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On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 03:15:02PM -0700, James E Keenan via RT wrote: > 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? It appears in 5.16.3 and not 5.14.2. Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)Thread Next