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Re: perl
i notice MakeMaker's 'make install' still doesn't do this:

pod2man random_module.pm > random_module.3pm

i'm not sure if i've said this before, or not, but:

shouldn't this be run as part of the 'make' process, not the
'make install' process? it's annoying to 'make' perl, and then,
'make install' perl, and only *then* have it `compile' the
manual pages, and, even worse, to `compile' them in to the
target directory directly ? do want 'cc -o /usr/bin/perl ...'
also ? i think not :-)

.mrg.
Re: perl [ In reply to ]
On Mon, 28 Aug 1995, matthew green wrote:

>
> i notice MakeMaker's 'make install' still doesn't do this:
>
> pod2man random_module.pm > random_module.3pm
>
> i'm not sure if i've said this before, or not, but:
>
> shouldn't this be run as part of the 'make' process, not the
> 'make install' process? it's annoying to 'make' perl, and then,
> 'make install' perl, and only *then* have it `compile' the
> manual pages, and, even worse, to `compile' them in to the
> target directory directly ? do want 'cc -o /usr/bin/perl ...'
> also ? i think not :-)

I think part of the problem is cleanly up the files when asked is a
little bit of a chore. Might'nt there be a file named "something.man"
that you don't want delete when you make clean? Just a thought. Perhaps
not a very good one.

> .mrg.
>

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