Bug #87586 for Perl-Dist-Strawberry: Installer fails when C drive not present

Sun Aug 04 05:48:29 2013 brookembecker [...] gmail.com - Ticket created

Subject:	Installer fails when C drive not present
Date:	Sun, 4 Aug 2013 10:48:18 +0100
To:	bug-Perl-Dist-Strawberry [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Brooke M Becker <brookembecker [...] gmail.com>

Hi, I tried to install Strawberry Perl 5.16.3.1 on a machine in which Windows is installed on the H:\ drive (who knows why Windows installed itself that way... it's such a pain). The installer failed immediately with the message: 'strawberry' is not a valid short file name. The actual C:\ drive on the machine is a removable disk. So I tried changing the drive letter from C:\ to D:\, and tried the Strawberry Perl installer again. This time it failed with the message: Invalid Drive: C:\ Any chance of a fix? Cheers, B

Wed Aug 07 05:55:23 2013 karel.miko [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #87586] Installer fails when C drive not present
Date:	Wed, 07 Aug 2013 11:55:03 +0200
To:	bug-Perl-Dist-Strawberry [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	kmx <karel.miko [...] gmail.com>

On 4.8.2013 11:48, Brooke M Becker via RT wrote: Show quoted text

> Sun Aug 04 05:48:29 2013: Request 87586 was acted upon. > Transaction: Ticket created by brookembecker@gmail.com > Queue: Perl-Dist-Strawberry > Subject: Installer fails when C drive not present > Broken in: (no value) > Severity: (no value) > Owner: Nobody > Requestors: brookembecker@gmail.com > Status: new > Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87586 > > > > Hi, I tried to install Strawberry Perl 5.16.3.1 on a machine in which > Windows is installed on the H:\ drive (who knows why Windows installed > itself that way... it's such a pain). The installer failed immediately with > the message: > 'strawberry' is not a valid short file name. > The actual C:\ drive on the machine is a removable disk. So I tried > changing the drive letter from C:\ to D:\, and tried the Strawberry Perl > installer again. This time it failed with the message: > Invalid Drive: C:\ > > Any chance of a fix? > > Cheers, > B > >

You are right, this is a bug. I'll try to fix MSI building process to handle this. Workaround for you: 1/ download: http://strawberryperl.com/download/5.16.3.1/strawberry-perl-5.16.3.1-32bit.zip or http://strawberryperl.com/download/5.16.3.1/strawberry-perl-5.16.3.1-64bit.zip 2/ unpack it into h:\perl (or whatever directory without space in its name) 3/ run h:\perl\relocation.pl.bat h:\perl\update_env.pl.bat -- kmx

Wed Aug 07 05:55:24 2013 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Wed Sep 17 10:45:55 2014 kmx [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

MSI installer was redesigned in 5.20.x series. Please try latest strawberry perl 5.20.1.1. If no new response appears here I will close this ticked 2 weeks from now.

Thu Oct 02 03:18:45 2014 kmx [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'