Hi,
When PDL is built from source, 'make install' does the following:
1) Firstly it installs the files - nothing unusual about that;
2) It then runs a perl script (scantree.pl) that generates some 
documentation files (eg pdldoc.db) for the perldl shell.

If PDL is installed using PPM, then that second step is currently not 
performed - and the perldl shell cannot access that documentation. Attempts 
to access the documentation at the perldl prompt result in an error message 
that pdldoc.db could not be found. (Hardly surprising since pdldoc.db didn't 
get built.)

So ... I need to:
1) Include scantree.pl in the ppm package. (Or does it need to be stored as 
a separate file on the ppm server ?)
2) After the PDL files have been installed by 'ppm install', run 'perl 
scantree.pl'.

Can this be handled automatically by the ppd file ?
Is there an example somewhere of a ppd file that runs a perl script (post 
installation) on the ppm client machine ?

I'm more or less familiar with post-install scripts that are run on the ppm 
server, but in this instance, uim, the post-install script needs to be run 
on the ppm client.

Cheers,
Rob 

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