| Subject: | README timestamp breaks installation in cygwin |
[Installing libwww-perl-5.76 with Cygwin on win2k.]
While the bogus timestamp of libwww-perl-5.76/README (1/1/1970) works ok on *nix, window's epoch is 1/1/1980 and since cygwin's tar is unforgiving (or broken?), cpan dies:
tar: libwww-perl-5.76/README: Cannot utime: Invalid argument
I used a windows untar (which changed the timestamp to 1/1/1980) and performed "make" manually to work around the issue.
Some might argue (myself included) that this is really a bug in tar, but in a real and practical sense, a simple touch of README would solve it. (And in a purist sense, 1970 is indeed incorrect anyway.)
Thanks for such a wonderful package!
Marco Moreno