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2!!!!!!! DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE !!!!!!!
3This file is built by metaconfig.
4
d7418ba7 5This file contains a description of all the shell variables whose value is
6determined by the Configure script. Variables intended for use in C
269a7913 7programs (e.g. I_UNISTD) are already described in config_h.SH. [`configpm'
ebc74a4b 8generates pod documentation for Config.pm from this file--please try to keep
24412007 9the formatting regular.]
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781b178c 11_a (Unix.U):
9285ede2 12 This variable defines the extension used for ordinary library files.
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13 For unix, it is '.a'. The '.' is included. Other possible
14 values include '.lib'.
15
16_exe (Unix.U):
17 This variable defines the extension used for executable files.
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18 DJGPP, Cygwin and OS/2 use '.exe'. Stratus VOS uses '.pm'.
19 On operating systems which do not require a specific extension
20 for executable files, this variable is empty.
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21
22_o (Unix.U):
23 This variable defines the extension used for object files.
24 For unix, it is '.o'. The '.' is included. Other possible
25 values include '.obj'.
26
27afs (afs.U):
28 This variable is set to 'true' if AFS (Andrew File System) is used
29 on the system, 'false' otherwise. It is possible to override this
30 with a hint value or command line option, but you'd better know
31 what you are doing.
32
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33afsroot (afs.U):
34 This variable is by default set to '/afs'. In the unlikely case
35 this is not the correct root, it is possible to override this with
36 a hint value or command line option. This will be used in subsequent
776a38e3 37 tests for AFSness in the configure and test process.
a6d26a0d 38
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39alignbytes (alignbytes.U):
40 This variable holds the number of bytes required to align a
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41 double-- or a long double when applicable. Usual values are
42 2, 4 and 8. The default is eight, for safety.
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43
44ansi2knr (ansi2knr.U):
635aebb7 45 This variable is set if the user needs to run ansi2knr.
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46 Currently, this is not supported, so we just abort.
47
48aphostname (d_gethname.U):
49 This variable contains the command which can be used to compute the
50 host name. The command is fully qualified by its absolute path, to make
51 it safe when used by a process with super-user privileges.
52
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53api_revision (patchlevel.U):
54 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
55 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
56 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
57 such as '5.6.1', api_revision is the '5'.
58 Prior to 5.5.640, the format was a floating point number,
59 like 5.00563.
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60
61 perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically search in
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62 $sitelib/.. for older directories back to the limit specified
63 by these api_ variables. This is only useful if you have a
64 perl library directory tree structured like the default one.
65 See INSTALL for how this works. The versioned site_perl
66 directory was introduced in 5.005, so that is the lowest
67 possible value. The version list appropriate for the current
68 system is determined in inc_version_list.U.
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69
70 XXX To do: Since compatibility can depend on compile time
08e5223a 71 options (such as bincompat, longlong, etc.) it should
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72 (perhaps) be set by Configure, but currently it isn't.
73 Currently, we read a hard-wired value from patchlevel.h.
74 Perhaps what we ought to do is take the hard-wired value from
75 patchlevel.h but then modify it if the current Configure
76 options warrant. patchlevel.h then would use an #ifdef guard.
77
78api_subversion (patchlevel.U):
79 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
80 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
81 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
82 such as '5.6.1', api_subversion is the '1'. See api_revision for
83 full details.
84
85api_version (patchlevel.U):
86 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
87 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
88 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
89 such as '5.6.1', api_version is the '6'. See api_revision for
90 full details. As a special case, 5.5.0 is rendered in the
91 old-style as 5.005. (In the 5.005_0x maintenance series,
92 this was the only versioned directory in $sitelib.)
93
94api_versionstring (patchlevel.U):
95 This variable combines api_revision, api_version, and
96 api_subversion in a format such as 5.6.1 (or 5_6_1) suitable
97 for use as a directory name. This is filesystem dependent.
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98
99ar (Loc.U):
5bf26616 100 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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101 full pathname (if any) of the ar program. After Configure runs,
102 the value is reset to a plain "ar" and is not useful.
103
104archlib (archlib.U):
105 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
106 to put architecture-dependent public library files for $package.
107 It is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/lib.
108 Programs using this variable must be prepared to deal
109 with filename expansion.
110
111archlibexp (archlib.U):
112 This variable is the same as the archlib variable, but is
113 filename expanded at configuration time, for convenient use.
114
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115archname (archname.U):
116 This variable is a short name to characterize the current
117 architecture. It is used mainly to construct the default archlib.
118
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119archname64 (use64bits.U):
120 This variable is used for the 64-bitness part of $archname.
121
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122archobjs (Unix.U):
123 This variable defines any additional objects that must be linked
124 in with the program on this architecture. On unix, it is usually
125 empty. It is typically used to include emulations of unix calls
126 or other facilities. For perl on OS/2, for example, this would
127 include os2/os2.obj.
128
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129asctime_r_proto (d_asctime_r.U):
130 This variable encodes the prototype of asctime_r.
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131 It is zero if d_asctime_r is undef, and one of the
132 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_asctime_r
133 is defined.
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781b178c 135awk (Loc.U):
5bf26616 136 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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137 full pathname (if any) of the awk program. After Configure runs,
138 the value is reset to a plain "awk" and is not useful.
139
140baserev (baserev.U):
141 The base revision level of this package, from the .package file.
142
143bash (Loc.U):
144 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 145 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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146
147bin (bin.U):
148 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
149 to put publicly executable images for the package in question. It
150 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
151 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
152
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153bin_ELF (dlsrc.U):
154 This variable saves the result from configure if generated binaries
155 are in ELF format. Only set to defined when the test has actually
156 been performed, and the result was positive.
157
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158binexp (bin.U):
159 This is the same as the bin variable, but is filename expanded at
160 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
161
162bison (Loc.U):
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163 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
164 full pathname (if any) of the bison program. After Configure runs,
165 the value is reset to a plain "bison" and is not useful.
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166
167byacc (Loc.U):
5bf26616 168 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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169 full pathname (if any) of the byacc program. After Configure runs,
170 the value is reset to a plain "byacc" and is not useful.
171
172byteorder (byteorder.U):
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173 This variable holds the byte order in a UV. In the following,
174 larger digits indicate more significance. The variable byteorder
175 is either 4321 on a big-endian machine, or 1234 on a little-endian,
176 or 87654321 on a Cray ... or 3412 with weird order !
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177
178c (n.U):
179 This variable contains the \c string if that is what causes the echo
180 command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is
181 $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
182
183castflags (d_castneg.U):
184 This variable contains a flag that precise difficulties the
185 compiler has casting odd floating values to unsigned long:
186 0 = ok
187 1 = couldn't cast < 0
188 2 = couldn't cast >= 0x80000000
189 4 = couldn't cast in argument expression list
190
191cat (Loc.U):
5bf26616 192 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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193 full pathname (if any) of the cat program. After Configure runs,
194 the value is reset to a plain "cat" and is not useful.
195
196cc (cc.U):
197 This variable holds the name of a command to execute a C compiler which
198 can resolve multiple global references that happen to have the same
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199 name. Usual values are 'cc' and 'gcc'.
200 Fervent ANSI compilers may be called 'c89'. AIX has xlc.
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201
202cccdlflags (dlsrc.U):
203 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
204 passed with 'cc -c' to compile modules to be used to create a shared
205 library that will be used for dynamic loading. For hpux, this
206 should be +z. It is up to the makefile to use it.
207
208ccdlflags (dlsrc.U):
209 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
210 passed to cc to link with a shared library for dynamic loading.
211 It is up to the makefile to use it. For sunos 4.1, it should
212 be empty.
213
214ccflags (ccflags.U):
215 This variable contains any additional C compiler flags desired by
216 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
217
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218ccflags_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
219 This variable contains the compiler flags needed by large file builds
220 and added to ccflags by hints files.
221
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222ccname (Checkcc.U):
223 This can set either by hints files or by Configure. If using
224 gcc, this is gcc, and if not, usually equal to cc, unimpressive, no?
225 Some platforms, however, make good use of this by storing the
226 flavor of the C compiler being used here. For example if using
227 the Sun WorkShop suite, ccname will be 'workshop'.
228
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229ccsymbols (Cppsym.U):
230 The variable contains the symbols defined by the C compiler alone.
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231 The symbols defined by cpp or by cc when it calls cpp are not in
232 this list, see cppsymbols and cppccsymbols.
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233 The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
234
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235ccversion (Checkcc.U):
236 This can set either by hints files or by Configure. If using
237 a (non-gcc) vendor cc, this variable may contain a version for
238 the compiler.
239
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240cf_by (cf_who.U):
241 Login name of the person who ran the Configure script and answered the
242 questions. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH.
243
244cf_email (cf_email.U):
245 Electronic mail address of the person who ran Configure. This can be
246 used by units that require the user's e-mail, like MailList.U.
247
248cf_time (cf_who.U):
249 Holds the output of the "date" command when the configuration file was
250 produced. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH.
251
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252charbits (charsize.U):
253 This variable contains the value of the CHARBITS symbol, which
254 indicates to the C program how many bits there are in a character.
255
256charsize (charsize.U):
257 This variable contains the value of the CHARSIZE symbol, which
258 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a character.
259
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260chgrp (Loc.U):
261 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 262 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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263
264chmod (Loc.U):
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265 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
266 full pathname (if any) of the chmod program. After Configure runs,
267 the value is reset to a plain "chmod" and is not useful.
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268
269chown (Loc.U):
270 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 271 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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272
273clocktype (d_times.U):
274 This variable holds the type returned by times(). It can be long,
275 or clock_t on BSD sites (in which case <sys/types.h> should be
276 included).
277
278comm (Loc.U):
5bf26616 279 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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280 full pathname (if any) of the comm program. After Configure runs,
281 the value is reset to a plain "comm" and is not useful.
282
283compress (Loc.U):
284 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 285 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 286
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287config_arg0 (Options.U):
288 This variable contains the string used to invoke the Configure
289 command, as reported by the shell in the $0 variable.
290
291config_argc (Options.U):
47e01c32 292 This variable contains the number of command-line arguments
ecf5c238 293 passed to Configure, as reported by the shell in the $# variable.
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294 The individual arguments are stored as variables config_arg1,
295 config_arg2, etc.
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296
297config_args (Options.U):
298 This variable contains a single string giving the command-line
299 arguments passed to Configure. Spaces within arguments,
300 quotes, and escaped characters are not correctly preserved.
301 To reconstruct the command line, you must assemble the individual
302 command line pieces, given in config_arg[0-9]*.
303
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304contains (contains.U):
305 This variable holds the command to do a grep with a proper return
306 status. On most sane systems it is simply "grep". On insane systems
307 it is a grep followed by a cat followed by a test. This variable
308 is primarily for the use of other Configure units.
309
310cp (Loc.U):
5bf26616 311 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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312 full pathname (if any) of the cp program. After Configure runs,
313 the value is reset to a plain "cp" and is not useful.
314
315cpio (Loc.U):
316 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 317 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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318
319cpp (Loc.U):
5bf26616 320 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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321 full pathname (if any) of the cpp program. After Configure runs,
322 the value is reset to a plain "cpp" and is not useful.
323
324cpp_stuff (cpp_stuff.U):
505656d3 325 This variable contains an identification of the concatenation mechanism
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326 used by the C preprocessor.
327
328cppccsymbols (Cppsym.U):
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329 The variable contains the symbols defined by the C compiler
330 when it calls cpp. The symbols defined by the cc alone or cpp
331 alone are not in this list, see ccsymbols and cppsymbols.
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332 The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
333
334cppflags (ccflags.U):
335 This variable holds the flags that will be passed to the C pre-
336 processor. It is up to the Makefile to use it.
337
338cpplast (cppstdin.U):
339 This variable has the same functionality as cppminus, only it applies
340 to cpprun and not cppstdin.
341
342cppminus (cppstdin.U):
343 This variable contains the second part of the string which will invoke
344 the C preprocessor on the standard input and produce to standard
345 output. This variable will have the value "-" if cppstdin needs
346 a minus to specify standard input, otherwise the value is "".
347
348cpprun (cppstdin.U):
349 This variable contains the command which will invoke a C preprocessor
350 on standard input and put the output to stdout. It is guaranteed not
351 to be a wrapper and may be a null string if no preprocessor can be
352 made directly available. This preprocessor might be different from the
353 one used by the C compiler. Don't forget to append cpplast after the
354 preprocessor options.
355
356cppstdin (cppstdin.U):
357 This variable contains the command which will invoke the C
358 preprocessor on standard input and put the output to stdout.
359 It is primarily used by other Configure units that ask about
360 preprocessor symbols.
361
362cppsymbols (Cppsym.U):
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363 The variable contains the symbols defined by the C preprocessor
364 alone. The symbols defined by cc or by cc when it calls cpp are
365 not in this list, see ccsymbols and cppccsymbols.
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366 The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
367
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368crypt_r_proto (d_crypt_r.U):
369 This variable encodes the prototype of crypt_r.
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370 It is zero if d_crypt_r is undef, and one of the
371 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_crypt_r
372 is defined.
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374cryptlib (d_crypt.U):
375 This variable holds -lcrypt or the path to a libcrypt.a archive if
376 the crypt() function is not defined in the standard C library. It is
377 up to the Makefile to use this.
378
379csh (Loc.U):
5bf26616 380 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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381 full pathname (if any) of the csh program. After Configure runs,
382 the value is reset to a plain "csh" and is not useful.
383
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384ctermid_r_proto (d_ctermid_r.U):
385 This variable encodes the prototype of ctermid_r.
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386 It is zero if d_ctermid_r is undef, and one of the
387 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_ctermid_r
388 is defined.
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389
390ctime_r_proto (d_ctime_r.U):
391 This variable encodes the prototype of ctime_r.
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392 It is zero if d_ctime_r is undef, and one of the
393 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_ctime_r
394 is defined.
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396d__fwalk (d__fwalk.U):
397 This variable conditionally defines HAS__FWALK if _fwalk() is
398 available to apply a function to all the file handles.
399
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400d_access (d_access.U):
401 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ACCESS if the access() system
402 call is available to check for access permissions using real IDs.
403
404d_accessx (d_accessx.U):
405 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ACCESSX symbol, which
406 indicates to the C program that the accessx() routine is available.
407
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408d_acosh (d_acosh.U):
409 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ACOSH symbol, which
410 indicates to the C program that the acosh() routine is available.
411
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412d_aintl (d_aintl.U):
413 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_AINTL symbol, which
414 indicates to the C program that the aintl() routine is available.
415 If copysignl is also present we can emulate modfl.
416
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417d_alarm (d_alarm.U):
418 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ALARM symbol, which
419 indicates to the C program that the alarm() routine is available.
420
421d_archlib (archlib.U):
422 This variable conditionally defines ARCHLIB to hold the pathname
423 of architecture-dependent library files for $package. If
424 $archlib is the same as $privlib, then this is set to undef.
425
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426d_asctime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
427 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ASCTIME64 symbol, which
428 indicates to the C program that the asctime64 () routine is available.
429
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430d_asctime_r (d_asctime_r.U):
431 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ASCTIME_R symbol,
432 which indicates to the C program that the asctime_r()
433 routine is available.
434
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435d_asinh (d_asinh.U):
436 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ASINH symbol, which
437 indicates to the C program that the asinh() routine is available.
438
439d_atanh (d_atanh.U):
440 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ATANH symbol, which
441 indicates to the C program that the atanh() routine is available.
442
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443d_atolf (atolf.U):
444 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ATOLF symbol, which
445 indicates to the C program that the atolf() routine is available.
446
447d_atoll (atoll.U):
448 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ATOLL symbol, which
449 indicates to the C program that the atoll() routine is available.
450
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451d_attribute_deprecated (d_attribut.U):
452 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_DEPRECATED, which
453 indicates that GCC can handle the attribute for marking deprecated
454 APIs
455
df4c34dc 456d_attribute_format (d_attribut.U):
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457 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_FORMAT, which
458 indicates the C compiler can check for printf-like formats.
459
df4c34dc 460d_attribute_malloc (d_attribut.U):
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461 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_MALLOC, which
462 indicates the C compiler can understand functions as having
463 malloc-like semantics.
464
df4c34dc 465d_attribute_nonnull (d_attribut.U):
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466 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_NONNULL, which
467 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain arguments
468 must not be NULL, and will check accordingly at compile time.
469
df4c34dc 470d_attribute_noreturn (d_attribut.U):
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471 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_NORETURN, which
472 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain functions
473 are guaranteed never to return.
474
df4c34dc 475d_attribute_pure (d_attribut.U):
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476 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_PURE, which
477 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain functions
478 are "pure" functions, meaning that they have no side effects, and
479 only rely on function input and/or global data for their results.
480
df4c34dc 481d_attribute_unused (d_attribut.U):
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482 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, which
483 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain variables
484 and arguments may not always be used, and to not throw warnings
485 if they don't get used.
486
df4c34dc 487d_attribute_warn_unused_result (d_attribut.U):
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488 This variable conditionally defines
489 HASATTRIBUTE_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT, which indicates that the C
490 compiler can know that certain functions have a return values
491 that must not be ignored, such as malloc() or open().
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493d_backtrace (d_backtrace.U):
494 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BACKTRACE symbol, which
495 indicates to the C program that the backtrace() routine is available
496 to get a stack trace.
497
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498d_bcmp (d_bcmp.U):
499 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BCMP symbol if
500 the bcmp() routine is available to compare strings.
501
502d_bcopy (d_bcopy.U):
503 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BCOPY symbol if
504 the bcopy() routine is available to copy strings.
505
506d_bsd (Guess.U):
507 This symbol conditionally defines the symbol BSD when running on a
508 BSD system.
509
510d_bsdgetpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
511 This variable conditionally defines USE_BSD_GETPGRP if
512 getpgrp needs one arguments whereas USG one needs none.
513
514d_bsdsetpgrp (d_setpgrp.U):
515 This variable conditionally defines USE_BSD_SETPGRP if
516 setpgrp needs two arguments whereas USG one needs none.
517 See also d_setpgid for a POSIX interface.
518
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519d_builtin_choose_expr (d_builtin.U):
520 This conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_CHOOSE_EXPR, which
521 indicates that the compiler supports __builtin_choose_expr(x,y,z).
522 This built-in function is analogous to the "x?y:z" operator in C,
523 except that the expression returned has its type unaltered by
524 promotion rules. Also, the built-in function does not evaluate
525 the expression that was not chosen.
526
527d_builtin_expect (d_builtin.U):
528 This conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_EXPECT, which indicates
529 that the compiler supports __builtin_expect(exp,c). You may use
530 __builtin_expect to provide the compiler with branch prediction
531 information.
532
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533d_bzero (d_bzero.U):
534 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BZERO symbol if
535 the bzero() routine is available to set memory to 0.
536
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537d_c99_variadic_macros (d_c99_variadic.U):
538 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_C99_VARIADIC_MACROS
539 symbol, which indicates to the C program that C99 variadic macros
540 are available.
541
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542d_casti32 (d_casti32.U):
543 This variable conditionally defines CASTI32, which indicates
544 whether the C compiler can cast large floats to 32-bit ints.
545
546d_castneg (d_castneg.U):
547 This variable conditionally defines CASTNEG, which indicates
47e01c32 548 whether the C compiler can cast negative float to unsigned.
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550d_cbrt (d_cbrt.U):
551 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CBRT symbol, which
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552 indicates to the C program that the cbrt() (cube root) function
553 is available.
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555d_charvspr (d_vprintf.U):
556 This variable conditionally defines CHARVSPRINTF if this system
557 has vsprintf returning type (char*). The trend seems to be to
558 declare it as "int vsprintf()".
559
560d_chown (d_chown.U):
561 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CHOWN symbol, which
562 indicates to the C program that the chown() routine is available.
563
564d_chroot (d_chroot.U):
565 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CHROOT symbol, which
566 indicates to the C program that the chroot() routine is available.
567
568d_chsize (d_chsize.U):
569 This variable conditionally defines the CHSIZE symbol, which
570 indicates to the C program that the chsize() routine is available
571 to truncate files. You might need a -lx to get this routine.
572
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573d_class (d_class.U):
574 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CLASS symbol, which
575 indicates to the C program that the class() routine is available.
576
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577d_clearenv (d_clearenv.U):
578 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CLEARENV symbol, which
579 indicates to the C program that the clearenv () routine is available.
580
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581d_closedir (d_closedir.U):
582 This variable conditionally defines HAS_CLOSEDIR if closedir() is
583 available.
584
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585d_cmsghdr_s (d_cmsghdr_s.U):
586 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_CMSGHDR symbol,
587 which indicates that the struct cmsghdr is supported.
588
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589d_const (d_const.U):
590 This variable conditionally defines the HASCONST symbol, which
591 indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows about the
592 const type.
593
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594d_copysign (d_copysign.U):
595 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_COPYSIGN symbol, which
596 indicates to the C program that the copysign() routine is available.
597
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598d_copysignl (d_copysignl.U):
599 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_COPYSIGNL symbol, which
600 indicates to the C program that the copysignl() routine is available.
601 If aintl is also present we can emulate modfl.
602
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603d_cplusplus (d_cplusplus.U):
604 This variable conditionally defines the USE_CPLUSPLUS symbol, which
605 indicates that a C++ compiler was used to compiled Perl and will be
606 used to compile extensions.
607
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608d_crypt (d_crypt.U):
609 This variable conditionally defines the CRYPT symbol, which
610 indicates to the C program that the crypt() routine is available
611 to encrypt passwords and the like.
612
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613d_crypt_r (d_crypt_r.U):
614 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CRYPT_R symbol,
615 which indicates to the C program that the crypt_r()
616 routine is available.
617
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618d_csh (d_csh.U):
619 This variable conditionally defines the CSH symbol, which
620 indicates to the C program that the C-shell exists.
621
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622d_ctermid (d_ctermid.U):
623 This variable conditionally defines CTERMID if ctermid() is
624 available to generate filename for terminal.
625
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626d_ctermid_r (d_ctermid_r.U):
627 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTERMID_R symbol,
628 which indicates to the C program that the ctermid_r()
629 routine is available.
630
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631d_ctime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
632 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTIME64 symbol, which
633 indicates to the C program that the ctime64 () routine is available.
634
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635d_ctime_r (d_ctime_r.U):
636 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTIME_R symbol,
637 which indicates to the C program that the ctime_r()
638 routine is available.
639
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640d_cuserid (d_cuserid.U):
641 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CUSERID symbol, which
642 indicates to the C program that the cuserid() routine is available
643 to get character login names.
644
645d_dbl_dig (d_dbl_dig.U):
646 This variable conditionally defines d_dbl_dig if this system's
647 header files provide DBL_DIG, which is the number of significant
648 digits in a double precision number.
649
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650d_dbminitproto (d_dbminitproto.U):
651 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DBMINIT_PROTO symbol,
652 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
653 a prototype for the dbminit() function. Otherwise, it is
654 up to the program to supply one.
655
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656d_difftime (d_difftime.U):
657 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIFFTIME symbol, which
658 indicates to the C program that the difftime() routine is available.
659
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660d_difftime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
661 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIFFTIME64 symbol, which
662 indicates to the C program that the difftime64 () routine is available.
663
066e7355 664d_dir_dd_fd (d_dir_dd_fd.U):
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666 indicates that the DIR directory stream type contains a member
667 variable called dd_fd.
668
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669d_dirfd (d_dirfd.U):
670 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIRFD constant,
671 which indicates to the C program that dirfd() is available
672 to return the file descriptor of a directory stream.
673
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674d_dirnamlen (i_dirent.U):
675 This variable conditionally defines DIRNAMLEN, which indicates
676 to the C program that the length of directory entry names is
677 provided by a d_namelen field.
678
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679d_dladdr (d_dladdr.U):
680 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLADDR symbol, which
681 indicates to the C program that the dladdr() routine is available
682 to get a stack trace.
683
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684d_dlerror (d_dlerror.U):
685 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLERROR symbol, which
686 indicates to the C program that the dlerror() routine is available.
687
688d_dlopen (d_dlopen.U):
689 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLOPEN symbol, which
690 indicates to the C program that the dlopen() routine is available.
691
692d_dlsymun (d_dlsymun.U):
693 This variable conditionally defines DLSYM_NEEDS_UNDERSCORE, which
694 indicates that we need to prepend an underscore to the symbol
695 name before calling dlsym().
696
697d_dosuid (d_dosuid.U):
698 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOSUID, which
699 tells the C program that it should insert setuid emulation code
700 on hosts which have setuid #! scripts disabled.
701
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702d_drand48_r (d_drand48_r.U):
703 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DRAND48_R symbol,
704 which indicates to the C program that the drand48_r()
705 routine is available.
706
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707d_drand48proto (d_drand48proto.U):
708 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DRAND48_PROTO symbol,
709 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
710 a prototype for the drand48() function. Otherwise, it is
711 up to the program to supply one.
712
713d_dup2 (d_dup2.U):
714 This variable conditionally defines HAS_DUP2 if dup2() is
715 available to duplicate file descriptors.
716
717d_eaccess (d_eaccess.U):
718 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_EACCESS symbol, which
719 indicates to the C program that the eaccess() routine is available.
720
721d_endgrent (d_endgrent.U):
722 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDGRENT symbol, which
723 indicates to the C program that the endgrent() routine is available
724 for sequential access of the group database.
725
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726d_endgrent_r (d_endgrent_r.U):
727 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDGRENT_R symbol,
728 which indicates to the C program that the endgrent_r()
729 routine is available.
730
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731d_endhent (d_endhent.U):
732 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDHOSTENT if endhostent() is
733 available to close whatever was being used for host queries.
734
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735d_endhostent_r (d_endhostent_r.U):
736 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDHOSTENT_R symbol,
737 which indicates to the C program that the endhostent_r()
738 routine is available.
739
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740d_endnent (d_endnent.U):
741 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDNETENT if endnetent() is
742 available to close whatever was being used for network queries.
743
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744d_endnetent_r (d_endnetent_r.U):
745 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDNETENT_R symbol,
746 which indicates to the C program that the endnetent_r()
747 routine is available.
