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2!!!!!!! DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE !!!!!!!
3This file is built by metaconfig.
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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
44aphostname (d_gethname.U):
45 This variable contains the command which can be used to compute the
46 host name. The command is fully qualified by its absolute path, to make
47 it safe when used by a process with super-user privileges.
48
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49api_revision (patchlevel.U):
50 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
51 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
52 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
53 such as '5.6.1', api_revision is the '5'.
54 Prior to 5.5.640, the format was a floating point number,
55 like 5.00563.
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56
57 perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically search in
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58 $sitelib/.. for older directories back to the limit specified
59 by these api_ variables. This is only useful if you have a
60 perl library directory tree structured like the default one.
61 See INSTALL for how this works. The versioned site_perl
62 directory was introduced in 5.005, so that is the lowest
63 possible value. The version list appropriate for the current
64 system is determined in inc_version_list.U.
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65
66 XXX To do: Since compatibility can depend on compile time
08e5223a 67 options (such as bincompat, longlong, etc.) it should
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68 (perhaps) be set by Configure, but currently it isn't.
69 Currently, we read a hard-wired value from patchlevel.h.
70 Perhaps what we ought to do is take the hard-wired value from
71 patchlevel.h but then modify it if the current Configure
72 options warrant. patchlevel.h then would use an #ifdef guard.
73
74api_subversion (patchlevel.U):
75 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
76 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
77 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
78 such as '5.6.1', api_subversion is the '1'. See api_revision for
79 full details.
80
81api_version (patchlevel.U):
82 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
83 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
84 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
85 such as '5.6.1', api_version is the '6'. See api_revision for
86 full details. As a special case, 5.5.0 is rendered in the
87 old-style as 5.005. (In the 5.005_0x maintenance series,
88 this was the only versioned directory in $sitelib.)
89
90api_versionstring (patchlevel.U):
91 This variable combines api_revision, api_version, and
92 api_subversion in a format such as 5.6.1 (or 5_6_1) suitable
93 for use as a directory name. This is filesystem dependent.
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94
95ar (Loc.U):
5bf26616 96 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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97 full pathname (if any) of the ar program. After Configure runs,
98 the value is reset to a plain "ar" and is not useful.
99
100archlib (archlib.U):
101 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
102 to put architecture-dependent public library files for $package.
103 It is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/lib.
104 Programs using this variable must be prepared to deal
105 with filename expansion.
106
107archlibexp (archlib.U):
108 This variable is the same as the archlib variable, but is
109 filename expanded at configuration time, for convenient use.
110
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111archname (archname.U):
112 This variable is a short name to characterize the current
113 architecture. It is used mainly to construct the default archlib.
114
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115archname64 (use64bits.U):
116 This variable is used for the 64-bitness part of $archname.
117
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118archobjs (Unix.U):
119 This variable defines any additional objects that must be linked
120 in with the program on this architecture. On unix, it is usually
121 empty. It is typically used to include emulations of unix calls
122 or other facilities. For perl on OS/2, for example, this would
123 include os2/os2.obj.
124
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125asctime_r_proto (d_asctime_r.U):
126 This variable encodes the prototype of asctime_r.
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127 It is zero if d_asctime_r is undef, and one of the
128 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_asctime_r
129 is defined.
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781b178c 131awk (Loc.U):
5bf26616 132 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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133 full pathname (if any) of the awk program. After Configure runs,
134 the value is reset to a plain "awk" and is not useful.
135
136baserev (baserev.U):
137 The base revision level of this package, from the .package file.
138
139bash (Loc.U):
140 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 141 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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142
143bin (bin.U):
144 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
145 to put publicly executable images for the package in question. It
146 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
147 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
148
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149bin_ELF (dlsrc.U):
150 This variable saves the result from configure if generated binaries
151 are in ELF format. Only set to defined when the test has actually
152 been performed, and the result was positive.
153
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154binexp (bin.U):
155 This is the same as the bin variable, but is filename expanded at
156 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
157
158bison (Loc.U):
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159 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
160 full pathname (if any) of the bison program. After Configure runs,
161 the value is reset to a plain "bison" and is not useful.
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162
163byacc (Loc.U):
5bf26616 164 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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165 full pathname (if any) of the byacc program. After Configure runs,
166 the value is reset to a plain "byacc" and is not useful.
167
168byteorder (byteorder.U):
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169 This variable holds the byte order in a UV. In the following,
170 larger digits indicate more significance. The variable byteorder
171 is either 4321 on a big-endian machine, or 1234 on a little-endian,
172 or 87654321 on a Cray ... or 3412 with weird order !
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173
174c (n.U):
175 This variable contains the \c string if that is what causes the echo
176 command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is
177 $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
178
179castflags (d_castneg.U):
180 This variable contains a flag that precise difficulties the
181 compiler has casting odd floating values to unsigned long:
182 0 = ok
183 1 = couldn't cast < 0
184 2 = couldn't cast >= 0x80000000
185 4 = couldn't cast in argument expression list
186
187cat (Loc.U):
5bf26616 188 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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189 full pathname (if any) of the cat program. After Configure runs,
190 the value is reset to a plain "cat" and is not useful.
191
192cc (cc.U):
193 This variable holds the name of a command to execute a C compiler which
194 can resolve multiple global references that happen to have the same
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195 name. Usual values are 'cc' and 'gcc'.
196 Fervent ANSI compilers may be called 'c89'. AIX has xlc.
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197
198cccdlflags (dlsrc.U):
199 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
200 passed with 'cc -c' to compile modules to be used to create a shared
201 library that will be used for dynamic loading. For hpux, this
202 should be +z. It is up to the makefile to use it.
203
204ccdlflags (dlsrc.U):
205 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
206 passed to cc to link with a shared library for dynamic loading.
207 It is up to the makefile to use it. For sunos 4.1, it should
208 be empty.
209
210ccflags (ccflags.U):
211 This variable contains any additional C compiler flags desired by
212 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
213
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214ccflags_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
215 This variable contains the compiler flags needed by large file builds
216 and added to ccflags by hints files.
217
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218ccname (Checkcc.U):
219 This can set either by hints files or by Configure. If using
220 gcc, this is gcc, and if not, usually equal to cc, unimpressive, no?
221 Some platforms, however, make good use of this by storing the
222 flavor of the C compiler being used here. For example if using
223 the Sun WorkShop suite, ccname will be 'workshop'.
224
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225ccsymbols (Cppsym.U):
226 The variable contains the symbols defined by the C compiler alone.
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227 The symbols defined by cpp or by cc when it calls cpp are not in
228 this list, see cppsymbols and cppccsymbols.
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229 The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
230
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231ccversion (Checkcc.U):
232 This can set either by hints files or by Configure. If using
233 a (non-gcc) vendor cc, this variable may contain a version for
234 the compiler.
235
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236cf_by (cf_who.U):
237 Login name of the person who ran the Configure script and answered the
238 questions. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH.
239
240cf_email (cf_email.U):
241 Electronic mail address of the person who ran Configure. This can be
242 used by units that require the user's e-mail, like MailList.U.
243
244cf_time (cf_who.U):
245 Holds the output of the "date" command when the configuration file was
246 produced. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH.
247
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248charbits (charsize.U):
249 This variable contains the value of the CHARBITS symbol, which
250 indicates to the C program how many bits there are in a character.
251
252charsize (charsize.U):
253 This variable contains the value of the CHARSIZE symbol, which
254 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a character.
255
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256chgrp (Loc.U):
257 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 258 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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259
260chmod (Loc.U):
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261 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
262 full pathname (if any) of the chmod program. After Configure runs,
263 the value is reset to a plain "chmod" and is not useful.
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264
265chown (Loc.U):
266 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 267 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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268
269clocktype (d_times.U):
270 This variable holds the type returned by times(). It can be long,
271 or clock_t on BSD sites (in which case <sys/types.h> should be
272 included).
273
274comm (Loc.U):
5bf26616 275 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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276 full pathname (if any) of the comm program. After Configure runs,
277 the value is reset to a plain "comm" and is not useful.
278
279compress (Loc.U):
280 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 281 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 282
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283config_arg0 (Options.U):
284 This variable contains the string used to invoke the Configure
285 command, as reported by the shell in the $0 variable.
286
287config_argc (Options.U):
47e01c32 288 This variable contains the number of command-line arguments
ecf5c238 289 passed to Configure, as reported by the shell in the $# variable.
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290 The individual arguments are stored as variables config_arg1,
291 config_arg2, etc.
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292
293config_args (Options.U):
294 This variable contains a single string giving the command-line
295 arguments passed to Configure. Spaces within arguments,
296 quotes, and escaped characters are not correctly preserved.
297 To reconstruct the command line, you must assemble the individual
298 command line pieces, given in config_arg[0-9]*.
299
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300contains (contains.U):
301 This variable holds the command to do a grep with a proper return
302 status. On most sane systems it is simply "grep". On insane systems
303 it is a grep followed by a cat followed by a test. This variable
304 is primarily for the use of other Configure units.
305
306cp (Loc.U):
5bf26616 307 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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308 full pathname (if any) of the cp program. After Configure runs,
309 the value is reset to a plain "cp" and is not useful.
310
311cpio (Loc.U):
312 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 313 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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314
315cpp (Loc.U):
5bf26616 316 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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317 full pathname (if any) of the cpp program. After Configure runs,
318 the value is reset to a plain "cpp" and is not useful.
319
320cpp_stuff (cpp_stuff.U):
505656d3 321 This variable contains an identification of the concatenation mechanism
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322 used by the C preprocessor.
323
324cppccsymbols (Cppsym.U):
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325 The variable contains the symbols defined by the C compiler
326 when it calls cpp. The symbols defined by the cc alone or cpp
327 alone are not in this list, see ccsymbols and cppsymbols.
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328 The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
329
330cppflags (ccflags.U):
331 This variable holds the flags that will be passed to the C pre-
332 processor. It is up to the Makefile to use it.
333
334cpplast (cppstdin.U):
335 This variable has the same functionality as cppminus, only it applies
336 to cpprun and not cppstdin.
337
338cppminus (cppstdin.U):
339 This variable contains the second part of the string which will invoke
340 the C preprocessor on the standard input and produce to standard
341 output. This variable will have the value "-" if cppstdin needs
342 a minus to specify standard input, otherwise the value is "".
343
344cpprun (cppstdin.U):
345 This variable contains the command which will invoke a C preprocessor
346 on standard input and put the output to stdout. It is guaranteed not
347 to be a wrapper and may be a null string if no preprocessor can be
348 made directly available. This preprocessor might be different from the
349 one used by the C compiler. Don't forget to append cpplast after the
350 preprocessor options.
351
352cppstdin (cppstdin.U):
353 This variable contains the command which will invoke the C
354 preprocessor on standard input and put the output to stdout.
355 It is primarily used by other Configure units that ask about
356 preprocessor symbols.
357
358cppsymbols (Cppsym.U):
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359 The variable contains the symbols defined by the C preprocessor
360 alone. The symbols defined by cc or by cc when it calls cpp are
361 not in this list, see ccsymbols and cppccsymbols.
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362 The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
363
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364crypt_r_proto (d_crypt_r.U):
365 This variable encodes the prototype of crypt_r.
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366 It is zero if d_crypt_r is undef, and one of the
367 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_crypt_r
368 is defined.
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370cryptlib (d_crypt.U):
371 This variable holds -lcrypt or the path to a libcrypt.a archive if
372 the crypt() function is not defined in the standard C library. It is
373 up to the Makefile to use this.
374
375csh (Loc.U):
5bf26616 376 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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377 full pathname (if any) of the csh program. After Configure runs,
378 the value is reset to a plain "csh" and is not useful.
379
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380ctermid_r_proto (d_ctermid_r.U):
381 This variable encodes the prototype of ctermid_r.
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382 It is zero if d_ctermid_r is undef, and one of the
383 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_ctermid_r
384 is defined.
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385
386ctime_r_proto (d_ctime_r.U):
387 This variable encodes the prototype of ctime_r.
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388 It is zero if d_ctime_r is undef, and one of the
389 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_ctime_r
390 is defined.
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392d__fwalk (d__fwalk.U):
393 This variable conditionally defines HAS__FWALK if _fwalk() is
394 available to apply a function to all the file handles.
395
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396d_accept4 (d_accept4.U):
397 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ACCEPT4
398 if accept4() is available to accept socket connections.
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_bsd (Guess.U):
499 This symbol conditionally defines the symbol BSD when running on a
500 BSD system.
501
502d_bsdgetpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
503 This variable conditionally defines USE_BSD_GETPGRP if
504 getpgrp needs one arguments whereas USG one needs none.
505
506d_bsdsetpgrp (d_setpgrp.U):
507 This variable conditionally defines USE_BSD_SETPGRP if
508 setpgrp needs two arguments whereas USG one needs none.
509 See also d_setpgid for a POSIX interface.
510
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511d_builtin_add_overflow (d_builtin_overflow.U):
512 This variable conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_ADD_OVERFLOW, which
513 indicates that the compiler supports __builtin_add_overflow(x,y,&z)
514 for safely adding x and y into z while checking for overflow.
515
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516d_builtin_choose_expr (d_builtin.U):
517 This conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_CHOOSE_EXPR, which
518 indicates that the compiler supports __builtin_choose_expr(x,y,z).
519 This built-in function is analogous to the "x?y:z" operator in C,
520 except that the expression returned has its type unaltered by
521 promotion rules. Also, the built-in function does not evaluate
522 the expression that was not chosen.
523
524d_builtin_expect (d_builtin.U):
525 This conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_EXPECT, which indicates
526 that the compiler supports __builtin_expect(exp,c). You may use
527 __builtin_expect to provide the compiler with branch prediction
528 information.
529
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530d_builtin_mul_overflow (d_builtin_overflow.U):
531 This variable conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_MUL_OVERFLOW, which
532 indicates that the compiler supports __builtin_mul_overflow(x,y,&z)
533 for safely multiplying x and y into z while checking for overflow.
534
535d_builtin_sub_overflow (d_builtin_overflow.U):
536 This variable conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_SUB_OVERFLOW, which
537 indicates that the compiler supports __builtin_sub_overflow(x,y,&z)
538 for safely subtracting y from x into z while checking for overflow.
539
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540d_c99_variadic_macros (d_c99_variadic.U):
541 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_C99_VARIADIC_MACROS
542 symbol, which indicates to the C program that C99 variadic macros
543 are available.
544
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545d_casti32 (d_casti32.U):
546 This variable conditionally defines CASTI32, which indicates
547 whether the C compiler can cast large floats to 32-bit ints.
548
549d_castneg (d_castneg.U):
550 This variable conditionally defines CASTNEG, which indicates
47e01c32 551 whether the C compiler can cast negative float to unsigned.
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553d_cbrt (d_cbrt.U):
554 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CBRT symbol, which
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555 indicates to the C program that the cbrt() (cube root) function
556 is available.
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558d_chown (d_chown.U):
559 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CHOWN symbol, which
560 indicates to the C program that the chown() routine is available.
561
562d_chroot (d_chroot.U):
563 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CHROOT symbol, which
564 indicates to the C program that the chroot() routine is available.
565
566d_chsize (d_chsize.U):
567 This variable conditionally defines the CHSIZE symbol, which
568 indicates to the C program that the chsize() routine is available
569 to truncate files. You might need a -lx to get this routine.
570
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571d_class (d_class.U):
572 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CLASS symbol, which
573 indicates to the C program that the class() routine is available.
574
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575d_clearenv (d_clearenv.U):
576 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CLEARENV symbol, which
577 indicates to the C program that the clearenv () routine is available.
578
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579d_closedir (d_closedir.U):
580 This variable conditionally defines HAS_CLOSEDIR if closedir() is
581 available.
582
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583d_cmsghdr_s (d_cmsghdr_s.U):
584 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_CMSGHDR symbol,
585 which indicates that the struct cmsghdr is supported.
586
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587d_const (d_const.U):
588 This variable conditionally defines the HASCONST symbol, which
589 indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows about the
590 const type.
591
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592d_copysign (d_copysign.U):
593 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_COPYSIGN symbol, which
594 indicates to the C program that the copysign() routine is available.
595
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596d_copysignl (d_copysignl.U):
597 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_COPYSIGNL symbol, which
598 indicates to the C program that the copysignl() routine is available.
599 If aintl is also present we can emulate modfl.
600
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601d_cplusplus (d_cplusplus.U):
602 This variable conditionally defines the USE_CPLUSPLUS symbol, which
603 indicates that a C++ compiler was used to compiled Perl and will be
604 used to compile extensions.
605
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606d_crypt (d_crypt.U):
607 This variable conditionally defines the CRYPT symbol, which
608 indicates to the C program that the crypt() routine is available
609 to encrypt passwords and the like.
610
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611d_crypt_r (d_crypt_r.U):
612 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CRYPT_R symbol,
613 which indicates to the C program that the crypt_r()
614 routine is available.
615
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616d_csh (d_csh.U):
617 This variable conditionally defines the CSH symbol, which
618 indicates to the C program that the C-shell exists.
619
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620d_ctermid (d_ctermid.U):
621 This variable conditionally defines CTERMID if ctermid() is
622 available to generate filename for terminal.
623
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624d_ctermid_r (d_ctermid_r.U):
625 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTERMID_R symbol,
626 which indicates to the C program that the ctermid_r()
627 routine is available.
628
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629d_ctime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
630 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTIME64 symbol, which
631 indicates to the C program that the ctime64 () routine is available.
632
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633d_ctime_r (d_ctime_r.U):
634 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTIME_R symbol,
635 which indicates to the C program that the ctime_r()
636 routine is available.
637
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638d_cuserid (d_cuserid.U):
639 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CUSERID symbol, which
640 indicates to the C program that the cuserid() routine is available
641 to get character login names.
642
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643d_dbminitproto (d_dbminitproto.U):
644 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DBMINIT_PROTO symbol,
645 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
646 a prototype for the dbminit() function. Otherwise, it is
647 up to the program to supply one.
648
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649d_difftime (d_difftime.U):
650 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIFFTIME symbol, which
651 indicates to the C program that the difftime() routine is available.
652
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653d_difftime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
654 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIFFTIME64 symbol, which
655 indicates to the C program that the difftime64 () routine is available.
656
066e7355 657d_dir_dd_fd (d_dir_dd_fd.U):
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658 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIR_DD_FD symbol, which
659 indicates that the DIR directory stream type contains a member
660 variable called dd_fd.
661
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662d_dirfd (d_dirfd.U):
663 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIRFD constant,
664 which indicates to the C program that dirfd() is available
665 to return the file descriptor of a directory stream.
666
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667d_dirnamlen (i_dirent.U):
668 This variable conditionally defines DIRNAMLEN, which indicates
669 to the C program that the length of directory entry names is
670 provided by a d_namelen field.
671
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672d_dladdr (d_dladdr.U):
673 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLADDR symbol, which
674 indicates to the C program that the dladdr() routine is available
675 to get a stack trace.
676
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677d_dlerror (d_dlerror.U):
678 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLERROR symbol, which
679 indicates to the C program that the dlerror() routine is available.
680
681d_dlopen (d_dlopen.U):
682 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLOPEN symbol, which
683 indicates to the C program that the dlopen() routine is available.
684
685d_dlsymun (d_dlsymun.U):
686 This variable conditionally defines DLSYM_NEEDS_UNDERSCORE, which
687 indicates that we need to prepend an underscore to the symbol
688 name before calling dlsym().
689
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690d_dosuid (d_dosuid.U):
691 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOSUID, which
692 tells the C program that it should insert setuid emulation code
693 on hosts which have setuid #! scripts disabled.
694
695d_double_has_inf (longdblfio.U):
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696 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_HAS_INF
697 which indicates that the double type has an infinity.
698
3c29c5aa 699d_double_has_nan (longdblfio.U):
7e03b2e3 700 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_HAS_NAN
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701 which indicates that the double type has a not-a-number.
702
3c29c5aa 703d_double_has_negative_zero (longdblfio.U):
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704 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_HAS_NEGATIVE_ZERO
705 which indicates that the double type has a negative zero.
706
3c29c5aa 707d_double_has_subnormals (longdblfio.U):
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708 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_HAS_SUBNORMALS
709 which indicates that the double type has subnormals (denormals).
710
711d_double_style_cray (longdblfio.U):
712 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_STYLE_CRAY
713 which indicates that the double is the 64-bit CRAY mainframe format.
714
715d_double_style_ibm (longdblfio.U):
716 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_STYLE_IBM,
717 which indicates that the double is the 64-bit IBM mainframe format.
718
719d_double_style_ieee (longdblfio.U):
720 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE,
721 which indicates that the double is the 64-bit IEEE 754.
722
723d_double_style_vax (longdblfio.U):
724 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_STYLE_VAX,
725 which indicates that the double is the 64-bit VAX format D or G.
726
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727d_drand48_r (d_drand48_r.U):
728 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DRAND48_R symbol,
729 which indicates to the C program that the drand48_r()
730 routine is available.
731
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732d_drand48proto (d_drand48proto.U):
733 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DRAND48_PROTO symbol,
734 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
735 a prototype for the drand48() function. Otherwise, it is
736 up to the program to supply one.
737
738d_dup2 (d_dup2.U):
739 This variable conditionally defines HAS_DUP2 if dup2() is
740 available to duplicate file descriptors.
741
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742d_dup3 (d_dup3.U):
743 This variable conditionally defines HAS_DUP3
744 if dup3() is available to duplicate file descriptors.
745
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746d_duplocale (d_newlocale.U):
747 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DUPLOCALE symbol, which
748 indicates to the C program that the duplocale() routine is available
749 to duplicate a locale object.
750
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751d_eaccess (d_eaccess.U):
752 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_EACCESS symbol, which
753 indicates to the C program that the eaccess() routine is available.
754
755d_endgrent (d_endgrent.U):
756 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDGRENT symbol, which
757 indicates to the C program that the endgrent() routine is available
758 for sequential access of the group database.
759
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760d_endgrent_r (d_endgrent_r.U):
761 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDGRENT_R symbol,
762 which indicates to the C program that the endgrent_r()
763 routine is available.
764
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765d_endhent (d_endhent.U):
766 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDHOSTENT if endhostent() is
767 available to close whatever was being used for host queries.
768
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769d_endhostent_r (d_endhostent_r.U):
770 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDHOSTENT_R symbol,
771 which indicates to the C program that the endhostent_r()
772 routine is available.
773
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774d_endnent (d_endnent.U):
775 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDNETENT if endnetent() is
776 available to close whatever was being used for network queries.
777
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778d_endnetent_r (d_endnetent_r.U):
779 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDNETENT_R symbol,
780 which indicates to the C program that the endnetent_r()
781 routine is available.
782
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783d_endpent (d_endpent.U):
784 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDPROTOENT if endprotoent() is
785 available to close whatever was being used for protocol queries.
786
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787d_endprotoent_r (d_endprotoent_r.U):
788 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPROTOENT_R symbol,
789 which indicates to the C program that the endprotoent_r()
790 routine is available.
791
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792d_endpwent (d_endpwent.U):
793 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPWENT symbol, which
794 indicates to the C program that the endpwent() routine is available
795 for sequential access of the passwd database.
796
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797d_endpwent_r (d_endpwent_r.U):
798 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPWENT_R symbol,
799 which indicates to the C program that the endpwent_r()
800 routine is available.
801
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802d_endsent (d_endsent.U):
803 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDSERVENT if endservent() is
804 available to close whatever was being used for service queries.
805
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806d_endservent_r (d_endservent_r.U):
807 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDSERVENT_R symbol,
808 which indicates to the C program that the endservent_r()
809 routine is available.
810
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811d_eofnblk (nblock_io.U):
812 This variable conditionally defines EOF_NONBLOCK if EOF can be seen
813 when reading from a non-blocking I/O source.
814
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815d_erf (d_erf.U):
816 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ERF symbol, which
817 indicates to the C program that the erf() routine is available.
818
819d_erfc (d_erfc.U):
820 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ERFC symbol, which
821 indicates to the C program that the erfc() routine is available.
822
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823d_eunice (Guess.U):
824 This variable conditionally defines the symbols EUNICE and VAX, which
47e01c32 825 alerts the C program that it must deal with idiosyncrasies of VMS.
781b178c 826
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827d_exp2 (d_exp2.U):
828 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_EXP2 symbol, which
829 indicates to the C program that the exp2() routine is available.
830
831d_expm1 (d_expm1.U):
832 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_EXPM1 symbol, which
833 indicates to the C program that the expm1() routine is available.
834
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835d_faststdio (d_faststdio.U):
836 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FAST_STDIO symbol,
837 which indicates to the C program that the "fast stdio" is available
838 to manipulate the stdio buffers directly.
839
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840d_fchdir (d_fchdir.U):
841 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHDIR symbol, which
842 indicates to the C program that the fchdir() routine is available.
843
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844d_fchmod (d_fchmod.U):
845 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHMOD symbol, which
846 indicates to the C program that the fchmod() routine is available
847 to change mode of opened files.
848
3c29c5aa 849d_fchmodat (d_fsat.U):
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850 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHMODAT symbol, which
851 indicates the POSIX fchmodat() function is available.
852
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853d_fchown (d_fchown.U):
854 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHOWN symbol, which
855 indicates to the C program that the fchown() routine is available
856 to change ownership of opened files.
857
858d_fcntl (d_fcntl.U):
859 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCNTL symbol, and indicates
860 whether the fcntl() function exists
861
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862d_fcntl_can_lock (d_fcntl_can_lock.U):
863 This variable conditionally defines the FCNTL_CAN_LOCK symbol
864 and indicates whether file locking with fcntl() works.
865
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866d_fd_macros (d_fd_set.U):
867 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FD_MACROS symbol,
868 which indicates if your C compiler knows about the macros which
869 manipulate an fd_set.
870
871d_fd_set (d_fd_set.U):
872 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FD_SET symbol,
873 which indicates if your C compiler knows about the fd_set typedef.
874
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875d_fdclose (d_fdclose.U):
876 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FDCLOSE symbol, which
877 indicates to the C program that the fdclose() routine is available.
