G'day tmulher,

Welcome to the monastery.

[Disclaimer: I don't have GIT Bash (in fact, I don't have Perl running on any MSWin platform).]

The first thing I noticed was that your @INC contains paths with 'msys' and '5.8.8' but there's no mention of Strawberry Perl; however, the perldoc you're running is /c/strawberry/perl/bin/perldoc.

I suspect this is your core problem: you'll need to use the GIT Bash version of perldoc. It's not really my area of expertise, but this may be related to the order of paths in $PATH. (If you can't work that out for yourself, I'm sure another monk can help with this.)

Looking at the Core Pod::* modules for v5.8.8, I see many Pod::Perldoc::* modules but no specific Pod::Perldoc module. However, the latest Core Pod::* modules do include a specific Pod::Perldoc module.

That would explain why Pod::Perldoc wasn't found in your @INC v5.8.8 paths.

The perldoc code you posted is identical to mine (v5.18.1). Based on your error message and the documented v5.8.8 Core Pod::* modules, I'd expect a 5.8.8 version of perldoc to have different code (that didn't use Pod::Perldoc).

-- Ken

In reply to Re: perldoc GIT bash by kcott
in thread perldoc GIT bash by tmulher

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