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authorNicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>2004-12-23 21:38:59 +0000
committerNicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>2004-12-23 21:38:59 +0000
commit88fe16b231aae255ffd6ec9561af9af9f6edf830 (patch)
treeb6af595c0746525fa76d62e9c9f4d510ef2e5a4b /Porting
parent61f8421a3d7b1939452060412f2889c378aae8ed (diff)
downloadperl-88fe16b231aae255ffd6ec9561af9af9f6edf830.tar.gz
Relocatable @INC entries for Unix.
(With appropriate fixups in Config.pm to complete the illusion) Currently can only be enabled with hackery to config.sh TODO - proper Configure support, and support for otherlibdirs in Config.pm p4raw-id: //depot/perl@23674
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@@ -4657,6 +4657,13 @@ usereentrant (usethreads.U):
meaningful if usethreads is set and is very experimental, it is
not even prompted for.
+userelocatableinc (XXX.U):
+ This variable is set to true to indicate that perl should relocate
+ @INC entries at runtime based on the path to the perl binary.
+ Any @INC paths starting ".../" are relocated relative to the directory
+ containing the perl binary, and a logical cleanup of the path is then
+ made around the join point (removing "dir/../" pairs)
+
usesfio (d_sfio.U):
This variable is set to true when the user agrees to use sfio.
It is set to false when sfio is not available or when the user