perldoc and perl wrapper

[rhumbliner]

i recently installed the newest version of mac osx (maverick) which did a clean install of perl. as usual, perldoc no longer works without setting the execute bits. i've always been mystified by this". reading the contents of /usr/bin/perldoc it says

The contents of this script should normally never run!  The perl wrapp
+er
should pick the correct script in /usr/bin by appending the appropriat
+e version.
You can try appending the appropriate perl version number.  See perlma
+cosx.pod for more information about multiple version support in Mac O
+S X.

what is this wrapper that perldoc refers too? why do i have to set the execute bits to get this to work?

tia.

[Anonymous Monk]

what is this wrapper that perldoc refers too?

Presumably /usr/bin/perl or whatever (`which perl`)

The same way that file you're reading isn't the real perldoc, the appleness folks have one for perl which isn't the real perl

Not having appleness I cant say more than that, other than that all this is something the appleness folks add and it isn't part of perl