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Dammit, galeon sucks. Generating a Makefile from with MakeMaker produces the following list of actions while handling the perlocal.pod files: /usr/bin/perl -e '$\="\n\n";' -e 'print "=head2 ", scalar(localtime), ": C<", shift, ">", " L<", $arg=shift, "|", $arg, ">";' -e 'print "=over 4";' -e 'while (defined($key = shift) and defined($val = shift)){print "=item *";print "C<$key: $val>";}' -e 'print "=back";' \ "Module" "Swab" \ "installed into" "/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1" \ LINKTYPE "dynamic" \ VERSION "1.9.5" \ EXE_FILES "" \ >> /perllocal.pod ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ this is from the doc_site_install target
MakeMaker in newer perl behaves a lot better. There isn't much we can do safely with ancient perl in RHEL2.1 where this is still broken along with several other MakeMaker problems.