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From: peltz@cerl.uiuc.edu (Steve Peltz)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: PERL patches
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.191541.14134@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 21 Sep 90 19:15:41 GMT
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I finally got around to applying the last set of patches to perl (patches 19
through 28) and found that the patches to some of the comments in the perl_man
files were rejected. I realize that comments in a man file aren't exactly
critical, but I wanted to track it down anyway, and I hadn't heard of any
problems reported by anyone else.

The problem was introduced in patch 18, when the names of the files were
changed from perl.man.? to perl_man.? (which Configure took care of). The
patch to perl.man.1 that changed the name internally in the comments follows:

Index: perl_man.1
Prereq: 3.0.1.4
*** perl.man.1  Tue Mar 27 16:41:29 1990
--- perl_man.1  Tue Mar 27 16:41:34 1990
***************
*** 1,7 ****
  .rn '' }`
! ''' $Header: perl.man.1,v 3.0.1.4 90/03/12 16:44:33 lwall Locked $
  '''
  ''' $Log:     perl.man.1,v $
  ''' Revision 3.0.1.4  90/03/12  16:44:33  lwall
  ''' patch13: (LIST,) now legal
  ''' patch13: improved LIST documentation
--- 1,10 ----
  .rn '' }`
! ''' $Header: perl_man.1,v 3.0.1.5 90/03/27 16:14:37 lwall Locked $
  '''
  ''' $Log:     perl_man.1,v $
+ ''' Revision 3.0.1.5  90/03/27  16:14:37  lwall
+ ''' patch16: .. now works using magical string increment
+ '''
  ''' Revision 3.0.1.4  90/03/12  16:44:33  lwall
  ''' patch13: (LIST,) now legal
  ''' patch13: improved LIST documentation

Note that on the $Log: line, there is no ! in the second half, even though
the text is clearly different than in the first half.

Did I miss some discussion on this back a while?
--
Steve Peltz
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