[Melbourne-pm] pod2html problem on Windows

[Alfie John]

Hi Benjamin,

In Pod::Html, it looks like the following line is the offender:

  @Podpath  = split(":", $opt_podpath) if defined $opt_podpath;

If you want a quick fix, you can edit in place and get it working by looking
at $^O to see what system you're on. Otherwise, submit a patch that does it
more portably.

Alfie

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:43 PM, <benjamin.j.hayes at exxonmobil.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Perl Mongers,
>
> I'm in the process of porting a build script from Solaris to Windows. The
> script packages up a collection of Perl scripts for distribution on our
> corporate network and one of the things it does it to build all the POD
> into a nice, pretty set of html pages. The code all lives in my TFS
> workspace on my c: drive and I'm having trouble with pod2html accepting a
> path which contains a : (like in c:\). I discovered this is because
> pod2html (in Pod::Html) tries to split the podpath on the : character, so
> it crashes because it attempts to open a file called C. Of course this all
> worked perfectly on Solaris where file paths are sans : characters. I tried
> replacing C:\ with \\$ENV{COMPUTERNAME}\c$, but it appears that only works
> if you have admin rights on the machine, which in this instance I don't. It
> seems inconceivable to me that pod2html doesn't work on Windows and I feel
> there must be a simple solution, but I have not been able to find it. Can
> anyone help?
>
> Regards
>
> Ben Hayes
> Onsite Application Support Coordinator
> ExxonMobil Technical Computing Company / Upstream IT
> Upstream Technical Computing / UTC Applications / Application & Data
> Integration
> Esso Australia Pty Ltd
> Room 5.36, 12 Riverside Quay, Southbank, VIC 3006, Australia
> Phone: +61-3-9270-3538 Fax: +61-3-9270-3600  E-mail:
> benjamin.j.hayes at exxonmobil.com
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