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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldiag.pod | 31 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod index 5afdac4816..a7186e9846 100644 --- a/pod/perldiag.pod +++ b/pod/perldiag.pod @@ -1977,15 +1977,15 @@ which package the global variable is in (using "::"). =item glob failed (%s) -(W glob) Something went wrong with the external program(s) used for -C<glob> and C<< <*.c> >>. Usually, this means that you supplied a -C<glob> pattern that caused the external program to fail and exit with a +(W glob) Something went wrong with the external program(s) used +for C<glob> and C<< <*.c> >>. Usually, this means that you supplied a C<glob> +pattern that caused the external program to fail and exit with a nonzero status. If the message indicates that the abnormal exit -resulted in a coredump, this may also mean that your csh (C shell) is -broken. If so, you should change all of the csh-related variables in -config.sh: If you have tcsh, make the variables refer to it as if it -were csh (e.g. C<full_csh='/usr/bin/tcsh'>); otherwise, make them all -empty (except that C<d_csh> should be C<'undef'>) so that Perl will +resulted in a coredump, this may also mean that your csh (C shell) +is broken. If so, you should change all of the csh-related variables +in config.sh: If you have tcsh, make the variables refer to it as +if it were csh (e.g. C<full_csh='/usr/bin/tcsh'>); otherwise, make them +all empty (except that C<d_csh> should be C<'undef'>) so that Perl will think csh is missing. In either case, after editing config.sh, run C<./Configure -S> and rebuild Perl. @@ -3290,9 +3290,8 @@ the C<fallback> overloading key is specified to be true. See L<overload>. =item Operation "%s" returns its argument for non-Unicode code point 0x%X (W utf8, non_unicode) You performed an operation requiring Unicode -semantics on a code -point that is not in Unicode, so what it should do is not defined. Perl -has chosen to have it do nothing, and warn you. +semantics on a code point that is not in Unicode, so what it should do +is not defined. Perl has chosen to have it do nothing, and warn you. If the operation shown is "ToFold", it means that case-insensitive matching in a regular expression was done on the code point. @@ -3303,11 +3302,11 @@ C<no warnings 'non_unicode';>. =item Operation "%s" returns its argument for UTF-16 surrogate U+%X (W utf8, surrogate) You performed an operation requiring Unicode -semantics on a Unicode -surrogate. Unicode frowns upon the use of surrogates for anything but -storing strings in UTF-16, but semantics are (reluctantly) defined for -the surrogates, and they are to do nothing for this operation. Because -the use of surrogates can be dangerous, Perl warns. +semantics on a Unicode surrogate. Unicode frowns upon the use of +surrogates for anything but storing strings in UTF-16, but semantics +are (reluctantly) defined for the surrogates, and they are to do +nothing for this operation. Because the use of surrogates can be +dangerous, Perl warns. If the operation shown is "ToFold", it means that case-insensitive matching in a regular expression was done on the code point. |