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On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 07:40:30PM -0400, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>Package: perl
>Version: 5.8.8-3
>Followup-For: Bug #139537
>
>For example, $Config{'tail'} is also undefined. /usr/bin/tail comes from
>coreutils,
>a required package, so $Config{'tail'} should always be set to "/usr/bin/tail".
Configure doesn't actually test for tail (nor sendmail as noted in the
initial bug report).
I'm not sure why these empty variables are included in Config{.pm,_heavy.pl}
if they're not actually searched for--forwarding to p5p for comments.
About the only thing which springs my mind is that you can explicity set
such variables by passing -Dtail=/usr/local/bin/tail (or whatever) to
Configure.
This presumes that any program using these variables does so as:
my $tail = $Config{tail} || 'tail';
my $sendmail = $Config{sendmail} || '/usr/sbin/sendmail';
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