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On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 3. Should the installhtml program itself be installed with perl?
> Having built and installed perl, the first thing I do next is install
> numerous distros from CPAN, which all go into my <installdir>\site\lib
> folder, so now I want an <installdir>\html\site\lib folder containing
> all their manpages, but there is no tool installed with perl to make
> that easy since pod2html only converts one file at a time.
>
> For that reason I normally copy installhtml into the <installdir>\bin
> folder so that I can run (and re-run) it any time to get HTML manpages
> for all my installed CPAN distros. It would be nice if installhtml was
> installed by default, unless there is some other way of doing this
> which I'm missing?
Module::Build already contains code for that, but it's only enabled if
your perl is configured to know where it should put them (the
install{,site,vendor}[13]htmldir configuration keys). In practice I
think Activestate is the only perl that defines them. AFAIK html
support in ExtUtils::MakeMaker has been removed at least twice because
of some serious issues, but I'm pretty sure those could be fixed if
someone put the tuits into it. I think Activestate ships a patched
version of EU::MM with htmlification enabled.
Leon
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