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Date:      Wed, 15 Aug 2001 23:39:40 +0200
From:      Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org>
To:        David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Perl POD error
Message-ID:  <20010815233940.B41670@heechee.tobez.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010815233708.A41670@heechee.tobez.org>; from tobez@tobez.org on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:37:08PM %2B0200
References:  <20010815142218.A4810@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010815233708.A41670@heechee.tobez.org>

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On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:37:08PM +0200, Anton Berezin wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 02:22:18PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > Anybody understand Perl's POD <.beep.> enough to help me understand this
> > error?  [the GNU toolchain manpages are now generated from text2pod.pl]
> 
> > perl .././../gcc-20010815/gcc/../contrib/texi2pod.pl < .././../gcc-20010815/gcc/doc/invoke.texi > gcc.pod
> > (pod2man --center="GNU" --release="gcc-3.1" --section=1 gcc.pod > .././../gcc-20010815/gcc/doc/gcc.1.T$$ && \
> >         mv -f .././../gcc-20010815/gcc/doc/gcc.1.T$$ .././../gcc-20010815/gcc/doc/gcc.1) || \
> >         (rm -f .././../gcc-20010815/gcc/doc/gcc.1.T$$ && exit 1)
> > Can't locate object method "cmd_head3" via package "Pod::Man" at /usr/libdata/perl/5.6.0/Pod/Man.pm line 463, <GEN0> line 5035.
> > gmake: [.././../gcc-20010815/gcc/doc/gcc.1] Error 1 (ignored)
> 
> They use a third-level header =head3 (apparently generated from some texi
> construct), which is only supported starting from perl 5.6.1;  neither
> -current (5.6.0) nor -stable (5.005_03) understand this.
> 
> If you are only going to generate the manpages once (and then probably
> commit them), fetch perl 5.6.1 source, sh Configure -des, make, and use
> that.

Or just put perl5.6.1source/lib/Pod/* to /usr/libdata/perl/5.6.0/Pod/

Cheers,
\Anton.
-- 
May the tuna salad be with you.

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