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. Note: This patch does not change the mod date of the manual page. You may wish to do that by hand. Problems with Carp.3pm: (May reflect bugs in POD). 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. --- Carp.3pm-orig 2003-12-15 09:23:36.000000000 -0500 +++ Carp.3pm 2003-12-15 09:25:06.000000000 -0500 @@ -131,18 +131,7 @@ .IX Title "Carp 3pm" .TH Carp 3pm "2002-06-01" "perl v5.8.0" "Perl Programmers Reference Guide" .SH "NAME" -carp \- warn of errors (from perspective of caller) -.PP -cluck \- warn of errors with stack backtrace - (not exported by default) -.PP -croak \- die of errors (from perspective of caller) -.PP -confess \- die of errors with stack backtrace -.PP -shortmess \- return the message that carp and croak produce -.PP -longmess \- return the message that cluck and confess produce +carp, cluck, croak, shortmess, longmess \- error-warning and exit facilities .SH "SYNOPSIS" .IX Header "SYNOPSIS" .Vb 2 Problems with File::Basename.3pm: (May reflect bugs in POD). 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. --- File::Basename.3pm-orig 2003-12-15 09:45:12.000000000 -0500 +++ File::Basename.3pm 2003-12-15 09:46:35.000000000 -0500 @@ -131,11 +131,7 @@ .IX Title "File::Basename 3pm" .TH File::Basename 3pm "2002-06-01" "perl v5.8.0" "Perl Programmers Reference Guide" .SH "NAME" -fileparse \- split a pathname into pieces -.PP -basename \- extract just the filename from a path -.PP -dirname \- extract just the directory from a path +fileparse, basename, dirname \- extract segments, basename, or directory name from a filename .SH "SYNOPSIS" .IX Header "SYNOPSIS" .Vb 1 Problems with pcrepattern.3: 1. Ambiguous or invalid backslash. This doesn't cause groff a problem. but it confuses doclifter and may confuse older troff implementations. --- pcrepattern.3-orig 2004-02-16 02:34:32.000000000 -0500 +++ pcrepattern.3 2004-02-16 02:36:14.000000000 -0500 @@ -1212,7 +1212,7 @@ can put a number less than 256 after the letter C. The default value is zero. For example, this pattern has two callout points: - (?C1)\dabc(?C2)def + (?C1)abc(?C2)def During matching, when PCRE reaches a callout point (and \fIpcre_callout\fR is set), the external function is called. It is provided with the number of the Problems with pcrecallout.3: 1. Ambiguous or invalid backslash. This doesn't cause groff a problem. but it confuses doclifter and may confuse older troff implementations. --- pcrecallout.3-orig 2004-02-16 02:41:26.000000000 -0500 +++ pcrecallout.3 2004-02-16 02:41:33.000000000 -0500 @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ a number less than 256 after the letter C. The default value is zero. For example, this pattern has two callout points: - (?C1)\dabc(?C2)def + (?C1)abc(?C2)def During matching, when PCRE reaches a callout point (and \fIpcre_callout\fR is set), the external function is called. Its only argument is a pointer to a -- Eric S. Raymond
