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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 1999-10-02 10:11:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 1999-10-02 10:11:20 +0000 |
| commit | 753475910d236d4619b2ae7f227546a173a3101e (patch) | |
| tree | 8fd176d783273cef3ac726cc15d1321a34baa4de /Porting/Glossary | |
| parent | 72c5b54791bd181146517f6bafda5efb6e1de133 (diff) | |
| download | perl-753475910d236d4619b2ae7f227546a173a3101e.tar.gz | |
Regen Configure, all of xs_apiversion didn't take.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@4284
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diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary index 46fb810f0a..861d4be3bc 100644 --- a/Porting/Glossary +++ b/Porting/Glossary @@ -2560,6 +2560,21 @@ plibpth (libpth.U): Its value is prepend to libpth. This variable takes care of special machines, like the mips. Usually, it should be empty. +pm_apiversion (xs_apiversion.U): + This variable contains the version of the oldest perl + compatible with the present perl. (That is, pure perl modules + written for $pm_apiversion will still work for the current + version). perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically + search in $sitelib for older directories across major versions + back to pm_apiversion. This is only useful if you have a perl + library directory tree structured like the default one. The + versioned site_perl library was introduced in 5.005, so that's + the default setting for this variable. It's hard to imagine + it changing before Perl6. It is included here for symmetry + with xs_apiveprsion -- the searching algorithms will + (presumably) be similar. + See the INSTALL file for how this works. + pmake (Loc.U): This variable is defined but not used by Configure. The value is a plain '' and is not useful. @@ -3158,6 +3173,23 @@ xlibpth (libpth.U): libraries on this platform, for example CPU-specific libraries (on multi-CPU platforms) may be listed here. +xs_apiversion (xs_apiversion.U): + This variable contains the version of the oldest perl binary + compatible with the present perl. perl.c:incpush() and + lib/lib.pm will automatically search in $sitearch for older + directories across major versions back to xs_apiversion. + This is only useful if you have a perl library directory tree + structured like the default one. + See INSTALL for how this works. + The versioned site_perl directory was introduced in 5.005, + so that is the lowest possible value. + Since this can depend on compile time options (such as + bincompat) it is set by Configure. Other non-default sources + of potential incompatibility, such as multiplicity, threads, + debugging, 64bits, sfio, etc., are not checked for currently, + though in principle we could go snooping around in old + Config.pm files. + zcat (Loc.U): This variable is defined but not used by Configure. The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |