perl5.8 fixup

[Eric Hall]

On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 07:02:06PM -0700, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> 
> On Mar 9, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Marcus Calhoun-Lopez wrote:
> 
> >Eric Hall <opendarwin.org at ...> writes:
> >
> >>
> >>On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 02:03:57PM -0700, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> >>>I have played around with my perl5.8 port and I have what appears to
> >>>me to be a solution to the path collision/registry issue.
> >>>

[snip stuff about configuring perl to land man pages in certain places, etc.]

> >>
> >
> >There is the issue that the user must modify his or her manpath.
> >An alternate solution is to rename the manpages.
> 
> Not according to my tests. Creating man1perl58 and man3perl58 without  
> altering man paths seems to work.

	How did you test that the man pages were found?  Did you check
that man found the right files and not, say, the system-installed
files?  Check 'ps' for what files are being picked up.

> 
> Looking at /etc/manpaths it looks like man must parse this entire  
> directory. I may be missing something.
> bash-3.2# cat /etc/manpaths
> /usr/share/man
> /usr/local/share/man
> 

	Check /etc/man.conf for the MANSECT variable - this
defines the 'sections' man will use, that's the clue as
to what will really be picked up.

> 
> >The ticket originally opened to deal with this problem is
> >http://trac.macports.org/ticket/12950
> >.
> >In it, I posted patches which will reorder @INC.
> >I also posted a patch for p5-test-simple to go along with it.
> >The module is installed with perl, but p5-test-simple is a newer  
> >version.
> >It avoids manpage conflicts by renaming the manpages.
> 
> I think the perl5.8 compile flags alone will fix the man path  
> collisions. The @INC env var looks like a good solution and I favor  
> using a /opt/local/etc/profile mechanism with /opt/local/etc/profile.d/ 
> perl5.8 and friends.
> 
> I think a new port name "profile" could be created to make this easy  
> or it could become part of macports. Then perl5.8 could add the /opt/ 
> local/etc/profile.d/perl5.8 file.
> 

	What is the 'profile' idea?  Shell profile, and if
so what would be in it?


		-eric