748
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749d_endpent (d_endpent.U):
750 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDPROTOENT if endprotoent() is
751 available to close whatever was being used for protocol queries.
752
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753d_endprotoent_r (d_endprotoent_r.U):
754 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPROTOENT_R symbol,
755 which indicates to the C program that the endprotoent_r()
756 routine is available.
757
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758d_endpwent (d_endpwent.U):
759 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPWENT symbol, which
760 indicates to the C program that the endpwent() routine is available
761 for sequential access of the passwd database.
762
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763d_endpwent_r (d_endpwent_r.U):
764 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPWENT_R symbol,
765 which indicates to the C program that the endpwent_r()
766 routine is available.
767
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768d_endsent (d_endsent.U):
769 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDSERVENT if endservent() is
770 available to close whatever was being used for service queries.
771
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772d_endservent_r (d_endservent_r.U):
773 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDSERVENT_R symbol,
774 which indicates to the C program that the endservent_r()
775 routine is available.
776
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777d_eofnblk (nblock_io.U):
778 This variable conditionally defines EOF_NONBLOCK if EOF can be seen
779 when reading from a non-blocking I/O source.
780
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781d_erf (d_erf.U):
782 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ERF symbol, which
783 indicates to the C program that the erf() routine is available.
784
785d_erfc (d_erfc.U):
786 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ERFC symbol, which
787 indicates to the C program that the erfc() routine is available.
788
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789d_eunice (Guess.U):
790 This variable conditionally defines the symbols EUNICE and VAX, which
47e01c32 791 alerts the C program that it must deal with idiosyncrasies of VMS.
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793d_exp2 (d_exp2.U):
794 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_EXP2 symbol, which
795 indicates to the C program that the exp2() routine is available.
796
797d_expm1 (d_expm1.U):
798 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_EXPM1 symbol, which
799 indicates to the C program that the expm1() routine is available.
800
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801d_faststdio (d_faststdio.U):
802 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FAST_STDIO symbol,
803 which indicates to the C program that the "fast stdio" is available
804 to manipulate the stdio buffers directly.
805
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806d_fchdir (d_fchdir.U):
807 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHDIR symbol, which
808 indicates to the C program that the fchdir() routine is available.
809
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810d_fchmod (d_fchmod.U):
811 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHMOD symbol, which
812 indicates to the C program that the fchmod() routine is available
813 to change mode of opened files.
814
815d_fchown (d_fchown.U):
816 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHOWN symbol, which
817 indicates to the C program that the fchown() routine is available
818 to change ownership of opened files.
819
820d_fcntl (d_fcntl.U):
821 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCNTL symbol, and indicates
822 whether the fcntl() function exists
823
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825 This variable conditionally defines the FCNTL_CAN_LOCK symbol
826 and indicates whether file locking with fcntl() works.
827
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828d_fd_macros (d_fd_set.U):
829 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FD_MACROS symbol,
830 which indicates if your C compiler knows about the macros which
831 manipulate an fd_set.
832
833d_fd_set (d_fd_set.U):
834 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FD_SET symbol,
835 which indicates if your C compiler knows about the fd_set typedef.
836
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837d_fdim (d_fdim.U):
838 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FDIM symbol, which
839 indicates to the C program that the fdim() routine is available.
840
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841d_fds_bits (d_fd_set.U):
842 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FDS_BITS symbol,
843 which indicates if your fd_set typedef contains the fds_bits member.
844 If you have an fd_set typedef, but the dweebs who installed it did
845 a half-fast job and neglected to provide the macros to manipulate
846 an fd_set, HAS_FDS_BITS will let us know how to fix the gaffe.
847
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848d_fegetround (d_fegetround.U):
849 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FEGETROUND if fegetround() is
850 available to get the floating point rounding mode.
851
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852d_fgetpos (d_fgetpos.U):
853 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FGETPOS if fgetpos() is
854 available to get the file position indicator.
855
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856d_finite (d_finite.U):
857 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FINITE symbol, which
858 indicates to the C program that the finite() routine is available.
859
860d_finitel (d_finitel.U):
861 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FINITEL symbol, which
862 indicates to the C program that the finitel() routine is available.
863
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864d_flexfnam (d_flexfnam.U):
865 This variable conditionally defines the FLEXFILENAMES symbol, which
866 indicates that the system supports filenames longer than 14 characters.
867
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868d_flock (d_flock.U):
869 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FLOCK if flock() is
870 available to do file locking.
871
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872d_flockproto (d_flockproto.U):
873 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FLOCK_PROTO symbol,
874 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
875 a prototype for the flock() function. Otherwise, it is
876 up to the program to supply one.
877
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878d_fma (d_fma.U):
879 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FMA symbol, which
880 indicates to the C program that the fma() routine is available.
881
882d_fmax (d_fmax.U):
883 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FMAX symbol, which
884 indicates to the C program that the fmax() routine is available.
885
886d_fmin (d_fmin.U):
887 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FMIN symbol, which
888 indicates to the C program that the fmin() routine is available.
889
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890d_fork (d_fork.U):
891 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FORK symbol, which
892 indicates to the C program that the fork() routine is available.
893
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894d_fp_class (d_fp_class.U):
895 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FP_CLASS symbol, which
896 indicates to the C program that the fp_class() routine is available.
897
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899 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FP_CLASSIFY symbol, which
900 indicates to the C program that the fp_classify() routine is available.
901
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902d_fp_classl (d_fp_classl.U):
903 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FP_CLASSL symbol, which
904 indicates to the C program that the fp_classl() routine is available.
905
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906d_fpathconf (d_pathconf.U):
907 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPATHCONF symbol, which
908 indicates to the C program that the pathconf() routine is available
909 to determine file-system related limits and options associated
910 with a given open file descriptor.
911
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912d_fpclass (d_fpclass.U):
913 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASS symbol, which
914 indicates to the C program that the fpclass() routine is available.
915
916d_fpclassify (d_fpclassify.U):
917 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASSIFY symbol, which
918 indicates to the C program that the fpclassify() routine is available.
919
920d_fpclassl (d_fpclassl.U):
921 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASSL symbol, which
922 indicates to the C program that the fpclassl() routine is available.
923
4c1a9b0c 924d_fpgetround (d_fpgetround.U):
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925 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FPGETROUND if fpgetround()
926 is available to get the floating point rounding mode.
4c1a9b0c 927
c890dc6c 928d_fpos64_t (d_fpos64_t.U):
ca24dfc6 929 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports fpos64_t.
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931d_frexpl (d_frexpl.U):
932 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FREXPL symbol, which
933 indicates to the C program that the frexpl() routine is available.
934
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936 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_FS_DATA symbol,
937 which indicates that the struct fs_data is supported.
938
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939d_fseeko (d_fseeko.U):
940 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSEEKO symbol, which
941 indicates to the C program that the fseeko() routine is available.
942
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943d_fsetpos (d_fsetpos.U):
944 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FSETPOS if fsetpos() is
945 available to set the file position indicator.
946
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948 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSTATFS symbol, which
949 indicates to the C program that the fstatfs() routine is available.
950
951d_fstatvfs (d_statvfs.U):
952 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSTATVFS symbol, which
953 indicates to the C program that the fstatvfs() routine is available.
954
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955d_fsync (d_fsync.U):
956 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSYNC symbol, which
957 indicates to the C program that the fsync() routine is available.
958
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959d_ftello (d_ftello.U):
960 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTELLO symbol, which
961 indicates to the C program that the ftello() routine is available.
962
963d_ftime (d_ftime.U):
964 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTIME symbol, which indicates
965 that the ftime() routine exists. The ftime() routine is basically
966 a sub-second accuracy clock.
967
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969 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FUTIMES symbol, which
970 indicates to the C program that the futimes() routine is available.
971
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972d_Gconvert (d_gconvert.U):
973 This variable holds what Gconvert is defined as to convert
974 floating point numbers into strings. By default, Configure
975 sets this macro to use the first of gconvert, gcvt, or sprintf
1332606d 976 that pass sprintf-%g-like behavior tests. If perl is using
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977 long doubles, the macro uses the first of the following
978 functions that pass Configure's tests: qgcvt, sprintf (if
979 Configure knows how to make sprintf format long doubles--see
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980 sPRIgldbl), gconvert, gcvt, and sprintf (casting to double).
981 The gconvert_preference and gconvert_ld_preference variables
4d54317a 982 can be used to alter Configure's preferences, for doubles and
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984 space-separated list of one or more of the above function
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985 names in the order they should be tried.
986
987 d_Gconvert may be set to override Configure with a platform-
988 specific function. If this function expects a double, a
989 different value may need to be set by the uselongdouble.cbu
990 call-back unit so that long doubles can be formatted without
991 loss of precision.
992
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993d_gdbm_ndbm_h_uses_prototypes (i_ndbm.U):
994 This variable conditionally defines the NDBM_H_USES_PROTOTYPES symbol,
995 which indicates that the gdbm-ndbm.h include file uses real ANSI C
996 prototypes instead of K&R style function declarations. K&R style
997 declarations are unsupported in C++, so the include file requires
998 special handling when using a C++ compiler and this variable is
999 undefined. Consult the different d_*ndbm_h_uses_prototypes variables
1000 to get the same information for alternative ndbm.h include files.
1001
1002d_gdbmndbm_h_uses_prototypes (i_ndbm.U):
1003 This variable conditionally defines the NDBM_H_USES_PROTOTYPES symbol,
1004 which indicates that the gdbm/ndbm.h include file uses real ANSI C
1005 prototypes instead of K&R style function declarations. K&R style
1006 declarations are unsupported in C++, so the include file requires
1007 special handling when using a C++ compiler and this variable is
1008 undefined. Consult the different d_*ndbm_h_uses_prototypes variables
1009 to get the same information for alternative ndbm.h include files.
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1011d_getaddrinfo (d_getaddrinfo.U):
1012 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETADDRINFO symbol,
1013 which indicates to the C program that the getaddrinfo() function
1014 is available.
1015
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1016d_getcwd (d_getcwd.U):
1017 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETCWD symbol, which
1018 indicates to the C program that the getcwd() routine is available
1019 to get the current working directory.
1020
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1021d_getespwnam (d_getespwnam.U):
1022 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETESPWNAM if getespwnam() is
47e01c32 1023 available to retrieve enhanced (shadow) password entries by name.
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1025d_getfsstat (d_getfsstat.U):
1026 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETFSSTAT symbol, which
1027 indicates to the C program that the getfsstat() routine is available.
1028
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1029d_getgrent (d_getgrent.U):
1030 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRENT symbol, which
1031 indicates to the C program that the getgrent() routine is available
1032 for sequential access of the group database.
1033
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1034d_getgrent_r (d_getgrent_r.U):
1035 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRENT_R symbol,
1036 which indicates to the C program that the getgrent_r()
1037 routine is available.
1038
1039d_getgrgid_r (d_getgrgid_r.U):
1040 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRGID_R symbol,
1041 which indicates to the C program that the getgrgid_r()
1042 routine is available.
1043
1044d_getgrnam_r (d_getgrnam_r.U):
1045 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRNAM_R symbol,
1046 which indicates to the C program that the getgrnam_r()
1047 routine is available.
1048
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1049d_getgrps (d_getgrps.U):
1050 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGROUPS symbol, which
1051 indicates to the C program that the getgroups() routine is available
1052 to get the list of process groups.
1053
1054d_gethbyaddr (d_gethbyad.U):
1055 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYADDR symbol, which
1056 indicates to the C program that the gethostbyaddr() routine is available
1057 to look up hosts by their IP addresses.
1058
1059d_gethbyname (d_gethbynm.U):
1060 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYNAME symbol, which
1061 indicates to the C program that the gethostbyname() routine is available
1062 to look up host names in some data base or other.
1063
1064d_gethent (d_gethent.U):
1065 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETHOSTENT if gethostent() is
1066 available to look up host names in some data base or another.
1067
1068d_gethname (d_gethname.U):
1069 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTNAME symbol, which
1070 indicates to the C program that the gethostname() routine may be
1071 used to derive the host name.
1072
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1073d_gethostbyaddr_r (d_gethostbyaddr_r.U):
1074 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYADDR_R symbol,
1075 which indicates to the C program that the gethostbyaddr_r()
1076 routine is available.
1077
1078d_gethostbyname_r (d_gethostbyname_r.U):
1079 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYNAME_R symbol,
1080 which indicates to the C program that the gethostbyname_r()
1081 routine is available.
1082
1083d_gethostent_r (d_gethostent_r.U):
1084 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTENT_R symbol,
1085 which indicates to the C program that the gethostent_r()
1086 routine is available.
1087
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1088d_gethostprotos (d_gethostprotos.U):
1089 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOST_PROTOS symbol,
1090 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
635aebb7 1091 prototypes for the various gethost*() functions.
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1092 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1093
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1094d_getitimer (d_getitimer.U):
1095 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETITIMER symbol, which
1096 indicates to the C program that the getitimer() routine is available.
1097
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1098d_getlogin (d_getlogin.U):
1099 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETLOGIN symbol, which
1100 indicates to the C program that the getlogin() routine is available
1101 to get the login name.
1102
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1103d_getlogin_r (d_getlogin_r.U):
1104 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETLOGIN_R symbol,
1105 which indicates to the C program that the getlogin_r()
1106 routine is available.
1107
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1108d_getmnt (d_getmnt.U):
1109 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETMNT symbol, which
1110 indicates to the C program that the getmnt() routine is available
1111 to retrieve one or more mount info blocks by filename.
1112
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1113d_getmntent (d_getmntent.U):
1114 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETMNTENT symbol, which
1115 indicates to the C program that the getmntent() routine is available
0617aed7 1116 to iterate through mounted files to get their mount info.
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1118d_getnameinfo (d_getnameinfo.U):
1119 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNAMEINFO symbol,
1120 which indicates to the C program that the getnameinfo() function
1121 is available.
1122
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1123d_getnbyaddr (d_getnbyad.U):
1124 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYADDR symbol, which
1125 indicates to the C program that the getnetbyaddr() routine is available
1126 to look up networks by their IP addresses.
1127
1128d_getnbyname (d_getnbynm.U):
1129 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYNAME symbol, which
1130 indicates to the C program that the getnetbyname() routine is available
1131 to look up networks by their names.
1132
1133d_getnent (d_getnent.U):
1134 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETNETENT if getnetent() is
1135 available to look up network names in some data base or another.
1136
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1137d_getnetbyaddr_r (d_getnetbyaddr_r.U):
1138 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYADDR_R symbol,
1139 which indicates to the C program that the getnetbyaddr_r()
1140 routine is available.
1141
1142d_getnetbyname_r (d_getnetbyname_r.U):
1143 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYNAME_R symbol,
1144 which indicates to the C program that the getnetbyname_r()
1145 routine is available.
1146
1147d_getnetent_r (d_getnetent_r.U):
1148 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETENT_R symbol,
1149 which indicates to the C program that the getnetent_r()
1150 routine is available.
1151
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1152d_getnetprotos (d_getnetprotos.U):
1153 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNET_PROTOS symbol,
1154 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
635aebb7 1155 prototypes for the various getnet*() functions.
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1156 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1157
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1158d_getpagsz (d_getpagsz.U):
1159 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPAGESIZE if getpagesize()
1160 is available to get the system page size.
1161
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1164 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1165 getprotobyname() routine is available to look up protocols
1166 by their name.
1167
1168d_getpbynumber (d_getprotby.U):
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1169 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNUMBER
1170 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1171 getprotobynumber() routine is available to look up protocols
1172 by their number.
1173
1174d_getpent (d_getpent.U):
1175 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPROTOENT if getprotoent() is
1176 available to look up protocols in some data base or another.
1177
1178d_getpgid (d_getpgid.U):
1179 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGID symbol, which
1180 indicates to the C program that the getpgid(pid) function
1181 is available to get the process group id.
1182
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1183d_getpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
1184 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPGRP if getpgrp() is
1185 available to get the current process group.
1186
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1187d_getpgrp2 (d_getpgrp2.U):
1188 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGRP2 symbol, which
1189 indicates to the C program that the getpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine
1190 is available to get the current process group.
1191
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1192d_getppid (d_getppid.U):
1193 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPPID symbol, which
1194 indicates to the C program that the getppid() routine is available
1195 to get the parent process ID.
1196
1197d_getprior (d_getprior.U):
1198 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPRIORITY if getpriority()
1199 is available to get a process's priority.
1200
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1201d_getprotobyname_r (d_getprotobyname_r.U):
1202 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNAME_R symbol,
1203 which indicates to the C program that the getprotobyname_r()
1204 routine is available.
1205
1206d_getprotobynumber_r (d_getprotobynumber_r.U):
1207 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNUMBER_R symbol,
1208 which indicates to the C program that the getprotobynumber_r()
1209 routine is available.
1210
1211d_getprotoent_r (d_getprotoent_r.U):
1212 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOENT_R symbol,
1213 which indicates to the C program that the getprotoent_r()
1214 routine is available.
1215
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1216d_getprotoprotos (d_getprotoprotos.U):
1217 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTO_PROTOS symbol,
1218 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
635aebb7 1219 prototypes for the various getproto*() functions.
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1220 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1221
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1222d_getprpwnam (d_getprpwnam.U):
1223 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPRPWNAM if getprpwnam() is
1224 available to retrieve protected (shadow) password entries by name.
1225
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1226d_getpwent (d_getpwent.U):
1227 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWENT symbol, which
1228 indicates to the C program that the getpwent() routine is available
1229 for sequential access of the passwd database.
1230
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1231d_getpwent_r (d_getpwent_r.U):
1232 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWENT_R symbol,
1233 which indicates to the C program that the getpwent_r()
1234 routine is available.
1235
1236d_getpwnam_r (d_getpwnam_r.U):
1237 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWNAM_R symbol,
1238 which indicates to the C program that the getpwnam_r()
1239 routine is available.
1240
1241d_getpwuid_r (d_getpwuid_r.U):
1242 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWUID_R symbol,
1243 which indicates to the C program that the getpwuid_r()
1244 routine is available.
1245
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1247 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYNAME
1248 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1249 getservbyname() routine is available to look up services
1250 by their name.
1251
1252d_getsbyport (d_getsrvby.U):
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1253 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYPORT
1254 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1255 getservbyport() routine is available to look up services
1256 by their port.
1257
1258d_getsent (d_getsent.U):
1259 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETSERVENT if getservent() is
1260 available to look up network services in some data base or another.
1261
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1262d_getservbyname_r (d_getservbyname_r.U):
1263 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYNAME_R symbol,
1264 which indicates to the C program that the getservbyname_r()
1265 routine is available.
1266
1267d_getservbyport_r (d_getservbyport_r.U):
1268 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYPORT_R symbol,
1269 which indicates to the C program that the getservbyport_r()
1270 routine is available.
1271
1272d_getservent_r (d_getservent_r.U):
1273 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVENT_R symbol,
1274 which indicates to the C program that the getservent_r()
1275 routine is available.
1276
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1277d_getservprotos (d_getservprotos.U):
1278 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERV_PROTOS symbol,
1279 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
635aebb7 1280 prototypes for the various getserv*() functions.
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1281 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1282
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1283d_getspnam (d_getspnam.U):
1284 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETSPNAM if getspnam() is
1285 available to retrieve SysV shadow password entries by name.
1286
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1287d_getspnam_r (d_getspnam_r.U):
1288 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSPNAM_R symbol,
1289 which indicates to the C program that the getspnam_r()
1290 routine is available.
1291
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1292d_gettimeod (d_ftime.U):
1293 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY symbol, which
1294 indicates that the gettimeofday() system call exists (to obtain a
1295 sub-second accuracy clock). You should probably include <sys/resource.h>.
1296
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1297d_gmtime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
1298 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GMTIME64 symbol, which
1299 indicates to the C program that the gmtime64 () routine is available.
1300
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1301d_gmtime_r (d_gmtime_r.U):
1302 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GMTIME_R symbol,
1303 which indicates to the C program that the gmtime_r()
1304 routine is available.
1305
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1306d_gnulibc (d_gnulibc.U):
1307 Defined if we're dealing with the GNU C Library.
1308
1309d_grpasswd (i_grp.U):
1310 This variable conditionally defines GRPASSWD, which indicates
1311 that struct group in <grp.h> contains gr_passwd.
1312
1313d_hasmntopt (d_hasmntopt.U):
1314 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_HASMNTOPT symbol, which
1315 indicates to the C program that the hasmntopt() routine is available
1316 to query the mount options of file systems.
1317
1318d_htonl (d_htonl.U):
1319 This variable conditionally defines HAS_HTONL if htonl() and its
1320 friends are available to do network order byte swapping.
1321
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1322d_hypot (d_hypot.U):
1323 This variable conditionally defines HAS_HYPOT if hypot is available
1324 for numerically stable hypotenuse function.
1325
1326d_ilogb (d_ilogb.U):
1327 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ILOGB symbol, which
1328 indicates to the C program that the ilogb() routine is available
1329 for extracting the exponent of double x as a signed integer.
1330
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1331d_ilogbl (d_ilogbl.U):
1332 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ILOGBL symbol, which
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1333 indicates to the C program that the ilogbl() routine is available
1334 for extracting the exponent of long double x as a signed integer.
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1335 If scalbnl is also present we can emulate frexpl.
1336
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1337d_inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U):
1338 This variable conditionally defines PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST.
1339 It is set to undef when PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST is empty.
1340
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1341d_index (d_strchr.U):
1342 This variable conditionally defines HAS_INDEX if index() and
1343 rindex() are available for string searching.
1344
1345d_inetaton (d_inetaton.U):
1346 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INET_ATON symbol, which
1347 indicates to the C program that the inet_aton() function is available
1348 to parse IP address "dotted-quad" strings.
1349
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1350d_inetntop (d_inetntop.U):
1351 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INETNTOP symbol,
1352 which indicates to the C program that the inet_ntop() function
1353 is available.
1354
1355d_inetpton (d_inetpton.U):
1356 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INETPTON symbol,
1357 which indicates to the C program that the inet_pton() function
1358 is available.
1359
13b3f787 1360d_int64_t (d_int64_t.U):
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1361 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports int64_t.
1362
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1363d_ip_mreq (d_socket.U):
1364 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IP_MREQ symbol, which
1365 indicates the availability of a struct ip_mreq.
1366
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1367d_ip_mreq_source (d_socket.U):
1368 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IP_MREQ_SOURCE symbol,
1369 which indicates the availability of a struct ip_mreq_source.
1370
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1371d_ipv6_mreq (d_socket.U):
1372 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IPV6_MREQ symbol, which
1373 indicates the availability of a struct ipv6_mreq.
1374
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1375d_ipv6_mreq_source (d_socket.U):
1376 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IPV6_MREQ_SOURCE symbol,
1377 which indicates the availability of a struct ipv6_mreq_source.
1378
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1379d_isascii (d_isascii.U):
1380 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISASCII constant,
1381 which indicates to the C program that isascii() is available.
1382
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1383d_isblank (d_isblank.U):
1384 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISBLANK constant,
1385 which indicates to the C program that isblank() is available.
1386
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1387d_isfinite (d_isfinite.U):
1388 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISFINITE symbol, which
1389 indicates to the C program that the isfinite() routine is available.
1390
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1391d_isfinitel (d_isfinitel.U):
1392 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISFINITEL symbol, which
1393 indicates to the C program that the isfinitel() routine is available.
1394
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1395d_isinf (d_isinf.U):
1396 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISINF symbol, which
1397 indicates to the C program that the isinf() routine is available.
1398
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1399d_isinfl (d_isinfl.U):
1400 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISINFL symbol, which
1401 indicates to the C program that the isinfl() routine is available.
1402
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1403d_isnan (d_isnan.U):
1404 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNAN symbol, which
1405 indicates to the C program that the isnan() routine is available.
1406
1407d_isnanl (d_isnanl.U):
1408 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNANL symbol, which
1409 indicates to the C program that the isnanl() routine is available.
1410
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1411d_isnormal (d_isnormal.U):
1412 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNORMAL symbol, which
1413 indicates to the C program that the isnormal() routine is available.
1414
4671125a 1415d_j0 (d_j0.U):
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1416 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_J0 symbol, which
1417 indicates to the C program that the j0() routine is available.
1418
d0166596 1419d_j0l (d_j0.U):
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1420 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_J0L symbol, which
1421 indicates to the C program that the j0l() routine is available.
1422
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1423d_killpg (d_killpg.U):
1424 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_KILLPG symbol, which
1425 indicates to the C program that the killpg() routine is available
1426 to kill process groups.
1427
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1428d_lc_monetary_2008 (d_lc_monetary_2008.U):
1429 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LC_MONETARY_2008 if libc
1430 has the international currency locale rules from POSIX
1431 1003.1-2008.
1432
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1433d_lchown (d_lchown.U):
1434 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LCHOWN symbol, which
1435 indicates to the C program that the lchown() routine is available
1436 to operate on a symbolic link (instead of following the link).
1437
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1438d_ldbl_dig (d_ldbl_dig.U):
1439 This variable conditionally defines d_ldbl_dig if this system's
1440 header files provide LDBL_DIG, which is the number of significant
1441 digits in a long double precision number.
1442
db8b8c75 1443d_ldexpl (d_longdbl.U):
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1444 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LDEXPL symbol, which
1445 indicates to the C program that the ldexpl() routine is available.
1446
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1447d_lgamma (d_lgamma.U):
1448 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LGAMMA symbol, which
1449 indicates to the C program that the lgamma() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1450 for the log gamma function. See also d_tgamma and d_lgamma_r.
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1451
1452d_lgamma_r (d_lgamma_r.U):
1453 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LGAMMA_R symbol, which
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1454 indicates to the C program that the lgamma_r() routine is available
1455 for the log gamma function, without using the global signgam variable.
427d28ce 1456
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1457d_libm_lib_version (d_libm_lib_version.U):
1458 This variable conditionally defines the LIBM_LIB_VERSION symbol,
1459 which indicates to the C program that math.h defines _LIB_VERSION
1460 being available in libm
1461
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1462d_libname_unique (so.U):
1463 This variable is defined if the target system insists on unique
1464 basenames for shared library files. This is currently true on Android,
1465 false everywhere else we know of.
