Remove the bogus "incorrect case" warning completely.

The problem exists, but the cure, in which ever form
it will be, needs to be something more subtle.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@14962

diff --git a/op.c b/op.c
index 1af8113..9b944c3 100644 (file)
--- a/op.c
+++ b/op.c
@@ -3451,13 +3451,22 @@ Perl_utilize(pTHX_ int aver, I32 floor, OP *version, OP *id, OP *arg)
            newSTATEOP(0, Nullch, imop) ));
 
     if (packname) {
-#ifdef WIN32
-        if (ckWARN(WARN_MISC) && !gv_stashpvn(packname, packlen, FALSE)) {
-            Perl_warner(aTHX_ WARN_MISC,
-                        "Package `%s' not found "
-                        "(did you use the incorrect case?)", packname);
-        }
-#endif
+        /* The "did you use incorrect case?" warning used to be here.
+         * The problem is that on case-insensitive filesystems one
+         * might get false positives for "use" (and "require"):
+         * "use Strict" or "require CARP" will work.  This causes
+         * portability problems for the script: in case-strict
+         * filesystems the script will stop working.
+         *
+         * The "incorrect case" warning checked whether "use Foo"
+         * imported "Foo" to your namespace, but that is wrong, too:
+         * there is no requirement nor promise in the language that
+         * a Foo.pm should or would contain anything in package "Foo".
+         *
+         * There is very little Configure-wise that can be done, either:
+         * the case-sensitivity of the build filesystem of Perl does not
+         * help in guessing the case-sensitivity of the runtime environment.
+         */
         safefree(packname);
     }
 

diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 7f1e77e..f445d2d 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -2510,12 +2510,6 @@ package-specific handler.  That name might have a meaning to Perl itself
 some day, even though it doesn't yet.  Perhaps you should use a
 mixed-case attribute name, instead.  See L<attributes>.
 
-=item Package '%s' not found (did you use the incorrect case?)
-
-(W misc) You included a package file via C<use>, but the package name
-did not match the file name. It's possible that you misspelled the
-package name.
-
 =item page overflow
 
 (W io) A single call to write() produced more lines than can fit on a