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From:
Richard Cook
Date:
February 17, 2005 06:32
Subject:
Re: Suggestions to better ship Perl on OS X.
Message ID:
3333f746dd5a1a5f4eb0a7468f469b1f@socrates.berkeley.edu
On Feb 17, 2005, at 5:57 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote:

> On Feb 17, 2005, at 8:31 AM, Richard Cook wrote:
>
>> Going through old list mail and found this one ... don't know if it's 
>> still relevant, but ... I have "identical" OS X 10.3.8 installs on 
>> two different machines ... identical that is except one has Xcode 
>> Developer Tools installed on it, and the other doesn't.
>>
>> perldoc -f will not work on the Xcode-less machine, and contrary to 
>> what is said below, I don't see perlfunc.pod anywhere on the Xcode 
>> machine (where perldoc -f works).
>
> perlfunc.pod is installed as part of the Developer Docs sub-package in 
> Xcode. It's installed to:
>
> 	/System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/pods/perlfunc.pod

Yes, you're right ... I suppose that Find in the Finder doesn't find it 
because /System is excluded from Find, unless you specifically choose 
it?

Anyway, I too wonder why perlfunc.pod is not part of the default 
install, if perldoc is. Probably this has been or will be fixed ...


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