1466 Defaults to 'undef'.
1467
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1468d_link (d_link.U):
1469 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LINK if link() is
1470 available to create hard links.
1471
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1472d_llrint (d_llrint.U):
1473 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLRINT symbol, which
1474 indicates to the C program that the llrint() routine is available
1475 to return the long long value closest to (according to the current
1476 rounding mode) to x.
1477
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1478d_llrintl (d_llrintl.U):
1479 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLRINTL symbol, which
1480 indicates to the C program that the llrintl() routine is available
1481 to return the long long value closest to (according to the current
1482 rounding mode) to long double x.
1483
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1484d_llround (d_llround.U):
1485 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLROUND symbol, which
1486 indicates to the C program that the llround() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1487 to return the long long value nearest to x.
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1489d_llroundl (d_llroundl.U):
1490 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLROUNDL symbol, which
1491 indicates to the C program that the llroundl() routine is available
1492 to return the long long value nearest to long double x.
1493
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1494d_localtime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
1495 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOCALTIME64 symbol, which
1496 indicates to the C program that the localtime64 () routine is available.
1497
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1498d_localtime_r (d_localtime_r.U):
1499 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOCALTIME_R symbol,
1500 which indicates to the C program that the localtime_r()
1501 routine is available.
1502
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1503d_localtime_r_needs_tzset (d_localtime_r.U):
1504 This variable conditionally defines the LOCALTIME_R_NEEDS_TZSET
1505 symbol, which makes us call tzset before localtime_r()
1506
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1507d_locconv (d_locconv.U):
1508 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LOCALECONV if localeconv() is
1509 available for numeric and monetary formatting conventions.
1510
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1511d_lockf (d_lockf.U):
1512 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LOCKF if lockf() is
1513 available to do file locking.
1514
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1515d_log1p (d_log1p.U):
1516 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOG1P symbol, which
1517 indicates to the C program that the logp1() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1518 to compute log(1 + x) for values of x close to zero.
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1519
1520d_log2 (d_log2.U):
1521 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOG2 symbol, which
1522 indicates to the C program that the log2() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1523 to compute log base two.
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1524
1525d_logb (d_logb.U):
1526 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOGB symbol, which
1527 indicates to the C program that the logb() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1528 to extract the exponent of x.
427d28ce 1529
781b178c 1530d_longdbl (d_longdbl.U):
635aebb7 1531 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LONG_DOUBLE if
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1532 the long double type is supported.
1533
1534d_longlong (d_longlong.U):
635aebb7 1535 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LONG_LONG if
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1536 the long long type is supported.
1537
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1538d_lrint (d_lrint.U):
1539 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LRINT symbol, which
1540 indicates to the C program that the lrint() routine is available
1541 to return the integral value closest to (according to the current
1542 rounding mode) to x.
1543
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1544d_lrintl (d_lrintl.U):
1545 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LRINTL symbol, which
1546 indicates to the C program that the lrintl() routine is available
1547 to return the integral value closest to (according to the current
1548 rounding mode) to long double x.
1549
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1550d_lround (d_lround.U):
1551 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LROUND symbol, which
1552 indicates to the C program that the lround() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1553 to return the integral value nearest to x.
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1555d_lroundl (d_lroundl.U):
1556 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LROUNDL symbol, which
1557 indicates to the C program that the lroundl() routine is available
1558 to return the integral value nearest to x of the long double argument.
1559
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1560d_lseekproto (d_lseekproto.U):
1561 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LSEEK_PROTO symbol,
1562 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
1563 a prototype for the lseek() function. Otherwise, it is
1564 up to the program to supply one.
1565
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1566d_lstat (d_lstat.U):
1567 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LSTAT if lstat() is
1568 available to do file stats on symbolic links.
1569
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1570d_madvise (d_madvise.U):
1571 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MADVISE if madvise() is
1572 available to map a file into memory.
1573
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1574d_malloc_good_size (d_malloc_size.U):
1575 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the malloc_good_size
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1576 routine is available for use.
1577
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1578d_malloc_size (d_malloc_size.U):
1579 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the malloc_size
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1580 routine is available for use.
1581
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1582d_mblen (d_mblen.U):
1583 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBLEN symbol, which
1584 indicates to the C program that the mblen() routine is available
1585 to find the number of bytes in a multibye character.
1586
1587d_mbstowcs (d_mbstowcs.U):
1588 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBSTOWCS symbol, which
1589 indicates to the C program that the mbstowcs() routine is available
1590 to convert a multibyte string into a wide character string.
1591
1592d_mbtowc (d_mbtowc.U):
1593 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBTOWC symbol, which
1594 indicates to the C program that the mbtowc() routine is available
1595 to convert multibyte to a wide character.
1596
1597d_memchr (d_memchr.U):
1598 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMCHR symbol, which
1599 indicates to the C program that the memchr() routine is available
1600 to locate characters within a C string.
1601
1602d_memcmp (d_memcmp.U):
1603 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMCMP symbol, which
1604 indicates to the C program that the memcmp() routine is available
1605 to compare blocks of memory.
1606
1607d_memcpy (d_memcpy.U):
1608 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMCPY symbol, which
1609 indicates to the C program that the memcpy() routine is available
1610 to copy blocks of memory.
1611
1612d_memmove (d_memmove.U):
1613 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMMOVE symbol, which
1614 indicates to the C program that the memmove() routine is available
47e01c32 1615 to copy potentially overlapping blocks of memory.
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1616
1617d_memset (d_memset.U):
1618 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMSET symbol, which
1619 indicates to the C program that the memset() routine is available
1620 to set blocks of memory.
1621
1622d_mkdir (d_mkdir.U):
1623 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKDIR symbol, which
1624 indicates to the C program that the mkdir() routine is available
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1627d_mkdtemp (d_mkdtemp.U):
1628 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKDTEMP symbol, which
1629 indicates to the C program that the mkdtemp() routine is available
1630 to exclusively create a uniquely named temporary directory.
1631
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1632d_mkfifo (d_mkfifo.U):
1633 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKFIFO symbol, which
1634 indicates to the C program that the mkfifo() routine is available.
1635
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1636d_mkstemp (d_mkstemp.U):
1637 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKSTEMP symbol, which
1638 indicates to the C program that the mkstemp() routine is available
1639 to exclusively create and open a uniquely named temporary file.
1640
1641d_mkstemps (d_mkstemps.U):
1642 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKSTEMPS symbol, which
1643 indicates to the C program that the mkstemps() routine is available
1644 to exclusively create and open a uniquely named (with a suffix)
1645 temporary file.
1646
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1647d_mktime (d_mktime.U):
1648 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKTIME symbol, which
1649 indicates to the C program that the mktime() routine is available.
1650
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1651d_mktime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
1652 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKTIME64 symbol, which
1653 indicates to the C program that the mktime64 () routine is available.
1654
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1655d_mmap (d_mmap.U):
1656 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MMAP if mmap() is
1657 available to map a file into memory.
1658
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1659d_modfl (d_modfl.U):
1660 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MODFL symbol, which
1661 indicates to the C program that the modfl() routine is available.
1662
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1663d_modfl_pow32_bug (d_modfl.U):
1664 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MODFL_POW32_BUG symbol,
1665 which indicates that modfl() is broken for long doubles >= pow(2, 32).
1666 For example from 4294967303.150000 one would get 4294967302.000000
1667 and 1.150000. The bug has been seen in certain versions of glibc,
1668 release 2.2.2 is known to be okay.
1669
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1670d_modflproto (d_modfl.U):
1671 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the system provides
1672 a prototype for the modfl() function. Otherwise, it is up
1673 to the program to supply one. C99 says it should be
1674 long double modfl(long double, long double *);
1675
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1676d_mprotect (d_mprotect.U):
1677 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MPROTECT if mprotect() is
1678 available to modify the access protection of a memory mapped file.
1679
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1680d_msg (d_msg.U):
1681 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG symbol, which
1682 indicates that the entire msg*(2) library is present.
1683
1684d_msg_ctrunc (d_socket.U):
1685 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_CTRUNC symbol,
1686 which indicates that the MSG_CTRUNC is available. #ifdef is
1687 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1688
1689d_msg_dontroute (d_socket.U):
1690 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_DONTROUTE symbol,
1691 which indicates that the MSG_DONTROUTE is available. #ifdef is
1692 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1693
1694d_msg_oob (d_socket.U):
1695 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_OOB symbol,
1696 which indicates that the MSG_OOB is available. #ifdef is
1697 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1698
1699d_msg_peek (d_socket.U):
1700 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_PEEK symbol,
1701 which indicates that the MSG_PEEK is available. #ifdef is
1702 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1703
1704d_msg_proxy (d_socket.U):
1705 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_PROXY symbol,
1706 which indicates that the MSG_PROXY is available. #ifdef is
1707 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1708
1709d_msgctl (d_msgctl.U):
1710 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGCTL symbol, which
1711 indicates to the C program that the msgctl() routine is available.
1712
1713d_msgget (d_msgget.U):
1714 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGGET symbol, which
1715 indicates to the C program that the msgget() routine is available.
1716
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1717d_msghdr_s (d_msghdr_s.U):
1718 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_MSGHDR symbol,
1719 which indicates that the struct msghdr is supported.
1720
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1721d_msgrcv (d_msgrcv.U):
1722 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGRCV symbol, which
1723 indicates to the C program that the msgrcv() routine is available.
1724
1725d_msgsnd (d_msgsnd.U):
1726 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGSND symbol, which
1727 indicates to the C program that the msgsnd() routine is available.
1728
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1729d_msync (d_msync.U):
1730 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MSYNC if msync() is
1731 available to synchronize a mapped file.
1732
1733d_munmap (d_munmap.U):
1734 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MUNMAP if munmap() is
1735 available to unmap a region mapped by mmap().
1736
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1737d_mymalloc (mallocsrc.U):
1738 This variable conditionally defines MYMALLOC in case other parts
1739 of the source want to take special action if MYMALLOC is used.
1740 This may include different sorts of profiling or error detection.
1741
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1742d_nan (d_nan.U):
1743 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NAN if nan() is
1744 available to generate NaN.
1745
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1746d_ndbm (i_ndbm.U):
1747 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NDBM symbol, which
1748 indicates that both the ndbm.h include file and an appropriate ndbm
1749 library exist. Consult the different i_*ndbm variables
1750 to find out the actual include location. Sometimes, a system has the
1751 header file but not the library. This variable will only be set if
1752 the system has both.
1753
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1754d_ndbm_h_uses_prototypes (i_ndbm.U):
1755 This variable conditionally defines the NDBM_H_USES_PROTOTYPES symbol,
1756 which indicates that the ndbm.h include file uses real ANSI C
1757 prototypes instead of K&R style function declarations. K&R style
1758 declarations are unsupported in C++, so the include file requires
1759 special handling when using a C++ compiler and this variable is
1760 undefined. Consult the different d_*ndbm_h_uses_prototypes variables
1761 to get the same information for alternative ndbm.h include files.
1762
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1763d_nearbyint (d_nearbyint.U):
1764 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NEARBYINT if nearbyint()
1765 is available to return the integral value closest to (according to
1766 the current rounding mode) to x.
1767
1768d_nextafter (d_nextafter.U):
1769 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NEXTAFTER if nextafter()
1770 is available to return the next machine representable double from
1771 x in direction y.
1772
1773d_nexttoward (d_nexttoward.U):
1774 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NEXTTOWARD if nexttoward()
1775 is available to return the next machine representable long double from
1776 x in direction y.
1777
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1778d_nice (d_nice.U):
1779 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NICE symbol, which
1780 indicates to the C program that the nice() routine is available.
1781
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1782d_nl_langinfo (d_nl_langinfo.U):
1783 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NL_LANGINFO symbol, which
1784 indicates to the C program that the nl_langinfo() routine is available.
1785
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1787 This variable indicates whether a variable of type nvtype
1788 can preserve all the bits a variable of type uvtype.
1789
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1790d_nv_zero_is_allbits_zero (perlxv.U):
1791 This variable indicates whether a variable of type nvtype
1792 stores 0.0 in memory as all bits zero.
1793
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1795 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports off64_t.
1796
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1797d_old_pthread_create_joinable (d_pthrattrj.U):
1798 This variable conditionally defines pthread_create_joinable.
1799 undef if pthread.h defines PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE.
1800
1801d_oldpthreads (usethreads.U):
1802 This variable conditionally defines the OLD_PTHREADS_API symbol,
1803 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the old
8c09e4ca 1804 draft POSIX threads API. This is only potentially meaningful if
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1805 usethreads is set.
1806
1807d_oldsock (d_socket.U):
1808 This variable conditionally defines the OLDSOCKET symbol, which
1809 indicates that the BSD socket interface is based on 4.1c and not 4.2.
1810
1811d_open3 (d_open3.U):
1812 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_OPEN3 manifest constant,
1813 which indicates to the C program that the 3 argument version of
1814 the open(2) function is available.
1815
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1816d_pathconf (d_pathconf.U):
1817 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PATHCONF symbol, which
1818 indicates to the C program that the pathconf() routine is available
1819 to determine file-system related limits and options associated
1820 with a given filename.
1821
1822d_pause (d_pause.U):
1823 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PAUSE symbol, which
1824 indicates to the C program that the pause() routine is available
1825 to suspend a process until a signal is received.
1826
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1827d_perl_otherlibdirs (otherlibdirs.U):
1828 This variable conditionally defines PERL_OTHERLIBDIRS, which
1829 contains a colon-separated set of paths for the perl binary to
1830 include in @INC. See also otherlibdirs.
1831
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1832d_phostname (d_gethname.U):
1833 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PHOSTNAME symbol, which
1834 contains the shell command which, when fed to popen(), may be
1835 used to derive the host name.
1836
1837d_pipe (d_pipe.U):
1838 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PIPE symbol, which
1839 indicates to the C program that the pipe() routine is available
1840 to create an inter-process channel.
1841
1842d_poll (d_poll.U):
1843 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_POLL symbol, which
1844 indicates to the C program that the poll() routine is available
1845 to poll active file descriptors.
1846
1847d_portable (d_portable.U):
1848 This variable conditionally defines the PORTABLE symbol, which
1849 indicates to the C program that it should not assume that it is
1850 running on the machine it was compiled on.
1851
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1852d_prctl (d_prctl.U):
1853 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PRCTL symbol, which
1854 indicates to the C program that the prctl() routine is available.
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1855 Note that there are at least two prctl variants: Linux and Irix.
1856 While they are somewhat similar, they are incompatible.
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1858d_prctl_set_name (d_prctl.U):
1859 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PRCTL_SET_NAME symbol,
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1860 which indicates to the C program that the prctl() routine supports
1861 the PR_SET_NAME option.
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1863d_PRId64 (quadfio.U):
1864 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRId64 symbol, which
47e01c32 1865 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit decimal numbers.
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1866
1867d_PRIeldbl (longdblfio.U):
1868 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1869 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1870
1871d_PRIEUldbl (longdblfio.U):
1872 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1873 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1874 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIeldbl so that even
1875 case-blind systems can see the difference.
1876
1877d_PRIfldbl (longdblfio.U):
1878 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1879 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1880
1881d_PRIFUldbl (longdblfio.U):
1882 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1883 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1884 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIfldbl so that even
1885 case-blind systems can see the difference.
1886
1887d_PRIgldbl (longdblfio.U):
1888 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1889 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1890
1891d_PRIGUldbl (longdblfio.U):
1892 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1893 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1894 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIgldbl so that even
1895 case-blind systems can see the difference.
1896
1897d_PRIi64 (quadfio.U):
1898 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIi64 symbol, which
47e01c32 1899 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit decimal numbers.
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066e7355 1901d_printf_format_null (d_attribut.U):
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1902 This variable conditionally defines PRINTF_FORMAT_NULL_OK, which
1903 indicates the C compiler allows printf-like formats to be null.
1904
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1905d_PRIo64 (quadfio.U):
1906 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIo64 symbol, which
47e01c32 1907 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit octal numbers.
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1908
1909d_PRIu64 (quadfio.U):
1910 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIu64 symbol, which
47e01c32 1911 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit unsigned decimal
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1912 numbers.
1913
1914d_PRIx64 (quadfio.U):
1915 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIx64 symbol, which
47e01c32 1916 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit hexadecimal numbers.
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1917
1918d_PRIXU64 (quadfio.U):
1919 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIXU64 symbol, which
47e01c32 1920 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit hExADECimAl numbers.
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1921 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIx64 so that even
1922 case-blind systems can see the difference.
1923
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1924d_procselfexe (d_procselfexe.U):
1925 Defined if $procselfexe is symlink to the absolute
1926 pathname of the executing program.
1927
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1928d_pseudofork (d_vfork.U):
1929 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PSEUDOFORK symbol,
1930 which indicates that an emulation of the fork routine is available.
1931
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1932d_pthread_atfork (d_pthread_atfork.U):
1933 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PTHREAD_ATFORK symbol,
1934 which indicates to the C program that the pthread_atfork()
1935 routine is available.
1936
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1937d_pthread_attr_setscope (d_pthread_attr_ss.U):
1938 This variable conditionally defines HAS_PTHREAD_ATTR_SETSCOPE if
1939 pthread_attr_setscope() is available to set the contention scope
1940 attribute of a thread attribute object.
1941
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1942d_pthread_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
1943 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PTHREAD_YIELD
1944 symbol if the pthread_yield routine is available to yield
1945 the execution of the current thread.
1946
0e0c5f82 1947d_ptrdiff_t (d_ptrdiff_t.U):
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1948 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports ptrdiff_t.
1949
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1950d_pwage (i_pwd.U):
1951 This variable conditionally defines PWAGE, which indicates
1952 that struct passwd contains pw_age.
1953
1954d_pwchange (i_pwd.U):
1955 This variable conditionally defines PWCHANGE, which indicates
1956 that struct passwd contains pw_change.
1957
1958d_pwclass (i_pwd.U):
1959 This variable conditionally defines PWCLASS, which indicates
1960 that struct passwd contains pw_class.
1961
1962d_pwcomment (i_pwd.U):
1963 This variable conditionally defines PWCOMMENT, which indicates
1964 that struct passwd contains pw_comment.
1965
1966d_pwexpire (i_pwd.U):
1967 This variable conditionally defines PWEXPIRE, which indicates
1968 that struct passwd contains pw_expire.
1969
1970d_pwgecos (i_pwd.U):
1971 This variable conditionally defines PWGECOS, which indicates
1972 that struct passwd contains pw_gecos.
1973
1974d_pwpasswd (i_pwd.U):
1975 This variable conditionally defines PWPASSWD, which indicates
1976 that struct passwd contains pw_passwd.
1977
1978d_pwquota (i_pwd.U):
1979 This variable conditionally defines PWQUOTA, which indicates
1980 that struct passwd contains pw_quota.
1981
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1982d_qgcvt (d_qgcvt.U):
1983 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_QGCVT symbol, which
1984 indicates to the C program that the qgcvt() routine is available.
1985
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1986d_quad (quadtype.U):
1987 This variable, if defined, tells that there's a 64-bit integer type,
1988 quadtype.
1989
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1990d_random_r (d_random_r.U):
1991 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RANDOM_R symbol,
1992 which indicates to the C program that the random_r()
1993 routine is available.
1994
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1995d_re_comp (d_regcmp.U):
1996 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RECOMP symbol, which
1997 indicates to the C program that the re_comp() routine is available
1998 for regular patern matching (usally on BSD). If so, it is likely that
1999 re_exec() exists.
2000
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2001d_readdir (d_readdir.U):
2002 This variable conditionally defines HAS_READDIR if readdir() is
2003 available to read directory entries.
2004
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2005d_readdir64_r (d_readdir64_r.U):
2006 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READDIR64_R symbol,
2007 which indicates to the C program that the readdir64_r()
2008 routine is available.
2009
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2010d_readdir_r (d_readdir_r.U):
2011 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READDIR_R symbol,
2012 which indicates to the C program that the readdir_r()
2013 routine is available.
2014
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2015d_readlink (d_readlink.U):
2016 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READLINK symbol, which
2017 indicates to the C program that the readlink() routine is available
2018 to read the value of a symbolic link.
2019
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2020d_readv (d_readv.U):
2021 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READV symbol, which
2022 indicates to the C program that the readv() routine is available.
2023
2024d_recvmsg (d_recvmsg.U):
2025 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RECVMSG symbol, which
2026 indicates to the C program that the recvmsg() routine is available.
2027
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2028d_regcmp (d_regcmp.U):
2029 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_REGCMP symbol, which
2030 indicates to the C program that the regcmp() routine is available
2031 for regular patern matching (usally on System V).
2032
2033d_regcomp (d_regcmp.U):
2034 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_REGCOMP symbol, which
2035 indicates to the C program that the regcomp() routine is available
2036 for regular patern matching (usally on POSIX.2 conforming systems).
2037
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2038d_remainder (d_remainder.U):
2039 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_REMAINDER symbol, which
2040 indicates to the C program that the remainder() routine is available.
2041
2042d_remquo (d_remquo.U):
2043 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_REMQUO symbol, which
2044 indicates to the C program that the remquo() routine is available.
2045
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2046d_rename (d_rename.U):
2047 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RENAME symbol, which
2048 indicates to the C program that the rename() routine is available
2049 to rename files.
2050
2051d_rewinddir (d_readdir.U):
2052 This variable conditionally defines HAS_REWINDDIR if rewinddir() is
2053 available.
2054
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2055d_rint (d_rint.U):
2056 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RINT symbol, which
2057 indicates to the C program that the rint() routine is available.
2058
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2059d_rmdir (d_rmdir.U):
2060 This variable conditionally defines HAS_RMDIR if rmdir() is
2061 available to remove directories.
2062
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2063d_round (d_round.U):
2064 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ROUND symbol, which
2065 indicates to the C program that the round() routine is available.
2066
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2067d_safebcpy (d_safebcpy.U):
2068 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SAFE_BCOPY symbol if
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2070 should probably use memmove().
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2071
2072d_safemcpy (d_safemcpy.U):
2073 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SAFE_MEMCPY symbol if
2074 the memcpy() routine can do overlapping copies.
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2076
2077d_sanemcmp (d_sanemcmp.U):
2078 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SANE_MEMCMP symbol if
2079 the memcpy() routine is available and can be used to compare relative
2080 magnitudes of chars with their high bits set.
2081
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2082d_sbrkproto (d_sbrkproto.U):
2083 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SBRK_PROTO symbol,
2084 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2085 a prototype for the sbrk() function. Otherwise, it is
2086 up to the program to supply one.
2087
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2088d_scalbn (d_scalbn.U):
2089 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCALBN symbol, which
2090 indicates to the C program that the scalbn() routine is available.
2091
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2092d_scalbnl (d_scalbnl.U):
2093 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCALBNL symbol, which
2094 indicates to the C program that the scalbnl() routine is available.
2095 If ilogbl is also present we can emulate frexpl.
2096
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2097d_sched_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
2098 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCHED_YIELD
2099 symbol if the sched_yield routine is available to yield
2100 the execution of the current thread.
2101
2102d_scm_rights (d_socket.U):
2103 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCM_RIGHTS symbol,
2104 which indicates that the SCM_RIGHTS is available. #ifdef is
2105 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
2106
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2107d_SCNfldbl (longdblfio.U):
2108 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 2109 indicates that stdio has a symbol to scan long doubles.
4d54317a 2110
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2111d_seekdir (d_readdir.U):
2112 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SEEKDIR if seekdir() is
2113 available.
2114
2115d_select (d_select.U):
2116 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SELECT if select() is
2117 available to select active file descriptors. A <sys/time.h>
2118 inclusion may be necessary for the timeout field.
2119
2120d_sem (d_sem.U):
2121 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEM symbol, which
2122 indicates that the entire sem*(2) library is present.
2123
2124d_semctl (d_semctl.U):
2125 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMCTL symbol, which
2126 indicates to the C program that the semctl() routine is available.
2127
2128d_semctl_semid_ds (d_union_semun.U):
2129 This variable conditionally defines USE_SEMCTL_SEMID_DS, which
2130 indicates that struct semid_ds * is to be used for semctl IPC_STAT.
2131
2132d_semctl_semun (d_union_semun.U):
2133 This variable conditionally defines USE_SEMCTL_SEMUN, which
2134 indicates that union semun is to be used for semctl IPC_STAT.
2135
2136d_semget (d_semget.U):
2137 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMGET symbol, which
2138 indicates to the C program that the semget() routine is available.
2139
2140d_semop (d_semop.U):
2141 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMOP symbol, which
2142 indicates to the C program that the semop() routine is available.
2143
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2144d_sendmsg (d_sendmsg.U):
2145 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SENDMSG symbol, which
2146 indicates to the C program that the sendmsg() routine is available.
2147
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2148d_setegid (d_setegid.U):
2149 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETEGID symbol, which
2150 indicates to the C program that the setegid() routine is available
2151 to change the effective gid of the current program.
2152
2153d_seteuid (d_seteuid.U):
2154 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETEUID symbol, which
2155 indicates to the C program that the seteuid() routine is available
2156 to change the effective uid of the current program.
2157
2158d_setgrent (d_setgrent.U):
2159 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGRENT symbol, which
2160 indicates to the C program that the setgrent() routine is available
2161 for initializing sequential access to the group database.
2162
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2163d_setgrent_r (d_setgrent_r.U):
2164 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGRENT_R symbol,
2165 which indicates to the C program that the setgrent_r()
2166 routine is available.
2167
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2168d_setgrps (d_setgrps.U):
2169 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGROUPS symbol, which
2170 indicates to the C program that the setgroups() routine is available
2171 to set the list of process groups.
2172
2173d_sethent (d_sethent.U):
2174 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETHOSTENT if sethostent() is
2175 available.
2176
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2177d_sethostent_r (d_sethostent_r.U):
2178 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETHOSTENT_R symbol,
2179 which indicates to the C program that the sethostent_r()
2180 routine is available.
2181
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2182d_setitimer (d_setitimer.U):
2183 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETITIMER symbol, which
2184 indicates to the C program that the setitimer() routine is available.
