From @trwyant

This is a bug report for perl from wyant@​cpan.org,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl v5.8.9.

The README for 5.8.9 RC1 says that perldelta.pod is equivalent to
perl588delta.pod. Shouldn't it say perl589delta.pod? That appears
to be what I get when I run 'perldoc perldelta'.

A unified diff for the correction follows​:

--- README.old	2008-11-12 11:42:11.000000000 -0500
+++ README	2008-11-12 11:43:41.000000000 -0500
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 For an introduction to the language's features, see pod/perlintro.pod.
 
 For a discussion of the important changes in this release, see
-pod/perl588delta.pod.  (This will also be installed as perldelta.pod).
+pod/perl589delta.pod.  (This will also be installed as perldelta.pod).
 
 There are also many Perl books available, covering a wide variety of topics,
 from various publishers.  See pod/perlbook.pod for more information.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
---

Site configuration information for perl v5.8.9​:

Configured by tom at Wed Nov 12 11​:57​:24 EST 2008.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 9) configuration​:
  Platform​:
  osname=darwin, osvers=9.5.0, archname=darwin-2level
  uname='darwin wyants-white-too.local 9.5.0 darwin kernel version 9.5.0​: wed sep 3 11​:29​:43 pdt 2008; root​:xnu-1228.7.58~1release_i386 i386 '
  config_args='-Dprefix=/usr/local/perl/5.8.9'
  hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
  usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
  useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
  use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
  usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include',
  optimize='-O3',
  cppflags='-no-cpp-precomp -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include'
  ccversion='', gccversion='4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5484)', gccosandvers=''
  intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
  d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
  ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
  alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
  libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib
  libs=-ldbm -ldl -lm -lutil -lc
  perllibs=-ldl -lm -lutil -lc
  libc=/usr/lib/libc.dylib, so=dylib, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
  cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches​:
  RC1

@​INC for perl v5.8.9​:
  /sw/lib/perl5
  /sw/lib/perl5/darwin
  /usr/local/perl/5.8.9/lib/5.8.9/darwin-2level
  /usr/local/perl/5.8.9/lib/5.8.9
  /usr/local/perl/5.8.9/lib/site_perl/5.8.9/darwin-2level
  /usr/local/perl/5.8.9/lib/site_perl/5.8.9
  .

Environment for perl v5.8.9​:
  DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
  HOME=/Users/tom
  LANG=en_US
  LANGUAGE (unset)
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
  LOGDIR (unset)
  PATH=/sw/bin​:/sw/sbin​:/ImageMagick-6.4.1/bin​:/bin​:/sbin​:/usr/local/bin​:/usr/bin​:/usr/sbin​:/Users/tom/Code/Tools​:/usr/X11R6/bin
  PERL5LIB=/sw/lib/perl5​:/sw/lib/perl5/darwin
  PERLPKGOPT=-noppm
  PERL_BADLANG (unset)
  SHELL=/bin/bash

From @nwc10

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09​:37​:32AM -0800, Tom Wyant wrote​:

The README for 5.8.9 RC1 says that perldelta.pod is equivalent to
perl588delta.pod. Shouldn't it say perl589delta.pod? That appears
to be what I get when I run 'perldoc perldelta'.

Yes, definitely it should do. Well spotted, and thanks for the patch, applied
as change 34842.

Nicholas Clark

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

@nwc10 - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'