manpath oddity [ issue with perl pages ? ]

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Aug 12, 2009, at 7:42 PM, Shawn Protsman wrote:
> It didn't change the result. Apple's man page [for perl items] still  
> takes precedence. Any ideas? I wonder if this has anything to do  
> with the man#p dir that the macports perl man page is stored in?  
> "opt/local/share/man/man{1,3}p"


Yes, this issue was discussed extensively around the time when we  
fixed the @INC ordering for the perl ports.

IIRC, there weren't really any 'good' options to get things to work  
correctly.

One thing you can do in the meantime is to use perldoc instead of man  
to look up information for perl modules ;-)

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