[REPATCH 5.005_61] Re: perldiag.pod omissions

[perl5.git] / pod / pod2man.PL

diff --git a/pod/pod2man.PL b/pod/pod2man.PL
index 37557bf..20610a8 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/pod2man.PL
+++ b/pod/pod2man.PL
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 use Config;
 use File::Basename qw(&basename &dirname);
+use Cwd;
 
 # List explicitly here the variables you want Configure to
 # generate.  Metaconfig only looks for shell variables, so you
@@ -11,11 +12,13 @@ use File::Basename qw(&basename &dirname);
 #  $man3ext
 # to ensure Configure will look for $Config{startperl}.
 
-$file = basename($0);
-$file =~ s/\.PL$//i;
+# This forces PL files to create target in same directory as PL file.
+# This is so that make depend always knows where to find PL derivatives.
+$origdir = cwd;
+chdir dirname($0);
+$file = basename($0, '.PL');
 $file .= '.com' if $^O eq 'VMS';
 
-chdir("pod") or die "Can't chdir to pod: $!";
 open OUT,">$file" or die "Can't create $file: $!";
 
 print "Extracting $file (with variable substitutions)\n";
@@ -1231,3 +1234,4 @@ BEGIN {
 close OUT or die "Can't close $file: $!";
 chmod 0755, $file or die "Can't reset permissions for $file: $!\n";
 exec("$Config{'eunicefix'} $file") if $Config{'eunicefix'} ne ':';
+chdir $origdir;