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| author | Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com> | 2002-05-30 13:32:00 -0400 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-05-31 01:24:16 +0000 |
| commit | a10d74f301e9c83108aa701b20914b6bb55d9310 (patch) | |
| tree | 1b89a4cc09d7eab11349f363b8905752c6170e3e /Porting/Glossary | |
| parent | 45e8d1ddfd1c91ea9315b3df6da46aa46b210f2d (diff) | |
| download | perl-a10d74f301e9c83108aa701b20914b6bb55d9310.tar.gz | |
Improved $^X patch
Message-Id: <200205302132.RAA18437@mailhub1.stratus.com>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16912
Diffstat (limited to 'Porting/Glossary')
| -rw-r--r-- | Porting/Glossary | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary index f2d71b9252..0d18d49418 100644 --- a/Porting/Glossary +++ b/Porting/Glossary @@ -3603,7 +3603,13 @@ perllibs (End.U): perlpath (perlpath.U): This variable contains the eventual value of the PERLPATH symbol, which contains the name of the perl interpreter to be used in - shell scripts and in the "eval 'exec'" idiom. + shell scripts and in the "eval 'exec'" idiom. This variable is + not necessarily the pathname of the file containing the perl + interpreter; you must append the executable extension (_exe) if + it is not already present. Note that Perl code that runs during + the Perl build process cannot reference this variable, as Perl + may not have been installed, or even if installed, may be a + different version of Perl. pg (Loc.U): This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |