There is an ongoing outage on the primary CPAN mirror. It is possible to work around the issue by using MetaCPAN as a mirror.

if ($self->{opts}->{include_dir}) {
    $filename = File::Spec->rel2abs($path, $self->{opts}->{include_dir});
    return $filename if -e $filename;
}

1 POD Error

The following errors were encountered while parsing the POD:

Around line 377:

Unknown directive: =comment