2185
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2186d_setlinebuf (d_setlnbuf.U):
2187 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETLINEBUF symbol, which
2188 indicates to the C program that the setlinebuf() routine is available
2189 to change stderr or stdout from block-buffered or unbuffered to a
2190 line-buffered mode.
2191
2192d_setlocale (d_setlocale.U):
2193 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETLOCALE if setlocale() is
2194 available to handle locale-specific ctype implementations.
2195
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2196d_setlocale_r (d_setlocale_r.U):
2197 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETLOCALE_R symbol,
2198 which indicates to the C program that the setlocale_r()
2199 routine is available.
2200
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2201d_setnent (d_setnent.U):
2202 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETNETENT if setnetent() is
2203 available.
2204
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2205d_setnetent_r (d_setnetent_r.U):
2206 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETNETENT_R symbol,
2207 which indicates to the C program that the setnetent_r()
2208 routine is available.
2209
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2210d_setpent (d_setpent.U):
2211 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPROTOENT if setprotoent() is
2212 available.
2213
2214d_setpgid (d_setpgid.U):
2215 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGID symbol if the
2216 setpgid(pid, gpid) function is available to set process group ID.
2217
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2218d_setpgrp (d_setpgrp.U):
2219 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPGRP if setpgrp() is
2220 available to set the current process group.
2221
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2222d_setpgrp2 (d_setpgrp2.U):
2223 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGRP2 symbol, which
2224 indicates to the C program that the setpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine
2225 is available to set the current process group.
2226
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2227d_setprior (d_setprior.U):
2228 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPRIORITY if setpriority()
2229 is available to set a process's priority.
2230
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2231d_setproctitle (d_setproctitle.U):
2232 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPROCTITLE symbol,
2233 which indicates to the C program that the setproctitle() routine
2234 is available.
2235
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2236d_setprotoent_r (d_setprotoent_r.U):
2237 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPROTOENT_R symbol,
2238 which indicates to the C program that the setprotoent_r()
2239 routine is available.
2240
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2241d_setpwent (d_setpwent.U):
2242 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPWENT symbol, which
2243 indicates to the C program that the setpwent() routine is available
2244 for initializing sequential access to the passwd database.
2245
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2246d_setpwent_r (d_setpwent_r.U):
2247 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPWENT_R symbol,
2248 which indicates to the C program that the setpwent_r()
2249 routine is available.
2250
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2251d_setregid (d_setregid.U):
2252 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREGID if setregid() is
2253 available to change the real and effective gid of the current
2254 process.
2255
2256d_setresgid (d_setregid.U):
2257 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETRESGID if setresgid() is
2258 available to change the real, effective and saved gid of the current
2259 process.
2260
2261d_setresuid (d_setreuid.U):
2262 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREUID if setresuid() is
2263 available to change the real, effective and saved uid of the current
2264 process.
2265
2266d_setreuid (d_setreuid.U):
2267 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREUID if setreuid() is
2268 available to change the real and effective uid of the current
2269 process.
2270
2271d_setrgid (d_setrgid.U):
2272 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRGID symbol, which
2273 indicates to the C program that the setrgid() routine is available
2274 to change the real gid of the current program.
2275
2276d_setruid (d_setruid.U):
2277 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRUID symbol, which
2278 indicates to the C program that the setruid() routine is available
2279 to change the real uid of the current program.
2280
2281d_setsent (d_setsent.U):
2282 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSERVENT if setservent() is
2283 available.
2284
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2285d_setservent_r (d_setservent_r.U):
2286 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETSERVENT_R symbol,
2287 which indicates to the C program that the setservent_r()
2288 routine is available.
2289
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2290d_setsid (d_setsid.U):
2291 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSID if setsid() is
2292 available to set the process group ID.
2293
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2294d_setvbuf (d_setvbuf.U):
2295 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETVBUF symbol, which
2296 indicates to the C program that the setvbuf() routine is available
2297 to change buffering on an open stdio stream.
2298
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2299d_shm (d_shm.U):
2300 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHM symbol, which
2301 indicates that the entire shm*(2) library is present.
2302
2303d_shmat (d_shmat.U):
2304 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMAT symbol, which
2305 indicates to the C program that the shmat() routine is available.
2306
2307d_shmatprototype (d_shmat.U):
635aebb7 2308 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMAT_PROTOTYPE
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2309 symbol, which indicates that sys/shm.h has a prototype for
2310 shmat.
2311
2312d_shmctl (d_shmctl.U):
2313 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMCTL symbol, which
2314 indicates to the C program that the shmctl() routine is available.
2315
2316d_shmdt (d_shmdt.U):
2317 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMDT symbol, which
2318 indicates to the C program that the shmdt() routine is available.
2319
2320d_shmget (d_shmget.U):
2321 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMGET symbol, which
2322 indicates to the C program that the shmget() routine is available.
2323
2324d_sigaction (d_sigaction.U):
2325 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGACTION symbol, which
2326 indicates that the Vr4 sigaction() routine is available.
2327
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2328d_signbit (d_signbit.U):
2329 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGNBIT symbol, which
2330 indicates to the C program that the signbit() routine is available
2331 and safe to use with perl's intern NV type.
2332
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2333d_sigprocmask (d_sigprocmask.U):
2334 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SIGPROCMASK
2335 if sigprocmask() is available to examine or change the signal mask
2336 of the calling process.
2337
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2338d_sigsetjmp (d_sigsetjmp.U):
2339 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGSETJMP symbol,
2340 which indicates that the sigsetjmp() routine is available to
2341 call setjmp() and optionally save the process's signal mask.
2342
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2343d_sin6_scope_id (d_socket.U):
2344 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIN6_SCOPE_ID symbol, which
2345 indicates that a struct sockaddr_in6 structure has the sin6_scope_id
2346 member.
2347
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2348d_sitearch (sitearch.U):
2349 This variable conditionally defines SITEARCH to hold the pathname
2350 of architecture-dependent library files for $package. If
2351 $sitearch is the same as $archlib, then this is set to undef.
2352
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2353d_snprintf (d_snprintf.U):
2354 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SNPRINTF symbol, which
2355 indicates to the C program that the snprintf () library function
2356 is available.
2357
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2358d_sockaddr_in6 (d_socket.U):
2359 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKADDR_IN6 symbol, which
2360 indicates the availability of a struct sockaddr_in6.
2361
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2362d_sockaddr_sa_len (d_socket.U):
2363 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKADDR_SA_LEN symbol,
2364 which indicates that a struct sockaddr structure has the sa_len
2365 member.
2366
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2367d_sockatmark (d_sockatmark.U):
2368 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKATMARK symbol, which
2369 indicates to the C program that the sockatmark() routine is available.
2370
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2371d_sockatmarkproto (d_sockatmarkproto.U):
2372 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKATMARK_PROTO symbol,
2373 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2374 a prototype for the sockatmark() function. Otherwise, it is
2375 up to the program to supply one.
2376
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2377d_socket (d_socket.U):
2378 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SOCKET, which indicates
2379 that the BSD socket interface is supported.
2380
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2381d_socklen_t (d_socklen_t.U):
2382 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports socklen_t.
2383
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2384d_sockpair (d_socket.U):
2385 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKETPAIR symbol, which
2386 indicates that the BSD socketpair() is supported.
2387
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2388d_socks5_init (d_socks5_init.U):
2389 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKS5_INIT symbol, which
2390 indicates to the C program that the socks5_init() routine is available.
2391
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2393 This variable defines whether sprintf returns the length of the string
2394 (as per the ANSI spec). Some C libraries retain compatibility with
2395 pre-ANSI C and return a pointer to the passed in buffer; for these
2396 this variable will be undef.
2397
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2398d_sqrtl (d_sqrtl.U):
2399 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SQRTL symbol, which
2400 indicates to the C program that the sqrtl() routine is available.
2401
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2402d_srand48_r (d_srand48_r.U):
2403 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SRAND48_R symbol,
2404 which indicates to the C program that the srand48_r()
2405 routine is available.
2406
2407d_srandom_r (d_srandom_r.U):
2408 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SRANDOM_R symbol,
2409 which indicates to the C program that the srandom_r()
2410 routine is available.
2411
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2412d_sresgproto (d_sresgproto.U):
2413 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRESGID_PROTO symbol,
2414 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2415 a prototype for the setresgid() function. Otherwise, it is
2416 up to the program to supply one.
2417
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2418d_sresuproto (d_sresuproto.U):
2419 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRESUID_PROTO symbol,
2420 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2421 a prototype for the setresuid() function. Otherwise, it is
2422 up to the program to supply one.
2423
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2424d_stat (d_stat.U):
2425 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STAT if stat() is
2426 available to get file status.
2427
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2428d_statblks (d_statblks.U):
2429 This variable conditionally defines USE_STAT_BLOCKS
2430 if this system has a stat structure declaring
2431 st_blksize and st_blocks.
2432
ad27e871 2433d_statfs_f_flags (d_statfs_f_flags.U):
0545a864 2434 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_STATFS_F_FLAGS
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2435 symbol, which indicates to struct statfs from has f_flags member.
2436 This kind of struct statfs is coming from sys/mount.h (BSD),
2437 not from sys/statfs.h (SYSV).
2438
ad27e871 2439d_statfs_s (d_statfs_s.U):
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2440 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_STATFS symbol,
2441 which indicates that the struct statfs is supported.
2442
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2443d_static_inline (d_static_inline.U):
2444 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STATIC_INLINE symbol,
2445 which indicates that the C compiler supports C99-style static
2446 inline. That is, the function can't be called from another
2447 translation unit.
2448
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2449d_statvfs (d_statvfs.U):
2450 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STATVFS symbol, which
2451 indicates to the C program that the statvfs() routine is available.
2452
2453d_stdio_cnt_lval (d_stdstdio.U):
2454 This variable conditionally defines STDIO_CNT_LVALUE if the
2455 FILE_cnt macro can be used as an lvalue.
2456
2457d_stdio_ptr_lval (d_stdstdio.U):
2458 This variable conditionally defines STDIO_PTR_LVALUE if the
2459 FILE_ptr macro can be used as an lvalue.
2460
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2461d_stdio_ptr_lval_nochange_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
2462 This symbol is defined if using the FILE_ptr macro as an lvalue
2463 to increase the pointer by n leaves File_cnt(fp) unchanged.
2464
2465d_stdio_ptr_lval_sets_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
2466 This symbol is defined if using the FILE_ptr macro as an lvalue
2467 to increase the pointer by n has the side effect of decreasing the
2468 value of File_cnt(fp) by n.
2469
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2470d_stdio_stream_array (stdio_streams.U):
2471 This variable tells whether there is an array holding
2472 the stdio streams.
2473
2474d_stdiobase (d_stdstdio.U):
2475 This variable conditionally defines USE_STDIO_BASE if this system
2476 has a FILE structure declaring a usable _base field (or equivalent)
2477 in stdio.h.
2478
2479d_stdstdio (d_stdstdio.U):
2480 This variable conditionally defines USE_STDIO_PTR if this system
2481 has a FILE structure declaring usable _ptr and _cnt fields (or
2482 equivalent) in stdio.h.
2483
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2484d_strchr (d_strchr.U):
2485 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRCHR if strchr() and
2486 strrchr() are available for string searching.
2487
2488d_strcoll (d_strcoll.U):
2489 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRCOLL if strcoll() is
2490 available to compare strings using collating information.
2491
2492d_strctcpy (d_strctcpy.U):
2493 This variable conditionally defines the USE_STRUCT_COPY symbol, which
2494 indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows how to copy
2495 structures.
2496
2497d_strerrm (d_strerror.U):
1332606d 2498 This variable holds what Strerror is defined as to translate an error
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2501 "unknown" string when both strerror and sys_errlist are missing.
2502
2503d_strerror (d_strerror.U):
2504 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRERROR if strerror() is
2505 available to translate error numbers to strings.
2506
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2507d_strerror_r (d_strerror_r.U):
2508 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRERROR_R symbol,
2509 which indicates to the C program that the strerror_r()
2510 routine is available.
2511
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2512d_strftime (d_strftime.U):
2513 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRFTIME symbol, which
2514 indicates to the C program that the strftime() routine is available.
2515
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2516d_strlcat (d_strlcat.U):
2517 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRLCAT symbol, which
2518 indicates to the C program that the strlcat () routine is available.
2519
2520d_strlcpy (d_strlcpy.U):
2521 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRLCPY symbol, which
2522 indicates to the C program that the strlcpy () routine is available.
2523
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2524d_strtod (d_strtod.U):
2525 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOD symbol, which
2526 indicates to the C program that the strtod() routine is available
2527 to provide better numeric string conversion than atof().
2528
2529d_strtol (d_strtol.U):
2530 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOL symbol, which
2531 indicates to the C program that the strtol() routine is available
2532 to provide better numeric string conversion than atoi() and friends.
2533
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2534d_strtold (d_strtold.U):
2535 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLD symbol, which
2536 indicates to the C program that the strtold() routine is available.
2537
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2538d_strtoll (d_strtoll.U):
2539 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLL symbol, which
2540 indicates to the C program that the strtoll() routine is available.
2541
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2542d_strtoq (d_strtoq.U):
2543 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOQ symbol, which
2544 indicates to the C program that the strtoq() routine is available.
2545
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2546d_strtoul (d_strtoul.U):
2547 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUL symbol, which
2548 indicates to the C program that the strtoul() routine is available
2549 to provide conversion of strings to unsigned long.
2550
ff935051 2551d_strtoull (d_strtoull.U):
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2552 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOULL symbol, which
2553 indicates to the C program that the strtoull() routine is available.
2554
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2555d_strtouq (d_strtouq.U):
2556 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUQ symbol, which
2557 indicates to the C program that the strtouq() routine is available.
2558
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2559d_strxfrm (d_strxfrm.U):
2560 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRXFRM if strxfrm() is
2561 available to transform strings.
2562
2563d_suidsafe (d_dosuid.U):
2564 This variable conditionally defines SETUID_SCRIPTS_ARE_SECURE_NOW
2565 if setuid scripts can be secure. This test looks in /dev/fd/.
2566
2567d_symlink (d_symlink.U):
2568 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYMLINK symbol, which
2569 indicates to the C program that the symlink() routine is available
2570 to create symbolic links.
2571
2572d_syscall (d_syscall.U):
2573 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYSCALL if syscall() is
2574 available call arbitrary system calls.
2575
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2576d_syscallproto (d_syscallproto.U):
2577 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYSCALL_PROTO symbol,
2578 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2579 a prototype for the syscall() function. Otherwise, it is
2580 up to the program to supply one.
2581
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2582d_sysconf (d_sysconf.U):
2583 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYSCONF symbol, which
2584 indicates to the C program that the sysconf() routine is available
2585 to determine system related limits and options.
2586
2587d_sysernlst (d_strerror.U):
2588 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYS_ERRNOLIST if sys_errnolist[]
2589 is available to translate error numbers to the symbolic name.
2590
2591d_syserrlst (d_strerror.U):
2592 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYS_ERRLIST if sys_errlist[] is
2593 available to translate error numbers to strings.
2594
2595d_system (d_system.U):
2596 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYSTEM if system() is
2597 available to issue a shell command.
2598
2599d_tcgetpgrp (d_tcgtpgrp.U):
2600 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TCGETPGRP symbol, which
2601 indicates to the C program that the tcgetpgrp() routine is available.
2602 to get foreground process group ID.
2603
2604d_tcsetpgrp (d_tcstpgrp.U):
2605 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TCSETPGRP symbol, which
2606 indicates to the C program that the tcsetpgrp() routine is available
2607 to set foreground process group ID.
2608
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2609d_telldir (d_readdir.U):
2610 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TELLDIR if telldir() is
2611 available.
2612
2613d_telldirproto (d_telldirproto.U):
2614 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TELLDIR_PROTO symbol,
2615 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2616 a prototype for the telldir() function. Otherwise, it is
2617 up to the program to supply one.
2618
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2619d_tgamma (d_tgamma.U):
2620 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TGAMMA symbol, which
2621 indicates to the C program that the tgamma() routine is available
f40bbcbf 2622 for the gamma function. See also d_lgamma.
427d28ce 2623
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2624d_time (d_time.U):
2625 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIME symbol, which indicates
47e01c32 2626 that the time() routine exists. The time() routine is normally
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2627 provided on UNIX systems.
2628
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2629d_timegm (d_timegm.U):
2630 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIMEGM symbol, which
2631 indicates to the C program that the timegm () routine is available.
2632
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2633d_times (d_times.U):
2634 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIMES symbol, which indicates
47e01c32 2635 that the times() routine exists. The times() routine is normally
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2636 provided on UNIX systems. You may have to include <sys/times.h>.
2637
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2638d_tm_tm_gmtoff (i_time.U):
2639 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TM_TM_GMTOFF, which indicates
2640 indicates to the C program that the struct tm has the tm_gmtoff field.
2641
2642d_tm_tm_zone (i_time.U):
2643 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TM_TM_ZONE, which indicates
2644 indicates to the C program that the struct tm has the tm_zone field.
2645
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2646d_tmpnam_r (d_tmpnam_r.U):
2647 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TMPNAM_R symbol,
2648 which indicates to the C program that the tmpnam_r()
2649 routine is available.
2650
427d28ce 2651d_trunc (d_trunc.U):
f40bbcbf 2652 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TRUNC symbol, which
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2653 indicates to the C program that the trunc() routine is available
2654 to round doubles towards zero.
2655
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2656d_truncate (d_truncate.U):
2657 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TRUNCATE if truncate() is
2658 available to truncate files.
2659
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2660d_truncl (d_truncl.U):
2661 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TRUNCL symbol, which
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2662 indicates to the C program that the truncl() routine is available
2663 to round long doubles towards zero. If copysignl is also present,
2664 we can emulate modfl.
4842dad7 2665
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2666d_ttyname_r (d_ttyname_r.U):
2667 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TTYNAME_R symbol,
2668 which indicates to the C program that the ttyname_r()
2669 routine is available.
2670
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2671d_tzname (d_tzname.U):
2672 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TZNAME if tzname[] is
2673 available to access timezone names.
2674
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2675d_u32align (d_u32align.U):
2676 This variable tells whether you must access character data
2677 through U32-aligned pointers.
2678
2679d_ualarm (d_ualarm.U):
2680 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UALARM symbol, which
2681 indicates to the C program that the ualarm() routine is available.
2682
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2683d_umask (d_umask.U):
2684 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UMASK symbol, which
2685 indicates to the C program that the umask() routine is available.
2686 to set and get the value of the file creation mask.
2687
2688d_uname (d_gethname.U):
2689 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNAME symbol, which
2690 indicates to the C program that the uname() routine may be
2691 used to derive the host name.
2692
2693d_union_semun (d_union_semun.U):
2694 This variable conditionally defines HAS_UNION_SEMUN if the
2695 union semun is defined by including <sys/sem.h>.
2696
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2697d_unordered (d_unordered.U):
2698 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNORDERED symbol, which
2699 indicates to the C program that the unordered() routine is available.
2700
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2701d_unsetenv (d_unsetenv.U):
2702 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNSETENV symbol, which
2703 indicates to the C program that the unsetenv () routine is available.
2704
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2705d_usleep (d_usleep.U):
2706 This variable conditionally defines HAS_USLEEP if usleep() is
2707 available to do high granularity sleeps.
2708
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2709d_usleepproto (d_usleepproto.U):
2710 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_USLEEP_PROTO symbol,
2711 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2712 a prototype for the usleep() function. Otherwise, it is
2713 up to the program to supply one.
2714
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2715d_ustat (d_ustat.U):
2716 This variable conditionally defines HAS_USTAT if ustat() is
2717 available to query file system statistics by dev_t.
2718
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2719d_vendorarch (vendorarch.U):
2720 This variable conditionally defined PERL_VENDORARCH.
2721
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2722d_vendorbin (vendorbin.U):
2723 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORBIN.
2724
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2725d_vendorlib (vendorlib.U):
2726 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORLIB.
2727
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2728d_vendorscript (vendorscript.U):
2729 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORSCRIPT.
2730
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2731d_vfork (d_vfork.U):
2732 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VFORK symbol, which
2733 indicates the vfork() routine is available.
2734
2735d_void_closedir (d_closedir.U):
2736 This variable conditionally defines VOID_CLOSEDIR if closedir()
2737 does not return a value.
2738
2739d_voidsig (d_voidsig.U):
2740 This variable conditionally defines VOIDSIG if this system
2741 declares "void (*signal(...))()" in signal.h. The old way was to
2742 declare it as "int (*signal(...))()".
2743
2744d_voidtty (i_sysioctl.U):
2745 This variable conditionally defines USE_IOCNOTTY to indicate that the
2746 ioctl() call with TIOCNOTTY should be used to void tty association.
2747 Otherwise (on USG probably), it is enough to close the standard file
47e01c32 2748 descriptors and do a setpgrp().
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2749
2750d_volatile (d_volatile.U):
2751 This variable conditionally defines the HASVOLATILE symbol, which
2752 indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows about the
2753 volatile declaration.
2754
2755d_vprintf (d_vprintf.U):
2756 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VPRINTF symbol, which
2757 indicates to the C program that the vprintf() routine is available
2758 to printf with a pointer to an argument list.
2759
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2760d_vsnprintf (d_snprintf.U):
2761 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VSNPRINTF symbol, which
2762 indicates to the C program that the vsnprintf () library function
2763 is available.
2764
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2765d_wait4 (d_wait4.U):
2766 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WAIT4 symbol, which
2767 indicates the wait4() routine is available.
2768
2769d_waitpid (d_waitpid.U):
2770 This variable conditionally defines HAS_WAITPID if waitpid() is
2771 available to wait for child process.
2772
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2773d_wcscmp (d_wcscmp.U):
2774 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSCMP symbol if the
2775 wcscmp() routine is available and can be used to compare wide
2776 character strings.
2777
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2778d_wcstombs (d_wcstombs.U):
2779 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSTOMBS symbol, which
2780 indicates to the C program that the wcstombs() routine is available
2781 to convert wide character strings to multibyte strings.
2782
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2783d_wcsxfrm (d_wcsxfrm.U):
2784 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSXFRM symbol if the
2785 wcsxfrm() routine is available and can be used to compare wide
2786 character strings.
2787
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2788d_wctomb (d_wctomb.U):
2789 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCTOMB symbol, which
2790 indicates to the C program that the wctomb() routine is available
2791 to convert a wide character to a multibyte.
2792
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2793d_writev (d_writev.U):
2794 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WRITEV symbol, which
2795 indicates to the C program that the writev() routine is available.
2796
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2797d_xenix (Guess.U):
2798 This variable conditionally defines the symbol XENIX, which alerts
2799 the C program that it runs under Xenix.
2800
2801date (Loc.U):
5bf26616 2802 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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2803 full pathname (if any) of the date program. After Configure runs,
2804 the value is reset to a plain "date" and is not useful.
2805
2806db_hashtype (i_db.U):
2807 This variable contains the type of the hash structure element
2808 in the <db.h> header file. In older versions of DB, it was
2809 int, while in newer ones it is u_int32_t.
2810
2811db_prefixtype (i_db.U):
2812 This variable contains the type of the prefix structure element
2813 in the <db.h> header file. In older versions of DB, it was
2814 int, while in newer ones it is size_t.
2815
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2816db_version_major (i_db.U):
2817 This variable contains the major version number of
2818 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
2819
2820db_version_minor (i_db.U):
2821 This variable contains the minor version number of
2822 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
2823 For DB version 1 this is always 0.
2824
2825db_version_patch (i_db.U):
2826 This variable contains the patch version number of
2827 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
2828 For DB version 1 this is always 0.
2829
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2830direntrytype (i_dirent.U):
2831 This symbol is set to 'struct direct' or 'struct dirent' depending on
2832 whether dirent is available or not. You should use this pseudo type to
2833 portably declare your directory entries.
2834
2835dlext (dlext.U):
2836 This variable contains the extension that is to be used for the
1332606d 2837 dynamically loaded modules that perl generates.
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2838
2839dlsrc (dlsrc.U):
2840 This variable contains the name of the dynamic loading file that
2841 will be used with the package.
2842
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2843doubleinfbytes (infnan.U):
2844 This variable contains comma-separated list of hexadecimal bytes
2845 for the double precision infinity.
2846
f40bbcbf 2847doublekind (longdblfio.U):
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2848 This variable, if defined, encodes the type of a double:
2849 1 = IEEE 754 32-bit big little endian,
2850 2 = IEEE 754 32-bit big big endian,
2851 3 = IEEE 754 64-bit big little endian,
2852 4 = IEEE 754 64-bit big big endian,
2853 5 = IEEE 754 128-bit big little endian,
2854 6 = IEEE 754 128-bit big big endian,
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2855 7 = IEEE 754 64-bit big mixed endian le-be,
2856 8 = IEEE 754 64-bit big mixed endian be-le,
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2857 -1 = unknown format.
2858
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2859doublemantbits (mantbits.U):
2860 This symbol, if defined, tells how many mantissa bits
2861 there are in double precision floating point format.
2862 Note that this is usually DBL_MANT_DIG minus one, since
2863 with the standard IEEE 754 formats DBL_MANT_DIG includes
2864 the implicit bit which doesn't really exist.
2865
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2866doublenanbytes (infnan.U):
2867 This variable contains comma-separated list of hexadecimal bytes
2868 for the double precision not-a-number.
2869
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2870doublesize (doublesize.U):
2871 This variable contains the value of the DOUBLESIZE symbol, which
2872 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a double.
2873
2874drand01 (randfunc.U):
2875 Indicates the macro to be used to generate normalized
2876 random numbers. Uses randfunc, often divided by
2877 (double) (((unsigned long) 1 << randbits)) in order to
2878 normalize the result.
2879 In C programs, the macro 'Drand01' is mapped to drand01.
2880
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2881drand48_r_proto (d_drand48_r.U):
2882 This variable encodes the prototype of drand48_r.
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2883 It is zero if d_drand48_r is undef, and one of the
2884 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_drand48_r
2885 is defined.
