sitelib_stem and vendorlib_stem patches from Andy;

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

diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary
index 6c6109c..e00110c 100644 (file)
--- a/Porting/Glossary
+++ b/Porting/Glossary
@@ -1573,6 +1573,9 @@ d_ustat (d_ustat.U):
        This variable conditionally defines HAS_USTAT if ustat() is
        available to query file system statistics by dev_t.
 
+d_vendorarch (vendorarch.U):
+       This variable conditionally defined PERL_VENDORARCH.
+
 d_vendorbin (vendorbin.U):
        This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORBIN.
 
@@ -2316,6 +2319,11 @@ installusrbinperl (instubperl.U):
        /usr/bin/perl in addition to
        $installbin/perl
 
+installvendorarch (vendorarch.U):
+       This variable is really the same as vendorarchexp but may differ on
+       those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
+       should be used in makefiles.
+
 installvendorbin (vendorbin.U):
        This variable is really the same as vendorbinexp but may differ on
        those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
@@ -3068,6 +3076,11 @@ sitelib (sitelib.U):
        MakeMaker Makefile.PL
        or equivalent.  See INSTALL for details.
 
+sitelib_stem (sitelib.U):
+       This variable is $sitelibexp with any trailing version-specific component
+       removed.  The elements in inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U) can
+       be tacked onto this variable to generate a list of directories to search.
+
 sitelibexp (sitelib.U):
        This variable is the ~name expanded version of sitelib, so that you
        may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
@@ -3503,6 +3516,19 @@ uvxformat (perlxvf.U):
        This variable contains the format string used for printing
        a Perl UV as an unsigned hexadecimal integer. 
 
+vendorarch (vendorarch.U):
+       This variable contains the value of the PERL_VENDORARCH symbol.
+       It may have a ~ on the front. 
+       The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
+       Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
+       architecture-dependent modules and extensions in this directory with
+       MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor 
+       or equivalent.  See INSTALL for details.
+
+vendorarchexp (vendorarch.U):
+       This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorarch, so that you
+       may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
+
 vendorbin (vendorbin.U):
        This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORBIN symbol.
        It may have a ~ on the front.
@@ -3525,6 +3551,11 @@ vendorlib (vendorlib.U):
        MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor 
        or equivalent.  See INSTALL for details.
 
+vendorlib_stem (vendorlib.U):
+       This variable is $vendorlibexp with any trailing version-specific component
+       removed.  The elements in inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U) can
+       be tacked onto this variable to generate a list of directories to search.
+
 vendorlibexp (vendorlib.U):
        This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorlib, so that you
        may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.