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On 6 October 2010 20:46, Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu> wrote: > While looking at patches to be considered for maint-5.12, I saw this one: > > commit bf320d637919b3a2a72298748aa76e686e9b3e45 > Author: Josh ben Jore <jjore@cpan.org> > Date: Thu Jul 15 13:04:26 2010 +0000 > > Configure has a path to less and perl5db.pl can use it ... > Actually, Config.pm does not contain a path to less, and perl5db.pl > should not try to use it. > > According to the Config.pm pod, > > less (Loc.U): > This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the > full pathname (if any) of the less program. After Configure runs, > the value is reset to a plain "less" and is not useful. > > Now it is true that the win32/config.* and vms config files don't use > Configure, so they conceivably could have something useful stored in > the $less variable, contrary to the documentation, but, at least according > to the canned files shipped in win32/config.*, they don't. > > I've marked this as "rejected" for maint-5.12, and would like to > consider reverting it for blead. > Good catch, I've reverted it now.Thread Previous