5 use feature 'unicode_strings';
16 require '../regen/regen_lib.pl';
25 podcheck.t - Look for possible problems in the Perl pods
30 ./perl -I../lib porting/podcheck.t [--show_all] [--cpan] [--deltas]
31 [--counts] [ FILE ...]
32 ./perl -I../lib porting/podcheck.t --add_link MODULE ...
34 ./perl -I../lib porting/podcheck.t --regen
38 podcheck.t is an extension of Pod::Checker. It looks for pod errors and
39 potential errors in the files given as arguments, or if none specified, in all
40 pods in the distribution workspace, except certain known special ones
41 (specified below). It does additional checking beyond that done by
42 Pod::Checker, and keeps a database of known potential problems, and will
43 fail a pod only if the number of such problems differs from that given in the
44 database. It also suppresses the C<(section) deprecated> message from
45 Pod::Checker, since specifying the man page section number is quite proper to do.
47 The additional checks it makes are:
51 =item Cross-pod link checking
53 Pod::Checker verifies that links to an internal target in a pod are not
54 broken. podcheck.t extends that (when called without FILE arguments) to
55 external links. It does this by gathering up all the possible targets in the
56 workspace, and cross-checking them. It also checks that a non-broken link
57 points to just one target. (The destination pod could have two targets with
60 The way that the C<LE<lt>E<gt>> pod command works (for links outside the pod)
61 is to actually create a link to C<search.cpan.org> with an embedded query for
62 the desired pod or man page. That means that links outside the distribution
63 are valid. podcheck.t doesn't verify the validity of such links, but instead
64 keeps a data base of those known to be valid. This means that if a link to a
65 target not on the list is created, the target needs to be added to the data
66 base. This is accomplished via the L<--add_link|/--add_link MODULE ...>
67 option to podcheck.t, described below.
69 =item An internal link that isn't so specified
71 If a link is broken, but there is an existing internal target of the same
72 name, it is likely that the internal target was meant, and the C<"/"> is
73 missing from the C<LE<lt>E<gt>> pod command.
75 =item Verbatim paragraphs that wrap in an 80 (including 1 spare) column window
77 It's annoying to have lines wrap when displaying pod documentation in a
78 terminal window. This checks that all verbatim lines fit in a standard 80
79 column window, even when using a pager that reserves a column for its own use.
80 (Thus the check is for a net of 79 columns.)
81 For those lines that don't fit, it tells you how much needs to be cut in
84 Often, the easiest thing to do to gain space for these is to lower the indent
87 =item Missing or duplicate NAME or missing NAME short description
89 A pod can't be linked to unless it has a unique name.
90 And a NAME should have a dash and short description after it.
92 =item =encoding statement issues
94 This indicates if an C<=encoding> statement should be present, or moved to the
97 =item Items that perhaps should be links
99 There are mentions of apparent files in the pods that perhaps should be links
100 instead, using C<LE<lt>...E<gt>>
102 =item Items that perhaps should be C<FE<lt>...E<gt>>
104 What look like path names enclosed in C<CE<lt>...E<gt>> should perhaps have
105 C<FE<lt>...E<gt>> mark-up instead.
109 A number of issues raised by podcheck.t and by the base Pod::Checker are not
110 really problems, but merely potential problems, that is, false positives.
111 After inspecting them and
112 deciding that they aren't real problems, it is possible to shut up this program
113 about them, unlike base Pod::Checker. To do this, call podcheck.t with the
114 C<--regen> option to regenerate the database. This tells it that all existing
115 issues are to not be mentioned again.
117 This isn't fool-proof. The database merely keeps track of the number of these
118 potential problems of each type for each pod. If a new problem of a given
119 type is introduced into the pod, podcheck.t will spit out all of them. You
120 then have to figure out which is the new one, and should it be changed or not.
121 But doing it this way insulates the database from having to keep track of line
122 numbers of problems, which may change, or the exact wording of each problem
123 which might also change without affecting whether it is a problem or not.
125 Also, if the count of potential problems of a given type for a pod decreases,
126 the database must be regenerated so that it knows the new number. The program
127 gives instructions when this happens.
129 Some pods will have varying numbers of problems of a given type. This can
130 be handled by manually editing the database file (see L</FILES>), and setting
131 the number of those problems for that pod to a negative number. This will
132 cause the corresponding error to always be suppressed no matter how many there
135 There is currently no check that modules listed as valid in the data base
136 actually are. Thus any errors introduced there will remain there.
138 =head2 Specially handled pods
144 This pod is generated by pasting bits from other pods. Errors in those bits
145 will show up as errors here, as well as for those other pods. Therefore
146 errors here are suppressed, and the pod is checked only to verify that nodes
147 within it that are externally linked to actually exist.
151 The current perldelta pod is initialized from a template that contains
152 placeholder text. Some of this text is in the form of links that don't really
153 exist. Any such links that are listed in C<@perldelta_ignore_links> will not
154 generate messages. It is presumed that these links will be cleaned up when
155 the perldelta is cleaned up for release since they should be marked with
158 =item Porting/perldelta_template.pod
160 This is not a pod, but a template for C<perldelta>. Any errors introduced
161 here will show up when C<perldelta> is created from it.
163 =item cpan-upstream pods
165 See the L</--cpan> option documentation
169 See the L</--deltas> option documentation
177 =item --add_link MODULE ...
179 Use this option to teach podcheck.t that the C<MODULE>s or man pages actually
180 exist, and to silence any messages that links to them are broken.
182 podcheck.t checks that links within the Perl core distribution are valid, but
183 it doesn't check links to man pages or external modules. When it finds
184 a broken link, it checks its data base of external modules and man pages,
185 and only if not found there does it raise a message. This option just adds
186 the list of modules and man page references that follow it on the command line
192 ./perl -I../lib porting/podcheck.t --add_link Unicode::Casing
194 causes the external module "Unicode::Casing" to be added to the data base, so
195 C<LE<lt>Unicode::Casing<gt>> will be considered valid.
199 Regenerate the data base used by podcheck.t to include all the existing
200 potential problems. Future runs of the program will not then flag any of
205 Normally, all pods in the cpan directory are skipped, except to make sure that
206 any blead-upstream links to such pods are valid.
207 This option will cause cpan upstream pods to be fully checked.
211 Normally, all old perldelta pods are skipped, except to make sure that
212 any links to such pods are valid. This is because they are considered
213 stable, and perhaps trying to fix them will cause changes that will
214 misrepresent Perl's history. But, this option will cause them to be fully
219 Normally, if the number of potential problems of a given type found for a
220 pod matches the expected value in the database, they will not be displayed.
221 This option forces the database to be ignored during the run, so all potential
222 problems are displayed and will fail their respective pod test. Specifying
223 any particular FILES to operate on automatically selects this option.
227 Instead of testing, this just dumps the counts of the occurrences of the
228 various types of potential problems in the data base.
