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SASL_PATH no longer has any effect but is still documented #852

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In 79827fb (part of #745) SASL_PLUGINDIR replaced SASL_PATH as the environment variable used to configure the plugin directory at runtime. It's not clear that this was a deliberate change or what motivated it, since it's not mentioned in the commit message.

SASL_PATH is still referenced multiple times in the documentation, e.g.

Note that the library can use the environment variable SASL_PATH to locate the directory where the mechanisms are; this should be a colon-separated list of directories containing plugins. Otherwise it will default to the value of `--with-plugindir` as supplied to `configure` (which itself defaults to `/usr/local/lib`).
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Note that the library can use the environment variable SASL_PATH to locate the

It also still has a vestigial presence in configure.ac, though nothing references this definition:

#define SASL_PATH_ENV_VAR "SASL_PATH"

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