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2887dtrace (usedtrace.U):
2888 This variable holds the location of the dtrace executable.
2889
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2890dynamic_ext (Extensions.U):
2891 This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to
2892 link dynamically into the package. It is used by Makefile.
2893
2894eagain (nblock_io.U):
2895 This variable bears the symbolic errno code set by read() when no
2896 data is present on the file and non-blocking I/O was enabled (otherwise,
2897 read() blocks naturally).
2898
2899ebcdic (ebcdic.U):
2900 This variable conditionally defines EBCDIC if this
1332606d 2901 system uses EBCDIC encoding.
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2902
2903echo (Loc.U):
5bf26616 2904 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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2905 full pathname (if any) of the echo program. After Configure runs,
2906 the value is reset to a plain "echo" and is not useful.
2907
2908egrep (Loc.U):
5bf26616 2909 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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2910 full pathname (if any) of the egrep program. After Configure runs,
2911 the value is reset to a plain "egrep" and is not useful.
2912
2913emacs (Loc.U):
2914 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 2915 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 2916
f40bbcbf 2917endgrent_r_proto (d_endgrent_r.U):
10bc17b6 2918 This variable encodes the prototype of endgrent_r.
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2919 It is zero if d_endgrent_r is undef, and one of the
2920 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endgrent_r
2921 is defined.
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2922
2923endhostent_r_proto (d_endhostent_r.U):
2924 This variable encodes the prototype of endhostent_r.
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2925 It is zero if d_endhostent_r is undef, and one of the
2926 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endhostent_r
2927 is defined.
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2928
2929endnetent_r_proto (d_endnetent_r.U):
2930 This variable encodes the prototype of endnetent_r.
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2931 It is zero if d_endnetent_r is undef, and one of the
2932 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endnetent_r
2933 is defined.
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2934
2935endprotoent_r_proto (d_endprotoent_r.U):
2936 This variable encodes the prototype of endprotoent_r.
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2937 It is zero if d_endprotoent_r is undef, and one of the
2938 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endprotoent_r
2939 is defined.
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2940
2941endpwent_r_proto (d_endpwent_r.U):
2942 This variable encodes the prototype of endpwent_r.
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2943 It is zero if d_endpwent_r is undef, and one of the
2944 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endpwent_r
2945 is defined.
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2946
2947endservent_r_proto (d_endservent_r.U):
2948 This variable encodes the prototype of endservent_r.
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2949 It is zero if d_endservent_r is undef, and one of the
2950 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endservent_r
2951 is defined.
10bc17b6 2952
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2953eunicefix (Init.U):
2954 When running under Eunice this variable contains a command which will
2955 convert a shell script to the proper form of text file for it to be
2956 executable by the shell. On other systems it is a no-op.
2957
2958exe_ext (Unix.U):
2959 This is an old synonym for _exe.
2960
2961expr (Loc.U):
5bf26616 2962 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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2963 full pathname (if any) of the expr program. After Configure runs,
2964 the value is reset to a plain "expr" and is not useful.
2965
2966extensions (Extensions.U):
2967 This variable holds a list of all extension files (both XS and
f7b3892b 2968 non-xs) installed with the package. It is propagated to Config.pm
47e01c32 2969 and is typically used to test whether a particular extension
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2970 is available.
2971
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2972extern_C (Csym.U):
2973 ANSI C requires 'extern' where C++ requires 'extern "C"'. This
2974 variable can be used in Configure to do the right thing.
2975
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2976extras (Extras.U):
2977 This variable holds a list of extra modules to install.
2978
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2979fflushall (fflushall.U):
2980 This symbol, if defined, tells that to flush
2981 all pending stdio output one must loop through all
2982 the stdio file handles stored in an array and fflush them.
2983 Note that if fflushNULL is defined, fflushall will not
2984 even be probed for and will be left undefined.
2985
4d54317a 2986fflushNULL (fflushall.U):
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2987 This symbol, if defined, tells that fflush(NULL) correctly
2988 flushes all pending stdio output without side effects. In
2989 particular, on some platforms calling fflush(NULL) *still*
2990 corrupts STDIN if it is a pipe.
4d54317a 2991
781b178c 2992find (Loc.U):
ff935051 2993 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 2994 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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2995
2996firstmakefile (Unix.U):
2997 This variable defines the first file searched by make. On unix,
2998 it is makefile (then Makefile). On case-insensitive systems,
2999 it might be something else. This is only used to deal with
3000 convoluted make depend tricks.
3001
3002flex (Loc.U):
3003 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3004 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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3006fpossize (fpossize.U):
3007 This variable contains the size of a fpostype in bytes.
3008
781b178c 3009fpostype (fpostype.U):
635aebb7 3010 This variable defines Fpos_t to be something like fpos_t, long,
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3011 uint, or whatever type is used to declare file positions in libc.
3012
3013freetype (mallocsrc.U):
3014 This variable contains the return type of free(). It is usually
3015 void, but occasionally int.
3016
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3017from (Cross.U):
3018 This variable contains the command used by Configure
3019 to copy files from the target host. Useful and available
3020 only during Perl build.
3021 The string ':' if not cross-compiling.
3022
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3023full_ar (Loc_ar.U):
3024 This variable contains the full pathname to 'ar', whether or
3025 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
3026 in the Makefile.SH.
3027
3028full_csh (d_csh.U):
3029 This variable contains the full pathname to 'csh', whether or
3030 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
3031 in the compiled C program, and we assume that all systems which
3032 can share this executable will have the same full pathname to
3033 'csh.'
3034
3035full_sed (Loc_sed.U):
3036 This variable contains the full pathname to 'sed', whether or
3037 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
3038 in the compiled C program, and we assume that all systems which
3039 can share this executable will have the same full pathname to
3040 'sed.'
3041
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3042gccansipedantic (gccvers.U):
3043 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable will enable (if set) the
3044 -ansi and -pedantic ccflags for building core files (through
3045 cflags script). (See Porting/pumpkin.pod for full description).
3046
af960fef 3047gccosandvers (gccvers.U):
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3048 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable holds the operating system
3049 and version used to compile gcc. It is set to '' if not gcc,
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3050 or if nothing useful can be parsed as the os version.
3051
3052gccversion (gccvers.U):
123f32c0 3053 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable holds '1' or '2' to
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3054 indicate whether the compiler is version 1 or 2. This is used in
3055 setting some of the default cflags. It is set to '' if not gcc.
3056
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3057getgrent_r_proto (d_getgrent_r.U):
3058 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrent_r.
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3059 It is zero if d_getgrent_r is undef, and one of the
3060 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getgrent_r
3061 is defined.
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3062
3063getgrgid_r_proto (d_getgrgid_r.U):
3064 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrgid_r.
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3065 It is zero if d_getgrgid_r is undef, and one of the
3066 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getgrgid_r
3067 is defined.
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3068
3069getgrnam_r_proto (d_getgrnam_r.U):
3070 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrnam_r.
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3071 It is zero if d_getgrnam_r is undef, and one of the
3072 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getgrnam_r
3073 is defined.
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3074
3075gethostbyaddr_r_proto (d_gethostbyaddr_r.U):
3076 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostbyaddr_r.
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3077 It is zero if d_gethostbyaddr_r is undef, and one of the
3078 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gethostbyaddr_r
3079 is defined.
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3080
3081gethostbyname_r_proto (d_gethostbyname_r.U):
3082 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostbyname_r.
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3083 It is zero if d_gethostbyname_r is undef, and one of the
3084 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gethostbyname_r
3085 is defined.
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3086
3087gethostent_r_proto (d_gethostent_r.U):
3088 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostent_r.
39183afa
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3089 It is zero if d_gethostent_r is undef, and one of the
3090 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gethostent_r
3091 is defined.
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3092
3093getlogin_r_proto (d_getlogin_r.U):
3094 This variable encodes the prototype of getlogin_r.
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3095 It is zero if d_getlogin_r is undef, and one of the
3096 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getlogin_r
3097 is defined.
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3098
3099getnetbyaddr_r_proto (d_getnetbyaddr_r.U):
3100 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetbyaddr_r.
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3101 It is zero if d_getnetbyaddr_r is undef, and one of the
3102 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getnetbyaddr_r
3103 is defined.
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3104
3105getnetbyname_r_proto (d_getnetbyname_r.U):
3106 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetbyname_r.
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3107 It is zero if d_getnetbyname_r is undef, and one of the
3108 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getnetbyname_r
3109 is defined.
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3110
3111getnetent_r_proto (d_getnetent_r.U):
3112 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetent_r.
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3113 It is zero if d_getnetent_r is undef, and one of the
3114 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getnetent_r
3115 is defined.
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3116
3117getprotobyname_r_proto (d_getprotobyname_r.U):
3118 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotobyname_r.
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3119 It is zero if d_getprotobyname_r is undef, and one of the
3120 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getprotobyname_r
3121 is defined.
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3122
3123getprotobynumber_r_proto (d_getprotobynumber_r.U):
3124 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotobynumber_r.
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3125 It is zero if d_getprotobynumber_r is undef, and one of the
3126 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getprotobynumber_r
3127 is defined.
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3128
3129getprotoent_r_proto (d_getprotoent_r.U):
3130 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotoent_r.
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3131 It is zero if d_getprotoent_r is undef, and one of the
3132 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getprotoent_r
3133 is defined.
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3134
3135getpwent_r_proto (d_getpwent_r.U):
3136 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwent_r.
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3137 It is zero if d_getpwent_r is undef, and one of the
3138 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getpwent_r
3139 is defined.
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3140
3141getpwnam_r_proto (d_getpwnam_r.U):
3142 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwnam_r.
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3143 It is zero if d_getpwnam_r is undef, and one of the
3144 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getpwnam_r
3145 is defined.
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3146
3147getpwuid_r_proto (d_getpwuid_r.U):
3148 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwuid_r.
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3149 It is zero if d_getpwuid_r is undef, and one of the
3150 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getpwuid_r
3151 is defined.
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3152
3153getservbyname_r_proto (d_getservbyname_r.U):
3154 This variable encodes the prototype of getservbyname_r.
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3155 It is zero if d_getservbyname_r is undef, and one of the
3156 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getservbyname_r
3157 is defined.
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3158
3159getservbyport_r_proto (d_getservbyport_r.U):
3160 This variable encodes the prototype of getservbyport_r.
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3161 It is zero if d_getservbyport_r is undef, and one of the
3162 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getservbyport_r
3163 is defined.
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3164
3165getservent_r_proto (d_getservent_r.U):
3166 This variable encodes the prototype of getservent_r.
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3167 It is zero if d_getservent_r is undef, and one of the
3168 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getservent_r
3169 is defined.
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3170
3171getspnam_r_proto (d_getspnam_r.U):
3172 This variable encodes the prototype of getspnam_r.
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3173 It is zero if d_getspnam_r is undef, and one of the
3174 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getspnam_r
3175 is defined.
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3177gidformat (gidf.U):
3178 This variable contains the format string used for printing a Gid_t.
3179
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3180gidsign (gidsign.U):
3181 This variable contains the signedness of a gidtype.
3182 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
3183
3184gidsize (gidsize.U):
3185 This variable contains the size of a gidtype in bytes.
3186
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3187gidtype (gidtype.U):
3188 This variable defines Gid_t to be something like gid_t, int,
3189 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare the return type
3190 of getgid(). Typically, it is the type of group ids in the kernel.
3191
3192glibpth (libpth.U):
3193 This variable holds the general path (space-separated) used to
3194 find libraries. It may contain directories that do not exist on
3195 this platform, libpth is the cleaned-up version.
3196
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3197gmake (Loc.U):
3198 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
3199 full pathname (if any) of the gmake program. After Configure runs,
3200 the value is reset to a plain "gmake" and is not useful.
3201
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3202gmtime_r_proto (d_gmtime_r.U):
3203 This variable encodes the prototype of gmtime_r.
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3204 It is zero if d_gmtime_r is undef, and one of the
3205 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gmtime_r
3206 is defined.
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3208gnulibc_version (d_gnulibc.U):
3209 This variable contains the version number of the GNU C library.
3210 It is usually something like '2.2.5'. It is a plain '' if this
3211 is not the GNU C library, or if the version is unknown.
3212
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5bf26616 3214 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3215 full pathname (if any) of the grep program. After Configure runs,
3216 the value is reset to a plain "grep" and is not useful.
3217
3218groupcat (nis.U):
3219 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
3220 /etc/group file. This is normally "cat /etc/group", but can be
3221 "ypcat group" when NIS is used.
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3222 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
3223 command, in which case this variable is unset.
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3224
3225groupstype (groupstype.U):
635aebb7 3226 This variable defines Groups_t to be something like gid_t, int,
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3227 ushort, or whatever type is used for the second argument to
3228 getgroups() and setgroups(). Usually, this is the same as
3229 gidtype (gid_t), but sometimes it isn't.
3230
3231gzip (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3232 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3233 full pathname (if any) of the gzip program. After Configure runs,
3234 the value is reset to a plain "gzip" and is not useful.
3235
3236h_fcntl (h_fcntl.U):
3237 This is variable gets set in various places to tell i_fcntl that
3238 <fcntl.h> should be included.
3239
3240h_sysfile (h_sysfile.U):
3241 This is variable gets set in various places to tell i_sys_file that
3242 <sys/file.h> should be included.
3243
3244hint (Oldconfig.U):
3245 Gives the type of hints used for previous answers. May be one of
3246 "default", "recommended" or "previous".
3247
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3248hostcat (nis.U):
3249 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
3250 /etc/hosts file. This is normally "cat /etc/hosts", but can be
3251 "ypcat hosts" when NIS is used.
3252 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
3253 command, in which case this variable is unset.
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a6d9d244 3255hostgenerate (Cross.U):
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3256 This variable contains the path to a generate_uudmap binary that
3257 can be run on the host OS when cross-compiling. Useful and
3258 available only during Perl build.
3259 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
3260
a6d9d244 3261hostosname (Cross.U):
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3262 This variable contains the original value of '$^O' for hostperl
3263 when cross-compiling. This is useful to pick the proper tools
3264 when running build code in the host.
3265 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
3266
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3267hostperl (Cross.U):
3268 This variable contains the path to a miniperl binary that can be
3269 run on the host OS when cross-compiling. Useful and available only
3270 during Perl build.
3271 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
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3273html1dir (html1dir.U):
3274 This variable contains the name of the directory in which html
3275 source pages are to be put. This directory is for pages
3276 that describe whole programs, not libraries or modules. It
3277 is intended to correspond roughly to section 1 of the Unix
3278 manuals.
3279
3280html1direxp (html1dir.U):
3281 This variable is the same as the html1dir variable, but is filename
3282 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
3283
3284html3dir (html3dir.U):
3285 This variable contains the name of the directory in which html
3286 source pages are to be put. This directory is for pages
3287 that describe libraries or modules. It is intended to
3288 correspond roughly to section 3 of the Unix manuals.
3289
3290html3direxp (html3dir.U):
3291 This variable is the same as the html3dir variable, but is filename
3292 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
3293
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3294i16size (perlxv.U):
3295 This variable is the size of an I16 in bytes.
3296
3297i16type (perlxv.U):
3298 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I16.
3299
3300i32size (perlxv.U):
3301 This variable is the size of an I32 in bytes.
3302
3303i32type (perlxv.U):
3304 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I32.
3305
3306i64size (perlxv.U):
3307 This variable is the size of an I64 in bytes.
3308
3309i64type (perlxv.U):
3310 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I64.
3311
3312i8size (perlxv.U):
3313 This variable is the size of an I8 in bytes.
3314
3315i8type (perlxv.U):
3316 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I8.
3317
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3318i_arpainet (i_arpainet.U):
3319 This variable conditionally defines the I_ARPA_INET symbol,
3320 and indicates whether a C program should include <arpa/inet.h>.
3321
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3322i_assert (i_assert.U):
3323 This variable conditionally defines the I_ASSERT symbol, which
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3324 indicates to the C program that <assert.h> exists and could be
3325 included.
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3327i_bfd (i_bfd.U):
3328 This variable conditionally defines the I_BFD symbol, and
3329 indicates whether a C program can include <bfd.h>.
3330
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3331i_bsdioctl (i_sysioctl.U):
3332 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_BSDIOCTL symbol, which
3333 indicates to the C program that <sys/bsdioctl.h> exists and should
3334 be included.
3335
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3336i_crypt (i_crypt.U):
3337 This variable conditionally defines the I_CRYPT symbol, and indicates
3338 whether a C program should include <crypt.h>.
3339
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3340i_db (i_db.U):
3341 This variable conditionally defines the I_DB symbol, and indicates
3342 whether a C program may include Berkeley's DB include file <db.h>.
3343
3344i_dbm (i_dbm.U):
3345 This variable conditionally defines the I_DBM symbol, which
3346 indicates to the C program that <dbm.h> exists and should
3347 be included.
3348
3349i_dirent (i_dirent.U):
3350 This variable conditionally defines I_DIRENT, which indicates
3351 to the C program that it should include <dirent.h>.
3352
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3353i_dlfcn (i_dlfcn.U):
3354 This variable conditionally defines the I_DLFCN symbol, which
3355 indicates to the C program that <dlfcn.h> exists and should
3356 be included.
3357
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3358i_execinfo (i_execinfo.U):
3359 This variable conditionally defines the I_EXECINFO symbol, and indicates
3360 whether a C program may include <execinfo.h>, for backtrace() support.
3361
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3362i_fcntl (i_fcntl.U):
3363 This variable controls the value of I_FCNTL (which tells
3364 the C program to include <fcntl.h>).
3365
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3366i_fenv (i_fenv.U):
3367 This variable conditionally defines the I_FENV symbol, which
3368 indicates to the C program that <fenv.h> exists and should
3369 be included.
3370
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3371i_float (i_float.U):
3372 This variable conditionally defines the I_FLOAT symbol, and indicates
3373 whether a C program may include <float.h> to get symbols like DBL_MAX
3374 or DBL_MIN, i.e. machine dependent floating point values.
3375
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3376i_fp (i_fp.U):
3377 This variable conditionally defines the I_FP symbol, and indicates
3378 whether a C program should include <fp.h>.
3379
3380i_fp_class (i_fp_class.U):
3381 This variable conditionally defines the I_FP_CLASS symbol, and indicates
3382 whether a C program should include <fp_class.h>.
3383
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3384i_gdbm (i_gdbm.U):
3385 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBM symbol, which
3386 indicates to the C program that <gdbm.h> exists and should
3387 be included.
3388
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3389i_gdbm_ndbm (i_ndbm.U):
3390 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBM_NDBM symbol, which
3391 indicates to the C program that <gdbm-ndbm.h> exists and should
3392 be included. This is the location of the ndbm.h compatibility file
3393 in Debian 4.0.
3394
3395i_gdbmndbm (i_ndbm.U):
3396 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBMNDBM symbol, which
3397 indicates to the C program that <gdbm/ndbm.h> exists and should
3398 be included. This was the location of the ndbm.h compatibility file
3399 in RedHat 7.1.
3400
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3401i_grp (i_grp.U):
3402 This variable conditionally defines the I_GRP symbol, and indicates
3403 whether a C program should include <grp.h>.
3404
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3405i_ieeefp (i_ieeefp.U):
3406 This variable conditionally defines the I_IEEEFP symbol, and indicates
3407 whether a C program should include <ieeefp.h>.
3408
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3409i_inttypes (i_inttypes.U):
3410 This variable conditionally defines the I_INTTYPES symbol,
3411 and indicates whether a C program should include <inttypes.h>.
3412
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3413i_langinfo (i_langinfo.U):
3414 This variable conditionally defines the I_LANGINFO symbol,
3415 and indicates whether a C program should include <langinfo.h>.
3416
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3417i_libutil (i_libutil.U):
3418 This variable conditionally defines the I_LIBUTIL symbol, and indicates
3419 whether a C program should include <libutil.h>.
3420
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3421i_limits (i_limits.U):
3422 This variable conditionally defines the I_LIMITS symbol, and indicates
3423 whether a C program may include <limits.h> to get symbols like WORD_BIT
3424 and friends.
3425
3426i_locale (i_locale.U):
3427 This variable conditionally defines the I_LOCALE symbol,
3428 and indicates whether a C program should include <locale.h>.
3429
3430i_machcthr (i_machcthr.U):
3431 This variable conditionally defines the I_MACH_CTHREADS symbol,
3432 and indicates whether a C program should include <mach/cthreads.h>.
3433
3434i_malloc (i_malloc.U):
3435 This variable conditionally defines the I_MALLOC symbol, and indicates
3436 whether a C program should include <malloc.h>.
3437
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3438i_mallocmalloc (i_mallocmalloc.U):
3439 This variable conditionally defines the I_MALLOCMALLOC symbol,
3440 and indicates whether a C program should include <malloc/malloc.h>.
3441
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3442i_math (i_math.U):
3443 This variable conditionally defines the I_MATH symbol, and indicates
3444 whether a C program may include <math.h>.
3445
3446i_memory (i_memory.U):
3447 This variable conditionally defines the I_MEMORY symbol, and indicates
3448 whether a C program should include <memory.h>.
3449
3450i_mntent (i_mntent.U):
3451 This variable conditionally defines the I_MNTENT symbol, and indicates
3452 whether a C program should include <mntent.h>.
3453
3454i_ndbm (i_ndbm.U):
3455 This variable conditionally defines the I_NDBM symbol, which
3456 indicates to the C program that <ndbm.h> exists and should
3457 be included.
3458
3459i_netdb (i_netdb.U):
3460 This variable conditionally defines the I_NETDB symbol, and indicates
3461 whether a C program should include <netdb.h>.
3462
3463i_neterrno (i_neterrno.U):
3464 This variable conditionally defines the I_NET_ERRNO symbol, which
3465 indicates to the C program that <net/errno.h> exists and should
3466 be included.
3467
3468i_netinettcp (i_netinettcp.U):
3469 This variable conditionally defines the I_NETINET_TCP symbol,
3470 and indicates whether a C program should include <netinet/tcp.h>.
3471
3472i_niin (i_niin.U):
3473 This variable conditionally defines I_NETINET_IN, which indicates
3474 to the C program that it should include <netinet/in.h>. Otherwise,
3475 you may try <sys/in.h>.
3476
3477i_poll (i_poll.U):
3478 This variable conditionally defines the I_POLL symbol, and indicates
3479 whether a C program should include <poll.h>.
3480
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3481i_prot (i_prot.U):
3482 This variable conditionally defines the I_PROT symbol, and indicates
3483 whether a C program should include <prot.h>.
3484
781b178c 3485i_pthread (i_pthread.U):
190b66db 3486 This variable conditionally defines the I_PTHREAD symbol,
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3487 and indicates whether a C program should include <pthread.h>.
3488
3489i_pwd (i_pwd.U):
3490 This variable conditionally defines I_PWD, which indicates
3491 to the C program that it should include <pwd.h>.
3492
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3493i_quadmath (i_quadmath.U):
3494 This variable conditionally defines I_QUADMATH, which indicates
3495 to the C program that it should include <quadmath.h>.
3496
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3497i_rpcsvcdbm (i_dbm.U):
3498 This variable conditionally defines the I_RPCSVC_DBM symbol, which
3499 indicates to the C program that <rpcsvc/dbm.h> exists and should
3500 be included. Some System V systems might need this instead of <dbm.h>.
3501
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3502i_sgtty (i_termio.U):
3503 This variable conditionally defines the I_SGTTY symbol, which
3504 indicates to the C program that it should include <sgtty.h> rather
3505 than <termio.h>.
3506
3507i_shadow (i_shadow.U):
3508 This variable conditionally defines the I_SHADOW symbol, and indicates
3509 whether a C program should include <shadow.h>.
3510
3511i_socks (i_socks.U):
3512 This variable conditionally defines the I_SOCKS symbol, and indicates
3513 whether a C program should include <socks.h>.
3514
3515i_stdarg (i_varhdr.U):
3516 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDARG symbol, which
3517 indicates to the C program that <stdarg.h> exists and should
3518 be included.
3519
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3520i_stdbool (i_stdbool.U):
3521 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDBOOL symbol, which
3522 indicates to the C program that <stdbool.h> exists and should
3523 be included.
3524
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3525i_stddef (i_stddef.U):
3526 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDDEF symbol, which
3527 indicates to the C program that <stddef.h> exists and should
3528 be included.
3529
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3530i_stdint (i_stdint.U):
3531 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDINT symbol, which
3532 indicates to the C program that <stdint.h> exists and should
3533 be included.
3534
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3535i_stdlib (i_stdlib.U):
3536 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDLIB symbol, which
3537 indicates to the C program that <stdlib.h> exists and should
3538 be included.
3539
3540i_string (i_string.U):
3541 This variable conditionally defines the I_STRING symbol, which
3542 indicates that <string.h> should be included rather than <strings.h>.
3543
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3544i_sunmath (i_sunmath.U):
3545 This variable conditionally defines the I_SUNMATH symbol, and indicates
3546 whether a C program should include <sunmath.h>.
3547
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3548i_sysaccess (i_sysaccess.U):
3549 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_ACCESS symbol,
3550 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/access.h>.
3551
3552i_sysdir (i_sysdir.U):
3553 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_DIR symbol, and indicates
3554 whether a C program should include <sys/dir.h>.
3555
3556i_sysfile (i_sysfile.U):
3557 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_FILE symbol, and indicates
3558 whether a C program should include <sys/file.h> to get R_OK and friends.
3559
3560i_sysfilio (i_sysioctl.U):
3561 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_FILIO symbol, which
3562 indicates to the C program that <sys/filio.h> exists and should
3563 be included in preference to <sys/ioctl.h>.
3564
3565i_sysin (i_niin.U):
3566 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_IN, which indicates
3567 to the C program that it should include <sys/in.h> instead of
3568 <netinet/in.h>.
3569
3570i_sysioctl (i_sysioctl.U):
3571 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_IOCTL symbol, which
3572 indicates to the C program that <sys/ioctl.h> exists and should
3573 be included.
3574
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3575i_syslog (i_syslog.U):
3576 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSLOG symbol,
3577 and indicates whether a C program should include <syslog.h>.
3578
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3579i_sysmman (i_sysmman.U):
3580 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_MMAN symbol, and
3581 indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mman.h>.