878
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879d_fdim (d_fdim.U):
880 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FDIM symbol, which
881 indicates to the C program that the fdim() routine is available.
882
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883d_fds_bits (d_fd_set.U):
884 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FDS_BITS symbol,
885 which indicates if your fd_set typedef contains the fds_bits member.
886 If you have an fd_set typedef, but the dweebs who installed it did
887 a half-fast job and neglected to provide the macros to manipulate
888 an fd_set, HAS_FDS_BITS will let us know how to fix the gaffe.
889
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890d_fegetround (d_fegetround.U):
891 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FEGETROUND if fegetround() is
892 available to get the floating point rounding mode.
893
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894d_fgetpos (d_fgetpos.U):
895 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FGETPOS if fgetpos() is
896 available to get the file position indicator.
897
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898d_finite (d_finite.U):
899 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FINITE symbol, which
900 indicates to the C program that the finite() routine is available.
901
902d_finitel (d_finitel.U):
903 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FINITEL symbol, which
904 indicates to the C program that the finitel() routine is available.
905
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906d_flexfnam (d_flexfnam.U):
907 This variable conditionally defines the FLEXFILENAMES symbol, which
908 indicates that the system supports filenames longer than 14 characters.
909
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910d_flock (d_flock.U):
911 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FLOCK if flock() is
912 available to do file locking.
913
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914d_flockproto (d_flockproto.U):
915 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FLOCK_PROTO symbol,
916 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
917 a prototype for the flock() function. Otherwise, it is
918 up to the program to supply one.
919
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920d_fma (d_fma.U):
921 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FMA symbol, which
922 indicates to the C program that the fma() routine is available.
923
924d_fmax (d_fmax.U):
925 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FMAX symbol, which
926 indicates to the C program that the fmax() routine is available.
927
928d_fmin (d_fmin.U):
929 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FMIN symbol, which
930 indicates to the C program that the fmin() routine is available.
931
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932d_fork (d_fork.U):
933 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FORK symbol, which
934 indicates to the C program that the fork() routine is available.
935
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936d_fp_class (d_fp_class.U):
937 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FP_CLASS symbol, which
938 indicates to the C program that the fp_class() routine is available.
939
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941 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FP_CLASSIFY symbol, which
942 indicates to the C program that the fp_classify() routine is available.
943
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944d_fp_classl (d_fp_classl.U):
945 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FP_CLASSL symbol, which
946 indicates to the C program that the fp_classl() routine is available.
947
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948d_fpathconf (d_pathconf.U):
949 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPATHCONF symbol, which
950 indicates to the C program that the pathconf() routine is available
951 to determine file-system related limits and options associated
952 with a given open file descriptor.
953
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954d_fpclass (d_fpclass.U):
955 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASS symbol, which
956 indicates to the C program that the fpclass() routine is available.
957
958d_fpclassify (d_fpclassify.U):
959 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASSIFY symbol, which
960 indicates to the C program that the fpclassify() routine is available.
961
962d_fpclassl (d_fpclassl.U):
963 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASSL symbol, which
964 indicates to the C program that the fpclassl() routine is available.
965
4c1a9b0c 966d_fpgetround (d_fpgetround.U):
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967 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FPGETROUND if fpgetround()
968 is available to get the floating point rounding mode.
4c1a9b0c 969
c890dc6c 970d_fpos64_t (d_fpos64_t.U):
ca24dfc6 971 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports fpos64_t.
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973d_freelocale (d_newlocale.U):
974 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FREELOCALE symbol, which
975 indicates to the C program that the freelocale() routine is available
976 to deallocates the resources associated with a locale object.
977
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978d_frexpl (d_frexpl.U):
979 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FREXPL symbol, which
980 indicates to the C program that the frexpl() routine is available.
981
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982d_fs_data_s (d_fs_data_s.U):
983 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_FS_DATA symbol,
984 which indicates that the struct fs_data is supported.
985
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986d_fseeko (d_fseeko.U):
987 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSEEKO symbol, which
988 indicates to the C program that the fseeko() routine is available.
989
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990d_fsetpos (d_fsetpos.U):
991 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FSETPOS if fsetpos() is
992 available to set the file position indicator.
993
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994d_fstatfs (d_fstatfs.U):
995 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSTATFS symbol, which
996 indicates to the C program that the fstatfs() routine is available.
997
998d_fstatvfs (d_statvfs.U):
999 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSTATVFS symbol, which
1000 indicates to the C program that the fstatvfs() routine is available.
1001
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1002d_fsync (d_fsync.U):
1003 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSYNC symbol, which
1004 indicates to the C program that the fsync() routine is available.
1005
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1006d_ftello (d_ftello.U):
1007 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTELLO symbol, which
1008 indicates to the C program that the ftello() routine is available.
1009
1010d_ftime (d_ftime.U):
1011 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTIME symbol, which indicates
1012 that the ftime() routine exists. The ftime() routine is basically
1013 a sub-second accuracy clock.
1014
df4c34dc 1015d_futimes (d_futimes.U):
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1016 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FUTIMES symbol, which
1017 indicates to the C program that the futimes() routine is available.
1018
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1019d_gai_strerror (d_gai_strerror.U):
1020 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GAI_STRERROR symbol
1021 if the gai_strerror() routine is available and can be used to
1022 translate error codes returned by getaddrinfo() into human
1023 readable strings.
1024
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1025d_Gconvert (d_gconvert.U):
1026 This variable holds what Gconvert is defined as to convert
1027 floating point numbers into strings. By default, Configure
1028 sets this macro to use the first of gconvert, gcvt, or sprintf
1332606d 1029 that pass sprintf-%g-like behavior tests. If perl is using
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1030 long doubles, the macro uses the first of the following
1031 functions that pass Configure's tests: qgcvt, sprintf (if
1032 Configure knows how to make sprintf format long doubles--see
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1033 sPRIgldbl), gconvert, gcvt, and sprintf (casting to double).
1034 The gconvert_preference and gconvert_ld_preference variables
4d54317a 1035 can be used to alter Configure's preferences, for doubles and
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1036 long doubles, respectively. If present, they contain a
1037 space-separated list of one or more of the above function
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1038 names in the order they should be tried.
1039
1040 d_Gconvert may be set to override Configure with a platform-
1041 specific function. If this function expects a double, a
1042 different value may need to be set by the uselongdouble.cbu
1043 call-back unit so that long doubles can be formatted without
1044 loss of precision.
1045
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1046d_gdbm_ndbm_h_uses_prototypes (i_ndbm.U):
1047 This variable conditionally defines the NDBM_H_USES_PROTOTYPES symbol,
1048 which indicates that the gdbm-ndbm.h include file uses real ANSI C
1049 prototypes instead of K&R style function declarations. K&R style
1050 declarations are unsupported in C++, so the include file requires
1051 special handling when using a C++ compiler and this variable is
1052 undefined. Consult the different d_*ndbm_h_uses_prototypes variables
1053 to get the same information for alternative ndbm.h include files.
1054
1055d_gdbmndbm_h_uses_prototypes (i_ndbm.U):
1056 This variable conditionally defines the NDBM_H_USES_PROTOTYPES symbol,
1057 which indicates that the gdbm/ndbm.h include file uses real ANSI C
1058 prototypes instead of K&R style function declarations. K&R style
1059 declarations are unsupported in C++, so the include file requires
1060 special handling when using a C++ compiler and this variable is
1061 undefined. Consult the different d_*ndbm_h_uses_prototypes variables
1062 to get the same information for alternative ndbm.h include files.
1063
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1064d_getaddrinfo (d_getaddrinfo.U):
1065 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETADDRINFO symbol,
1066 which indicates to the C program that the getaddrinfo() function
1067 is available.
1068
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1069d_getcwd (d_getcwd.U):
1070 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETCWD symbol, which
1071 indicates to the C program that the getcwd() routine is available
1072 to get the current working directory.
1073
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1074d_getespwnam (d_getespwnam.U):
1075 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETESPWNAM if getespwnam() is
47e01c32 1076 available to retrieve enhanced (shadow) password entries by name.
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1078d_getfsstat (d_getfsstat.U):
1079 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETFSSTAT symbol, which
1080 indicates to the C program that the getfsstat() routine is available.
1081
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1082d_getgrent (d_getgrent.U):
1083 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRENT symbol, which
1084 indicates to the C program that the getgrent() routine is available
1085 for sequential access of the group database.
1086
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1087d_getgrent_r (d_getgrent_r.U):
1088 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRENT_R symbol,
1089 which indicates to the C program that the getgrent_r()
1090 routine is available.
1091
1092d_getgrgid_r (d_getgrgid_r.U):
1093 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRGID_R symbol,
1094 which indicates to the C program that the getgrgid_r()
1095 routine is available.
1096
1097d_getgrnam_r (d_getgrnam_r.U):
1098 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRNAM_R symbol,
1099 which indicates to the C program that the getgrnam_r()
1100 routine is available.
1101
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1102d_getgrps (d_getgrps.U):
1103 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGROUPS symbol, which
1104 indicates to the C program that the getgroups() routine is available
1105 to get the list of process groups.
1106
1107d_gethbyaddr (d_gethbyad.U):
1108 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYADDR symbol, which
1109 indicates to the C program that the gethostbyaddr() routine is available
1110 to look up hosts by their IP addresses.
1111
1112d_gethbyname (d_gethbynm.U):
1113 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYNAME symbol, which
1114 indicates to the C program that the gethostbyname() routine is available
1115 to look up host names in some data base or other.
1116
1117d_gethent (d_gethent.U):
1118 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETHOSTENT if gethostent() is
1119 available to look up host names in some data base or another.
1120
1121d_gethname (d_gethname.U):
1122 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTNAME symbol, which
1123 indicates to the C program that the gethostname() routine may be
1124 used to derive the host name.
1125
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1126d_gethostbyaddr_r (d_gethostbyaddr_r.U):
1127 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYADDR_R symbol,
1128 which indicates to the C program that the gethostbyaddr_r()
1129 routine is available.
1130
1131d_gethostbyname_r (d_gethostbyname_r.U):
1132 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYNAME_R symbol,
1133 which indicates to the C program that the gethostbyname_r()
1134 routine is available.
1135
1136d_gethostent_r (d_gethostent_r.U):
1137 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTENT_R symbol,
1138 which indicates to the C program that the gethostent_r()
1139 routine is available.
1140
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1141d_gethostprotos (d_gethostprotos.U):
1142 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOST_PROTOS symbol,
1143 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
635aebb7 1144 prototypes for the various gethost*() functions.
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1145 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1146
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1147d_getitimer (d_getitimer.U):
1148 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETITIMER symbol, which
1149 indicates to the C program that the getitimer() routine is available.
1150
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1151d_getlogin (d_getlogin.U):
1152 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETLOGIN symbol, which
1153 indicates to the C program that the getlogin() routine is available
1154 to get the login name.
1155
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1156d_getlogin_r (d_getlogin_r.U):
1157 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETLOGIN_R symbol,
1158 which indicates to the C program that the getlogin_r()
1159 routine is available.
1160
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1161d_getmnt (d_getmnt.U):
1162 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETMNT symbol, which
1163 indicates to the C program that the getmnt() routine is available
1164 to retrieve one or more mount info blocks by filename.
1165
1166d_getmntent (d_getmntent.U):
1167 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETMNTENT symbol, which
1168 indicates to the C program that the getmntent() routine is available
1169 to iterate through mounted files to get their mount info.
1170
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1171d_getnameinfo (d_getnameinfo.U):
1172 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNAMEINFO symbol,
1173 which indicates to the C program that the getnameinfo() function
1174 is available.
1175
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1176d_getnbyaddr (d_getnbyad.U):
1177 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYADDR symbol, which
1178 indicates to the C program that the getnetbyaddr() routine is available
1179 to look up networks by their IP addresses.
1180
1181d_getnbyname (d_getnbynm.U):
1182 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYNAME symbol, which
1183 indicates to the C program that the getnetbyname() routine is available
1184 to look up networks by their names.
1185
1186d_getnent (d_getnent.U):
1187 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETNETENT if getnetent() is
1188 available to look up network names in some data base or another.
1189
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1190d_getnetbyaddr_r (d_getnetbyaddr_r.U):
1191 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYADDR_R symbol,
1192 which indicates to the C program that the getnetbyaddr_r()
1193 routine is available.
1194
1195d_getnetbyname_r (d_getnetbyname_r.U):
1196 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYNAME_R symbol,
1197 which indicates to the C program that the getnetbyname_r()
1198 routine is available.
1199
1200d_getnetent_r (d_getnetent_r.U):
1201 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETENT_R symbol,
1202 which indicates to the C program that the getnetent_r()
1203 routine is available.
1204
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1205d_getnetprotos (d_getnetprotos.U):
1206 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNET_PROTOS symbol,
1207 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
635aebb7 1208 prototypes for the various getnet*() functions.
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1209 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1210
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1211d_getpagsz (d_getpagsz.U):
1212 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPAGESIZE if getpagesize()
1213 is available to get the system page size.
1214
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1217 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1218 getprotobyname() routine is available to look up protocols
1219 by their name.
1220
1221d_getpbynumber (d_getprotby.U):
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1222 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNUMBER
1223 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1224 getprotobynumber() routine is available to look up protocols
1225 by their number.
1226
1227d_getpent (d_getpent.U):
1228 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPROTOENT if getprotoent() is
1229 available to look up protocols in some data base or another.
1230
1231d_getpgid (d_getpgid.U):
1232 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGID symbol, which
1233 indicates to the C program that the getpgid(pid) function
1234 is available to get the process group id.
1235
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1236d_getpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
1237 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPGRP if getpgrp() is
1238 available to get the current process group.
1239
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1240d_getpgrp2 (d_getpgrp2.U):
1241 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGRP2 symbol, which
1242 indicates to the C program that the getpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine
1243 is available to get the current process group.
1244
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1245d_getppid (d_getppid.U):
1246 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPPID symbol, which
1247 indicates to the C program that the getppid() routine is available
1248 to get the parent process ID.
1249
1250d_getprior (d_getprior.U):
1251 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPRIORITY if getpriority()
1252 is available to get a process's priority.
1253
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1254d_getprotobyname_r (d_getprotobyname_r.U):
1255 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNAME_R symbol,
1256 which indicates to the C program that the getprotobyname_r()
1257 routine is available.
1258
1259d_getprotobynumber_r (d_getprotobynumber_r.U):
1260 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNUMBER_R symbol,
1261 which indicates to the C program that the getprotobynumber_r()
1262 routine is available.
1263
1264d_getprotoent_r (d_getprotoent_r.U):
1265 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOENT_R symbol,
1266 which indicates to the C program that the getprotoent_r()
1267 routine is available.
1268
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1269d_getprotoprotos (d_getprotoprotos.U):
1270 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTO_PROTOS symbol,
1271 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
635aebb7 1272 prototypes for the various getproto*() functions.
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1273 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1274
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1275d_getprpwnam (d_getprpwnam.U):
1276 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPRPWNAM if getprpwnam() is
1277 available to retrieve protected (shadow) password entries by name.
1278
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1279d_getpwent (d_getpwent.U):
1280 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWENT symbol, which
1281 indicates to the C program that the getpwent() routine is available
1282 for sequential access of the passwd database.
1283
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1284d_getpwent_r (d_getpwent_r.U):
1285 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWENT_R symbol,
1286 which indicates to the C program that the getpwent_r()
1287 routine is available.
1288
1289d_getpwnam_r (d_getpwnam_r.U):
1290 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWNAM_R symbol,
1291 which indicates to the C program that the getpwnam_r()
1292 routine is available.
1293
1294d_getpwuid_r (d_getpwuid_r.U):
1295 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWUID_R symbol,
1296 which indicates to the C program that the getpwuid_r()
1297 routine is available.
1298
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1300 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYNAME
1301 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1302 getservbyname() routine is available to look up services
1303 by their name.
1304
1305d_getsbyport (d_getsrvby.U):
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1306 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYPORT
1307 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1308 getservbyport() routine is available to look up services
1309 by their port.
1310
1311d_getsent (d_getsent.U):
1312 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETSERVENT if getservent() is
1313 available to look up network services in some data base or another.
1314
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1315d_getservbyname_r (d_getservbyname_r.U):
1316 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYNAME_R symbol,
1317 which indicates to the C program that the getservbyname_r()
1318 routine is available.
1319
1320d_getservbyport_r (d_getservbyport_r.U):
1321 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYPORT_R symbol,
1322 which indicates to the C program that the getservbyport_r()
1323 routine is available.
1324
1325d_getservent_r (d_getservent_r.U):
1326 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVENT_R symbol,
1327 which indicates to the C program that the getservent_r()
1328 routine is available.
1329
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1330d_getservprotos (d_getservprotos.U):
1331 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERV_PROTOS symbol,
1332 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
635aebb7 1333 prototypes for the various getserv*() functions.
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1334 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1335
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1336d_getspnam (d_getspnam.U):
1337 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETSPNAM if getspnam() is
1338 available to retrieve SysV shadow password entries by name.
1339
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1340d_getspnam_r (d_getspnam_r.U):
1341 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSPNAM_R symbol,
1342 which indicates to the C program that the getspnam_r()
1343 routine is available.
1344
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1345d_gettimeod (d_ftime.U):
1346 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY symbol, which
1347 indicates that the gettimeofday() system call exists (to obtain a
1348 sub-second accuracy clock). You should probably include <sys/resource.h>.
1349
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1350d_gmtime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
1351 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GMTIME64 symbol, which
1352 indicates to the C program that the gmtime64 () routine is available.
1353
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1354d_gmtime_r (d_gmtime_r.U):
1355 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GMTIME_R symbol,
1356 which indicates to the C program that the gmtime_r()
1357 routine is available.
1358
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1359d_gnulibc (d_gnulibc.U):
1360 Defined if we're dealing with the GNU C Library.
1361
1362d_grpasswd (i_grp.U):
1363 This variable conditionally defines GRPASSWD, which indicates
1364 that struct group in <grp.h> contains gr_passwd.
1365
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1366d_hasmntopt (d_hasmntopt.U):
1367 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_HASMNTOPT symbol, which
1368 indicates to the C program that the hasmntopt() routine is available
1369 to query the mount options of file systems.
1370
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1371d_htonl (d_htonl.U):
1372 This variable conditionally defines HAS_HTONL if htonl() and its
1373 friends are available to do network order byte swapping.
1374
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1375d_hypot (d_hypot.U):
1376 This variable conditionally defines HAS_HYPOT if hypot is available
1377 for numerically stable hypotenuse function.
1378
1379d_ilogb (d_ilogb.U):
1380 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ILOGB symbol, which
1381 indicates to the C program that the ilogb() routine is available
1382 for extracting the exponent of double x as a signed integer.
1383
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1384d_ilogbl (d_ilogbl.U):
1385 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ILOGBL symbol, which
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1386 indicates to the C program that the ilogbl() routine is available
1387 for extracting the exponent of long double x as a signed integer.
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1388 If scalbnl is also present we can emulate frexpl.
1389
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1390d_inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U):
1391 This variable conditionally defines PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST.
1392 It is set to undef when PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST is empty.
1393
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1394d_inetaton (d_inetaton.U):
1395 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INET_ATON symbol, which
1396 indicates to the C program that the inet_aton() function is available
1397 to parse IP address "dotted-quad" strings.
1398
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1399d_inetntop (d_inetntop.U):
1400 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INETNTOP symbol,
1401 which indicates to the C program that the inet_ntop() function
1402 is available.
1403
1404d_inetpton (d_inetpton.U):
1405 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INETPTON symbol,
1406 which indicates to the C program that the inet_pton() function
1407 is available.
1408
13b3f787 1409d_int64_t (d_int64_t.U):
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1410 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports int64_t.
1411
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1412d_ip_mreq (d_socket.U):
1413 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IP_MREQ symbol, which
1414 indicates the availability of a struct ip_mreq.
1415
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1416d_ip_mreq_source (d_socket.U):
1417 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IP_MREQ_SOURCE symbol,
1418 which indicates the availability of a struct ip_mreq_source.
1419
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1420d_ipv6_mreq (d_socket.U):
1421 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IPV6_MREQ symbol, which
1422 indicates the availability of a struct ipv6_mreq.
1423
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1424d_ipv6_mreq_source (d_socket.U):
1425 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IPV6_MREQ_SOURCE symbol,
1426 which indicates the availability of a struct ipv6_mreq_source.
1427
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1428d_isascii (d_isascii.U):
1429 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISASCII constant,
1430 which indicates to the C program that isascii() is available.
1431
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1432d_isblank (d_isblank.U):
1433 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISBLANK constant,
1434 which indicates to the C program that isblank() is available.
1435
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1436d_isfinite (d_isfinite.U):
1437 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISFINITE symbol, which
1438 indicates to the C program that the isfinite() routine is available.
1439
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1440d_isfinitel (d_isfinitel.U):
1441 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISFINITEL symbol, which
1442 indicates to the C program that the isfinitel() routine is available.
1443
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1444d_isinf (d_isinf.U):
1445 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISINF symbol, which
1446 indicates to the C program that the isinf() routine is available.
1447
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1448d_isinfl (d_isinfl.U):
1449 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISINFL symbol, which
1450 indicates to the C program that the isinfl() routine is available.
1451
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1452d_isless (d_isless.U):
1453 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISLESS symbol, which
1454 indicates to the C program that the isless() routine is available.
1455
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1456d_isnan (d_isnan.U):
1457 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNAN symbol, which
1458 indicates to the C program that the isnan() routine is available.
1459
1460d_isnanl (d_isnanl.U):
1461 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNANL symbol, which
1462 indicates to the C program that the isnanl() routine is available.
1463
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1464d_isnormal (d_isnormal.U):
1465 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNORMAL symbol, which
1466 indicates to the C program that the isnormal() routine is available.
1467
4671125a 1468d_j0 (d_j0.U):
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1469 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_J0 symbol, which
1470 indicates to the C program that the j0() routine is available.
1471
d0166596 1472d_j0l (d_j0.U):
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1473 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_J0L symbol, which
1474 indicates to the C program that the j0l() routine is available.
1475
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1476d_killpg (d_killpg.U):
1477 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_KILLPG symbol, which
1478 indicates to the C program that the killpg() routine is available
1479 to kill process groups.
1480
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1481d_lc_monetary_2008 (d_lc_monetary_2008.U):
1482 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LC_MONETARY_2008 if libc
1483 has the international currency locale rules from POSIX
1484 1003.1-2008.
1485
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1486d_lchown (d_lchown.U):
1487 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LCHOWN symbol, which
1488 indicates to the C program that the lchown() routine is available
1489 to operate on a symbolic link (instead of following the link).
1490
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1491d_ldbl_dig (d_ldbl_dig.U):
1492 This variable conditionally defines d_ldbl_dig if this system's
1493 header files provide LDBL_DIG, which is the number of significant
1494 digits in a long double precision number.
1495
db8b8c75 1496d_ldexpl (d_longdbl.U):
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1497 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LDEXPL symbol, which
1498 indicates to the C program that the ldexpl() routine is available.
1499
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1500d_lgamma (d_lgamma.U):
1501 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LGAMMA symbol, which
1502 indicates to the C program that the lgamma() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1503 for the log gamma function. See also d_tgamma and d_lgamma_r.
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1504
1505d_lgamma_r (d_lgamma_r.U):
1506 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LGAMMA_R symbol, which
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1507 indicates to the C program that the lgamma_r() routine is available
1508 for the log gamma function, without using the global signgam variable.
427d28ce 1509
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1510d_libm_lib_version (d_libm_lib_version.U):
1511 This variable conditionally defines the LIBM_LIB_VERSION symbol,
1512 which indicates to the C program that math.h defines _LIB_VERSION
1513 being available in libm
1514
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1515d_libname_unique (so.U):
1516 This variable is defined if the target system insists on unique
1517 basenames for shared library files. This is currently true on Android,
1518 false everywhere else we know of.
1519 Defaults to 'undef'.
1520
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1521d_link (d_link.U):
1522 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LINK if link() is
1523 available to create hard links.
1524
3c29c5aa 1525d_linkat (d_fsat.U):
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1526 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LINKAT symbol, which
1527 indicates the POSIX linkat() function is available.
1528
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1529d_llrint (d_llrint.U):
1530 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLRINT symbol, which
1531 indicates to the C program that the llrint() routine is available
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1532 to return the long long value closest to a double (according
1533 to the current rounding mode).
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1535d_llrintl (d_llrintl.U):
1536 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLRINTL symbol, which
1537 indicates to the C program that the llrintl() routine is available
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1538 to return the long long value closest to a long double (according
1539 to the current rounding mode).
bc580dd3 1540
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1541d_llround (d_llround.U):
1542 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLROUND symbol, which
1543 indicates to the C program that the llround() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1544 to return the long long value nearest to x.
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1546d_llroundl (d_llroundl.U):
1547 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLROUNDL symbol, which
1548 indicates to the C program that the llroundl() routine is available
2640dfa8 1549 to return the long long value nearest to x away from zero.
bc580dd3 1550
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1551d_localeconv_l (d_localeconv_l.U):
1552 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOCALECONV_L symbol, which
1553 indicates to the C program that the localeconv_l() routine is available.
1554
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1555d_localtime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
1556 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOCALTIME64 symbol, which
1557 indicates to the C program that the localtime64 () routine is available.
1558
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1559d_localtime_r (d_localtime_r.U):
1560 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOCALTIME_R symbol,
1561 which indicates to the C program that the localtime_r()
1562 routine is available.
1563
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1564d_localtime_r_needs_tzset (d_localtime_r.U):
1565 This variable conditionally defines the LOCALTIME_R_NEEDS_TZSET
1566 symbol, which makes us call tzset before localtime_r()
1567
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1568d_locconv (d_locconv.U):
1569 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LOCALECONV if localeconv() is
1570 available for numeric and monetary formatting conventions.
1571
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1572d_lockf (d_lockf.U):
1573 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LOCKF if lockf() is
1574 available to do file locking.
