Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] config.nmake and POD2MAN

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From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 08:46:18 +1100
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 04:31:00PM -0500, Andrew C. Feren wrote:
> Recently config.nmake changed the macro for pod2man
> 
> Previously the macros looked like
> 
> POD2MAN=perl /usr/bin/pod2man
> 
> Now the macro is just
> 
> POD2MAN=pod2man
> 
> 
> This would be OK if the #! at the top of the pod2man script were
> recognized when nmake execs pod2man, but this isn't working for me.
> Is there some additional magic I need to do to get this to work?

That'd be my change. On my system, Perl provides a pod2man.bat,
which the build uses. I think pod2man pretty much just runs
perl on the perl script anyway. So if Perl is in your path,
this will work.

nmake/Windows will never recognise #!, and Windows won't execute
a file without a known extension anyway, I believe.

Hamish
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