i do "h2xs -AXn MyModule" to start out a new perl module, and i get
-rw-r--r-- 1 will serensof 119 Jul 11 16:42 Changes -rw-r--r-- 1 will serensof 47 Jul 11 16:42 MANIFEST -rw-r--r-- 1 will serensof 231 Jul 11 16:42 Makefile.PL -rw-r--r-- 1 will serensof 44237 Jul 11 16:42 MyModule.pm -rw-r--r-- 1 will serensof 651 Jul 11 16:42 test.pl i can then perl Makefile.PL make make test make install and all is well. -- BUT when i get those SAME EXACT FILES via cvs -d /yada/yada checkout myVeryOwnProject and then try $ cd myVeryOwnProject $ perl Makefile.PL Writing Makefile for MyModule $ make Makefile:430: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop. i've done a diff on the two resulting "Makefile"s and there's lots, lots, lots. under RCS, all went well, under CVS, "make" is broken somehow. (line 430 is " tardist : $(DISTVNAME).tar$(SUFFIX) " if it's relevant) what did i miss, here? -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #67 from Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Did you know MANPAGES ARE IN SEVERAL SECTIONS? For example, user commands are in section 2 of the manual, and system administration items are in section 8; to request a particular section via "man" include it before the item: man 7 regex (otherwise you'll probably see regex from section 3 instead.) To see ALL pages with a particular name, try man -a regex every matching manpage (from whichever section) will be presented, one-by-one. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...