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Re: [perl #122905] pod2html crash on Linux

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From:
Aristotle Pagaltzis
Date:
October 5, 2014 17:48
Subject:
Re: [perl #122905] pod2html crash on Linux
Message ID:
20141005174827.GA52068@plasmasturm.org
* James E Keenan via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> [2014-10-05 16:50]:
> On Sat Oct 04 06:47:16 2014, shell_way@foxmail.com wrote:
> > Signal SEGV at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/HTML/Parser.pm line 17.
> >     require HTML/Parser.pm called at
> > […snip…]
> > [1]    11156 abort (core dumped)  perl -d $(which pod2html)
>
> […]  If, for example, you were to install HTML::Entities on this
> system, would you still encounter the problem described in this story?

Does it matter? Perl should not react to missing modules by segfaulting.

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