Use UV (not long) for BYTEORDER.

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / Porting / Glossary

diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary
index 4030a01..80f05ed 100644 (file)
--- a/Porting/Glossary
+++ b/Porting/Glossary
@@ -5,13 +5,15 @@ generates pod documentation for Config.pm from this file--please try to keep
 the formatting regular.]
 
 _a (Unix.U):
-       This variable defines the extension used for ordinary libraries.
+       This variable defines the extension used for ordinary library files.
        For unix, it is '.a'.  The '.' is included.  Other possible
        values include '.lib'.
 
 _exe (Unix.U):
        This variable defines the extension used for executable files.
-       For unix it is empty.  Other possible values include '.exe'.
+       DJGPP, Cygwin and OS/2 use '.exe'.  Stratus VOS uses '.pm'.
+       On operating systems which do not require a specific extension
+       for executable files, this variable is empty.
 
 _o (Unix.U):
        This variable defines the extension used for object files.
@@ -158,10 +160,10 @@ byacc (Loc.U):
        the value is reset to a plain "byacc" and is not useful.
 
 byteorder (byteorder.U):
-       This variable holds the byte order. In the following, larger digits
-       indicate more significance.  The variable byteorder is either 4321
-       on a big-endian machine, or 1234 on a little-endian, or 87654321
-       on a Cray ... or 3412 with weird order !
+       This variable holds the byte order in a UV. In the following,
+       larger digits indicate more significance.  The variable byteorder
+       is either 4321 on a big-endian machine, or 1234 on a little-endian,
+       or 87654321 on a Cray ... or 3412 with weird order !
 
 c (n.U):
        This variable contains the \c string if that is what causes the echo
@@ -3072,7 +3074,7 @@ libpth (libpth.U):
 
 libs (libs.U):
        This variable holds the additional libraries we want to use.
-       It is up to the Makefile to deal with it.
+       It is up to the Makefile to deal with it.  The list can be empty.
 
 libsdirs (libs.U):
        This variable holds the directory names aka dirnames of the libraries