8 # Do not require test.pl, this file has its own framework.
13 use feature 'unicode_strings';
24 if ( $Config{usecrosscompile} ) {
25 print "1..0 # Not all files are available during cross-compilation\n";
28 if ($^O eq 'dec_osf') {
29 print "1..0 # $^O cannot handle this test\n";
32 require '../regen/regen_lib.pl';
41 podcheck.t - Look for possible problems in the Perl pods
46 ./perl -I../lib porting/podcheck.t [--show_all] [--cpan] [--deltas]
47 [--counts] [--pedantic] [FILE ...]
49 ./perl -I../lib porting/podcheck.t --add_link MODULE ...
51 ./perl -I../lib porting/podcheck.t --regen
55 podcheck.t is an extension of Pod::Checker. It looks for pod errors and
56 potential errors in the files given as arguments, or if none specified, in all
57 pods in the distribution workspace, except certain known special ones
58 (specified below). It does additional checking beyond that done by
59 Pod::Checker, and keeps a database of known potential problems, and will
60 fail a pod only if the number of such problems differs from that given in the
63 The additional checks it always makes are:
67 =item Cross-pod link checking
69 Pod::Checker verifies that links to an internal target in a pod are not
70 broken. podcheck.t extends that (when called without FILE arguments) to
71 external links. It does this by gathering up all the possible targets in the
72 workspace, and cross-checking them. It also checks that a non-broken link
73 points to just one target. (The destination pod could have two targets with
76 The way that the C<LE<lt>E<gt>> pod command works (for links outside the pod)
77 is to actually create a link to C<search.cpan.org> with an embedded query for
78 the desired pod or man page. That means that links outside the distribution
79 are valid. podcheck.t doesn't verify the validity of such links, but instead
80 keeps a database of those known to be valid. This means that if a link to a
81 target not on the list is created, the target needs to be added to the data
82 base. This is accomplished via the L<--add_link|/--add_link MODULE ...>
83 option to podcheck.t, described below.
85 =item An internal link that isn't so specified
87 If a link is broken, but there is an existing internal target of the same
88 name, it is likely that the internal target was meant, and the C<"/"> is
89 missing from the C<LE<lt>E<gt>> pod command.
91 =item Missing or duplicate NAME or missing NAME short description
93 A pod can't be linked to unless it has a unique name.
94 And a NAME should have a dash and short description after it.
96 If the C<PERL_POD_PEDANTIC> environment variable is set or the C<--pedantic>
97 command line argument is provided then a few more checks are made.
98 The pedantic checks are:
102 =item Verbatim paragraphs that wrap in an 80 (including 1 spare) column window
104 It's annoying to have lines wrap when displaying pod documentation in a
105 terminal window. This checks that all verbatim lines fit in a standard 80
106 column window, even when using a pager that reserves a column for its own use.
107 (Thus the check is for a net of 79 columns.)
108 For those lines that don't fit, it tells you how much needs to be cut in
111 Often, the easiest thing to do to gain space for these is to lower the indent
114 =item Items that perhaps should be links
116 There are mentions of apparent files in the pods that perhaps should be links
117 instead, using C<LE<lt>...E<gt>>
119 =item Items that perhaps should be C<FE<lt>...E<gt>>
121 What look like path names enclosed in C<CE<lt>...E<gt>> should perhaps have
122 C<FE<lt>...E<gt>> mark-up instead.
126 A number of issues raised by podcheck.t and by the base Pod::Checker are not
127 really problems, but merely potential problems, that is, false positives.
128 After inspecting them and
129 deciding that they aren't real problems, it is possible to shut up this program
130 about them, unlike base Pod::Checker. For a valid link to an outside module
131 or man page, call podcheck.t with the C<--add_link> option to add it to the
132 the database of known links; for other causes, call podcheck.t with the C<--regen>
133 option to regenerate the entire database. This tells it that all existing
134 issues are to not be mentioned again.
136 C<--regen> isn't fool-proof. The database merely keeps track of the number of these
137 potential problems of each type for each pod. If a new problem of a given
138 type is introduced into the pod, podcheck.t will spit out all of them. You
139 then have to figure out which is the new one, and should it be changed or not.
140 But doing it this way insulates the database from having to keep track of line
141 numbers of problems, which may change, or the exact wording of each problem
142 which might also change without affecting whether it is a problem or not.
144 Also, if the count of potential problems of a given type for a pod decreases,
145 the database must be regenerated so that it knows the new number. The program
146 gives instructions when this happens.
148 Some pods will have varying numbers of problems of a given type. This can
149 be handled by manually editing the database file (see L</FILES>), and setting
150 the number of those problems for that pod to a negative number. This will
151 cause the corresponding error to always be suppressed no matter how many there
154 Another problem is that there is currently no check that modules listed as
155 valid in the database
156 actually are. Thus any errors introduced there will remain there.
160 =head2 Specially handled pods
166 This pod is generated by pasting bits from other pods. Errors in those bits
167 will show up as errors here, as well as for those other pods. Therefore
168 errors here are suppressed, and the pod is checked only to verify that nodes
169 within it actually exist that are externally linked to.
173 The current perldelta pod is initialized from a template that contains
174 placeholder text. Some of this text is in the form of links that don't really
175 exist. Any such links that are listed in C<@perldelta_ignore_links> will not
176 generate messages. It is presumed that these links will be cleaned up when
177 the perldelta is cleaned up for release since they should be marked with
180 =item Porting/perldelta_template.pod
182 This is not a pod, but a template for C<perldelta>. Any errors introduced
183 here will show up when C<perldelta> is created from it.
185 =item cpan-upstream pods
187 See the L</--cpan> option documentation
191 See the L</--deltas> option documentation
199 =item --add_link MODULE ...
201 Use this option to teach podcheck.t that the C<MODULE>s or man pages actually
202 exist, and to silence any messages that links to them are broken.
204 podcheck.t checks that links within the Perl core distribution are valid, but
205 it doesn't check links to man pages or external modules. When it finds
206 a broken link, it checks its database of external modules and man pages,
207 and only if not found there does it raise a message. This option just adds
208 the list of modules and man page references that follow it on the command line
214 ./perl -I../lib porting/podcheck.t --add_link Unicode::Casing
216 causes the external module "Unicode::Casing" to be added to the database, so
217 C<LE<lt>Unicode::CasingE<gt>> will be considered valid.
221 Regenerate the database used by podcheck.t to include all the existing
222 potential problems. Future runs of the program will not then flag any of
223 these. Setting this option also sets C<--pedantic>.
227 Normally, all pods in the cpan directory are skipped, except to make sure that
228 any blead-upstream links to such pods are valid.
229 This option will cause cpan upstream pods to be fully checked.
233 Normally, all old perldelta pods are skipped, except to make sure that
234 any links to such pods are valid. This is because they are considered
235 stable, and perhaps trying to fix them will cause changes that will
236 misrepresent Perl's history. But, this option will cause them to be fully
241 Normally, if the number of potential problems of a given type found for a
242 pod matches the expected value in the database, they will not be displayed.
243 This option forces the database to be ignored during the run, so all potential
244 problems are displayed and will fail their respective pod test. Specifying
245 any particular FILES to operate on automatically selects this option.
249 Instead of testing, this just dumps the counts of the occurrences of the
250 various types of potential problems in the database.
254 There are three potential problems that are not checked for by default.
255 This options enables them. The environment variable C<PERL_POD_PEDANTIC>
256 can be set to 1 to enable this option also.
257 This option is set when C<--regen> is used.
263 The database is stored in F<t/porting/known_pod_issues.dat>
271 # VMS builds have a '.com' appended to utility and script names, and it adds a
272 # trailing dot for any other file name that doesn't have a dot in it. The db
273 # is stored without those things. This regex allows for these special file
274 # names to be dealt with. It needs to be interpolated into a larger regex
275 # that furnishes the closing boundary.
276 my $vms_re = qr/ \. (?: com )? /x;
278 # Some filenames in the MANIFEST match $vms_re, and so must not be handled the
279 # same way that that the special vms ones are. This hash lists those.
280 my %special_vms_files;
282 # This is to get this to work across multiple file systems, including those
283 # that are not case sensitive. The db is stored in lower case, Un*x style,
284 # and all file name comparisons are done that way.
