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Re: [PATCH] re building perltoc.pod

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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
April 25, 2009 08:32
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] re building perltoc.pod
Message ID:
20090425153201.GQ71149@plum.flirble.org
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:28:03PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:45:55PM +0100, Robin Barker wrote:
> 
> >> Also (from a clean build), the call to pod/buildtoc warns that perltoc.pod is missing, when that is the file it is building.
> >> I have added some extra logic to not warn about missing files when those files are the ones being build.
> 
> On VMS the symptom is:
> 
> Can't open perltoc.pod: file currently locked by another user at
> [.pod]buildtoc. line 434, <> chunk 324.
> 
> because the top-level code in output_perltoc() has it open for write
> when the loop in podset() encounters it in the list of things to
> index, and files are not opened shared by default on VMS.  Not that
> trying to index itself is likely to provide meaningful results
> anywhere.

Yes, that's daft. I've stopped it doing that with 8fd7046754c1f3033a465cd79ec2.

Nicholas Clark

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