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authorH.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>2004-02-18 12:18:52 +0000
committerH.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>2004-02-18 12:18:52 +0000
commite67cea9b6f4e5e16535851ce33a456c282242f0d (patch)
tree52b4792abde6abf48dda03061c981d2e640d2f77 /Porting
parentedd7382e985077dac6582d6406b3a16fa5fff0e9 (diff)
downloadperl-e67cea9b6f4e5e16535851ce33a456c282242f0d.tar.gz
Removed pm_apiversion and xs_apiversion as requested by
the pumpkin. Chainsaw was still in perfect working order. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@22334
Diffstat (limited to 'Porting')
-rw-r--r--Porting/Glossary32
-rw-r--r--Porting/config.sh2
-rw-r--r--Porting/config_H35
3 files changed, 0 insertions, 69 deletions
diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary
index 91f315b35e..e7ea87c087 100644
--- a/Porting/Glossary
+++ b/Porting/Glossary
@@ -3801,21 +3801,6 @@ 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.
@@ -4878,23 +4863,6 @@ 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
- 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.
-
yacc (yacc.U):
This variable holds the name of the compiler compiler we
want to use in the Makefile. It can be yacc, byacc, or bison -y.
diff --git a/Porting/config.sh b/Porting/config.sh
index c842279882..264cbfaf50 100644
--- a/Porting/config.sh
+++ b/Porting/config.sh
@@ -804,7 +804,6 @@ pg='pg'
phostname='hostname'
pidtype='pid_t'
plibpth=''
-pm_apiversion='5.005'
pmake=''
pr=''
prefix='/opt/perl'
@@ -1006,7 +1005,6 @@ versiononly='define'
vi=''
voidflags='15'
xlibpth='/usr/lib/386 /lib/386'
-xs_apiversion='5.9.1'
yacc='/usr/bin/byacc'
yaccflags=''
zcat=''
diff --git a/Porting/config_H b/Porting/config_H
index 784cd51a50..bdc5616c55 100644
--- a/Porting/config_H
+++ b/Porting/config_H
@@ -3382,41 +3382,6 @@
/*#define USE_SOCKS / **/
#endif
-/* PERL_XS_APIVERSION:
- * 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 /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.9.1/i686-linux 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
- * 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.
- */
-/* PERL_PM_APIVERSION:
- * 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 /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.9.1 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.
- */
-#define PERL_XS_APIVERSION "5.9.1"
-#define PERL_PM_APIVERSION "5.005"
-
/* HAS_DRAND48_PROTO:
* This symbol, if defined, indicates that the system provides
* a prototype for the drand48() function. Otherwise, it is up