1575
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1576d_log1p (d_log1p.U):
1577 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOG1P symbol, which
1578 indicates to the C program that the logp1() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1579 to compute log(1 + x) for values of x close to zero.
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1580
1581d_log2 (d_log2.U):
1582 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOG2 symbol, which
1583 indicates to the C program that the log2() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1584 to compute log base two.
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1585
1586d_logb (d_logb.U):
1587 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOGB symbol, which
1588 indicates to the C program that the logb() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1589 to extract the exponent of x.
427d28ce 1590
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1591d_long_double_style_ieee (d_longdbl.U):
1592 This variable conditionally defines LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE
1593 if the long double is any of the IEEE 754 style long doubles:
1594 LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_STD, LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_EXTENDED,
1595 LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_DOUBLEDOUBLE.
1596
1597d_long_double_style_ieee_doubledouble (d_longdbl.U):
1598 This variable conditionally defines LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_DOUBLEDOUBLE
1599 if the long double is the 128-bit IEEE 754 double-double.
1600
1601d_long_double_style_ieee_extended (d_longdbl.U):
1602 This variable conditionally defines LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_EXTENDED
1603 if the long double is the 80-bit IEEE 754 extended precision.
1604 Note that despite the 'extended' this is less than the 'std',
1605 since thisis an extension of the double precision.
1606
1607d_long_double_style_ieee_std (d_longdbl.U):
1608 This variable conditionally defines LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_STD
1609 if the long double is the 128-bit IEEE 754.
1610
1611d_long_double_style_vax (d_longdbl.U):
1612 This variable conditionally defines LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_VAX
1613 if the long double is the 128-bit VAX format H.
1614
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1615d_longdbl (d_longdbl.U):
1616 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LONG_DOUBLE if
1617 the long double type is supported.
1618
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635aebb7 1620 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LONG_LONG if
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1621 the long long type is supported.
1622
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1623d_lrint (d_lrint.U):
1624 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LRINT symbol, which
1625 indicates to the C program that the lrint() routine is available
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1626 to return the integral value closest to a double (according
1627 to the current rounding mode).
427d28ce 1628
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1629d_lrintl (d_lrintl.U):
1630 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LRINTL symbol, which
1631 indicates to the C program that the lrintl() routine is available
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1632 to return the integral value closest to a long double (according
1633 to the current rounding mode).
bc580dd3 1634
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1635d_lround (d_lround.U):
1636 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LROUND symbol, which
1637 indicates to the C program that the lround() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1638 to return the integral value nearest to x.
427d28ce 1639
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1640d_lroundl (d_lroundl.U):
1641 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LROUNDL symbol, which
1642 indicates to the C program that the lroundl() routine is available
2640dfa8 1643 to return the integral value nearest to x away from zero.
bc580dd3 1644
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1645d_lseekproto (d_lseekproto.U):
1646 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LSEEK_PROTO symbol,
1647 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
1648 a prototype for the lseek() function. Otherwise, it is
1649 up to the program to supply one.
1650
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1651d_lstat (d_lstat.U):
1652 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LSTAT if lstat() is
1653 available to do file stats on symbolic links.
1654
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1655d_madvise (d_madvise.U):
1656 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MADVISE if madvise() is
1657 available to map a file into memory.
1658
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1659d_malloc_good_size (d_malloc_size.U):
1660 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the malloc_good_size
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1661 routine is available for use.
1662
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1663d_malloc_size (d_malloc_size.U):
1664 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the malloc_size
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1665 routine is available for use.
1666
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1667d_mblen (d_mblen.U):
1668 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBLEN symbol, which
1669 indicates to the C program that the mblen() routine is available
1670 to find the number of bytes in a multibye character.
1671
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1672d_mbrlen (d_mbrlen.U):
1673 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBRLEN symbol if the
1674 mbrlen() routine is available to be used to get the length of
1675 multi-byte character strings.
1676
1677d_mbrtowc (d_mbrtowc.U):
1678 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBRTOWC symbol if the
1679 mbrtowc() routine is available to be used to convert a multi-byte
1680 character into a wide character.
1681
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1682d_mbstowcs (d_mbstowcs.U):
1683 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBSTOWCS symbol, which
1684 indicates to the C program that the mbstowcs() routine is available
1685 to convert a multibyte string into a wide character string.
1686
1687d_mbtowc (d_mbtowc.U):
1688 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBTOWC symbol, which
1689 indicates to the C program that the mbtowc() routine is available
1690 to convert multibyte to a wide character.
781b178c 1691
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1692d_memmem (d_memmem.U):
1693 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMMEM symbol, which
1694 indicates to the C program that the memmem() routine is available
1695 to return a pointer to the start of the first occurance of a
1696 substring in a memory area (or NULL if not found).
1697
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1698d_memrchr (d_memrchr.U):
1699 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMRCHR symbol, which
1700 indicates to the C program that the memrchr() routine is available
1701 to return a pointer to the last occurrence of a byte in a memory
1702 area (or NULL if not found).
1703
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1704d_mkdir (d_mkdir.U):
1705 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKDIR symbol, which
1706 indicates to the C program that the mkdir() routine is available
209e5c0a 1707 to create directories..
781b178c 1708
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1709d_mkdtemp (d_mkdtemp.U):
1710 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKDTEMP symbol, which
1711 indicates to the C program that the mkdtemp() routine is available
1712 to exclusively create a uniquely named temporary directory.
1713
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1714d_mkfifo (d_mkfifo.U):
1715 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKFIFO symbol, which
1716 indicates to the C program that the mkfifo() routine is available.
1717
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1718d_mkostemp (d_mkostemp.U):
1719 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKOSTEMP symbol, which
1720 indicates to the C program that the mkostemp() routine is available
1721 to exclusively create and open a uniquely named (with a suffix)
1722 temporary file.
1723
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1724d_mkstemp (d_mkstemp.U):
1725 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKSTEMP symbol, which
1726 indicates to the C program that the mkstemp() routine is available
1727 to exclusively create and open a uniquely named temporary file.
1728
1729d_mkstemps (d_mkstemps.U):
1730 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKSTEMPS symbol, which
1731 indicates to the C program that the mkstemps() routine is available
1732 to exclusively create and open a uniquely named (with a suffix)
1733 temporary file.
1734
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1735d_mktime (d_mktime.U):
1736 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKTIME symbol, which
1737 indicates to the C program that the mktime() routine is available.
1738
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1739d_mktime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
1740 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKTIME64 symbol, which
1741 indicates to the C program that the mktime64 () routine is available.
1742
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1743d_mmap (d_mmap.U):
1744 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MMAP if mmap() is
1745 available to map a file into memory.
1746
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1747d_modfl (d_modfl.U):
1748 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MODFL symbol, which
1749 indicates to the C program that the modfl() routine is available.
1750
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1751d_modflproto (d_modfl.U):
1752 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the system provides
1753 a prototype for the modfl() function. Otherwise, it is up
1754 to the program to supply one. C99 says it should be
1755 long double modfl(long double, long double *);
1756
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1757d_mprotect (d_mprotect.U):
1758 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MPROTECT if mprotect() is
1759 available to modify the access protection of a memory mapped file.
1760
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1761d_msg (d_msg.U):
1762 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG symbol, which
1763 indicates that the entire msg*(2) library is present.
1764
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1765d_msg_ctrunc (d_socket.U):
1766 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_CTRUNC symbol,
1767 which indicates that the MSG_CTRUNC is available. #ifdef is
1768 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1769
1770d_msg_dontroute (d_socket.U):
1771 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_DONTROUTE symbol,
1772 which indicates that the MSG_DONTROUTE is available. #ifdef is
1773 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1774
1775d_msg_oob (d_socket.U):
1776 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_OOB symbol,
1777 which indicates that the MSG_OOB is available. #ifdef is
1778 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1779
1780d_msg_peek (d_socket.U):
1781 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_PEEK symbol,
1782 which indicates that the MSG_PEEK is available. #ifdef is
1783 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1784
1785d_msg_proxy (d_socket.U):
1786 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_PROXY symbol,
1787 which indicates that the MSG_PROXY is available. #ifdef is
1788 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1789
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1790d_msgctl (d_msgctl.U):
1791 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGCTL symbol, which
1792 indicates to the C program that the msgctl() routine is available.
1793
1794d_msgget (d_msgget.U):
1795 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGGET symbol, which
1796 indicates to the C program that the msgget() routine is available.
1797
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1798d_msghdr_s (d_msghdr_s.U):
1799 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_MSGHDR symbol,
1800 which indicates that the struct msghdr is supported.
1801
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1802d_msgrcv (d_msgrcv.U):
1803 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGRCV symbol, which
1804 indicates to the C program that the msgrcv() routine is available.
1805
1806d_msgsnd (d_msgsnd.U):
1807 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGSND symbol, which
1808 indicates to the C program that the msgsnd() routine is available.
1809
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1810d_msync (d_msync.U):
1811 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MSYNC if msync() is
1812 available to synchronize a mapped file.
1813
1814d_munmap (d_munmap.U):
1815 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MUNMAP if munmap() is
1816 available to unmap a region mapped by mmap().
1817
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1818d_mymalloc (mallocsrc.U):
1819 This variable conditionally defines MYMALLOC in case other parts
1820 of the source want to take special action if MYMALLOC is used.
1821 This may include different sorts of profiling or error detection.
1822
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1823d_nan (d_nan.U):
1824 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NAN if nan() is
1825 available to generate NaN.
1826
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1827d_nanosleep (d_nanosleep.U):
1828 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NANOSLEEP
1829 if nanosleep() is available to sleep with 1E-9 sec accuracy.
1830
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1831d_ndbm (i_ndbm.U):
1832 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NDBM symbol, which
1833 indicates that both the ndbm.h include file and an appropriate ndbm
1834 library exist. Consult the different i_*ndbm variables
1835 to find out the actual include location. Sometimes, a system has the
1836 header file but not the library. This variable will only be set if
1837 the system has both.
1838
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1839d_ndbm_h_uses_prototypes (i_ndbm.U):
1840 This variable conditionally defines the NDBM_H_USES_PROTOTYPES symbol,
1841 which indicates that the ndbm.h include file uses real ANSI C
1842 prototypes instead of K&R style function declarations. K&R style
1843 declarations are unsupported in C++, so the include file requires
1844 special handling when using a C++ compiler and this variable is
1845 undefined. Consult the different d_*ndbm_h_uses_prototypes variables
1846 to get the same information for alternative ndbm.h include files.
1847
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1848d_nearbyint (d_nearbyint.U):
1849 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NEARBYINT if nearbyint()
1850 is available to return the integral value closest to (according to
1851 the current rounding mode) to x.
1852
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1853d_newlocale (d_newlocale.U):
1854 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NEWLOCALE symbol, which
1855 indicates to the C program that the newlocale() routine is available
1856 to return a new locale object or modify an existing locale object.
1857
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1858d_nextafter (d_nextafter.U):
1859 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NEXTAFTER if nextafter()
1860 is available to return the next machine representable double from
1861 x in direction y.
1862
1863d_nexttoward (d_nexttoward.U):
1864 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NEXTTOWARD if nexttoward()
1865 is available to return the next machine representable long double from
1866 x in direction y.
1867
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1868d_nice (d_nice.U):
1869 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NICE symbol, which
1870 indicates to the C program that the nice() routine is available.
1871
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1872d_nl_langinfo (d_nl_langinfo.U):
1873 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NL_LANGINFO symbol, which
1874 indicates to the C program that the nl_langinfo() routine is available.
1875
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1877 This variable indicates whether a variable of type nvtype
1878 can preserve all the bits a variable of type uvtype.
1879
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1880d_nv_zero_is_allbits_zero (perlxv.U):
1881 This variable indicates whether a variable of type nvtype
1882 stores 0.0 in memory as all bits zero.
1883
c890dc6c 1884d_off64_t (d_off64_t.U):
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1885 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports off64_t.
1886
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1887d_old_pthread_create_joinable (d_pthrattrj.U):
1888 This variable conditionally defines pthread_create_joinable.
1889 undef if pthread.h defines PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE.
1890
1891d_oldpthreads (usethreads.U):
1892 This variable conditionally defines the OLD_PTHREADS_API symbol,
1893 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the old
8c09e4ca 1894 draft POSIX threads API. This is only potentially meaningful if
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1895 usethreads is set.
1896
1897d_oldsock (d_socket.U):
1898 This variable conditionally defines the OLDSOCKET symbol, which
1899 indicates that the BSD socket interface is based on 4.1c and not 4.2.
1900
1901d_open3 (d_open3.U):
1902 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_OPEN3 manifest constant,
1903 which indicates to the C program that the 3 argument version of
1904 the open(2) function is available.
1905
3c29c5aa 1906d_openat (d_fsat.U):
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1907 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_OPENAT symbol, which
1908 indicates the POSIX openat() function is available.
1909
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1910d_pathconf (d_pathconf.U):
1911 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PATHCONF symbol, which
1912 indicates to the C program that the pathconf() routine is available
1913 to determine file-system related limits and options associated
1914 with a given filename.
1915
1916d_pause (d_pause.U):
1917 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PAUSE symbol, which
1918 indicates to the C program that the pause() routine is available
1919 to suspend a process until a signal is received.
1920
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1921d_perl_otherlibdirs (otherlibdirs.U):
1922 This variable conditionally defines PERL_OTHERLIBDIRS, which
1923 contains a colon-separated set of paths for the perl binary to
1924 include in @INC. See also otherlibdirs.
1925
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1926d_phostname (d_gethname.U):
1927 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PHOSTNAME symbol, which
1928 contains the shell command which, when fed to popen(), may be
1929 used to derive the host name.
1930
1931d_pipe (d_pipe.U):
1932 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PIPE symbol, which
1933 indicates to the C program that the pipe() routine is available
1934 to create an inter-process channel.
1935
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1936d_pipe2 (d_pipe2.U):
1937 This variable conditionally defines HAS_PIPE2
1938 if pipe2() is available to create inter-process pipes.
1939
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1940d_poll (d_poll.U):
1941 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_POLL symbol, which
1942 indicates to the C program that the poll() routine is available
1943 to poll active file descriptors.
1944
1945d_portable (d_portable.U):
1946 This variable conditionally defines the PORTABLE symbol, which
1947 indicates to the C program that it should not assume that it is
1948 running on the machine it was compiled on.
1949
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1950d_prctl (d_prctl.U):
1951 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PRCTL symbol, which
1952 indicates to the C program that the prctl() routine is available.
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1953 Note that there are at least two prctl variants: Linux and Irix.
1954 While they are somewhat similar, they are incompatible.
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1956d_prctl_set_name (d_prctl.U):
1957 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PRCTL_SET_NAME symbol,
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1958 which indicates to the C program that the prctl() routine supports
1959 the PR_SET_NAME option.
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1961d_PRId64 (quadfio.U):
1962 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRId64 symbol, which
47e01c32 1963 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit decimal numbers.
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1964
1965d_PRIeldbl (longdblfio.U):
1966 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1967 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1968
1969d_PRIEUldbl (longdblfio.U):
1970 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1971 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1972 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIeldbl so that even
1973 case-blind systems can see the difference.
1974
1975d_PRIfldbl (longdblfio.U):
1976 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1977 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1978
1979d_PRIFUldbl (longdblfio.U):
1980 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1981 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1982 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIfldbl so that even
1983 case-blind systems can see the difference.
1984
1985d_PRIgldbl (longdblfio.U):
1986 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1987 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1988
1989d_PRIGUldbl (longdblfio.U):
1990 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1991 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1992 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIgldbl so that even
1993 case-blind systems can see the difference.
1994
1995d_PRIi64 (quadfio.U):
1996 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIi64 symbol, which
47e01c32 1997 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit decimal numbers.
4d54317a 1998
066e7355 1999d_printf_format_null (d_attribut.U):
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2000 This variable conditionally defines PRINTF_FORMAT_NULL_OK, which
2001 indicates the C compiler allows printf-like formats to be null.
2002
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2003d_PRIo64 (quadfio.U):
2004 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIo64 symbol, which
47e01c32 2005 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit octal numbers.
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2007d_PRIu64 (quadfio.U):
2008 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIu64 symbol, which
47e01c32 2009 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit unsigned decimal
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2010 numbers.
2011
2012d_PRIx64 (quadfio.U):
2013 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIx64 symbol, which
47e01c32 2014 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit hexadecimal numbers.
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2016d_PRIXU64 (quadfio.U):
2017 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIXU64 symbol, which
47e01c32 2018 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit hExADECimAl numbers.
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2019 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIx64 so that even
2020 case-blind systems can see the difference.
2021
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2022d_procselfexe (d_procselfexe.U):
2023 Defined if $procselfexe is symlink to the absolute
2024 pathname of the executing program.
2025
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2026d_pseudofork (d_vfork.U):
2027 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PSEUDOFORK symbol,
2028 which indicates that an emulation of the fork routine is available.
2029
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2030d_pthread_atfork (d_pthread_atfork.U):
2031 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PTHREAD_ATFORK symbol,
2032 which indicates to the C program that the pthread_atfork()
2033 routine is available.
2034
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2035d_pthread_attr_setscope (d_pthread_attr_ss.U):
2036 This variable conditionally defines HAS_PTHREAD_ATTR_SETSCOPE if
2037 pthread_attr_setscope() is available to set the contention scope
2038 attribute of a thread attribute object.
2039
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2040d_pthread_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
2041 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PTHREAD_YIELD
2042 symbol if the pthread_yield routine is available to yield
2043 the execution of the current thread.
2044
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2046 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports ptrdiff_t.
2047
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2048d_pwage (i_pwd.U):
2049 This variable conditionally defines PWAGE, which indicates
2050 that struct passwd contains pw_age.
2051
2052d_pwchange (i_pwd.U):
2053 This variable conditionally defines PWCHANGE, which indicates
2054 that struct passwd contains pw_change.
2055
2056d_pwclass (i_pwd.U):
2057 This variable conditionally defines PWCLASS, which indicates
2058 that struct passwd contains pw_class.
2059
2060d_pwcomment (i_pwd.U):
2061 This variable conditionally defines PWCOMMENT, which indicates
2062 that struct passwd contains pw_comment.
2063
2064d_pwexpire (i_pwd.U):
2065 This variable conditionally defines PWEXPIRE, which indicates
2066 that struct passwd contains pw_expire.
2067
2068d_pwgecos (i_pwd.U):
2069 This variable conditionally defines PWGECOS, which indicates
2070 that struct passwd contains pw_gecos.
2071
2072d_pwpasswd (i_pwd.U):
2073 This variable conditionally defines PWPASSWD, which indicates
2074 that struct passwd contains pw_passwd.
2075
2076d_pwquota (i_pwd.U):
2077 This variable conditionally defines PWQUOTA, which indicates
2078 that struct passwd contains pw_quota.
2079
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2080d_qgcvt (d_qgcvt.U):
2081 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_QGCVT symbol, which
2082 indicates to the C program that the qgcvt() routine is available.
2083
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2084d_quad (quadtype.U):
2085 This variable, if defined, tells that there's a 64-bit integer type,
2086 quadtype.
2087
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2088d_querylocale (d_newlocale.U):
2089 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_QUERYLOCALE symbol, which
2090 indicates to the C program that the querylocale() routine is available
2091 to return the name of the locale for a category mask.
2092
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2093d_random_r (d_random_r.U):
2094 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RANDOM_R symbol,
2095 which indicates to the C program that the random_r()
2096 routine is available.
2097
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2098d_re_comp (d_regcmp.U):
2099 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RECOMP symbol, which
2100 indicates to the C program that the re_comp() routine is available
2101 for regular patern matching (usally on BSD). If so, it is likely that
2102 re_exec() exists.
2103
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2104d_readdir (d_readdir.U):
2105 This variable conditionally defines HAS_READDIR if readdir() is
2106 available to read directory entries.
2107
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2108d_readdir64_r (d_readdir64_r.U):
2109 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READDIR64_R symbol,
2110 which indicates to the C program that the readdir64_r()
2111 routine is available.
2112
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2113d_readdir_r (d_readdir_r.U):
2114 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READDIR_R symbol,
2115 which indicates to the C program that the readdir_r()
2116 routine is available.
2117
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2118d_readlink (d_readlink.U):
2119 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READLINK symbol, which
2120 indicates to the C program that the readlink() routine is available
2121 to read the value of a symbolic link.
2122
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2123d_readv (d_readv.U):
2124 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READV symbol, which
2125 indicates to the C program that the readv() routine is available.
2126
2127d_recvmsg (d_recvmsg.U):
2128 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RECVMSG symbol, which
2129 indicates to the C program that the recvmsg() routine is available.
2130
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2131d_regcmp (d_regcmp.U):
2132 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_REGCMP symbol, which
2133 indicates to the C program that the regcmp() routine is available
2134 for regular patern matching (usally on System V).
2135
2136d_regcomp (d_regcmp.U):
2137 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_REGCOMP symbol, which
2138 indicates to the C program that the regcomp() routine is available
2139 for regular patern matching (usally on POSIX.2 conforming systems).
2140
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2141d_remainder (d_remainder.U):
2142 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_REMAINDER symbol, which
2143 indicates to the C program that the remainder() routine is available.
2144
2145d_remquo (d_remquo.U):
2146 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_REMQUO symbol, which
2147 indicates to the C program that the remquo() routine is available.
2148
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2149d_rename (d_rename.U):
2150 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RENAME symbol, which
2151 indicates to the C program that the rename() routine is available
2152 to rename files.
2153
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2155 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RENAMEAT symbol, which
2156 indicates the POSIX renameat() function is available.
2157
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2158d_rewinddir (d_readdir.U):
2159 This variable conditionally defines HAS_REWINDDIR if rewinddir() is
2160 available.
2161
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2162d_rint (d_rint.U):
2163 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RINT symbol, which
2164 indicates to the C program that the rint() routine is available.
2165
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2166d_rmdir (d_rmdir.U):
2167 This variable conditionally defines HAS_RMDIR if rmdir() is
2168 available to remove directories.
2169
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2170d_round (d_round.U):
2171 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ROUND symbol, which
2172 indicates to the C program that the round() routine is available.
2173
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2174d_sbrkproto (d_sbrkproto.U):
2175 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SBRK_PROTO symbol,
2176 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2177 a prototype for the sbrk() function. Otherwise, it is
2178 up to the program to supply one.
2179
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2180d_scalbn (d_scalbn.U):
2181 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCALBN symbol, which
2182 indicates to the C program that the scalbn() routine is available.
2183
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2184d_scalbnl (d_scalbnl.U):
2185 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCALBNL symbol, which
2186 indicates to the C program that the scalbnl() routine is available.
2187 If ilogbl is also present we can emulate frexpl.
2188
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2189d_sched_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
2190 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCHED_YIELD
2191 symbol if the sched_yield routine is available to yield
2192 the execution of the current thread.
2193
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2194d_scm_rights (d_socket.U):
2195 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCM_RIGHTS symbol,
2196 which indicates that the SCM_RIGHTS is available. #ifdef is
2197 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
2198
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2199d_SCNfldbl (longdblfio.U):
2200 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 2201 indicates that stdio has a symbol to scan long doubles.
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2203d_seekdir (d_readdir.U):
2204 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SEEKDIR if seekdir() is
2205 available.
2206
2207d_select (d_select.U):
2208 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SELECT if select() is
2209 available to select active file descriptors. A <sys/time.h>
2210 inclusion may be necessary for the timeout field.
2211
2212d_sem (d_sem.U):
2213 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEM symbol, which
2214 indicates that the entire sem*(2) library is present.
2215
2216d_semctl (d_semctl.U):
2217 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMCTL symbol, which
2218 indicates to the C program that the semctl() routine is available.
2219
2220d_semctl_semid_ds (d_union_semun.U):
2221 This variable conditionally defines USE_SEMCTL_SEMID_DS, which
2222 indicates that struct semid_ds * is to be used for semctl IPC_STAT.
2223
2224d_semctl_semun (d_union_semun.U):
2225 This variable conditionally defines USE_SEMCTL_SEMUN, which
2226 indicates that union semun is to be used for semctl IPC_STAT.
2227
2228d_semget (d_semget.U):
2229 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMGET symbol, which
2230 indicates to the C program that the semget() routine is available.
2231
2232d_semop (d_semop.U):
2233 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMOP symbol, which
2234 indicates to the C program that the semop() routine is available.
2235
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2236d_sendmsg (d_sendmsg.U):
2237 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SENDMSG symbol, which
2238 indicates to the C program that the sendmsg() routine is available.
2239
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2240d_setegid (d_setegid.U):
2241 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETEGID symbol, which
2242 indicates to the C program that the setegid() routine is available
2243 to change the effective gid of the current program.
2244
2245d_seteuid (d_seteuid.U):
2246 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETEUID symbol, which
2247 indicates to the C program that the seteuid() routine is available
2248 to change the effective uid of the current program.
2249
2250d_setgrent (d_setgrent.U):
2251 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGRENT symbol, which
2252 indicates to the C program that the setgrent() routine is available
2253 for initializing sequential access to the group database.
2254
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2255d_setgrent_r (d_setgrent_r.U):
2256 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGRENT_R symbol,
2257 which indicates to the C program that the setgrent_r()
2258 routine is available.
2259
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2260d_setgrps (d_setgrps.U):
2261 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGROUPS symbol, which
2262 indicates to the C program that the setgroups() routine is available
2263 to set the list of process groups.
2264
2265d_sethent (d_sethent.U):
2266 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETHOSTENT if sethostent() is
2267 available.
2268
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2269d_sethostent_r (d_sethostent_r.U):
2270 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETHOSTENT_R symbol,
2271 which indicates to the C program that the sethostent_r()
2272 routine is available.
2273
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2274d_setitimer (d_setitimer.U):
2275 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETITIMER symbol, which
2276 indicates to the C program that the setitimer() routine is available.
2277
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2278d_setlinebuf (d_setlnbuf.U):
2279 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETLINEBUF symbol, which
2280 indicates to the C program that the setlinebuf() routine is available
2281 to change stderr or stdout from block-buffered or unbuffered to a
2282 line-buffered mode.
