# New Ticket Created by Enrico Sorcinelli # Please include the string: [perl #36967] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=36967 >
This is a bug report for perl from [EMAIL PROTECTED],
generated with the help of perlbug 1.35 running under perl v5.8.7.
Pod/Perldoc.pm adds also .pod extension (to perldoc argument) only if:
1) -m switch hasn't been specified
or
2) for 'pod/' or 'pods/' subdirectories (even if -m switch has been specified).
Sincerely, I don't know if there's a directive and/or specification and/or a
reason that suggests to put *.pod files (shipped in a distribution) into a pod/
or pods/ subdirectory, but there are many CPAN modules that don't do it! :-)
So for example:
%> perldoc -m perlboot
works well (in general with all core pods, since them lives under pods/
directory), but:
%> perldoc -m lwpcook
doesn't work (with the last you must have LWP installed in your system).
IMHO, 1) and 2) conditions are a nonsense together.
I've included a simple patch over Pod/Perldoc.pm 3.14 for checking
also .pod (indipendently from -m switch presence).
Regards
- Enrico
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Flags:
category=library
severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl v5.8.7:
Configured by bepi at Thu Aug 4 15:55:39 CEST 2005.
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 7) configuration:
Platform:
osname=linux, osvers=2.4.22, archname=i686-linux-thread-multi
uname='linux helena 2.4.22 #6 tue sep 2 17:43:01 pdt 2003 i686 unknown
unknown gnulinux '
config_args='-des -Dprefix=/disk2/local/perl-5.8.7 -Dusethreads'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define
usemultiplicity=define
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
optimize='-O2',
cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include'
ccversion='', gccversion='3.2.3', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
lseeksize=8
alignbytes=4, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
libc=/lib/libc-2.3.2.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
gnulibc_version='2.3.2'
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'
Locally applied patches:
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@INC for perl v5.8.7:
/disk2/local/perl-5.8.7/lib/5.8.7/i686-linux-thread-multi
/disk2/local/perl-5.8.7/lib/5.8.7
/disk2/local/perl-5.8.7/lib/site_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux-thread-multi
/disk2/local/perl-5.8.7/lib/site_perl/5.8.7
/disk2/local/perl-5.8.7/lib/site_perl
.
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Environment for perl v5.8.7:
HOME=/home/bepi
LANG=C
LANGUAGE (unset)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
LOGDIR (unset)
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/www/htdig/bin:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/lib/qt-3.2.1/bin:.
PERL_BADLANG (unset)
SHELL=/bin/bash
Perldoc.pm-3.14-switchm_patch
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