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diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary index fb7154d2ee..713fc64aa1 100644 --- a/Porting/Glossary +++ b/Porting/Glossary @@ -35,6 +35,15 @@ aphostname (d_gethname.U): host name. The command is fully qualified by its absolute path, to make it safe when used by a process with super-user privileges. +apiversion (patchlevel.U): + This is a number which identifies the lowest version of perl + to have an API (for XS extensions) compatible with the present + version. For example, for 5.005_01, the apiversion should be + 5.005, since 5.005_01 should be binary compatible with 5.005. + This should probably be incremented manually somehow, perhaps + from patchlevel.h. For now, we'll guess maintenance subversions + will retain binary compatibility. + archlib (archlib.U): This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants to put architecture-dependent public library files for $package. @@ -1165,7 +1174,7 @@ doublesize (doublesize.U): indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a double. dynamic_ext (Extensions.U): - This variable holds a list of extension files we want to + This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to link dynamically into the package. It is used by Makefile. eagain (nblock_io.U): @@ -1182,8 +1191,8 @@ exe_ext (Unix.U): This is an old synonym for _exe. extensions (Extensions.U): - This variable holds a list of all extension files - linked into the package. It is propagated to Config.pm + This variable holds a list of all extension files (both XS and + non-xs linked into the package. It is propagated to Config.pm and is typically used to test whether a particular extesion is available. @@ -1548,7 +1557,7 @@ intsize (intsize.U): indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in an int. known_extensions (Extensions.U): - This variable holds a list of all extensions included in + This variable holds a list of all XS extensions included in the package. large (models.U): @@ -1774,6 +1783,10 @@ nm_so_opt (usenm.U): has been stripped, but nm --dynamic is *fatal* on an archive library. Maybe Linux should just always set usenm=false. +nonxs_ext (Extensions.U): + This variable holds a list of all non-xs extensions included + in the package. All of them will be built. + o_nonblock (nblock_io.U): This variable bears the symbol value to be used during open() or fcntl() to turn on non-blocking I/O for a file descriptor. If you wish to switch @@ -2065,7 +2078,7 @@ startsh (startsh.U): other shell. static_ext (Extensions.U): - This variable holds a list of extension files we want to + This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to link statically into the package. It is used by Makefile. stdchar (stdchar.U): @@ -2183,6 +2196,13 @@ usrinc (usrinc.U): This variable holds the path of the include files, which is usually /usr/include. It is mainly used by other Configure units. +version (patchlevel.U): + The full version number of this package. This combines + baserev, patchlevel, and subversion to get the full + version number, including any possible subversions. Care + is taken to use the C locale in order to get something + like 5.004 instead of 5,004. This is unique to perl. + voidflags (voidflags.U): This variable contains the eventual value of the VOIDFLAGS symbol, which indicates how much support of the void type is given by this |