Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > 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. > > I'll mark the perlce fix pending, then.
Looks like perlnetware.pod would need the same fix than perlce.pod. Casey, I'm not sure which fix you're referring to. > > 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 > > You sure you din't get this patch reversed? The removed line is good > (though technically that - should be \-; doclifter can cope with - > but some man -k implementations might not). The replacement isn't good. I'd prefer to drop completely the function list from the NAME section. For indexing freaks, there's always perltoc.pod. > > --- 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 Looks like splain(1) and diagnostics(3pm) have a similar problem. Strange, your report lists splain.1 but not diagnostics.3pm ? A good thing would be to improve podchecker to warn about substandard NAME sections. > Good, though the - ought to be \- I think pod2man takes care of this escape.
