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Craig, Thanks! Correcting the file specification in perldoc.pm fixed the problem. Another question just occured to me. Now that I have built and installed the new version of PERL, will I need to rebuild mod_perl for OpenVMS in order to get OpenVMS APACHE to use the new version of PERL? Thanks, Eric Craig A. Berry wrote: > On May 4, 2011, at 12:39 AM, Eric Robertson wrote: > > >> Just finished building, testing and installing perl 5.12.3 for OpenVMS Alpha V8.3. Everything appeared normal throughout. Afterward I was Just plinking around with the perl documentation utility and noticed that it does not appear completely functional: >> >> $ perldoc "perldoc" >> No documentation found for "perldoc". >> %RMS-E-FNF, file not found >> $ perldoc "-D" "perldoc" >> Ending switch processing. Args are [perldoc] with 0 errors. >> perl_root:[utils]perldoc.com => Pod::Perldoc v3.15_02 >> >> Formatter class Pod::Perldoc::ToText successfully loaded! >> Will format with the class Pod::Perldoc::ToText >> Searching for perldoc >> Looking for perldoc in perl_root:[utils] perl_root:[lib.site_perl.VMS_AXP] perl_root:[lib.site_perl] perl_root:[lib.VMS_AXP.5_12_3] >> perl_root:[lib] . DISK_CSWB:[CSWB] DISK_XPDF:[APPLICATIONS.XPDF] GNV$GNU:[BIN] perl_root:[lib.pod] >> Looking for perlperldoc in perl_root:[utils] perl_root:[lib.site_perl.VMS_AXP] perl_root:[lib.site_perl] perl_root:[lib.VMS_AXP.5_12 >> _3] perl_root:[lib] . DISK_CSWB:[CSWB] DISK_XPDF:[APPLICATIONS.XPDF] GNV$GNU:[BIN] perl_root:[lib.pod] >> No documentation found for "perldoc". >> %RMS-E-FNF, file not found >> >> Is this expected? has anybody else experienced this or can somebody else repeat the problem? I haven't looked at the source to see what file it is looking for. Maybe there is something missing in the install step? >> >> > > Good catch. It's looking in perl_root:[lib.pod], but the file actually lives in perl_root:[lib.pods] (plural): > > $ dir perl_root:[000000...]perldoc.pod > > Directory PERL_ROOT:[000000.LIB.PODS] > > perldoc.pod;1 > > Total of 1 file. > > It should be an easy fix to just add the "s" on the end of the search directory here: > > $ sea perl_root:[000000...]*.pm "lib.pod" > > ****************************** > PERL_ROOT:[000000.LIB.VMS_IA64.5_12_3.POD]perldoc.pm;1 > > push(@searchdirs,'perl_root:[lib.pod]') # installed pods > > > ________________________________________ > Craig A. Berry > mailto:craigberry@mac.com > > "... getting out of a sonnet is much more > difficult than getting in." > Brad Leithauser > >Thread Previous | Thread Next