2283
2284d_setlocale (d_setlocale.U):
2285 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETLOCALE if setlocale() is
2286 available to handle locale-specific ctype implementations.
2287
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2288d_setlocale_r (d_setlocale_r.U):
2289 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETLOCALE_R symbol,
2290 which indicates to the C program that the setlocale_r()
2291 routine is available.
2292
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2293d_setnent (d_setnent.U):
2294 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETNETENT if setnetent() is
2295 available.
2296
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2297d_setnetent_r (d_setnetent_r.U):
2298 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETNETENT_R symbol,
2299 which indicates to the C program that the setnetent_r()
2300 routine is available.
2301
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2302d_setpent (d_setpent.U):
2303 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPROTOENT if setprotoent() is
2304 available.
2305
2306d_setpgid (d_setpgid.U):
2307 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGID symbol if the
2308 setpgid(pid, gpid) function is available to set process group ID.
2309
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2310d_setpgrp (d_setpgrp.U):
2311 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPGRP if setpgrp() is
2312 available to set the current process group.
2313
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2314d_setpgrp2 (d_setpgrp2.U):
2315 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGRP2 symbol, which
2316 indicates to the C program that the setpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine
2317 is available to set the current process group.
2318
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2319d_setprior (d_setprior.U):
2320 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPRIORITY if setpriority()
2321 is available to set a process's priority.
2322
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2323d_setproctitle (d_setproctitle.U):
2324 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPROCTITLE symbol,
2325 which indicates to the C program that the setproctitle() routine
2326 is available.
2327
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2328d_setprotoent_r (d_setprotoent_r.U):
2329 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPROTOENT_R symbol,
2330 which indicates to the C program that the setprotoent_r()
2331 routine is available.
2332
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2333d_setpwent (d_setpwent.U):
2334 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPWENT symbol, which
2335 indicates to the C program that the setpwent() routine is available
2336 for initializing sequential access to the passwd database.
2337
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2338d_setpwent_r (d_setpwent_r.U):
2339 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPWENT_R symbol,
2340 which indicates to the C program that the setpwent_r()
2341 routine is available.
2342
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2343d_setregid (d_setregid.U):
2344 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREGID if setregid() is
2345 available to change the real and effective gid of the current
2346 process.
2347
2348d_setresgid (d_setregid.U):
2349 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETRESGID if setresgid() is
2350 available to change the real, effective and saved gid of the current
2351 process.
2352
2353d_setresuid (d_setreuid.U):
2354 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREUID if setresuid() is
2355 available to change the real, effective and saved uid of the current
2356 process.
2357
2358d_setreuid (d_setreuid.U):
2359 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREUID if setreuid() is
2360 available to change the real and effective uid of the current
2361 process.
2362
2363d_setrgid (d_setrgid.U):
2364 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRGID symbol, which
2365 indicates to the C program that the setrgid() routine is available
2366 to change the real gid of the current program.
2367
2368d_setruid (d_setruid.U):
2369 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRUID symbol, which
2370 indicates to the C program that the setruid() routine is available
2371 to change the real uid of the current program.
2372
2373d_setsent (d_setsent.U):
2374 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSERVENT if setservent() is
2375 available.
2376
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2377d_setservent_r (d_setservent_r.U):
2378 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETSERVENT_R symbol,
2379 which indicates to the C program that the setservent_r()
2380 routine is available.
2381
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2382d_setsid (d_setsid.U):
2383 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSID if setsid() is
2384 available to set the process group ID.
2385
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2386d_setvbuf (d_setvbuf.U):
2387 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETVBUF symbol, which
2388 indicates to the C program that the setvbuf() routine is available
2389 to change buffering on an open stdio stream.
2390
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2391d_shm (d_shm.U):
2392 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHM symbol, which
2393 indicates that the entire shm*(2) library is present.
2394
2395d_shmat (d_shmat.U):
2396 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMAT symbol, which
2397 indicates to the C program that the shmat() routine is available.
2398
2399d_shmatprototype (d_shmat.U):
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2401 symbol, which indicates that sys/shm.h has a prototype for
2402 shmat.
2403
2404d_shmctl (d_shmctl.U):
2405 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMCTL symbol, which
2406 indicates to the C program that the shmctl() routine is available.
2407
2408d_shmdt (d_shmdt.U):
2409 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMDT symbol, which
2410 indicates to the C program that the shmdt() routine is available.
2411
2412d_shmget (d_shmget.U):
2413 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMGET symbol, which
2414 indicates to the C program that the shmget() routine is available.
2415
2416d_sigaction (d_sigaction.U):
2417 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGACTION symbol, which
2418 indicates that the Vr4 sigaction() routine is available.
2419
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2420d_siginfo_si_addr (d_siginfo_si.U):
2421 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_ADDR symbol,
2422 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_addr member.
2423
2424d_siginfo_si_band (d_siginfo_si.U):
2425 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_BAND symbol,
2426 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_band member.
2427
2428d_siginfo_si_errno (d_siginfo_si.U):
2429 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_ERRNO symbol,
2430 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_errno member.
2431
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2432d_siginfo_si_fd (d_siginfo_si.U):
2433 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_FD symbol,
2434 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_fd member.
2435
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2436d_siginfo_si_pid (d_siginfo_si.U):
2437 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_PID symbol,
2438 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_pid member.
2439
2440d_siginfo_si_status (d_siginfo_si.U):
2441 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_STATUS symbol,
2442 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_status member.
2443
2444d_siginfo_si_uid (d_siginfo_si.U):
2445 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_UID symbol,
2446 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_uid member.
2447
2448d_siginfo_si_value (d_siginfo_si.U):
2449 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_VALUE symbol,
2450 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_value member.
2451
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2452d_signbit (d_signbit.U):
2453 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGNBIT symbol, which
2454 indicates to the C program that the signbit() routine is available
2455 and safe to use with perl's intern NV type.
2456
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2457d_sigprocmask (d_sigprocmask.U):
2458 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SIGPROCMASK
2459 if sigprocmask() is available to examine or change the signal mask
2460 of the calling process.
2461
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2462d_sigsetjmp (d_sigsetjmp.U):
2463 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGSETJMP symbol,
2464 which indicates that the sigsetjmp() routine is available to
2465 call setjmp() and optionally save the process's signal mask.
2466
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2467d_sin6_scope_id (d_socket.U):
2468 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIN6_SCOPE_ID symbol, which
2469 indicates that a struct sockaddr_in6 structure has the sin6_scope_id
2470 member.
2471
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2472d_sitearch (sitearch.U):
2473 This variable conditionally defines SITEARCH to hold the pathname
2474 of architecture-dependent library files for $package. If
2475 $sitearch is the same as $archlib, then this is set to undef.
2476
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2477d_snprintf (d_snprintf.U):
2478 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SNPRINTF symbol, which
2479 indicates to the C program that the snprintf () library function
2480 is available.
2481
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2482d_sockaddr_in6 (d_socket.U):
2483 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKADDR_IN6 symbol, which
2484 indicates the availability of a struct sockaddr_in6.
2485
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2486d_sockaddr_sa_len (d_socket.U):
2487 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKADDR_SA_LEN symbol,
2488 which indicates that a struct sockaddr structure has the sa_len
2489 member.
2490
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2491d_sockatmark (d_sockatmark.U):
2492 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKATMARK symbol, which
2493 indicates to the C program that the sockatmark() routine is available.
2494
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2495d_sockatmarkproto (d_sockatmarkproto.U):
2496 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKATMARK_PROTO symbol,
2497 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2498 a prototype for the sockatmark() function. Otherwise, it is
2499 up to the program to supply one.
2500
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2501d_socket (d_socket.U):
2502 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SOCKET, which indicates
2503 that the BSD socket interface is supported.
2504
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2505d_socklen_t (d_socklen_t.U):
2506 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports socklen_t.
2507
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2508d_sockpair (d_socket.U):
2509 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKETPAIR symbol, which
2510 indicates that the BSD socketpair() is supported.
2511
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2512d_socks5_init (d_socks5_init.U):
2513 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKS5_INIT symbol, which
2514 indicates to the C program that the socks5_init() routine is available.
2515
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2516d_sqrtl (d_sqrtl.U):
2517 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SQRTL symbol, which
2518 indicates to the C program that the sqrtl() routine is available.
2519
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2520d_srand48_r (d_srand48_r.U):
2521 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SRAND48_R symbol,
2522 which indicates to the C program that the srand48_r()
2523 routine is available.
2524
2525d_srandom_r (d_srandom_r.U):
2526 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SRANDOM_R symbol,
2527 which indicates to the C program that the srandom_r()
2528 routine is available.
2529
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2530d_sresgproto (d_sresgproto.U):
2531 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRESGID_PROTO symbol,
2532 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2533 a prototype for the setresgid() function. Otherwise, it is
2534 up to the program to supply one.
2535
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2536d_sresuproto (d_sresuproto.U):
2537 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRESUID_PROTO symbol,
2538 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2539 a prototype for the setresuid() function. Otherwise, it is
2540 up to the program to supply one.
2541
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2542d_stat (d_stat.U):
2543 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STAT if stat() is
2544 available to get file status.
2545
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2546d_statblks (d_statblks.U):
2547 This variable conditionally defines USE_STAT_BLOCKS
2548 if this system has a stat structure declaring
2549 st_blksize and st_blocks.
2550
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2551d_statfs_f_flags (d_statfs_f_flags.U):
2552 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_STATFS_F_FLAGS
2553 symbol, which indicates to struct statfs from has f_flags member.
2554 This kind of struct statfs is coming from sys/mount.h (BSD),
2555 not from sys/statfs.h (SYSV).
2556
2557d_statfs_s (d_statfs_s.U):
2558 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_STATFS symbol,
2559 which indicates that the struct statfs is supported.
2560
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2561d_static_inline (d_static_inline.U):
2562 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STATIC_INLINE symbol,
2563 which indicates that the C compiler supports C99-style static
2564 inline. That is, the function can't be called from another
2565 translation unit.
2566
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2567d_statvfs (d_statvfs.U):
2568 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STATVFS symbol, which
2569 indicates to the C program that the statvfs() routine is available.
2570
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2571d_stdio_cnt_lval (d_stdstdio.U):
2572 This variable conditionally defines STDIO_CNT_LVALUE if the
2573 FILE_cnt macro can be used as an lvalue.
2574
2575d_stdio_ptr_lval (d_stdstdio.U):
2576 This variable conditionally defines STDIO_PTR_LVALUE if the
2577 FILE_ptr macro can be used as an lvalue.
2578
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2579d_stdio_ptr_lval_nochange_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
2580 This symbol is defined if using the FILE_ptr macro as an lvalue
2581 to increase the pointer by n leaves File_cnt(fp) unchanged.
2582
2583d_stdio_ptr_lval_sets_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
2584 This symbol is defined if using the FILE_ptr macro as an lvalue
2585 to increase the pointer by n has the side effect of decreasing the
2586 value of File_cnt(fp) by n.
2587
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2588d_stdio_stream_array (stdio_streams.U):
2589 This variable tells whether there is an array holding
2590 the stdio streams.
2591
2592d_stdiobase (d_stdstdio.U):
2593 This variable conditionally defines USE_STDIO_BASE if this system
2594 has a FILE structure declaring a usable _base field (or equivalent)
2595 in stdio.h.
2596
2597d_stdstdio (d_stdstdio.U):
2598 This variable conditionally defines USE_STDIO_PTR if this system
2599 has a FILE structure declaring usable _ptr and _cnt fields (or
2600 equivalent) in stdio.h.
2601
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2602d_strcoll (d_strcoll.U):
2603 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRCOLL if strcoll() is
2604 available to compare strings using collating information.
2605
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2606d_strerror_l (d_strerror_l.U):
2607 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRERROR_L symbol, which
2608 indicates to the C program that the strerror_l() routine is available
2609 to return the error message for a given errno value in a particular
2610 locale (identified by a locale_t object).
2611
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2612d_strerror_r (d_strerror_r.U):
2613 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRERROR_R symbol,
2614 which indicates to the C program that the strerror_r()
2615 routine is available.
2616
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2617d_strftime (d_strftime.U):
2618 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRFTIME symbol, which
2619 indicates to the C program that the strftime() routine is available.
2620
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2621d_strlcat (d_strlcat.U):
2622 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRLCAT symbol, which
2623 indicates to the C program that the strlcat () routine is available.
2624
2625d_strlcpy (d_strlcpy.U):
2626 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRLCPY symbol, which
2627 indicates to the C program that the strlcpy () routine is available.
2628
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2629d_strnlen (d_strnlen.U):
2630 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRNLEN symbol, which
2631 indicates to the C program that the strnlen () routine is available.
2632
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2633d_strtod (d_strtod.U):
2634 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOD symbol, which
2635 indicates to the C program that the strtod() routine is available
2636 to provide better numeric string conversion than atof().
2637
2638d_strtol (d_strtol.U):
2639 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOL symbol, which
2640 indicates to the C program that the strtol() routine is available
2641 to provide better numeric string conversion than atoi() and friends.
2642
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2643d_strtold (d_strtold.U):
2644 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLD symbol, which
2645 indicates to the C program that the strtold() routine is available.
2646
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2647d_strtold_l (d_strtold_l.U):
2648 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLD_L symbol, which
2649 indicates to the C program that the strtold_l() routine is available.
2650
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2651d_strtoll (d_strtoll.U):
2652 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLL symbol, which
2653 indicates to the C program that the strtoll() routine is available.
2654
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2655d_strtoq (d_strtoq.U):
2656 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOQ symbol, which
2657 indicates to the C program that the strtoq() routine is available.
2658
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2659d_strtoul (d_strtoul.U):
2660 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUL symbol, which
2661 indicates to the C program that the strtoul() routine is available
2662 to provide conversion of strings to unsigned long.
2663
ff935051 2664d_strtoull (d_strtoull.U):
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2665 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOULL symbol, which
2666 indicates to the C program that the strtoull() routine is available.
2667
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2668d_strtouq (d_strtouq.U):
2669 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUQ symbol, which
2670 indicates to the C program that the strtouq() routine is available.
2671
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2672d_strxfrm (d_strxfrm.U):
2673 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRXFRM if strxfrm() is
2674 available to transform strings.
2675
2676d_suidsafe (d_dosuid.U):
2677 This variable conditionally defines SETUID_SCRIPTS_ARE_SECURE_NOW
2678 if setuid scripts can be secure. This test looks in /dev/fd/.
2679
2680d_symlink (d_symlink.U):
2681 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYMLINK symbol, which
2682 indicates to the C program that the symlink() routine is available
2683 to create symbolic links.
2684
2685d_syscall (d_syscall.U):
2686 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYSCALL if syscall() is
2687 available call arbitrary system calls.
2688
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2689d_syscallproto (d_syscallproto.U):
2690 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYSCALL_PROTO symbol,
2691 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2692 a prototype for the syscall() function. Otherwise, it is
2693 up to the program to supply one.
2694
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2695d_sysconf (d_sysconf.U):
2696 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYSCONF symbol, which
2697 indicates to the C program that the sysconf() routine is available
2698 to determine system related limits and options.
2699
2700d_sysernlst (d_strerror.U):
2701 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYS_ERRNOLIST if sys_errnolist[]
2702 is available to translate error numbers to the symbolic name.
2703
2704d_syserrlst (d_strerror.U):
2705 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYS_ERRLIST if sys_errlist[] is
2706 available to translate error numbers to strings.
2707
2708d_system (d_system.U):
2709 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYSTEM if system() is
2710 available to issue a shell command.
2711
2712d_tcgetpgrp (d_tcgtpgrp.U):
2713 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TCGETPGRP symbol, which
2714 indicates to the C program that the tcgetpgrp() routine is available.
2715 to get foreground process group ID.
2716
2717d_tcsetpgrp (d_tcstpgrp.U):
2718 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TCSETPGRP symbol, which
2719 indicates to the C program that the tcsetpgrp() routine is available
2720 to set foreground process group ID.
2721
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2722d_telldir (d_readdir.U):
2723 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TELLDIR if telldir() is
2724 available.
2725
2726d_telldirproto (d_telldirproto.U):
2727 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TELLDIR_PROTO symbol,
2728 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2729 a prototype for the telldir() function. Otherwise, it is
2730 up to the program to supply one.
2731
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2732d_tgamma (d_tgamma.U):
2733 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TGAMMA symbol, which
2734 indicates to the C program that the tgamma() routine is available
f40bbcbf 2735 for the gamma function. See also d_lgamma.
427d28ce 2736
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2737d_thread_safe_nl_langinfo_l (d_nl_langinfo_l.U):
2738 This variable contains the eventual value of the
2739 HAS_THREAD_SAFE_NL_LANGINFO_L symbol, which indicates if the
2740 nl_langinfo_l() function exists and is thread-safe.
2741
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2742d_time (d_time.U):
2743 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIME symbol, which indicates
47e01c32 2744 that the time() routine exists. The time() routine is normally
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2745 provided on UNIX systems.
2746
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2747d_timegm (d_timegm.U):
2748 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIMEGM symbol, which
2749 indicates to the C program that the timegm () routine is available.
2750
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2751d_times (d_times.U):
2752 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIMES symbol, which indicates
47e01c32 2753 that the times() routine exists. The times() routine is normally
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2754 provided on UNIX systems. You may have to include <sys/times.h>.
2755
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2756d_tm_tm_gmtoff (i_time.U):
2757 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TM_TM_GMTOFF, which indicates
2758 indicates to the C program that the struct tm has the tm_gmtoff field.
2759
2760d_tm_tm_zone (i_time.U):
2761 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TM_TM_ZONE, which indicates
2762 indicates to the C program that the struct tm has the tm_zone field.
2763
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2764d_tmpnam_r (d_tmpnam_r.U):
2765 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TMPNAM_R symbol,
2766 which indicates to the C program that the tmpnam_r()
2767 routine is available.
2768
427d28ce 2769d_trunc (d_trunc.U):
f40bbcbf 2770 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TRUNC symbol, which
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2771 indicates to the C program that the trunc() routine is available
2772 to round doubles towards zero.
2773
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2774d_truncate (d_truncate.U):
2775 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TRUNCATE if truncate() is
2776 available to truncate files.
2777
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2778d_truncl (d_truncl.U):
2779 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TRUNCL symbol, which
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2780 indicates to the C program that the truncl() routine is available
2781 to round long doubles towards zero. If copysignl is also present,
2782 we can emulate modfl.
4842dad7 2783
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2784d_ttyname_r (d_ttyname_r.U):
2785 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TTYNAME_R symbol,
2786 which indicates to the C program that the ttyname_r()
2787 routine is available.
2788
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2789d_tzname (d_tzname.U):
2790 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TZNAME if tzname[] is
2791 available to access timezone names.
2792
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2793d_u32align (d_u32align.U):
2794 This variable tells whether you must access character data
2795 through U32-aligned pointers.
2796
2797d_ualarm (d_ualarm.U):
2798 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UALARM symbol, which
2799 indicates to the C program that the ualarm() routine is available.
2800
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2801d_umask (d_umask.U):
2802 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UMASK symbol, which
2803 indicates to the C program that the umask() routine is available.
2804 to set and get the value of the file creation mask.
2805
2806d_uname (d_gethname.U):
2807 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNAME symbol, which
2808 indicates to the C program that the uname() routine may be
2809 used to derive the host name.
2810
2811d_union_semun (d_union_semun.U):
2812 This variable conditionally defines HAS_UNION_SEMUN if the
2813 union semun is defined by including <sys/sem.h>.
2814
3c29c5aa 2815d_unlinkat (d_fsat.U):
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2816 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNLINKAT symbol, which
2817 indicates the POSIX unlinkat() function isavailable.
2818
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2819d_unordered (d_unordered.U):
2820 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNORDERED symbol, which
2821 indicates to the C program that the unordered() routine is available.
2822
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2823d_unsetenv (d_unsetenv.U):
2824 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNSETENV symbol, which
2825 indicates to the C program that the unsetenv () routine is available.
2826
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2827d_uselocale (d_newlocale.U):
2828 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_USELOCALE symbol, which
2829 indicates to the C program that the uselocale() routine is available
2830 to set the current locale for the calling thread.
2831
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2832d_usleep (d_usleep.U):
2833 This variable conditionally defines HAS_USLEEP if usleep() is
2834 available to do high granularity sleeps.
2835
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2836d_usleepproto (d_usleepproto.U):
2837 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_USLEEP_PROTO symbol,
2838 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2839 a prototype for the usleep() function. Otherwise, it is
2840 up to the program to supply one.
2841
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2842d_ustat (d_ustat.U):
2843 This variable conditionally defines HAS_USTAT if ustat() is
2844 available to query file system statistics by dev_t.
2845
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2846d_vendorarch (vendorarch.U):
2847 This variable conditionally defined PERL_VENDORARCH.
2848
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2849d_vendorbin (vendorbin.U):
2850 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORBIN.
2851
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2852d_vendorlib (vendorlib.U):
2853 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORLIB.
2854
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2855d_vendorscript (vendorscript.U):
2856 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORSCRIPT.
2857
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2858d_vfork (d_vfork.U):
2859 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VFORK symbol, which
2860 indicates the vfork() routine is available.
2861
2862d_void_closedir (d_closedir.U):
2863 This variable conditionally defines VOID_CLOSEDIR if closedir()
2864 does not return a value.
2865
2866d_voidsig (d_voidsig.U):
2867 This variable conditionally defines VOIDSIG if this system
2868 declares "void (*signal(...))()" in signal.h. The old way was to
2869 declare it as "int (*signal(...))()".
2870
2871d_voidtty (i_sysioctl.U):
2872 This variable conditionally defines USE_IOCNOTTY to indicate that the
2873 ioctl() call with TIOCNOTTY should be used to void tty association.
2874 Otherwise (on USG probably), it is enough to close the standard file
47e01c32 2875 descriptors and do a setpgrp().
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2877d_vsnprintf (d_snprintf.U):
2878 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VSNPRINTF symbol, which
2879 indicates to the C program that the vsnprintf () library function
2880 is available.
2881
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2882d_wait4 (d_wait4.U):
2883 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WAIT4 symbol, which
2884 indicates the wait4() routine is available.
2885
2886d_waitpid (d_waitpid.U):
2887 This variable conditionally defines HAS_WAITPID if waitpid() is
2888 available to wait for child process.
2889
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2890d_wcscmp (d_wcscmp.U):
2891 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSCMP symbol if the
2892 wcscmp() routine is available and can be used to compare wide
2893 character strings.
2894
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2895d_wcstombs (d_wcstombs.U):
2896 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSTOMBS symbol, which
2897 indicates to the C program that the wcstombs() routine is available
2898 to convert wide character strings to multibyte strings.
2899
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2900d_wcsxfrm (d_wcsxfrm.U):
2901 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSXFRM symbol if the
2902 wcsxfrm() routine is available and can be used to compare wide
2903 character strings.
2904
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2905d_wctomb (d_wctomb.U):
2906 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCTOMB symbol, which
2907 indicates to the C program that the wctomb() routine is available
2908 to convert a wide character to a multibyte.
2909
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2910d_writev (d_writev.U):
2911 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WRITEV symbol, which
2912 indicates to the C program that the writev() routine is available.
2913
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2914d_xenix (Guess.U):
2915 This variable conditionally defines the symbol XENIX, which alerts
2916 the C program that it runs under Xenix.
2917
2918date (Loc.U):
5bf26616 2919 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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2920 full pathname (if any) of the date program. After Configure runs,
2921 the value is reset to a plain "date" and is not useful.
2922
2923db_hashtype (i_db.U):
2924 This variable contains the type of the hash structure element
2925 in the <db.h> header file. In older versions of DB, it was
2926 int, while in newer ones it is u_int32_t.
2927
2928db_prefixtype (i_db.U):
2929 This variable contains the type of the prefix structure element
2930 in the <db.h> header file. In older versions of DB, it was
2931 int, while in newer ones it is size_t.
2932
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2933db_version_major (i_db.U):
2934 This variable contains the major version number of
2935 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
2936
2937db_version_minor (i_db.U):
2938 This variable contains the minor version number of
2939 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
2940 For DB version 1 this is always 0.
2941
2942db_version_patch (i_db.U):
2943 This variable contains the patch version number of
2944 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
2945 For DB version 1 this is always 0.
2946
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2947default_inc_excludes_dot (defaultincdot.U):
2948 When defined, remove the legacy '.' from @INC
2949
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2950direntrytype (i_dirent.U):
2951 This symbol is set to 'struct direct' or 'struct dirent' depending on
2952 whether dirent is available or not. You should use this pseudo type to
2953 portably declare your directory entries.
2954
2955dlext (dlext.U):
2956 This variable contains the extension that is to be used for the
1332606d 2957 dynamically loaded modules that perl generates.
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2958
2959dlsrc (dlsrc.U):
2960 This variable contains the name of the dynamic loading file that
2961 will be used with the package.
2962
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2963doubleinfbytes (infnan.U):
2964 This variable contains comma-separated list of hexadecimal bytes
2965 for the double precision infinity.
2966
f40bbcbf 2967doublekind (longdblfio.U):
bade9271 2968 This variable, if defined, encodes the type of a double:
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2969 1 = IEEE 754 32-bit little endian,
2970 2 = IEEE 754 32-bit big endian,
2971 3 = IEEE 754 64-bit little endian,
2972 4 = IEEE 754 64-bit big endian,
2973 5 = IEEE 754 128-bit little endian,
2974 6 = IEEE 754 128-bit big endian,
2975 7 = IEEE 754 64-bit mixed endian le-be,
2976 8 = IEEE 754 64-bit mixed endian be-le,
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2977 9 = VAX 32bit little endian F float format
2978 10 = VAX 64bit little endian D float format
2979 11 = VAX 64bit little endian G float format
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2980 12 = IBM 32bit format
2981 13 = IBM 64bit format
2982 14 = Cray 64bit format
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2983 -1 = unknown format.
2984
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2985doublemantbits (mantbits.U):
2986 This symbol, if defined, tells how many mantissa bits
2987 there are in double precision floating point format.