234 The database is stored in F<t/porting/known_pod_issues.dat>
242 #####################################################
243 # HOW IT WORKS (in general)
245 # If not called with specific files to check, the directory structure is
246 # examined for files that have pods in them. Files that might not have to be
247 # fully parsed (e.g. in cpan) are parsed enough at this time to find their
248 # pod's NAME, and to get a checksum.
250 # Those kinds of files are sorted last, but otherwise the pods are parsed with
251 # the package coded here, My::Pod::Checker, which is an extension to
252 # Pod::Checker that adds some tests and suppresses others that aren't
253 # appropriate. The latter module has no provision for capturing diagnostics,
254 # so a package, Tie_Array_to_FH, is used to force them to be placed into an
255 # array instead of printed.
257 # Parsing the files builds up a list of links. The files are gone through
258 # again, doing cross-link checking and outputting all saved-up problems with
261 # Sorting the files last that potentially don't need to be fully parsed allows
262 # us to not parse them unless there is a link to an internal anchor in them
263 # from something that we have already parsed. Keeping checksums allows us to
264 # not parse copies of other pods.
266 #####################################################
268 # 1 => Exclude low priority messages that aren't likely to be problems, and
269 # has many false positives; higher numbers give more messages.
270 my $Warnings_Level = 200;
272 # perldelta during construction may have place holder links.
273 our @perldelta_ignore_links = ( "XXX", "perl5YYYdelta", "perldiag/message" );
275 # To see if two pods with the same NAME are actually copies of the same pod,
276 # which is not an error, it uses a checksum to save work.
277 my $digest_type = "SHA-1";
279 my $original_dir = File::Spec->rel2abs(File::Spec->curdir);
280 my $data_dir = File::Spec->catdir($original_dir, 'porting');
281 my $known_issues = File::Spec->catfile($data_dir, 'known_pod_issues.dat');
284 my $MAX_LINE_LENGTH = 79; # 79 columns
285 my $INDENT = 7; # default nroff indent
287 # Our warning messages. Better not have [('"] in them, as those are used as
288 # delimiters for variable parts of the messages by poderror.
289 my $line_length = "Verbatim line length including indents exceeds $MAX_LINE_LENGTH by";
290 my $broken_link = "Apparent broken link";
291 my $broken_internal_link = "Apparent internal link is missing its forward slash";
292 my $see_not_linked = "? Should you be using L<...> instead of";
293 my $C_with_slash = "? Should you be using F<...> or maybe L<...> instead of";
294 my $multiple_targets = "There is more than one target";
295 my $duplicate_name = "Pod NAME already used";
296 my $need_encoding = "Should have =encoding statement because have non-ASCII";
297 my $encoding_first = "=encoding must be first command (if present)";
298 my $no_name = "There is no NAME";
299 my $missing_name_description = "The NAME should have a dash and short description after it";
301 # objects, tests, etc can't be pods, so don't look for them. Also skip
302 # files output by the patch program. Could also ignore most of .gitignore
303 # files, but not all, so don't.
305 my $obj_ext = $Config{'obj_ext'}; $obj_ext =~ tr/.//d; # dot will be added back
306 my $lib_ext = $Config{'lib_ext'}; $lib_ext =~ tr/.//d;
307 my $lib_so = $Config{'so'}; $lib_so =~ tr/.//d;
308 my $dl_ext = $Config{'dlext'}; $dl_ext =~ tr/.//d;
310 # This list should not include anything for which case sensitivity is
311 # important, as it won't work on VMS, and won't show up until tested on VMS.
312 # Instead is_pod_file() can be used to exclude these at a finer grained
314 my $non_pods = qr/ (?: \.
315 (?: [achot] | zip | gz | bz2 | jar | tar | tgz
316 | orig | rej | patch # Patch program output
317 | sw[op] | \#.* # Editor droppings
318 | old # buildtoc output
319 | xs # pod should be in the .pm file
320 | al # autosplit files
321 | bs # bootstrap files
322 | (?i:sh) # shell scripts, hints, templates
323 | lst # assorted listing files
324 | bat # Windows,Netware,OS2 batch files
325 | cmd # Windows,Netware,OS2 command files
326 | lis # VMS compiler listings
327 | map # VMS linker maps
328 | opt # VMS linker options files
329 | mms # MM(K|S) description files
330 | ts # timestamp files generated during build
331 | $obj_ext # object files
332 | exe # $Config{'exe_ext'} might be empty string
333 | $lib_ext # object libraries
334 | $lib_so # shared libraries
335 | $dl_ext # dynamic libraries
338 ) | ~$ | \ \(Autosaved\)\.txt$ # Other editor droppings
339 | ^cxx\$demangler_db\.$ # VMS name mangler database
340 | ^typemap\.?$ # typemap files
341 | ^(?i:Makefile\.PL)$
345 # Pod::Checker messages to suppress
346 my @suppressed_messages = (
347 "(section) in", # Checker is wrong to flag this
348 "multiple occurrence of link target", # We catch independently the ones
349 # that are real problems.
351 "Entity number out of range", # Checker outputs this for anything above
352 # 255, and all Unicode is valid
356 # Returns bool as to if input message is one that is to be suppressed
359 return grep { $message =~ /^\Q$_/i } @suppressed_messages;
362 { # Closure to contain a simple subset of test.pl. This is to get rid of the
363 # unnecessary 'failed at' messages that would otherwise be output pointing
364 # to a particular line in this file.
366 my $current_test = 0;
371 $planned = $plan{tests};
372 print "1..$planned\n";
383 print "not " unless $success;
384 print "ok $current_test - $message\n";
390 my $n = @_ ? shift : 1;
393 print "ok $current_test # skip $why\n";
395 no warnings 'exiting';
404 print $message =~ s/^/# /mgr;
410 if ($planned && $planned != $current_test) {
412 "# Looks like you planned $planned tests but ran $current_test.\n";
417 # This is to get this to work across multiple file systems, including those
418 # that are not case sensitive. The db is stored in lower case, Un*x style,
419 # and all file name comparisons are done that way.
420 sub canonicalize($) {
422 my ($volume, $directories, $file)
423 = File::Spec->splitpath(File::Spec->canonpath($input));
424 # Assumes $volume is constant for everything in this directory structure
425 $directories = "" if ! $directories;
426 $file = "" if ! $file;
427 $file =~ s/\.$// if $^O eq 'VMS';
428 my $output = lc join '/', File::Spec->splitdir($directories), $file;
429 $output =~ s! / /+ !/!gx; # Multiple slashes => single slash
434 # List of known potential problems by pod and type.
