Okay. This takes just too long and too many people are affected. I'll just set the variable in question (caps) to NULL at entry for now, -- it is not a critical path and the current code is correct anyway. This is becoming ridiculous, when there are so many different opinions about such a trivial thing, with the result being that nothing is fixed. Setting it to NULL at least will let a buildbot to be fixed for now.
Thanks, /mjt