Make Configure support PERL_BINCOMPAT_5005.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@3835

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary
index 25d6942fc1..6a9bb481c0 100644
--- a/Porting/Glossary
+++ b/Porting/Glossary
@@ -94,6 +94,10 @@ bin (bin.U):
 	is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
 	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.
+
 binexp (bin.U):
 	This is the same as the bin variable, but is filename expanded at
 	configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
@@ -305,6 +309,12 @@ d_bcopy (d_bcopy.U):
 	This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BCOPY symbol if
 	the bcopy() routine is available to copy strings.
 
+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.
+
 d_bsd (Guess.U):
 	This symbol conditionally defines the symbol BSD when running on a
 	BSD system.