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Diffstat (limited to 'Porting/Glossary')
| -rw-r--r-- | Porting/Glossary | 17 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary index 80f05ed145..c731940d78 100644 --- a/Porting/Glossary +++ b/Porting/Glossary @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ api_revision (patchlevel.U): possible value. The version list appropriate for the current system is determined in inc_version_list.U. XXX To do: Since compatibility can depend on compile time - options (such as bincompat, longlong, etc.) it should + options (such as longlong, etc.) it should (perhaps) be set by Configure, but currently it isn't. Currently, we read a hard-wired value from patchlevel.h. Perhaps what we ought to do is take the hard-wired value from @@ -141,10 +141,6 @@ bin (bin.U): is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution. -bincompat5005 (bincompat5005.U): - This variable contains y if this version of Perl should be - binary-compatible with Perl 5.005. - binexp (bin.U): This is the same as the bin variable, but is filename expanded at configuration time, for use in your makefiles. @@ -400,13 +396,6 @@ d_bcopy (d_bcopy.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BCOPY symbol if the bcopy() routine is available to copy strings. -d_bincompat5005 (bincompat5005.U): - This variable conditionally defines BINCOMPAT5005 so that embed.h - can take special action if this version of Perl should be - binary-compatible with Perl 5.005. This is impossible for builds - that use features like threads and multiplicity it is always $undef - for those versions. - d_bsd (Guess.U): This symbol conditionally defines the symbol BSD when running on a BSD system. @@ -4434,8 +4423,8 @@ xs_apiversion (xs_apiversion.U): 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 (such as - bincompat) it is set by Configure. Other non-default sources + 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 |