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2!!!!!!! DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE !!!!!!!
3This file is built by metaconfig.
4
d7418ba7 5This file contains a description of all the shell variables whose value is
6determined by the Configure script. Variables intended for use in C
269a7913 7programs (e.g. I_UNISTD) are already described in config_h.SH. [`configpm'
ebc74a4b 8generates pod documentation for Config.pm from this file--please try to keep
24412007 9the formatting regular.]
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781b178c 11_a (Unix.U):
9285ede2 12 This variable defines the extension used for ordinary library files.
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13 For unix, it is '.a'. The '.' is included. Other possible
14 values include '.lib'.
15
16_exe (Unix.U):
17 This variable defines the extension used for executable files.
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18 DJGPP, Cygwin and OS/2 use '.exe'. Stratus VOS uses '.pm'.
19 On operating systems which do not require a specific extension
20 for executable files, this variable is empty.
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21
22_o (Unix.U):
23 This variable defines the extension used for object files.
24 For unix, it is '.o'. The '.' is included. Other possible
25 values include '.obj'.
26
27afs (afs.U):
28 This variable is set to 'true' if AFS (Andrew File System) is used
29 on the system, 'false' otherwise. It is possible to override this
30 with a hint value or command line option, but you'd better know
31 what you are doing.
32
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33afsroot (afs.U):
34 This variable is by default set to '/afs'. In the unlikely case
35 this is not the correct root, it is possible to override this with
36 a hint value or command line option. This will be used in subsequent
776a38e3 37 tests for AFSness in the configure and test process.
a6d26a0d 38
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39alignbytes (alignbytes.U):
40 This variable holds the number of bytes required to align a
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41 double-- or a long double when applicable. Usual values are
42 2, 4 and 8. The default is eight, for safety.
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43
44ansi2knr (ansi2knr.U):
635aebb7 45 This variable is set if the user needs to run ansi2knr.
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46 Currently, this is not supported, so we just abort.
47
48aphostname (d_gethname.U):
49 This variable contains the command which can be used to compute the
50 host name. The command is fully qualified by its absolute path, to make
51 it safe when used by a process with super-user privileges.
52
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53api_revision (patchlevel.U):
54 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
55 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
56 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
57 such as '5.6.1', api_revision is the '5'.
58 Prior to 5.5.640, the format was a floating point number,
59 like 5.00563.
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60
61 perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically search in
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62 $sitelib/.. for older directories back to the limit specified
63 by these api_ variables. This is only useful if you have a
64 perl library directory tree structured like the default one.
65 See INSTALL for how this works. The versioned site_perl
66 directory was introduced in 5.005, so that is the lowest
67 possible value. The version list appropriate for the current
68 system is determined in inc_version_list.U.
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69
70 XXX To do: Since compatibility can depend on compile time
08e5223a 71 options (such as bincompat, longlong, etc.) it should
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72 (perhaps) be set by Configure, but currently it isn't.
73 Currently, we read a hard-wired value from patchlevel.h.
74 Perhaps what we ought to do is take the hard-wired value from
75 patchlevel.h but then modify it if the current Configure
76 options warrant. patchlevel.h then would use an #ifdef guard.
77
78api_subversion (patchlevel.U):
79 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
80 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
81 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
82 such as '5.6.1', api_subversion is the '1'. See api_revision for
83 full details.
84
85api_version (patchlevel.U):
86 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
87 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
88 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
89 such as '5.6.1', api_version is the '6'. See api_revision for
90 full details. As a special case, 5.5.0 is rendered in the
91 old-style as 5.005. (In the 5.005_0x maintenance series,
92 this was the only versioned directory in $sitelib.)
93
94api_versionstring (patchlevel.U):
95 This variable combines api_revision, api_version, and
96 api_subversion in a format such as 5.6.1 (or 5_6_1) suitable
97 for use as a directory name. This is filesystem dependent.
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98
99ar (Loc.U):
5bf26616 100 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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101 full pathname (if any) of the ar program. After Configure runs,
102 the value is reset to a plain "ar" and is not useful.
103
104archlib (archlib.U):
105 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
106 to put architecture-dependent public library files for $package.
107 It is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/lib.
108 Programs using this variable must be prepared to deal
109 with filename expansion.
110
111archlibexp (archlib.U):
112 This variable is the same as the archlib variable, but is
113 filename expanded at configuration time, for convenient use.
114
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115archname (archname.U):
116 This variable is a short name to characterize the current
117 architecture. It is used mainly to construct the default archlib.
118
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119archname64 (use64bits.U):
120 This variable is used for the 64-bitness part of $archname.
121
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122archobjs (Unix.U):
123 This variable defines any additional objects that must be linked
124 in with the program on this architecture. On unix, it is usually
125 empty. It is typically used to include emulations of unix calls
126 or other facilities. For perl on OS/2, for example, this would
127 include os2/os2.obj.
128
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129asctime_r_proto (d_asctime_r.U):
130 This variable encodes the prototype of asctime_r.
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131 It is zero if d_asctime_r is undef, and one of the
132 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_asctime_r
133 is defined.
