[ID 20000731.007] error message not in perldiag

This is a bug report for perl from bgriffin@cddb.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.


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While checking with -wc a script that had a syntax error I
got an odd error message not described in perldiag.

$ perl5.6.0 -wc
use strict;
use vars qw( $a $b $c $syntaxerror;
	      $d $e $f );
package 'vars' not registered for warnings at - line 2
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at - line 3.


Incidentally, perl5.00503 did not highlight this error, but
reported an 'Global symbol "$syntaxerror" requires explicit
package name' error when I first used the variable, which
got me to find the typo.


Unrelated, but I notice in the config information below that
the archname is misleading. I originally tried to build a
multiplicity enabled perl, but the compile failed so I did
a make clean and reran configure, only changing that one
option, but the archname did not change. Is that a bug or
an improper build?

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

Configured by bgriffin at Fri Jul 28 14:55:44 PDT 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.2.5-15, archname=i686-linux-thread-multi
    uname='linux bgriffin-unx 2.2.5-15 #1 mon apr 19 23:00:46 edt 1999 i686 unknown '
    config_args=''
    hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=define useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define 
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=define usesocks=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'
    ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -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=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='long double', nvsize=12, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc-2.1.1.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.6.0:
    /home/bgriffin/perl5lib
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i686-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i686-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.6.0:
    HOME=/home/bgriffin
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/bgriffin/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
    PERL5LIB=/home/bgriffin/perl5lib
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/ksh

• [ID 20000731.007] error message not in perldiag by Benjamin Elijah Griffin