437 # Pods given by the keys contain an interior node that is referred to from
439 my %has_referred_to_node;
446 my $do_upstream_cpan = 0; # Assume that are to skip anything in /cpan
447 my $do_deltas = 0; # And stable perldeltas
449 while (@ARGV && substr($ARGV[0], 0, 1) eq '-') {
450 my $arg = shift @ARGV;
452 $arg =~ s/^--/-/; # Treat '--' the same as a single '-'
453 if ($arg eq '-regen') {
456 elsif ($arg eq '-add_link') {
459 elsif ($arg eq '-cpan') {
460 $do_upstream_cpan = 1;
462 elsif ($arg eq '-deltas') {
465 elsif ($arg eq '-show_all') {
468 elsif ($arg eq '-counts') {
473 Unknown option '$arg'
475 Usage: $0 [ --regen | --cpan | --show_all | FILE ... | --add_link MODULE ... ]\n"
476 --add_link -> Add the MODULE and man page references to the data base
477 --regen -> Regenerate the data file for $0
478 --cpan -> Include files in the cpan subdirectory.
479 --deltas -> Include stable perldeltas
480 --show_all -> Show all known potential problems
481 --counts -> Don't test, but give summary counts of the currently
489 my $cpan_or_deltas = $do_upstream_cpan || $do_deltas;
490 if (($regen + $show_all + $show_counts + $add_link + $cpan_or_deltas ) > 1) {
491 croak "--regen, --show_all, --counts, and --add_link are mutually exclusive\n and none can be run with --cpan nor --deltas";
494 my $has_input_files = @files;
497 && ($regen || $show_counts || $do_upstream_cpan || $do_deltas))
499 croak "--regen, --counts, --deltas, and --cpan can't be used since using specific files";
502 if ($add_link && ! $has_input_files) {
503 croak "--add_link requires at least one module or man page reference";
506 our %problems; # potential problems found in this run
508 package My::Pod::Checker { # Extend Pod::Checker
509 use parent 'Pod::Checker';
511 # Uses inside out hash to protect from typos
512 # For new fields, remember to add to destructor DESTROY()
513 my %indents; # Stack of indents from =over's in effect for
515 my %current_indent; # Current line's indent
516 my %filename; # The pod is store in this file
517 my %skip; # is SKIP set for this pod
518 my %in_NAME; # true if within NAME section
519 my %in_begin; # true if within =begin section
520 my %linkable_item; # Bool: if the latest =item is linkable. It isn't
521 # for bullet and number lists
522 my %linkable_nodes; # Pod::Checker adds all =items to its node list,
523 # but not all =items are linkable to
524 my %seen_encoding_cmd; # true if have =encoding earlier
525 my %command_count; # Number of commands seen
526 my %seen_pod_cmd; # true if have =pod earlier
527 my %warned_encoding; # true if already have warned about =encoding
531 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $_[0];
532 delete $command_count{$addr};
533 delete $current_indent{$addr};
534 delete $filename{$addr};
535 delete $in_begin{$addr};
536 delete $indents{$addr};
537 delete $in_NAME{$addr};
538 delete $linkable_item{$addr};
539 delete $linkable_nodes{$addr};
540 delete $seen_encoding_cmd{$addr};
541 delete $seen_pod_cmd{$addr};
543 delete $warned_encoding{$addr};
549 my $filename = shift;
551 my $self = $class->SUPER::new(-quiet => 1,
552 -warnings => $Warnings_Level);
553 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
554 $command_count{$addr} = 0;
555 $current_indent{$addr} = 0;
556 $filename{$addr} = $filename;
557 $in_begin{$addr} = 0;
559 $linkable_item{$addr} = 0;
560 $seen_encoding_cmd{$addr} = 0;
561 $seen_pod_cmd{$addr} = 0;
562 $warned_encoding{$addr} = 0;
566 # re's for messages that Pod::Checker outputs
567 my $location = qr/ \b (?:in|at|on|near) \s+ /xi;
568 my $optional_location = qr/ (?: $location )? /xi;
569 my $line_reference = qr/ [('"]? $optional_location \b line \s+
570 (?: \d+ | EOF | \Q???\E | - )
573 sub poderror { # Called to register a potential problem
575 # This adds an extra field to the parent hash, 'parameter'. It is
576 # used to extract the variable parts of a message leaving just the
577 # constant skeleton. This in turn allows the message to be
578 # categorized better, so that it shows up as a single type in our
579 # database, with the specifics of each occurrence not being stored with
585 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
586 return if $skip{$addr};
588 # Input can be a string or hash. If a string, parse it to separate
589 # out the line number and convert to a hash for easier further
592 if (ref $opts ne 'HASH') {
593 $message = join "", $opts, @_;
595 if ($message =~ s/\s*($line_reference)//) {
596 ($line_number = $1) =~ s/\s*$optional_location//;
599 $line_number = '???';
601 $opts = { -msg => $message, -line => $line_number };
603 $message = $opts->{'-msg'};
607 $message =~ s/^\d+\s+//;
608 return if main::suppressed($message);
610 $self->SUPER::poderror($opts, @_);
612 $opts->{parameter} = "" unless $opts->{parameter};
614 # The variable parts of the message tend to be enclosed in '...',
615 # "....", or (...). Extract them and put them in an extra field,
616 # 'parameter'. This is trickier because the matching delimiter to a
617 # '(' is its mirror, and not itself. Text::Balanced could be used
619 while ($message =~ m/ \s* $optional_location ( [('"] )/xg) {
622 $delimiter = ')' if $delimiter eq '(';
624 # If there is no ending delimiter, don't consider it to be a
625 # variable part. Most likely it is a contraction like "Don't"
626 last unless $message =~ m/\G .+? \Q$delimiter/xg;
628 my $length = $+[0] - $start;
630 # Get the part up through the closing delimiter
631 my $special = substr($message, $start, $length);
632 $special =~ s/^\s+//; # No leading whitespace
634 # And add that variable part to the parameter, while removing it
635 # from the message. This isn't a foolproof way of finding the
636 # variable part. For example '(s)' can occur in e.g.,
638 if ($special ne '(s)') {
639 substr($message, $start, $length) = "";
640 pos $message = $start;
641 $opts->{-msg} = $message;
642 $opts->{parameter} .= " " if $opts->{parameter};
643 $opts->{parameter} .= $special;
647 # Extract any additional line number given. This is often the
648 # beginning location of something whereas the main line number gives
650 if ($message =~ /( $line_reference )/xi) {
652 while ($message =~ s/\s*\Q$line_ref//) {
653 $opts->{-msg} = $message;
654 $opts->{parameter} .= " " if $opts->{parameter};
655 $opts->{parameter} .= $line_ref;
659 Carp::carp("Couldn't extract line number from '$message'") if $message =~ /line \d+/;
660 push @{$problems{$filename{$addr}}{$message}}, $opts;
661 #push @{$problems{$self->get_filename}{$message}}, $opts;
664 sub check_encoding { # Does it need an =encoding statement?
665 my ($self, $paragraph, $line_num, $pod_para) = @_;
667 # Do nothing if there is an =encoding in the file, or if the line
668 # doesn't require an =encoding, or have already warned.
