Cygwin Perl bug -- pod2usage(-verbose => 0) & pod2usage(-verbose => 1)

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> David Christensen wrote:
> 
>> Cygwin:
>>
>> Perl Pod::Usage pod2usage(-verbose => 0) is supposed to display the 
>> Pod SYNOPSIS information (ref. 'perdoc Pod::Usage').  See attached
>> script 'test0'.  On Debian 3.0r2, it works:
>>
>>     <CVSENV>dpchrist@p166d302:~/cygwin-issues/Pod-Usage$ perl test0
>>     Usage:
>>         This is the synopsis...
>>
>> On Cygwin, it exits without displaying anything.
>>
> 
> [...]
> 
>>     http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg01392.html
> 
> 
> I replied on this one.  Everything works ok when the Cygwin installation
> is on binmode mounted directories.  Do you really need to use textmode 
> mounts?

Nope, sorry, too fast.  The attached scripts are not working regardless
which mounttype you're on.

Could you please send your report to the pod-people list:
http://lists.perl.org/showlist.cgi?name=pod-people

Since it is part of the main perl distribution, you could also file a
bug in the bugtracking system, see `perldoc perlbug` or:
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.4/bin/perlbug.html


Gerrit
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