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From:
Robin Barker
Date:
March 22, 2000 06:06
Subject:
[ID 20000322.006] incorrect pod2man output from long =item paragraphs
Message ID:
200003221405.OAA11103@tempest.npl.co.uk
This is a bug report for perl from rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.
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pod2man -lax ~/appl/lib/perl5/5.6.0/pod/perlport.pod | nroff -man
produces
nroff: Macro argument too long; line 752, file <standard input>
{ I found this from C<perldoc perlport> which gives up and
produces raw text }
A number of other pod pages produce strange output because the
text following =item is too long. For example C<perldoc perl>
produces
DBM implementations)
o roll-your-
own magic variables (including multiple simultaneous
Described in the perltie manpage and the AnyDBM_File
manpage.
instead of (something like)
o roll-your-own magic variables (including multiple simultaneous
DBM implementations)
Described in the perltie manpage and the AnyDBM_File
manpage.
This may be a limitation in nroff, in which case Pod::Man should
trap this an do something sensible with the extra text.
Otherwise we could rewrite the pods which have these long =item's.
Robin
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Flags:
category=utilities
severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl v5.6.0:
Configured by rmb1 at Tue Mar 21 15:21:17 GMT 2000.
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
Platform:
osname=solaris, osvers=2.7, archname=sun4-solaris-64int
uname='sunos tempest 5.7 generic_106541-04 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-5_10 '
config_args='-des -Dcc=gcc -Dprefix=~/appl -Dman1dir=none -Dman3dir=none -Doptimize=-O -g -Dcf_email=rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk -Dcy_by=Robin Barker -Duseperlio -Uinstallusrbinperl -Duselargefiles -Duse64bitint'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define
use64bitint=define use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef
Compiler:
cc='gcc', optimize='-O -g', gccversion=2.95.1 19990816 (release)
cppflags='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
ccflags ='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'
stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib '
libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lsec
libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/local/lib'
Locally applied patches:
v5.6.0-RC3
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@INC for perl v5.6.0:
/home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
/home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/5.6.0/sun4-solaris-64int
/home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/5.6.0
/home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/sun4-solaris-64int
/home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
/home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/site_perl
.
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Environment for perl v5.6.0:
HOME=/home/rmb1
LANG=C
LANGUAGE (unset)
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib
LOGDIR (unset)
PATH=/home/rmb1/appl/script:/usr/tempest/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/Admigration/exec:/usr/local/hotjava/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin
PERL5LIB=/home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
PERL_BADLANG (unset)
SHELL=/bin/csh
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