Re: perldoc path in debian

[dircha <dircha@dircha.com>]

dircha wrote:
> I'm running perl out of unstable. Via CPAN I've installed several perl 
> modules rooted in ~/perl instead of /usr.
>
> $ perldoc LWP::Simple
> properly locates the documentation in 
> /usr/share/man/man3/LWP::Simple.3pm.gz.
>
> The documentation for, for example, the Java::JVM::Classfile module 
> installed to /home/dircha/perl/man/man3/Java::JVM::Classfile.3pm
>
> However,
> $ perldoc Java::JVM::Classfile
> does not locate it.
>
> I can access it with 'perldoc -F' by specifying the full path, but that 
> is less than desirable.
>
> Is there an environment variable similar to MANPATH that I should be 
> setting for perldoc, or is there perhaps a configuration file where I 
> can set this option?
>
> Appending /home/dircha/perl/man to PERL5LIB or PERLDOC does not seem to 
> solve the problem.

Oops. Those directories were for man.

I meant that, for example,
perldoc -F /home/dircha/perl/share/perl/5.8.3/Java/JVM/Classfile.pm works.

Although that doesn't seem to help me any for perldoc.

dircha