285 sub canonicalize($) {
287 my ($volume, $directories, $file)
288 = File::Spec->splitpath(File::Spec->canonpath($input));
289 # Assumes $volume is constant for everything in this directory structure
290 $directories = "" if ! $directories;
291 $file = "" if ! $file;
292 $file = lc join '/', File::Spec->splitdir($directories), $file;
293 $file =~ s! / /+ !/!gx; # Multiple slashes => single slash
295 # The db is stored without the special suffixes that are there in VMS, so
296 # strip them off to get the comparable name. But some files on all
297 # platforms have these suffixes, so this shouldn't happen for them, as any
298 # of their db entries will have the suffixes in them. The hash has been
299 # populated with these files.
301 && $file =~ / ( $vms_re ) $ /x
302 && ! exists $special_vms_files{$file})
304 $file =~ s/ $1 $ //x;
309 #####################################################
310 # HOW IT WORKS (in general)
312 # If not called with specific files to check, the directory structure is
313 # examined for files that have pods in them. Files that might not have to be
314 # fully parsed (e.g. in cpan) are parsed enough at this time to find their
315 # pod's NAME, and to get a checksum.
317 # Those kinds of files are sorted last, but otherwise the pods are parsed with
318 # the package coded here, My::Pod::Checker, which is an extension to
319 # Pod::Checker that adds some tests and suppresses others that aren't
320 # appropriate. The latter module has no provision for capturing diagnostics,
321 # so a package, Tie_Array_to_FH, is used to force them to be placed into an
322 # array instead of printed.
324 # Parsing the files builds up a list of links. The files are gone through
325 # again, doing cross-link checking and outputting all saved-up problems with
328 # Sorting the files last that potentially don't need to be fully parsed allows
329 # us to not parse them unless there is a link to an internal anchor in them
330 # from something that we have already parsed. Keeping checksums allows us to
331 # not parse copies of other pods.
333 #####################################################
335 # 1 => Exclude low priority messages that aren't likely to be problems, and
336 # has many false positives; higher numbers give more messages.
337 my $Warnings_Level = 200;
339 # perldelta during construction may have place holder links. N.B. This
340 # variable is referred to by name in release_managers_guide.pod
341 our @perldelta_ignore_links = ( "XXX", "perl5YYYdelta", "perldiag/message" );
343 # To see if two pods with the same NAME are actually copies of the same pod,
344 # which is not an error, it uses a checksum to save work.
345 my $digest_type = "SHA-1";
347 my $original_dir = File::Spec->rel2abs(File::Spec->curdir);
348 my $data_dir = File::Spec->catdir($original_dir, 'porting');
349 my $known_issues = File::Spec->catfile($data_dir, 'known_pod_issues.dat');
350 my $MANIFEST = File::Spec->catfile(File::Spec->updir($original_dir), 'MANIFEST');
353 my $MAX_LINE_LENGTH = 79; # 79 columns
354 my $INDENT = 7; # default nroff indent
356 # Our warning messages. Better not have [('"] in them, as those are used as
357 # delimiters for variable parts of the messages by poderror.
358 my $broken_link = "Apparent broken link";
359 my $broken_internal_link = "Apparent internal link is missing its forward slash";
360 my $multiple_targets = "There is more than one target";
361 my $duplicate_name = "Pod NAME already used";
362 my $no_name = "There is no NAME";
363 my $missing_name_description = "The NAME should have a dash and short description after it";
364 # the pedantic warnings messages
365 my $line_length = "Verbatim line length including indents exceeds $MAX_LINE_LENGTH by";
366 my $C_not_linked = "? Should you be using L<...> instead of";
367 my $C_with_slash = "? Should you be using F<...> or maybe L<...> instead of";
369 # objects, tests, etc can't be pods, so don't look for them. Also skip
370 # files output by the patch program. Could also ignore most of .gitignore
371 # files, but not all, so don't.
373 my $obj_ext = $Config{'obj_ext'}; $obj_ext =~ tr/.//d; # dot will be added back
374 my $lib_ext = $Config{'lib_ext'}; $lib_ext =~ tr/.//d;
375 my $lib_so = $Config{'so'}; $lib_so =~ tr/.//d;
376 my $dl_ext = $Config{'dlext'}; $dl_ext =~ tr/.//d;
378 # Not really pods, but can look like them.
379 my %excluded_files = (
380 canonicalize("lib/unicore/mktables") => 1,
381 canonicalize("Porting/make-rmg-checklist") => 1,
382 canonicalize("Porting/perldelta_template.pod") => 1,
383 canonicalize("regen/feature.pl") => 1,
384 canonicalize("regen/warnings.pl") => 1,
385 canonicalize("autodoc.pl") => 1,
386 canonicalize("configpm") => 1,
387 canonicalize("miniperl") => 1,
388 canonicalize("perl") => 1,
389 canonicalize('cpan/Pod-Perldoc/corpus/no-head.pod') => 1,
390 canonicalize('cpan/Pod-Perldoc/corpus/perlfunc.pod') => 1,
391 canonicalize('cpan/Pod-Perldoc/corpus/utf8.pod') => 1,
392 canonicalize("lib/unicore/mktables") => 1,
395 # This list should not include anything for which case sensitivity is
396 # important, as it won't work on VMS, and won't show up until tested on VMS.
397 # All or almost all such files should be listed in the MANIFEST, so that can
398 # be examined for them, and each such file explicitly excluded, as is done for
399 # .PL files in the loop just below this. For files not catchable this way,
400 # is_pod_file() can be used to exclude these at a finer grained level.
401 my $non_pods = qr/ (?: \.
402 (?: [achot] | zip | gz | bz2 | jar | tar | tgz
403 | orig | rej | patch # Patch program output
404 | sw[op] | \#.* # Editor droppings
405 | old # buildtoc output
406 | xs # pod should be in the .pm file
407 | al # autosplit files
408 | bs # bootstrap files
409 | (?i:sh) # shell scripts, hints, templates
410 | lst # assorted listing files
411 | bat # Windows,Netware,OS2 batch files
412 | cmd # Windows,Netware,OS2 command files
413 | lis # VMS compiler listings
414 | map # VMS linker maps
415 | opt # VMS linker options files
416 | mms # MM(K|S) description files
417 | ts # timestamp files generated during build
418 | $obj_ext # object files
419 | exe # $Config{'exe_ext'} might be empty string
420 | $lib_ext # object libraries
421 | $lib_so # shared libraries
422 | $dl_ext # dynamic libraries
423 | gif # GIF images (example files from CGI.pm)
424 | eg # examples from libnet
427 ) | ~$ | \ \(Autosaved\)\.txt$ # Other editor droppings
428 | ^cxx\$demangler_db\.$ # VMS name mangler database
429 | ^typemap\.?$ # typemap files
430 | ^(?i:Makefile\.PL)$
433 # Matches something that looks like a file name, but is enclosed in C<...>
434 my $C_path_re = qr{ ^
435 # exclude various things that have slashes
436 # in them but aren't paths
438 (?: (?: s | qr | m | tr | y ) / ) # regexes
439 | \d+/\d+ \b # probable fractions
447 /? # Optional initial slash
448 \w+ # First component of path, doesn't begin with
450 (?: / [-\w]+ )+ # Subsequent path components
451 (?: \. \w+ )? # Optional trailing dot and suffix
452 >* # Any enclosed L< F< have matching closing >
456 # '.PL' files should be excluded, as they aren't final pods, but often contain
457 # material used in generating pods, and so can look like a pod. We can't use
458 # the regexp above because case sensisitivity is important for these, as some
459 # '.pl' files should be examined for pods. Instead look through the MANIFEST
460 # for .PL files and get their full path names, so we can exclude each such
461 # file explicitly. This works because other porting tests prohibit having two
462 # files with the same names except for case.
463 open my $manifest_fh, '<:bytes', $MANIFEST or die "Can't open $MANIFEST";
464 while (<$manifest_fh>) {
466 # While we have MANIFEST open, on VMS platforms, look for files that match
467 # the magic VMS file names that have to be handled specially. Add these
468 # to the list of them.
469 if ($^O eq 'VMS' && / ^ ( [^\t]* $vms_re ) \t /x) {
470 $special_vms_files{$1} = 1;
472 if (/ ^ ( [^\t]* \. PL ) \t /x) {
473 $excluded_files{canonicalize($1)} = 1;
476 close $manifest_fh, or die "Can't close $MANIFEST";
479 # Pod::Checker messages to suppress
480 my @suppressed_messages = (
481 # We catch independently the ones that are real problems.
