ts> On (11 Apr 03) mark lewis wrote to tony summerfelt...

 ml>> i don't believe it is the activestate stuff... that's windows, isn't
 ml>> it?  this is on a mandrake linux box...

 ts> they put out both a linux and a windows version of perl...

 ml>> currently, that gives me a 'No documentation found for
"perlocal".'
 ml>> error...

 ts> perldoc perllocal    (to l's in the middle)

!!! hehehe... that give me info on about 25 or so modules...

 ts> if that still doesn't work, it's an excellent indication of a
 ts> broken perl install. tom c. has gone to good deal of trouble
 ts> to make sure that perl doc's are complete an easily available
 ts> and installed properly in the initial perl installation.

the perl install was done by the CPAN module... compile and everything...
perl v5.8.0... i seem to (still) have some perl v5.6.0 stuff installed,
too...

 ts> last thing to look at is perl\site\lib. you'd have to go into
 ts> each .pl and .pm though to get a version number...

hummm...

 ts> if perldoc perllocal doesn't work, i'd seriously consider
 ts> reinstalling (first from mandrake, then from an rpm) at that
 ts> point you might want to install the activestate version. ppm
 ts> makes it a breeze to search, install, and query perl
 ts> modules...

this is an old mandrake install... mandrake v7.1 (helium) with (at least)
an updated kernel (2.2.19-6.4-mdk) and all the fixes that the updater can
find in rpmfind.net...

)\/(ark