Open jkeenan opened 5 months ago
I have the impression they're actually different things. I think the incpth
description is correct but the incpath
one isn't. I'm not sure I fully understand incpath
but it seems to be some kind of prefix that was only used on BSD 4.3, probably we should just get rid of it to avoid future confusion.
incpth
is backported from a patch in Jan 2014. incpath
is originated in the original meta/dist repository from a change by Manfredi in November 2010 and never touched by perl-people.
I am aware that this does only add to the confusion. It would require serious digging into the history of the two.
In Porting/Glossary, I observe these two entries right next to each other:
The body of the entry for
incpath
is identical to that forincpth
, which means that the description forincpath
, which twice mentions$incpath
, seems internally inconsistent.Can someone clarify what each of these things is supposed to do -- and whether the wording is accurate or not? (I'm asking because
incpth
was mentioned in https://github.com/timbunce/devel-nytprof/issues/217.) Thanks.