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On Jul 3, 2011 4:17 PM, "Daniel Pfeiffer" <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > > # New Ticket Created by Daniel Pfeiffer > # Please include the string: [perl #93934] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=93934 > > > > Frankly I don't really know what to feed to all the options. For a > relocatable output I have found the best results come from --podpath=. > --podroot=. --htmlroot=., but that leads to interpod links like ./.html for > L<>. I have now tracked it down to the fact that the pod path up to the > prefix must not contain a dot. So my './xyz.pod' doesn't match anymore than a > dir with version number would. I suppose the intention should be to find the > last dot, not the first, as per my patch. If there is a reason to match > multiple suffixes, / should be excluded from the 2nd char group instead. Podroot and podpath should not be used to affect the output; htmlroot, htmldir, and outfile affect the output and the relativity of cross references. I agree the option set is confusing -- I have been working on a massive refactor of the module at the moment (replacing its Pod parser with Pod::Simple) and I was thoroughly confused by all the options and their purpose.Thread Next