Cleaning up perllocal.pod

rvosa has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks,

as I'm working on my own code (a bunch of libraries) I keep installing them to my site/ folder (using the make && make test && make install incantation), and during this process the install is appended to perllocal.pod, which is starting to grow rather large.

How do I turn that off?

What can I do to clean up perllocal.pod?

Thanks!

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Re: Cleaning up perllocal.pod by Tanktalus (Canon) on Aug 10, 2005 at 21:15 UTC
If you don't ever run anything that uses it, mostly "perldoc perllocal", I imagine, then simply deleting it likely suffices ;-)	[reply]
Re: Cleaning up perllocal.pod by jdhedden (Deacon) on Aug 11, 2005 at 16:21 UTC
I, too, have been niggled by this problem, and your post prompted me to write a solution here. Enjoy. Remember: There's always one more bug.	[reply]
Re^2: Cleaning up perllocal.pod by rvosa (Curate) on Aug 11, 2005 at 16:52 UTC
Problem solved thanks to jdhedden. Thanks all.	[reply]
Re: Cleaning up perllocal.pod by jkeenan1 (Deacon) on Aug 11, 2005 at 02:44 UTC
I'm puzzled as to why you would want to do anything about this. You say that perllocal.pod is growing "rather large"; how large is that? Is it taking up a sizable portion of your disk? Are processes slowing down as a consequence? I confess that I had completely forgotten about the existence of perllocal until I saw your post. I checked my own instance of that .pod -- 15 months worth of installs -- and it didn't seem very large. In fact, it's much smaller than the POD of some of the modules I've installed. And when I want to read the documentation for My::Module, I simply call `perldoc My::Module`. I don't see what's broken, so I don't see what there is to fix?	[reply] [d/l]