5.00503\lib\CPAN.pm.orig c​:\perl\5.00503\lib\CPAN.pm
--- c​:\perl\5.00503\lib\CPAN.pm.orig Tue Oct 19 03​:32​:42 1999
+++ c​:\perl\5.00503\lib\CPAN.pm Tue Oct 19 03​:32​:42 1999
@​@​ -4273,7 +4273,9 @​@​
);
}
$file =~ s/\.gz$//;
- $system = "$CPAN​::Config->{tar} xvf $file";
+ chdir File​::Basename​::dirname($file);
+ $system = "$CPAN​::Config->{tar} xvf "
+ . File​::Basename​::basename($file);
if (system($system)==0) {
$CPAN​::Frontend->myprint(qq{Untarred $file successfully\n});
} else {

Thanks for the patch.

Is there no chdir back needed?

--
andreas