Odd issue with pod2man when building on Fedora build server

Julien ÉLIE julien at trigofacile.com
Tue May 21 19:04:49 UTC 2013


Hi Jochen,

> when I try to build inn-2.5.4 on the Fedora build server for rawhide
> I will get the following error messages:
> 
> pod2man -c 'InterNetNews Documentation' -r 'INN 2.5.3' -s 5 subscriptions.pod > ../man/subscriptions.5
> pod2man -c 'InterNetNews Documentation' -r 'INN 2.5.3' -s 8 actsync.pod > ../man/actsync.8
> actsync.pod around line 532: Expected text after =item, not a number
> actsync.pod around line 536: Expected text after =item, not a number
> actsync.pod around line 541: Expected text after =item, not a number
> actsync.pod around line 545: Expected text after =item, not a number
> POD document had syntax errors at /usr/bin/pod2man line 69.
> 
> It may be nice, if anyone have a hint to solve this issues.

It looks like recent POD versions do not cope with "=item 0" followed
by "=item 1":
    http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/02/msg199266.html

A fix would be to replace:

=item 0

with:

=item 0Z<>


Does it solve the issue you see with inn-2.5.3?

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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