3582
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3583i_sysmode (i_sysmode.U):
3584 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSMODE symbol,
3585 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mode.h>.
3586
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3587i_sysmount (i_sysmount.U):
3588 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSMOUNT symbol,
3589 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mount.h>.
3590
3591i_sysndir (i_sysndir.U):
3592 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_NDIR symbol, and indicates
3593 whether a C program should include <sys/ndir.h>.
3594
3595i_sysparam (i_sysparam.U):
3596 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_PARAM symbol, and indicates
3597 whether a C program should include <sys/param.h>.
3598
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3599i_syspoll (i_syspoll.U):
3600 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_POLL symbol, which
3601 indicates to the C program that it should include <sys/poll.h>.
3602
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3603i_sysresrc (i_sysresrc.U):
3604 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_RESOURCE symbol,
3605 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/resource.h>.
3606
3607i_syssecrt (i_syssecrt.U):
3608 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_SECURITY symbol,
3609 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/security.h>.
3610
3611i_sysselct (i_sysselct.U):
3612 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_SELECT, which indicates
3613 to the C program that it should include <sys/select.h> in order to
3614 get the definition of struct timeval.
3615
3616i_syssockio (i_sysioctl.U):
3617 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_SOCKIO to indicate to the
3618 C program that socket ioctl codes may be found in <sys/sockio.h>
3619 instead of <sys/ioctl.h>.
3620
3621i_sysstat (i_sysstat.U):
3622 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_STAT symbol,
3623 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/stat.h>.
3624
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3625i_sysstatfs (i_sysstatfs.U):
3626 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSSTATFS symbol,
3627 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/statfs.h>.
3628
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3629i_sysstatvfs (i_sysstatvfs.U):
3630 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSSTATVFS symbol,
3631 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/statvfs.h>.
3632
3633i_systime (i_time.U):
3634 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_TIME, which indicates
3635 to the C program that it should include <sys/time.h>.
3636
3637i_systimek (i_time.U):
3638 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_TIME_KERNEL, which
3639 indicates to the C program that it should include <sys/time.h>
3640 with KERNEL defined.
3641
3642i_systimes (i_systimes.U):
3643 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_TIMES symbol, and indicates
3644 whether a C program should include <sys/times.h>.
3645
3646i_systypes (i_systypes.U):
3647 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_TYPES symbol,
3648 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/types.h>.
3649
3650i_sysuio (i_sysuio.U):
3651 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSUIO symbol, and indicates
3652 whether a C program should include <sys/uio.h>.
3653
3654i_sysun (i_sysun.U):
3655 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_UN, which indicates
3656 to the C program that it should include <sys/un.h> to get UNIX
3657 domain socket definitions.
3658
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3659i_sysutsname (i_sysutsname.U):
3660 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSUTSNAME symbol,
3661 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/utsname.h>.
3662
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3663i_sysvfs (i_sysvfs.U):
3664 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSVFS symbol,
3665 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/vfs.h>.
3666
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3667i_syswait (i_syswait.U):
3668 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_WAIT, which indicates
3669 to the C program that it should include <sys/wait.h>.
3670
3671i_termio (i_termio.U):
3672 This variable conditionally defines the I_TERMIO symbol, which
3673 indicates to the C program that it should include <termio.h> rather
3674 than <sgtty.h>.
3675
3676i_termios (i_termio.U):
3677 This variable conditionally defines the I_TERMIOS symbol, which
3678 indicates to the C program that the POSIX <termios.h> file is
3679 to be included.
3680
3681i_time (i_time.U):
3682 This variable conditionally defines I_TIME, which indicates
3683 to the C program that it should include <time.h>.
3684
3685i_unistd (i_unistd.U):
3686 This variable conditionally defines the I_UNISTD symbol, and indicates
3687 whether a C program should include <unistd.h>.
3688
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3689i_ustat (i_ustat.U):
3690 This variable conditionally defines the I_USTAT symbol, and indicates
3691 whether a C program should include <ustat.h>.
3692
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3693i_utime (i_utime.U):
3694 This variable conditionally defines the I_UTIME symbol, and indicates
3695 whether a C program should include <utime.h>.
3696
3697i_values (i_values.U):
3698 This variable conditionally defines the I_VALUES symbol, and indicates
3699 whether a C program may include <values.h> to get symbols like MAXLONG
3700 and friends.
3701
3702i_varargs (i_varhdr.U):
3703 This variable conditionally defines I_VARARGS, which indicates
3704 to the C program that it should include <varargs.h>.
3705
3706i_varhdr (i_varhdr.U):
3707 Contains the name of the header to be included to get va_dcl definition.
3708 Typically one of varargs.h or stdarg.h.
3709
3710i_vfork (i_vfork.U):
3711 This variable conditionally defines the I_VFORK symbol, and indicates
3712 whether a C program should include vfork.h.
3713
3714ignore_versioned_solibs (libs.U):
3715 This variable should be non-empty if non-versioned shared
3716 libraries (libfoo.so.x.y) are to be ignored (because they
3717 cannot be linked against).
3718
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3719inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U):
3720 This variable specifies the list of subdirectories in over
3721 which perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically
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3722 search when adding directories to @INC. The elements in
3723 the list are separated by spaces. This is only useful
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3724 if you have a perl library directory tree structured like the
3725 default one. See INSTALL for how this works. The versioned
3726 site_perl directory was introduced in 5.005, so that is the
3727 lowest possible value.
3728
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3729 This list includes architecture-dependent directories back to
3730 version $api_versionstring (e.g. 5.5.640) and
3731 architecture-independent directories all the way back to
3732 5.005.
3733
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3734inc_version_list_init (inc_version_list.U):
3735 This variable holds the same list as inc_version_list, but
635aebb7 3736 each item is enclosed in double quotes and separated by commas,
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3737 suitable for use in the PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST initialization.
3738
781b178c 3739incpath (usrinc.U):
bce0fc72 3740 This variable must precede the normal include path to get the
209e5c0a 3741 right one, as in "$incpath/usr/include" or "$incpath/usr/lib".
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3742 Value can be "" or "/bsd43" on mips.
3743
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3744incpth (libpth.U):
3745 This variable must precede the normal include path to get the
3746 right one, as in "$incpath/usr/include" or "$incpath/usr/lib".
3747 Value can be "" or "/bsd43" on mips.
3748
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3749inews (Loc.U):
3750 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3751 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 3752
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3753initialinstalllocation (bin.U):
3754 When userelocatableinc is true, this variable holds the location
3755 that make install should copy the perl binary to, with all the
3756 run-time relocatable paths calculated from this at install time.
1332606d 3757 When used, it is initialized to the original value of binexp, and
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3758 then binexp is set to '.../', as the other binaries are found
3759 relative to the perl binary.
3760
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3761installarchlib (archlib.U):
3762 This variable is really the same as archlibexp but may differ on
3763 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3764 should be used in makefiles.
3765
3766installbin (bin.U):
3767 This variable is the same as binexp unless AFS is running in which case
47e01c32 3768 the user is explicitly prompted for it. This variable should always
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3769 be used in your makefiles for maximum portability.
3770
10305dfa 3771installhtml1dir (html1dir.U):
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3772 This variable is really the same as html1direxp, unless you are
3773 using a different installprefix. For extra portability, you
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3774 should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3775
3776installhtml3dir (html3dir.U):
635aebb7
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3777 This variable is really the same as html3direxp, unless you are
3778 using a different installprefix. For extra portability, you
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3779 should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3780
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3781installman1dir (man1dir.U):
3782 This variable is really the same as man1direxp, unless you are using
3783 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3784 man1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3785 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3786
3787installman3dir (man3dir.U):
3788 This variable is really the same as man3direxp, unless you are using
3789 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3790 man3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3791 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3792
3793installprefix (installprefix.U):
635aebb7 3794 This variable holds the name of the directory below which
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3795 "make install" will install the package. For most users, this
3796 is the same as prefix. However, it is useful for
3797 installing the software into a different (usually temporary)
3798 location after which it can be bundled up and moved somehow
3799 to the final location specified by prefix.
3800
3801installprefixexp (installprefix.U):
3802 This variable holds the full absolute path of installprefix
3803 with all ~-expansion done.
3804
3805installprivlib (privlib.U):
3806 This variable is really the same as privlibexp but may differ on
3807 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3808 should be used in makefiles.
3809
3810installscript (scriptdir.U):
3811 This variable is usually the same as scriptdirexp, unless you are on
3812 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
3813 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
3814
3815installsitearch (sitearch.U):
3816 This variable is really the same as sitearchexp but may differ on
3817 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3818 should be used in makefiles.
3819
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3820installsitebin (sitebin.U):
3821 This variable is usually the same as sitebinexp, unless you are on
3822 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
3823 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
3824
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3825installsitehtml1dir (sitehtml1dir.U):
3826 This variable is really the same as sitehtml1direxp, unless you are using
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3827 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3828 html1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3829 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3830
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3831installsitehtml3dir (sitehtml3dir.U):
3832 This variable is really the same as sitehtml3direxp, unless you are using
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3833 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3834 html3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3835 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3836
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3837installsitelib (sitelib.U):
3838 This variable is really the same as sitelibexp but may differ on
3839 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3840 should be used in makefiles.
3841
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3842installsiteman1dir (siteman1dir.U):
3843 This variable is really the same as siteman1direxp, unless you are using
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3844 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3845 man1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3846 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3847
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3848installsiteman3dir (siteman3dir.U):
3849 This variable is really the same as siteman3direxp, unless you are using
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3850 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3851 man3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3852 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3853
3854installsitescript (sitescript.U):
3855 This variable is usually the same as sitescriptexp, unless you are on
3856 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
3857 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
3858
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3859installstyle (installstyle.U):
3860 This variable describes the "style" of the perl installation.
3861 This is intended to be useful for tools that need to
3862 manipulate entire perl distributions. Perl itself doesn't use
3863 this to find its libraries -- the library directories are
3864 stored directly in Config.pm. Currently, there are only two
3865 styles: "lib" and "lib/perl5". The default library locations
3866 (e.g. privlib, sitelib) are either $prefix/lib or
3867 $prefix/lib/perl5. The former is useful if $prefix is a
3868 directory dedicated to perl (e.g. /opt/perl), while the latter
3869 is useful if $prefix is shared by many packages, e.g. if
3870 $prefix=/usr/local.
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3872 Unfortunately, while this "style" variable is used to set
3873 defaults for all three directory hierarchies (core, vendor, and
3874 site), there is no guarantee that the same style is actually
3875 appropriate for all those directories. For example, $prefix
3876 might be /opt/perl, but $siteprefix might be /usr/local.
3877 (Perhaps, in retrospect, the "lib" style should never have been
3878 supported, but it did seem like a nice idea at the time.)
3879
3880 The situation is even less clear for tools such as MakeMaker
3881 that can be used to install additional modules into
3882 non-standard places. For example, if a user intends to install
3883 a module into a private directory (perhaps by setting PREFIX on
3884 the Makefile.PL command line), then there is no reason to
3885 assume that the Configure-time $installstyle setting will be
3886 relevant for that PREFIX.
3887
9c20e9bc 3888 This may later be extended to include other information, so
781b178c 3889 be careful with pattern-matching on the results.
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3890
3891 For compatibility with perl5.005 and earlier, the default
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3892 setting is based on whether or not $prefix contains the string
3893 "perl".
3894
3895installusrbinperl (instubperl.U):
3896 This variable tells whether Perl should be installed also as
3897 /usr/bin/perl in addition to
3898 $installbin/perl
3899
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3900installvendorarch (vendorarch.U):
3901 This variable is really the same as vendorarchexp but may differ on
3902 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3903 should be used in makefiles.
3904
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3905installvendorbin (vendorbin.U):
3906 This variable is really the same as vendorbinexp but may differ on
3907 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3908 should be used in makefiles.
3909
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3910installvendorhtml1dir (vendorhtml1dir.U):
3911 This variable is really the same as vendorhtml1direxp but may differ on
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3912 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3913 should be used in makefiles.
3914
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3915installvendorhtml3dir (vendorhtml3dir.U):
3916 This variable is really the same as vendorhtml3direxp but may differ on
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3917 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3918 should be used in makefiles.
3919
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3920installvendorlib (vendorlib.U):
3921 This variable is really the same as vendorlibexp but may differ on
3922 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3923 should be used in makefiles.
3924
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3925installvendorman1dir (vendorman1dir.U):
3926 This variable is really the same as vendorman1direxp but may differ on
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3927 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3928 should be used in makefiles.
3929
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3930installvendorman3dir (vendorman3dir.U):
3931 This variable is really the same as vendorman3direxp but may differ on
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3932 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3933 should be used in makefiles.
3934
3935installvendorscript (vendorscript.U):
3936 This variable is really the same as vendorscriptexp but may differ on
3937 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3938 should be used in makefiles.
3939
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3940intsize (intsize.U):
3941 This variable contains the value of the INTSIZE symbol, which
3942 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in an int.
3943
4b661809 3944issymlink (issymlink.U):
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3945 This variable holds the test command to test for a symbolic link
3946 (if they are supported). Typical values include 'test -h' and
3947 'test -L'.
4b661809 3948
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3949ivdformat (perlxvf.U):
3950 This variable contains the format string used for printing
635aebb7 3951 a Perl IV as a signed decimal integer.
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3952
3953ivsize (perlxv.U):
3954 This variable is the size of an IV in bytes.
3955
3956ivtype (perlxv.U):
3957 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's IV.
3958
781b178c 3959known_extensions (Extensions.U):
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3960 This variable holds a list of all extensions (both XS and non-xs)
3961 included in the package source distribution. This information is
3962 only really of use during the Perl build, as the list makes no
3963 distinction between extensions which were build and installed, and
3964 those which where not. See "extensions" for the list of extensions
3965 actually built and available.
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3966
3967ksh (Loc.U):
3968 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3969 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 3970
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3971ld (dlsrc.U):
3972 This variable indicates the program to be used to link
3973 libraries for dynamic loading. On some systems, it is 'ld'.
3974 On ELF systems, it should be $cc. Mostly, we'll try to respect
3975 the hint file setting.
3976
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3977ld_can_script (dlsrc.U):
3978 This variable shows if the loader accepts scripts in the form of
3979 -Wl,--version-script=ld.script. This is currently only supported
3980 for GNU ld on ELF in dynamic loading builds.
3981
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3982lddlflags (dlsrc.U):
3983 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
3984 passed to $ld to create a shared library suitable for dynamic
3985 loading. It is up to the makefile to use it. For hpux, it
3986 should be '-b'. For sunos 4.1, it is empty.
3987
3988ldflags (ccflags.U):
3989 This variable contains any additional C loader flags desired by
3990 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
3991
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3992ldflags_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
3993 This variable contains the loader flags needed by large file builds
3994 and added to ldflags by hints files.
3995
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3996ldlibpthname (libperl.U):
3997 This variable holds the name of the shared library
3998 search path, often LD_LIBRARY_PATH. To get an empty
3999 string, the hints file must set this to 'none'.
4000
4001less (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4002 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4003 full pathname (if any) of the less program. After Configure runs,
4004 the value is reset to a plain "less" and is not useful.
4005
4006lib_ext (Unix.U):
4007 This is an old synonym for _a.
4008
4009libc (libc.U):
4010 This variable contains the location of the C library.
4011
4012libperl (libperl.U):
4013 The perl executable is obtained by linking perlmain.c with
4014 libperl, any static extensions (usually just DynaLoader),
4015 and any other libraries needed on this system. libperl
4016 is usually libperl.a, but can also be libperl.so.xxx if
4017 the user wishes to build a perl executable with a shared
4018 library.
4019
4020libpth (libpth.U):
4021 This variable holds the general path (space-separated) used to find
4022 libraries. It is intended to be used by other units.
4023
4024libs (libs.U):
4025 This variable holds the additional libraries we want to use.
9285ede2 4026 It is up to the Makefile to deal with it. The list can be empty.
781b178c 4027
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4028libsdirs (libs.U):
4029 This variable holds the directory names aka dirnames of the libraries
4030 we found and accepted, duplicates are removed.
4031
4032libsfiles (libs.U):
4033 This variable holds the filenames aka basenames of the libraries
4034 we found and accepted.
4035
4036libsfound (libs.U):
4037 This variable holds the full pathnames of the libraries
4038 we found and accepted.
4039
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4040libspath (libs.U):
4041 This variable holds the directory names probed for libraries.
4042
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4043libswanted (Myinit.U):
4044 This variable holds a list of all the libraries we want to
4045 search. The order is chosen to pick up the c library
4046 ahead of ucb or bsd libraries for SVR4.
4047
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4048libswanted_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
4049 This variable contains the libraries needed by large file builds
4050 and added to ldflags by hints files. It is a space separated list
4051 of the library names without the "lib" prefix or any suffix, just
209e5c0a 4052 like libswanted..
af960fef 4053
781b178c 4054line (Loc.U):
ff935051 4055 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4056 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4057
4058lint (Loc.U):
4059 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4060 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4061
4062lkflags (ccflags.U):
4063 This variable contains any additional C partial linker flags desired by
4064 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
4065
4066ln (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4067 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4068 full pathname (if any) of the ln program. After Configure runs,
4069 the value is reset to a plain "ln" and is not useful.
4070
4071lns (lns.U):
635aebb7 4072 This variable holds the name of the command to make
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4073 symbolic links (if they are supported). It can be used
4074 in the Makefile. It is either 'ln -s' or 'ln'
4075
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4076localtime_r_proto (d_localtime_r.U):
4077 This variable encodes the prototype of localtime_r.
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4078 It is zero if d_localtime_r is undef, and one of the
4079 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_localtime_r
4080 is defined.
10bc17b6 4081
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4082locincpth (ccflags.U):
4083 This variable contains a list of additional directories to be
4084 searched by the compiler. The appropriate '-I' directives will
4085 be added to ccflags. This is intended to simplify setting
4086 local directories from the Configure command line.
4087 It's not much, but it parallels the loclibpth stuff in libpth.U.
4088
4089loclibpth (libpth.U):
4090 This variable holds the paths (space-separated) used to find local
4091 libraries. It is prepended to libpth, and is intended to be easily
4092 set from the command line.
4093
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4094longdblinfbytes (infnan.U):
4095 This variable contains comma-separated list of hexadecimal bytes
4096 for the long double precision infinity.
4097
db8b8c75 4098longdblkind (d_longdbl.U):
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4099 This variable, if defined, encodes the type of a long double:
4100 0 = double, 1 = IEEE 754 128-bit big little endian,
4101 2 = IEEE 754 128-bit big big endian, 3 = x86 80-bit little endian,
4102 4 = x86 80-bit big endian, 5 = double-double 128-bit little endian,
4103 6 = double-double 128-bit big endian, -1 = unknown format.
4104
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4105longdblmantbits (longdblmant.U):
4106 This symbol, if defined, tells how many mantissa bits
4107 there are in long double precision floating point format.
4108 Note that this can be LDBL_MANT_DIG minus one,
4109 since LDBL_MANT_DIG can include the IEEE 754 implicit bit.
4110 The common x86-style 80-bit long double does not have
4111 an implicit bit.
4112
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4113longdblnanbytes (infnan.U):
4114 This variable contains comma-separated list of hexadecimal bytes
4115 for the long double precision not-a-number.
4116
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4117longdblsize (d_longdbl.U):
4118 This variable contains the value of the LONG_DOUBLESIZE symbol, which
4119 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long double,
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4120 if this system supports long doubles. Note that this is
4121 sizeof(long double), which may include unused bytes.
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4122
4123longlongsize (d_longlong.U):
4124 This variable contains the value of the LONGLONGSIZE symbol, which
4125 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long long,
4126 if this system supports long long.
4127
4128longsize (intsize.U):
4129 This variable contains the value of the LONGSIZE symbol, which
4130 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long.
4131
4132lp (Loc.U):
4133 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4134 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4135
4136lpr (Loc.U):
4137 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4138 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4139
4140ls (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4141 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4142 full pathname (if any) of the ls program. After Configure runs,
4143 the value is reset to a plain "ls" and is not useful.
4144
4145lseeksize (lseektype.U):
635aebb7 4146 This variable defines lseektype to be something like off_t, long,
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4147 or whatever type is used to declare lseek offset's type in the
4148 kernel (which also appears to be lseek's return type).
4149
4150lseektype (lseektype.U):
635aebb7 4151 This variable defines lseektype to be something like off_t, long,
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4152 or whatever type is used to declare lseek offset's type in the
4153 kernel (which also appears to be lseek's return type).
4154
4155mail (Loc.U):
4156 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4157 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4158
4159mailx (Loc.U):
4160 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4161 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4162
4163make (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4164 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4165 full pathname (if any) of the make program. After Configure runs,
4166 the value is reset to a plain "make" and is not useful.
4167
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4168make_set_make (make.U):
4169 Some versions of 'make' set the variable MAKE. Others do not.
4170 This variable contains the string to be included in Makefile.SH
4171 so that MAKE is set if needed, and not if not needed.
4172 Possible values are:
44b94491 4173
781b178c 4174 make_set_make='#' # If your make program handles this for you,
44b94491 4175
781b178c 4176 make_set_make="MAKE=$make" # if it doesn't.
44b94491 4177
5bcaa86b 4178 This uses a comment character so that we can distinguish a
1d896104 4179 'set' value (from a previous config.sh or Configure '-D' option)
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4180 from an uncomputed value.
4181
4182mallocobj (mallocsrc.U):
4183 This variable contains the name of the malloc.o that this package
4184 generates, if that malloc.o is preferred over the system malloc.
4185 Otherwise the value is null. This variable is intended for generating
4186 Makefiles. See mallocsrc.
4187
4188mallocsrc (mallocsrc.U):
4189 This variable contains the name of the malloc.c that comes with
4190 the package, if that malloc.c is preferred over the system malloc.
4191 Otherwise the value is null. This variable is intended for generating
4192 Makefiles.
4193
4194malloctype (mallocsrc.U):
4195 This variable contains the kind of ptr returned by malloc and realloc.
4196
4197man1dir (man1dir.U):
4198 This variable contains the name of the directory in which manual
4199 source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4200 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4201 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4202
4203man1direxp (man1dir.U):
4204 This variable is the same as the man1dir variable, but is filename
4205 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4206
4207man1ext (man1dir.U):
4208 This variable contains the extension that the manual page should
4209 have: one of 'n', 'l', or '1'. The Makefile must supply the '.'.
4210 See man1dir.
4211
4212man3dir (man3dir.U):
4213 This variable contains the name of the directory in which manual
4214 source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4215 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4216 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4217
4218man3direxp (man3dir.U):
4219 This variable is the same as the man3dir variable, but is filename
4220 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4221
4222man3ext (man3dir.U):
4223 This variable contains the extension that the manual page should
4224 have: one of 'n', 'l', or '3'. The Makefile must supply the '.'.
4225 See man3dir.
4226
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4227mips_type (usrinc.U):
4228 This variable holds the environment type for the mips system.
4229 Possible values are "BSD 4.3" and "System V".
4230
65d1576c 4231mistrustnm (Csym.U):
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4232 This variable can be used to establish a fallthrough for the cases
4233 where nm fails to find a symbol. If usenm is false or usenm is true
4234 and mistrustnm is false, this variable has no effect. If usenm is true
4235 and mistrustnm is "compile", a test program will be compiled to try to
4236 find any symbol that can't be located via nm lookup. If mistrustnm is
4237 "run", the test program will be run as well as being compiled.
4238
781b178c 4239mkdir (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4240 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4241 full pathname (if any) of the mkdir program. After Configure runs,
4242 the value is reset to a plain "mkdir" and is not useful.
4243
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4244mmaptype (d_mmap.U):
4245 This symbol contains the type of pointer returned by mmap()
4246 (and simultaneously the type of the first argument).
4247 It can be 'void *' or 'caddr_t'.
4248
781b178c 4249modetype (modetype.U):
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4250 This variable defines modetype to be something like mode_t,
4251 int, unsigned short, or whatever type is used to declare file
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4252 modes for system calls.
4253
4254more (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4255 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4256 full pathname (if any) of the more program. After Configure runs,
4257 the value is reset to a plain "more" and is not useful.
4258
4259multiarch (multiarch.U):
4260 This variable conditionally defines the MULTIARCH symbol
4261 which signifies the presence of multiplatform files.
4262 This is normally set by hints files.
4263
4264mv (Loc.U):
4265 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4266 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4267
4268myarchname (archname.U):
4269 This variable holds the architecture name computed by Configure in
4270 a previous run. It is not intended to be perused by any user and
4271 should never be set in a hint file.
4272
4273mydomain (myhostname.U):
4274 This variable contains the eventual value of the MYDOMAIN symbol,
4275 which is the domain of the host the program is going to run on.
4276 The domain must be appended to myhostname to form a complete host name.
4277 The dot comes with mydomain, and need not be supplied by the program.
4278
4279myhostname (myhostname.U):
4280 This variable contains the eventual value of the MYHOSTNAME symbol,
4281 which is the name of the host the program is going to run on.
4282 The domain is not kept with hostname, but must be gotten from mydomain.
4283 The dot comes with mydomain, and need not be supplied by the program.
4284
4285myuname (Oldconfig.U):
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4286 The output of 'uname -a' if available, otherwise the hostname.
4287 The whole thing is then lower-cased and slashes and single quotes are
4288 removed.
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4289
4290n (n.U):
1d896104 4291 This variable contains the '-n' flag if that is what causes the echo
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4292 command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is
4293 $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
4294
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4295need_va_copy (need_va_copy.U):
4296 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the system stores
4297 the variable argument list datatype, va_list, in a format
4298 that cannot be copied by simple assignment, so that some
4299 other means must be used when copying is required.
4300 As such systems vary in their provision (or non-provision)
4301 of copying mechanisms, handy.h defines a platform-
4302 independent macro, Perl_va_copy(src, dst), to do the job.
4303
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4304netdb_hlen_type (netdbtype.U):
4305 This variable holds the type used for the 2nd argument to
4306 gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or size_t or unsigned.
4307 This is only useful if you have gethostbyaddr(), naturally.
4308
4309netdb_host_type (netdbtype.U):
4310 This variable holds the type used for the 1st argument to
4311 gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is char * or void *, possibly
4312 with or without a const prefix.
