[Module-build-general] Re: FAIL Module-Build-0.19_03 MSWin32-x86-multi-thread 4.0

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Sunday, July 27, 2003, at 07:45  PM, Randy Kobes wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Ken Williams wrote:
>
>> Hi DH,
>>
>> Thanks for the report.  I guess Win32 systems don't typically install
>> man pages.  Just to make sure I understand the problem, your Config.pm
>> doesn't define values for these variables, right?
>>
>>     $Config{installsiteman1dir}
>>     $Config{installman1dir}
>>     $Config{installsiteman3dir}
>>     $Config{installman3dir}
>>
>> I just checked in a patch to skip building & installing man pages when
>> these variables don't exist.
>
> Hi Ken,
>     You might want to skip the man pages entirely on Win32 - on
> my system, I have these variables defined, but man pages won't
> install, as typically they contain ':' in their names, and Win32
> refuses to create a file with ':' in the name.

Steve Purkis, who supplied the patch for manpage generation, defined 
the manpage separator as '::' on Unix, but '.' on Win32 (and '__' on 
VMS, for those keeping score).  I think the intention was to solve the 
problem you mention.


  -Ken