It was Tuesday, December 09, 2003 when [EMAIL PROTECTED] took the soap box, saying: : This is automatically generated email about problems in a man page for which : you appear to be responsible. If you are not the right person or list, tell : me and I will attempt to correct my database. : : See http://catb.org/~esr/doclifter/problems.html for details on how and : why these patches were generated. Feel free to email me with any questions. : : Problems with DynaLoader.3pm: : 1. There are multiple name lines. This makes it impossible to translate : the page to DocBook. It may also confuse some implementations : of man -k. [sniped bad patch] : Problems with Getopt::Std.3pm: : 1. There are multiple name lines. This makes it impossible to translate : the page to DocBook. It may also confuse some implementations : of man -k. [sniped bad patch] : Problems with perlce.1: : 1. Missing or garbled name section. The most common form of garbling : is a missing - or extra -. Or your manual page may have been generated : by a tool that doesn't emit a NAME section as it should. These : problems make it impossible to lift the page to DocBook. They : can also confuse some implementations of man -k. [sniped bad patch]
This one was fixed in a recent version of Perl. For the others, see the patch below. They make your system happy, but I don't know if they're a correct implementation. Casey West -- Shooting yourself in the foot with Powerbuilder While attempting to load the gun you discover that the LoadGun system function is buggy; as a work around you tape the bullet to the outside of the gun and unsuccessfully attempt to fire it with a nail. In frustration you club your foot with the butt of the gun and explain to your client that this approximates the functionality of shooting yourself in the foot and that the next version of Powerbuilder will fix it. diff -ru perl-current-orig/ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader_pm.PL perl-current/ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader_pm.PL --- perl-current-orig/ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader_pm.PL Sun Nov 2 14:41:32 2003 +++ perl-current/ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader_pm.PL Tue Dec 9 16:32:10 2003 @@ -508,8 +508,7 @@ =head1 NAME -DynaLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code - +DynaLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code; dl_error(), dl_findfile(), dl_expandspec(), dl_load_file(), dl_unload_file(), dl_find_symbol(), dl_find_symbol_anywhere(), dl_undef_symbols(), dl_install_xsub(), dl_load_flags(), bootstrap() - routines used by DynaLoader modules =head1 SYNOPSIS diff -ru perl-current-orig/lib/Getopt/Std.pm perl-current/lib/Getopt/Std.pm --- perl-current-orig/lib/Getopt/Std.pm Tue Sep 16 16:06:11 2003 +++ perl-current/lib/Getopt/Std.pm Tue Dec 9 16:32:52 2003 @@ -4,9 +4,7 @@ =head1 NAME -getopt - Process single-character switches with switch clustering - -getopts - Process single-character switches with switch clustering +getopt, getopts - Process single-character switches with switch clustering =head1 SYNOPSIS