482 qr/multiple occurrences \(\d+\) of link target/,
484 "unescaped <>", # Not every '<' or '>' need be escaped
485 qr/No items in =over/, # i.e., a blockquote, which we consider legal
489 # Returns bool as to if input message is one that is to be suppressed
493 return grep { $message =~ /^$_/i } @suppressed_messages;
496 { # Closure to contain a simple subset of test.pl. This is to get rid of the
497 # unnecessary 'failed at' messages that would otherwise be output pointing
498 # to a particular line in this file.
500 my $current_test = 0;
505 $planned = $plan{tests} + 1; # +1 for final test that files haven't
507 print "1..$planned\n";
518 print "not " unless $success;
519 print "ok $current_test - $message\n";
525 my $n = @_ ? shift : 1;
528 print "ok $current_test # skip $why\n";
530 no warnings 'exiting';
535 my ($andle, $message) = @_;
539 print $andle $message =~ s/^/# /mgr;
544 sub note { unshift @_, \*STDOUT; goto &_note }
546 sub diag { unshift @_, \*STDERR; goto &_note }
549 if ($planned && $planned != $current_test) {
551 "# Looks like you planned $planned tests but ran $current_test.\n";
556 # List of known potential problems by pod and type.
559 # Pods given by the keys contain an interior node that is referred to from
561 my %has_referred_to_node;
569 my $do_upstream_cpan = 0; # Assume that are to skip anything in /cpan
570 my $do_deltas = 0; # And stable perldeltas
572 while (@ARGV && substr($ARGV[0], 0, 1) eq '-') {
573 my $arg = shift @ARGV;
575 $arg =~ s/^--/-/; # Treat '--' the same as a single '-'
576 if ($arg eq '-regen') {
580 elsif ($arg eq '-add_link') {
583 elsif ($arg eq '-cpan') {
584 $do_upstream_cpan = 1;
586 elsif ($arg eq '-deltas') {
589 elsif ($arg eq '-show_all') {
592 elsif ($arg eq '-counts') {
595 elsif ($arg eq '-pedantic') {
600 Unknown option '$arg'
602 Usage: $0 [ --regen | --cpan | --show_all | FILE ... | --add_link MODULE ... ]\n"
603 --add_link -> Add the MODULE and man page references to the database
604 --regen -> Regenerate the data file for $0
605 --cpan -> Include files in the cpan subdirectory.
606 --deltas -> Include stable perldeltas
607 --show_all -> Show all known potential problems
608 --counts -> Don't test, but give summary counts of the currently
610 --pedantic -> Check for overly long lines in verbatim blocks
615 $pedantic = 1 if exists $ENV{PERL_POD_PEDANTIC} and $ENV{PERL_POD_PEDANTIC};
618 my $cpan_or_deltas = $do_upstream_cpan || $do_deltas;
619 if (($regen + $show_all + $show_counts + $add_link + $cpan_or_deltas ) > 1) {
620 croak "--regen, --show_all, --counts, and --add_link are mutually exclusive\n and none can be run with --cpan nor --deltas";
623 my $has_input_files = @files;
627 if (! $has_input_files) {
628 croak "--add_link requires at least one module or man page reference";
631 elsif ($has_input_files) {
632 if ($regen || $show_counts || $do_upstream_cpan || $do_deltas) {
633 croak "--regen, --counts, --deltas, and --cpan can't be used since using specific files";
635 foreach my $file (@files) {
636 croak "Can't read file '$file'" if ! -r $file;
640 our %problems; # potential problems found in this run
642 package My::Pod::Checker { # Extend Pod::Checker
643 use parent 'Pod::Checker';
645 # Uses inside out hash to protect from typos
646 # For new fields, remember to add to destructor DESTROY()
647 my %CFL_text; # The text comprising the current C<>, F<>, or L<>
648 my %C_text; # If defined, are in a C<> section, and includes
649 # the accumulated text from that
650 my %current_indent; # Current line's indent
651 my %filename; # The pod is store in this file
652 my %in_CFL; # count of stacked C<>, F<>, L<> directives
653 my %indents; # Stack of indents from =over's in effect for
655 my %in_for; # true if in a =for or =begin
656 my %in_NAME; # true if within NAME section
657 my %in_begin; # true if within =begin section
658 my %in_X; # true if in a X<>
659 my %linkable_item; # Bool: if the latest =item is linkable. It isn't
660 # for bullet and number lists
661 my %linkable_nodes; # Pod::Checker adds all =items to its node list,
662 # but not all =items are linkable to
663 my %running_CFL_text; # The current text that is being accumulated until
664 # an end_FOO is found, and this includes any C<>,
665 # F<>, or L<> directives.
666 my %running_simple_text; # The currentt text that is being accumulated
667 # until an end_FOO is found, and all directives
668 # have been expanded into plain text
669 my %command_count; # Number of commands seen
670 my %seen_pod_cmd; # true if have =pod earlier
671 my %skip; # is SKIP set for this pod
672 my %start_line; # the first input line number in the the thing
673 # currently being worked on
676 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $_[0];
677 delete $CFL_text{$addr};
678 delete $C_text{$addr};
679 delete $command_count{$addr};
680 delete $current_indent{$addr};
681 delete $filename{$addr};
682 delete $in_begin{$addr};
683 delete $in_CFL{$addr};
684 delete $indents{$addr};
685 delete $in_for{$addr};
686 delete $in_NAME{$addr};
688 delete $linkable_item{$addr};
689 delete $linkable_nodes{$addr};
690 delete $running_CFL_text{$addr};
691 delete $running_simple_text{$addr};
692 delete $seen_pod_cmd{$addr};
694 delete $start_line{$addr};
700 my $filename = shift;
702 my $self = $class->SUPER::new(-quiet => 1,
703 -warnings => $Warnings_Level);
704 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
705 $command_count{$addr} = 0;
706 $current_indent{$addr} = 0;
707 $filename{$addr} = $filename;
708 $in_begin{$addr} = 0;
712 $linkable_item{$addr} = 0;
713 $seen_pod_cmd{$addr} = 0;
717 # re's for messages that Pod::Checker outputs
718 my $location = qr/ \b (?:in|at|on|near) \s+ /xi;
719 my $optional_location = qr/ (?: $location )? /xi;
720 my $line_reference = qr/ [('"]? $optional_location \b line \s+
721 (?: \d+ | EOF | \Q???\E | - )
724 sub poderror { # Called to register a potential problem
726 # This adds an extra field to the parent hash, 'parameter'. It is
727 # used to extract the variable parts of a message leaving just the
728 # constant skeleton. This in turn allows the message to be
729 # categorized better, so that it shows up as a single type in our
730 # database, with the specifics of each occurrence not being stored with
736 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
737 return if $skip{$addr};
739 # Input can be a string or hash. If a string, parse it to separate
740 # out the line number and convert to a hash for easier further
743 if (ref $opts ne 'HASH') {
744 $message = join "", $opts, @_;
746 if ($message =~ s/\s*($line_reference)//) {
747 ($line_number = $1) =~ s/\s*$optional_location//;
750 $line_number = '???';
752 $opts = { -msg => $message, -line => $line_number };
754 $message = $opts->{'-msg'};
758 $message =~ s/^\d+\s+//;
759 return if main::suppressed($message);
761 $self->SUPER::poderror($opts, @_);
763 $opts->{parameter} = "" unless $opts->{parameter};
765 # The variable parts of the message tend to be enclosed in '...',
766 # "....", or (...). Extract them and put them in an extra field,
767 # 'parameter'. This is trickier because the matching delimiter to a
768 # '(' is its mirror, and not itself. Text::Balanced could be used
770 while ($message =~ m/ \s* $optional_location ( [('"] )/xg) {
773 $delimiter = ')' if $delimiter eq '(';
775 # If there is no ending delimiter, don't consider it to be a
776 # variable part. Most likely it is a contraction like "Don't"
777 last unless $message =~ m/\G .+? \Q$delimiter/xg;
779 my $length = $+[0] - $start;
781 # Get the part up through the closing delimiter
782 my $special = substr($message, $start, $length);
783 $special =~ s/^\s+//; # No leading whitespace
785 # And add that variable part to the parameter, while removing it
786 # from the message. This isn't a foolproof way of finding the
787 # variable part. For example '(s)' can occur in e.g.,
789 if ($special ne '(s)') {
790 substr($message, $start, $length) = "";
791 pos $message = $start;
792 $opts->{-msg} = $message;
793 $opts->{parameter} .= " " if $opts->{parameter};
794 $opts->{parameter} .= $special;
798 # Extract any additional line number given. This is often the
799 # beginning location of something whereas the main line number gives
801 if ($message =~ /( $line_reference )/xi) {
803 while ($message =~ s/\s*\Q$line_ref//) {
804 $opts->{-msg} = $message;
805 $opts->{parameter} .= " " if $opts->{parameter};
806 $opts->{parameter} .= $line_ref;
810 Carp::carp("Couldn't extract line number from '$message'") if $message =~ /line \d+/;
811 push @{$problems{$filename{$addr}}{$message}}, $opts;
812 #push @{$problems{$self->get_filename}{$message}}, $opts;
815 # In the next subroutines, we keep track of the text of the current
816 # innermost thing, like F<fooC<bar>baz>. The things we care about raising
817 # messages about in this program all come from a single sequence of
818 # characters uninterrupted by other pod commands. Therefore we don't have
819 # to worry about recursion, and we can just set the string we care about
820 # to empty on entrance to each command.
