Bugzilla – Bug 472401
perldoc does not display docs correct
Last modified: 2009-02-13 10:40:26 UTC
mweckbecker@s3gfault:~> perldoc perlop "/tmp/n15JhTLiFN" may be a binary file. See it anyway? mweckbecker@s3gfault:~> perldoc seems to have problems when opening the perl documentation. However `man perlop' works as expected. Problem verified on two 11.1 machines. Bug!?
perldoc with additional DEBUG flag = 1 ======================================================================== mweckbecker@s3gfault:~> export PERLDOCDEBUG=1 mweckbecker@s3gfault:~> perldoc perlop 'opt_o_with: Noting "text" as desired output format... 'opt_o_with: Noting "man" as desired output format... 'GetOptsOO::getopts: Starting switch processing. Scanning arguments [perlop] 'GetOptsOO::getopts: Ending switch processing. Args are [perlop] with 0 errors. 'process: /usr/bin/perldoc => Pod::Perldoc v3.14_02 'process: 'find_good_formatter_class: Formatter class Pod::Perldoc::ToMan successfully loaded! 'find_good_formatter_class: Will format with the class Pod::Perldoc::ToMan 'grand_search_init: Searching for perlop 'searchfor: Looking for perlop in /usr/bin /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl . /opt/kde3/bin /usr/lib/mpi/gcc/openmpi/bin /suse/mweckbecker/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/bin/X11 /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/games /usr/lib/jvm/jre/bin /work/src/bin /work/src/bin/tools 'grand_search_init: Found as /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/pod/perlop.pod About to run /usr/bin/pod2man --lax /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/pod/perlop.pod | nroff -man -rLL=118n filter_nroff isn't set, so not filtering. Finished writing to /tmp/GzJKbjqYvb. 'page: About to try calling less /tmp/GzJKbjqYvb "/tmp/GzJKbjqYvb" may be a binary file. See it anyway? ========================================================================