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On Sun Jun 02 15:07:32 2013, dom wrote: > > This is a bug report for perl from dom@earth.li, > generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.18.0. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > perldoc used to spit out the raw POD if no nroffer was available, > but now it fails altogether: > > | $ perldoc perldoc > | Use of uninitialized value $roffer in concatenation (.) or string at > /usr/share/perl/5.18/Pod/Perldoc/ToMan.pm line 53. > | Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at > /usr/share/perl/5.18/Pod/Perldoc/ToMan.pm line 303. > | Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at > /usr/share/perl/5.18/Pod/Perldoc/ToMan.pm line 308. > | Error while formatting with Pod::Perldoc::ToMan: > | no nroffer!? > | at /usr/share/perl/5.18/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 1346. > | > | > | at /usr/bin/perldoc line 10. > | Got a 0-length file from /usr/share/perl/5.18/pod/perldoc.pod via > Pod::Perldoc::ToMan!? > | > | at /usr/bin/perldoc line 10. > > Ideally, it should fall back to Pod::Text (aka perldoc -t), which is > always available and doesn't rely on any external formatter. > > This is also > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=710107> > dom, thanks for the report. Do you know whether this first appeared in 5.18.0? Or in some earlier version? Thank you very much. Jim Keenan --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: new https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=118271Thread Previous | Thread Next