The Glossary part for #27683

p4raw-id: //depot/metaconfig@27684

diff --git a/U/installdirs/bin.U b/U/installdirs/bin.U
index 1cbdf30..d591ebe 100644 (file)
--- a/U/installdirs/bin.U
+++ b/U/installdirs/bin.U
@@ -63,7 +63,12 @@
 ?S:    made around the join point (removing "dir/../" pairs)
 ?S:.
 ?S:initialinstalllocation:
-?S:    The initial install location.
+?S:    When userelocatableinc is true, this variable holds the location
+?S:    that make install should copy the perl binary to, with all the
+?S:    run-time relocatable paths calculated from this at install time.
+?S:    When used, it is initialised to the original value of binexp, and
+?S:    then binexp is set to '.../', as the other binaries are found
+?S:    relative to the perl binary.
 ?S:.
 ?C:BIN:
 ?C:    This symbol holds the path of the bin directory where the package will