823 # This is called by the parent class to deal with any straight text.
824 # We mostly just append this to the running current value which will
825 # be dealt with upon the end of the current construct, like a
826 # paragraph. But certain things don't contribute to checking the pod
827 # and are ignored. We also have set flags to indicate this text is
828 # going towards constructing certain constructs, and handle those
832 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
834 my $return = $self->SUPER::handle_text(@_);
836 if ($in_X{$addr} || $in_for{$addr}) { # ignore
840 my $text = join "\n", @_;
841 $running_simple_text{$addr} .= $text;
843 # Keep separate tabs on C<>, F<>, and L<> directives, and one
844 # especially for C<> ones.
845 if ($in_CFL{$addr}) {
846 $CFL_text{$addr} .= $text;
847 $C_text{$addr} .= $text if defined $C_text{$addr};
850 # This variable is updated instead in the corresponding C, F, or L
852 $running_CFL_text{$addr} .= $text;
858 # The start_FOO routines check that somehow a C<> construct hasn't escaped
859 # without being checked, and initialize things, and call the parent
860 # class's equivalent routine.
862 # The end_FOO routines close things off, and check the text that has been
863 # accumulated for FOO, then call the parent's corresponding routine.
867 check_see_but_not_link($self);
869 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
870 $start_line{$addr} = $_[0]->{start_line};
871 $running_CFL_text{$addr} = "";
872 $running_simple_text{$addr} = "";
873 return $self->SUPER::start_Para(@_);
876 sub start_item_text {
878 check_see_but_not_link($self);
880 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
881 $start_line{$addr} = $_[0]->{start_line};
882 $running_CFL_text{$addr} = "";
883 $running_simple_text{$addr} = "";
885 # This is the only =item that is linkable
886 $linkable_item{$addr} = 1;
888 return $self->SUPER::start_item_text(@_);
891 sub start_item_number {
893 check_see_but_not_link($self);
895 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
896 $start_line{$addr} = $_[0]->{start_line};
897 $running_CFL_text{$addr} = "";
898 $running_simple_text{$addr} = "";
900 return $self->SUPER::start_item_number(@_);
903 sub start_item_bullet {
905 check_see_but_not_link($self);
907 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
908 $start_line{$addr} = $_[0]->{start_line};
909 $running_CFL_text{$addr} = "";
910 $running_simple_text{$addr} = "";
912 return $self->SUPER::start_item_bullet(@_);
915 sub end_item { # No difference in =item types endings
917 check_see_but_not_link($self);
918 return $self->SUPER::end_item(@_);
923 check_see_but_not_link($self);
925 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
926 $start_line{$addr} = $_[0]->{start_line};
927 $running_CFL_text{$addr} = "";
928 $running_simple_text{$addr} = "";
930 # Save this indent on a stack, and keep track of total indent
931 my $indent = $_[0]{'indent'};
932 push @{$indents{$addr}}, $indent;
933 $current_indent{$addr} += $indent;
935 return $self->SUPER::start_over(@_);
938 sub end_over_bullet { shift->end_over(@_) }
939 sub end_over_number { shift->end_over(@_) }
940 sub end_over_text { shift->end_over(@_) }
941 sub end_over_block { shift->end_over(@_) }
942 sub end_over_empty { shift->end_over(@_) }
945 check_see_but_not_link($self);
947 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
950 if (@{$indents{$addr}}) {
951 $current_indent{$addr} -= pop @{$indents{$addr}};
954 # =back without corresponding =over, but should have
956 $current_indent{$addr} = 0;
960 sub check_see_but_not_link {
962 # Looks through accumulated text for current element that includes the
963 # C<>, F<>, and L<> directives for ones that look like they are
964 # C<link> instead of L<link>.
967 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
969 return unless defined $running_CFL_text{$addr};
971 while ($running_CFL_text{$addr} =~ m{
972 ( (?: \w+ \s+ )* ) # The phrase before, if any
976 ( [^<]*? ) # The not < excludes nested C<L<...
979 ( \s+ (?: under | in ) \s+ L< )?
982 my $prefix = $1 // "";
983 my $construct = $2; # The whole thing, like C<...>
986 my $trailing = $5; # After the whole thing ending in "L<"
988 # If the full phrase is something like, "you might see C<", or
989 # similar, it really isn't a reference to a link. The ones I saw
990 # all had the word "you" in them; and the "you" wasn't the
991 # beginning of a sentence.
992 if ($prefix !~ / \b you \b /x) {
994 # Now, find what the module or man page name within the
995 # construct would be if it actually has L<> syntax. If it
996 # doesn't have that syntax, will set the module to the entire
998 if (! defined $trailing # not referring to something in another
1000 && $interior !~ /$non_pods/
1002 # There can't be spaces (I think) in module names or man
1004 && $interior !~ / \s /x
1006 # F<> that end in eg \.pl are almost certainly ok, as are
1007 # those that look like a path with multiple "/" chars
1010 && $interior !~ /\.\w+$/
1011 && $interior !~ /\/.+\//)
1014 # TODO: move the checking of $pedantic higher up
1015 $self->poderror({ -line => $start_line{$addr},
1016 -msg => $C_not_linked,
1017 parameter => $construct
1023 undef $running_CFL_text{$addr};
1028 check_see_but_not_link($self);
1030 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
1031 if ($in_NAME{$addr}) {
1032 if ($running_simple_text{$addr} =~ /^\s*(\S+?)\s*$/) {
1033 $self->poderror({ -line => $start_line{$addr},
1034 -msg => $missing_name_description,
1037 $in_NAME{$addr} = 0;
1039 $self->SUPER::end_Para(@_);
1044 check_see_but_not_link($self);
1046 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
1047 $start_line{$addr} = $_[0]->{start_line};
1048 $running_CFL_text{$addr} = "";
1049 $running_simple_text{$addr} = "";
1051 return $self->SUPER::start_head1(@_);
1054 sub end_head1 { # This is called at the end of the =head line.
1056 check_see_but_not_link($self);
1058 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
1060 $in_NAME{$addr} = 1 if $running_simple_text{$addr} eq 'NAME';
1061 return $self->SUPER::end_head(@_);
1064 sub start_Verbatim {
1066 check_see_but_not_link($self);
1068 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
1069 $running_simple_text{$addr} = "";
1070 $start_line{$addr} = $_[0]->{start_line};
1071 return $self->SUPER::start_Verbatim(@_);
1076 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
1078 # Pick up the name if it looks like one, since the parent class
1079 # doesn't handle verbatim NAMEs
1081 && $running_simple_text{$addr} =~ /^\s*(\S+?)\s*[,-]/)
1086 my $indent = $self->get_current_indent;
1088 # Look at each line to verify it is short enough
1089 my @lines = split /^/, $running_simple_text{$addr};
1090 for my $i (0 .. @lines - 1) {
1091 $lines[$i] =~ s/\s+$//;
1092 my $exceeds = length(Text::Tabs::expand($lines[$i]))
1093 + $indent - $MAX_LINE_LENGTH;
1094 next unless $exceeds > 0;
1096 $self->poderror({ -line => $start_line{$addr} + $i,
1097 -msg => $line_length,
1098 parameter => "+$exceeds (including " . ($indent - $INDENT) . " from =over's)",
1102 undef $running_simple_text{$addr};
1104 # Parent class didn't bother to define this
1105 #return $self->SUPER::SUPER::end_Verbatim(@_);
1110 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
1112 $C_text{$addr} = "";
1114 # If not in a stacked set of C<>, F<> and L<>, initialize the text for
1116 $CFL_text{$addr} = "" if ! $in_CFL{$addr};
1119 return $self->SUPER::start_C(@_);
1124 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
1126 $CFL_text{$addr} = "" if ! $in_CFL{$addr};
1128 return $self->SUPER::start_F(@_);
1133 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
1135 $CFL_text{$addr} = "" if ! $in_CFL{$addr};
1137 return $self->SUPER::start_L(@_);
1142 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
1144 # Warn if looks like a file or link enclosed instead by this C<>
1145 if ($C_text{$addr} =~ qr/^ $C_path_re $/x) {
1146 # Here it does look like it could be be a file path or a link.
