[inseparable changes from match from perl-5.003_90 to perl-5.003_91]

 BUILD PROCESS

Subject: Sanity check linking with $libs
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:13:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
Files: Configure
Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970225221634.2486A-100000@fractal.lafayette.edu>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 5c37e92e59bb92e49d5a21017cd6dc066a28ddea)

Subject: Flush stdout when printing $randbits guess
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: Configure

Subject: Configure changes for Irix nm
From: Helmut Jarausch <helmutjarausch@unknown>
Files: Configure

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: Fix perl_call_*() when !G_EVAL
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 02:25:56 -0500
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: MANIFEST gv.c interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c t/op/runlevel.t
Msg-ID: <199702250725.CAA09192@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, <199702251925.OAA15498@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, <199702252200.RAA16853@aatma.engin.umich.edu>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commits 40f788c454d994616342c409de5b5d181ad9b8af, and 907a881cde89c56bc61d3f314c0efb8754ca472a, 20efc0829f6564c44574762adb07e8865bc14026)

Subject: Fix taint tests for writeable dirs in $ENV{PATH}
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: mg.c mg.h pod/perlsec.pod taint.c

Subject: Forbid tainted parameters for truncate()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp_sys.c

Subject: Don't taint magic hash keys unnecessarily
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 02:11:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Files: hv.c

    private-msgid: <01IFXL9TY74Y00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>

 CORE PORTABILITY

Subject: VMS patches post _90
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 15:26:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Files: doio.c mg.c perl.h pp_hot.c t/op/rand.t t/op/taint.t taint.c vms/descrip.mms vms/vms.c

    private-msgid: <01IFYDE5ZT7O005A53@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>

Subject: Fix taint check in system() and exec() under VMS and OS/2
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp_sys.c

Subject: If _XOPEN_VERSION >= 4, socket length parameters are size_t
From: Michael H. Moran <mhm@austin.ibm.com>
Files: perl.h pp_sys.c

Subject: Make dooneliner() compile again
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp_sys.c

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: Move ENVIRONMENT from perl.pod to perlrun.pod
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perlrun.pod

Subject: Describe PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS in perlrun.pod
From: Nat <gnat@frii.com>
Files: pod/perlrun.pod

Subject: Fix references to perlbug
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perllocale.pod pod/perltoc.pod

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: Short-circuit duplicate study() calls
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp.c

Subject: Call sv_set[iu]v() with [IU]V parameter, not [IU]32
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: perl.c pp.c pp_sys.c toke.c util.c

Subject: Clean up and document API for hashes
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 13:24:02 -0500
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: hv.c hv.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlguts.pod
Msg-ID: <199702251824.NAA14859@aatma.engin.umich.edu>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit a61fe43df197fcc70e6f310c06ee17d52b606c45)

Subject: pp_undef was not always freeing memory
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 01:53:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: pp.c
Msg-ID: <199702270653.BAA13949@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 1da885048b65b5be1bd3077c6fc45f92c567e1b5)

Subject: Don't examine rx->exec_tainted if pregexec() fails
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp_hot.c

 TESTS

Subject: New test op/taint.t
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:36:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
Files: MANIFEST t/op/taint.t

    private-msgid: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970225101328.18288M-100000@kelly.teleport.com

Subject: Patch to t/op/rand.t
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:19:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
Files: t/op/rand.t

    private-msgid: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970225181321.13796Q-100000@kelly.teleport.com

 UTILITIES

Subject: Add --lax option to pod2man; use it in perldoc
From: Nat <gnat@frii.com>
Files: pod/pod2man.PL utils/perldoc.PL

Subject: Eliminate dead code in pod2man
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/pod2man.PL

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/pod/pod2man.PL b/pod/pod2man.PL
index 934d525cd8..d1ba2287cd 100644
--- a/pod/pod2man.PL
+++ b/pod/pod2man.PL
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ B<pod2man>
 [ B<--date=>I<string> ]
 [ B<--fixed=>I<font> ]
 [ B<--official> ]
+[ B<--lax> ]
 I<inputfile>
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -105,6 +106,10 @@ best if you put your Perl man pages in a separate tree, like
 F</usr/local/perl/man/>.  By default, section 1 will be used
 unless the file ends in F<.pm> in which case section 3 will be selected.
 
+=item lax
+
+Don't complain when required sections aren't present.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 Anatomy of a Proper Man Page
@@ -329,6 +334,7 @@ $DEF_SECTION = 1;
 $DEF_CENTER = "User Contributed Perl Documentation";
 $STD_CENTER = "Perl Programmers Reference Guide";
 $DEF_FIXED = 'CW';
+$DEF_LAX = 0;
 
 sub usage {
     warn "$0: @_\n" if @_;
@@ -341,6 +347,7 @@ Options are:
 	--date=string         (default "$DEF_DATE")
 	--fixed=font	      (default "$DEF_FIXED")
 	--official	      (default NOT)
+	--lax                 (default NOT)
 EOF
 }
 
@@ -351,6 +358,7 @@ $uok = GetOptions( qw(
 	date=s
 	fixed=s
 	official
+	lax
 	help));
 
 $DEF_DATE = makedate((stat($ARGV[0]))[9] || time());
@@ -362,6 +370,7 @@ usage("Need one and only one podpage argument") unless @ARGV == 1;
 $section = $opt_section || ($ARGV[0] =~ /\.pm$/ ? 3 : $DEF_SECTION);
 $RP = $opt_release || $DEF_RELEASE;
 $center = $opt_center || ($opt_official ? $STD_CENTER : $DEF_CENTER);
+$lax = $opt_lax || $DEF_LAX;
 
 $CFont = $opt_fixed || $DEF_FIXED;
 
@@ -410,9 +419,9 @@ if ($name ne 'something') {
 		last FCHECK;
 	    }
 	    next if /^=cut\b/;	# DB_File and Net::Ping have =cut before NAME
-	    die "$0: Invalid man page - 1st pod line is not NAME in $ARGV[0]\n";
+	    die "$0: Invalid man page - 1st pod line is not NAME in $ARGV[0]\n" unless $lax;
 	}
-	die "$0: Invalid man page - no documentation in $ARGV[0]\n";
+	die "$0: Invalid man page - no documentation in $ARGV[0]\n" unless $lax;
     }
     close F;
 }
@@ -861,7 +870,7 @@ print <<"END";
 .rn }` ''
 END
 
-if (%wanna_see) {
+if (%wanna_see && !$lax) {
     @missing = keys %wanna_see;
     warn "$0: $Filename is missing required section"
 	.  (@missing > 1 && "s")
@@ -945,13 +954,7 @@ sub escapes {
 # make troff just be normal, but make small nroff get quoted
 # decided to just put the quotes in the text; sigh;
 sub ccvt {
-     local($_,$prev) = @_;
-     if ( /^\W+$/ && !/^\$./ ) {
- 	($prev && "\n") . noremap(qq{.CQ $_ \n\\&});
- 	# what about $" ?
-     } else {
- 	noremap(qq{${CFont_embed}$_\\fR});
-     }
+    local($_,$prev) = @_;
     noremap(qq{.CQ "$_" \n\\&});
 }