Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Marius Feraru wrote: [...] >> $ man AutoLoader >> ... >> DESCRIPTION >> ... >> AutoLoader implements an AUTOLOAD subroutine. When an undefined >> subroutine in is called in a client module of AutoLoader, AutoLoader's >> AUTOLOAD subroutine attempts to locate the subroutine in a file with a >> name related to the location of the file from which the client module >> was read. >> As an example, if POSIX.pm is located in >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/POSIX.pm, AutoLoader will look for perl subroutines >> POSIX in /usr/local/lib/perl5/auto/POSIX/*.al, where the ".al" >> file has the same name as the subroutine, sans package. > > So it would appear that perl-MailTools does this correctly: > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/Internet.pm > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/Util.pm > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/_prephdr.al > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/add_signature.al > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/autosplit.ix > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/escape_from.al > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/nntppost.al > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/reply.al > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/send.al > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/sign.al > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/smtpsend.al > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/unescape_from.al > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Util > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Util/autosplit.ix > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Util/mailaddress.al > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Util/maildomain.al > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Util/read_mbox.al > > Robin, is it OK for me to reopen #73970 and then mark #213561 as a > duplicate of that since I don't think I can reassign an Extras bug to > a Core component i.e. perl. Personally, I'd rather a new bug since #73970 has a lot of back-and-forth in it, and takes a few minutes for someone to read through and understand what's going on. But I'll still fix it if you just reopen #73970. :-) Thanks, -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. "The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone." -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
