Perl ExtUtils::MakeMaker 'make install' not generating manual page for script

Reini Urban rurban@x-ray.at
Sat May 2 15:45:00 GMT 2009


David Christensen schrieb:
> Reini Urban wrote:
>> Just a hint: Please do *NOT* use lowercase package names for non-
>> pragmas.  See http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html#namespace
>> "newest" is certainly a very very bad name, if it does not relate to
>> something like "use blead;"
> 
> Thank you for your help.  :-)
> 
> Yes; bad laziness.  How about Dpchrist::File::Newest?
>     http://www.holgerdanske.com/node/460

Why not. It's private anyway.

>> ExtUtils::MakeMaker doesn't include all :: manifypods on cygwin,
>> because this is a unix extension only. See MM_Unix.pm
>> Please complain at ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
>> A patch would be trivial. Schwern just needs a kick.
>> For you: just do
>>   $ make manifypods
> 
> 2009-05-01 08:51:42 Administrator@p43400e ~/Dpchrist-File-Newest
> $ make manifypods
> Manifying blib/man1/newest.1
> Manifying blib/man3/Dpchrist.File.Newest.3pm
> 
> 2009-05-01 09:02:51 Administrator@p43400e ~/Dpchrist-File-Newest
> $ makewhatis
> 
> 2009-05-01 09:04:39 Administrator@p43400e ~/Dpchrist-File-Newest
> $ man newest
> No manual entry for newest
> 
> 
> D'oh!  Make created the man pages in the build tree, but didn't install
> them.  What is the best way to do that?  cp?

make manifypods install

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Reini Urban
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