Re: Html to PDF convertor

Sounds like you don't have htmldoc installed.

This Module provides an OO-interface to the htmldoc programm. To install this module you have to install the htmldoc program first. You can get it from http://www.htmldoc.org .

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Re^2: Html to PDF convertor by bart (Canon) on Sep 21, 2006 at 07:37 UTC
Another bad point for CPAN: nowhere in the installation is the presence or absence of the `htmldoc` program tested for, or even mentioned. There's even no standardized way in the MakeMaker utils to list it. It is a dependency, isn't it? It's the same with external libraries, those dependencies aren't checked either. ("probably harmless", yeah, right.) This dependency is the reason for the huge amount of test failures on CPAN Testers. But if you don't look at the report very closely, you won't even see what is wrong. This is very user-unfriendly, for anybody who isn't at least a sysadmin by profession.	[reply]
Re^3: Html to PDF convertor by Joost (Canon) on Sep 21, 2006 at 09:27 UTC
True enough. Currently, I'm leaning towards using `pkg-config` in Makefile.PL to test for "outside-perl" libraries and compiler flags. Ofcourse that means another dependency, but at least you can easily croak out of Makefile.PL if you can't run pkg-config. I'm not sure if there are better ways to do it. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply] [d/l]