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| author | David Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> | 2017-03-31 09:13:33 +0100 |
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| committer | David Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> | 2017-03-31 09:13:33 +0100 |
| commit | 1c99110e81e1b5fb8dad0a368bf6aa2f3439cc22 (patch) | |
| tree | 9f3d83c083d205cb3146e9dfac97d1468a08eeee /pod/perlfunc.pod | |
| parent | 2e3b2a1fba7611d1cd6060a5f07f6a0f91a06b3a (diff) | |
| download | perl-1c99110e81e1b5fb8dad0a368bf6aa2f3439cc22.tar.gz | |
tweak 'do "%s" failed' message
The warning
do "%s" failed, '.' is no longer in @INC
was added in the previous devel release; this commit enhances it to say
do "%s" failed, '.' is no longer in @INC; did you mean do "./%s"
and updates the relevant docs.
See http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/243788.
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlfunc.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index ae97bce829..357cd213c9 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -1829,8 +1829,11 @@ L<C<%INC>|perlvar/%INC> if the file is found. See L<perlvar/@INC> and L<perlvar/%INC> for these variables. In particular, note that whilst historically L<C<@INC>|perlvar/@INC> contained '.' (the current directory) making these two cases equivalent, that is no -longer necessarily the case, as there is now a compile-time option -to disable this behaviour. +longer necessarily the case, as '.' is not included in C<@INC> by default +in perl versions 5.26.0 onwards. Instead, perl will now warn: + + do "stat.pl" failed, '.' is no longer in @INC; + did you mean do "./stat.pl"? If L<C<do>|/do EXPR> can read the file but cannot compile it, it returns L<C<undef>|/undef EXPR> and sets an error message in |