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1#!/usr/bin/perl
2#
3# Special wrapper script to generate the actual pod2man script.  This is
4# required for proper start-up code on non-UNIX platforms, and is used inside
5# Perl core.
6
7use 5.006;
8use strict;
9use warnings;
10
11use Config qw(%Config);
12use Cwd qw(cwd);
13use File::Basename qw(basename dirname);
14
15# List explicitly here the variables you want Configure to generate.
16# Metaconfig only looks for shell variables, so you have to mention them as if
17# they were shell variables, not %Config entries.  Thus you write
18#  $startperl
19# to ensure Configure will look for $Config{startperl}.
20
21# This forces PL files to create target in same directory as PL file.
22# This is so that make depend always knows where to find PL derivatives.
23chdir(dirname($0)) or die "Cannot change directories: $!\n";
24my $file = basename($0, '.PL');
25if ($^O eq 'VMS') {
26    $file .= '.com';
27}
28
29# Create the generated script.
30## no critic (InputOutput::RequireBriefOpen)
31## no critic (InputOutput::RequireCheckedSyscalls)
32open(my $out, '>', $file) or die "Cannot create $file: $!\n";
33print "Extracting $file (with variable substitutions)\n";
34## use critic
35
36# In this section, Perl variables will be expanded during extraction.  You can
37# use $Config{...} to use Configure variables.
38print {$out} <<"PREAMBLE" or die "Cannot write to $file: $!\n";
39$Config{startperl}
40    eval 'exec $Config{perlpath} -S \$0 \${1+"\$@"}'
41        if \$running_under_some_shell;
42PREAMBLE
43
44# In the following, Perl variables are not expanded during extraction.
45print {$out} <<'SCRIPT_BODY' or die "Cannot write to $file: $!\n";
46
47# pod2man -- Convert POD data to formatted *roff input.
48#
49# Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015,
50#     2016, 2017 Russ Allbery <rra@cpan.org>
51#
52# This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
53# under the same terms as Perl itself.
54
55use 5.006;
56use strict;
57use warnings;
58
59use Getopt::Long qw(GetOptions);
60use Pod::Man ();
61use Pod::Usage qw(pod2usage);
62
63use strict;
64
65# Clean up $0 for error reporting.
66$0 =~ s%.*/%%;
67
68# Insert -- into @ARGV before any single dash argument to hide it from
69# Getopt::Long; we want to interpret it as meaning stdin.
70my $stdin;
71@ARGV = map { $_ eq '-' && !$stdin++ ? ('--', $_) : $_ } @ARGV;
72
73# Parse our options, trying to retain backward compatibility with pod2man but
74# allowing short forms as well.  --lax is currently ignored.
75my %options;
76Getopt::Long::config ('bundling_override');
77GetOptions (\%options, 'center|c=s', 'date|d=s', 'errors=s', 'fixed=s',
78            'fixedbold=s', 'fixeditalic=s', 'fixedbolditalic=s', 'help|h',
79            'lax|l', 'lquote=s', 'name|n=s', 'nourls', 'official|o',
80            'quotes|q=s', 'release|r=s', 'rquote=s', 'section|s=s', 'stderr',
81            'verbose|v', 'utf8|u')
82    or exit 1;
83pod2usage (0) if $options{help};
84
85# Official sets --center, but don't override things explicitly set.
86if ($options{official} && !defined $options{center}) {
87    $options{center} = 'Perl Programmers Reference Guide';
88}
89
90# Verbose is only our flag, not a Pod::Man flag.
91my $verbose = $options{verbose};
92delete $options{verbose};
93
94# This isn't a valid Pod::Man option and is only accepted for backward
95# compatibility.
96delete $options{lax};
97
98# If neither stderr nor errors is set, default to errors = die.
99if (!defined $options{stderr} && !defined $options{errors}) {
100    $options{errors} = 'die';
101}
102
103# Initialize and run the formatter, pulling a pair of input and output off at
104# a time.  For each file, we check whether the document was completely empty
105# and, if so, will remove the created file and exit with a non-zero exit
106# status.
