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On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:29:16 -0800, "rrt@sc3d.org (via RT)" <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > "mv" > From Loc.U: > > This variable is defined but not used by Configure. The value is a > plain ’’ and is not useful. > > A plain what? What is unclear about "a plain ''"? It is an empty string. > (The groff source is equally unhelpful, there really is nothing there.) Correct. Nothing to see, please move on. <longer explanation> Configure uses 'dist' to generate Configure, and 'dist' defines 'mv', but perl doesn't use it. I will not overrule the part of dist that defines 'mv' just to make this unused variable go away. </longer explanation> -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, SuSE 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous | Thread Next