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To: Perl 5 Porters <perl5-porters@perl.org>
Message-ID: <19990418175436.A27496@perlsupport.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@3263

1 files changed, 53 insertions, 29 deletions

diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary
index c1b8758710..b1325603aa 100644
--- a/Porting/Glossary
+++ b/Porting/Glossary
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ programs (e.g. I_UNISTD) are already described in config_h.SH.  [`configpm'
 generates pod documentation for Config.pm from this file--please try to keep
 the formatting regular.]
 
+Mcc (Loc.U):
+	This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
+	full pathname (if any) of the Mcc program.  After Configure runs,
+	the value is reset to a plain "Mcc" and is not useful.
+
 _a (Unix.U):
 	This variable defines the extension used for ordinary libraries.
 	For unix, it is '.a'.  The '.' is included.  Other possible
@@ -33,7 +38,7 @@ ansi2knr (ansi2knr.U):
 	Currently, this is not supported, so we just abort.
 
 aphostname (d_gethname.U):
-	Thie variable contains the command which can be used to compute the
+	This variable contains the command which can be used to compute the
 	host name. The command is fully qualified by its absolute path, to make
 	it safe when used by a process with super-user privileges.
 
@@ -260,6 +265,11 @@ cppsymbols (Cppsym.U):
 	not in this list, see ccsymbols and cppccsymbols.
 	The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
 
+crosscompile (crosscompile.U):
+	This variable conditionally defines the CROSSCOMPILE symbol
+	which signifies that the build process is be a cross-compilation.
+	This is normally set by hints files or from Configure command line.
+
 cryptlib (d_crypt.U):
 	This variable holds -lcrypt or the path to a libcrypt.a archive if
 	the crypt() function is not defined in the standard C library. It is
@@ -270,6 +280,15 @@ csh (Loc.U):
 	full pathname (if any) of the csh program.  After Configure runs,
 	the value is reset to a plain "csh" and is not useful.
 
+d_Gconvert (d_gconvert.U):
+	This variable holds what Gconvert is defined as to convert
+	floating point numbers into strings. It could be 'gconvert'
+	or a more complex macro emulating gconvert with gcvt() or sprintf.
+	Possible values are:
+	d_Gconvert='gconvert((x),(n),(t),(b))'
+	d_Gconvert='gcvt((x),(n),(b))'
+	d_Gconvert='sprintf((b),"%.*g",(n),(x))'
+
 d_access (d_access.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines HAS_ACCESS if the access() system
 	call is available to check for access permissions using real IDs.
@@ -593,15 +612,6 @@ d_ftruncate64 (io64.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTRUNCATE64 symbol, which
 	indicates to the C program that the ftruncate64() routine is available.
 
-d_Gconvert (d_gconvert.U):
-	This variable holds what Gconvert is defined as to convert
-	floating point numbers into strings. It could be 'gconvert'
-	or a more complex macro emulating gconvert with gcvt() or sprintf.
-	Possible values are:
-	d_Gconvert='gconvert((x),(n),(t),(b))'
-	d_Gconvert='gcvt((x),(n),(b))'
-	d_Gconvert='sprintf((b),"%.*g",(n),(x))'
-
 d_getgrent (d_getgrent.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRENT symbol, which
 	indicates to the C program that the getgrent() routine is available
@@ -769,7 +779,7 @@ d_inetaton (d_inetaton.U):
 	indicates to the C program that the inet_aton() function is available
 	to parse IP address "dotted-quad" strings.
 
-d_ino64t (io64.U):
+d_ino64_t (io64.U):
 	This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports ino64_t.
 
 d_int64t (i_inttypes.U):
@@ -797,6 +807,10 @@ d_link (d_link.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines HAS_LINK if link() is
 	available to create hard links.
 
+d_llseek (io64.U):
+	This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLSEEK symbol, which
+	indicates to the C program that the llseek() routine is available.
+
 d_locconv (d_locconv.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines HAS_LOCALECONV if localeconv() is
 	available for numeric and monetary formatting conventions.
@@ -959,9 +973,12 @@ d_nice (d_nice.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NICE symbol, which
 	indicates to the C program that the nice() routine is available.
 
-d_off64t (io64.U):
+d_off64_t (io64.U):
 	This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports off64_t.
 
+d_offset_t (io64.U):
+	This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports offset_t.
+
 d_old_pthread_create_joinable (d_pthrattrj.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines pthread_create_joinable.
 	undef if pthread.h defines PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE.
@@ -1001,7 +1018,7 @@ d_pause (d_pause.U):
 	to suspend a process until a signal is received.
 
 d_phostname (d_gethname.U):
-	This variable conditionally defines the PHOSTNAME symbol, which
+	This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PHOSTNAME symbol, which
 	contains the shell command which, when fed to popen(), may be
 	used to derive the host name.
 