107my $parser = Pod::Man->new (%options);
108my $status = 0;
109my @files;
110do {
111    @files = splice (@ARGV, 0, 2);
112    print "  $files[1]\n" if $verbose;
113    $parser->parse_from_file (@files);
114    if ($parser->{CONTENTLESS}) {
115        $status = 1;
116        if (defined $files[0]) {
117            warn "$0: unable to format $files[0]\n";
118        } else {
119            warn "$0: unable to format standard input\n";
120        }
121        if (defined ($files[1]) and $files[1] ne '-') {
122            unlink $files[1] unless (-s $files[1]);
123        }
124    }
125} while (@ARGV);
126exit $status;
127
128__END__
129
130=for stopwords
131en em --stderr stderr --utf8 UTF-8 overdo markup MT-LEVEL Allbery Solaris
132URL troff troff-specific formatters uppercased Christiansen --nourls UTC
133prepend lquote rquote
134
135=head1 NAME
136
137pod2man - Convert POD data to formatted *roff input
138
139=head1 SYNOPSIS
140
141pod2man [B<--center>=I<string>] [B<--date>=I<string>] [B<--errors>=I<style>]
142    [B<--fixed>=I<font>] [B<--fixedbold>=I<font>] [B<--fixeditalic>=I<font>]
143    [B<--fixedbolditalic>=I<font>] [B<--name>=I<name>] [B<--nourls>]
144    [B<--official>] [B<--release>=I<version>] [B<--section>=I<manext>]
145    [B<--quotes>=I<quotes>] [B<--lquote>=I<quote>] [B<--rquote>=I<quote>]
146    [B<--stderr>] [B<--utf8>] [B<--verbose>] [I<input> [I<output>] ...]
147
148pod2man B<--help>
149
150=head1 DESCRIPTION
151
152B<pod2man> is a front-end for Pod::Man, using it to generate *roff input
153from POD source.  The resulting *roff code is suitable for display on a
154terminal using nroff(1), normally via man(1), or printing using troff(1).
155
156I<input> is the file to read for POD source (the POD can be embedded in
157code).  If I<input> isn't given, it defaults to C<STDIN>.  I<output>, if
158given, is the file to which to write the formatted output.  If I<output>
159isn't given, the formatted output is written to C<STDOUT>.  Several POD
160files can be processed in the same B<pod2man> invocation (saving module
161load and compile times) by providing multiple pairs of I<input> and
162I<output> files on the command line.
163
164B<--section>, B<--release>, B<--center>, B<--date>, and B<--official> can
165be used to set the headers and footers to use; if not given, Pod::Man will
166assume various defaults.  See below or L<Pod::Man> for details.
167
168B<pod2man> assumes that your *roff formatters have a fixed-width font
169named C<CW>.  If yours is called something else (like C<CR>), use
170B<--fixed> to specify it.  This generally only matters for troff output
171for printing.  Similarly, you can set the fonts used for bold, italic, and
172bold italic fixed-width output.
173
174Besides the obvious pod conversions, Pod::Man, and therefore pod2man also
175takes care of formatting func(), func(n), and simple variable references
176like $foo or @bar so you don't have to use code escapes for them; complex
177expressions like C<$fred{'stuff'}> will still need to be escaped, though.
178It also translates dashes that aren't used as hyphens into en dashes, makes
179long dashes--like this--into proper em dashes, fixes "paired quotes," and
180takes care of several other troff-specific tweaks.  See L<Pod::Man> for
181complete information.
182
183=head1 OPTIONS
184
185=over 4
186
187=item B<-c> I<string>, B<--center>=I<string>
188
189Sets the centered page header for the C<.TH> macro to I<string>.  The
190default is "User Contributed Perl Documentation", but also see
191B<--official> below.
192
193=item B<-d> I<string>, B<--date>=I<string>
194
195Set the left-hand footer string for the C<.TH> macro to I<string>.  By
196default, the modification date of the input file will be used, or the
197current date if input comes from C<STDIN>, and will be based on UTC (so
198that the output will be reproducible regardless of local time zone).
199
200=item B<--errors>=I<style>
201
202Set the error handling style.  C<die> says to throw an exception on any
203POD formatting error.  C<stderr> says to report errors on standard error,
204but not to throw an exception.  C<pod> says to include a POD ERRORS
205section in the resulting documentation summarizing the errors.  C<none>
206ignores POD errors entirely, as much as possible.
207
208The default is C<die>.
209
210=item B<--fixed>=I<font>
211
212The fixed-width font to use for verbatim text and code.  Defaults to
213C<CW>.  Some systems may want C<CR> instead.  Only matters for troff(1)
214output.
215
216=item B<--fixedbold>=I<font>
217
218Bold version of the fixed-width font.  Defaults to C<CB>.  Only matters
219for troff(1) output.
220
221=item B<--fixeditalic>=I<font>
222
223Italic version of the fixed-width font (actually, something of a misnomer,
224since most fixed-width fonts only have an oblique version, not an italic
225version).  Defaults to C<CI>.  Only matters for troff(1) output.
226
227=item B<--fixedbolditalic>=I<font>
228
229Bold italic (probably actually oblique) version of the fixed-width font.
230Pod::Man doesn't assume you have this, and defaults to C<CB>.  Some
231systems (such as Solaris) have this font available as C<CX>.  Only matters
232for troff(1) output.
233
234=item B<-h>, B<--help>
235
236Print out usage information.
237
238=item B<-l>, B<--lax>
239
240No longer used.  B<pod2man> used to check its input for validity as a
241manual page, but this should now be done by L<podchecker(1)> instead.
242Accepted for backward compatibility; this option no longer does anything.
243
244=item B<--lquote>=I<quote>
245
246=item B<--rquote>=I<quote>
247
248Sets the quote marks used to surround CE<lt>> text.  B<--lquote> sets the
249left quote mark and B<--rquote> sets the right quote mark.  Either may also
250be set to the special value C<none>, in which case no quote mark is added
251on that side of CE<lt>> text (but the font is still changed for troff
252output).
253
254Also see the B<--quotes> option, which can be used to set both quotes at once.
255If both B<--quotes> and one of the other options is set, B<--lquote> or
256B<--rquote> overrides B<--quotes>.
257
258=item B<-n> I<name>, B<--name>=I<name>
259
260Set the name of the manual page for the C<.TH> macro to I<name>.  Without
261this option, the manual name is set to the uppercased base name of the
262file being converted unless the manual section is 3, in which case the
263path is parsed to see if it is a Perl module path.  If it is, a path like
264C<.../lib/Pod/Man.pm> is converted into a name like C<Pod::Man>.  This
265option, if given, overrides any automatic determination of the name.
266
267Although one does not have to follow this convention, be aware that the
268convention for UNIX man pages for commands is for the man page title to be
269in all-uppercase, even if the command isn't.
270
271This option is probably not useful when converting multiple POD files at
272once.
273
274When converting POD source from standard input, the name will be set to
275C<STDIN> if this option is not provided.  Providing this option is strongly
276recommended to set a meaningful manual page name.
277
278=item B<--nourls>
279
280Normally, LZ<><> formatting codes with a URL but anchor text are formatted
281to show both the anchor text and the URL.  In other words:
282
283    L<foo|http://example.com/>
284
285is formatted as:
286
287    foo <http://example.com/>
288
289This flag, if given, suppresses the URL when anchor text is given, so this
290example would be formatted as just C<foo>.  This can produce less
291cluttered output in cases where the URLs are not particularly important.
292
293=item B<-o>, B<--official>
294
295Set the default header to indicate that this page is part of the standard
296Perl release, if B<--center> is not also given.
297
298=item B<-q> I<quotes>, B<--quotes>=I<quotes>
299
300Sets the quote marks used to surround CE<lt>> text to I<quotes>.  If
301I<quotes> is a single character, it is used as both the left and right
302quote.  Otherwise, it is split in half, and the first half of the string
303is used as the left quote and the second is used as the right quote.
304
305I<quotes> may also be set to the special value C<none>, in which case no
306quote marks are added around CE<lt>> text (but the font is still changed for
307troff output).
308
309Also see the B<--lquote> and B<--rquote> options, which can be used to set the
310left and right quotes independently.  If both B<--quotes> and one of the other
311options is set, B<--lquote> or B<--rquote> overrides B<--quotes>.
312
313=item B<-r> I<version>, B<--release>=I<version>
314
315Set the centered footer for the C<.TH> macro to I<version>.  By default,
316this is set to the version of Perl you run B<pod2man> under.  Setting this
317to the empty string will cause some *roff implementations to use the
318system default value.
319
320Note that some system C<an> macro sets assume that the centered footer
321will be a modification date and will prepend something like "Last
322modified: ".  If this is the case for your target system, you may want to
323set B<--release> to the last modified date and B<--date> to the version
324number.
325
326=item B<-s> I<string>, B<--section>=I<string>
327
328Set the section for the C<.TH> macro.  The standard section numbering
329convention is to use 1 for user commands, 2 for system calls, 3 for
330functions, 4 for devices, 5 for file formats, 6 for games, 7 for
331miscellaneous information, and 8 for administrator commands.  There is a lot
332of variation here, however; some systems (like Solaris) use 4 for file
333formats, 5 for miscellaneous information, and 7 for devices.  Still others
334use 1m instead of 8, or some mix of both.  About the only section numbers
335that are reliably consistent are 1, 2, and 3.