669 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
670 return if $seen_encoding_cmd{$addr}
671 || $warned_encoding{$addr}
672 || $paragraph !~ /\P{ASCII}/;
674 $warned_encoding{$addr} = 1;
675 my ($file, $line) = $pod_para->file_line;
676 $self->poderror({ -line => $line, -file => $file,
677 -msg => $need_encoding
683 my ($self, $paragraph, $line_num, $pod_para) = @_;
684 $self->check_encoding($paragraph, $line_num, $pod_para);
686 $self->SUPER::verbatim($paragraph, $line_num, $pod_para);
688 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
690 # Pick up the name, since the parent class doesn't in verbatim
691 # NAMEs; so treat as non-verbatim. The parent class only allows one
692 # paragraph in a NAME section, so if there is an extra blank line, it
693 # will trigger a message, but such a blank line is harmless, so skip
695 if ($in_NAME{$addr} && $paragraph =~ /\S/) {
696 $self->textblock($paragraph, $line_num, $pod_para);
699 my @lines = split /^/, $paragraph;
700 for my $i (0 .. @lines - 1) {
701 if ( my $encoding = $seen_encoding_cmd{$addr} ) {
703 $lines[$i] = Encode::decode($encoding, $lines[$i]);
705 $lines[$i] =~ s/\s+$//;
706 my $indent = $self->get_current_indent;
707 my $exceeds = length(Text::Tabs::expand($lines[$i]))
708 + $indent - $MAX_LINE_LENGTH;
709 next unless $exceeds > 0;
710 my ($file, $line) = $pod_para->file_line;
711 $self->poderror({ -line => $line + $i, -file => $file,
712 -msg => $line_length,
713 parameter => "+$exceeds (including " . ($indent - $INDENT) . " from =over's)",
719 my ($self, $paragraph, $line_num, $pod_para) = @_;
720 $self->check_encoding($paragraph, $line_num, $pod_para);
722 $self->SUPER::textblock($paragraph, $line_num, $pod_para);
724 my ($file, $line) = $pod_para->file_line;
725 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
726 if ($in_NAME{$addr}) {
728 my $text = $self->interpolate($paragraph, $line_num);
729 if ($text =~ /^\s*(\S+?)\s*$/) {
731 $self->poderror({ -line => $line, -file => $file,
732 -msg => $missing_name_description,
737 $paragraph = join " ", split /^/, $paragraph;
739 # Matches something that looks like a file name, but is enclosed in
741 my $C_path_re = qr{ \b ( C<
742 # exclude various things that have slashes
743 # in them but aren't paths
745 (?: (?: s | qr | m) / ) # regexes
746 | \d+/\d+> # probable fractions
751 | - # File names don't begin with "-"
753 [-\w]+ (?: / [-\w]+ )+ (?: \. \w+ )? > )
756 # If looks like a reference to other documentation by containing the
757 # word 'See' and then a likely pod directive, warn.
758 while ($paragraph =~ m{
759 ( (?: \w+ \s+ )* ) # The phrase before, if any
763 ( [^<]*? ) # The not < excludes nested C<L<...
766 ( \s+ (?: under | in ) \s+ L< )?
768 my $prefix = $1 // "";
769 my $construct = $2; # The whole thing, like C<...>
772 my $trailing = $5; # After the whole thing ending in "L<"
774 # If the full phrase is something like, "you might see C<", or
775 # similar, it really isn't a reference to a link. The ones I saw
776 # all had the word "you" in them; and the "you" wasn't the
777 # beginning of a sentence.
778 if ($prefix !~ / \b you \b /x) {
780 # Now, find what the module or man page name within the
781 # construct would be if it actually has L<> syntax. If it
782 # doesn't have that syntax, will set the module to the entire
785 (?: [^|]+ \| )? # Optional arbitrary text ending
787 ( .+? ) # module, etc. name
788 (?: \/ .+ )? # target within module
792 if (! defined $trailing # not referring to something in another
794 && $interior !~ /$non_pods/
796 # C<> that look like files have their own message below, so
798 && $construct !~ /$C_path_re/g
800 # There can't be spaces (I think) in module names or man
802 && $module !~ / \s /x
804 # F<> that end in eg \.pl are almost certainly ok, as are
805 # those that look like a path with multiple "/" chars
808 && $interior !~ /\.\w+$/
809 && $interior !~ /\/.+\//)
812 $self->poderror({ -line => $line, -file => $file,
813 -msg => $see_not_linked,
814 parameter => $construct
819 while ($paragraph =~ m/$C_path_re/g) {
821 $self->poderror({ -line => $line, -file => $file,
822 -msg => $C_with_slash,
823 parameter => $construct
830 my ($self, $cmd, $paragraph, $line_num, $pod_para) = @_;
831 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
833 $seen_pod_cmd{$addr}++;
835 elsif ($cmd eq "encoding") {
836 my ($file, $line) = $pod_para->file_line;
837 $seen_encoding_cmd{$addr} = $paragraph; # for later decoding
838 if ($command_count{$addr} != 1 && $seen_pod_cmd{$addr}) {
839 $self->poderror({ -line => $line, -file => $file,
840 -msg => $encoding_first
844 $self->check_encoding($paragraph, $line_num, $pod_para);
846 # Pod::Check treats all =items as linkable, but the bullet and
847 # numbered lists really aren't. So keep our own list. This has to be
848 # processed before SUPER is called so that the list is started before
849 # the rest of it gets parsed.
850 if ($cmd eq 'item') { # Not linkable if item begins with * or a digit
851 $linkable_item{$addr} = ($paragraph !~ / ^ \s*
853 | \d+ \.? (?: \$ | \s+ )
859 $self->SUPER::command($cmd, $paragraph, $line_num, $pod_para);
861 $command_count{$addr}++;
863 $in_NAME{$addr} = 0; # Will change to 1 below if necessary
864 $in_begin{$addr} = 0; # ibid
865 if ($cmd eq 'over') {
866 my $text = $self->interpolate($paragraph, $line_num);
867 my $indent = 4; # default
868 $indent = $1 if $text && $text =~ /^\s*(\d+)\s*$/;
869 push @{$indents{$addr}}, $indent;
870 $current_indent{$addr} += $indent;
872 elsif ($cmd eq 'back') {
873 if (@{$indents{$addr}}) {
874 $current_indent{$addr} -= pop @{$indents{$addr}};
877 # =back without corresponding =over, but should have
879 $current_indent{$addr} = 0;
882 elsif ($cmd =~ /^head/) {
883 if (! $in_begin{$addr}) {
885 # If a particular formatter, then this command doesn't really
887 $current_indent{$addr} = 0;
888 undef @{$indents{$addr}};
891 my $text = $self->interpolate($paragraph, $line_num);
892 $in_NAME{$addr} = 1 if $cmd eq 'head1'
893 && $text && $text =~ /^NAME\b/;
895 elsif ($cmd eq 'begin') {
896 $in_begin{$addr} = 1;
906 if ($_[0] && ($page = $_[0][1]{'-page'})) {
907 my $node = $_[0][1]{'-node'};
909 # If the hyperlink is to an interior node of another page, save it
910 # so that we can see if we need to parse normally skipped files.
