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Diffstat (limited to 'Porting/Glossary')
| -rw-r--r-- | Porting/Glossary | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary index 2c948b8689..cc66d7041b 100644 --- a/Porting/Glossary +++ b/Porting/Glossary @@ -131,8 +131,8 @@ bin (bin.U): this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution. bincompat5005 (bincompat5005.U): - This variable contains y if Perl 5.006 should be binary-compatible - with Perl 5.005. + 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 @@ -363,9 +363,10 @@ d_bcopy (d_bcopy.U): d_bincompat5005 (bincompat5005.U): This variable conditionally defines BINCOMPAT5005 so that embed.h - can take special action if Perl 5.006 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. + 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 |