336
337By default, section 1 will be used unless the file ends in C<.pm>, in
338which case section 3 will be selected.
339
340=item B<--stderr>
341
342By default, B<pod2man> dies if any errors are detected in the POD input.
343If B<--stderr> is given and no B<--errors> flag is present, errors are
344sent to standard error, but B<pod2man> does not abort.  This is equivalent
345to C<--errors=stderr> and is supported for backward compatibility.
346
347=item B<-u>, B<--utf8>
348
349By default, B<pod2man> produces the most conservative possible *roff
350output to try to ensure that it will work with as many different *roff
351implementations as possible.  Many *roff implementations cannot handle
352non-ASCII characters, so this means all non-ASCII characters are converted
353either to a *roff escape sequence that tries to create a properly accented
354character (at least for troff output) or to C<X>.
355
356This option says to instead output literal UTF-8 characters.  If your
357*roff implementation can handle it, this is the best output format to use
358and avoids corruption of documents containing non-ASCII characters.
359However, be warned that *roff source with literal UTF-8 characters is not
360supported by many implementations and may even result in segfaults and
361other bad behavior.
362
363Be aware that, when using this option, the input encoding of your POD
364source should be properly declared unless it's US-ASCII.  Pod::Simple will
365attempt to guess the encoding and may be successful if it's Latin-1 or
366UTF-8, but it will warn, which by default results in a B<pod2man> failure.
367Use the C<=encoding> command to declare the encoding.  See L<perlpod(1)>
368for more information.
369
370=item B<-v>, B<--verbose>
371
372Print out the name of each output file as it is being generated.
373
374=back
375
376=head1 EXIT STATUS
377
378As long as all documents processed result in some output, even if that
379output includes errata (a C<POD ERRORS> section generated with
380C<--errors=pod>), B<pod2man> will exit with status 0.  If any of the
381documents being processed do not result in an output document, B<pod2man>
382will exit with status 1.  If there are syntax errors in a POD document
383being processed and the error handling style is set to the default of
384C<die>, B<pod2man> will abort immediately with exit status 255.
385
386=head1 DIAGNOSTICS
387
388If B<pod2man> fails with errors, see L<Pod::Man> and L<Pod::Simple> for
389information about what those errors might mean.
390
391=head1 EXAMPLES
392
393    pod2man program > program.1
394    pod2man SomeModule.pm /usr/perl/man/man3/SomeModule.3
395    pod2man --section=7 note.pod > note.7
396
397If you would like to print out a lot of man page continuously, you probably
398want to set the C and D registers to set contiguous page numbering and
399even/odd paging, at least on some versions of man(7).
400
401    troff -man -rC1 -rD1 perl.1 perldata.1 perlsyn.1 ...
402
403To get index entries on C<STDERR>, turn on the F register, as in:
404
405    troff -man -rF1 perl.1
406
407The indexing merely outputs messages via C<.tm> for each major page,
408section, subsection, item, and any C<XE<lt>E<gt>> directives.  See
409L<Pod::Man> for more details.
410
411=head1 BUGS
412
413Lots of this documentation is duplicated from L<Pod::Man>.
414
415=head1 SEE ALSO
416
417L<Pod::Man>, L<Pod::Simple>, L<man(1)>, L<nroff(1)>, L<perlpod(1)>,
418L<podchecker(1)>, L<perlpodstyle(1)>, L<troff(1)>, L<man(7)>
419
420The man page documenting the an macro set may be L<man(5)> instead of
421L<man(7)> on your system.
422
423The current version of this script is always available from its web site at
424L<http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/podlators/>.  It is also part of the
425Perl core distribution as of 5.6.0.
426
427=head1 AUTHOR
428
429Russ Allbery <rra@cpan.org>, based I<very> heavily on the original
430B<pod2man> by Larry Wall and Tom Christiansen.
431
432=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
433
434Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014,
4352015, 2016, 2017 Russ Allbery <rra@cpan.org>
436
437This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
438under the same terms as Perl itself.
439
440=cut
441SCRIPT_BODY
442
443# Finish the generation of the script.
444close($out) or die "Cannot close $file: $!\n";
445chmod(0755, $file) or die "Cannot reset permissions for $file: $!\n";
446if ($Config{'eunicefix'} ne q{:}) {
447    exec("$Config{'eunicefix'} $file");
448}
449