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-rwxr-xr-xcontrib/texi2pod.pl4
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/ChangeLog b/contrib/ChangeLog
index 3f7aa2e6..73736fd 100644
--- a/contrib/ChangeLog
+++ b/contrib/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2001-01-15 Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
+
+ * texi2pod.pl: Fix regular expression for @r to avoid exponential
+ recursion. From Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>. Remove perl
+ version check.
+
2001-01-15 Kaveh R. Ghazi <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu>
* warn_summary (stageNfilter): Update for recent changes in
diff --git a/contrib/texi2pod.pl b/contrib/texi2pod.pl
index cb8ff46..964c033 100755
--- a/contrib/texi2pod.pl
+++ b/contrib/texi2pod.pl
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
# markup to Perl POD format. It's intended to be used to extract
# something suitable for a manpage from a Texinfo document.
-use v5.6.0;
-
$output = 0;
$skipping = 0;
%sects = ();
@@ -262,7 +260,7 @@ sub postprocess
s/\@(?:dmn|math)\{([^\}]*)\}/$1/g;
# Handle @r inside bold.
- 1 while s/B<((?:[^<>]*|I<[^<>*]*>)*)R<([^>]*)>/B<$1>${2}B</g;
+ 1 while s/B<((?:[^<>]|I<[^<>]*>)*)R<([^>]*)>/B<$1>${2}B</g;
# Cross references are thrown away, as are @noindent and @refill.
# (@noindent is impossible in .pod, and @refill is unnecessary.)