911 $has_referred_to_node{$page} = 1 if $node;
913 # Ignore certain placeholder links in perldelta. Check if the
914 # link is page-level, and also check if to a node within the page
915 if ($self->name && $self->name eq "perldelta"
916 && ((grep { $page eq $_ } @perldelta_ignore_links)
918 && (grep { "$page/$node" eq $_ } @perldelta_ignore_links)
923 return $self->SUPER::hyperlink($_[0]);
930 $text =~ s/\s+$//s; # strip trailing whitespace
931 $text =~ s/\s+/ /gs; # collapse whitespace
932 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
933 push(@{$linkable_nodes{$addr}}, $text) if
934 ! $current_indent{$addr}
935 || $linkable_item{$addr};
937 return $self->SUPER::node($_[0]);
940 sub get_current_indent {
941 return $INDENT + $current_indent{Scalar::Util::refaddr $_[0]};
945 return $filename{Scalar::Util::refaddr $_[0]};
949 my $linkables = $linkable_nodes{Scalar::Util::refaddr $_[0]};
950 return undef unless $linkables;
955 return $skip{Scalar::Util::refaddr $_[0]} // 0;
960 $skip{Scalar::Util::refaddr $self} = shift;
962 # If skipping, no need to keep the problems for it
963 delete $problems{$self->get_filename};
968 package Tie_Array_to_FH { # So printing actually goes to an array
974 my $array_ref = shift;
976 my $self = bless \do{ my $anonymous_scalar }, $class;
977 $array{Scalar::Util::refaddr $self} = $array_ref;
984 push @{$array{Scalar::Util::refaddr $self}}, @_;
990 my %filename_to_checker; # Map a filename to it's pod checker object
991 my %id_to_checker; # Map a checksum to it's pod checker object
992 my %nodes; # key is filename, values are nodes in that file.
993 my %nodes_first_word; # same, but value is first word of each node
994 my %valid_modules; # List of modules known to exist outside us.
995 my %digests; # checksums of files, whose names are the keys
996 my %filename_to_pod; # Map a filename to its pod NAME
997 my %files_with_unknown_issues;
998 my %files_with_fixes;
1001 open $data_fh, '<:bytes', $known_issues or die "Can't open $known_issues";
1003 my %counts; # For --counts param, count of each issue type
1004 my %suppressed_files; # Files with at least one issue type to suppress
1006 # This file is the data file for $0.
1007 # There are three types of lines.
1008 # Comment lines are white-space only or begin with a '#', like this one. Any
1009 # changes you make to the comment lines will be lost when the file is
1011 # Lines without tab characters are simply NAMES of pods that the program knows
1012 # will have links to them and the program does not check if those links are
1014 # All other lines should have three fields, each separated by a tab. The
1015 # first field is the name of a pod; the second field is an error message
1016 # generated by this program; and the third field is a count of how many
1017 # known instances of that message there are in the pod. -1 means that the
1018 # program can expect any number of this type of message.
1021 my @existing_issues;
1024 while (<$data_fh>) { # Read the data base
1026 next if /^\s*(?:#|$)/; # Skip comment and empty lines
1029 if ($add_link) { # The issues are saved and later output unchanged
1030 push @existing_issues, $_;
1034 # Keep track of counts of each issue type for each file
1035 my ($filename, $message, $count) = split /\t/;
1036 $known_problems{$filename}{$message} = $count;
1039 if ($count < 0) { # -1 means to suppress this issue type
1040 $suppressed_files{$filename} = $filename;
1043 $counts{$message} += $count;
1047 else { # Lines without a tab are modules known to be valid
1048 $valid_modules{$_} = 1
1054 $copy_fh = open_new($known_issues);
1056 # Check for basic sanity, and add each command line argument
1057 foreach my $module (@files) {
1058 die "\"$module\" does not look like a module or man page"
1059 # Must look like (A or A::B or A::B::C ..., or foo(3C)
1060 if $module !~ /^ (?: \w+ (?: :: \w+ )* | \w+ \( \d \w* \) ) $/x;
1061 $valid_modules{$module} = 1
1063 my_safer_print($copy_fh, $HEADER);
1064 foreach (sort { lc $a cmp lc $b } keys %valid_modules) {
1065 my_safer_print($copy_fh, $_, "\n");
1068 # The rest of the db file is output unchanged.
1069 my_safer_print($copy_fh, join "\n", @existing_issues, "");
1071 close_and_rename($copy_fh);
1077 foreach my $message (sort keys %counts) {
1078 $total += $counts{$message};
1079 note(Text::Tabs::expand("$counts{$message}\t$message"));
1081 note("-----\n" . Text::Tabs::expand("$total\tknown potential issues"));
1082 if (%suppressed_files) {
1083 note("\nFiles that have all messages of at least one type suppressed:");
1084 note(join ",", keys %suppressed_files);
1090 # Not really pods, but can look like them.
1091 my %excluded_files = (
1092 "lib/unicore/mktables" => 1,
1093 "Porting/perldelta_template.pod" => 1,
1100 # Convert to more generic form.
1101 foreach my $file (keys %excluded_files) {
1102 delete $excluded_files{$file};
1103 $excluded_files{canonicalize($file)} = 1;
1106 # re to match files that are to be parsed only if there is an internal link
1107 # to them. It does not include cpan, as whether those are parsed depends
1108 # on a switch. Currently, only perltoc and the stable perldelta.pod's
1109 # are included. The latter all have characters between 'perl' and
1110 # 'delta'. (Actually the currently developed one matches as well, but
1111 # is a duplicate of perldelta.pod, so can be skipped, so fine for it to
1113 my $only_for_interior_links_re = qr/ ^ pod\/perltoc.pod $
1115 unless ($do_deltas) {
1116 $only_for_interior_links_re = qr/$only_for_interior_links_re |
1117 \b perl \d+ delta \. pod \b
1124 sub output_thanks ($$$$) { # Called when an issue has been fixed
1125 my $filename = shift;
1126 my $original_count = shift;
1127 my $current_count = shift;
1128 my $message = shift;
1130 $files_with_fixes{$filename} = 1;
1132 my $fixed_count = $original_count - $current_count;
1133 my $a_problem = ($fixed_count == 1) ? "a problem" : "multiple problems";
1134 my $another_problem = ($fixed_count == 1) ? "another problem" : "another set of problems";
1138 There were $original_count occurrences (now $current_count) in this pod of type
1143 There are no longer any problems found in this pod!
1150 Thanks for fixing $a_problem!
1152 Now you must teach $0 that this was fixed.
1157 Thanks for fixing $another_problem.
1166 sub my_safer_print { # print, with error checking for outputting to db
1167 my ($fh, @lines) = @_;
1169 if (! print $fh @lines) {
1170 my $save_error = $!;
1172 die "Write failure: $save_error";
1176 sub extract_pod { # Extracts just the pod from a file
1177 my $filename = shift;
1181 # Arrange for the output of Pod::Parser to be collected in an array we can
1182 # look at instead of being printed
1183 tie *ALREADY_FH, 'Tie_Array_to_FH', \@pod;
1184 open my $in_fh, '<:bytes', $filename
1186 # The file should already have been opened once to get here, so if
1187 # fails, just die. It's possible that a transitory file containing a
1188 # pod would get here, but not bothering to add code for that very
1190 or die "Can't open '$filename': $!\n";
1192 my $parser = Pod::Parser->new();
1193 $parser->parse_from_filehandle($in_fh, *ALREADY_FH);
1196 return join "", @pod
1199 my $digest = Digest->new($digest_type);
1202 # If $_ is a pod file, add it to the lists and do other prep work.
