Bug #16371 for perlindex: Display function alwas prepends $prefix

Thu Dec 08 20:37:19 2005 jpierce [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Trying to look at what had been indexed I did perlindex camel, selected option 1 (perlbook) And: Running pod2man /mit/belg4mit//afs/.athena.mit.edu/contrib/perl5/arch/share/perl5.8.4/pod/perlbook.pod Can't open /mit/belg4mit//afs/.athena.mit.edu/contrib/perl5/arch/share/perl5.8.4/pod/perlbook.pod for reading: No such file or directory at /mit/belg4mit/arch/sun4x_59/bin/pod2man line 60 It apparently makes some assumptions about directory structure, it's also not clear why it doesn't use the existing man pages... or use perldoc

Tue Dec 20 04:26:36 2005 ULPFR [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

[JPIERCE - Thu Dec 8 20:37:19 2005]: /mit/belg4mit//afs/.athena.mit.edu/contrib/perl5/arch/share/perl5.8.4/pod/perlbook.pod perlindex is a very simple demo program. It traverses the file system and creates adn index for the fiels it finds. If you move the files after the indexing run you are out of luck. AFS seems to do just that. If you use some permament path names in the index run you should be fine. If my guesses about your problem were wrong, please provide more information about how exactly you arrived at the problem. Ulrich

Tue Dec 20 05:02:04 2005 ULPFR [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

You may also may run into a bug reported by another user. When indexing files outside the configured prefix the prefix is added before trying to display the file. Here is a workaround: --- orig/perlindex.PL +++ mod/perlindex.PL @@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ system 'man', $sect, $page; } else { my ($path) = ($selection =~ m:(\S+)$:); - $path = $prefix.'/'.$path; + $path = $prefix.'/'.$path unless -f $path; print STDERR "Running pod2man $path\n"; system "pod2man --official $path | $nroff -man | $pager"; }

Tue Dec 20 05:07:16 2005 ULPFR [...] cpan.org - Taken

Tue Dec 20 05:10:00 2005 ULPFR [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Tue Dec 20 05:11:03 2005 ULPFR [...] cpan.org - Subject changed from (no value) to 'Display function alwas prepends $prefix'

Tue Dec 20 05:11:03 2005 ULPFR [...] cpan.org - Severity Important added