1147 # But some varieties of regex patterns could also fit with what we
1148 # have so far. Weed those out as best we can. '/foo/' is almost
1149 # certainly meant to be a pattern, as is '/foo/g'.
1151 if ($C_text{$addr} !~ qr| ^ / [^/]* / ( [msixpodualngcr]* ) $ |x) {
1156 # Here, it looks like a pattern potentially followed by some
1157 # modifiers. To make doubly sure, don't count as patterns
1158 # those constructs which have more occurrences (generally 1)
1159 # of a modifier than is legal.
1161 map { $counts{$_}++ } split "", $1;
1162 foreach my $modifier (keys %counts) {
1163 if ($counts{$modifier} > (($modifier eq 'a')
1171 $is_pattern = 1 unless defined $is_pattern;
1174 unless ($is_pattern) {
1175 $self->poderror({ -line => $start_line{$addr},
1176 -msg => $C_with_slash,
1177 parameter => "C<$C_text{$addr}>"
1181 undef $C_text{$addr};
1183 # Add the current text to the running total. This was not done in
1184 # handle_text(), because it just sees the plain text of the innermost
1185 # stacked directive. We want to keep all the directive names
1186 # enclosing the text. Otherwise the fact that C<L<foobar>> is to a
1187 # link would be lost, as the L<> would be gone.
1188 $CFL_text{$addr} = "C<$CFL_text{$addr}>";
1190 # Add this text to the the whole running total only if popping this
1191 # directive off the stack leaves it empty. As long as something is on
1192 # the stack, it gets added to $CFL_text (just above). It is only
1193 # entirely constructed when the stack is empty.
1195 $running_CFL_text{$addr} .= $CFL_text{$addr} if ! $in_CFL{$addr};
1197 return $self->SUPER::end_C(@_);
1202 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
1204 $CFL_text{$addr} = "F<$CFL_text{$addr}>";
1206 $running_CFL_text{$addr} .= $CFL_text{$addr} if ! $in_CFL{$addr};
1207 return $self->SUPER::end_F(@_);
1212 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
1214 $CFL_text{$addr} = "L<$CFL_text{$addr}>";
1216 $running_CFL_text{$addr} .= $CFL_text{$addr} if ! $in_CFL{$addr};
1217 return $self->SUPER::end_L(@_);
1222 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
1225 return $self->SUPER::start_X(@_);
1230 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
1233 return $self->SUPER::end_X(@_);
1238 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
1241 return $self->SUPER::start_for(@_);
1246 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
1249 return $self->SUPER::end_for(@_);
1253 my ($self, $link) = @_;
1255 if ($link && $link->type eq 'pod') {
1256 my $page = $link->page;
1257 my $node = $link->node;
1259 # If the hyperlink is to an interior node of another page, save it
1260 # so that we can see if we need to parse normally skipped files.
1261 $has_referred_to_node{$page} = 1 if $node;
1263 # Ignore certain placeholder links in perldelta. Check if the
1264 # link is page-level, and also check if to a node within the page
1265 if ( $self->name && $self->name eq "perldelta"
1266 && (( grep { $page eq $_ } @perldelta_ignore_links)
1268 && (grep { "$page/$node" eq $_ } @perldelta_ignore_links)
1274 return $self->SUPER::hyperlink($link);
1281 $text =~ s/\s+$//s; # strip trailing whitespace
1282 $text =~ s/\s+/ /gs; # collapse whitespace
1283 my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr $self;
1284 push(@{$linkable_nodes{$addr}}, $text) if
1285 ! $current_indent{$addr}
1286 || $linkable_item{$addr};
1288 return $self->SUPER::node($_[0]);
1291 sub get_current_indent {
1292 return $INDENT + $current_indent{Scalar::Util::refaddr $_[0]};
1296 return $filename{Scalar::Util::refaddr $_[0]};
1299 sub linkable_nodes {
1300 my $linkables = $linkable_nodes{Scalar::Util::refaddr $_[0]};
1301 return undef unless $linkables;
1306 return $skip{Scalar::Util::refaddr $_[0]} // 0;
1311 $skip{Scalar::Util::refaddr $self} = shift;
1313 # If skipping, no need to keep the problems for it
1314 delete $problems{$self->get_filename};
1318 sub parse_from_file {
1319 # This overrides the super class method so that if an open fails on a
1320 # transitory file, it doesn't croak. It returns 1 if it did find the
1321 # file, 0 if it didn't
1324 my $filename = shift;
1325 # ignores 2nd param, which is output file. Always uses undef
1327 if (open my $in_fh, '<:bytes', $filename) {
1328 $self->SUPER::parse_from_file($in_fh, undef);
1333 # If couldn't open file, perhaps it was transitory, and hence not an error
1334 return 0 unless -e $filename;
1336 die "Can't open '$filename': $!\n";
1340 package Tie_Array_to_FH { # So printing actually goes to an array
1346 my $array_ref = shift;
1348 my $self = bless \do{ my $anonymous_scalar }, $class;
1349 $array{Scalar::Util::refaddr $self} = $array_ref;
1356 push @{$array{Scalar::Util::refaddr $self}}, @_;
1362 my %filename_to_checker; # Map a filename to its pod checker object
1363 my %id_to_checker; # Map a checksum to its pod checker object
1364 my %nodes; # key is filename, values are nodes in that file.
1365 my %nodes_first_word; # same, but value is first word of each node
1366 my %valid_modules; # List of modules known to exist outside us.
1367 my %digests; # checksums of files, whose names are the keys
1368 my %filename_to_pod; # Map a filename to its pod NAME
1369 my %files_with_unknown_issues;
1370 my %files_with_fixes;
1373 open $data_fh, '<:bytes', $known_issues or die "Can't open $known_issues";
1375 my %counts; # For --counts param, count of each issue type
1376 my %suppressed_files; # Files with at least one issue type to suppress
1378 # This file is the data file for $0.
1379 # There are three types of lines.
1380 # Comment lines are white-space only or begin with a '#', like this one. Any
1381 # changes you make to the comment lines will be lost when the file is
1383 # Lines without tab characters are simply NAMES of pods that the program knows
1384 # will have links to them and the program does not check if those links are
1386 # All other lines should have three fields, each separated by a tab. The
1387 # first field is the name of a pod; the second field is an error message
1388 # generated by this program; and the third field is a count of how many
1389 # known instances of that message there are in the pod. -1 means that the
1390 # program can expect any number of this type of message.
1393 my @existing_issues;
1396 while (<$data_fh>) { # Read the database
1398 next if /^\s*(?:#|$)/; # Skip comment and empty lines
1401 if ($add_link) { # The issues are saved and later output unchanged
1402 push @existing_issues, $_;
1406 # Keep track of counts of each issue type for each file
1407 my ($filename, $message, $count) = split /\t/;
1408 $known_problems{$filename}{$message} = $count;
1411 if ($count < 0) { # -1 means to suppress this issue type
1412 $suppressed_files{$filename} = $filename;
1415 $counts{$message} += $count;
1419 else { # Lines without a tab are modules known to be valid
1420 $valid_modules{$_} = 1
1426 $copy_fh = open_new($known_issues);
1428 # Check for basic sanity, and add each command line argument
1429 foreach my $module (@files) {
1430 die "\"$module\" does not look like a module or man page"
1431 # Must look like (A or A::B or A::B::C ..., or foo(3C)
1432 if $module !~ /^ (?: \w+ (?: :: \w+ )* | \w+ \( \d \w* \) ) $/x;
1433 $valid_modules{$module} = 1
1435 my_safer_print($copy_fh, $HEADER);
1436 foreach (sort { lc $a cmp lc $b } keys %valid_modules) {
1437 my_safer_print($copy_fh, $_, "\n");
1440 # The rest of the db file is output unchanged.