@@ -1135,11 +1152,11 @@ d_semctl (d_semctl.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMCTL symbol, which
 	indicates to the C program that the semctl() routine is available.
 
-d_semctl_semid_ds (d_union_senum.U):
+d_semctl_semid_ds (d_union_semun.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines USE_SEMCTL_SEMID_DS, which
 	indicates that struct semid_ds * is to be used for semctl IPC_STAT.
 
-d_semctl_semun (d_union_senum.U):
+d_semctl_semun (d_union_semun.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines USE_SEMCTL_SEMUN, which
 	indicates that union semun is to be used for semctl IPC_STAT.
 
@@ -1485,7 +1502,7 @@ d_uname (d_gethname.U):
 	indicates to the C program that the uname() routine may be
 	used to derive the host name.
 
-d_union_semun (d_union_senum.U):
+d_union_semun (d_union_semun.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines HAS_UNION_SEMUN if the
 	union semun is defined by including <sys/sem.h>.
 
@@ -1840,6 +1857,10 @@ i_poll (i_poll.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines the I_POLL symbol, and indicates
 	whether a C program should include <poll.h>.
 
+i_pthread (i_pthread.U):
+	This variable conditionally defines the I_PTHREADEAD symbol,
+	and indicates whether a C program should include <pthread.h>.
+
 i_pwd (i_pwd.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines I_PWD, which indicates
 	to the C program that it should include <pwd.h>.
@@ -2233,7 +2254,7 @@ make_set_make (make.U):
 	make_set_make='#'		# If your make program handles this for you,
 	make_set_make="MAKE=$make"	# if it doesn't.
 	I used a comment character so that we can distinguish a
-	'set' value (from a previous config.sh or Configure -D option)
+	'set' value (from a previous config.sh or Configure '-D' option)
 	from an uncomputed value.
 
 mallocobj (mallocsrc.U):
@@ -2281,11 +2302,6 @@ man3ext (man3dir.U):
 	have: one of 'n', 'l', or '3'.  The Makefile must supply the '.'.
 	See man3dir.
 
-Mcc (Loc.U):
-	This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
-	full pathname (if any) of the Mcc program.  After Configure runs,
-	the value is reset to a plain "Mcc" and is not useful.
-
 medium (models.U):
 	This variable contains a flag which will tell the C compiler and loader
 	to produce a program running with a medium memory model.  If the
@@ -2321,6 +2337,11 @@ more (Loc.U):
 	full pathname (if any) of the more program.  After Configure runs,
 	the value is reset to a plain "more" and is not useful.
 
+multiarch (multiarch.U):
+	This variable conditionally defines the MULTIARCH symbol
+	which signifies the presence of multiplatform files.
+	This is normally set by hints files.
+
 mv (Loc.U):
 	This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
 	The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
@@ -2348,7 +2369,7 @@ myuname (Oldconfig.U):
 	whole thing is then lower-cased.
 
 n (n.U):
-	This variable contains the -n flag if that is what causes the echo
+	This variable contains the '-n' flag if that is what causes the echo
 	command to suppress newline.  Otherwise it is null.  Correct usage is
 	$echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
 
@@ -2613,9 +2634,9 @@ sh (sh.U):
 	/bin/sh, though it's possible that some systems will have /bin/ksh,
 	/bin/pdksh, /bin/ash, /bin/bash, or even something such as
 	D:/bin/sh.exe.
-	This unit comes before Options.U, so you can't set sh with a -D
+	This unit comes before Options.U, so you can't set sh with a '-D'
 	option, though you can override this (and startsh)
-	with -O -Dsh=/bin/whatever -Dstartsh=whatever
+	with '-O -Dsh=/bin/whatever -Dstartsh=whatever'
 
 shar (Loc.U):
 	This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
@@ -2653,6 +2674,10 @@ shsharp (spitshell.U):
 	This variable tells further Configure units whether your sh can
 	handle # comments.
 
+sig_count (sig_name.U):
+	This variable holds a number larger than the largest valid
+	signal number.  This is usually the same as the NSIG macro.
+
 sig_name (sig_name.U):
 	This variable holds the signal names, space separated. The leading
 	SIG in signal name is removed.  A ZERO is prepended to the
@@ -2741,7 +2766,7 @@ spackage (package.U):
 
 spitshell (spitshell.U):
 	This variable contains the command necessary to spit out a runnable
-	shell on this system.  It is either cat or a grep -v for # comments.
+	shell on this system.  It is either cat or a grep '-v' for # comments.
 
 split (models.U):
 	This variable contains a flag which will tell the C compiler and loader
@@ -2841,9 +2866,8 @@ tbl (Loc.U):
 	The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
 
 tee (Loc.U):
-	This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
-	full pathname (if any) of the tee program.  After Configure runs,
-	the value is reset to a plain "tee" and is not useful.
+	This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
+	The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
 
 test (Loc.U):
 	This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the