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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> perl5-porters
perl5-porters
[PATCH 5.6.1-TRIAL? and 5.7.?] perldoc uses unescaped backslashes in filenames
by Jan Dubois other posts by this author
Jan 31 2001 9:17PM messages near this date
[ID 20010131.032] OK: perl v5.7.0 +v5.6.1-TRIAL2 on i686-linux-multi-perlio 2.2.14 | [ID 20010131.017] OK: perl v5.6.1 +v5.6.1-TRIAL2 on sun4-solaris 2.7 (UNINSTALLED)
The following patch is needed for both Perl 5.6.1-TRIAL[12] and Perl 5.7.?

-Jan


diff -u utils/perldoc.PL.orig utils/perldoc.PL
--- utils/perldoc.PL.orig	Wed Jan 31 18:59:16 2001
+++ utils/perldoc.PL	Wed Jan 31 21:05:13 2001
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 
 my \@pagers = ();
 push \@pagers, "$Config{'pager'}" if -x "$Config{'pager'}";
-my \$bindir = "$Config{installscript}";
+my \$bindir = "${\quotemeta($Config{installscript})}";
 
 !GROK!THIS!
 

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