| Subject: | PAR breaks script using Pod::Usage |
I've been trying to use PAR to create an executable from a script that uses Pod::Usage, but the pod2usage() messages are not working.
The following short test script reproduces the problem:
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use Pod::Usage;
pod2usage(-verbose => 0)
__END__
=head1 SYNOPSIS
pod2usage
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If I put this in a file called "test.pl" and run "perl test.pl" then it outputs:
Usage:
pod2usage
If I now produce an executable using "pp -o test.exe test.pl" and then run "test.exe" then I get no output at all.
My understanding was that POD would be removed from dependent modules, but not from the original source script, so why doesn't this work?
I had exctly the same problem recently with the Perl2Exe software. I reported the problem to the Perl2Exe support team, and was recently informed by them that "due to the way that Pod::Usage has been programmed, it is incompatable with perl2exe". I hope the same does not turn out to be true of PAR as well.
Versions: Windows XP SP1, Perl 5.8.2, PAR 0.79, PAR-Dist 0.07.
- Steve