This method had the line
$anchor =~ s/^\s+//; s/\s+$//; # Strip white space.
where leading space was stripped from $anchor, but trailing space
was being attempted to be stripped from $_ instead, giving rise to
a bunch of warnings like:
Use of uninitialized value $_ in substitution (s///)
at lib/Pod/Html/Util.pm line 253.
during 'make install.html'