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authorRoderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>1997-03-11 19:09:31 -0500
committerChip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>1997-03-09 11:57:19 +1200
commit2e4a4f557f9874e47c52eb0c8981f7eb28092e68 (patch)
tree76ee90d97e02d8490c0af146e420b960c2710b5d /pod/pod2man.PL
parent2085bf88a27913de51e04715bdb1274c404bd589 (diff)
downloadperl-2e4a4f557f9874e47c52eb0c8981f7eb28092e68.tar.gz
Re: bug in pod2man (5.00326): section=3 for .pm modules
On Tue, 11 Mar 1997 21:25:10 +0100 (MET), Slaven Rezic <eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de> said: > > pod2man does not recognize the proper section for .pm modules. You > have to delete the "$section = $opt_section || $DEF_SECTION;" in line > 378 in .../pod/pod2man.PL, since it overrides the proper setting in > line 362. Good catch. Here's that fix plus code to use the man3 extension specified to Configure (I use 3pm myself). p5p-msgid: pzn2sat1hg.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/pod2man.PL')
-rw-r--r--pod/pod2man.PL7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/pod2man.PL b/pod/pod2man.PL
index d1ba2287cd..88ce73f126 100644
--- a/pod/pod2man.PL
+++ b/pod/pod2man.PL
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ use File::Basename qw(&basename &dirname);
# have to mention them as if they were shell variables, not
# %Config entries. Thus you write
# $startperl
+# $man3ext
# to ensure Configure will look for $Config{startperl}.
# This forces PL files to create target in same directory as PL file.
@@ -27,6 +28,8 @@ print OUT <<"!GROK!THIS!";
$Config{startperl}
eval 'exec $Config{perlpath} -S \$0 \${1+"\$@"}'
if \$running_under_some_shell;
+
+\$DEF_PM_SECTION = '$Config{man3ext}' || '3';
!GROK!THIS!
# In the following, perl variables are not expanded during extraction.
@@ -367,7 +370,8 @@ usage("Usage error!") unless $uok;
usage() if $opt_help;
usage("Need one and only one podpage argument") unless @ARGV == 1;
-$section = $opt_section || ($ARGV[0] =~ /\.pm$/ ? 3 : $DEF_SECTION);
+$section = $opt_section || ($ARGV[0] =~ /\.pm$/
+ ? $DEF_PM_SECTION : $DEF_SECTION);
$RP = $opt_release || $DEF_RELEASE;
$center = $opt_center || ($opt_official ? $STD_CENTER : $DEF_CENTER);
$lax = $opt_lax || $DEF_LAX;
@@ -384,7 +388,6 @@ else {
die "roff font should be 1 or 2 chars, not `$CFont_embed'";
}
-$section = $opt_section || $DEF_SECTION;
$date = $opt_date || $DEF_DATE;
for (qw{NAME DESCRIPTION}) {