[jaenicke - Thu May 30 09:12:27 2002]:
> [levitte - Thu May 30 08:55:23 2002]: > > > 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. > > I am completely unfamiliar with this topic. However: OpenSSL > requires the use of perl5 (perl4 is not enough). I didn't manage > to find a release history explaining when this L<...|...> thing > was added. Do you know whether it was part of initial perl5 or > at least at which version it was added? It's possible that back when I added pod2man.pl, we could still run on systems that only had perl4. I don't quite remember. All I know is that on the system I tested with, the man pages didn't have the links properly set. My suggestion is a removal of utils/pod2man.pl and trusting the administrator (we could add a note at an appropriate place, saying what perl version seem to be current enough). -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