1205 # Don't look at files in directories that are for tests, nor those
1206 # beginning with a dot
1207 if ($_ eq 't' || $_ =~ /^\../) {
1208 $File::Find::prune = 1;
1213 if ($_ =~ /^\./ # No hidden Unix files
1214 || $_ =~ $non_pods) {
1215 note("Not considering $_") if DEBUG;
1219 my $filename = $File::Find::name;
1221 # In pod directories, skip .pl files. This is a workaround for VMS which
1222 # can't by default distnguish between .PL and .pl. We usually want to
1223 # examine .pl files but not .PL, but the one case where there is a current
1224 # conflict is in /pod, and there's only one .PL file there.
1225 if ($File::Find::dir =~ /pod$/ && $filename =~ /\.pl$/i) {
1226 note("Not considering $_") if DEBUG;
1230 # Assumes that the path separator is exactly one character.
1231 $filename =~ s/^\..//;
1233 return if $excluded_files{canonicalize($filename)};
1238 if (! open $candidate, '<:bytes', $_) {
1240 # If a transitory file was found earlier, the open could fail
1241 # legitimately and we just skip the file; also skip it if it is a
1242 # broken symbolic link, as it is probably just a build problem;
1243 # certainly not a file that we would want to check the pod of.
1244 # Otherwise fail it here and no reason to process it further.
1245 # (But the test count will be off too)
1246 ok(0, "Can't open '$filename': $!")
1247 if -e $filename && ! -l $filename;
1253 # If the file is a .pm or .pod, having any initial '=' on a line is
1254 # grounds for testing it. Otherwise, require a head1 NAME line to view it
1255 # as a potential pod
1256 if ($filename =~ /\.(?:pm|pod)/) {
1257 return unless $contents =~ /^=/m;
1259 return unless $contents =~ /^=head1 +NAME/m;
1262 # Here, we know that the file is a pod. Add it to the list of files
1263 # to check and create a checker object for it.
1265 push @files, $filename;
1266 my $checker = My::Pod::Checker->new($filename);
1267 $filename_to_checker{$filename} = $checker;
1269 # In order to detect duplicate pods and only analyze them once, we
1270 # compute checksums for the file, so don't have to do an exact
1271 # compare. Note that if the pod is just part of the file, the
1272 # checksums can differ for the same pod. That special case is handled
1273 # later, since if the checksums of the whole file are the same, that
1274 # case won't even come up. We don't need the checksums for files that
1275 # we parse only if there is a link to its interior, but we do need its
1276 # NAME, which is also retrieved in the code below.
1278 if ($filename =~ / (?: ^(cpan|lib|ext|dist)\/ )
1279 | $only_for_interior_links_re
1281 $digest->add($contents);
1282 $digests{$filename} = $digest->digest;
1284 # lib files aren't analyzed if they are duplicates of files copied
1285 # there from some other directory. But to determine this, we need
1286 # to know their NAMEs. We might as well find the NAME now while
1287 # the file is open. Similarly, cpan files aren't analyzed unless
1288 # we're analyzing all of them, or this particular file is linked
1289 # to by a file we are analyzing, and thus we will want to verify
1290 # that the target exists in it. We need to know at least the NAME
1291 # to see if it's worth analyzing, or so we can determine if a lib
1292 # file is a copy of a cpan one.
1293 if ($filename =~ m{ (?: ^ (?: cpan | lib ) / )
1294 | $only_for_interior_links_re
1296 if ($contents =~ /^=head1 +NAME.*/mg) {
1297 # The NAME is the first non-spaces on the line up to a
1298 # comma, dash or end of line. Otherwise, it's invalid and
1299 # this pod doesn't have a legal name that we're smart
1300 # enough to find currently. But the parser will later
1301 # find it if it thinks there is a legal name, and set the
1303 if ($contents =~ /\G # continue from the line after =head1
1304 \s* # ignore any empty lines
1305 ^ \s* ( \S+?) \s* (?: [,-] | $ )/mx) {
1307 $checker->name($name);
1308 $id_to_checker{$name} = $checker
1309 if $filename =~ m{^cpan/};
1312 elsif ($filename =~ m{^cpan/}) {
1313 $id_to_checker{$digests{$filename}} = $checker;
1319 } # End of is_pod_file()
1321 # Start of real code that isn't processing the command line (except the
1322 # db is read in above, as is processing of the --add_link option).
1323 # Here, @files contains list of files on the command line. If have any of
1324 # these, unconditionally test them, and show all the errors, even the known
1325 # ones, and, since not testing other pods, don't do cross-pod link tests.
1326 # (Could add extra code to do cross-pod tests for the ones in the list.)
1328 if ($has_input_files) {
1329 undef %known_problems;
1330 $do_upstream_cpan = $do_deltas = 1; # In case one of the inputs is one
1333 else { # No input files -- go find all the possibilities.
1335 $copy_fh = open_new($known_issues);
1336 note("Regenerating $known_issues, please be patient...");
1337 print $copy_fh $HEADER;
1340 # Move to the directory above us, but have to adjust @INC to account for
1342 s{^\.\./lib$}{lib} for @INC;
1343 chdir File::Spec->updir;
1345 # And look in this directory and all its subdirectories
1346 find( \&is_pod_file, '.');
1348 # Add ourselves to the test
1349 push @files, "t/porting/podcheck.t";
1352 # Now we know how many tests there will be.
