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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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