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From:
Gabor Szabo
Date:
October 2, 2008 02:39
Subject:
Re: How to generate pod.idx?
Message ID:
d8a74af10810012252y287419f2gc98421329ee76424@mail.gmail.com
I think Pod::Index should do that. I am not sure if it does it.

Gabor

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Adriano Ferreira
<aferreira@shopzilla.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Grant McLean <grant@mclean.net.nz> wrote:
>> Hi pod-people
>>
>> The documentation for the perldoc command refers to a -X switch which
>> causes the module/POD lookup to use a pre-generated index rather than
>> crawling @INC.
>>
>> I haven't been able to locate a utility for generating the pod.idx file
>> which is referred to by the code behind the -X option.  Does such a
>> utility exist?
>
> That's a good question. As a (quite indolent) maintainer of
> Pod::Perldoc, I stared more than once those parts of the code without
> these answers as well. Maybe someone here uses that and may give us
> some clue about that.
>
> Regards,
> Adriano
>
>> Cheers
>> Grant
>>
>>
>

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