Re: pod viewer on mac osx?

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Re^2: pod viewer on mac osx? by iaw4 (Monk) on Dec 11, 2010 at 09:11 UTC
perldoc is totally broken under OSX the way it ships. first, /usr/bin/pod2man is not even executable. once this is fixed, it produces a blank file with some /var folders as the file name.	[reply]
Re^3: pod viewer on mac osx? by DrHyde (Prior) on Dec 13, 2010 at 11:19 UTC
`$ uname -a Darwin cowshed-door.barnyard.co.uk 8.11.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.1 +: Wed Oct 10 18:23:28 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.25.20~1/RELEASE_I386 i38 +6 i386 $ ls -l /usr/bin/pod2man -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 19545 Jan 13 2006 /usr/bin/pod2man` [download] Bzzt, wrong. I've not ever touched that file, and it's executable.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: pod viewer on mac osx? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 25, 2011 at 11:16 UTC
Same thing for me on i386-apple-darwin10.5.0 sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/pod2* made perldoc working too. The problem came probably after installing a few things with PERL CPAN. I got the problem while installing fink with update with cvs.	[reply]
Re^3: pod viewer on mac osx? by Anonymous Monk on Sep 15, 2011 at 15:01 UTC
Some versions of OS X (Lion for instance) ship with multiple versions of perl installed, and with every perl utility available as utility#.## (eg pod2man5.12). This is actually documented in the perl(1) man page. There is also an unexecutable script with the utility name, no version suffix, which can be run with `perlutility` which emits a message about the multiversion support. Instead of setting the executable bit on those scripts, replace them with an alias to the version you want (eg: `rm /usr/bin/pod2man; ln -s /usr/bin/pod2man5.12 /usr/bin/pod2man`. You may also need to change the permissions of the alias (eg: `chmod -h o+rx /usr/bin/pod2man`). Plus it goes without saying that you'll need to do all of this with admin permissions.	[reply] [d/l] [select]