installhtml cannot locate anchorify and relativize_url helperfunctions

On 7/23/21 11:24 PM, sisyphus wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 9:18 AM Ricardo Signes 
> <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org <mailto:perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     I have installed it, installed all my usual CPAN stuff, it all
>     worked (module one known bug
>     <https://github.com/Test-More/Test2-Harness/issues/228> in
>     Test2::Harness), and now this is my day to day perl!  Thanks!
> 
> 
> For me, on Windows 7, 'gmake install' fails with:
> 
> ..\perl.exe -I..\lib ..\installhtml --podroot=.. --htmldir=.\html \
>      --podpath=pod:lib:utils --htmlroot="file://C|\perl-5.35.2-1110\html"\
>      --recurse
> "anchorify" is not exported by the Pod::Html module
> "relativize_url" is not exported by the Pod::Html module
> Can't continue after import errors at ..\installhtml line 11.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ..\installhtml line 11.
> make: *** [GNUmakefile:1736: doc] Error 255
> 
> Sure enough, the installhtml script specifies:
> use Pod::Html 1.23 qw(anchorify relativize_url);
> 
> However, version 1.31 of Pod/Html.pm (which is the version of Pod::Html 
> that ships with 5.35.2) exports neither "anchorify" nor "relativize_url"
> Am I the only person experiencing this issue ?
> 
> It seems to me that installhtml needs to be rewritten to accommodate the 
> significant alterations that have been made to Html.pm since the 
> perl-5.35.1 release.
> 

You have inadvertently demononstrated the *only* reason why Pod-Html 
(still) needs to be part of the core distribution -- the fact that it is 
used by 'installhtml'.  Which, I believe, is *only* used as part of a 
Windows installation.

Can you please try out https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/19000?

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

• installhtml cannot locate anchorify and relativize_url helperfunctions by James E Keenan