Bug 25033

Summary:	Documentation does not appear to be available from perldl shell
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael Sipior <sipior>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michael Sipior 2003-07-21 23:23:24 UTC

the "help" command provided in the perldl shell cannot find any documentation.
This makes it hard to determine which functions are available, and their syntax.
Even help 'help' and help 'perldl' fail with a "Unable to find PDL docs on
perldl". Just typing "help" works, and returns a screen with usage information,
so the help facility itself does not appear to be broken---the documentation is
just not there.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.perldl
2.help help
3.help PDL::IO

Actual Results:  
"Unable to find PDL docs on <foo>"

Expected Results:  
Uh, shown the documentation :)

Comment 1 Ken Nowack (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-07-22 17:35:21 UTC

Which version of PDL?

The doc's are included in the source package. So they really should have installed on your system. I looked at the PDL site and it appears that you may need to specify in perldl.conf.

Perhaps the doc's are there but the shell just can't find them.

Comment 2 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-02-27 13:27:18 UTC

reopen if this is still an issue, but as OP never responded to last post, closing for lack of comment and severe age.