[Bioperl-l] bioperl-1.2 : man pages?

[Ewan Birney]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Fernan Aguero wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to update the FreeBSD bioperl port and found that
> bioperl-1.2 appears to lack man pages.
>

In 1.2 we had to drop the manifyfication stage of the makefile because it
was triggering a line-too-long error on some OSs due to shell constraints.


Remove the manify_pods line in the Makefile.PL and they should come back
(assumming freeBSD doesn't have this problem...)




> My observation goes along as this:
>
> 1. I see no 'Manifying ...' during make, nor any of the
> common Bio::Seq.3, Bio::Seq::LargeSeq.3, etc
>
> 2. bioperl-1.2/blib/man3 looks empty (just a .exists file)
> The only thing I see under bioperl-1.2/blib that could
> contain man stuff is bioperl-1.2/blib/lib/Bio, which just happens to
> have the same stuff as bioperl-1.2/Bio (the make procedure
> involves a plain 'cp Bio/<file_here> blib/lib/<file_here>'
>
> However, INSTALL mentions that "you may have some errors
> from the pod2man part of the installation" yet I don't see
> any.
>
> Also under "INSTALLING BIOPERL IN A PERSONAL OR PRIVATE
> MODULE AREA" it says "And the bioperl man pages will go in:
> ${PREFIX}/lib/perl5/man/", yet if I install in my home
> directory then 'ls -R ${PREFIX} | grep man' gives only
> 'toomany.pm' as a result.
>
>
> Perhaps I'm missing something? How do I invoke bioperl help
> then? Just 'perldoc module.pm'? Or perhaps we run pod2man on
> our own?
>
> No problem with the FreeBSD port, it is working as it is
> now. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything
> important before submitting the port.
>
> Fernan
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