Steven W McDougall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> As generated, there are 370 broken links in the set.
> These are detailed in the file

>     http://world.std.com/~swmcd/perl-5.8.0-broken_links.txt

There are a bunch of bugs in pod2html revealed there.  For example, all of
this set:

perl/bin/pod2man.html -> perl/bin/man.html
perl/bin/pod2man.html -> perl/bin/man.html
perl/bin/pod2man.html -> perl/bin/man.html
perl/bin/pod2man.html -> perl/bin/nroff.html
perl/bin/pod2man.html -> perl/bin/troff.html
perl/bin/pod2man.html -> perl/bin/man.html
perl/bin/pod2man.html -> perl/bin/man.html
perl/bin/pod2man.html -> perl/bin/man.html
perl/lib/Pod/Man.html -> perl/lib/Pod/nroff.html
perl/lib/Pod/Man.html -> perl/lib/Pod/man.html
perl/lib/Pod/Man.html -> perl/lib/Pod/troff.html
perl/lib/Pod/Man.html -> perl/lib/Pod/nroff.html
perl/lib/Pod/Man.html -> perl/lib/Pod/troff.html
perl/lib/Pod/Man.html -> perl/lib/Pod/man.html
perl/lib/Pod/Man.html -> perl/lib/Pod/man.html
perl/lib/Pod/Man.html -> perl/lib/Pod/man.html
perl/lib/Pod/Man.html -> perl/lib/Pod/man.html

shouldn't have been generated as links.  It looks like every link to a
manual page is assumed to be part of the Perl documentation set rather
than actually checking.

That will require a good bit of additional logic to build an index of what
man pages are actually part of the set of documentation being converted
and leaving other man page references alone.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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