The default in pod2man was changed to warn on formatting errors instead of silently sticking the errors into the generated POD documentation. An "=encoding" declaration is not optional any more if there are non-ASCII characters in the POD.
How to reproduce: # perl -v This is perl 5, version 18, subversion 2 (v5.18.2) built for i386-freebsd-thread-multi-64int # pod2man --section=1 --release="3.3.0" --name=BackupPC --center="BackupPC user guide" ./doc/BackupPC.pod ./backuppc.1 ./doc/BackupPC.pod around line 4800: Non-ASCII character seen before =encoding in 'PaŃgang.'. Assuming ISO8859-1 POD document had syntax errors at /usr/local/bin/pod2man line 71. Adding of an "=encoding" declaration will fix the issue: --- doc/BackupPC.pod.orig 2014-05-13 17:40:09.000000000 +0400 +++ doc/BackupPC.pod 2014-05-13 17:40:27.000000000 +0400 @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +=encoding ISO8859-1 + =head1 BackupPC Introduction . This documentation describes BackupPC version 3.3.0, P.S. The pod2man warning stops installation of sysutils/backuppc port on FreeBSD with perl 5.18. -- Alexander ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ BackupPC-devel mailing list BackupPC-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-devel Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