4313 This is only useful if you have gethostbyaddr(), naturally.
4314
4315netdb_name_type (netdbtype.U):
4316 This variable holds the type used for the argument to
4317 gethostbyname(). Usually, this is char * or const char *.
4318 This is only useful if you have gethostbyname(), naturally.
4319
4320netdb_net_type (netdbtype.U):
4321 This variable holds the type used for the 1st argument to
4322 getnetbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or long.
4323 This is only useful if you have getnetbyaddr(), naturally.
4324
4325nm (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4326 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4327 full pathname (if any) of the nm program. After Configure runs,
4328 the value is reset to a plain "nm" and is not useful.
4329
4330nm_opt (usenm.U):
4331 This variable holds the options that may be necessary for nm.
4332
4333nm_so_opt (usenm.U):
4334 This variable holds the options that may be necessary for nm
4335 to work on a shared library but that can not be used on an
4336 archive library. Currently, this is only used by Linux, where
4337 nm --dynamic is *required* to get symbols from an ELF library which
4338 has been stripped, but nm --dynamic is *fatal* on an archive library.
4339 Maybe Linux should just always set usenm=false.
4340
4341nonxs_ext (Extensions.U):
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4342 This variable holds a list of all non-xs extensions built and
4343 installed by the package. By default, all non-xs extensions
4344 distributed will be built, with the exception of platform-specific
4345 extensions (currently only one VMS specific extension).
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4346
4347nroff (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4348 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4349 full pathname (if any) of the nroff program. After Configure runs,
4350 the value is reset to a plain "nroff" and is not useful.
4351
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4352nv_overflows_integers_at (perlxv.U):
4353 This variable gives the largest integer value that NVs can hold
4354 as a constant floating point expression.
4355 If it could not be determined, it holds the value 0.
4356
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4357nv_preserves_uv_bits (perlxv.U):
4358 This variable indicates how many of bits type uvtype
4359 a variable nvtype can preserve.
4360
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4361nveformat (perlxvf.U):
4362 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4363 a Perl NV using %e-ish floating point format.
4364
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4365nvEUformat (perlxvf.U):
4366 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4367 a Perl NV using %E-ish floating point format.
4368
6b4667fc 4369nvfformat (perlxvf.U):
1332606d 4370 This variable contains the format string used for printing
6b4667fc
A
4371 a Perl NV using %f-ish floating point format.
4372
4d54317a 4373nvFUformat (perlxvf.U):
1332606d 4374 This variable contains the format string used for printing
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4375 a Perl NV using %F-ish floating point format.
4376
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4377nvgformat (perlxvf.U):
4378 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4379 a Perl NV using %g-ish floating point format.
4380
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4381nvGUformat (perlxvf.U):
4382 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4383 a Perl NV using %G-ish floating point format.
4384
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4385nvmantbits (mantbits.U):
4386 This variable tells how many bits the mantissa of a Perl NV has,
4387 not including the possible implicit bit.
4388
a22e52b9 4389nvsize (perlxv.U):
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4390 This variable is the size of a Perl NV in bytes.
4391 Note that some floating point formats have unused bytes.
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4392
4393nvtype (perlxv.U):
4394 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's NV.
4395
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4396o_nonblock (nblock_io.U):
4397 This variable bears the symbol value to be used during open() or fcntl()
4398 to turn on non-blocking I/O for a file descriptor. If you wish to switch
4399 between blocking and non-blocking, you may try ioctl(FIOSNBIO) instead,
4400 but that is only supported by some devices.
4401
4402obj_ext (Unix.U):
4403 This is an old synonym for _o.
4404
4405old_pthread_create_joinable (d_pthrattrj.U):
4406 This variable defines the constant to use for creating joinable
4407 (aka undetached) pthreads. Unused if pthread.h defines
4408 PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE. If used, possible values are
4409 PTHREAD_CREATE_UNDETACHED and __UNDETACHED.
4410
4411optimize (ccflags.U):
4412 This variable contains any optimizer/debugger flag that should be used.
4413 It is up to the Makefile to use it.
4414
4415orderlib (orderlib.U):
4416 This variable is "true" if the components of libraries must be ordered
4417 (with `lorder $* | tsort`) before placing them in an archive. Set to
4418 "false" if ranlib or ar can generate random libraries.
4419
4420osname (Oldconfig.U):
4421 This variable contains the operating system name (e.g. sunos,
4422 solaris, hpux, etc.). It can be useful later on for setting
4423 defaults. Any spaces are replaced with underscores. It is set
4424 to a null string if we can't figure it out.
4425
4426osvers (Oldconfig.U):
4427 This variable contains the operating system version (e.g.
4428 4.1.3, 5.2, etc.). It is primarily used for helping select
4429 an appropriate hints file, but might be useful elsewhere for
4430 setting defaults. It is set to '' if we can't figure it out.
4431 We try to be flexible about how much of the version number
4432 to keep, e.g. if 4.1.1, 4.1.2, and 4.1.3 are essentially the
4433 same for this package, hints files might just be os_4.0 or
4434 os_4.1, etc., not keeping separate files for each little release.
4435
3b777bb4
GS
4436otherlibdirs (otherlibdirs.U):
4437 This variable contains a colon-separated set of paths for the perl
4438 binary to search for additional library files or modules.
4439 These directories will be tacked to the end of @INC.
4440 Perl will automatically search below each path for version-
4441 and architecture-specific directories. See inc_version_list
4442 for more details.
4443 A value of ' ' means 'none' and is used to preserve this value
4444 for the next run through Configure.
4445
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4446package (package.U):
4447 This variable contains the name of the package being constructed.
4448 It is primarily intended for the use of later Configure units.
4449
4450pager (pager.U):
4451 This variable contains the name of the preferred pager on the system.
4452 Usual values are (the full pathnames of) more, less, pg, or cat.
4453
4454passcat (nis.U):
4455 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
4456 /etc/passwd file. This is normally "cat /etc/passwd", but can be
4457 "ypcat passwd" when NIS is used.
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4458 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
4459 command, in which case this variable is unset.
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4460
4461patchlevel (patchlevel.U):
4462 The patchlevel level of this package.
4463 The value of patchlevel comes from the patchlevel.h file.
ff935051 4464 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "6".
c890dc6c 4465 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_VERSION".
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4466
4467path_sep (Unix.U):
4468 This is an old synonym for p_ in Head.U, the character
4469 used to separate elements in the command shell search PATH.
4470
df4c34dc 4471perl (Loc.U):
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4472 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
4473 full pathname (if any) of the perl program. After Configure runs,
4474 the value is reset to a plain "perl" and is not useful.
df4c34dc 4475
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4476perl5 (perl5.U):
4477 This variable contains the full path (if any) to a previously
4478 installed perl5.005 or later suitable for running the script
4479 to determine inc_version_list.
4480
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4481PERL_API_REVISION (patchlevel.h):
4482 This number describes the earliest compatible PERL_REVISION of
4483 Perl ("compatibility" here being defined as sufficient binary/API
4484 compatibility to run XS code built with the older version).
4485 Normally this does not change across maintenance releases.
4486 Please read the comment in patchlevel.h.
4487
4488PERL_API_SUBVERSION (patchlevel.h):
4489 This number describes the earliest compatible PERL_SUBVERSION of
4490 Perl ("compatibility" here being defined as sufficient binary/API
4491 compatibility to run XS code built with the older version).
4492 Normally this does not change across maintenance releases.
4493 Please read the comment in patchlevel.h.
4494
4495PERL_API_VERSION (patchlevel.h):
4496 This number describes the earliest compatible PERL_VERSION of
4497 Perl ("compatibility" here being defined as sufficient binary/API
4498 compatibility to run XS code built with the older version).
4499 Normally this does not change across maintenance releases.
4500 Please read the comment in patchlevel.h.
4501
4502PERL_CONFIG_SH (Oldsyms.U):
4503 This is set to 'true' in config.sh so that a shell script
4504 sourcing config.sh can tell if it has been sourced already.
4505
4506PERL_PATCHLEVEL (Oldsyms.U):
4507 This symbol reflects the patchlevel, if available. Will usually
4508 come from the .patch file, which is available when the perl
4509 source tree was fetched with rsync.
4510
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4511perl_patchlevel (patchlevel.U):
4512 This is the Perl patch level, a numeric change identifier,
4513 as defined by whichever source code maintenance system
4514 is used to maintain the patches; currently Perforce.
4515 It does not correlate with the Perl version numbers or
4516 the maintenance versus development dichotomy except
4517 by also being increasing.
4518
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4519PERL_REVISION (Oldsyms.U):
4520 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 5.
4521 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
4522
9e08e8f0
MB
4523perl_static_inline (d_static_inline.U):
4524 This variable defines the PERL_STATIC_INLINE symbol to
4525 the best-guess incantation to use for static inline functions.
4526 Possibilities include
4527 static inline (c99)
4528 static __inline__ (gcc -ansi)
4529 static __inline (MSVC)
4530 static _inline (older MSVC)
4531 static (c89 compilers)
4532
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4533PERL_SUBVERSION (Oldsyms.U):
4534 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 2.
4535 Values greater than 50 represent potentially unstable
4536 development subversions.
4537 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
4538
4539PERL_VERSION (Oldsyms.U):
4540 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 6.
4541 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
4542
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4543perladmin (perladmin.U):
4544 Electronic mail address of the perl5 administrator.
4545
b7a73309
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4546perllibs (End.U):
4547 The list of libraries needed by Perl only (any libraries needed
4548 by extensions only will by dropped, if using dynamic loading).
4549
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MB
4550perlpath (perlpath.U):
4551 This variable contains the eventual value of the PERLPATH symbol,
4552 which contains the name of the perl interpreter to be used in
4553 shell scripts and in the "eval 'exec'" idiom. This variable is
4554 not necessarily the pathname of the file containing the perl
4555 interpreter; you must append the executable extension (_exe) if
4556 it is not already present. Note that Perl code that runs during
4557 the Perl build process cannot reference this variable, as Perl
4558 may not have been installed, or even if installed, may be a
4559 different version of Perl.
4560
781b178c 4561pg (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4562 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4563 full pathname (if any) of the pg program. After Configure runs,
4564 the value is reset to a plain "pg" and is not useful.
4565
4566phostname (myhostname.U):
4567 This variable contains the eventual value of the PHOSTNAME symbol,
4568 which is a command that can be fed to popen() to get the host name.
4569 The program should probably not presume that the domain is or isn't
4570 there already.
4571
4572pidtype (pidtype.U):
635aebb7 4573 This variable defines PIDTYPE to be something like pid_t, int,
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4574 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare process ids in the kernel.
4575
4576plibpth (libpth.U):
4577 Holds the private path used by Configure to find out the libraries.
4578 Its value is prepend to libpth. This variable takes care of special
4579 machines, like the mips. Usually, it should be empty.
4580
4581pmake (Loc.U):
4582 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4583 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4584
4585pr (Loc.U):
4586 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4587 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4588
4589prefix (prefix.U):
4590 This variable holds the name of the directory below which the
4591 user will install the package. Usually, this is /usr/local, and
4592 executables go in /usr/local/bin, library stuff in /usr/local/lib,
4593 man pages in /usr/local/man, etc. It is only used to set defaults
4594 for things in bin.U, mansrc.U, privlib.U, or scriptdir.U.
4595
4596prefixexp (prefix.U):
4597 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
4598 which the user will install the package. Derived from prefix.
4599
4600privlib (privlib.U):
4601 This variable contains the eventual value of the PRIVLIB symbol,
4602 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
4603 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
4604 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
4605
4606privlibexp (privlib.U):
4607 This variable is the ~name expanded version of privlib, so that you
4608 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
4609
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4610procselfexe (d_procselfexe.U):
4611 If d_procselfexe is defined, $procselfexe is the filename
4612 of the symbolic link pointing to the absolute pathname of
4613 the executing program.
4614
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4615prototype (prototype.U):
4616 This variable holds the eventual value of CAN_PROTOTYPE, which
1332606d 4617 indicates the C compiler can handle function prototypes.
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4618
4619ptrsize (ptrsize.U):
4620 This variable contains the value of the PTRSIZE symbol, which
4621 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a pointer.
4622
e0a10278 4623quadkind (quadtype.U):
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4624 This variable, if defined, encodes the type of a quad:
4625 1 = int, 2 = long, 3 = long long, 4 = int64_t.
4626
4627quadtype (quadtype.U):
635aebb7 4628 This variable defines Quad_t to be something like long, int,
0befd8de
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4629 long long, int64_t, or whatever type is used for 64-bit integers.
4630
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4631randbits (randfunc.U):
4632 Indicates how many bits are produced by the function used to
4633 generate normalized random numbers.
4634
4635randfunc (randfunc.U):
4636 Indicates the name of the random number function to use.
4637 Values include drand48, random, and rand. In C programs,
4638 the 'Drand01' macro is defined to generate uniformly distributed
4639 random numbers over the range [0., 1.[ (see drand01 and nrand).
4640
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4641random_r_proto (d_random_r.U):
4642 This variable encodes the prototype of random_r.
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4643 It is zero if d_random_r is undef, and one of the
4644 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_random_r
4645 is defined.
10bc17b6 4646
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4647randseedtype (randfunc.U):
4648 Indicates the type of the argument of the seedfunc.
4649
4650ranlib (orderlib.U):
4651 This variable is set to the pathname of the ranlib program, if it is
4652 needed to generate random libraries. Set to ":" if ar can generate
4653 random libraries or if random libraries are not supported
4654
4655rd_nodata (nblock_io.U):
4656 This variable holds the return code from read() when no data is
4657 present. It should be -1, but some systems return 0 when O_NDELAY is
4658 used, which is a shame because you cannot make the difference between
209e5c0a 4659 no data and an EOF.. Sigh!
781b178c 4660
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4661readdir64_r_proto (d_readdir64_r.U):
4662 This variable encodes the prototype of readdir64_r.
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4663 It is zero if d_readdir64_r is undef, and one of the
4664 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_readdir64_r
4665 is defined.
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4666
4667readdir_r_proto (d_readdir_r.U):
4668 This variable encodes the prototype of readdir_r.
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4669 It is zero if d_readdir_r is undef, and one of the
4670 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_readdir_r
4671 is defined.
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4673revision (patchlevel.U):
4674 The value of revision comes from the patchlevel.h file.
4675 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "5".
4676 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_REVISION".
4677
781b178c 4678rm (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4679 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4680 full pathname (if any) of the rm program. After Configure runs,
4681 the value is reset to a plain "rm" and is not useful.
4682
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4683rm_try (Unix.U):
4684 This is a cleanup variable for try test programs.
4685 Internal Configure use only.
4686
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4687rmail (Loc.U):
4688 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4689 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 4690
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4691run (Cross.U):
4692 This variable contains the command used by Configure
4693 to copy and execute a cross-compiled executable in the
4694 target host. Useful and available only during Perl build.
4695 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
4696
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4697runnm (usenm.U):
4698 This variable contains 'true' or 'false' depending whether the
4699 nm extraction should be performed or not, according to the value
4700 of usenm and the flags on the Configure command line.
4701
4702sched_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
4703 This variable defines the way to yield the execution
4704 of the current thread.
4705
4706scriptdir (scriptdir.U):
4707 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
4708 to put publicly scripts for the package in question. It is either
4709 the same directory as for binaries, or a special one that can be
4710 mounted across different architectures, like /usr/share. Programs
4711 must be prepared to deal with ~name expansion.
4712
4713scriptdirexp (scriptdir.U):
4714 This variable is the same as scriptdir, but is filename expanded
4715 at configuration time, for programs not wanting to bother with it.
4716
4717sed (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4718 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4719 full pathname (if any) of the sed program. After Configure runs,
4720 the value is reset to a plain "sed" and is not useful.
4721
4722seedfunc (randfunc.U):
4723 Indicates the random number generating seed function.
4724 Values include srand48, srandom, and srand.
4725
4726selectminbits (selectminbits.U):
4727 This variable holds the minimum number of bits operated by select.
4728 That is, if you do select(n, ...), how many bits at least will be
4729 cleared in the masks if some activity is detected. Usually this
4730 is either n or 32*ceil(n/32), especially many little-endians do
4731 the latter. This is only useful if you have select(), naturally.
4732
4733selecttype (selecttype.U):
4734 This variable holds the type used for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th
4735 arguments to select. Usually, this is 'fd_set *', if HAS_FD_SET
635aebb7 4736 is defined, and 'int *' otherwise. This is only useful if you
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4737 have select(), naturally.
4738
4739sendmail (Loc.U):
ff935051 4740 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4741 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 4742
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4743setgrent_r_proto (d_setgrent_r.U):
4744 This variable encodes the prototype of setgrent_r.
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4745 It is zero if d_setgrent_r is undef, and one of the
4746 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setgrent_r
4747 is defined.
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4748
4749sethostent_r_proto (d_sethostent_r.U):
4750 This variable encodes the prototype of sethostent_r.
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4751 It is zero if d_sethostent_r is undef, and one of the
4752 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_sethostent_r
4753 is defined.
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4754
4755setlocale_r_proto (d_setlocale_r.U):
4756 This variable encodes the prototype of setlocale_r.
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4757 It is zero if d_setlocale_r is undef, and one of the
4758 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setlocale_r
4759 is defined.
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4760
4761setnetent_r_proto (d_setnetent_r.U):
4762 This variable encodes the prototype of setnetent_r.
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4763 It is zero if d_setnetent_r is undef, and one of the
4764 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setnetent_r
4765 is defined.
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4766
4767setprotoent_r_proto (d_setprotoent_r.U):
4768 This variable encodes the prototype of setprotoent_r.
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4769 It is zero if d_setprotoent_r is undef, and one of the
4770 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setprotoent_r
4771 is defined.
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4772
4773setpwent_r_proto (d_setpwent_r.U):
4774 This variable encodes the prototype of setpwent_r.
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4775 It is zero if d_setpwent_r is undef, and one of the
4776 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setpwent_r
4777 is defined.
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4778
4779setservent_r_proto (d_setservent_r.U):
4780 This variable encodes the prototype of setservent_r.
39183afa
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4781 It is zero if d_setservent_r is undef, and one of the
4782 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setservent_r
4783 is defined.
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4785sGMTIME_max (time_size.U):
4786 This variable defines the maximum value of the time_t offset that
4787 the system function gmtime () accepts
4788
4789sGMTIME_min (time_size.U):
4790 This variable defines the minimum value of the time_t offset that
4791 the system function gmtime () accepts
4792
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4793sh (sh.U):
4794 This variable contains the full pathname of the shell used
4795 on this system to execute Bourne shell scripts. Usually, this will be
4796 /bin/sh, though it's possible that some systems will have /bin/ksh,
4797 /bin/pdksh, /bin/ash, /bin/bash, or even something such as
4798 D:/bin/sh.exe.
1d896104 4799 This unit comes before Options.U, so you can't set sh with a '-D'
781b178c 4800 option, though you can override this (and startsh)
1d896104 4801 with '-O -Dsh=/bin/whatever -Dstartsh=whatever'
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4802
4803shar (Loc.U):
4804 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4805 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4806
4807sharpbang (spitshell.U):
4808 This variable contains the string #! if this system supports that
4809 construct.
4810
4811shmattype (d_shmat.U):
4812 This symbol contains the type of pointer returned by shmat().
4813 It can be 'void *' or 'char *'.
4814
4815shortsize (intsize.U):
4816 This variable contains the value of the SHORTSIZE symbol which
4817 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a short.
4818
4819shrpenv (libperl.U):
4820 If the user builds a shared libperl.so, then we need to tell the
635aebb7 4821 'perl' executable where it will be able to find the installed libperl.so.
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4822 One way to do this on some systems is to set the environment variable
4823 LD_RUN_PATH to the directory that will be the final location of the
4824 shared libperl.so. The makefile can use this with something like
4825 $shrpenv $(CC) -o perl perlmain.o $libperl $libs
4826 Typical values are
4827 shrpenv="env LD_RUN_PATH=$archlibexp/CORE"
4828 or
4829 shrpenv=''
4830 See the main perl Makefile.SH for actual working usage.
4831 Alternatively, we might be able to use a command line option such
c68a00c0 4832 as -R $archlibexp/CORE (Solaris) or -Wl,-rpath
781b178c
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4833 $archlibexp/CORE (Linux).
4834
4835shsharp (spitshell.U):
4836 This variable tells further Configure units whether your sh can
4837 handle # comments.
4838
4839sig_count (sig_name.U):
4840 This variable holds a number larger than the largest valid
4841 signal number. This is usually the same as the NSIG macro.
4842
4843sig_name (sig_name.U):
4844 This variable holds the signal names, space separated. The leading
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4845 SIG in signal name is removed. A ZERO is prepended to the list.
4846 This is currently not used, sig_name_init is used instead.
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4847
4848sig_name_init (sig_name.U):
4849 This variable holds the signal names, enclosed in double quotes and
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4850 separated by commas, suitable for use in the SIG_NAME definition
4851 below. A "ZERO" is prepended to the list, and the list is
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4852 terminated with a plain 0. The leading SIG in signal names
4853 is removed. See sig_num.
4854
4855sig_num (sig_name.U):
4856 This variable holds the signal numbers, space separated. A ZERO is
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4857 prepended to the list (corresponding to the fake SIGZERO).
4858 Those numbers correspond to the value of the signal listed
4859 in the same place within the sig_name list.
4860 This is currently not used, sig_num_init is used instead.
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4861
4862sig_num_init (sig_name.U):
4863 This variable holds the signal numbers, enclosed in double quotes and
635aebb7
AL
4864 separated by commas, suitable for use in the SIG_NUM definition
4865 below. A "ZERO" is prepended to the list, and the list is
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4866 terminated with a plain 0.
4867
76d3c696
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4868sig_size (sig_name.U):
4869 This variable contains the number of elements of the sig_name
f05fc11d 4870 and sig_num arrays.
76d3c696 4871
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4872signal_t (d_voidsig.U):
4873 This variable holds the type of the signal handler (void or int).
4874
4875sitearch (sitearch.U):
4876 This variable contains the eventual value of the SITEARCH symbol,
4877 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
4878 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
4879 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
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4880 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4881 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4882 architecture-dependent modules in this directory with
4883 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4884 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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4885
4886sitearchexp (sitearch.U):
4887 This variable is the ~name expanded version of sitearch, so that you
4888 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
4889
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4890sitebin (sitebin.U):
4891 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
4892 to put add-on publicly executable files for the package in question. It
4893 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
4894 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
f868067f
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4895 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4896 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4897 executables in this directory with
4898 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4899 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
0617aed7
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4900
4901sitebinexp (sitebin.U):
4902 This is the same as the sitebin variable, but is filename expanded at
4903 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
4904
e755722e 4905sitehtml1dir (sitehtml1dir.U):
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4906 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
4907 html source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4908 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4909 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4910 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4911 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4912 html pages in this directory with
4913 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4914 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
4915
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4916sitehtml1direxp (sitehtml1dir.U):
4917 This variable is the same as the sitehtml1dir variable, but is filename
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4918 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4919
e755722e 4920sitehtml3dir (sitehtml3dir.U):
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4921 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
4922 library html source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4923 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4924 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4925 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4926 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4927 library html pages in this directory with
4928 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4929 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
4930
e755722e
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4931sitehtml3direxp (sitehtml3dir.U):
4932 This variable is the same as the sitehtml3dir variable, but is filename
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4933 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4934
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4935sitelib (sitelib.U):
4936 This variable contains the eventual value of the SITELIB symbol,
4937 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
4938 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
4939 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
f868067f
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4940 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4941 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4942 architecture-independent modules in this directory with
4943 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4944 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
781b178c 4945
526fdc24
MS
4946sitelib_stem (sitelib.U):
4947 This variable is $sitelibexp with any trailing version-specific component
4948 removed. The elements in inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U) can
4949 be tacked onto this variable to generate a list of directories to search.
4950
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4951sitelibexp (sitelib.U):
4952 This variable is the ~name expanded version of sitelib, so that you
4953 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
4954
e755722e 4955siteman1dir (siteman1dir.U):
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4956 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
4957 manual source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4958 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4959 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4960 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4961 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4962 man1 pages in this directory with
4963 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4964 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
4965
e755722e
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4966siteman1direxp (siteman1dir.U):
4967 This variable is the same as the siteman1dir variable, but is filename
10305dfa
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4968 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4969
e755722e 4970siteman3dir (siteman3dir.U):
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4971 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
4972 library man source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4973 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4974 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4975 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4976 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4977 man3 pages in this directory with
4978 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4979 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
4980
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4981siteman3direxp (siteman3dir.U):
4982 This variable is the same as the siteman3dir variable, but is filename
10305dfa
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4983 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4984
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4985siteprefix (siteprefix.U):
4986 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
4987 which the user will install add-on packages.
f868067f 4988 See INSTALL for usage and examples.
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4989
4990siteprefixexp (siteprefix.U):
4991 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
4992 which the user will install add-on packages. Derived from siteprefix.
4993
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4994sitescript (sitescript.U):
4995 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
4996 to put add-on publicly executable files for the package in question. It
4997 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
4998 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
4999 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5000 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5001 scripts in this directory with
5002 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5003 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5004
5005sitescriptexp (sitescript.U):
5006 This is the same as the sitescript variable, but is filename expanded at
5007 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
5008
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5009sizesize (sizesize.U):
5010 This variable contains the size of a sizetype in bytes.
5011
781b178c 5012sizetype (sizetype.U):
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5013 This variable defines sizetype to be something like size_t,
5014 unsigned long, or whatever type is used to declare length
781b178c
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5015 parameters for string functions.
5016
5017sleep (Loc.U):
5018 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5019 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5020
73e6e416
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5021sLOCALTIME_max (time_size.U):
5022 This variable defines the maximum value of the time_t offset that
5023 the system function localtime () accepts
5024
5025sLOCALTIME_min (time_size.U):
5026 This variable defines the minimum value of the time_t offset that
5027 the system function localtime () accepts
5028
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5029smail (Loc.U):
5030 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5031 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5032
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5033so (so.U):
5034 This variable holds the extension used to identify shared libraries
5035 (also known as shared objects) on the system. Usually set to 'so'.
