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

[Ewan Birney]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Fernan Aguero wrote:

> +----[ Ewan Birney <birney@ebi.ac.uk> (09.Jan.2003 05:29):
> | 
> | 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...)
> 
> There is no manify_pods in Makefile.PL that I can see.
> Searching for 'manify' only shows occurrences in this sub:
> 
> sub MY::manifypods {
> 	my $self = shift;
> 	#print STDERR "In manifypods moment\n";
> 	if( 1 ) {
> 		return "\nmanifypods : pure_all\n\t$self->{NOECHO}\$(NOOP)\n"
> 	} 
> 	else {
> 		return $self->SUPER::manifypods(@_);
> 	}
> }
> 
> I can't see how this is preventing the manification step. Of
> course I don't know what those $self-> incantations do ...
> please enlighten me.


if you delete this show section (or comment it out) manifycation will 
happen again. 


> 
> Fernan
> 
> |
> +----]
> 
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