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From:
Mark-Jason Dominus
Date:
April 24, 2000 16:41
Subject:
PATCH 5.6.0: Replacement for previous patch
Message ID:
20000424234320.28374.qmail@plover.com

I forgot to patch perldiag.pod.  This patch includes both changes.

--- perl.c	2000/04/24 23:16:47	1.1
+++ perl.c	2000/04/24 23:37:19
@@ -2135,6 +2135,8 @@
 		    sv_catpv( sv, " ()");
 		}
 	    } else {
+                if (s == start)
+                    Perl_croak(aTHX_ "Module name required with -M option");
 		sv_catpvn(sv, start, s-start);
 		sv_catpv(sv, " split(/,/,q{");
 		sv_catpv(sv, ++s);
--- pod/perldiag.pod	2000/04/24 23:40:20	1.1
+++ pod/perldiag.pod	2000/04/24 23:41:29
@@ -3627,6 +3627,12 @@
 may appear if components are not found, or are too long.  See
 "PERLLIB_PREFIX" in F<README.os2>.
 
+=item Module name required with -M option
+
+(F) The C<-M> option says that Perl should load some module, but you
+omitted the name of the module.  Consult L<perlrun> for full details
+about C<-M>.
+
 =item PERL_SH_DIR too long
 
 (F) An error peculiar to OS/2. PERL_SH_DIR is the directory to find the

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