The pdldoc function in PDL seems to try and refer to the portage work (build) directory for documentation. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have PDL installed (version 2.4.1) 2. $> pdldoc random or in the pdl shell (perldl) perldl> help random Actual Results: can't find file '/var/tmp/portage/PDL-2.4.1/work/PDL-2.4.1/blib/lib/PDL/Primitive.pm' at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i686-linux-thread-multi/PDL/Doc.pm line 724 Module PDL::Primitive or Module PDL::Primitive can't find file '/var/tmp/portage/PDL-2.4.1/work/PDL-2.4.1/blib/lib/PDL/Primitive.pm' at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i686-linux-thread-multi/PDL/Doc.pm line 724 Expected Results: To be shown the documentation from perl modules in the PDL directory. Portage 2.0.51-r15 (gcc34-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4,dev-lang/python-2.1.3-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Dec 28 2004, 17:04:48)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4, 2.1.3-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.9.4, 1.8.5-r3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs candy ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://212.219.56.162/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://212.219.56.131/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/" LANG="en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/bmg-main" SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X aalib acpi alsa apache2 atlas audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb blas bonobo bzlib caps cdr cjk crypt cups curl dga dnd doc dvd emacs encode faac faad fbcon fftw flac foomaticdb gdbm gif ginac gmp gnutls graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal hdf hdf5 howl imagemagick imlib java jikes jpeg kerberos krb4 lapack lcms ldap leim lesstif libgda libwww mad mailwrapper mmx mpeg mysql nls oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib perl plotutils png ppds python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl slp speex spell sse ssl svg szip tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype unicode usb wmf xml xml2 xmms xv zlib video_cards_radeon"
Created attachment 52857 [details] scantree
The attached file is what is run to generate the pdlconf.db - if you run it manually it will update your db with correct values. I've added 2.4.2 to the tree, tested it out, and corrected it to run this in the right sequence. You can either upgrade or just run the script attached (pulled from the source tar file if you'd rather confirm it). Reopen if this doesn't solve it for you, but I'm so confident it will I'm closing this out :)