1441 my_safer_print($copy_fh, join "\n", @existing_issues, "");
1443 close_and_rename($copy_fh);
1449 foreach my $message (sort keys %counts) {
1450 $total += $counts{$message};
1451 note(Text::Tabs::expand("$counts{$message}\t$message"));
1453 note("-----\n" . Text::Tabs::expand("$total\tknown potential issues"));
1454 if (%suppressed_files) {
1455 note("\nFiles that have all messages of at least one type suppressed:");
1456 note(join ",", keys %suppressed_files);
1461 # re to match files that are to be parsed only if there is an internal link
1462 # to them. It does not include cpan, as whether those are parsed depends
1463 # on a switch. Currently, only perltoc and the stable perldelta.pod's
1464 # are included. The latter all have characters between 'perl' and
1465 # 'delta'. (Actually the currently developed one matches as well, but
1466 # is a duplicate of perldelta.pod, so can be skipped, so fine for it to
1468 my $only_for_interior_links_re = qr/ ^ pod\/perltoc.pod $
1470 unless ($do_deltas) {
1471 $only_for_interior_links_re = qr/$only_for_interior_links_re |
1472 \b perl \d+ delta \. pod \b
1479 sub output_thanks ($$$$) { # Called when an issue has been fixed
1480 my $filename = shift;
1481 my $original_count = shift;
1482 my $current_count = shift;
1483 my $message = shift;
1485 $files_with_fixes{$filename} = 1;
1487 my $fixed_count = $original_count - $current_count;
1488 my $a_problem = ($fixed_count == 1) ? "a problem" : "multiple problems";
1489 my $another_problem = ($fixed_count == 1) ? "another problem" : "another set of problems";
1493 There were $original_count occurrences (now $current_count) in this pod of type
1498 There are no longer any problems found in this pod!
1505 Thanks for fixing $a_problem!
1507 Now you must teach $0 that this was fixed.
1512 Thanks for fixing $another_problem.
1521 sub my_safer_print { # print, with error checking for outputting to db
1522 my ($fh, @lines) = @_;
1524 if (! print $fh @lines) {
1525 my $save_error = $!;
1527 die "Write failure: $save_error";
1531 sub extract_pod { # Extracts just the pod from a file; returns undef if file
1533 my $filename = shift;
1538 # Arrange for the output of Pod::Parser to be collected in an array we can
1539 # look at instead of being printed
1540 tie *ALREADY_FH, 'Tie_Array_to_FH', \@pod;
1541 if (open my $in_fh, '<:bytes', $filename) {
1542 my $parser = Pod::Parser->new();
1543 $parser->parse_from_filehandle($in_fh, *ALREADY_FH);
1546 return join "", @pod
1549 # The file should already have been opened once to get here, so if that
1550 # fails, something is wrong. It's possible that a transitory file
1551 # containing a pod would get here, so if the file no longer exists just
1553 return unless -e $filename;
1554 die "Can't open '$filename': $!\n";
1557 my $digest = Digest->new($digest_type);
1559 # This is used as a callback from File::Find::find(), which always constructs
1560 # pathnames using Unix separators
1562 # If $_ is a pod file, add it to the lists and do other prep work.
1565 # Don't look at files in directories that are for tests, nor those
1566 # beginning with a dot
1567 if (m!/t\z! || m!/\.!) {
1568 $File::Find::prune = 1;
1573 return unless -r && -s; # Can't check it if can't read it; no need to
1575 return unless -f || -l; # Weird file types won't be pods
1577 my ($leaf) = m!([^/]+)\z!;
1578 if (m!/\.! # No hidden Unix files
1579 || $leaf =~ $non_pods) {
1580 note("Not considering $_") if DEBUG;
1584 my $filename = $File::Find::name;
1586 # $filename is relative, like './path'. Strip that initial part away.
1587 $filename =~ s!^\./!! or die 'Unexpected pathname "$filename"';
1589 return if $excluded_files{canonicalize($filename)};
1594 if (! open $candidate, '<:bytes', $_) {
1596 # If a transitory file was found earlier, the open could fail
1597 # legitimately and we just skip the file; also skip it if it is a
1598 # broken symbolic link, as it is probably just a build problem;
1599 # certainly not a file that we would want to check the pod of.
1600 # Otherwise fail it here and no reason to process it further.
1601 # (But the test count will be off too)
1602 ok(0, "Can't open '$filename': $!")
1603 if -r $filename && ! -l $filename;
1609 # If the file is a .pm or .pod, having any initial '=' on a line is
1610 # grounds for testing it. Otherwise, require a head1 NAME line to
1611 # consider it as a potential pod
1612 if ($filename =~ /\.(?:pm|pod)/) {
1613 return unless $contents =~ /^=/m;
1615 return unless $contents =~ /^=head1 +NAME/m;
1618 # Here, we know that the file is a pod. Add it to the list of files
1619 # to check and create a checker object for it.
1621 push @files, $filename;
1622 my $checker = My::Pod::Checker->new($filename);
1623 $filename_to_checker{$filename} = $checker;
1625 # In order to detect duplicate pods and only analyze them once, we
1626 # compute checksums for the file, so don't have to do an exact
1627 # compare. Note that if the pod is just part of the file, the
1628 # checksums can differ for the same pod. That special case is handled
1629 # later, since if the checksums of the whole file are the same, that
1630 # case won't even come up. We don't need the checksums for files that
1631 # we parse only if there is a link to its interior, but we do need its
1632 # NAME, which is also retrieved in the code below.
1634 if ($filename =~ / (?: ^(cpan|lib|ext|dist)\/ )
1635 | $only_for_interior_links_re
1637 $digest->add($contents);
1638 $digests{$filename} = $digest->digest;
1640 # lib files aren't analyzed if they are duplicates of files copied
1641 # there from some other directory. But to determine this, we need
1642 # to know their NAMEs. We might as well find the NAME now while
1643 # the file is open. Similarly, cpan files aren't analyzed unless
1644 # we're analyzing all of them, or this particular file is linked
1645 # to by a file we are analyzing, and thus we will want to verify
1646 # that the target exists in it. We need to know at least the NAME
1647 # to see if it's worth analyzing, or so we can determine if a lib
1648 # file is a copy of a cpan one.
1649 if ($filename =~ m{ (?: ^ (?: cpan | lib ) / )
1650 | $only_for_interior_links_re
1652 if ($contents =~ /^=head1 +NAME.*/mg) {
1653 # The NAME is the first non-spaces on the line up to a
1654 # comma, dash or end of line. Otherwise, it's invalid and
1655 # this pod doesn't have a legal name that we're smart
1656 # enough to find currently. But the parser will later
1657 # find it if it thinks there is a legal name, and set the
1659 if ($contents =~ /\G # continue from the line after =head1
1660 \s* # ignore any empty lines
1662 # ignore =for paragraphs followed by empty
1664 (?: ^ =for .*? \n (?: [^\s]*? \n )* \s* )*
1666 ^ \s* ( \S+?) \s* (?: [,-] | $ )/mx) {
1668 $checker->name($name);
1669 $id_to_checker{$name} = $checker
1670 if $filename =~ m{^cpan/};
1673 elsif ($filename =~ m{^cpan/}) {
1674 $id_to_checker{$digests{$filename}} = $checker;
1680 } # End of is_pod_file()
1682 # Start of real code that isn't processing the command line (except the
1683 # db is read in above, as is processing of the --add_link option).
1684 # Here, @files contains list of files on the command line. If have any of
1685 # these, unconditionally test them, and show all the errors, even the known
1686 # ones, and, since not testing other pods, don't do cross-pod link tests.
1687 # (Could add extra code to do cross-pod tests for the ones in the list.)
1689 if ($has_input_files) {
1690 undef %known_problems;
1691 $do_upstream_cpan = $do_deltas = 1; # In case one of the inputs is one
1694 else { # No input files -- go find all the possibilities.
1696 $copy_fh = open_new($known_issues);
1697 note("Regenerating $known_issues, please be patient...");
1698 print $copy_fh $HEADER;
1701 # Move to the directory above us, but have to adjust @INC to account for
1703 s{^\.\./lib$}{lib} for @INC;
1704 chdir File::Spec->updir;
1706 # And look in this directory and all its subdirectories
1707 find( {wanted => \&is_pod_file, no_chdir => 1}, '.');
1709 # Add ourselves to the test
1710 push @files, "t/porting/podcheck.t";
1713 # Now we know how many tests there will be.
