On Thursday 25 September 2008 13:29:20 Dave Whipp wrote:

> I was attempting to build parrot (0.7.1 release), but got a failure in
> the docs directory because "perldoc" was not in my path. Looking at the
> Makefile I see that it sets "PERLDOC := <my-perl-path>/perldoc", but
> uses "perldoc" in a rule. I think this is due to:
>
> parrot-0.7.1/config/gen/makefiles/docs.in:37
>
> packfile-c.pod: ../src/packfile.c
> #CONDITIONED_LINE(new_perldoc): perldoc -ud packfile-c.pod
> ../src/packfile.c
> #INVERSE_CONDITIONED_LINE(new_perldoc): perldoc -u ../src/packfile.c >
> packfile-c.pod
>
> Those "perldoc" commands should use $(PERLDOC).

Agreed -- and fixed in r31421.  Thanks for reporting!

-- c

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