Andy Dougherty wrote:
>While looking at the nifty new utils/corelist utility in 5.9.x, I tried to
>run it with -h. That emitted a brief message suggesting I try '-man' or
>'--man' instead. (The exact number of dashes to use is unclear, but
>irrelevant at the moment.) However,
> $ ./perl -Ilib utils/corelist --man
>merely comes back empty and doesn't actually do anything.
>
>The culprit, I think, is ultimately Pod::Usage, which does the following:
>
> ## Now translate the pod document and then exit with the desired status
> if ( $opts{"-verbose"} >= 2
> and !ref($opts{"-input"})
> and $opts{"-output"} == \*STDOUT )
> {
> ## spit out the entire PODs. Might as well invoke perldoc
> my $progpath = File::Spec->catfile($Config{scriptdir}, "perldoc");
> system($progpath, $opts{"-input"});
> }
>
>Of course, prior to installation, $scriptdir/perldoc doesn't
>necessarily exist.
>
Coincidentally, I logged a CPAN RT request only the other day objecting
to the use of perldoc at all for the manpage output, since it breaks
programs after they are compiled with PAR:
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11525
- Steve
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