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Larry W. Virden
Date:
March 30, 2000 08:12
Subject:
Problems reporting perl bugs
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0003301112.AA11068@cas.org

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From: "Larry W. Virden" <lvirden@srv01>
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Subject: fixes to miscellaneous pod files

This is a bug report for perl from lvirden@cas.org,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.


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--- perlsub.pod.bak	Fri Mar  3 13:55:45 2000
+++ perlsub.pod	Tue Mar 28 11:56:03 2000
@@ -156,3 +156,3 @@
 Notice how this (unprototyped) function doesn't care whether it was
-passed real scalars or arrays.  Perl sees all arugments as one big,
+passed real scalars or arrays.  Perl sees all arguments as one big,
 long, flat parameter list in C<@_>.  This is one area where
@@ -1272,3 +1272,3 @@
 See L<perlxs> if you'd like to learn about calling C subroutines from Perl.  
-See L<perlembed> if you'd like to learn about calling PErl subroutines from C.  
+See L<perlembed> if you'd like to learn about calling Perl subroutines from C.  
 See L<perlmod> to learn about bundling up your functions in separate files.
--- perlsyn.pod.bak	Wed Mar 22 15:03:13 2000
+++ perlsyn.pod	Tue Mar 28 11:56:54 2000
@@ -174,3 +174,3 @@
 desperate behavior triggers a warning if you use the C<use warnings>
-praga or the B<-w> flag.
+pragma or the B<-w> flag.
 Unlike a C<foreach> statement, a C<while> statement never implicitly
@@ -485,3 +485,3 @@
 something like this, which "switches" on the value of the
-C<HTTP_USER_AGENT> envariable.
+C<HTTP_USER_AGENT> environment variable.
 
--- perlthrtut.pod.bak	Sun Mar 19 02:37:24 2000
+++ perlthrtut.pod	Tue Mar 28 11:58:49 2000
@@ -720,3 +720,3 @@
 find it easier to serialize calls to a particular subroutine than to
-have a set of locks and sempahores.
+have a set of locks and semaphores.
 
@@ -1030,3 +1030,3 @@
 
-Tanenbaum, Andrew S. Distributed Operating Systems. Prentice Hall,
+Tannenbaum, Andrew S. Distributed Operating Systems. Prentice Hall,
 1995, ISBN 0-13-143934-0 (great textbook).
--- perltoc.pod.bak	Thu Mar 23 00:34:52 2000
+++ perltoc.pod	Tue Mar 28 12:06:10 2000
@@ -97,4 +97,4 @@
 Perl? [h2xs, xsubpp], I've read perlembed, perlguts, etc., but I can't
-embed perl inmy C program, what am I doing wrong?, When I tried to run my
-script, I got this message. What does itmean?, What's MakeMaker?,
+embed perl in my C program, what am I doing wrong?, When I tried to run my
+script, I got this message. What does it mean?, What's MakeMaker?,
 L<perlfaq4>: Data Manipulation, Why am I getting long decimals (eg,
--- perltodo.pod.bak	Fri Mar  3 13:46:53 2000
+++ perltodo.pod	Tue Mar 28 12:09:00 2000
@@ -87,3 +87,3 @@
 eye-catching.  For some things perl5 is faster than perl4, but often
-the reliability and extensability have come at a cost of speed.  The
+the reliability and extensibility have come at a cost of speed.  The
 benchmark suite that Gisle released earlier has been hailed as both a
@@ -163,3 +163,3 @@
 raised in TPC2 were all to do with calling DESTROY() methods, but
-I think we can accomodate that by extending bless() to stash
+I think we can accommodate that by extending bless() to stash
 extra information for objects so we track their lifetime accurately
--- perlvms.pod.bak	Tue Mar 14 00:54:10 2000
+++ perlvms.pod	Tue Mar 28 12:14:47 2000
@@ -571,3 +571,3 @@
 If LIST consists of the empty string, C<system> spawns an
-interactive DCL subprocess, in the same fashion as typiing
+interactive DCL subprocess, in the same fashion as typing
 B<SPAWN> at the DCL prompt.
@@ -599,3 +599,3 @@
 subprocesses spawned using L<fork> and L<exec>; it will not
-accumulate the times of suprocesses spawned via pipes, L<system>,
+accumulate the times of subprocesses spawned via pipes, L<system>,
 or backticks.
@@ -663,3 +663,3 @@
 "special" Perl variables, in addition to the general information
-in L<perlvar>.  Where there is a conflict, this infrmation
+in L<perlvar>.  Where there is a conflict, this information
 takes precedence.
--- perlwin32.pod.bak	Thu Mar 23 00:41:53 2000
+++ perlwin32.pod	Tue Mar 28 12:16:32 2000
@@ -87,3 +87,3 @@
 
