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authorAndreas König <a.koenig@mind.de>2000-12-10 21:46:13 +0100
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2000-12-11 18:19:36 +0000
commitbfa2a9ad3f366934e45583611902df8990941d64 (patch)
tree50e8cc0a2d2a44f243965a941a67303ffa710bda /lib
parent1e1dbab6eed49955498a66ce3beedbd7ea33dc21 (diff)
downloadperl-bfa2a9ad3f366934e45583611902df8990941d64.tar.gz
PATCH MakeMaker manpage clarification
Message-ID: <m3aea4kqka.fsf@ak-71.mind.de> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@8080
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm b/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
index 7edcfede7d..78175f9aaf 100644
--- a/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+++ b/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
@@ -1519,10 +1519,11 @@ at Configure time.
=item MAN3PODS
-Hashref of .pm and .pod files. MakeMaker will default this to all
- .pod and any .pm files that include POD directives. The files listed
-here will be converted to man pages and installed as was requested
-at Configure time.
+Hashref that assigns to *.pm and *.pod files the files into which the
+manpages are to be written. MakeMaker parses all *.pod and *.pm files
+for POD directives. Files that contain POD will be the default keys of
+the MAN3PODS hashref. These will then be converted to man pages during
+C<make> and will be installed during C<make install>.
=item MAP_TARGET