2988 Note that this is usually DBL_MANT_DIG minus one, since
2989 with the standard IEEE 754 formats DBL_MANT_DIG includes
2990 the implicit bit which doesn't really exist.
2991
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2992doublenanbytes (infnan.U):
2993 This variable contains comma-separated list of hexadecimal bytes
2994 for the double precision not-a-number.
2995
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2996doublesize (doublesize.U):
2997 This variable contains the value of the DOUBLESIZE symbol, which
2998 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a double.
2999
3000drand01 (randfunc.U):
3001 Indicates the macro to be used to generate normalized
3002 random numbers. Uses randfunc, often divided by
3003 (double) (((unsigned long) 1 << randbits)) in order to
3004 normalize the result.
3005 In C programs, the macro 'Drand01' is mapped to drand01.
3006
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3007drand48_r_proto (d_drand48_r.U):
3008 This variable encodes the prototype of drand48_r.
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3009 It is zero if d_drand48_r is undef, and one of the
3010 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_drand48_r
3011 is defined.
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3013dtrace (usedtrace.U):
3014 This variable holds the location of the dtrace executable.
3015
2640dfa8 3016dtraceobject (dtraceobject.U):
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3017 Whether we need to build an object file with the dtrace tool.
3018
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3019dtracexnolibs (dtraceobject.U):
3020 Whether dtrace accepts -xnolibs. If available we call dtrace -h
3021 and dtrace -G with -xnolibs to allow dtrace to run in a jail on
3022 FreeBSD.
3023
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3024dynamic_ext (Extensions.U):
3025 This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to
3026 link dynamically into the package. It is used by Makefile.
3027
3028eagain (nblock_io.U):
3029 This variable bears the symbolic errno code set by read() when no
3030 data is present on the file and non-blocking I/O was enabled (otherwise,
3031 read() blocks naturally).
3032
3033ebcdic (ebcdic.U):
3034 This variable conditionally defines EBCDIC if this
1332606d 3035 system uses EBCDIC encoding.
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3036
3037echo (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3038 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3039 full pathname (if any) of the echo program. After Configure runs,
3040 the value is reset to a plain "echo" and is not useful.
3041
3042egrep (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3043 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3044 full pathname (if any) of the egrep program. After Configure runs,
3045 the value is reset to a plain "egrep" and is not useful.
3046
3047emacs (Loc.U):
3048 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3049 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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f40bbcbf 3051endgrent_r_proto (d_endgrent_r.U):
10bc17b6 3052 This variable encodes the prototype of endgrent_r.
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3053 It is zero if d_endgrent_r is undef, and one of the
3054 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endgrent_r
3055 is defined.
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3056
3057endhostent_r_proto (d_endhostent_r.U):
3058 This variable encodes the prototype of endhostent_r.
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3059 It is zero if d_endhostent_r is undef, and one of the
3060 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endhostent_r
3061 is defined.
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3062
3063endnetent_r_proto (d_endnetent_r.U):
3064 This variable encodes the prototype of endnetent_r.
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3065 It is zero if d_endnetent_r is undef, and one of the
3066 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endnetent_r
3067 is defined.
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3068
3069endprotoent_r_proto (d_endprotoent_r.U):
3070 This variable encodes the prototype of endprotoent_r.
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3071 It is zero if d_endprotoent_r is undef, and one of the
3072 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endprotoent_r
3073 is defined.
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3074
3075endpwent_r_proto (d_endpwent_r.U):
3076 This variable encodes the prototype of endpwent_r.
39183afa
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3077 It is zero if d_endpwent_r is undef, and one of the
3078 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endpwent_r
3079 is defined.
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3080
3081endservent_r_proto (d_endservent_r.U):
3082 This variable encodes the prototype of endservent_r.
39183afa
JH
3083 It is zero if d_endservent_r is undef, and one of the
3084 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endservent_r
3085 is defined.
10bc17b6 3086
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3087eunicefix (Init.U):
3088 When running under Eunice this variable contains a command which will
3089 convert a shell script to the proper form of text file for it to be
3090 executable by the shell. On other systems it is a no-op.
3091
3092exe_ext (Unix.U):
3093 This is an old synonym for _exe.
3094
3095expr (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3096 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3097 full pathname (if any) of the expr program. After Configure runs,
3098 the value is reset to a plain "expr" and is not useful.
3099
3100extensions (Extensions.U):
3101 This variable holds a list of all extension files (both XS and
f7b3892b 3102 non-xs) installed with the package. It is propagated to Config.pm
47e01c32 3103 and is typically used to test whether a particular extension
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3104 is available.
3105
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MHM
3106extern_C (Csym.U):
3107 ANSI C requires 'extern' where C++ requires 'extern "C"'. This
3108 variable can be used in Configure to do the right thing.
3109
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3110extras (Extras.U):
3111 This variable holds a list of extra modules to install.
3112
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3113fflushall (fflushall.U):
3114 This symbol, if defined, tells that to flush
3115 all pending stdio output one must loop through all
3116 the stdio file handles stored in an array and fflush them.
3117 Note that if fflushNULL is defined, fflushall will not
3118 even be probed for and will be left undefined.
3119
4d54317a 3120fflushNULL (fflushall.U):
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3121 This symbol, if defined, tells that fflush(NULL) correctly
3122 flushes all pending stdio output without side effects. In
3123 particular, on some platforms calling fflush(NULL) *still*
3124 corrupts STDIN if it is a pipe.
4d54317a 3125
781b178c 3126find (Loc.U):
ff935051 3127 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3128 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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3129
3130firstmakefile (Unix.U):
3131 This variable defines the first file searched by make. On unix,
3132 it is makefile (then Makefile). On case-insensitive systems,
3133 it might be something else. This is only used to deal with
3134 convoluted make depend tricks.
3135
3136flex (Loc.U):
3137 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3138 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 3139
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3140fpossize (fpossize.U):
3141 This variable contains the size of a fpostype in bytes.
3142
781b178c 3143fpostype (fpostype.U):
635aebb7 3144 This variable defines Fpos_t to be something like fpos_t, long,
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3145 uint, or whatever type is used to declare file positions in libc.
3146
3147freetype (mallocsrc.U):
3148 This variable contains the return type of free(). It is usually
3149 void, but occasionally int.
3150
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3151from (Cross.U):
3152 This variable contains the command used by Configure
3153 to copy files from the target host. Useful and available
3154 only during Perl build.
3155 The string ':' if not cross-compiling.
3156
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3157full_ar (Loc_ar.U):
3158 This variable contains the full pathname to 'ar', whether or
3159 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
3160 in the Makefile.SH.
3161
3162full_csh (d_csh.U):
3163 This variable contains the full pathname to 'csh', whether or
3164 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
3165 in the compiled C program, and we assume that all systems which
3166 can share this executable will have the same full pathname to
3167 'csh.'
3168
3169full_sed (Loc_sed.U):
3170 This variable contains the full pathname to 'sed', whether or
3171 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
3172 in the compiled C program, and we assume that all systems which
3173 can share this executable will have the same full pathname to
3174 'sed.'
3175
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3176gccansipedantic (gccvers.U):
3177 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable will enable (if set) the
3178 -ansi and -pedantic ccflags for building core files (through
3179 cflags script). (See Porting/pumpkin.pod for full description).
3180
af960fef 3181gccosandvers (gccvers.U):
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3182 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable holds the operating system
3183 and version used to compile gcc. It is set to '' if not gcc,
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3184 or if nothing useful can be parsed as the os version.
3185
3186gccversion (gccvers.U):
123f32c0 3187 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable holds '1' or '2' to
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3188 indicate whether the compiler is version 1 or 2. This is used in
3189 setting some of the default cflags. It is set to '' if not gcc.
3190
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3191getgrent_r_proto (d_getgrent_r.U):
3192 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrent_r.
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3193 It is zero if d_getgrent_r is undef, and one of the
3194 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getgrent_r
3195 is defined.
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3196
3197getgrgid_r_proto (d_getgrgid_r.U):
3198 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrgid_r.
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3199 It is zero if d_getgrgid_r is undef, and one of the
3200 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getgrgid_r
3201 is defined.
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3202
3203getgrnam_r_proto (d_getgrnam_r.U):
3204 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrnam_r.
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3205 It is zero if d_getgrnam_r is undef, and one of the
3206 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getgrnam_r
3207 is defined.
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3208
3209gethostbyaddr_r_proto (d_gethostbyaddr_r.U):
3210 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostbyaddr_r.
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3211 It is zero if d_gethostbyaddr_r is undef, and one of the
3212 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gethostbyaddr_r
3213 is defined.
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3214
3215gethostbyname_r_proto (d_gethostbyname_r.U):
3216 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostbyname_r.
39183afa
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3217 It is zero if d_gethostbyname_r is undef, and one of the
3218 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gethostbyname_r
3219 is defined.
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3220
3221gethostent_r_proto (d_gethostent_r.U):
3222 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostent_r.
39183afa
JH
3223 It is zero if d_gethostent_r is undef, and one of the
3224 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gethostent_r
3225 is defined.
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3226
3227getlogin_r_proto (d_getlogin_r.U):
3228 This variable encodes the prototype of getlogin_r.
39183afa
JH
3229 It is zero if d_getlogin_r is undef, and one of the
3230 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getlogin_r
3231 is defined.
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3232
3233getnetbyaddr_r_proto (d_getnetbyaddr_r.U):
3234 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetbyaddr_r.
39183afa
JH
3235 It is zero if d_getnetbyaddr_r is undef, and one of the
3236 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getnetbyaddr_r
3237 is defined.
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3238
3239getnetbyname_r_proto (d_getnetbyname_r.U):
3240 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetbyname_r.
39183afa
JH
3241 It is zero if d_getnetbyname_r is undef, and one of the
3242 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getnetbyname_r
3243 is defined.
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3244
3245getnetent_r_proto (d_getnetent_r.U):
3246 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetent_r.
39183afa
JH
3247 It is zero if d_getnetent_r is undef, and one of the
3248 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getnetent_r
3249 is defined.
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3250
3251getprotobyname_r_proto (d_getprotobyname_r.U):
3252 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotobyname_r.
39183afa
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3253 It is zero if d_getprotobyname_r is undef, and one of the
3254 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getprotobyname_r
3255 is defined.
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3256
3257getprotobynumber_r_proto (d_getprotobynumber_r.U):
3258 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotobynumber_r.
39183afa
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3259 It is zero if d_getprotobynumber_r is undef, and one of the
3260 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getprotobynumber_r
3261 is defined.
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3262
3263getprotoent_r_proto (d_getprotoent_r.U):
3264 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotoent_r.
39183afa
JH
3265 It is zero if d_getprotoent_r is undef, and one of the
3266 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getprotoent_r
3267 is defined.
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3268
3269getpwent_r_proto (d_getpwent_r.U):
3270 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwent_r.
39183afa
JH
3271 It is zero if d_getpwent_r is undef, and one of the
3272 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getpwent_r
3273 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3274
3275getpwnam_r_proto (d_getpwnam_r.U):
3276 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwnam_r.
39183afa
JH
3277 It is zero if d_getpwnam_r is undef, and one of the
3278 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getpwnam_r
3279 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3280
3281getpwuid_r_proto (d_getpwuid_r.U):
3282 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwuid_r.
39183afa
JH
3283 It is zero if d_getpwuid_r is undef, and one of the
3284 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getpwuid_r
3285 is defined.
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3286
3287getservbyname_r_proto (d_getservbyname_r.U):
3288 This variable encodes the prototype of getservbyname_r.
39183afa
JH
3289 It is zero if d_getservbyname_r is undef, and one of the
3290 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getservbyname_r
3291 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3292
3293getservbyport_r_proto (d_getservbyport_r.U):
3294 This variable encodes the prototype of getservbyport_r.
39183afa
JH
3295 It is zero if d_getservbyport_r is undef, and one of the
3296 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getservbyport_r
3297 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3298
3299getservent_r_proto (d_getservent_r.U):
3300 This variable encodes the prototype of getservent_r.
39183afa
JH
3301 It is zero if d_getservent_r is undef, and one of the
3302 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getservent_r
3303 is defined.
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3304
3305getspnam_r_proto (d_getspnam_r.U):
3306 This variable encodes the prototype of getspnam_r.
39183afa
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3307 It is zero if d_getspnam_r is undef, and one of the
3308 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getspnam_r
3309 is defined.
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a22e52b9
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3311gidformat (gidf.U):
3312 This variable contains the format string used for printing a Gid_t.
3313
785fb66b
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3314gidsign (gidsign.U):
3315 This variable contains the signedness of a gidtype.
3316 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
3317
3318gidsize (gidsize.U):
3319 This variable contains the size of a gidtype in bytes.
3320
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3321gidtype (gidtype.U):
3322 This variable defines Gid_t to be something like gid_t, int,
3323 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare the return type
3324 of getgid(). Typically, it is the type of group ids in the kernel.
3325
3326glibpth (libpth.U):
3327 This variable holds the general path (space-separated) used to
3328 find libraries. It may contain directories that do not exist on
3329 this platform, libpth is the cleaned-up version.
3330
c68a00c0
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3331gmake (Loc.U):
3332 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
3333 full pathname (if any) of the gmake program. After Configure runs,
3334 the value is reset to a plain "gmake" and is not useful.
3335
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3336gmtime_r_proto (d_gmtime_r.U):
3337 This variable encodes the prototype of gmtime_r.
39183afa
JH
3338 It is zero if d_gmtime_r is undef, and one of the
3339 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gmtime_r
3340 is defined.
10bc17b6 3341
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3342gnulibc_version (d_gnulibc.U):
3343 This variable contains the version number of the GNU C library.
3344 It is usually something like '2.2.5'. It is a plain '' if this
3345 is not the GNU C library, or if the version is unknown.
3346
781b178c 3347grep (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3348 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3349 full pathname (if any) of the grep program. After Configure runs,
3350 the value is reset to a plain "grep" and is not useful.
3351
3352groupcat (nis.U):
3353 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
3354 /etc/group file. This is normally "cat /etc/group", but can be
3355 "ypcat group" when NIS is used.
aaacdc8b
GS
3356 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
3357 command, in which case this variable is unset.
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3358
3359groupstype (groupstype.U):
635aebb7 3360 This variable defines Groups_t to be something like gid_t, int,
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3361 ushort, or whatever type is used for the second argument to
3362 getgroups() and setgroups(). Usually, this is the same as
3363 gidtype (gid_t), but sometimes it isn't.
3364
3365gzip (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3366 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3367 full pathname (if any) of the gzip program. After Configure runs,
3368 the value is reset to a plain "gzip" and is not useful.
3369
3370h_fcntl (h_fcntl.U):
3371 This is variable gets set in various places to tell i_fcntl that
3372 <fcntl.h> should be included.
3373
3374h_sysfile (h_sysfile.U):
3375 This is variable gets set in various places to tell i_sys_file that
3376 <sys/file.h> should be included.
3377
3378hint (Oldconfig.U):
3379 Gives the type of hints used for previous answers. May be one of
3380 "default", "recommended" or "previous".
3381
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3382hostcat (nis.U):
3383 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
3384 /etc/hosts file. This is normally "cat /etc/hosts", but can be
3385 "ypcat hosts" when NIS is used.
3386 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
3387 command, in which case this variable is unset.
8b6a017c 3388
a6d9d244 3389hostgenerate (Cross.U):
8b6a017c
BF
3390 This variable contains the path to a generate_uudmap binary that
3391 can be run on the host OS when cross-compiling. Useful and
3392 available only during Perl build.
3393 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
3394
a6d9d244 3395hostosname (Cross.U):
8b6a017c
BF
3396 This variable contains the original value of '$^O' for hostperl
3397 when cross-compiling. This is useful to pick the proper tools
3398 when running build code in the host.
3399 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
3400
1d38f63f
MB
3401hostperl (Cross.U):
3402 This variable contains the path to a miniperl binary that can be
3403 run on the host OS when cross-compiling. Useful and available only
3404 during Perl build.
3405 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
781b178c 3406
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3407html1dir (html1dir.U):
3408 This variable contains the name of the directory in which html
3409 source pages are to be put. This directory is for pages
3410 that describe whole programs, not libraries or modules. It
3411 is intended to correspond roughly to section 1 of the Unix
3412 manuals.
3413
3414html1direxp (html1dir.U):
3415 This variable is the same as the html1dir variable, but is filename
3416 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
3417
3418html3dir (html3dir.U):
3419 This variable contains the name of the directory in which html
3420 source pages are to be put. This directory is for pages
3421 that describe libraries or modules. It is intended to
3422 correspond roughly to section 3 of the Unix manuals.
3423
3424html3direxp (html3dir.U):
3425 This variable is the same as the html3dir variable, but is filename
3426 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
3427
a22e52b9
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3428i16size (perlxv.U):
3429 This variable is the size of an I16 in bytes.
3430
3431i16type (perlxv.U):
3432 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I16.
3433
3434i32size (perlxv.U):
3435 This variable is the size of an I32 in bytes.
3436
3437i32type (perlxv.U):
3438 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I32.
3439
3440i64size (perlxv.U):
3441 This variable is the size of an I64 in bytes.
3442
3443i64type (perlxv.U):
3444 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I64.
3445
3446i8size (perlxv.U):
3447 This variable is the size of an I8 in bytes.
3448
3449i8type (perlxv.U):
3450 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I8.
3451
781b178c
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3452i_arpainet (i_arpainet.U):
3453 This variable conditionally defines the I_ARPA_INET symbol,
3454 and indicates whether a C program should include <arpa/inet.h>.
3455
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3456i_bfd (i_bfd.U):
3457 This variable conditionally defines the I_BFD symbol, and
3458 indicates whether a C program can include <bfd.h>.
3459
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3460i_bsdioctl (i_sysioctl.U):
3461 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_BSDIOCTL symbol, which
3462 indicates to the C program that <sys/bsdioctl.h> exists and should
3463 be included.
3464
10bc17b6
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3465i_crypt (i_crypt.U):
3466 This variable conditionally defines the I_CRYPT symbol, and indicates
3467 whether a C program should include <crypt.h>.
3468
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3469i_db (i_db.U):
3470 This variable conditionally defines the I_DB symbol, and indicates
3471 whether a C program may include Berkeley's DB include file <db.h>.
3472
3473i_dbm (i_dbm.U):
3474 This variable conditionally defines the I_DBM symbol, which
3475 indicates to the C program that <dbm.h> exists and should
3476 be included.
3477
3478i_dirent (i_dirent.U):
3479 This variable conditionally defines I_DIRENT, which indicates
3480 to the C program that it should include <dirent.h>.
3481
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3482i_dlfcn (i_dlfcn.U):
3483 This variable conditionally defines the I_DLFCN symbol, which
3484 indicates to the C program that <dlfcn.h> exists and should
3485 be included.
3486
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3487i_execinfo (i_execinfo.U):
3488 This variable conditionally defines the I_EXECINFO symbol, and indicates
3489 whether a C program may include <execinfo.h>, for backtrace() support.
3490
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3491i_fcntl (i_fcntl.U):
3492 This variable controls the value of I_FCNTL (which tells
3493 the C program to include <fcntl.h>).
3494
d0166596
MB
3495i_fenv (i_fenv.U):
3496 This variable conditionally defines the I_FENV symbol, which
3497 indicates to the C program that <fenv.h> exists and should
3498 be included.
3499
758a5d79
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3500i_fp (i_fp.U):
3501 This variable conditionally defines the I_FP symbol, and indicates
3502 whether a C program should include <fp.h>.
3503
3504i_fp_class (i_fp_class.U):
3505 This variable conditionally defines the I_FP_CLASS symbol, and indicates
3506 whether a C program should include <fp_class.h>.
3507
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3508i_gdbm (i_gdbm.U):
3509 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBM symbol, which
3510 indicates to the C program that <gdbm.h> exists and should
3511 be included.
3512
a33f2d9f
AD
3513i_gdbm_ndbm (i_ndbm.U):
3514 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBM_NDBM symbol, which
3515 indicates to the C program that <gdbm-ndbm.h> exists and should
3516 be included. This is the location of the ndbm.h compatibility file
3517 in Debian 4.0.
3518
3519i_gdbmndbm (i_ndbm.U):
3520 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBMNDBM symbol, which
3521 indicates to the C program that <gdbm/ndbm.h> exists and should
3522 be included. This was the location of the ndbm.h compatibility file
3523 in RedHat 7.1.
3524
781b178c
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3525i_grp (i_grp.U):
3526 This variable conditionally defines the I_GRP symbol, and indicates
3527 whether a C program should include <grp.h>.
3528
792d8dab
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3529i_ieeefp (i_ieeefp.U):
3530 This variable conditionally defines the I_IEEEFP symbol, and indicates
3531 whether a C program should include <ieeefp.h>.
3532
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3533i_inttypes (i_inttypes.U):
3534 This variable conditionally defines the I_INTTYPES symbol,
3535 and indicates whether a C program should include <inttypes.h>.
3536
2765b840
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3537i_langinfo (i_langinfo.U):
3538 This variable conditionally defines the I_LANGINFO symbol,
3539 and indicates whether a C program should include <langinfo.h>.
3540
af960fef
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3541i_libutil (i_libutil.U):
3542 This variable conditionally defines the I_LIBUTIL symbol, and indicates
3543 whether a C program should include <libutil.h>.
3544
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3545i_locale (i_locale.U):
3546 This variable conditionally defines the I_LOCALE symbol,
3547 and indicates whether a C program should include <locale.h>.
3548
3549i_machcthr (i_machcthr.U):
3550 This variable conditionally defines the I_MACH_CTHREADS symbol,
3551 and indicates whether a C program should include <mach/cthreads.h>.
3552
3553i_malloc (i_malloc.U):
3554 This variable conditionally defines the I_MALLOC symbol, and indicates
3555 whether a C program should include <malloc.h>.
3556
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3557i_mallocmalloc (i_mallocmalloc.U):
3558 This variable conditionally defines the I_MALLOCMALLOC symbol,
3559 and indicates whether a C program should include <malloc/malloc.h>.
3560
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3561i_mntent (i_mntent.U):
3562 This variable conditionally defines the I_MNTENT symbol, and indicates
3563 whether a C program should include <mntent.h>.
3564
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3565i_ndbm (i_ndbm.U):
3566 This variable conditionally defines the I_NDBM symbol, which
3567 indicates to the C program that <ndbm.h> exists and should
3568 be included.
3569
3570i_netdb (i_netdb.U):
3571 This variable conditionally defines the I_NETDB symbol, and indicates
3572 whether a C program should include <netdb.h>.
3573
3574i_neterrno (i_neterrno.U):
3575 This variable conditionally defines the I_NET_ERRNO symbol, which
3576 indicates to the C program that <net/errno.h> exists and should
3577 be included.
3578
3579i_netinettcp (i_netinettcp.U):
3580 This variable conditionally defines the I_NETINET_TCP symbol,
3581 and indicates whether a C program should include <netinet/tcp.h>.
3582
3583i_niin (i_niin.U):
3584 This variable conditionally defines I_NETINET_IN, which indicates
3585 to the C program that it should include <netinet/in.h>. Otherwise,
3586 you may try <sys/in.h>.
3587
3588i_poll (i_poll.U):
3589 This variable conditionally defines the I_POLL symbol, and indicates
3590 whether a C program should include <poll.h>.
3591
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3592i_prot (i_prot.U):
3593 This variable conditionally defines the I_PROT symbol, and indicates
3594 whether a C program should include <prot.h>.
3595
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190b66db 3597 This variable conditionally defines the I_PTHREAD symbol,
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3598 and indicates whether a C program should include <pthread.h>.
3599
3600i_pwd (i_pwd.U):
3601 This variable conditionally defines I_PWD, which indicates
3602 to the C program that it should include <pwd.h>.
3603
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3604i_quadmath (i_quadmath.U):
3605 This variable conditionally defines I_QUADMATH, which indicates
3606 to the C program that it should include <quadmath.h>.
3607
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3608i_rpcsvcdbm (i_dbm.U):
3609 This variable conditionally defines the I_RPCSVC_DBM symbol, which
3610 indicates to the C program that <rpcsvc/dbm.h> exists and should
3611 be included. Some System V systems might need this instead of <dbm.h>.
3612
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3613i_sgtty (i_termio.U):
3614 This variable conditionally defines the I_SGTTY symbol, which
3615 indicates to the C program that it should include <sgtty.h> rather
3616 than <termio.h>.
3617
3618i_shadow (i_shadow.U):
3619 This variable conditionally defines the I_SHADOW symbol, and indicates
3620 whether a C program should include <shadow.h>.
3621
3622i_socks (i_socks.U):
3623 This variable conditionally defines the I_SOCKS symbol, and indicates
3624 whether a C program should include <socks.h>.
3625
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3626i_stdbool (i_stdbool.U):
3627 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDBOOL symbol, which
3628 indicates to the C program that <stdbool.h> exists and should
3629 be included.
3630
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3631i_stdint (i_stdint.U):
3632 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDINT symbol, which
3633 indicates to the C program that <stdint.h> exists and should
3634 be included.
3635
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3636i_stdlib (i_stdlib.U):
3637 This variable unconditionally defines the I_STDLIB symbol.
3638
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3639i_sunmath (i_sunmath.U):
3640 This variable conditionally defines the I_SUNMATH symbol, and indicates
3641 whether a C program should include <sunmath.h>.
3642
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3643i_sysaccess (i_sysaccess.U):
3644 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_ACCESS symbol,
3645 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/access.h>.
3646
3647i_sysdir (i_sysdir.U):
3648 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_DIR symbol, and indicates
3649 whether a C program should include <sys/dir.h>.
3650
3651i_sysfile (i_sysfile.U):
3652 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_FILE symbol, and indicates
3653 whether a C program should include <sys/file.h> to get R_OK and friends.
3654
3655i_sysfilio (i_sysioctl.U):
3656 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_FILIO symbol, which
3657 indicates to the C program that <sys/filio.h> exists and should
3658 be included in preference to <sys/ioctl.h>.
