I just realised that the only reason we have utils/pod2man.pl was to 
make it simple for sites that had older versions that didn't process 
the L<...|...> construct properly.

It seems to me that we could simply remove utils/pod2man.pl and have 
Makefile.org use whatever is installed on the current system.  This 
will require the administrator to have a new enough version of Perl 
installed, but should be worth it to avoid this kind of problem.

Comments?

[levitte - Thu May 30 08:30:18 2002]:

> utils/pod2man.pl is hacked from an older version of pod2man.pl.  
It 
> may very well be that pod2man.pl has evolved and that our copy 
needs 
> an update.  I'll look into it.
> 
> [jaenicke - Fri May 17 09:55:43 2002]:
> 
> > [[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mon May 13 10:12:44 2002]:
> > 
> > > Yes, this was from 
> http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.6c.tar.gz
> > 
> > The problem is not in the actual manual pages. The manual pages 
are
> > in POD format and are converted to the .man format using the
> > util/pod2man.pl script. pod2man is also available seperately, but
> > this version has been modified for OpenSSL-use.
> > 
> > And it seems to be BROKEN!!!
> > 
> > You can also see the problems you describe on
> >   http://www.openssl.org/docs/ssl/SSL_shutdown.html
> > and I also just saw problems in pages for 
SSL_CTX_use_certificate.
> > 
> > I cross checked against an unmodified version of pod2man, which
> > could process the structures without problems. The problem 
> therefore
> > seems to be related to the pod2man included with OpenSSL.
> > 
> > I will therefore rename the ticket to a more appropriate title.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> >         Lutz
> > 
> 


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