Re: bug in pod2man (5.00326): section=3 for .pm modules

On Tue, 11 Mar 1997 21:25:10 +0100 (MET), Slaven Rezic <eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de> said:
>
> pod2man does not recognize the proper section for .pm modules. You
> have to delete the "$section = $opt_section || $DEF_SECTION;" in line
> 378 in .../pod/pod2man.PL, since it overrides the proper setting in
> line 362.

Good catch.  Here's that fix plus code to use the man3 extension
specified to Configure (I use 3pm myself).

p5p-msgid: pzn2sat1hg.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com

diff --git a/pod/pod2man.PL b/pod/pod2man.PL
index d1ba228..88ce73f 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/pod2man.PL
+++ b/pod/pod2man.PL
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ use File::Basename qw(&basename &dirname);
 # have to mention them as if they were shell variables, not
 # %Config entries.  Thus you write
 #  $startperl
+#  $man3ext
 # to ensure Configure will look for $Config{startperl}.
 
 # This forces PL files to create target in same directory as PL file.
@@ -27,6 +28,8 @@ print OUT <<"!GROK!THIS!";
 $Config{startperl}
     eval 'exec $Config{perlpath} -S \$0 \${1+"\$@"}'
        if \$running_under_some_shell;
+
+\$DEF_PM_SECTION = '$Config{man3ext}' || '3';
 !GROK!THIS!
 
 # In the following, perl variables are not expanded during extraction.
@@ -367,7 +370,8 @@ usage("Usage error!") unless $uok;
 usage() if $opt_help;
 usage("Need one and only one podpage argument") unless @ARGV == 1;
 
-$section = $opt_section || ($ARGV[0] =~ /\.pm$/ ? 3 : $DEF_SECTION);
+$section = $opt_section || ($ARGV[0] =~ /\.pm$/
+                               ? $DEF_PM_SECTION : $DEF_SECTION);
 $RP = $opt_release || $DEF_RELEASE;
 $center = $opt_center || ($opt_official ? $STD_CENTER : $DEF_CENTER);
 $lax = $opt_lax || $DEF_LAX;
@@ -384,7 +388,6 @@ else {
     die "roff font should be 1 or 2 chars, not `$CFont_embed'";
 }
 
-$section = $opt_section || $DEF_SECTION;
 $date = $opt_date || $DEF_DATE;
 
 for (qw{NAME DESCRIPTION}) {