Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 00:49:01 +0100 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <431223822683.20021228004901@familiehaase.de> To: "Joerg R. Schaible" CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: perl 5.8.1: perldoc perl fails In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 320081107336-0001@t-dialin.net 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 -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/