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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1998-07-26 02:23:46 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1998-07-26 02:23:46 +0000
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downloadperl-8598841737770b8824e0b5a63b6989607c8687c9.tar.gz
VMS patches from Dan Sugalski <sugalskd@osshe.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:38:25 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980724113825.00a067b0@ous.edu> Subject: [PATCH 5.005] version number problem with VMS (Corrected) -- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:30:36 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980724123036.009f0390@ous.edu> Subject: [PATCH 5.005]Tweaks to README.vms -- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 17:56:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980725175626.15740D-100000@netserve.ous.edu> Subject: [PATCH 5.005] Final build cleanup patch p4raw-id: //depot/maint-5.005/perl@1658
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@@ -177,19 +177,29 @@ into DCLTABLES" for more info), or put the image in a directory that's in
your DCL$PATH (if you're using VMS 6.2 or higher).
4) Optionally define the command PERLDOC as
-PERLDOC :== $PERL_ROOT:[000000]PERL PERL_ROOT:[LIB.POD]PERLDOC.COM -T
+PERLDOC :== "$PERL_ROOT:[000000]PERL PERL_ROOT:[LIB.POD]PERLDOC.COM -T"
Note that if you wish to use most as a pager please see
ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/ for both most and slang.
5) Optionally define the command PERLBUG (the Perl bug report generator) as
-PERLBUG :== $PERL_ROOT:[000000]PERL PERL_ROOT:[LIB]PERLBUG.COM"
+PERLBUG :== "$PERL_ROOT:[000000]PERL PERL_ROOT:[LIB]PERLBUG.COM"
6) Optionally define the command POD2MAN (Converts POD files to nroff
source suitable for converting to man pages. Also quiets complaints during
module builds) as
DEFINE/NOLOG POD2MAN PERL_ROOT:[LIB.POD]POD2MAN.COM
-POD2MAN :== $PERL_ROOT:[000000]PERL POD2MAN
+POD2MAN :== "$PERL_ROOT:[000000]PERL POD2MAN"
+
+7) Optionally define the command POD2TEXT (Converts POD files to text,
+which is required for perldoc -f to work properly) as
+
+DEFINE/NOLOG POD2TEXT PERL_ROOT:[LIB.POD]POD2TEXT.COM
+POD2TEXT :== "$PERL_ROOT:[000000]PERL POD2TEXT"
+
+In all these cases, if you've got PERL defined as a foreign command, you
+can replace $PERL_ROOT:[000000]PERL with ''perl'. If you've installed perl
+into DCLTABLES, replace it with just perl.
* Installing Perl into DCLTABLES