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.
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.
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