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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-05-30 14:04:28 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-05-30 14:04:28 +0000
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Introduce $Config{afsroot}.
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@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ afs (afs.U):
with a hint value or command line option, but you'd better know
what you are doing.
+afsroot (afs.U):
+ This variable is by default set to '/afs'. In the unlikely case
+ this is not the correct root, it is possible to override this with
+ a hint value or command line option. This will be used in subsequent
+ tests for AFSness in the Perl configure and test process.
+
alignbytes (alignbytes.U):
This variable holds the number of bytes required to align a
double-- or a long double when applicable. Usual values are
@@ -2972,6 +2978,14 @@ perl (Loc.U):
This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
+perl_patchlevel (patchlevel.U):
+ This is the Perl patch level, a numeric change identifier,
+ as defined by whichever source code maintenance system
+ is used to maintain the patches; currently Perforce.
+ It does not correlate with the Perl version numbers or
+ the maintenance versus development dichotomy except
+ by also being increasing.
+
PERL_REVISION (Oldsyms.U):
In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 5.
This value is manually set in patchlevel.h