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

diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary
index 2c948b8..f5ac6da 100644 (file)
--- 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
@@ -572,6 +573,10 @@ d_fpathconf (d_pathconf.U):
 d_fpos64_t (d_fpos64_t.U):
        This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports fpos64_t.
 
+d_frexpl (d_frexpl.U):
+       This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FREXPL symbol, which
+       indicates to the C program that the frexpl() routine is available.
+
 d_fs_data_s (d_fs_data_s.U):
        This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_FS_DATA symbol,
        which indicates that the struct fs_data is supported.
@@ -810,6 +815,14 @@ d_isascii (d_isascii.U):
        This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISASCII constant,
        which indicates to the C program that isascii() is available.
 
+d_isnan (d_isnan.U):
+       This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNAN symbol, which
+       indicates to the C program that the isnan() routine is available.
+
+d_isnanl (d_isnanl.U):
+       This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNANL symbol, which
+       indicates to the C program that the isnanl() routine is available.
+
 d_killpg (d_killpg.U):
        This variable conditionally defines the HAS_KILLPG symbol, which
        indicates to the C program that the killpg() routine is available
@@ -932,6 +945,10 @@ d_mmap (d_mmap.U):
        This variable conditionally defines HAS_MMAP if mmap() is
        available to map a file into memory.
 
+d_modfl (d_modfl.U):
+       This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MODFL symbol, which
+       indicates to the C program that the modfl() routine is available.
+
 d_mprotect (d_mprotect.U):
        This variable conditionally defines HAS_MPROTECT if mprotect() is
        available to modify the access protection of a memory mapped file.
@@ -1035,6 +1052,11 @@ d_pause (d_pause.U):
        indicates to the C program that the pause() routine is available
        to suspend a process until a signal is received.
 
+d_perl_otherlibdirs (otherlibdirs.U):
+       This variable conditionally defines PERL_OTHERLIBDIRS, which
+       contains a colon-separated set of paths for the perl binary to
+       include in @INC.  See also otherlibdirs.
+
 d_phostname (d_gethname.U):
        This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PHOSTNAME symbol, which
        contains the shell command which, when fed to popen(), may be
@@ -2740,6 +2762,16 @@ osvers (Oldconfig.U):
        same for this package, hints files might just be os_4.0 or
        os_4.1, etc., not keeping separate files for each little release.
 
+otherlibdirs (otherlibdirs.U):
+       This variable contains a colon-separated set of paths for the perl
+       binary to search for additional library files or modules.
+       These directories will be tacked to the end of @INC.
+       Perl will automatically search below each path for version-
+       and architecture-specific directories.  See inc_version_list
+       for more details.
+       A value of ' ' means 'none' and is used to preserve this value
+       for the next run through Configure.
+
 package (package.U):
        This variable contains the name of the package being constructed.
        It is primarily intended for the use of later Configure units.