Just finished building, testing and installing perl 5.12.3 for OpenVMS
Alpha V8.3. Everything appeared normal throughout. Afterward I was Just
plinking around with the perl documentation utility and noticed that it
does not appear completely functional:
$ perldoc "perldoc"
No documentation found for "perldoc".
%RMS-E-FNF, file not found
$ perldoc "-D" "perldoc"
Ending switch processing. Args are [perldoc] with 0 errors.
perl_root:[utils]perldoc.com => Pod::Perldoc v3.15_02
Formatter class Pod::Perldoc::ToText successfully loaded!
Will format with the class Pod::Perldoc::ToText
Searching for perldoc
Looking for perldoc in perl_root:[utils]
perl_root:[lib.site_perl.VMS_AXP] perl_root:[lib.site_perl]
perl_root:[lib.VMS_AXP.5_12_3]
perl_root:[lib] . DISK_CSWB:[CSWB] DISK_XPDF:[APPLICATIONS.XPDF]
GNV$GNU:[BIN] perl_root:[lib.pod]
Looking for perlperldoc in perl_root:[utils]
perl_root:[lib.site_perl.VMS_AXP] perl_root:[lib.site_perl]
perl_root:[lib.VMS_AXP.5_12
_3] perl_root:[lib] . DISK_CSWB:[CSWB] DISK_XPDF:[APPLICATIONS.XPDF]
GNV$GNU:[BIN] perl_root:[lib.pod]
No documentation found for "perldoc".
%RMS-E-FNF, file not found
Is this expected? has anybody else experienced this or can somebody else
repeat the problem? I haven't looked at the source to see what file it
is looking for. Maybe there is something missing in the install step?
This particular problem is not exactly high priority. But, I thought
somebody in the OpenVMS PERL group might be interested.
The installation appears to execute simple perl scripts properly anyway.
I haven't yet tried anything complicated. That will have to wait till
tomorrow.
Any wisdom would be appreciated.
Regards,
Eric
