Enough changes to Configure and metaunits warrant an update.

Several small changes and three additions

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@18305

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary
index 79da8e1027..75a044f910 100644
--- a/Porting/Glossary
+++ b/Porting/Glossary
@@ -1399,6 +1399,10 @@ d_mymalloc (mallocsrc.U):
 	of the source want to take special action if MYMALLOC is used.
 	This may include different sorts of profiling or error detection.
 
+d_nanosleep (d_nanosleep.U):
+	This variable conditionally defines HAS_NANOSLEEP
+	if nanosleep() is available to sleep with 1E-9 sec accuracy.
+
 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.
@@ -2408,13 +2412,18 @@ full_sed (Loc_sed.U):
 	can share this executable will have the same full pathname to
 	'sed.'
 
+gccansipedantic (gccvers.U):
+	If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable will enable (if set) the
+	-ansi and -pedantic ccflags for building core files (through
+	cflags script). (See Porting/pumpkin.pod for full description).
+
 gccosandvers (gccvers.U):
-	If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable the operating system and
-	version used to compile the gcc.  It is set to '' if not gcc,
+	If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable holds the operating system
+	and version used to compile gcc.  It is set to '' if not gcc,
 	or if nothing useful can be parsed as the os version.
 
 gccversion (gccvers.U):
-	If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable holds '1' or '2' to 
+	If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable holds '1' or '2' to
 	indicate whether the compiler is version 1 or 2.  This is used in
 	setting some of the default cflags.  It is set to '' if not gcc.
 
@@ -3094,6 +3103,22 @@ installstyle (installstyle.U):
 	is useful if $prefix is shared by many packages, e.g. if
 	$prefix=/usr/local.
 
+	Unfortunately, while this "style" variable is used to set
+	defaults for all three directory hierarchies (core, vendor, and
+	site), there is no guarantee that the same style is actually
+	appropriate for all those directories.  For example, $prefix
+	might be /opt/perl, but $siteprefix might be /usr/local.
+	(Perhaps, in retrospect, the "lib" style should never have been
+	supported, but it did seem like a nice idea at the time.)
+
+	The situation is even less clear for tools such as MakeMaker
+	that can be used to install additional modules into
+	non-standard places.  For example, if a user intends to install
+	a module into a private directory (perhaps by setting PREFIX on
+	the Makefile.PL command line), then there is no reason to
+	assume that the Configure-time $installstyle setting will be
+	relevant for that PREFIX.
+
 	This may later be extended to include other information, so
 	be careful with pattern-matching on the results.
 
@@ -4113,7 +4138,7 @@ 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.
 
 srand48_r_proto (d_srand48_r.U):
 	This variable encodes the prototype of srand48_r.