in reply to pod2usage does not work for verbose level 1.

Looking at the Pod::Usage documentation, it says that when you call pod2usage with a single numerical argument, that argument is the exit status, not the verbose level...but it also says that an exit status of 1 would be a verbose level of 1 also.

Maybe you should show us the POD documentation as it appears in the file that's giving you problems. When I attach my own little POD and try it with your code, it works (prints the synopsis).

Update: Here's the code I tried: 

#use strict;
use warnings;

use Getopt::Long;
use Pod::Usage;

&GetOptions( 'h|help' => \$opt_help,
                          'man' => sub{ pod2usage({-verbose=>2,
                                                   -exitval=>0}); },
             'q|quiet' => \$opt_quiet,
             'c|config=s' => \@opt_config,
             'p|project=s' => \$opt_proj
        ) || pod2usage(1);

if($opt_help){
     print "help---------------\n";
       pod2usage(1);
 }
__END__
=head 1 NAME

perlmonks.pl - Test for http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=664898

=head1 SYNOPSIS

perlmonks.pl [options]

 Options:
   -h, --help            brief help message
       --man             full documentation

=cut

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