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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2002-10-23 19:16:50 +0000
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2002-10-23 19:16:50 +0000
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Further tweaks to perlmodlib.pod.
Add a note about perllocal.pod, which wasn't documented. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@18052
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@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ just do this:
% find `perl -Te 'print "@INC"'` -name '*.pm' -print
+(The -T is here to prevent '.' from being listed in @INC.)
They should all have their own documentation installed and accessible
via your system man(1) command. If you do not have a B<find>
program, you can use the Perl B<find2perl> program instead, which
@@ -159,6 +160,11 @@ have a B<man> program but it doesn't find your modules, you'll have
to fix your manpath. See L<perl> for details. If you have no
system B<man> command, you might try the B<perldoc> program.
+Note also that the command C<perldoc perllocal> gives you a (possibly
+incomplete) list of the modules that have been further installed on
+your system. (The perllocal.pod file is updated by the standard MakeMaker
+install process.)
+
=head2 Extension Modules
Extension modules are written in C (or a mix of Perl and C). They