3659
3660i_sysin (i_niin.U):
3661 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_IN, which indicates
3662 to the C program that it should include <sys/in.h> instead of
3663 <netinet/in.h>.
3664
3665i_sysioctl (i_sysioctl.U):
3666 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_IOCTL symbol, which
3667 indicates to the C program that <sys/ioctl.h> exists and should
3668 be included.
3669
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3670i_syslog (i_syslog.U):
3671 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSLOG symbol,
3672 and indicates whether a C program should include <syslog.h>.
3673
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3675 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_MMAN symbol,
3676 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mman.h>.
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3678i_sysmode (i_sysmode.U):
3679 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSMODE symbol,
3680 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mode.h>.
3681
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3682i_sysmount (i_sysmount.U):
3683 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSMOUNT symbol,
3684 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mount.h>.
3685
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3686i_sysndir (i_sysndir.U):
3687 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_NDIR symbol, and indicates
3688 whether a C program should include <sys/ndir.h>.
3689
3690i_sysparam (i_sysparam.U):
3691 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_PARAM symbol, and indicates
3692 whether a C program should include <sys/param.h>.
3693
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3694i_syspoll (i_syspoll.U):
3695 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_POLL symbol, which
3696 indicates to the C program that it should include <sys/poll.h>.
3697
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3698i_sysresrc (i_sysresrc.U):
3699 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_RESOURCE symbol,
3700 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/resource.h>.
3701
3702i_syssecrt (i_syssecrt.U):
3703 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_SECURITY symbol,
3704 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/security.h>.
3705
3706i_sysselct (i_sysselct.U):
3707 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_SELECT, which indicates
3708 to the C program that it should include <sys/select.h> in order to
3709 get the definition of struct timeval.
3710
3711i_syssockio (i_sysioctl.U):
3712 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_SOCKIO to indicate to the
3713 C program that socket ioctl codes may be found in <sys/sockio.h>
3714 instead of <sys/ioctl.h>.
3715
3716i_sysstat (i_sysstat.U):
3717 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_STAT symbol,
3718 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/stat.h>.
3719
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3720i_sysstatfs (i_sysstatfs.U):
3721 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSSTATFS symbol,
3722 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/statfs.h>.
3723
3724i_sysstatvfs (i_sysstatvfs.U):
3725 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSSTATVFS symbol,
3726 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/statvfs.h>.
3727
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3728i_systime (i_time.U):
3729 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_TIME, which indicates
3730 to the C program that it should include <sys/time.h>.
3731
3732i_systimek (i_time.U):
3733 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_TIME_KERNEL, which
3734 indicates to the C program that it should include <sys/time.h>
3735 with KERNEL defined.
3736
3737i_systimes (i_systimes.U):
3738 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_TIMES symbol, and indicates
3739 whether a C program should include <sys/times.h>.
3740
3741i_systypes (i_systypes.U):
3742 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_TYPES symbol,
3743 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/types.h>.
3744
3745i_sysuio (i_sysuio.U):
3746 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSUIO symbol, and indicates
3747 whether a C program should include <sys/uio.h>.
3748
3749i_sysun (i_sysun.U):
3750 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_UN, which indicates
3751 to the C program that it should include <sys/un.h> to get UNIX
3752 domain socket definitions.
3753
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3754i_sysutsname (i_sysutsname.U):
3755 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSUTSNAME symbol,
3756 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/utsname.h>.
3757
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3758i_sysvfs (i_sysvfs.U):
3759 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSVFS symbol,
3760 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/vfs.h>.
3761
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3762i_syswait (i_syswait.U):
3763 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_WAIT, which indicates
3764 to the C program that it should include <sys/wait.h>.
3765
3766i_termio (i_termio.U):
3767 This variable conditionally defines the I_TERMIO symbol, which
3768 indicates to the C program that it should include <termio.h> rather
3769 than <sgtty.h>.
3770
3771i_termios (i_termio.U):
3772 This variable conditionally defines the I_TERMIOS symbol, which
3773 indicates to the C program that the POSIX <termios.h> file is
3774 to be included.
3775
3776i_time (i_time.U):
7e03b2e3 3777 This variable unconditionally defines I_TIME, which indicates
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3778 to the C program that it should include <time.h>.
3779
3780i_unistd (i_unistd.U):
3781 This variable conditionally defines the I_UNISTD symbol, and indicates
3782 whether a C program should include <unistd.h>.
3783
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3784i_ustat (i_ustat.U):
3785 This variable conditionally defines the I_USTAT symbol, and indicates
3786 whether a C program should include <ustat.h>.
3787
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3788i_utime (i_utime.U):
3789 This variable conditionally defines the I_UTIME symbol, and indicates
3790 whether a C program should include <utime.h>.
3791
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3792i_vfork (i_vfork.U):
3793 This variable conditionally defines the I_VFORK symbol, and indicates
3794 whether a C program should include vfork.h.
3795
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3796i_wchar (i_wchar.U):
3797 This variable conditionally defines the I_WCHAR symbol,
3798 that indicates whether a C program may include <wchar.h>.
3799
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3800i_xlocale (d_newlocale.U):
3801 This symbol, if defined, indicates to the C program that it should
3802 include <xlocale.h> to get uselocale() and its friends
3803
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3804ignore_versioned_solibs (libs.U):
3805 This variable should be non-empty if non-versioned shared
3806 libraries (libfoo.so.x.y) are to be ignored (because they
3807 cannot be linked against).
3808
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3809inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U):
3810 This variable specifies the list of subdirectories in over
3811 which perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically
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3812 search when adding directories to @INC. The elements in
3813 the list are separated by spaces. This is only useful
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3814 if you have a perl library directory tree structured like the
3815 default one. See INSTALL for how this works. The versioned
3816 site_perl directory was introduced in 5.005, so that is the
3817 lowest possible value.
3818
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3819 This list includes architecture-dependent directories back to
3820 version $api_versionstring (e.g. 5.5.640) and
3821 architecture-independent directories all the way back to
3822 5.005.
3823
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3824inc_version_list_init (inc_version_list.U):
3825 This variable holds the same list as inc_version_list, but
635aebb7 3826 each item is enclosed in double quotes and separated by commas,
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3827 suitable for use in the PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST initialization.
3828
781b178c 3829incpath (usrinc.U):
bce0fc72 3830 This variable must precede the normal include path to get the
209e5c0a 3831 right one, as in "$incpath/usr/include" or "$incpath/usr/lib".
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3832 Value can be "" or "/bsd43" on mips.
3833
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3834incpth (libpth.U):
3835 This variable must precede the normal include path to get the
3836 right one, as in "$incpath/usr/include" or "$incpath/usr/lib".
3837 Value can be "" or "/bsd43" on mips.
3838
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3839inews (Loc.U):
3840 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3841 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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3843initialinstalllocation (bin.U):
3844 When userelocatableinc is true, this variable holds the location
3845 that make install should copy the perl binary to, with all the
3846 run-time relocatable paths calculated from this at install time.
1332606d 3847 When used, it is initialized to the original value of binexp, and
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3848 then binexp is set to '.../', as the other binaries are found
3849 relative to the perl binary.
3850
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3851installarchlib (archlib.U):
3852 This variable is really the same as archlibexp but may differ on
3853 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3854 should be used in makefiles.
3855
3856installbin (bin.U):
3857 This variable is the same as binexp unless AFS is running in which case
47e01c32 3858 the user is explicitly prompted for it. This variable should always
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3859 be used in your makefiles for maximum portability.
3860
10305dfa 3861installhtml1dir (html1dir.U):
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3862 This variable is really the same as html1direxp, unless you are
3863 using a different installprefix. For extra portability, you
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3864 should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3865
3866installhtml3dir (html3dir.U):
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3867 This variable is really the same as html3direxp, unless you are
3868 using a different installprefix. For extra portability, you
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3869 should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3870
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3871installman1dir (man1dir.U):
3872 This variable is really the same as man1direxp, unless you are using
3873 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3874 man1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3875 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3876
3877installman3dir (man3dir.U):
3878 This variable is really the same as man3direxp, unless you are using
3879 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3880 man3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3881 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3882
3883installprefix (installprefix.U):
635aebb7 3884 This variable holds the name of the directory below which
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3885 "make install" will install the package. For most users, this
3886 is the same as prefix. However, it is useful for
3887 installing the software into a different (usually temporary)
3888 location after which it can be bundled up and moved somehow
3889 to the final location specified by prefix.
3890
3891installprefixexp (installprefix.U):
3892 This variable holds the full absolute path of installprefix
3893 with all ~-expansion done.
3894
3895installprivlib (privlib.U):
3896 This variable is really the same as privlibexp but may differ on
3897 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3898 should be used in makefiles.
3899
3900installscript (scriptdir.U):
3901 This variable is usually the same as scriptdirexp, unless you are on
3902 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
3903 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
3904
3905installsitearch (sitearch.U):
3906 This variable is really the same as sitearchexp 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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3910installsitebin (sitebin.U):
3911 This variable is usually the same as sitebinexp, unless you are on
3912 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
3913 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
3914
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3915installsitehtml1dir (sitehtml1dir.U):
3916 This variable is really the same as sitehtml1direxp, unless you are using
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3917 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3918 html1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3919 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3920
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3921installsitehtml3dir (sitehtml3dir.U):
3922 This variable is really the same as sitehtml3direxp, unless you are using
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3923 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3924 html3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3925 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3926
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3927installsitelib (sitelib.U):
3928 This variable is really the same as sitelibexp but may differ on
3929 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3930 should be used in makefiles.
3931
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3932installsiteman1dir (siteman1dir.U):
3933 This variable is really the same as siteman1direxp, unless you are using
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3934 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3935 man1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3936 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3937
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3938installsiteman3dir (siteman3dir.U):
3939 This variable is really the same as siteman3direxp, unless you are using
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3940 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3941 man3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3942 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3943
3944installsitescript (sitescript.U):
3945 This variable is usually the same as sitescriptexp, unless you are on
3946 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
3947 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
3948
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3949installstyle (installstyle.U):
3950 This variable describes the "style" of the perl installation.
3951 This is intended to be useful for tools that need to
3952 manipulate entire perl distributions. Perl itself doesn't use
3953 this to find its libraries -- the library directories are
3954 stored directly in Config.pm. Currently, there are only two
3955 styles: "lib" and "lib/perl5". The default library locations
3956 (e.g. privlib, sitelib) are either $prefix/lib or
3957 $prefix/lib/perl5. The former is useful if $prefix is a
3958 directory dedicated to perl (e.g. /opt/perl), while the latter
3959 is useful if $prefix is shared by many packages, e.g. if
3960 $prefix=/usr/local.
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3962 Unfortunately, while this "style" variable is used to set
3963 defaults for all three directory hierarchies (core, vendor, and
3964 site), there is no guarantee that the same style is actually
3965 appropriate for all those directories. For example, $prefix
3966 might be /opt/perl, but $siteprefix might be /usr/local.
3967 (Perhaps, in retrospect, the "lib" style should never have been
3968 supported, but it did seem like a nice idea at the time.)
3969
3970 The situation is even less clear for tools such as MakeMaker
3971 that can be used to install additional modules into
3972 non-standard places. For example, if a user intends to install
3973 a module into a private directory (perhaps by setting PREFIX on
3974 the Makefile.PL command line), then there is no reason to
3975 assume that the Configure-time $installstyle setting will be
3976 relevant for that PREFIX.
3977
9c20e9bc 3978 This may later be extended to include other information, so
781b178c 3979 be careful with pattern-matching on the results.
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3980
3981 For compatibility with perl5.005 and earlier, the default
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3982 setting is based on whether or not $prefix contains the string
3983 "perl".
3984
3985installusrbinperl (instubperl.U):
3986 This variable tells whether Perl should be installed also as
3987 /usr/bin/perl in addition to
3988 $installbin/perl
3989
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3990installvendorarch (vendorarch.U):
3991 This variable is really the same as vendorarchexp but may differ on
3992 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3993 should be used in makefiles.
3994
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3995installvendorbin (vendorbin.U):
3996 This variable is really the same as vendorbinexp but may differ on
3997 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3998 should be used in makefiles.
3999
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4000installvendorhtml1dir (vendorhtml1dir.U):
4001 This variable is really the same as vendorhtml1direxp but may differ on
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4002 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4003 should be used in makefiles.
4004
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4005installvendorhtml3dir (vendorhtml3dir.U):
4006 This variable is really the same as vendorhtml3direxp but may differ on
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4007 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4008 should be used in makefiles.
4009
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4010installvendorlib (vendorlib.U):
4011 This variable is really the same as vendorlibexp but may differ on
4012 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4013 should be used in makefiles.
4014
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4015installvendorman1dir (vendorman1dir.U):
4016 This variable is really the same as vendorman1direxp but may differ on
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4017 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4018 should be used in makefiles.
4019
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4020installvendorman3dir (vendorman3dir.U):
4021 This variable is really the same as vendorman3direxp but may differ on
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4022 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4023 should be used in makefiles.
4024
4025installvendorscript (vendorscript.U):
4026 This variable is really the same as vendorscriptexp but may differ on
4027 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4028 should be used in makefiles.
4029
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4030intsize (intsize.U):
4031 This variable contains the value of the INTSIZE symbol, which
4032 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in an int.
4033
4b661809 4034issymlink (issymlink.U):
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4035 This variable holds the test command to test for a symbolic link
4036 (if they are supported). Typical values include 'test -h' and
4037 'test -L'.
4b661809 4038
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4039ivdformat (perlxvf.U):
4040 This variable contains the format string used for printing
635aebb7 4041 a Perl IV as a signed decimal integer.
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4042
4043ivsize (perlxv.U):
4044 This variable is the size of an IV in bytes.
4045
4046ivtype (perlxv.U):
4047 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's IV.
4048
781b178c 4049known_extensions (Extensions.U):
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4050 This variable holds a list of all extensions (both XS and non-xs)
4051 included in the package source distribution. This information is
4052 only really of use during the Perl build, as the list makes no
4053 distinction between extensions which were build and installed, and
4054 those which where not. See "extensions" for the list of extensions
4055 actually built and available.
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4056
4057ksh (Loc.U):
4058 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4059 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 4060
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4061ld (dlsrc.U):
4062 This variable indicates the program to be used to link
4063 libraries for dynamic loading. On some systems, it is 'ld'.
4064 On ELF systems, it should be $cc. Mostly, we'll try to respect
4065 the hint file setting.
4066
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4067ld_can_script (dlsrc.U):
4068 This variable shows if the loader accepts scripts in the form of
4069 -Wl,--version-script=ld.script. This is currently only supported
4070 for GNU ld on ELF in dynamic loading builds.
4071
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4072lddlflags (dlsrc.U):
4073 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
4074 passed to $ld to create a shared library suitable for dynamic
4075 loading. It is up to the makefile to use it. For hpux, it
4076 should be '-b'. For sunos 4.1, it is empty.
4077
4078ldflags (ccflags.U):
4079 This variable contains any additional C loader flags desired by
4080 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
4081
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4082ldflags_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
4083 This variable contains the loader flags needed by large file builds
4084 and added to ldflags by hints files.
4085
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4086ldlibpthname (libperl.U):
4087 This variable holds the name of the shared library
4088 search path, often LD_LIBRARY_PATH. To get an empty
4089 string, the hints file must set this to 'none'.
4090
4091less (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4092 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4093 full pathname (if any) of the less program. After Configure runs,
4094 the value is reset to a plain "less" and is not useful.
4095
4096lib_ext (Unix.U):
4097 This is an old synonym for _a.
4098
4099libc (libc.U):
4100 This variable contains the location of the C library.
4101
4102libperl (libperl.U):
4103 The perl executable is obtained by linking perlmain.c with
4104 libperl, any static extensions (usually just DynaLoader),
4105 and any other libraries needed on this system. libperl
4106 is usually libperl.a, but can also be libperl.so.xxx if
4107 the user wishes to build a perl executable with a shared
4108 library.
4109
4110libpth (libpth.U):
4111 This variable holds the general path (space-separated) used to find
4112 libraries. It is intended to be used by other units.
4113
4114libs (libs.U):
4115 This variable holds the additional libraries we want to use.
9285ede2 4116 It is up to the Makefile to deal with it. The list can be empty.
781b178c 4117
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4118libsdirs (libs.U):
4119 This variable holds the directory names aka dirnames of the libraries
4120 we found and accepted, duplicates are removed.
4121
4122libsfiles (libs.U):
4123 This variable holds the filenames aka basenames of the libraries
4124 we found and accepted.
4125
4126libsfound (libs.U):
4127 This variable holds the full pathnames of the libraries
4128 we found and accepted.
4129
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4130libspath (libs.U):
4131 This variable holds the directory names probed for libraries.
4132
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4133libswanted (Myinit.U):
4134 This variable holds a list of all the libraries we want to
4135 search. The order is chosen to pick up the c library
4136 ahead of ucb or bsd libraries for SVR4.
4137
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4138libswanted_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
4139 This variable contains the libraries needed by large file builds
4140 and added to ldflags by hints files. It is a space separated list
4141 of the library names without the "lib" prefix or any suffix, just
209e5c0a 4142 like libswanted..
af960fef 4143
781b178c 4144line (Loc.U):
ff935051 4145 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4146 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4147
4148lint (Loc.U):
4149 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4150 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4151
4152lkflags (ccflags.U):
4153 This variable contains any additional C partial linker flags desired by
4154 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
4155
4156ln (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4157 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4158 full pathname (if any) of the ln program. After Configure runs,
4159 the value is reset to a plain "ln" and is not useful.
4160
4161lns (lns.U):
635aebb7 4162 This variable holds the name of the command to make
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4163 symbolic links (if they are supported). It can be used
4164 in the Makefile. It is either 'ln -s' or 'ln'
4165
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4166localtime_r_proto (d_localtime_r.U):
4167 This variable encodes the prototype of localtime_r.
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4168 It is zero if d_localtime_r is undef, and one of the
4169 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_localtime_r
4170 is defined.
10bc17b6 4171
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4172locincpth (ccflags.U):
4173 This variable contains a list of additional directories to be
4174 searched by the compiler. The appropriate '-I' directives will
4175 be added to ccflags. This is intended to simplify setting
4176 local directories from the Configure command line.
4177 It's not much, but it parallels the loclibpth stuff in libpth.U.
4178
4179loclibpth (libpth.U):
4180 This variable holds the paths (space-separated) used to find local
4181 libraries. It is prepended to libpth, and is intended to be easily
4182 set from the command line.
4183
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4184longdblinfbytes (infnan.U):
4185 This variable contains comma-separated list of hexadecimal bytes
4186 for the long double precision infinity.
4187
db8b8c75 4188longdblkind (d_longdbl.U):
dc91db6c 4189 This variable, if defined, encodes the type of a long double:
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4190 0 = double,
4191 1 = IEEE 754 128-bit little endian,
4192 2 = IEEE 754 128-bit big endian,
4193 3 = x86 80-bit little endian,
4194 4 = x86 80-bit big endian,
4195 5 = double-double 128-bit little endian,
4196 6 = double-double 128-bit big endian,
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4197 7 = 128-bit mixed-endian double-double (64-bit LEs in BE),
4198 8 = 128-bit mixed-endian double-double (64-bit BEs in LE),
4199 9 = 128-bit PDP-style mixed-endian long doubles,
2640dfa8 4200 -1 = unknown format.
dc91db6c 4201
2640dfa8 4202longdblmantbits (mantbits.U):
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4203 This symbol, if defined, tells how many mantissa bits
4204 there are in long double precision floating point format.
4205 Note that this can be LDBL_MANT_DIG minus one,
4206 since LDBL_MANT_DIG can include the IEEE 754 implicit bit.
4207 The common x86-style 80-bit long double does not have
4208 an implicit bit.
4209
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4210longdblnanbytes (infnan.U):
4211 This variable contains comma-separated list of hexadecimal bytes
4212 for the long double precision not-a-number.
4213
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4214longdblsize (d_longdbl.U):
4215 This variable contains the value of the LONG_DOUBLESIZE symbol, which
4216 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long double,
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4217 if this system supports long doubles. Note that this is
4218 sizeof(long double), which may include unused bytes.
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4219
4220longlongsize (d_longlong.U):
4221 This variable contains the value of the LONGLONGSIZE symbol, which
4222 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long long,
4223 if this system supports long long.
4224
4225longsize (intsize.U):
4226 This variable contains the value of the LONGSIZE symbol, which
4227 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long.
4228
4229lp (Loc.U):
4230 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4231 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4232
4233lpr (Loc.U):
4234 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4235 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4236
4237ls (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4238 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4239 full pathname (if any) of the ls program. After Configure runs,
4240 the value is reset to a plain "ls" and is not useful.
4241
4242lseeksize (lseektype.U):
635aebb7 4243 This variable defines lseektype to be something like off_t, long,
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4244 or whatever type is used to declare lseek offset's type in the
4245 kernel (which also appears to be lseek's return type).
4246
4247lseektype (lseektype.U):
635aebb7 4248 This variable defines lseektype to be something like off_t, long,
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4249 or whatever type is used to declare lseek offset's type in the
4250 kernel (which also appears to be lseek's return type).
4251
4252mail (Loc.U):
4253 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4254 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4255
4256mailx (Loc.U):
4257 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4258 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4259
4260make (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4261 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4262 full pathname (if any) of the make program. After Configure runs,
4263 the value is reset to a plain "make" and is not useful.
4264
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4265make_set_make (make.U):
4266 Some versions of 'make' set the variable MAKE. Others do not.
4267 This variable contains the string to be included in Makefile.SH
4268 so that MAKE is set if needed, and not if not needed.
4269 Possible values are:
44b94491 4270
781b178c 4271 make_set_make='#' # If your make program handles this for you,
44b94491 4272
781b178c 4273 make_set_make="MAKE=$make" # if it doesn't.
44b94491 4274
5bcaa86b 4275 This uses a comment character so that we can distinguish a
1a474c3e 4276 'set' value (from a previous config.sh or Configure '-D' option)
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4277 from an uncomputed value.
4278
4279mallocobj (mallocsrc.U):
4280 This variable contains the name of the malloc.o that this package
4281 generates, if that malloc.o is preferred over the system malloc.
4282 Otherwise the value is null. This variable is intended for generating
4283 Makefiles. See mallocsrc.
4284
4285mallocsrc (mallocsrc.U):
4286 This variable contains the name of the malloc.c that comes with
4287 the package, if that malloc.c is preferred over the system malloc.
4288 Otherwise the value is null. This variable is intended for generating
4289 Makefiles.
4290
4291malloctype (mallocsrc.U):
4292 This variable contains the kind of ptr returned by malloc and realloc.
4293
4294man1dir (man1dir.U):
4295 This variable contains the name of the directory in which manual
4296 source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4297 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4298 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4299
4300man1direxp (man1dir.U):
4301 This variable is the same as the man1dir variable, but is filename
4302 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4303
4304man1ext (man1dir.U):
4305 This variable contains the extension that the manual page should
4306 have: one of 'n', 'l', or '1'. The Makefile must supply the '.'.
4307 See man1dir.
4308
4309man3dir (man3dir.U):
4310 This variable contains the name of the directory in which manual
4311 source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4312 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4313 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4314
4315man3direxp (man3dir.U):
4316 This variable is the same as the man3dir variable, but is filename
4317 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4318
4319man3ext (man3dir.U):
4320 This variable contains the extension that the manual page should
4321 have: one of 'n', 'l', or '3'. The Makefile must supply the '.'.
4322 See man3dir.
4323
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4324mips_type (usrinc.U):
4325 This variable holds the environment type for the mips system.
4326 Possible values are "BSD 4.3" and "System V".
4327
65d1576c 4328mistrustnm (Csym.U):
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4329 This variable can be used to establish a fallthrough for the cases
4330 where nm fails to find a symbol. If usenm is false or usenm is true
4331 and mistrustnm is false, this variable has no effect. If usenm is true
4332 and mistrustnm is "compile", a test program will be compiled to try to
4333 find any symbol that can't be located via nm lookup. If mistrustnm is
4334 "run", the test program will be run as well as being compiled.
4335
781b178c 4336mkdir (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4337 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4338 full pathname (if any) of the mkdir program. After Configure runs,
4339 the value is reset to a plain "mkdir" and is not useful.
4340
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4341mmaptype (d_mmap.U):
4342 This symbol contains the type of pointer returned by mmap()
4343 (and simultaneously the type of the first argument).
4344 It can be 'void *' or 'caddr_t'.
4345
781b178c 4346modetype (modetype.U):
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4347 This variable defines modetype to be something like mode_t,
4348 int, unsigned short, or whatever type is used to declare file
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4349 modes for system calls.
4350
4351more (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4352 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4353 full pathname (if any) of the more program. After Configure runs,
4354 the value is reset to a plain "more" and is not useful.
4355
4356multiarch (multiarch.U):
4357 This variable conditionally defines the MULTIARCH symbol
4358 which signifies the presence of multiplatform files.
4359 This is normally set by hints files.
4360
4361mv (Loc.U):
4362 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4363 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4364
4365myarchname (archname.U):
4366 This variable holds the architecture name computed by Configure in
4367 a previous run. It is not intended to be perused by any user and
4368 should never be set in a hint file.
4369
4370mydomain (myhostname.U):
4371 This variable contains the eventual value of the MYDOMAIN symbol,
4372 which is the domain of the host the program is going to run on.
4373 The domain must be appended to myhostname to form a complete host name.
4374 The dot comes with mydomain, and need not be supplied by the program.
4375
4376myhostname (myhostname.U):
4377 This variable contains the eventual value of the MYHOSTNAME symbol,
4378 which is the name of the host the program is going to run on.
4379 The domain is not kept with hostname, but must be gotten from mydomain.
4380 The dot comes with mydomain, and need not be supplied by the program.
4381
4382myuname (Oldconfig.U):
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4383 The output of 'uname -a' if available, otherwise the hostname.
4384 The whole thing is then lower-cased and slashes and single quotes are
4385 removed.