1353 plan (tests => scalar @files) if ! $regen;
1356 # Sort file names so we get consistent results, and to put cpan last,
1357 # preceeded by the ones that we don't generally parse. This is because both
1358 # these classes are generally parsed only if there is a link to the interior
1359 # of them, and we have to parse all others first to guarantee that they don't
1360 # have such a link. 'lib' files come just before these, as some of these are
1361 # duplicates of others. We already have figured this out when gathering the
1362 # data as a special case for all such files, but this, while unnecessary,
1363 # puts the derived file last in the output. 'readme' files come before those,
1364 # as those also could be duplicates of others, which are considered the
1365 # primary ones. These currently aren't figured out when gathering data, so
1367 @files = sort { if ($a =~ /^cpan/) {
1368 return 1 if $b !~ /^cpan/;
1371 elsif ($b =~ /^cpan/) {
1374 elsif ($a =~ /$only_for_interior_links_re/) {
1375 return 1 if $b !~ /$only_for_interior_links_re/;
1378 elsif ($b =~ /$only_for_interior_links_re/) {
1381 elsif ($a =~ /^lib/) {
1382 return 1 if $b !~ /^lib/;
1385 elsif ($b =~ /^lib/) {
1387 } elsif ($a =~ /\breadme\b/i) {
1388 return 1 if $b !~ /\breadme\b/i;
1391 elsif ($b =~ /\breadme\b/i) {
1395 return lc $a cmp lc $b;
1400 # Now go through all the files and parse them
1401 foreach my $filename (@files) {
1403 note("parsing $filename") if DEBUG;
1405 # We may have already figured out some things in the process of generating
1406 # the file list. If so, have a $checker object already. But if not,
1408 my $checker = $filename_to_checker{$filename};
1410 $checker = My::Pod::Checker->new($filename);
1411 $filename_to_checker{$filename} = $checker;
1414 # We have set the name in the checker object if there is a possibility
1415 # that no further parsing is necessary, but otherwise do the parsing now.
1416 if (! $checker->name) {
1418 $checker->parse_from_file($filename, undef);
1421 if ($checker->num_errors() < 0) { # Returns negative if not a pod
1422 $checker->set_skip("$filename is not a pod");
1426 # Here, is a pod. See if it is one that has already been tested,
1427 # or should be tested under another directory. Use either its NAME
1428 # if it has one, or a checksum if not.
1429 my $name = $checker->name;
1436 my $digest = Digest->new($digest_type);
1437 $digest->add(extract_pod($filename));
1438 $id = $digest->digest;
1441 # If there is a match for this pod with something that we've already
1442 # processed, don't process it, and output why.
1444 if (defined ($prior_checker = $id_to_checker{$id})
1445 && $prior_checker != $checker) # Could have defined the checker
1446 # earlier without pursuing it
1449 # If the pods are identical, then it's just a copy, and isn't an
1450 # error. First use the checksums we have already computed to see
1451 # if the entire files are identical, which means that the pods are
1453 my $prior_filename = $prior_checker->get_filename;
1455 || ($digests{$prior_filename}
1456 && $digests{$filename}
1457 && $digests{$prior_filename} eq $digests{$filename}));
1459 # If they differ, it could be that the files differ for some
1460 # reason, but the pods they contain are identical. Extract the
1461 # pods and do the comparisons on just those.
1462 if (! $same && $name) {
1463 $same = extract_pod($prior_filename) eq extract_pod($filename);
1467 $checker->set_skip("The pod of $filename is a duplicate of "
1468 . "the pod for $prior_filename");
1469 } elsif ($prior_filename =~ /\breadme\b/i) {
1470 $checker->set_skip("$prior_filename is a README apparently for $filename");
1471 } elsif ($filename =~ /\breadme\b/i) {
1472 $checker->set_skip("$filename is a README apparently for $prior_filename");
1473 } elsif (! $do_upstream_cpan && $filename =~ /^cpan/) {
1474 $checker->set_skip("CPAN is upstream for $filename");
1475 } else { # Here have two pods with identical names that differ
1476 $prior_checker->poderror(
1477 { -msg => $duplicate_name,
1479 parameter => "'$filename' also has NAME '$name'"
1482 { -msg => $duplicate_name,
1484 parameter => "'$prior_filename' also has NAME '$name'"
1487 # Changing the names helps later.
1488 $prior_checker->name("$name version arbitrarily numbered 1");
1489 $checker->name("$name version arbitrarily numbered 2");
1492 # In any event, don't process this pod that has the same name as
1498 $id_to_checker{$id} = $checker;
1500 my $parsed_for_links = ", but parsed for its interior links";
1501 if ((! $do_upstream_cpan && $filename =~ /^cpan/)
1502 || $filename =~ $only_for_interior_links_re)
1504 if ($filename =~ /^cpan/) {
1505 $checker->set_skip("CPAN is upstream for $filename");
1507 elsif ($filename =~ /perl\d+delta/ && ! $do_deltas) {
1508 $checker->set_skip("$filename is a stable perldelta");
1510 elsif ($filename =~ /perltoc/) {
1511 $checker->set_skip("$filename dependent on component pods");
1514 croak("Unexpected file '$filename' encountered that has parsing for interior-linking only");
1517 if ($name && $has_referred_to_node{$name}) {
1518 $checker->set_skip($checker->get_skip() . $parsed_for_links);
1522 # Need a name in order to process it, because not meaningful
1523 # otherwise, and also can't test links to this without a name.
1524 if (!defined $name) {
1525 $checker->poderror( { -msg => $no_name,
1531 # For skipped files, just get its NAME
1533 if (($skip = $checker->get_skip()) && $skip !~ /$parsed_for_links/)
1535 $checker->node($name) if $name;
1538 $checker->parse_from_file($filename, undef) if ! $parsed;
1541 # Go through everything in the file that could be an anchor that
1542 # could be a link target. Count how many there are of the same name.
1543 foreach my $node ($checker->linkable_nodes) {
1544 next if ! $node; # Can be empty is like '=item *'
1545 if (exists $nodes{$name}{$node}) {
1546 $nodes{$name}{$node}++;
1549 $nodes{$name}{$node} = 1;
1552 # Experiments have shown that cpan search can figure out the
1553 # target of a link even if the exact wording is incorrect, as long
1554 # as the first word is. This happens frequently in perlfunc.pod,
1555 # where the link will be just to the function, but the target
1556 # entry also includes parameters to the function.
1557 my $first_word = $node;
1558 if ($first_word =~ s/^(\S+)\s+\S.*/$1/) {
1559 $nodes_first_word{$name}{$first_word} = $node;
1562 $filename_to_pod{$filename} = $name;
1566 # Here, all files have been parsed, and all links and link targets are stored.
1567 # Now go through the files again and see which don't have matches.
1568 if (! $has_input_files) {
1569 foreach my $filename (@files) {
1570 next if $filename_to_checker{$filename}->get_skip;
1571 my $checker = $filename_to_checker{$filename};
1572 foreach my $link ($checker->hyperlink) {
1573 my $linked_to_page = $link->[1]->page;
1574 next unless $linked_to_page; # intra-file checks are handled by std
1577 # Initialize the potential message.
1578 my %problem = ( -msg => $broken_link,
1579 -line => $link->[0],
1580 parameter => "to \"$linked_to_page\"",
1583 # See if we have found the linked-to_file in our parse
1584 if (exists $nodes{$linked_to_page}) {
1585 my $node = $link->[1]->node;
1587 # If link is only to the page-level, already have it
1590 # Transform pod language to what we are expecting
1591 $node =~ s,E<sol>,/,g;
1592 $node =~ s/E<verbar>/|/g;
1594 # If link is to a node that exists in the file, is ok
1595 if ($nodes{$linked_to_page}{$node}) {
1597 # But if the page has multiple targets with the same name,
1598 # it's ambiguous which one this should be to.
