| Subject: | Pod errors prevent installation |
| Date: | Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:29:12 -0000 |
| To: | <bug-File-Repl [...] rt.cpan.org> |
| From: | "Duncan Garland" <duncan.garland [...] ntlworld.com> |
From: Duncan Garland [mailto:duncan.garland@ntlworld.com]
Sent: 25 January 2014 18:28
To: 'bug-File-Repl@rt.cpan.org.'
Subject: Pod errors prevent installation
Hi,
This doesn't install any more under Strawberry Perl.
c:\strawberry\cpan\build\File-Repl-1.29-Grao3Z>perl -v
This is perl 5, version 18, subversion 1 (v5.18.1) built for
MSWin32-x64-multi-t
hread
Copyright 1987-2013, Larry Wall
Repl.pm around line 1101: Deleting unknown formatting code A<>
Repl.pm around line 1181: Can't have a 0 in =over 0
Repl.pm around line 1222: Can't have a 0 in =over 0
Repl.pm around line 1244: You forgot a '=back' before '=head1'
Repl.pm around line 1432: Non-ASCII character seen before =encoding in 'R'.
Assu
ming ISO8859-1
Repl.pm around line 1498: Unterminated A<...> sequence
Repl.pm around line 1498: Deleting unknown formatting code A<>
POD document had syntax errors at C:\strawberry\perl\bin/pod2text.bat line
94.
dmake.exe: Error code 129, while making 'README'
dmake.exe: 'README' removed.
DROBERTS/File-Repl-1.29-withoutworldwriteables.tar.gz
C:\strawberry\c\bin\dmake.exe -- NOT OK
Running make test
Can't test without successful make
Running make install
Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Stopping: 'install' failed for 'File::Repl'.
Failed during this command:
DROBERTS/File-Repl-1.29-withoutworldwriteables.tar.gz: make NO
The problem is that the Pod check is stricter than previously.
You need to add
=encoding utf8
To prevent it rejecting the copyright symbol.
You also need to escape the < and > characters in the pod with E<lt> and
E<gt> respectively.
The modified file which I've attached does install.
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