Restore a reference to $perlpath. Installation needs it

[perl5.git] / Porting / Glossary

diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary
index bc8e605..9170c6c 100644 (file)
--- a/Porting/Glossary
+++ b/Porting/Glossary
@@ -4155,6 +4155,17 @@ perllibs (End.U):
        The list of libraries needed by Perl only (any libraries needed
        by extensions only will by dropped, if using dynamic loading).
 
        The list of libraries needed by Perl only (any libraries needed
        by extensions only will by dropped, if using dynamic loading).
 

+perlpath (perlpath.U):
+       This variable contains the eventual value of the PERLPATH symbol,
+       which contains the name of the perl interpreter to be used in
+       shell scripts and in the "eval 'exec'" idiom.  This variable is
+       not necessarily the pathname of the file containing the perl
+       interpreter; you must append the executable extension (_exe) if
+       it is not already present.  Note that Perl code that runs during
+       the Perl build process cannot reference this variable, as Perl
+       may not have been installed, or even if installed, may be a
+       different version of Perl.
+

 pg (Loc.U):
        This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
        full pathname (if any) of the pg program.  After Configure runs,
 pg (Loc.U):
        This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
        full pathname (if any) of the pg program.  After Configure runs,