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Re: perl 5.8.1: perldoc perl fails
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
- To: "Joerg R. Schaible" <joerg dot schaible at web dot de>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 00:49:01 +0100
- Subject: Re: perl 5.8.1: perldoc perl fails
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <atvi2a$615$1@main.gmane.org>
Hallo Joerg,
Am Freitag, 20. Dezember 2002 um 17:55 schriebst du:
> Hi Perl maintainer,
> using the new experimental Perl 5.8.1 release, the command
> $ perldoc perl
> Can't open /usr/bin/perl: No such file or directory at /bin/perldoc line
> 206.
perldoc perl.pod works well
> fails to present the Perl manual overview. Calling the manual pages
> directly, anything works well:
> perldoc perlfun
> It seems that perldoc does not find the /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1/pods/perl.pod,
> because it matches somehow /usr/bin/perl first.
Yes, please fix it :-)
I just figured that calling: perldoc perl.pod works well.
I tried to understand what happens in the perldoc script
and I have no idea why it doesn't work. And most
interesting is that it works with perl 5.6.1.
Gerrit
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