SPUG: perldoc failures on OS X

[Michael R. Wolf]

On Dec 7, 2008, at 4:59 PM, Andrew Sweger wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Dec 2008, Michael R. Wolf wrote:
>
>> Since my old #1 problem (no portable computing) is solved, a new #1
>> problem has emerged: perldoc(1) is installed, but doesn't work.
>>
>>     $ perldoc perl
>>     No documentation found for "perl".
>>
>> Look familiar?  Is this a Perl or OS X issue?
>
> It *should* be there, I think. It works fine for me. But I have the
> developer tools (Xcode) installed, so I'm not sure where the files  
> come
> from. "perldoc -l perl" on my Mac reports:
>
> /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/pods/perl.pod
>

Thanks.  It was *not* there prior to installing Xcode, but showed up  
at the same location after installing Xcode.

> (What's the OS X equivelant of Debian's dpkg -S /some/file?)
>

I don't know yet, but I will soon.


Michael R. Wolf
MichaelRWolf at att.net