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Re: [perl #60738] Something missing in Config(3perl)

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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
December 3, 2008 04:21
Subject:
Re: [perl #60738] Something missing in Config(3perl)
Message ID:
20081203132114.44ab94ac@pc09.procura.nl
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:22:43 -0500 (EST), Andy Dougherty
<doughera@lafayette.edu> wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, rrt@sc3d.org (via RT) wrote:
> 
> > This is a bug report for perl from rrt@sc3d.org,
> > generated with the help of perlbug 1.36 running under perl 5.10.0.
> 
> > Config(3perl) contains the following passage:
> > 
> >  "mv"
> >            From Loc.U:
> > 
> >            This variable is defined but not used by Configure.  The value is a
> >            plain ÿÿÿÿ and is not useful.
> > 
> > A plain what? (The groff source is equally unhelpful, there really is
> > nothing there.)
> 
> I'm not sure how this has been rendered by your local version of groff, 
> filtered through your mailer and my newsreader.  In the version on my 
> system, it looks just fine.  In any case, the original plain text version 
> (from Porting/Glossary) is
> 
> mv (Loc.U):
> 	This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
> 	The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
> 
> If you check the variable explicitly, you see
> 
>     $ perl -V:mv
>     mv='';
> 
> so the description is exactly right.

Indeed, so very very low priority. I think this belongs in the
"splitting hairs" category.

> The description is machine-generated by the "mkglossary" script in the 
> perl metaconfig distribution (not part of the normal perl distribution).  
> I suppose it could be patched as below, though I don't know that it would 
> really matter much anyway.  The value is still not useful.  (This patch 
> would require regenerating Porting/Glossary).

That will be done when I regenerate it (probably soon anyway)
Patch below has been applied. Thanks

> --- mkglossary	2007-01-16 11:33:26.000000000 -0500
> +++ mkglossary.new	2008-11-24 11:05:42.000000000 -0500
> @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
>  		# for example).
>  		print <<EOE;
>  	This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
> -	The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
> +	The value is the empty string and is not useful.
>  
>  EOE
>  		}

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