--- AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm	2010/10/12 06:51:15	1.334
+++ AnyEvent/lib/AnyEvent.pm	2010/12/05 11:41:45	1.341
@@ -1169,7 +1169,7 @@
 
 use Carp ();
 
-our $VERSION = '5.271';
+our $VERSION = '5.29';
 our $MODEL;
 
 our $AUTOLOAD;
@@ -1293,7 +1293,7 @@
          }
 
          $MODEL
-           or die "No event module selected for AnyEvent and autodetect failed. Install any one of these modules: EV, Event or Glib.\n";
+           or die "AnyEvent: backend autodetection failed - did you properly install AnyEvent?\n";
       }
    }
 
@@ -1302,14 +1302,18 @@
    push @{"$MODEL\::ISA"}, "AnyEvent::Base";
    unshift @ISA, $MODEL;
 
-   # now nuke some methods that are overriden by the backend.
+   # now nuke some methods that are overridden by the backend.
    # SUPER is not allowed.
    for (qw(time signal child idle)) {
       undef &{"AnyEvent::Base::$_"}
          if defined &{"$MODEL\::$_"};
    }
 
-   require AnyEvent::Strict if $ENV{PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT};
+   if ($ENV{PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT}) {
+      eval { require AnyEvent::Strict };
+      warn "AnyEvent: cannot load AnyEvent::Strict: $@"
+         if $@ && $VERBOSE;
+   }
 
    (shift @post_detect)->() while @post_detect;
 
@@ -1626,7 +1630,6 @@
 our %PID_CB;
 our $CHLD_W;
 our $CHLD_DELAY_W;
-our $WNOHANG;
 
 # used by many Impl's
 sub _emit_childstatus($$) {
@@ -1643,7 +1646,7 @@
          my $pid;
 
          AnyEvent->_emit_childstatus ($pid, $?)
-            while ($pid = waitpid -1, $WNOHANG) > 0;
+            while ($pid = waitpid -1, WNOHANG) > 0;
       };
 
       *child = sub {
@@ -1654,11 +1657,6 @@
 
          $PID_CB{$pid}{$arg{cb}} = $arg{cb};
 
-         # WNOHANG is almost cetrainly 1 everywhere
-         $WNOHANG ||= $^O =~ /^(?:openbsd|netbsd|linux|freebsd|cygwin|MSWin32)$/
-                      ? 1
-                      : eval { local $SIG{__DIE__}; require POSIX; &POSIX::WNOHANG } || 1;
-
          unless ($CHLD_W) {
             $CHLD_W = AE::signal CHLD => \&_sigchld;
             # child could be a zombie already, so make at least one round
@@ -2681,7 +2679,7 @@
 
 Asynchronous DNS: L<AnyEvent::DNS>.
 
-Thread support: L<Coro>, L<Coro::AnyEvent>, L<Coro::EV L<Coro::Event    >,
+Thread support: L<Coro>, L<Coro::AnyEvent>, L<Coro::EV>, L<Coro::Event>.
 
 Nontrivial usage examples: L<AnyEvent::GPSD>, L<AnyEvent::IRC>,
 L<AnyEvent::HTTP>.