1 *** Glossary.orig Sat Jun 8 19:33:14 2002
2 --- Glossary Sat Jun 8 19:33:28 2002
5 make_set_make='#' # If your make program handles this for you,
6 make_set_make="MAKE=$make" # if it doesn't.
7 I used a comment character so that we can distinguish a
8 ! 'set' value (from a previous config.sh or Configure -D option)
9 from an uncomputed value.
11 mallocobj (mallocsrc.U):
13 make_set_make='#' # If your make program handles this for you,
14 make_set_make="MAKE=$make" # if it doesn't.
15 I used a comment character so that we can distinguish a
16 ! 'set' value (from a previous config.sh or Configure '-D' option)
17 from an uncomputed value.
19 mallocobj (mallocsrc.U):
22 whole thing is then lower-cased.
25 ! This variable contains the -n flag if that is what causes the echo
26 command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is
27 $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
30 whole thing is then lower-cased.
33 ! This variable contains the '-n' flag if that is what causes the echo
34 command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is
35 $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
39 /bin/sh, though it's possible that some systems will have /bin/ksh,
40 /bin/pdksh, /bin/ash, /bin/bash, or even something such as
42 ! This unit comes before Options.U, so you can't set sh with a -D
43 option, though you can override this (and startsh)
44 ! with -O -Dsh=/bin/whatever -Dstartsh=whatever
47 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
49 /bin/sh, though it's possible that some systems will have /bin/ksh,
50 /bin/pdksh, /bin/ash, /bin/bash, or even something such as
52 ! This unit comes before Options.U, so you can't set sh with a '-D'
53 option, though you can override this (and startsh)
54 ! with '-O -Dsh=/bin/whatever -Dstartsh=whatever'
57 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
61 spitshell (spitshell.U):
62 This variable contains the command necessary to spit out a runnable
63 ! shell on this system. It is either cat or a grep -v for # comments.
66 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
69 spitshell (spitshell.U):
70 This variable contains the command necessary to spit out a runnable
71 ! shell on this system. It is either cat or a grep '-v' for # comments.
74 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to