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4386
4387n (n.U):
1a474c3e 4388 This variable contains the '-n' flag if that is what causes the echo
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4389 command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is
4390 $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
4391
2cc61e15
DD
4392need_va_copy (need_va_copy.U):
4393 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the system stores
4394 the variable argument list datatype, va_list, in a format
4395 that cannot be copied by simple assignment, so that some
4396 other means must be used when copying is required.
4397 As such systems vary in their provision (or non-provision)
4398 of copying mechanisms, handy.h defines a platform-
4399 independent macro, Perl_va_copy(src, dst), to do the job.
4400
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4401netdb_hlen_type (netdbtype.U):
4402 This variable holds the type used for the 2nd argument to
4403 gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or size_t or unsigned.
4404 This is only useful if you have gethostbyaddr(), naturally.
4405
4406netdb_host_type (netdbtype.U):
4407 This variable holds the type used for the 1st argument to
4408 gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is char * or void *, possibly
4409 with or without a const prefix.
4410 This is only useful if you have gethostbyaddr(), naturally.
4411
4412netdb_name_type (netdbtype.U):
4413 This variable holds the type used for the argument to
4414 gethostbyname(). Usually, this is char * or const char *.
4415 This is only useful if you have gethostbyname(), naturally.
4416
4417netdb_net_type (netdbtype.U):
4418 This variable holds the type used for the 1st argument to
4419 getnetbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or long.
4420 This is only useful if you have getnetbyaddr(), naturally.
4421
4422nm (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4423 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4424 full pathname (if any) of the nm program. After Configure runs,
4425 the value is reset to a plain "nm" and is not useful.
4426
4427nm_opt (usenm.U):
4428 This variable holds the options that may be necessary for nm.
4429
4430nm_so_opt (usenm.U):
4431 This variable holds the options that may be necessary for nm
4432 to work on a shared library but that can not be used on an
4433 archive library. Currently, this is only used by Linux, where
4434 nm --dynamic is *required* to get symbols from an ELF library which
4435 has been stripped, but nm --dynamic is *fatal* on an archive library.
4436 Maybe Linux should just always set usenm=false.
4437
4438nonxs_ext (Extensions.U):
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4439 This variable holds a list of all non-xs extensions built and
4440 installed by the package. By default, all non-xs extensions
4441 distributed will be built, with the exception of platform-specific
4442 extensions (currently only one VMS specific extension).
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4443
4444nroff (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4445 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4446 full pathname (if any) of the nroff program. After Configure runs,
4447 the value is reset to a plain "nroff" and is not useful.
4448
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4449nv_overflows_integers_at (perlxv.U):
4450 This variable gives the largest integer value that NVs can hold
4451 as a constant floating point expression.
4452 If it could not be determined, it holds the value 0.
4453
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4454nv_preserves_uv_bits (perlxv.U):
4455 This variable indicates how many of bits type uvtype
4456 a variable nvtype can preserve.
4457
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4458nveformat (perlxvf.U):
4459 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4460 a Perl NV using %e-ish floating point format.
4461
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4462nvEUformat (perlxvf.U):
4463 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4464 a Perl NV using %E-ish floating point format.
4465
6b4667fc 4466nvfformat (perlxvf.U):
1332606d 4467 This variable contains the format string used for printing
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A
4468 a Perl NV using %f-ish floating point format.
4469
4d54317a 4470nvFUformat (perlxvf.U):
1332606d 4471 This variable contains the format string used for printing
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4472 a Perl NV using %F-ish floating point format.
4473
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4474nvgformat (perlxvf.U):
4475 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4476 a Perl NV using %g-ish floating point format.
4477
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4478nvGUformat (perlxvf.U):
4479 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4480 a Perl NV using %G-ish floating point format.
4481
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4482nvmantbits (mantbits.U):
4483 This variable tells how many bits the mantissa of a Perl NV has,
4484 not including the possible implicit bit.
4485
a22e52b9 4486nvsize (perlxv.U):
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4487 This variable is the size of a Perl NV in bytes.
4488 Note that some floating point formats have unused bytes.
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4489
4490nvtype (perlxv.U):
4491 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's NV.
4492
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4493o_nonblock (nblock_io.U):
4494 This variable bears the symbol value to be used during open() or fcntl()
4495 to turn on non-blocking I/O for a file descriptor. If you wish to switch
4496 between blocking and non-blocking, you may try ioctl(FIOSNBIO) instead,
4497 but that is only supported by some devices.
4498
4499obj_ext (Unix.U):
4500 This is an old synonym for _o.
4501
4502old_pthread_create_joinable (d_pthrattrj.U):
4503 This variable defines the constant to use for creating joinable
4504 (aka undetached) pthreads. Unused if pthread.h defines
4505 PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE. If used, possible values are
4506 PTHREAD_CREATE_UNDETACHED and __UNDETACHED.
4507
4508optimize (ccflags.U):
4509 This variable contains any optimizer/debugger flag that should be used.
4510 It is up to the Makefile to use it.
4511
4512orderlib (orderlib.U):
4513 This variable is "true" if the components of libraries must be ordered
4514 (with `lorder $* | tsort`) before placing them in an archive. Set to
4515 "false" if ranlib or ar can generate random libraries.
4516
4517osname (Oldconfig.U):
4518 This variable contains the operating system name (e.g. sunos,
4519 solaris, hpux, etc.). It can be useful later on for setting
4520 defaults. Any spaces are replaced with underscores. It is set
4521 to a null string if we can't figure it out.
4522
4523osvers (Oldconfig.U):
4524 This variable contains the operating system version (e.g.
4525 4.1.3, 5.2, etc.). It is primarily used for helping select
4526 an appropriate hints file, but might be useful elsewhere for
4527 setting defaults. It is set to '' if we can't figure it out.
4528 We try to be flexible about how much of the version number
4529 to keep, e.g. if 4.1.1, 4.1.2, and 4.1.3 are essentially the
4530 same for this package, hints files might just be os_4.0 or
4531 os_4.1, etc., not keeping separate files for each little release.
4532
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4533otherlibdirs (otherlibdirs.U):
4534 This variable contains a colon-separated set of paths for the perl
4535 binary to search for additional library files or modules.
4536 These directories will be tacked to the end of @INC.
4537 Perl will automatically search below each path for version-
4538 and architecture-specific directories. See inc_version_list
4539 for more details.
4540 A value of ' ' means 'none' and is used to preserve this value
4541 for the next run through Configure.
4542
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4543package (package.U):
4544 This variable contains the name of the package being constructed.
4545 It is primarily intended for the use of later Configure units.
4546
4547pager (pager.U):
4548 This variable contains the name of the preferred pager on the system.
4549 Usual values are (the full pathnames of) more, less, pg, or cat.
4550
4551passcat (nis.U):
4552 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
4553 /etc/passwd file. This is normally "cat /etc/passwd", but can be
4554 "ypcat passwd" when NIS is used.
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4555 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
4556 command, in which case this variable is unset.
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4557
4558patchlevel (patchlevel.U):
4559 The patchlevel level of this package.
4560 The value of patchlevel comes from the patchlevel.h file.
ff935051 4561 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "6".
c890dc6c 4562 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_VERSION".
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4563
4564path_sep (Unix.U):
4565 This is an old synonym for p_ in Head.U, the character
4566 used to separate elements in the command shell search PATH.
4567
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4568perl (Loc.U):
4569 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
4570 full pathname (if any) of the perl program. After Configure runs,
4571 the value is reset to a plain "perl" and is not useful.
4572
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4573perl5 (perl5.U):
4574 This variable contains the full path (if any) to a previously
4575 installed perl5.005 or later suitable for running the script
4576 to determine inc_version_list.
4577
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4578PERL_API_REVISION (patchlevel.h):
4579 This number describes the earliest compatible PERL_REVISION of
4580 Perl ("compatibility" here being defined as sufficient binary/API
4581 compatibility to run XS code built with the older version).
4582 Normally this does not change across maintenance releases.
4583 Please read the comment in patchlevel.h.
4584
4585PERL_API_SUBVERSION (patchlevel.h):
4586 This number describes the earliest compatible PERL_SUBVERSION of
4587 Perl ("compatibility" here being defined as sufficient binary/API
4588 compatibility to run XS code built with the older version).
4589 Normally this does not change across maintenance releases.
4590 Please read the comment in patchlevel.h.
4591
4592PERL_API_VERSION (patchlevel.h):
4593 This number describes the earliest compatible PERL_VERSION of
4594 Perl ("compatibility" here being defined as sufficient binary/API
4595 compatibility to run XS code built with the older version).
4596 Normally this does not change across maintenance releases.
4597 Please read the comment in patchlevel.h.
4598
4599PERL_CONFIG_SH (Oldsyms.U):
4600 This is set to 'true' in config.sh so that a shell script
4601 sourcing config.sh can tell if it has been sourced already.
4602
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4603PERL_PATCHLEVEL (Oldsyms.U):
4604 This symbol reflects the patchlevel, if available. Will usually
4605 come from the .patch file, which is available when the perl
4606 source tree was fetched with rsync.
4607
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4608perl_patchlevel (patchlevel.U):
4609 This is the Perl patch level, a numeric change identifier,
4610 as defined by whichever source code maintenance system
4611 is used to maintain the patches; currently Perforce.
4612 It does not correlate with the Perl version numbers or
4613 the maintenance versus development dichotomy except
4614 by also being increasing.
4615
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4616PERL_REVISION (Oldsyms.U):
4617 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 5.
4618 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
4619
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4620perl_static_inline (d_static_inline.U):
4621 This variable defines the PERL_STATIC_INLINE symbol to
4622 the best-guess incantation to use for static inline functions.
4623 Possibilities include
4624 static inline (c99)
4625 static __inline__ (gcc -ansi)
4626 static __inline (MSVC)
4627 static _inline (older MSVC)
4628 static (c89 compilers)
4629
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4630PERL_SUBVERSION (Oldsyms.U):
4631 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 2.
4632 Values greater than 50 represent potentially unstable
4633 development subversions.
4634 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
4635
4636PERL_VERSION (Oldsyms.U):
4637 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 6.
4638 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
4639
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4640perladmin (perladmin.U):
4641 Electronic mail address of the perl5 administrator.
4642
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4643perllibs (End.U):
4644 The list of libraries needed by Perl only (any libraries needed
4645 by extensions only will by dropped, if using dynamic loading).
4646
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4647perlpath (perlpath.U):
4648 This variable contains the eventual value of the PERLPATH symbol,
4649 which contains the name of the perl interpreter to be used in
4650 shell scripts and in the "eval 'exec'" idiom. This variable is
4651 not necessarily the pathname of the file containing the perl
4652 interpreter; you must append the executable extension (_exe) if
4653 it is not already present. Note that Perl code that runs during
4654 the Perl build process cannot reference this variable, as Perl
4655 may not have been installed, or even if installed, may be a
4656 different version of Perl.
4657
781b178c 4658pg (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4659 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4660 full pathname (if any) of the pg program. After Configure runs,
4661 the value is reset to a plain "pg" and is not useful.
4662
4663phostname (myhostname.U):
4664 This variable contains the eventual value of the PHOSTNAME symbol,
4665 which is a command that can be fed to popen() to get the host name.
4666 The program should probably not presume that the domain is or isn't
4667 there already.
4668
4669pidtype (pidtype.U):
635aebb7 4670 This variable defines PIDTYPE to be something like pid_t, int,
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4671 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare process ids in the kernel.
4672
4673plibpth (libpth.U):
4674 Holds the private path used by Configure to find out the libraries.
4675 Its value is prepend to libpth. This variable takes care of special
4676 machines, like the mips. Usually, it should be empty.
4677
4678pmake (Loc.U):
4679 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4680 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4681
4682pr (Loc.U):
4683 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4684 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4685
4686prefix (prefix.U):
4687 This variable holds the name of the directory below which the
4688 user will install the package. Usually, this is /usr/local, and
4689 executables go in /usr/local/bin, library stuff in /usr/local/lib,
4690 man pages in /usr/local/man, etc. It is only used to set defaults
4691 for things in bin.U, mansrc.U, privlib.U, or scriptdir.U.
4692
4693prefixexp (prefix.U):
4694 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
4695 which the user will install the package. Derived from prefix.
4696
4697privlib (privlib.U):
4698 This variable contains the eventual value of the PRIVLIB symbol,
4699 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
4700 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
4701 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
4702
4703privlibexp (privlib.U):
4704 This variable is the ~name expanded version of privlib, so that you
4705 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
4706
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4707procselfexe (d_procselfexe.U):
4708 If d_procselfexe is defined, $procselfexe is the filename
4709 of the symbolic link pointing to the absolute pathname of
4710 the executing program.
4711
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4712ptrsize (ptrsize.U):
4713 This variable contains the value of the PTRSIZE symbol, which
4714 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a pointer.
4715
e0a10278 4716quadkind (quadtype.U):
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4717 This variable, if defined, encodes the type of a quad:
4718 1 = int, 2 = long, 3 = long long, 4 = int64_t.
4719
4720quadtype (quadtype.U):
635aebb7 4721 This variable defines Quad_t to be something like long, int,
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4722 long long, int64_t, or whatever type is used for 64-bit integers.
4723
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4724randbits (randfunc.U):
4725 Indicates how many bits are produced by the function used to
4726 generate normalized random numbers.
4727
4728randfunc (randfunc.U):
4729 Indicates the name of the random number function to use.
4730 Values include drand48, random, and rand. In C programs,
4731 the 'Drand01' macro is defined to generate uniformly distributed
4732 random numbers over the range [0., 1.[ (see drand01 and nrand).
4733
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4734random_r_proto (d_random_r.U):
4735 This variable encodes the prototype of random_r.
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4736 It is zero if d_random_r is undef, and one of the
4737 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_random_r
4738 is defined.
10bc17b6 4739
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4740randseedtype (randfunc.U):
4741 Indicates the type of the argument of the seedfunc.
4742
4743ranlib (orderlib.U):
4744 This variable is set to the pathname of the ranlib program, if it is
4745 needed to generate random libraries. Set to ":" if ar can generate
4746 random libraries or if random libraries are not supported
4747
4748rd_nodata (nblock_io.U):
4749 This variable holds the return code from read() when no data is
4750 present. It should be -1, but some systems return 0 when O_NDELAY is
4751 used, which is a shame because you cannot make the difference between
209e5c0a 4752 no data and an EOF.. Sigh!
781b178c 4753
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4754readdir64_r_proto (d_readdir64_r.U):
4755 This variable encodes the prototype of readdir64_r.
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4756 It is zero if d_readdir64_r is undef, and one of the
4757 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_readdir64_r
4758 is defined.
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4759
4760readdir_r_proto (d_readdir_r.U):
4761 This variable encodes the prototype of readdir_r.
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4762 It is zero if d_readdir_r is undef, and one of the
4763 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_readdir_r
4764 is defined.
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4766revision (patchlevel.U):
4767 The value of revision comes from the patchlevel.h file.
4768 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "5".
4769 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_REVISION".
4770
781b178c 4771rm (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4772 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4773 full pathname (if any) of the rm program. After Configure runs,
4774 the value is reset to a plain "rm" and is not useful.
4775
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4776rm_try (Unix.U):
4777 This is a cleanup variable for try test programs.
4778 Internal Configure use only.
4779
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4780rmail (Loc.U):
4781 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4782 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 4783
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4784run (Cross.U):
4785 This variable contains the command used by Configure
4786 to copy and execute a cross-compiled executable in the
4787 target host. Useful and available only during Perl build.
4788 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
4789
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4790runnm (usenm.U):
4791 This variable contains 'true' or 'false' depending whether the
4792 nm extraction should be performed or not, according to the value
4793 of usenm and the flags on the Configure command line.
4794
4795sched_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
4796 This variable defines the way to yield the execution
4797 of the current thread.
4798
4799scriptdir (scriptdir.U):
4800 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
4801 to put publicly scripts for the package in question. It is either
4802 the same directory as for binaries, or a special one that can be
4803 mounted across different architectures, like /usr/share. Programs
4804 must be prepared to deal with ~name expansion.
4805
4806scriptdirexp (scriptdir.U):
4807 This variable is the same as scriptdir, but is filename expanded
4808 at configuration time, for programs not wanting to bother with it.
4809
4810sed (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4811 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4812 full pathname (if any) of the sed program. After Configure runs,
4813 the value is reset to a plain "sed" and is not useful.
4814
4815seedfunc (randfunc.U):
4816 Indicates the random number generating seed function.
4817 Values include srand48, srandom, and srand.
4818
4819selectminbits (selectminbits.U):
4820 This variable holds the minimum number of bits operated by select.
4821 That is, if you do select(n, ...), how many bits at least will be
4822 cleared in the masks if some activity is detected. Usually this
4823 is either n or 32*ceil(n/32), especially many little-endians do
4824 the latter. This is only useful if you have select(), naturally.
4825
4826selecttype (selecttype.U):
4827 This variable holds the type used for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th
4828 arguments to select. Usually, this is 'fd_set *', if HAS_FD_SET
635aebb7 4829 is defined, and 'int *' otherwise. This is only useful if you
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4830 have select(), naturally.
4831
4832sendmail (Loc.U):
ff935051 4833 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4834 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 4835
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4836setgrent_r_proto (d_setgrent_r.U):
4837 This variable encodes the prototype of setgrent_r.
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4838 It is zero if d_setgrent_r is undef, and one of the
4839 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setgrent_r
4840 is defined.
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4841
4842sethostent_r_proto (d_sethostent_r.U):
4843 This variable encodes the prototype of sethostent_r.
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4844 It is zero if d_sethostent_r is undef, and one of the
4845 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_sethostent_r
4846 is defined.
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4847
4848setlocale_r_proto (d_setlocale_r.U):
4849 This variable encodes the prototype of setlocale_r.
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4850 It is zero if d_setlocale_r is undef, and one of the
4851 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setlocale_r
4852 is defined.
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4853
4854setnetent_r_proto (d_setnetent_r.U):
4855 This variable encodes the prototype of setnetent_r.
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4856 It is zero if d_setnetent_r is undef, and one of the
4857 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setnetent_r
4858 is defined.
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4859
4860setprotoent_r_proto (d_setprotoent_r.U):
4861 This variable encodes the prototype of setprotoent_r.
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4862 It is zero if d_setprotoent_r is undef, and one of the
4863 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setprotoent_r
4864 is defined.
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4865
4866setpwent_r_proto (d_setpwent_r.U):
4867 This variable encodes the prototype of setpwent_r.
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4868 It is zero if d_setpwent_r is undef, and one of the
4869 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setpwent_r
4870 is defined.
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4871
4872setservent_r_proto (d_setservent_r.U):
4873 This variable encodes the prototype of setservent_r.
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4874 It is zero if d_setservent_r is undef, and one of the
4875 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setservent_r
4876 is defined.
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4878sGMTIME_max (time_size.U):
4879 This variable defines the maximum value of the time_t offset that
4880 the system function gmtime () accepts
4881
4882sGMTIME_min (time_size.U):
4883 This variable defines the minimum value of the time_t offset that
4884 the system function gmtime () accepts
4885
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4886sh (sh.U):
4887 This variable contains the full pathname of the shell used
4888 on this system to execute Bourne shell scripts. Usually, this will be
4889 /bin/sh, though it's possible that some systems will have /bin/ksh,
4890 /bin/pdksh, /bin/ash, /bin/bash, or even something such as
4891 D:/bin/sh.exe.
1a474c3e 4892 This unit comes before Options.U, so you can't set sh with a '-D'
781b178c 4893 option, though you can override this (and startsh)
1a474c3e 4894 with '-O -Dsh=/bin/whatever -Dstartsh=whatever'
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4895
4896shar (Loc.U):
4897 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4898 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4899
4900sharpbang (spitshell.U):
4901 This variable contains the string #! if this system supports that
4902 construct.
4903
4904shmattype (d_shmat.U):
4905 This symbol contains the type of pointer returned by shmat().
4906 It can be 'void *' or 'char *'.
4907
4908shortsize (intsize.U):
4909 This variable contains the value of the SHORTSIZE symbol which
4910 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a short.
4911
4912shrpenv (libperl.U):
4913 If the user builds a shared libperl.so, then we need to tell the
635aebb7 4914 'perl' executable where it will be able to find the installed libperl.so.
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4915 One way to do this on some systems is to set the environment variable
4916 LD_RUN_PATH to the directory that will be the final location of the
4917 shared libperl.so. The makefile can use this with something like
4918 $shrpenv $(CC) -o perl perlmain.o $libperl $libs
4919 Typical values are
4920 shrpenv="env LD_RUN_PATH=$archlibexp/CORE"
4921 or
4922 shrpenv=''
4923 See the main perl Makefile.SH for actual working usage.
4924 Alternatively, we might be able to use a command line option such
c68a00c0 4925 as -R $archlibexp/CORE (Solaris) or -Wl,-rpath
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4926 $archlibexp/CORE (Linux).
4927
4928shsharp (spitshell.U):
4929 This variable tells further Configure units whether your sh can
4930 handle # comments.
4931
4932sig_count (sig_name.U):
4933 This variable holds a number larger than the largest valid
4934 signal number. This is usually the same as the NSIG macro.
4935
4936sig_name (sig_name.U):
4937 This variable holds the signal names, space separated. The leading
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4938 SIG in signal name is removed. A ZERO is prepended to the list.
4939 This is currently not used, sig_name_init is used instead.
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4940
4941sig_name_init (sig_name.U):
4942 This variable holds the signal names, enclosed in double quotes and
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4943 separated by commas, suitable for use in the SIG_NAME definition
4944 below. A "ZERO" is prepended to the list, and the list is
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4945 terminated with a plain 0. The leading SIG in signal names
4946 is removed. See sig_num.
4947
4948sig_num (sig_name.U):
4949 This variable holds the signal numbers, space separated. A ZERO is
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4950 prepended to the list (corresponding to the fake SIGZERO).
4951 Those numbers correspond to the value of the signal listed
4952 in the same place within the sig_name list.
4953 This is currently not used, sig_num_init is used instead.
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4954
4955sig_num_init (sig_name.U):
4956 This variable holds the signal numbers, enclosed in double quotes and
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AL
4957 separated by commas, suitable for use in the SIG_NUM definition
4958 below. A "ZERO" is prepended to the list, and the list is
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4959 terminated with a plain 0.
4960
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4961sig_size (sig_name.U):
4962 This variable contains the number of elements of the sig_name
f05fc11d 4963 and sig_num arrays.
76d3c696 4964
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4965signal_t (d_voidsig.U):
4966 This variable holds the type of the signal handler (void or int).
4967
4968sitearch (sitearch.U):
4969 This variable contains the eventual value of the SITEARCH symbol,
4970 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
4971 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
4972 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
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4973 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4974 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4975 architecture-dependent modules in this directory with
4976 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4977 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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4978
4979sitearchexp (sitearch.U):
4980 This variable is the ~name expanded version of sitearch, so that you
4981 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
4982
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4983sitebin (sitebin.U):
4984 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
4985 to put add-on publicly executable files for the package in question. It
4986 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
4987 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
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4988 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4989 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4990 executables in this directory with
4991 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4992 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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4993
4994sitebinexp (sitebin.U):
4995 This is the same as the sitebin variable, but is filename expanded at
4996 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
4997
e755722e 4998sitehtml1dir (sitehtml1dir.U):
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4999 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
5000 html source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
5001 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
5002 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
5003 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5004 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5005 html pages in this directory with
5006 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5007 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5008
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5009sitehtml1direxp (sitehtml1dir.U):
5010 This variable is the same as the sitehtml1dir variable, but is filename
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5011 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
5012
e755722e 5013sitehtml3dir (sitehtml3dir.U):
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5014 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
5015 library html source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
5016 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
5017 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
5018 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5019 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5020 library html pages in this directory with
5021 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5022 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5023
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5024sitehtml3direxp (sitehtml3dir.U):
5025 This variable is the same as the sitehtml3dir variable, but is filename
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5026 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
5027
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5028sitelib (sitelib.U):
5029 This variable contains the eventual value of the SITELIB symbol,
5030 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
5031 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
5032 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
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5033 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5034 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5035 architecture-independent modules in this directory with
5036 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5037 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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5039sitelib_stem (sitelib.U):
5040 This variable is $sitelibexp with any trailing version-specific component
5041 removed. The elements in inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U) can
5042 be tacked onto this variable to generate a list of directories to search.
5043
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5044sitelibexp (sitelib.U):
5045 This variable is the ~name expanded version of sitelib, so that you
5046 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5047
e755722e 5048siteman1dir (siteman1dir.U):
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5049 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
5050 manual source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
5051 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
5052 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
5053 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5054 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5055 man1 pages in this directory with
5056 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5057 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5058
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5059siteman1direxp (siteman1dir.U):
5060 This variable is the same as the siteman1dir variable, but is filename
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5061 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
5062
e755722e 5063siteman3dir (siteman3dir.U):
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5064 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
5065 library man source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
5066 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
5067 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
5068 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5069 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5070 man3 pages in this directory with
5071 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5072 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5073
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5074siteman3direxp (siteman3dir.U):
5075 This variable is the same as the siteman3dir variable, but is filename
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5076 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
5077
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5078siteprefix (siteprefix.U):
5079 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
5080 which the user will install add-on packages.
f868067f 5081 See INSTALL for usage and examples.
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5082
5083siteprefixexp (siteprefix.U):
5084 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
5085 which the user will install add-on packages. Derived from siteprefix.
5086
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5087sitescript (sitescript.U):
5088 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
5089 to put add-on publicly executable files for the package in question. It
5090 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
5091 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
5092 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5093 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5094 scripts in this directory with
5095 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5096 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5097
5098sitescriptexp (sitescript.U):
5099 This is the same as the sitescript variable, but is filename expanded at
5100 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
5101
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5102sizesize (sizesize.U):
5103 This variable contains the size of a sizetype in bytes.
5104
781b178c 5105sizetype (sizetype.U):
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5106 This variable defines sizetype to be something like size_t,
5107 unsigned long, or whatever type is used to declare length
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5108 parameters for string functions.