1599 if ($nodes{$linked_to_page}{$node} > 1) {
1600 $problem{-msg} = $multiple_targets;
1601 $problem{parameter} = "in $linked_to_page that $node could be pointing to";
1602 $checker->poderror(\%problem);
1604 } elsif (! $nodes_first_word{$linked_to_page}{$node}) {
1606 # Here the link target was not found, either exactly or to
1607 # the first word. Is an error.
1608 $problem{parameter} =~ s,"$,/$node",;
1609 $checker->poderror(\%problem);
1612 } # Linked-to-file not in parse; maybe is in exception list
1613 elsif (! exists $valid_modules{$link->[1]->page}) {
1615 # Here, is a link to a target that we can't find. Check if
1616 # there is an internal link on the page with the target name.
1617 # If so, it could be that they just forgot the initial '/'
1618 # But perldelta is handled specially: only do this if the
1619 # broken link isn't one of the known bad ones (that are
1620 # placemarkers and should be removed for the final)
1621 my $NAME = $filename_to_pod{$filename};
1622 if (! defined $NAME) {
1623 $checker->poderror(\%problem);
1626 if ($nodes{$NAME}{$linked_to_page}) {
1627 $problem{-msg} = $broken_internal_link;
1629 $checker->poderror(\%problem);
1636 # If regenerating the data file, start with the modules for which we don't
1639 foreach (sort { lc $a cmp lc $b } keys %valid_modules) {
1640 my_safer_print($copy_fh, $_, "\n");
1644 # Now ready to output the messages.
1645 foreach my $filename (@files) {
1646 my $test_name = "POD of $filename";
1647 my $canonical = canonicalize($filename);
1649 my $skip = $filename_to_checker{$filename}->get_skip // "";
1652 foreach my $message ( sort keys %{$problems{$filename}}) {
1655 # Preserve a negative setting.
1656 if ($known_problems{$canonical}{$message}
1657 && $known_problems{$canonical}{$message} < 0)
1659 $count = $known_problems{$canonical}{$message};
1662 $count = @{$problems{$filename}{$message}};
1664 my_safer_print($copy_fh, canonicalize($filename) . "\t$message\t$count\n");
1669 skip($skip, 1) if $skip;
1673 my $total_known = 0;
1674 foreach my $message ( sort keys %{$problems{$filename}}) {
1675 $known_problems{$canonical}{$message} = 0
1676 if ! $known_problems{$canonical}{$message};
1677 my $diagnostic = "";
1678 my $problem_count = scalar @{$problems{$filename}{$message}};
1679 $total_known += $problem_count;
1680 next if $known_problems{$canonical}{$message} < 0;
1681 if ($problem_count > $known_problems{$canonical}{$message}) {
1683 # Here we are about to output all the messages for this type,
1684 # subtract back this number we previously added in.
1685 $total_known -= $problem_count;
1687 $diagnostic .= $indent . $message;
1688 if ($problem_count > 2) {
1689 $diagnostic .= " ($problem_count occurrences)";
1691 foreach my $problem (@{$problems{$filename}{$message}}) {
1692 $diagnostic .= " " if $problem_count == 1;
1693 $diagnostic .= "\n$indent$indent";
1694 $diagnostic .= "$problem->{parameter}" if $problem->{parameter};
1695 $diagnostic .= " near line $problem->{-line}";
1696 $diagnostic .= " $problem->{comment}" if $problem->{comment};
1698 $diagnostic .= "\n";
1699 $files_with_unknown_issues{$filename} = 1;
1700 } elsif ($problem_count < $known_problems{$canonical}{$message}) {
1701 $diagnostic = output_thanks($filename, $known_problems{$canonical}{$message}, $problem_count, $message);
1703 push @diagnostics, $diagnostic if $diagnostic;
1706 # The above loop has output messages where there are current potential
1707 # issues. But it misses where there were some that have been entirely
1708 # fixed. For those, we need to look through the old issues
1709 foreach my $message ( sort keys %{$known_problems{$canonical}}) {
1710 next if $problems{$filename}{$message};
1711 next if ! $known_problems{$canonical}{$message};
1712 next if $known_problems{$canonical}{$message} < 0; # Preserve negs
1713 my $diagnostic = output_thanks($filename, $known_problems{$canonical}{$message}, 0, $message);
1714 push @diagnostics, $diagnostic if $diagnostic;
1717 my $output = "POD of $filename";
1718 $output .= ", excluding $total_known not shown known potential problems"
1720 ok(@diagnostics == 0, $output);
1722 note(join "", @diagnostics,
1723 "See end of this test output for your options on silencing this");
1729 run this test script by hand, using the following formula (on
1730 Un*x-like machines):
1732 ./perl -I../lib porting/podcheck.t --regen
1735 if (%files_with_unknown_issues) {
1736 my $were_count_files = scalar keys %files_with_unknown_issues;
1737 $were_count_files = ($were_count_files == 1)
1738 ? "was $were_count_files file"
1739 : "were $were_count_files files";
1740 my $message = <<EOF;
1742 HOW TO GET THIS .t TO PASS
1744 There $were_count_files that had new potential problems identified.
1745 Some of them may be real, and some of them may be false positives because
1746 this program isn't as smart as it likes to think it is. You can teach this
1747 program to ignore the issues it has identified, and hence pass, by doing the
1750 1) If a problem is about a link to an unknown module or man page that
1751 you know exists, re-run the command something like:
1752 ./perl -I../lib porting/podcheck.t --add_link MODULE man_page ...
1753 (MODULEs should look like Foo::Bar, and man_pages should look like
1754 bar(3c); don't do this for a module or man page that you aren't sure
1755 about; instead treat as another type of issue and follow the
1756 instructions below.)
1758 2) For other issues, decide if each should be fixed now or not. Fix the
1759 ones you decided to, and rerun this test to verify that the fixes
1762 3) If there remain false positive or problems that you don't plan to fix right
1765 That should cause all current potential problems to be accepted by
1766 the program, so that the next time it runs, they won't be flagged.
1768 if (%files_with_fixes) {
1769 $message .= " This step will also take care of the files that have fixes in them\n";
1773 For a few files, such as perltoc, certain issues will always be
1774 expected, and more of the same will be added over time. For those,
1775 before you do the regen, you can edit
1777 and find the entry for the module's file and specific error message,
1778 and change the count of known potential problems to -1.
1782 } elsif (%files_with_fixes) {
1784 To teach this test script that the potential problems have been fixed,
1791 chdir $original_dir || die "Can't change directories to $original_dir";
1792 close_and_rename($copy_fh);