Bug 848912

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #672083 +++

Created attachment 474854 [details]
Session capture showing "latex sample.tex; latex2html sample.tex" results.

Description of problem: Running latex2html on any LaTeX document generates the following perl messages:

defined(%hash) is deprecated at /usr/bin/latex2html line 514.
        (Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
defined(%hash) is deprecated at /usr/bin/latex2html line 2086.
        (Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
defined(%hash) is deprecated at /usr/bin/latex2html line 9087.
        (Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
$* is no longer supported at /usr/bin/latex2html line 10588.
This is LaTeX2HTML Version 2008 (1.71)
by Nikos Drakos, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds.

Often the conversion of latex to html succeeds anyway.  However, I believe that under some circumstances it fails.  (I don't have any demos showing that.  Perhaps someone else can provide.  That is why I put the severity low.)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

latex2html-2008-4.fc13.noarch

How reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a LaTeX source file, sample.tex, as listed below
2. Do "latex sample.tex"
3. Do "latex2html sample.tex"
  
Actual results:
Observe the above perl warnings in latex2html logging output.

Expected results:
Should not be any warnings from perl.

Additional info:
Here is a sample.tex that shows the problem.  In this case the html is in fact generated.  I attach a typescript showing the logging output from latex and latex2html.

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Hello, world!
\end{document}

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--- Additional comment from moniot on 2012-08-16 11:54:38 EDT ---

This bug is still present in Fedora 17, latex2html-2008-6.fc17.noarch