1714 plan (tests => scalar @files) if ! $regen;
1717 # Sort file names so we get consistent results, and to put cpan last,
1718 # preceded by the ones that we don't generally parse. This is because both
1719 # these classes are generally parsed only if there is a link to the interior
1720 # of them, and we have to parse all others first to guarantee that they don't
1721 # have such a link. 'lib' files come just before these, as some of these are
1722 # duplicates of others. We already have figured this out when gathering the
1723 # data as a special case for all such files, but this, while unnecessary,
1724 # puts the derived file last in the output. 'readme' files come before those,
1725 # as those also could be duplicates of others, which are considered the
1726 # primary ones. These currently aren't figured out when gathering data, so
1728 @files = sort { if ($a =~ /^cpan/) {
1729 return 1 if $b !~ /^cpan/;
1730 return lc $a cmp lc $b;
1732 elsif ($b =~ /^cpan/) {
1735 elsif ($a =~ /$only_for_interior_links_re/) {
1736 return 1 if $b !~ /$only_for_interior_links_re/;
1737 return lc $a cmp lc $b;
1739 elsif ($b =~ /$only_for_interior_links_re/) {
1742 elsif ($a =~ /^lib/) {
1743 return 1 if $b !~ /^lib/;
1744 return lc $a cmp lc $b;
1746 elsif ($b =~ /^lib/) {
1748 } elsif ($a =~ /\breadme\b/i) {
1749 return 1 if $b !~ /\breadme\b/i;
1750 return lc $a cmp lc $b;
1752 elsif ($b =~ /\breadme\b/i) {
1756 return lc $a cmp lc $b;
1761 # Now go through all the files and parse them
1763 foreach my $filename (@files) {
1765 note("parsing $filename") if DEBUG;
1767 # We may have already figured out some things in the process of generating
1768 # the file list. If so, we have a $checker object already. But if not,
1770 my $checker = $filename_to_checker{$filename};
1772 $checker = My::Pod::Checker->new($filename);
1773 $filename_to_checker{$filename} = $checker;
1776 # We have set the name in the checker object if there is a possibility
1777 # that no further parsing is necessary, but otherwise do the parsing now.
1778 if (! $checker->name) {
1779 if (! $checker->parse_from_file($filename, undef)) {
1780 $checker->set_skip("$filename is transitory");
1787 if ($checker->num_errors() < 0) { # Returns negative if not a pod
1788 $checker->set_skip("$filename is not a pod");
1792 # Here, is a pod. See if it is one that has already been tested,
1793 # or should be tested under another directory. Use either its NAME
1794 # if it has one, or a checksum if not.
1795 my $name = $checker->name;
1802 my $digest = Digest->new($digest_type);
1803 my $contents = extract_pod($filename);
1805 # If the return is undef, it means that $filename was a transitory
1807 next FILE unless defined $contents;
1808 $digest->add($contents);
1809 $id = $digest->digest;
1812 # If there is a match for this pod with something that we've already
1813 # processed, don't process it, and output why.
1815 if (defined ($prior_checker = $id_to_checker{$id})
1816 && $prior_checker != $checker) # Could have defined the checker
1817 # earlier without pursuing it
1820 # If the pods are identical, then it's just a copy, and isn't an
1821 # error. First use the checksums we have already computed to see
1822 # if the entire files are identical, which means that the pods are
1824 my $prior_filename = $prior_checker->get_filename;
1826 || ($digests{$prior_filename}
1827 && $digests{$filename}
1828 && $digests{$prior_filename} eq $digests{$filename}));
1830 # If they differ, it could be that the files differ for some
1831 # reason, but the pods they contain are identical. Extract the
1832 # pods and do the comparisons on just those.
1833 if (! $same && $name) {
1834 my $contents = extract_pod($filename);
1836 # If return is <undef>, it means that $filename no longer
1837 # exists. This means it was a transitory file, and should not
1839 next FILE unless defined $contents;
1841 my $prior_contents = extract_pod($prior_filename);
1843 # If return is <undef>, it means that $prior_filename no
1844 # longer exists. This means it was a transitory file, and
1845 # should not have been tested, but we already did process it.
1846 # What we should do now is to back-out its records, and
1847 # process $filename in its stead. But backing out is not so
1848 # simple, and so I'm (khw) skipping that unless and until
1849 # experience shows that it is needed. We do go process
1850 # $filename, and there are potential false positive conflicts
1851 # with the transitory $prior_contents, and rerunning the test
1852 # should cause it to succeed.
1853 goto process_this_pod unless defined $prior_contents;
1855 $same = $prior_contents eq $contents;
1858 use File::Basename 'basename';
1860 $checker->set_skip("The pod of $filename is a duplicate of "
1861 . "the pod for $prior_filename");
1862 } elsif ($prior_filename =~ /\breadme\b/i) {
1863 $checker->set_skip("$prior_filename is a README apparently for $filename");
1864 } elsif ($filename =~ /\breadme\b/i) {
1865 $checker->set_skip("$filename is a README apparently for $prior_filename");
1866 } elsif (! $do_upstream_cpan
1867 && $filename =~ /^cpan/
1868 && $prior_filename =~ /^cpan/)
1870 $checker->set_skip("CPAN is upstream for $filename");
1871 } elsif ( $filename =~ /^utils/ or $prior_filename =~ /^utils/ ) {
1872 $checker->set_skip("$filename copy is in utils/");
1873 } elsif ($prior_filename =~ /^(?:cpan|ext|dist)/
1874 && $filename !~ /^(?:cpan|ext|dist)/
1875 && basename($prior_filename) eq basename($filename))
1877 $checker->set_skip("$filename: Need to run make?");
1878 } else { # Here have two pods with identical names that differ
1879 $prior_checker->poderror(
1880 { -msg => $duplicate_name,
1882 parameter => "'$filename' also has NAME '$name'"
1885 { -msg => $duplicate_name,
1887 parameter => "'$prior_filename' also has NAME '$name'"
1890 # Changing the names helps later.
1891 $prior_checker->name("$name version arbitrarily numbered 1");
1892 $checker->name("$name version arbitrarily numbered 2");
1895 # In any event, don't process this pod that has the same name as
1903 $id_to_checker{$id} = $checker;
1905 my $parsed_for_links = ", but parsed for its interior links";
1906 if ((! $do_upstream_cpan && $filename =~ /^cpan/)
1907 || $filename =~ $only_for_interior_links_re)
1909 if ($filename =~ /^cpan/) {
1910 $checker->set_skip("CPAN is upstream for $filename");
1912 elsif ($filename =~ /perl\d+delta/) {
1914 $checker->set_skip("$filename is a stable perldelta");
1917 elsif ($filename =~ /perltoc/) {
1918 $checker->set_skip("$filename dependent on component pods");
1921 croak("Unexpected file '$filename' encountered that has parsing for interior-linking only");
1924 if ($name && $has_referred_to_node{$name}) {
1925 $checker->set_skip($checker->get_skip() . $parsed_for_links);
1929 # Need a name in order to process it, because not meaningful
1930 # otherwise, and also can't test links to this without a name.
1931 if (!defined $name) {
1932 $checker->poderror( { -msg => $no_name,
1938 # For skipped files, just get its NAME
1940 if (($skip = $checker->get_skip()) && $skip !~ /$parsed_for_links/)
1942 $checker->node($name) if $name;
1945 if (! $checker->parse_from_file($filename, undef)) {
1946 $checker->set_skip("$filename is transitory");
1951 # Go through everything in the file that could be an anchor that
1952 # could be a link target. Count how many there are of the same name.
1953 foreach my $node ($checker->linkable_nodes) {
1954 next FILE if ! $node; # Can be empty is like '=item *'
1955 $nodes{$name}{$node}++;
1957 # Experiments have shown that cpan search can figure out the
1958 # target of a link even if the exact wording is incorrect, as long
1959 # as the first word is. This happens frequently in perlfunc.pod,
1960 # where the link will be just to the function, but the target
1961 # entry also includes parameters to the function.
1962 my $first_word = $node;
1963 if ($first_word =~ s/^(\S+)\s+\S.*/$1/) {
1964 $nodes_first_word{$name}{$first_word} = $node;
1967 $filename_to_pod{$filename} = $name;
1971 # Here, all files have been parsed, and all links and link targets are stored.
1972 # Now go through the files again and see which don't have matches.
