I think I have it licked--after re-installing MacPerl so I had the original distribution and re-installing cpan-mac. Thanks everyone for assistance. I have one last additional question: cpan-mac wants to update cpan--should = I tell it to or ignore? I am not sure whether cpan-mac is an interface to cpa= n or a full on port. TIA, -K "To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine t= o the dead." - Thomas Paine > From: Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com> > Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 07:02:34 -0500 > To: Keary Suska <aksuska@webflyer.com> > Cc: MacPerl_List <macperl@macperl.org> > Subject: Re: [MacPerl] More Mac-CPAN Woes >=20 > At 12.42 -0700 2000.03.13, Keary Suska wrote: >> I was able to determine that I had a bad File::Find, but now I get the >> following: >>=20 >> Copying :LWP:Authen:Basic.pm -> Programming:Applications:Development:Mac= Perl >> =9F:site_perl:LWP:Authen >> # Deep recursion on subroutine "File::Path::mkpath", <IN> chunk 16305. >> File 'Programming:Applications:Development:MacPerl =9F:lib:File:Path.pm'= ; Line >> 132 >>=20 >> At this point it just gets in some loop and fills up the memory until it >> fatally freezes the whole machine. Any ideas? >=20 > Perhaps you have a bad File::Path, too? >=20 > I wonder if maybe File::Path has problems with symlinks / aliases ... > do you have any aliases in the path in question? >=20 > --=20 > Chris Nandor mailto:pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ > %PGPKey =3D ('B76E72AD', [1024, '0824090B CE73CA10 1FF77F13 8180B6B6']) >=20 > # =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Want to unsubscribe from this list? > # =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@ma= cperl.org >=20 # =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Want to unsubscribe from this list? # =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macp= erl.org