-The nmake Makefile also has known incompatibilites with the
+The nmake Makefile also has known incompatibilities with the
 "command.com" shell that comes with Windows 9x.  You will need to
--- perlxs.pod.bak	Mon Feb 28 05:06:13 2000
+++ perlxs.pod	Tue Mar 28 12:18:41 2000
@@ -536,3 +536,3 @@
 The PREINIT: keyword allows extra variables to be declared immediately
-before or after the declartions of the parameters from the INPUT: section
+before or after the declarations of the parameters from the INPUT: section
 are emitted.
--- perlxstut.pod.bak	Mon Mar 13 16:39:16 2000
+++ perlxstut.pod	Tue Mar 28 12:20:04 2000
@@ -478,3 +478,3 @@
 values in an array and let the caller handle them (we'll do this in a later
-example).  However, in order to better accomodate calling pre-existing C
+example).  However, in order to better accommodate calling pre-existing C
 routines, which often do modify their input parameters, this behavior is


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Flags:
    category=docs
    severity=low
---
Site configuration information for perl v5.6.0:

Configured by lwv26 at Thu Mar 23 08:53:11 EST 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.6, archname=sun4-solaris
    uname='sunos lwv26awu 5.6 generic_105181-19 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-5_10 '
    config_args=''
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define 
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-g', gccversion=
    cppflags='-DDEBUGGING -I/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/include -I/vol/lwv26ldatae/include'
    ccflags ='-DDEBUGGING -I/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/include -I/vol/lwv26ldatae/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'
    stdchar='unsigned 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', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags ='-R/vol/SUNWspro/SC5.0/lib:/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/lib:/vol/lwv26ldatae/lib -L/vol/SUNWspro/SC5.0/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/ccs/lib -L/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/lib -L/vol/lwv26ldatae/lib '
    libpth=/vol/SUNWspro/SC5.0/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib /projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/lib /vol/lwv26ldatae/lib
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -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='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/vol/SUNWspro/SC5.0/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/ccs/lib -L/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/lib -L/vol/lwv26ldatae/lib  -R/vol/SUNWspro/SC5.0/lib:/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/lib:/vol/lwv26ldatae/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

---
@INC for perl v5.6.0:
    /home/lwv26/lib/perl5/
    /projects/sprs_lwv/lib/perl5/
    /vol/lwv26ldatae/lib/perl5/5.6.0/sun4-solaris
    /vol/lwv26ldatae/lib/perl5/5.6.0
    /vol/lwv26ldatae/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/sun4-solaris
    /vol/lwv26ldatae/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
    /vol/lwv26ldatae/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

---
Environment for perl v5.6.0:
    HOME=/home/lwv26
    LANG=C
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lprod/cas/lib:/usr/dt/lib:/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/lib
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/vol/SUNWspro/bin:/ldatae/bin:/projects/sprs_lwv/sol26/bin:/projects/sprs_lwv/sol26/bin/mime:/projects/sprs_lwv/sol2/bin:/projects/sprs_lwv/bin:/projects/sprs_lwv/bin/mime:/home/lwv26/bin/D.news:/usr/perl5/bin:/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/bin:/usr/tcl82/sun4/bin:/usr/tcl82/bin:/projects/xopsrc/sun4/bin:/projects/xopsrc/bin:/usr/atria/bin:/projects/intranet/bin:/projects/clearcase/bin:/vol/tclsrcsol/TclPro1.3/solaris-sparc/bin:/ldata2/teTeX/bin/sparc-sun-solaris2.6:/vol/adobe/Acrobat3/bin:/ldata/bin:/home/lwv26/bin/D.aws:/home/lwv26/bin/sol2:/home/lwv26/bin/D.frontend:/home/lwv26/bin/D.ksh:/cas/test/bin/sun4:/projects/sprs_lwv/bin/sol2:/usr/java1.2/bin:/home/lwv26/bin/sun4:/lprod/cas/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/bin:/cas/bin/sun4:/cas/abin/sun4:/cas/X11/sun4/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/uprod/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/cas/tools/bin/sun4:/cas/X11/sun4/tools/bin:/home/lwv26/bin:/cas/tools/pdbin/sun4:/home/lwv26/bin/D.mistypes:/home/lwv26/bin/D.toys:/home/lwv26/bin/D.tools:/projects/npd/npd
web/bin-sol2:/vol/tclsrcsol/TclPro/solaris-sparc/bin
    PERL5LIB=/home/lwv26/lib/perl5/:/projects/sprs_lwv/lib/perl5/:
    PERLDOC=-t
    PERLLIB=/home/lwv26/lib/perl:/projects/sprs_lwv/lib/perl:
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/ksh

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