5036
5037sockethdr (d_socket.U):
5038 This variable has any cpp '-I' flags needed for socket support.
5039
5040socketlib (d_socket.U):
5041 This variable has the names of any libraries needed for socket support.
5042
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5043socksizetype (socksizetype.U):
5044 This variable holds the type used for the size argument
5045 for various socket calls like accept. Usual values include
5046 socklen_t, size_t, and int.
5047
781b178c 5048sort (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5049 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5050 full pathname (if any) of the sort program. After Configure runs,
5051 the value is reset to a plain "sort" and is not useful.
5052
5053spackage (package.U):
5054 This variable contains the name of the package being constructed,
5055 with the first letter uppercased, i.e. suitable for starting
5056 sentences.
5057
5058spitshell (spitshell.U):
5059 This variable contains the command necessary to spit out a runnable
1d896104 5060 shell on this system. It is either cat or a grep '-v' for # comments.
40814d06 5061
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5062sPRId64 (quadfio.U):
5063 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5064 format 64-bit decimal numbers (format 'd') for output.
5065
5066sPRIeldbl (longdblfio.U):
5067 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5068 format long doubles (format 'e') for output.
5069
5070sPRIEUldbl (longdblfio.U):
5071 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5072 format long doubles (format 'E') for output.
5073 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIeldbl so that even
5074 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5075
5076sPRIfldbl (longdblfio.U):
5077 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5078 format long doubles (format 'f') for output.
5079
5080sPRIFUldbl (longdblfio.U):
5081 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5082 format long doubles (format 'F') for output.
5083 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIfldbl so that even
5084 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5085
5086sPRIgldbl (longdblfio.U):
5087 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5088 format long doubles (format 'g') for output.
5089
5090sPRIGUldbl (longdblfio.U):
5091 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5092 format long doubles (format 'G') for output.
5093 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIgldbl so that even
5094 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5095
5096sPRIi64 (quadfio.U):
5097 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5098 format 64-bit decimal numbers (format 'i') for output.
5099
5100sPRIo64 (quadfio.U):
5101 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5102 format 64-bit octal numbers (format 'o') for output.
5103
5104sPRIu64 (quadfio.U):
5105 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5106 format 64-bit unsigned decimal numbers (format 'u') for output.
5107
5108sPRIx64 (quadfio.U):
5109 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5110 format 64-bit hexadecimal numbers (format 'x') for output.
5111
5112sPRIXU64 (quadfio.U):
5113 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5114 format 64-bit hExADECimAl numbers (format 'X') for output.
5115 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIx64 so that even
5116 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5117
40814d06 5118srand48_r_proto (d_srand48_r.U):
10bc17b6 5119 This variable encodes the prototype of srand48_r.
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5120 It is zero if d_srand48_r is undef, and one of the
5121 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_srand48_r
5122 is defined.
10bc17b6
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5123
5124srandom_r_proto (d_srandom_r.U):
5125 This variable encodes the prototype of srandom_r.
39183afa
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5126 It is zero if d_srandom_r is undef, and one of the
5127 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_srandom_r
5128 is defined.
10bc17b6 5129
781b178c 5130src (src.U):
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5131 This variable holds the (possibly relative) path of the package source.
5132 It is up to the Makefile to use this variable and set VPATH accordingly
5133 to find the sources remotely. Use $pkgsrc to have an absolute path.
781b178c 5134
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5135sSCNfldbl (longdblfio.U):
5136 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5137 format long doubles (format 'f') for input.
5138
781b178c 5139ssizetype (ssizetype.U):
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5140 This variable defines ssizetype to be something like ssize_t,
5141 long or int. It is used by functions that return a count
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5142 of bytes or an error condition. It must be a signed type.
5143 We will pick a type such that sizeof(SSize_t) == sizeof(Size_t).
5144
668fdbe1
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5145st_ino_sign (st_ino_def.U):
5146 This variable contains the signedness of struct stat's st_ino.
5147 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
5148
5149st_ino_size (st_ino_def.U):
5150 This variable contains the size of struct stat's st_ino in bytes.
5151
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5152startperl (startperl.U):
5153 This variable contains the string to put on the front of a perl
5154 script to make sure (hopefully) that it runs with perl and not some
5155 shell. Of course, that leading line must be followed by the classical
5156 perl idiom:
5157 eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
5158 if $running_under_some_shell;
5159 to guarantee perl startup should the shell execute the script. Note
47e01c32 5160 that this magic incantation is not understood by csh.
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5161
5162startsh (startsh.U):
5163 This variable contains the string to put on the front of a shell
5164 script to make sure (hopefully) that it runs with sh and not some
5165 other shell.
5166
5167static_ext (Extensions.U):
5168 This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to
5169 link statically into the package. It is used by Makefile.
5170
5171stdchar (stdchar.U):
5172 This variable conditionally defines STDCHAR to be the type of char
5173 used in stdio.h. It has the values "unsigned char" or "char".
5174
5175stdio_base (d_stdstdio.U):
5176 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
5177 _base field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5178 be used to define the macro FILE_base(fp).
5179
5180stdio_bufsiz (d_stdstdio.U):
5181 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to determine
5182 the number of bytes store in the I/O buffer pointer to by the
5183 _base field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5184 be used to define the macro FILE_bufsiz(fp).
5185
5186stdio_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
5187 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
5188 _cnt field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5189 be used to define the macro FILE_cnt(fp).
5190
5191stdio_filbuf (d_stdstdio.U):
5192 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to tell
022735b4 5193 stdio to refill its internal buffers (?). This will
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5194 be used to define the macro FILE_filbuf(fp).
5195
5196stdio_ptr (d_stdstdio.U):
5197 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
5198 _ptr field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5199 be used to define the macro FILE_ptr(fp).
5200
5201stdio_stream_array (stdio_streams.U):
5202 This variable tells the name of the array holding the stdio streams.
5203 Usual values include _iob, __iob, and __sF.
5204
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5205strerror_r_proto (d_strerror_r.U):
5206 This variable encodes the prototype of strerror_r.
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5207 It is zero if d_strerror_r is undef, and one of the
5208 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_strerror_r
5209 is defined.
10bc17b6 5210
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5211strings (i_string.U):
5212 This variable holds the full path of the string header that will be
5213 used. Typically /usr/include/string.h or /usr/include/strings.h.
5214
5215submit (Loc.U):
5216 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5217 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5218
5219subversion (patchlevel.U):
5220 The subversion level of this package.
5221 The value of subversion comes from the patchlevel.h file.
ff935051 5222 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "1".
c890dc6c 5223 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_SUBVERSION".
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5224 This is unique to perl.
5225
5226sysman (sysman.U):
5227 This variable holds the place where the manual is located on this
5228 system. It is not the place where the user wants to put his manual
5229 pages. Rather it is the place where Configure may look to find manual
5230 for unix commands (section 1 of the manual usually). See mansrc.
5231
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5232sysroot (Sysroot.U):
5233 This variable is empty unless supplied by the Configure user.
5234 It can contain a path to an alternative root directory, under which
5235 headers and libraries for the compilation target can be found. This
5236 is generally used when cross-compiling using a gcc-like compiler.
5237
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5238tail (Loc.U):
5239 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5240 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5241
5242tar (Loc.U):
5243 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5244 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5245
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5246targetarch (Cross.U):
5247 If cross-compiling, this variable contains the target architecture.
5248 If not, this will be empty.
5249
56b575b9 5250targetdir (Cross.U):
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5251 This variable contains a path that will be created on the target
5252 host using targetmkdir, and then used to copy the cross-compiled
5253 executables to. Defaults to '/tmp' if not set.
a2c3ce73
BF
5254
5255targetenv (Cross.U):
51b4c035
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5256 If cross-compiling, this variable can be used to modify the
5257 environment on the target system.
5258 However, how and where it's used, and even if it's used at all, is
5259 entirely dependent on both the transport mechanism (targetrun) and
5260 what the target system is. Unless the relevant documentation says
5261 otherwise, it is genereally not useful.
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5262
5263targethost (Cross.U):
5264 This variable contains the name of a separate host machine that
5265 can be used to run compiled test programs and perl tests on.
5266 Set to empty string if not in use.
5267
5268targetmkdir (Cross.U):
5269 This variable contains the command used by Configure to create a
5270 new directory on the target host.
5271
5272targetport (Cross.U):
5273 This variable contains the number of a network port to be used to
5274 connect to the host in targethost, if unset defaults to 22 for ssh.
5275
1d38f63f 5276targetsh (sh.U):
0f3731c6
BF
5277 If cross-compiling, this variable contains the location of sh on the
5278 target system.
5279 If not, this will be the same as $sh.
5280
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5281tbl (Loc.U):
5282 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5283 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5284
5285tee (Loc.U):
5286 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5287 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5288
5289test (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5290 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5291 full pathname (if any) of the test program. After Configure runs,
5292 the value is reset to a plain "test" and is not useful.
5293
5294timeincl (i_time.U):
5295 This variable holds the full path of the included time header(s).
5296
5297timetype (d_time.U):
5298 This variable holds the type returned by time(). It can be long,
5299 or time_t on BSD sites (in which case <sys/types.h> should be
5300 included). Anyway, the type Time_t should be used.
5301
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5302tmpnam_r_proto (d_tmpnam_r.U):
5303 This variable encodes the prototype of tmpnam_r.
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5304 It is zero if d_tmpnam_r is undef, and one of the
5305 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_tmpnam_r
5306 is defined.
10bc17b6 5307
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5308to (Cross.U):
5309 This variable contains the command used by Configure
5310 to copy to from the target host. Useful and available
5311 only during Perl build.
5312 The string ':' if not cross-compiling.
5313
781b178c 5314touch (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5315 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5316 full pathname (if any) of the touch program. After Configure runs,
5317 the value is reset to a plain "touch" and is not useful.
5318
5319tr (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5320 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5321 full pathname (if any) of the tr program. After Configure runs,
5322 the value is reset to a plain "tr" and is not useful.
5323
5324trnl (trnl.U):
5325 This variable contains the value to be passed to the tr(1)
5326 command to transliterate a newline. Typical values are
5327 '\012' and '\n'. This is needed for EBCDIC systems where
5328 newline is not necessarily '\012'.
5329
5330troff (Loc.U):
5331 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5332 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5333
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5334ttyname_r_proto (d_ttyname_r.U):
5335 This variable encodes the prototype of ttyname_r.
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5336 It is zero if d_ttyname_r is undef, and one of the
5337 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_ttyname_r
5338 is defined.
10bc17b6 5339
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5340u16size (perlxv.U):
5341 This variable is the size of an U16 in bytes.
5342
5343u16type (perlxv.U):
5344 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U16.
5345
5346u32size (perlxv.U):
5347 This variable is the size of an U32 in bytes.
5348
5349u32type (perlxv.U):
5350 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U32.
5351
5352u64size (perlxv.U):
5353 This variable is the size of an U64 in bytes.
5354
5355u64type (perlxv.U):
5356 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U64.
5357
5358u8size (perlxv.U):
5359 This variable is the size of an U8 in bytes.
5360
5361u8type (perlxv.U):
5362 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U8.
5363
5364uidformat (uidf.U):
5365 This variable contains the format string used for printing a Uid_t.
5366
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5367uidsign (uidsign.U):
5368 This variable contains the signedness of a uidtype.
5369 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
5370
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5371uidsize (uidsize.U):
5372 This variable contains the size of a uidtype in bytes.
5373
781b178c 5374uidtype (uidtype.U):
635aebb7 5375 This variable defines Uid_t to be something like uid_t, int,
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5376 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare user ids in the kernel.
5377
5378uname (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5379 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5380 full pathname (if any) of the uname program. After Configure runs,
5381 the value is reset to a plain "uname" and is not useful.
5382
5383uniq (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5384 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5385 full pathname (if any) of the uniq program. After Configure runs,
5386 the value is reset to a plain "uniq" and is not useful.
5387
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5388uquadtype (quadtype.U):
5389 This variable defines Uquad_t to be something like unsigned long,
5390 unsigned int, unsigned long long, uint64_t, or whatever type is
5391 used for 64-bit integers.
5392
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5393use5005threads (usethreads.U):
5394 This variable conditionally defines the USE_5005THREADS symbol,
5395 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the 5.005-based
5c40187f 5396 threading implementation. Only valid up to 5.8.x.
10305dfa 5397
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5398use64bitall (use64bits.U):
5399 This variable conditionally defines the USE_64_BIT_ALL symbol,
5400 and indicates that 64-bit integer types should be used
5401 when available. The maximal possible
5402 64-bitness is employed: LP64 or ILP64, meaning that you will
5403 be able to use more than 2 gigabytes of memory. This mode is
5404 even more binary incompatible than USE_64_BIT_INT. You may not
5405 be able to run the resulting executable in a 32-bit CPU at all or
5406 you may need at least to reboot your OS to 64-bit mode.
5407
5408use64bitint (use64bits.U):
5409 This variable conditionally defines the USE_64_BIT_INT symbol,
aaacdc8b 5410 and indicates that 64-bit integer types should be used
c890dc6c
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5411 when available. The minimal possible 64-bitness
5412 is employed, just enough to get 64-bit integers into Perl.
5413 This may mean using for example "long longs", while your memory
5414 may still be limited to 2 gigabytes.
781b178c 5415
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5416usecbacktrace (usebacktrace.U):
5417 This variable indicates whether we are compiling with backtrace
5418 support.
5419
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5420usecrosscompile (Cross.U):
5421 This variable conditionally defines the USE_CROSS_COMPILE symbol,
5422 and indicates that Perl has been cross-compiled.
5423
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5424usedevel (Devel.U):
5425 This variable indicates that Perl was configured with development
5426 features enabled. This should not be done for production builds.
5427
781b178c 5428usedl (dlsrc.U):
ff935051 5429 This variable indicates if the system supports dynamic
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5430 loading of some sort. See also dlsrc and dlobj.
5431
34f1896b
MB
5432usedtrace (usedtrace.U):
5433 This variable indicates whether we are compiling with dtrace
5434 support. See also dtrace.
5ac1e9b2 5435
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5436usefaststdio (usefaststdio.U):
5437 This variable conditionally defines the USE_FAST_STDIO symbol,
5438 and indicates that Perl should be built to use 'fast stdio'.
5439 Defaults to define in Perls 5.8 and earlier, to undef later.
5440
aaacdc8b
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5441useithreads (usethreads.U):
5442 This variable conditionally defines the USE_ITHREADS symbol,
5443 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the interpreter-based
5444 threading implementation.
5445
269a7913 5446usekernprocpathname (usekernprocpathname.U):
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NC
5447 This variable, indicates that we can use sysctl with
5448 KERN_PROC_PATHNAME to get a full path for the executable, and hence
5449 convert $^X to an absolute path.
5450
5bf26616 5451uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
1baac590
JH
5452 This variable conditionally defines the USE_LARGE_FILES symbol,
5453 and indicates that large file interfaces should be used when
c890dc6c 5454 available.
1baac590 5455
ca24dfc6
LV
5456uselongdouble (uselongdbl.U):
5457 This variable conditionally defines the USE_LONG_DOUBLE symbol,
5458 and indicates that long doubles should be used when available.
5459
fd550ca5
MB
5460usemallocwrap (mallocsrc.U):
5461 This variable contains y if we are wrapping malloc to prevent
5462 integer overflow during size calculations.
5463
1baac590
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5464usemorebits (usemorebits.U):
5465 This variable conditionally defines the USE_MORE_BITS symbol,
5466 and indicates that explicit 64-bit interfaces and long doubles
5467 should be used when available.
5468
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5469usemultiplicity (usemultiplicity.U):
5470 This variable conditionally defines the MULTIPLICITY symbol,
5471 and indicates that Perl should be built to use multiplicity.
5472
5473usemymalloc (mallocsrc.U):
5474 This variable contains y if the malloc that comes with this package
5475 is desired over the system's version of malloc. People often include
47e01c32 5476 special versions of malloc for efficiency, but such versions are often
781b178c
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5477 less portable. See also mallocsrc and mallocobj.
5478 If this is 'y', then -lmalloc is removed from $libs.
5479
5480usenm (usenm.U):
5481 This variable contains 'true' or 'false' depending whether the
5482 nm extraction is wanted or not.
5483
ae60cb46
NC
5484usensgetexecutablepath (usensgetexecutablepath.U):
5485 This symbol, if defined, indicates that we can use _NSGetExecutablePath
5486 and realpath to get a full path for the executable, and hence convert
5487 $^X to an absolute path.
5488
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5489useopcode (Extensions.U):
5490 This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate
5491 whether the Opcode extension should be used. The sole
5492 use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism
5493 for users to skip the Opcode extension from the Configure
5494 command line.
5495
5496useperlio (useperlio.U):
5497 This variable conditionally defines the USE_PERLIO symbol,
5498 and indicates that the PerlIO abstraction should be
5499 used throughout.
5500
5501useposix (Extensions.U):
5502 This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate
5503 whether the POSIX extension should be used. The sole
5504 use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism
5505 for hints files to indicate that POSIX will not compile
5506 on a particular system.
5507
d6d36205
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5508usequadmath (usequadmath.U):
5509 This variable conditionally defines the USE_QUADMATH symbol,
5510 and indicates that the quadmath library __float128 long doubles
5511 should be used when available.
5512
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5513usereentrant (usethreads.U):
5514 This variable conditionally defines the USE_REENTRANT_API symbol,
5515 which indicates that the thread code may try to use the various
5516 _r versions of library functions. This is only potentially
5517 meaningful if usethreads is set and is very experimental, it is
5518 not even prompted for.
5519
df4c34dc 5520userelocatableinc (bin.U):
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NC
5521 This variable is set to true to indicate that perl should relocate
5522 @INC entries at runtime based on the path to the perl binary.
5523 Any @INC paths starting ".../" are relocated relative to the directory
5524 containing the perl binary, and a logical cleanup of the path is then
5525 made around the join point (removing "dir/../" pairs)
5526
781b178c 5527useshrplib (libperl.U):
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5528 This variable is set to 'true' if the user wishes
5529 to build a shared libperl, and 'false' otherwise.
781b178c 5530
df4c34dc
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5531usesitecustomize (d_sitecustomize.U):
5532 This variable is set to true when the user requires a mechanism that
5533 allows the sysadmin to add entries to @INC at runtime. This variable
5534 being set, makes perl run '$sitelib/sitecustomize.pl' at startup.
5535
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5536usesocks (usesocks.U):
5537 This variable conditionally defines the USE_SOCKS symbol,
5538 and indicates that Perl should be built to use SOCKS.
5539
5540usethreads (usethreads.U):
b99a9337 5541 This variable conditionally defines the USE_THREADS symbol,
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5542 and indicates that Perl should be built to use threads.
5543
9f50e519
NA
5544usevendorprefix (vendorprefix.U):
5545 This variable tells whether the vendorprefix
5546 and consequently other vendor* paths are in use.
5547
1a1287f4
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5548useversionedarchname (archname.U):
5549 This variable indicates whether to include the $api_versionstring
5550 as a component of the $archname.
5551
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5552usevfork (d_vfork.U):
5553 This variable is set to true when the user accepts to use vfork.
5554 It is set to false when no vfork is available or when the user
47e01c32 5555 explicitly requests not to use vfork.
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5556
5557usrinc (usrinc.U):
5558 This variable holds the path of the include files, which is
5559 usually /usr/include. It is mainly used by other Configure units.
5560
5561uuname (Loc.U):
5562 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5563 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5564
a22e52b9
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5565uvoformat (perlxvf.U):
5566 This variable contains the format string used for printing
635aebb7 5567 a Perl UV as an unsigned octal integer.
a22e52b9
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5568
5569uvsize (perlxv.U):
5570 This variable is the size of a UV in bytes.
5571
5572uvtype (perlxv.U):
5573 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's UV.
5574
5575uvuformat (perlxvf.U):
5576 This variable contains the format string used for printing
635aebb7 5577 a Perl UV as an unsigned decimal integer.
a22e52b9
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5578
5579uvxformat (perlxvf.U):
5580 This variable contains the format string used for printing
6b4667fc
A
5581 a Perl UV as an unsigned hexadecimal integer in lowercase abcdef.
5582
4d54317a
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5583uvXUformat (perlxvf.U):
5584 This variable contains the format string used for printing
5585 a Perl UV as an unsigned hexadecimal integer in uppercase ABCDEF.
5586
d03b3b00
MB
5587vaproto (vaproto.U):
5588 This variable conditionally defines CAN_VAPROTO on systems supporting
5589 prototype declaration of functions with a variable number of
5590 arguments. See also prototype.
5591
526fdc24
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5592vendorarch (vendorarch.U):
5593 This variable contains the value of the PERL_VENDORARCH symbol.
635aebb7 5594 It may have a ~ on the front.
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MS
5595 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5596 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5597 architecture-dependent modules and extensions in this directory with
635aebb7 5598 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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MS
5599 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5600
5601vendorarchexp (vendorarch.U):
5602 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorarch, so that you
5603 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5604
0617aed7 5605vendorbin (vendorbin.U):
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5606 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORBIN symbol.
5607 It may have a ~ on the front.
5608 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5609 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place additional
5610 binaries in this directory with
635aebb7 5611 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
f868067f 5612 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
0617aed7
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5613
5614vendorbinexp (vendorbin.U):
5615 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorbin, so that you
5616 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5617
e755722e 5618vendorhtml1dir (vendorhtml1dir.U):
635aebb7 5619 This variable contains the name of the directory for html
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5620 pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5621 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5622 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5623 html pages in this directory with
635aebb7 5624 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
10305dfa
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5625 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5626
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5627vendorhtml1direxp (vendorhtml1dir.U):
5628 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorhtml1dir, so that you
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5629 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5630
e755722e 5631vendorhtml3dir (vendorhtml3dir.U):
635aebb7 5632 This variable contains the name of the directory for html
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5633 library pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5634 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5635 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5636 html pages for modules and extensions in this directory with
635aebb7 5637 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5638 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5639
e755722e
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5640vendorhtml3direxp (vendorhtml3dir.U):
5641 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorhtml3dir, so that you
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5642 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5643
a3635516
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5644vendorlib (vendorlib.U):
5645 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORLIB symbol,
f868067f
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5646 which is the name of the private library for this package.
5647 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5648 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5649 modules in this directory with
635aebb7 5650 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
f868067f 5651 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
a3635516 5652
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5653vendorlib_stem (vendorlib.U):
5654 This variable is $vendorlibexp with any trailing version-specific component
5655 removed. The elements in inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U) can
5656 be tacked onto this variable to generate a list of directories to search.
5657
a3635516
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5658vendorlibexp (vendorlib.U):
5659 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorlib, so that you
5660 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5661
e755722e 5662vendorman1dir (vendorman1dir.U):
635aebb7 5663 This variable contains the name of the directory for man1
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5664 pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5665 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5666 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5667 man1 pages in this directory with
635aebb7 5668 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
10305dfa
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5669 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5670
e755722e
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5671vendorman1direxp (vendorman1dir.U):
5672 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorman1dir, so that you
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5673 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5674
e755722e 5675vendorman3dir (vendorman3dir.U):
635aebb7 5676 This variable contains the name of the directory for man3
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5677 pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5678 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5679 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5680 man3 pages in this directory with
635aebb7 5681 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5682 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5683
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5684vendorman3direxp (vendorman3dir.U):
5685 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorman3dir, so that you
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5686 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5687
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5688vendorprefix (vendorprefix.U):
5689 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
5690 which the vendor will install add-on packages.
f868067f 5691 See INSTALL for usage and examples.
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5692
5693vendorprefixexp (vendorprefix.U):
5694 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
5695 which the vendor will install add-on packages. Derived from vendorprefix.
5696
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5697vendorscript (vendorscript.U):
5698 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORSCRIPT symbol.
5699 It may have a ~ on the front.
5700 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5701 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place additional
5702 executable scripts in this directory with
635aebb7 5703 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5704 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5705
5706vendorscriptexp (vendorscript.U):
5707 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorscript, so that you
5708 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5709
781b178c 5710version (patchlevel.U):
ff935051 5711 The full version number of this package, such as 5.6.1 (or 5_6_1).
c890dc6c 5712 This combines revision, patchlevel, and subversion to get the
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5713 full version number, including any possible subversions.
5714 This is suitable for use as a directory name, and hence is
5715 filesystem dependent.
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5717version_patchlevel_string (patchlevel.U):
5718 This is a string combining version, subversion and
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5719 perl_patchlevel (if perl_patchlevel is non-zero).
5720 It is typically something like
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5721 'version 7 subversion 1' or
5722 'version 7 subversion 1 patchlevel 11224'
5723 It is computed here to avoid duplication of code in myconfig.SH
635aebb7 5724 and lib/Config.pm.
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5726versiononly (versiononly.U):
5727 If set, this symbol indicates that only the version-specific
5728 components of a perl installation should be installed.
5729 This may be useful for making a test installation of a new
5730 version without disturbing the existing installation.
5731 Setting versiononly is equivalent to setting installperl's -v option.
5732 In particular, the non-versioned scripts and programs such as
5733 a2p, c2ph, h2xs, pod2*, and perldoc are not installed
5734 (see INSTALL for a more complete list). Nor are the man
5735 pages installed.
5736 Usually, this is undef.
5737
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5738vi (Loc.U):
5739 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5740 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5742xlibpth (libpth.U):
5743 This variable holds extra path (space-separated) used to find
5744 libraries on this platform, for example CPU-specific libraries
5745 (on multi-CPU platforms) may be listed here.
5746
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5747yacc (yacc.U):
5748 This variable holds the name of the compiler compiler we
5749 want to use in the Makefile. It can be yacc, byacc, or bison -y.
5750
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5751yaccflags (yacc.U):
5752 This variable contains any additional yacc flags desired by the
5753 user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
5754
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5755zcat (Loc.U):
5756 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5757 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5758
5759zip (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5760 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5761 full pathname (if any) of the zip program. After Configure runs,
5762 the value is reset to a plain "zip" and is not useful.
5763