+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #819042 +++

If I try to use the Pod::Man "parse_file" function, I get failures.  Even the simplest invocation, directly from the man page, gives uninitialized value and strict refs errors.

[...]

The documentation (man Pod::Man) says:

    SYNOPSIS
           use Pod::Man;
           my $parser = Pod::Man->new (release => $VERSION, section => 8);

           # Read POD from STDIN and write to STDOUT.
           $parser->parse_file (\*STDIN);
    ...
       The standard Pod::Simple method parse_file() takes one argument naming
       the POD file to read from.  By default, the output is sent to "STDOUT",
       but this can be changed with the output_fd() method.

[...]

$ perl -we 'use strict; use Pod::Man; my $p = Pod::Man->new(); $p->parse_file($ARGV[0]);' /usr/share/perl5/Pod/Man.pm
Use of uninitialized value in ref-to-glob cast at /usr/share/perl5/Pod/Man.pm line 722.
Can't use string ("") as a symbol ref while "strict refs" in use at /usr/share/perl5/Pod/Man.pm line 722.

[...]
--- Additional comment from ppisar on 2012-05-31 07:40:08 GMT ---

Pod::Man developer decided do the fix in podlators-2.4.1 (http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RRA/podlators-2.4.1/ChangeLog).
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perl-5.14.2-197.fc16.x86_64 in Fedora 16 affected. We should patch the perl or provide podlators-2.4.1 as dual-lived package.