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Re: Perforce strangeness (was Re: funny directory names in Pod::Simple)

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From:
Craig A. Berry
Date:
December 14, 2005 20:23
Subject:
Re: Perforce strangeness (was Re: funny directory names in Pod::Simple)
Message ID:
craigberry-1390D2.22225814122005@x6.develooper.com
In article <p06230926bfc5da24aeb0@[172.16.52.1]>,
 craigberry@mac.com (Craig A. Berry) wrote:

> At 7:51 AM +0100 12/14/05, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> >On 12/14/05, John E. Malmberg <wb8tyw@qsl.net> wrote:
> > > $MMK realclean
> >>
> >> deletes [.lib.pod]*.pod;*
> >>
> >> This removes [.lib.Pod]Simple.pod because of the confusion.
> >
> >Oh, I wasn't aware that the VMS build process created this directory.
> >Other OSes build the tools directly under pod/ or utils/, is there a
> >specific reason why VMS doesn't do it ?


> I think the easiest thing to
> do is just copy what Cygwin and Darwin already do, namely have
> installperl put things in lib/pods rather than lib/pod and make the
> corresponding change to vms/descrip_mms.template, which should just
> be a global replace of [.lib.pod] with [.lib.pods].  I'll work up a
> patch.

Committed as

26363 on 2005/12/15 by craigb@craigb-brianor

   On VMS, put pods in [.lib.pods] rather than [.lib.pod]
   in order to avoid collisions with [.lib.Pod]

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