Bug #16475 for Module-Build: Module::Build makes empty manpages!

Tue Dec 13 22:21:13 2005 MERLYN [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

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Module::Build makes empty manpages!

Tried to pull up the man page on HTML::Prototype, but it was empty. Upon further investigation, Module::Build builds empty files for all manpages! It *says* it's making them, but it's making empty files, then installs those empty files. Looks like it's true from november 29 on my system, so whatever change happened then, broke things.

Tue Dec 13 22:53:27 2005 MERLYN [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

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merlyn [...] stonehenge.com

[MERLYN - Tue Dec 13 22:21:13 2005]: Show quoted text

> Tried to pull up the man page on HTML::Prototype, but it was empty. > Upon further investigation, Module::Build builds empty files for > all manpages! It *says* it's making them, but it's making empty > files, then installs those empty files. > > Looks like it's true from november 29 on my system, so whatever change > happened then, broke things.

Found it! Pod::Man changed on nov 29. You need to edit Module::Build::Base so that it creates a fresh Pod::Man on each file, instead of reusing the same object for all files. That seems to fix it. (I noticed that the *first* manpage was getting made OK, which led me to investigate.)

Wed Dec 14 18:51:54 2005 kwilliams [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Thanks, this fix has been made in CVS. -Ken

Wed Dec 14 18:51:54 2005 kwilliams [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'