1973 if (! $has_input_files) {
1974 foreach my $filename (@files) {
1975 next if $filename_to_checker{$filename}->get_skip;
1977 my $checker = $filename_to_checker{$filename};
1978 foreach my $link ($checker->hyperlinks()) {
1979 my $linked_to_page = $link->page;
1980 next unless $linked_to_page; # intra-file checks are handled by std
1982 # Currently, we assume all external links are valid
1983 next if $link->type eq 'url';
1985 # Initialize the potential message.
1986 my %problem = ( -msg => $broken_link,
1987 -line => $link->line,
1988 parameter => "to \"$linked_to_page\"",
1991 # See if we have found the linked-to_file in our parse
1992 if (exists $nodes{$linked_to_page}) {
1993 my $node = $link->node;
1995 # If link is only to the page-level, already have it
1998 # If link is to a node that exists in the file, is ok
1999 if ($nodes{$linked_to_page}{$node}) {
2001 # But if the page has multiple targets with the same name,
2002 # it's ambiguous which one this should be to.
2003 if ($nodes{$linked_to_page}{$node} > 1) {
2004 $problem{-msg} = $multiple_targets;
2005 $problem{parameter} = "in $linked_to_page that $node could be pointing to";
2006 $checker->poderror(\%problem);
2008 } elsif (! $nodes_first_word{$linked_to_page}{$node}) {
2010 # Here the link target was not found, either exactly or to
2011 # the first word. Is an error.
2012 $problem{parameter} =~ s,"$,/$node",;
2013 $checker->poderror(\%problem);
2016 } # Linked-to-file not in parse; maybe is in exception list
2017 elsif (! exists $valid_modules{$link->page}) {
2019 # Here, is a link to a target that we can't find. Check if
2020 # there is an internal link on the page with the target name.
2021 # If so, it could be that they just forgot the initial '/'
2022 # But perldelta is handled specially: only do this if the
2023 # broken link isn't one of the known bad ones (that are
2024 # placemarkers and should be removed for the final)
2025 my $NAME = $filename_to_pod{$filename};
2026 if (! defined $NAME) {
2027 $checker->poderror(\%problem);
2030 if ($nodes{$NAME}{$linked_to_page}) {
2031 $problem{-msg} = $broken_internal_link;
2033 $checker->poderror(\%problem);
2040 # If regenerating the data file, start with the modules for which we don't
2041 # check targets. If you change the sort order, you need to run --regen before
2042 # committing so that future commits that do run regen don't show irrelevant
2045 foreach (sort { lc $a cmp lc $b } keys %valid_modules) {
2046 my_safer_print($copy_fh, $_, "\n");
2050 # Now ready to output the messages.
2051 foreach my $filename (@files) {
2052 my $canonical = canonicalize($filename);
2054 my $skip = $filename_to_checker{$filename}->get_skip // "";
2057 foreach my $message ( sort keys %{$problems{$filename}}) {
2060 # Preserve a negative setting.
2061 if ($known_problems{$canonical}{$message}
2062 && $known_problems{$canonical}{$message} < 0)
2064 $count = $known_problems{$canonical}{$message};
2067 $count = @{$problems{$filename}{$message}};
2069 my_safer_print($copy_fh, $canonical . "\t$message\t$count\n");
2074 skip($skip, 1) if $skip;
2076 my $thankful_diagnostics = 0;
2079 my $total_known = 0;
2080 foreach my $message ( sort keys %{$problems{$filename}}) {
2081 $known_problems{$canonical}{$message} = 0
2082 if ! $known_problems{$canonical}{$message};
2083 my $diagnostic = "";
2084 my $problem_count = scalar @{$problems{$filename}{$message}};
2085 $total_known += $problem_count;
2086 next if $known_problems{$canonical}{$message} < 0;
2087 if ($problem_count > $known_problems{$canonical}{$message}) {
2089 # Here we are about to output all the messages for this type,
2090 # subtract back this number we previously added in.
2091 $total_known -= $problem_count;
2093 $diagnostic .= $indent . qq{"$message"};
2094 if ($problem_count > 2) {
2095 $diagnostic .= " ($problem_count occurrences,"
2096 . " expected $known_problems{$canonical}{$message})";
2098 foreach my $problem (@{$problems{$filename}{$message}}) {
2099 $diagnostic .= " " if $problem_count == 1;
2100 $diagnostic .= "\n$indent$indent";
2101 $diagnostic .= "$problem->{parameter}" if $problem->{parameter};
2102 $diagnostic .= " near line $problem->{-line} of "
2104 $diagnostic .= " $problem->{comment}" if $problem->{comment};
2106 $diagnostic .= "\n";
2107 $files_with_unknown_issues{$filename} = 1;
2108 } elsif ($problem_count < $known_problems{$canonical}{$message}) {
2109 $diagnostic = output_thanks($filename, $known_problems{$canonical}{$message}, $problem_count, $message);
2110 $thankful_diagnostics++;
2112 push @diagnostics, $diagnostic if $diagnostic;
2115 # The above loop has output messages where there are current potential
2116 # issues. But it misses where there were some that have been entirely
2117 # fixed. For those, we need to look through the old issues
2118 foreach my $message ( sort keys %{$known_problems{$canonical}}) {
2119 next if $problems{$filename}{$message};
2120 next if ! $known_problems{$canonical}{$message};
2121 next if $known_problems{$canonical}{$message} < 0; # Preserve negs
2123 next if !$pedantic and $message =~
2124 /^(?:\Q$line_length\E|\Q$C_not_linked\E|\Q$C_with_slash\E)/;
2126 my $diagnostic = output_thanks($filename, $known_problems{$canonical}{$message}, 0, $message);
2127 push @diagnostics, $diagnostic if $diagnostic;
2128 $thankful_diagnostics++ if $diagnostic;
2131 my $output = "POD of $filename";
2132 $output .= ", excluding $total_known not shown known potential problems"
2134 if (@diagnostics && @diagnostics == $thankful_diagnostics) {
2135 # Output fixed issues as passing to-do tests, so they do not
2136 # cause failures, but t/harness still flags them.
2137 $output .= " # TODO"
2139 ok(@diagnostics == $thankful_diagnostics, $output);
2141 diag(join "", @diagnostics,
2142 "See end of this test output for your options on silencing this");
2145 delete $known_problems{$canonical};
2150 && ! ok (keys %known_problems == 0, "The known problems database ($data_dir/known_pod_issues.dat) includes no references to non-existent files"))
2152 note("The following files were not found: "
2153 . join ", ", keys %known_problems);
2154 note("They will automatically be removed from the db the next time");
2155 note(" cd t; ./perl -I../lib porting/podcheck.t --regen");
2160 run this test script by hand, using the following formula (on
2161 Un*x-like machines):
2163 ./perl -I../lib porting/podcheck.t --regen
2166 if (%files_with_unknown_issues) {
2167 my $were_count_files = scalar keys %files_with_unknown_issues;
2168 $were_count_files = ($were_count_files == 1)
2169 ? "was $were_count_files file"
2170 : "were $were_count_files files";
2171 my $message = <<EOF;
2173 HOW TO GET ${\__FILE__} TO PASS
2175 There $were_count_files that had new potential problems identified.
2176 Some of them may be real, and some of them may be false positives because
2177 this program isn't as smart as it likes to think it is. You can teach this
2178 program to ignore the issues it has identified, and hence pass, by doing the
2181 1) If a problem is about a link to an unknown module or man page that
2182 you know exists, re-run the command something like:
2183 ./perl -I../lib porting/podcheck.t --add_link MODULE man_page ...
2184 (MODULEs should look like Foo::Bar, and man_pages should look like
2185 bar(3c); don't do this for a module or man page that you aren't sure
2186 about; instead treat as another type of issue and follow the
2187 instructions below.)
2189 2) For other issues, decide if each should be fixed now or not. Fix the
2190 ones you decided to, and rerun this test to verify that the fixes
2193 3) If there remain false positive or problems that you don't plan to fix right
2196 That should cause all current potential problems to be accepted by
2197 the program, so that the next time it runs, they won't be flagged.
2199 if (%files_with_fixes) {
2200 $message .= " This step will also take care of the files that have fixes in them\n";
2204 For a few files, such as perltoc, certain issues will always be
2205 expected, and more of the same will be added over time. For those,
2206 before you do the regen, you can edit
2208 and find the entry for the module's file and specific error message,
2209 and change the count of known potential problems to -1.
2213 } elsif (%files_with_fixes) {
2215 To teach this test script that the potential problems have been fixed,
2222 chdir $original_dir || die "Can't change directories to $original_dir";
2223 close_and_rename($copy_fh);