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| author | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2011-09-28 10:54:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2011-09-28 10:54:44 +0200 |
| commit | 3f728e2e43e05f9eb833343447d126327b7dee56 (patch) | |
| tree | 0f784ca721071024a562afc6096b28d08ead5d7f | |
| parent | 9e68546f79174957f317b4b7abcf8be457602a6d (diff) | |
| download | perl-3f728e2e43e05f9eb833343447d126327b7dee56.tar.gz | |
Note the improved $^X absolute pathname conversion in perldelta.pod
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 32fdb7a97d..825288e510 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -22,11 +22,15 @@ XXX Any important notices here =head1 Core Enhancements -XXX New core language features go here. Summarise user-visible core language -enhancements. Particularly prominent performance optimisations could go -here, but most should go in the L</Performance Enhancements> section. +=head2 $^X converted to an absolute path on FreeBSD, OS X and Solaris -[ List each enhancement as a =head2 entry ] +C<$^X> is now converted to an absolute path on OS X, FreeBSD (without +needing F</proc> mounted) and Solaris 10 and 11. This augments the +previous approach of using F</proc> on Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD +(in all cases, where mounted). + +This makes relocatable perl installations more useful on these platforms. +(See "Relocatable @INC" in F<INSTALL>) =head1 Security |