5109
5110sleep (Loc.U):
5111 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5112 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5113
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5114sLOCALTIME_max (time_size.U):
5115 This variable defines the maximum value of the time_t offset that
5116 the system function localtime () accepts
5117
5118sLOCALTIME_min (time_size.U):
5119 This variable defines the minimum value of the time_t offset that
5120 the system function localtime () accepts
5121
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5122smail (Loc.U):
5123 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5124 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5125
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5126so (so.U):
5127 This variable holds the extension used to identify shared libraries
5128 (also known as shared objects) on the system. Usually set to 'so'.
5129
5130sockethdr (d_socket.U):
5131 This variable has any cpp '-I' flags needed for socket support.
5132
5133socketlib (d_socket.U):
5134 This variable has the names of any libraries needed for socket support.
5135
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5136socksizetype (socksizetype.U):
5137 This variable holds the type used for the size argument
5138 for various socket calls like accept. Usual values include
5139 socklen_t, size_t, and int.
5140
781b178c 5141sort (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5142 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5143 full pathname (if any) of the sort program. After Configure runs,
5144 the value is reset to a plain "sort" and is not useful.
5145
5146spackage (package.U):
5147 This variable contains the name of the package being constructed,
5148 with the first letter uppercased, i.e. suitable for starting
5149 sentences.
5150
5151spitshell (spitshell.U):
5152 This variable contains the command necessary to spit out a runnable
1a474c3e 5153 shell on this system. It is either cat or a grep '-v' for # comments.
40814d06 5154
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5155sPRId64 (quadfio.U):
5156 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5157 format 64-bit decimal numbers (format 'd') for output.
5158
5159sPRIeldbl (longdblfio.U):
5160 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5161 format long doubles (format 'e') for output.
5162
5163sPRIEUldbl (longdblfio.U):
5164 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5165 format long doubles (format 'E') for output.
5166 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIeldbl so that even
5167 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5168
5169sPRIfldbl (longdblfio.U):
5170 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5171 format long doubles (format 'f') for output.
5172
5173sPRIFUldbl (longdblfio.U):
5174 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5175 format long doubles (format 'F') for output.
5176 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIfldbl so that even
5177 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5178
5179sPRIgldbl (longdblfio.U):
5180 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5181 format long doubles (format 'g') for output.
5182
5183sPRIGUldbl (longdblfio.U):
5184 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5185 format long doubles (format 'G') for output.
5186 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIgldbl so that even
5187 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5188
5189sPRIi64 (quadfio.U):
5190 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5191 format 64-bit decimal numbers (format 'i') for output.
5192
5193sPRIo64 (quadfio.U):
5194 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5195 format 64-bit octal numbers (format 'o') for output.
5196
5197sPRIu64 (quadfio.U):
5198 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5199 format 64-bit unsigned decimal numbers (format 'u') for output.
5200
5201sPRIx64 (quadfio.U):
5202 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5203 format 64-bit hexadecimal numbers (format 'x') for output.
5204
5205sPRIXU64 (quadfio.U):
5206 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5207 format 64-bit hExADECimAl numbers (format 'X') for output.
5208 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIx64 so that even
5209 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5210
40814d06 5211srand48_r_proto (d_srand48_r.U):
10bc17b6 5212 This variable encodes the prototype of srand48_r.
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5213 It is zero if d_srand48_r is undef, and one of the
5214 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_srand48_r
5215 is defined.
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5216
5217srandom_r_proto (d_srandom_r.U):
5218 This variable encodes the prototype of srandom_r.
39183afa
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5219 It is zero if d_srandom_r is undef, and one of the
5220 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_srandom_r
5221 is defined.
10bc17b6 5222
781b178c 5223src (src.U):
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5224 This variable holds the (possibly relative) path of the package source.
5225 It is up to the Makefile to use this variable and set VPATH accordingly
5226 to find the sources remotely. Use $pkgsrc to have an absolute path.
781b178c 5227
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5228sSCNfldbl (longdblfio.U):
5229 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5230 format long doubles (format 'f') for input.
5231
781b178c 5232ssizetype (ssizetype.U):
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5233 This variable defines ssizetype to be something like ssize_t,
5234 long or int. It is used by functions that return a count
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5235 of bytes or an error condition. It must be a signed type.
5236 We will pick a type such that sizeof(SSize_t) == sizeof(Size_t).
5237
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5238st_ino_sign (st_ino_def.U):
5239 This variable contains the signedness of struct stat's st_ino.
5240 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
5241
5242st_ino_size (st_ino_def.U):
5243 This variable contains the size of struct stat's st_ino in bytes.
5244
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5245startperl (startperl.U):
5246 This variable contains the string to put on the front of a perl
5247 script to make sure (hopefully) that it runs with perl and not some
5248 shell. Of course, that leading line must be followed by the classical
5249 perl idiom:
5250 eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
5251 if $running_under_some_shell;
5252 to guarantee perl startup should the shell execute the script. Note
47e01c32 5253 that this magic incantation is not understood by csh.
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5254
5255startsh (startsh.U):
5256 This variable contains the string to put on the front of a shell
5257 script to make sure (hopefully) that it runs with sh and not some
5258 other shell.
5259
5260static_ext (Extensions.U):
5261 This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to
5262 link statically into the package. It is used by Makefile.
5263
5264stdchar (stdchar.U):
5265 This variable conditionally defines STDCHAR to be the type of char
5266 used in stdio.h. It has the values "unsigned char" or "char".
5267
5268stdio_base (d_stdstdio.U):
5269 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
5270 _base field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5271 be used to define the macro FILE_base(fp).
5272
5273stdio_bufsiz (d_stdstdio.U):
5274 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to determine
5275 the number of bytes store in the I/O buffer pointer to by the
5276 _base field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5277 be used to define the macro FILE_bufsiz(fp).
5278
5279stdio_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
5280 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
5281 _cnt field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5282 be used to define the macro FILE_cnt(fp).
5283
5284stdio_filbuf (d_stdstdio.U):
5285 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to tell
022735b4 5286 stdio to refill its internal buffers (?). This will
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5287 be used to define the macro FILE_filbuf(fp).
5288
5289stdio_ptr (d_stdstdio.U):
5290 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
5291 _ptr field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5292 be used to define the macro FILE_ptr(fp).
5293
5294stdio_stream_array (stdio_streams.U):
5295 This variable tells the name of the array holding the stdio streams.
5296 Usual values include _iob, __iob, and __sF.
5297
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5298strerror_r_proto (d_strerror_r.U):
5299 This variable encodes the prototype of strerror_r.
39183afa
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5300 It is zero if d_strerror_r is undef, and one of the
5301 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_strerror_r
5302 is defined.
10bc17b6 5303
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5304submit (Loc.U):
5305 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5306 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5307
5308subversion (patchlevel.U):
5309 The subversion level of this package.
5310 The value of subversion comes from the patchlevel.h file.
ff935051 5311 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "1".
c890dc6c 5312 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_SUBVERSION".
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5313 This is unique to perl.
5314
5315sysman (sysman.U):
5316 This variable holds the place where the manual is located on this
5317 system. It is not the place where the user wants to put his manual
5318 pages. Rather it is the place where Configure may look to find manual
5319 for unix commands (section 1 of the manual usually). See mansrc.
5320
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5321sysroot (Sysroot.U):
5322 This variable is empty unless supplied by the Configure user.
5323 It can contain a path to an alternative root directory, under which
5324 headers and libraries for the compilation target can be found. This
5325 is generally used when cross-compiling using a gcc-like compiler.
5326
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5327tail (Loc.U):
5328 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5329 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5330
5331tar (Loc.U):
5332 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5333 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5334
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5335targetarch (Cross.U):
5336 If cross-compiling, this variable contains the target architecture.
5337 If not, this will be empty.
5338
56b575b9 5339targetdir (Cross.U):
51b4c035
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5340 This variable contains a path that will be created on the target
5341 host using targetmkdir, and then used to copy the cross-compiled
5342 executables to. Defaults to '/tmp' if not set.
a2c3ce73
BF
5343
5344targetenv (Cross.U):
51b4c035
KW
5345 If cross-compiling, this variable can be used to modify the
5346 environment on the target system.
5347 However, how and where it's used, and even if it's used at all, is
5348 entirely dependent on both the transport mechanism (targetrun) and
5349 what the target system is. Unless the relevant documentation says
5350 otherwise, it is genereally not useful.
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5351
5352targethost (Cross.U):
5353 This variable contains the name of a separate host machine that
5354 can be used to run compiled test programs and perl tests on.
5355 Set to empty string if not in use.
5356
5357targetmkdir (Cross.U):
5358 This variable contains the command used by Configure to create a
5359 new directory on the target host.
5360
5361targetport (Cross.U):
5362 This variable contains the number of a network port to be used to
5363 connect to the host in targethost, if unset defaults to 22 for ssh.
5364
1d38f63f 5365targetsh (sh.U):
0f3731c6
BF
5366 If cross-compiling, this variable contains the location of sh on the
5367 target system.
5368 If not, this will be the same as $sh.
5369
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5370tbl (Loc.U):
5371 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5372 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5373
5374tee (Loc.U):
5375 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5376 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5377
5378test (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 test program. After Configure runs,
5381 the value is reset to a plain "test" and is not useful.
5382
5383timeincl (i_time.U):
5384 This variable holds the full path of the included time header(s).
5385
5386timetype (d_time.U):
5387 This variable holds the type returned by time(). It can be long,
5388 or time_t on BSD sites (in which case <sys/types.h> should be
5389 included). Anyway, the type Time_t should be used.
5390
10bc17b6
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5391tmpnam_r_proto (d_tmpnam_r.U):
5392 This variable encodes the prototype of tmpnam_r.
39183afa
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5393 It is zero if d_tmpnam_r is undef, and one of the
5394 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_tmpnam_r
5395 is defined.
10bc17b6 5396
5440bc8e
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5397to (Cross.U):
5398 This variable contains the command used by Configure
5399 to copy to from the target host. Useful and available
5400 only during Perl build.
5401 The string ':' if not cross-compiling.
5402
781b178c 5403touch (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5404 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5405 full pathname (if any) of the touch program. After Configure runs,
5406 the value is reset to a plain "touch" and is not useful.
5407
5408tr (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5409 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5410 full pathname (if any) of the tr program. After Configure runs,
5411 the value is reset to a plain "tr" and is not useful.
5412
5413trnl (trnl.U):
5414 This variable contains the value to be passed to the tr(1)
5415 command to transliterate a newline. Typical values are
5416 '\012' and '\n'. This is needed for EBCDIC systems where
5417 newline is not necessarily '\012'.
5418
5419troff (Loc.U):
5420 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5421 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5422
10bc17b6
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5423ttyname_r_proto (d_ttyname_r.U):
5424 This variable encodes the prototype of ttyname_r.
39183afa
JH
5425 It is zero if d_ttyname_r is undef, and one of the
5426 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_ttyname_r
5427 is defined.
10bc17b6 5428
a22e52b9
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5429u16size (perlxv.U):
5430 This variable is the size of an U16 in bytes.
5431
5432u16type (perlxv.U):
5433 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U16.
5434
5435u32size (perlxv.U):
5436 This variable is the size of an U32 in bytes.
5437
5438u32type (perlxv.U):
5439 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U32.
5440
5441u64size (perlxv.U):
5442 This variable is the size of an U64 in bytes.
5443
5444u64type (perlxv.U):
5445 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U64.
5446
5447u8size (perlxv.U):
5448 This variable is the size of an U8 in bytes.
5449
5450u8type (perlxv.U):
5451 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U8.
5452
5453uidformat (uidf.U):
5454 This variable contains the format string used for printing a Uid_t.
5455
2d228ff3
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5456uidsign (uidsign.U):
5457 This variable contains the signedness of a uidtype.
5458 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
5459
785fb66b
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5460uidsize (uidsize.U):
5461 This variable contains the size of a uidtype in bytes.
5462
781b178c 5463uidtype (uidtype.U):
635aebb7 5464 This variable defines Uid_t to be something like uid_t, int,
781b178c
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5465 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare user ids in the kernel.
5466
5467uname (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5468 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5469 full pathname (if any) of the uname program. After Configure runs,
5470 the value is reset to a plain "uname" and is not useful.
5471
5472uniq (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5473 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5474 full pathname (if any) of the uniq program. After Configure runs,
5475 the value is reset to a plain "uniq" and is not useful.
5476
0befd8de
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5477uquadtype (quadtype.U):
5478 This variable defines Uquad_t to be something like unsigned long,
5479 unsigned int, unsigned long long, uint64_t, or whatever type is
5480 used for 64-bit integers.
5481
10305dfa
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5482use5005threads (usethreads.U):
5483 This variable conditionally defines the USE_5005THREADS symbol,
5484 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the 5.005-based
5c40187f 5485 threading implementation. Only valid up to 5.8.x.
10305dfa 5486
10cc9d2a
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5487use64bitall (use64bits.U):
5488 This variable conditionally defines the USE_64_BIT_ALL symbol,
5489 and indicates that 64-bit integer types should be used
5490 when available. The maximal possible
5491 64-bitness is employed: LP64 or ILP64, meaning that you will
5492 be able to use more than 2 gigabytes of memory. This mode is
5493 even more binary incompatible than USE_64_BIT_INT. You may not
5494 be able to run the resulting executable in a 32-bit CPU at all or
5495 you may need at least to reboot your OS to 64-bit mode.
5496
5497use64bitint (use64bits.U):
5498 This variable conditionally defines the USE_64_BIT_INT symbol,
aaacdc8b 5499 and indicates that 64-bit integer types should be used
c890dc6c
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5500 when available. The minimal possible 64-bitness
5501 is employed, just enough to get 64-bit integers into Perl.
5502 This may mean using for example "long longs", while your memory
5503 may still be limited to 2 gigabytes.
781b178c 5504
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MB
5505usecbacktrace (usebacktrace.U):
5506 This variable indicates whether we are compiling with backtrace
5507 support.
5508
5440bc8e
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5509usecrosscompile (Cross.U):
5510 This variable conditionally defines the USE_CROSS_COMPILE symbol,
5511 and indicates that Perl has been cross-compiled.
5512
1be1b388
MB
5513usedevel (Devel.U):
5514 This variable indicates that Perl was configured with development
5515 features enabled. This should not be done for production builds.
5516
781b178c 5517usedl (dlsrc.U):
ff935051 5518 This variable indicates if the system supports dynamic
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5519 loading of some sort. See also dlsrc and dlobj.
5520
34f1896b
MB
5521usedtrace (usedtrace.U):
5522 This variable indicates whether we are compiling with dtrace
5523 support. See also dtrace.
5ac1e9b2 5524
4d54317a
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5525usefaststdio (usefaststdio.U):
5526 This variable conditionally defines the USE_FAST_STDIO symbol,
5527 and indicates that Perl should be built to use 'fast stdio'.
5528 Defaults to define in Perls 5.8 and earlier, to undef later.
5529
aaacdc8b
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5530useithreads (usethreads.U):
5531 This variable conditionally defines the USE_ITHREADS symbol,
5532 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the interpreter-based
5533 threading implementation.
5534
269a7913 5535usekernprocpathname (usekernprocpathname.U):
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NC
5536 This variable, indicates that we can use sysctl with
5537 KERN_PROC_PATHNAME to get a full path for the executable, and hence
5538 convert $^X to an absolute path.
5539
5bf26616 5540uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
1baac590
JH
5541 This variable conditionally defines the USE_LARGE_FILES symbol,
5542 and indicates that large file interfaces should be used when
c890dc6c 5543 available.
1baac590 5544
ca24dfc6
LV
5545uselongdouble (uselongdbl.U):
5546 This variable conditionally defines the USE_LONG_DOUBLE symbol,
5547 and indicates that long doubles should be used when available.
5548
fd550ca5
MB
5549usemallocwrap (mallocsrc.U):
5550 This variable contains y if we are wrapping malloc to prevent
5551 integer overflow during size calculations.
5552
1baac590
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5553usemorebits (usemorebits.U):
5554 This variable conditionally defines the USE_MORE_BITS symbol,
5555 and indicates that explicit 64-bit interfaces and long doubles
5556 should be used when available.
5557
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5558usemultiplicity (usemultiplicity.U):
5559 This variable conditionally defines the MULTIPLICITY symbol,
5560 and indicates that Perl should be built to use multiplicity.
5561
5562usemymalloc (mallocsrc.U):
5563 This variable contains y if the malloc that comes with this package
5564 is desired over the system's version of malloc. People often include
47e01c32 5565 special versions of malloc for efficiency, but such versions are often
781b178c
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5566 less portable. See also mallocsrc and mallocobj.
5567 If this is 'y', then -lmalloc is removed from $libs.
5568
5569usenm (usenm.U):
5570 This variable contains 'true' or 'false' depending whether the
5571 nm extraction is wanted or not.
5572
ae60cb46
NC
5573usensgetexecutablepath (usensgetexecutablepath.U):
5574 This symbol, if defined, indicates that we can use _NSGetExecutablePath
5575 and realpath to get a full path for the executable, and hence convert
5576 $^X to an absolute path.
5577
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5578useopcode (Extensions.U):
5579 This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate
5580 whether the Opcode extension should be used. The sole
5581 use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism
5582 for users to skip the Opcode extension from the Configure
5583 command line.
5584
5585useperlio (useperlio.U):
5586 This variable conditionally defines the USE_PERLIO symbol,
5587 and indicates that the PerlIO abstraction should be
5588 used throughout.
5589
5590useposix (Extensions.U):
5591 This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate
5592 whether the POSIX extension should be used. The sole
5593 use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism
5594 for hints files to indicate that POSIX will not compile
5595 on a particular system.
5596
d6d36205
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5597usequadmath (usequadmath.U):
5598 This variable conditionally defines the USE_QUADMATH symbol,
5599 and indicates that the quadmath library __float128 long doubles
5600 should be used when available.
5601
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5602usereentrant (usethreads.U):
5603 This variable conditionally defines the USE_REENTRANT_API symbol,
5604 which indicates that the thread code may try to use the various
5605 _r versions of library functions. This is only potentially
5606 meaningful if usethreads is set and is very experimental, it is
5607 not even prompted for.
5608
df4c34dc 5609userelocatableinc (bin.U):
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NC
5610 This variable is set to true to indicate that perl should relocate
5611 @INC entries at runtime based on the path to the perl binary.
5612 Any @INC paths starting ".../" are relocated relative to the directory
5613 containing the perl binary, and a logical cleanup of the path is then
5614 made around the join point (removing "dir/../" pairs)
5615
781b178c 5616useshrplib (libperl.U):
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5617 This variable is set to 'true' if the user wishes
5618 to build a shared libperl, and 'false' otherwise.
781b178c 5619
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5620usesitecustomize (d_sitecustomize.U):
5621 This variable is set to true when the user requires a mechanism that
5622 allows the sysadmin to add entries to @INC at runtime. This variable
5623 being set, makes perl run '$sitelib/sitecustomize.pl' at startup.
5624
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5625usesocks (usesocks.U):
5626 This variable conditionally defines the USE_SOCKS symbol,
5627 and indicates that Perl should be built to use SOCKS.
5628
5629usethreads (usethreads.U):
b99a9337 5630 This variable conditionally defines the USE_THREADS symbol,
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5631 and indicates that Perl should be built to use threads.
5632
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5633usevendorprefix (vendorprefix.U):
5634 This variable tells whether the vendorprefix
5635 and consequently other vendor* paths are in use.
5636
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5637useversionedarchname (archname.U):
5638 This variable indicates whether to include the $api_versionstring
5639 as a component of the $archname.
5640
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5641usevfork (d_vfork.U):
5642 This variable is set to true when the user accepts to use vfork.
5643 It is set to false when no vfork is available or when the user
47e01c32 5644 explicitly requests not to use vfork.
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5645
5646usrinc (usrinc.U):
5647 This variable holds the path of the include files, which is
5648 usually /usr/include. It is mainly used by other Configure units.
5649
5650uuname (Loc.U):
5651 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5652 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5653
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5654uvoformat (perlxvf.U):
5655 This variable contains the format string used for printing
635aebb7 5656 a Perl UV as an unsigned octal integer.
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5657
5658uvsize (perlxv.U):
5659 This variable is the size of a UV in bytes.
5660
5661uvtype (perlxv.U):
5662 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's UV.
5663
5664uvuformat (perlxvf.U):
5665 This variable contains the format string used for printing
635aebb7 5666 a Perl UV as an unsigned decimal integer.
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5667
5668uvxformat (perlxvf.U):
5669 This variable contains the format string used for printing
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5670 a Perl UV as an unsigned hexadecimal integer in lowercase abcdef.
5671
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5672uvXUformat (perlxvf.U):
5673 This variable contains the format string used for printing
5674 a Perl UV as an unsigned hexadecimal integer in uppercase ABCDEF.
5675
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5676vendorarch (vendorarch.U):
5677 This variable contains the value of the PERL_VENDORARCH symbol.
635aebb7 5678 It may have a ~ on the front.
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5679 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5680 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5681 architecture-dependent modules and extensions in this directory with
635aebb7 5682 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5683 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5684
5685vendorarchexp (vendorarch.U):
5686 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorarch, so that you
5687 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5688
0617aed7 5689vendorbin (vendorbin.U):
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5690 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORBIN symbol.
5691 It may have a ~ on the front.
5692 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5693 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place additional
5694 binaries in this directory with
635aebb7 5695 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
f868067f 5696 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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5697
5698vendorbinexp (vendorbin.U):
5699 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorbin, so that you
5700 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5701
e755722e 5702vendorhtml1dir (vendorhtml1dir.U):
635aebb7 5703 This variable contains the name of the directory for html
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5704 pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5705 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5706 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5707 html pages in this directory with
635aebb7 5708 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5709 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5710
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5711vendorhtml1direxp (vendorhtml1dir.U):
5712 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorhtml1dir, so that you
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5713 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5714
e755722e 5715vendorhtml3dir (vendorhtml3dir.U):
635aebb7 5716 This variable contains the name of the directory for html
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5717 library pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5718 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5719 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5720 html pages for modules and extensions in this directory with
635aebb7 5721 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5722 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5723
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5724vendorhtml3direxp (vendorhtml3dir.U):
5725 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorhtml3dir, so that you
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5726 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5727
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5728vendorlib (vendorlib.U):
5729 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORLIB symbol,
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5730 which is the name of the private library for this package.
5731 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5732 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5733 modules in this directory with
635aebb7 5734 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
f868067f 5735 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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5737vendorlib_stem (vendorlib.U):
5738 This variable is $vendorlibexp with any trailing version-specific component
5739 removed. The elements in inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U) can
5740 be tacked onto this variable to generate a list of directories to search.
5741
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5742vendorlibexp (vendorlib.U):
5743 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorlib, so that you
5744 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5745
e755722e 5746vendorman1dir (vendorman1dir.U):
635aebb7 5747 This variable contains the name of the directory for man1
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5748 pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5749 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5750 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5751 man1 pages in this directory with
635aebb7 5752 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5753 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5754
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5755vendorman1direxp (vendorman1dir.U):
5756 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorman1dir, so that you
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5757 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5758
e755722e 5759vendorman3dir (vendorman3dir.U):
635aebb7 5760 This variable contains the name of the directory for man3
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5761 pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5762 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5763 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5764 man3 pages in this directory with
635aebb7 5765 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5766 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5767
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5768vendorman3direxp (vendorman3dir.U):
5769 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorman3dir, so that you
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5770 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5771
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5772vendorprefix (vendorprefix.U):
5773 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
5774 which the vendor will install add-on packages.
f868067f 5775 See INSTALL for usage and examples.
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5776
5777vendorprefixexp (vendorprefix.U):
5778 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
5779 which the vendor will install add-on packages. Derived from vendorprefix.
5780
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5781vendorscript (vendorscript.U):
5782 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORSCRIPT symbol.
5783 It may have a ~ on the front.
5784 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5785 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place additional
5786 executable scripts in this directory with
635aebb7 5787 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5788 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5789
5790vendorscriptexp (vendorscript.U):
5791 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorscript, so that you
5792 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5793
781b178c 5794version (patchlevel.U):
ff935051 5795 The full version number of this package, such as 5.6.1 (or 5_6_1).
c890dc6c 5796 This combines revision, patchlevel, and subversion to get the
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5797 full version number, including any possible subversions.
5798 This is suitable for use as a directory name, and hence is
5799 filesystem dependent.
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5801version_patchlevel_string (patchlevel.U):
5802 This is a string combining version, subversion and
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5803 perl_patchlevel (if perl_patchlevel is non-zero).
5804 It is typically something like
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5805 'version 7 subversion 1' or
5806 'version 7 subversion 1 patchlevel 11224'
5807 It is computed here to avoid duplication of code in myconfig.SH
635aebb7 5808 and lib/Config.pm.
27713a04 5809
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5810versiononly (versiononly.U):
5811 If set, this symbol indicates that only the version-specific
5812 components of a perl installation should be installed.
5813 This may be useful for making a test installation of a new
5814 version without disturbing the existing installation.
5815 Setting versiononly is equivalent to setting installperl's -v option.
5816 In particular, the non-versioned scripts and programs such as
5817 a2p, c2ph, h2xs, pod2*, and perldoc are not installed
5818 (see INSTALL for a more complete list). Nor are the man
5819 pages installed.
5820 Usually, this is undef.
5821
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5822vi (Loc.U):
5823 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5824 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5825
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5826xlibpth (libpth.U):
5827 This variable holds extra path (space-separated) used to find
5828 libraries on this platform, for example CPU-specific libraries
5829 (on multi-CPU platforms) may be listed here.
5830
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5831yacc (yacc.U):
5832 This variable holds the name of the compiler compiler we
5833 want to use in the Makefile. It can be yacc, byacc, or bison -y.
5834
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5835yaccflags (yacc.U):
5836 This variable contains any additional yacc flags desired by the
5837 user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
5838
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5839zcat (Loc.U):
5840 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5841 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5842
5843zip (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5844 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5845 full pathname (if any) of the zip program. After Configure runs,
5846 the value is reset to a plain "zip" and is not useful.
5847