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781b178c 135awk (Loc.U):
5bf26616 136 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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137 full pathname (if any) of the awk program. After Configure runs,
138 the value is reset to a plain "awk" and is not useful.
139
140baserev (baserev.U):
141 The base revision level of this package, from the .package file.
142
143bash (Loc.U):
144 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 145 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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146
147bin (bin.U):
148 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
149 to put publicly executable images for the package in question. It
150 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
151 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
152
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153bin_ELF (dlsrc.U):
154 This variable saves the result from configure if generated binaries
155 are in ELF format. Only set to defined when the test has actually
156 been performed, and the result was positive.
157
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158binexp (bin.U):
159 This is the same as the bin variable, but is filename expanded at
160 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
161
162bison (Loc.U):
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163 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
164 full pathname (if any) of the bison program. After Configure runs,
165 the value is reset to a plain "bison" and is not useful.
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166
167byacc (Loc.U):
5bf26616 168 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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169 full pathname (if any) of the byacc program. After Configure runs,
170 the value is reset to a plain "byacc" and is not useful.
171
172byteorder (byteorder.U):
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173 This variable holds the byte order in a UV. In the following,
174 larger digits indicate more significance. The variable byteorder
175 is either 4321 on a big-endian machine, or 1234 on a little-endian,
176 or 87654321 on a Cray ... or 3412 with weird order !
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177
178c (n.U):
179 This variable contains the \c string if that is what causes the echo
180 command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is
181 $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
182
183castflags (d_castneg.U):
184 This variable contains a flag that precise difficulties the
185 compiler has casting odd floating values to unsigned long:
186 0 = ok
187 1 = couldn't cast < 0
188 2 = couldn't cast >= 0x80000000
189 4 = couldn't cast in argument expression list
190
191cat (Loc.U):
5bf26616 192 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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193 full pathname (if any) of the cat program. After Configure runs,
194 the value is reset to a plain "cat" and is not useful.
195
196cc (cc.U):
197 This variable holds the name of a command to execute a C compiler which
198 can resolve multiple global references that happen to have the same
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199 name. Usual values are 'cc' and 'gcc'.
200 Fervent ANSI compilers may be called 'c89'. AIX has xlc.
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201
202cccdlflags (dlsrc.U):
203 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
204 passed with 'cc -c' to compile modules to be used to create a shared
205 library that will be used for dynamic loading. For hpux, this
206 should be +z. It is up to the makefile to use it.
207
208ccdlflags (dlsrc.U):
209 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
210 passed to cc to link with a shared library for dynamic loading.
211 It is up to the makefile to use it. For sunos 4.1, it should
212 be empty.
213
214ccflags (ccflags.U):
215 This variable contains any additional C compiler flags desired by
216 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
217
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218ccflags_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
219 This variable contains the compiler flags needed by large file builds
220 and added to ccflags by hints files.
221
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222ccname (Checkcc.U):
223 This can set either by hints files or by Configure. If using
224 gcc, this is gcc, and if not, usually equal to cc, unimpressive, no?
225 Some platforms, however, make good use of this by storing the
226 flavor of the C compiler being used here. For example if using
227 the Sun WorkShop suite, ccname will be 'workshop'.
228
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229ccsymbols (Cppsym.U):
230 The variable contains the symbols defined by the C compiler alone.
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231 The symbols defined by cpp or by cc when it calls cpp are not in
232 this list, see cppsymbols and cppccsymbols.
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233 The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
234
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235ccversion (Checkcc.U):
236 This can set either by hints files or by Configure. If using
237 a (non-gcc) vendor cc, this variable may contain a version for
238 the compiler.
239
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240cf_by (cf_who.U):
241 Login name of the person who ran the Configure script and answered the
242 questions. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH.
243
244cf_email (cf_email.U):
245 Electronic mail address of the person who ran Configure. This can be
246 used by units that require the user's e-mail, like MailList.U.
247
248cf_time (cf_who.U):
249 Holds the output of the "date" command when the configuration file was
250 produced. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH.
251
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252charbits (charsize.U):
253 This variable contains the value of the CHARBITS symbol, which
254 indicates to the C program how many bits there are in a character.
255
256charsize (charsize.U):
257 This variable contains the value of the CHARSIZE symbol, which
258 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a character.
259
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260chgrp (Loc.U):
261 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 262 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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263
264chmod (Loc.U):
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265 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
266 full pathname (if any) of the chmod program. After Configure runs,
267 the value is reset to a plain "chmod" and is not useful.
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268
269chown (Loc.U):
270 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 271 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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272
273clocktype (d_times.U):
274 This variable holds the type returned by times(). It can be long,
275 or clock_t on BSD sites (in which case <sys/types.h> should be
276 included).
277
278comm (Loc.U):
5bf26616 279 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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280 full pathname (if any) of the comm program. After Configure runs,
281 the value is reset to a plain "comm" and is not useful.
282
283compress (Loc.U):
284 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 285 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 286
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287config_arg0 (Options.U):
288 This variable contains the string used to invoke the Configure
289 command, as reported by the shell in the $0 variable.
290
291config_argc (Options.U):
47e01c32 292 This variable contains the number of command-line arguments
ecf5c238 293 passed to Configure, as reported by the shell in the $# variable.
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294 The individual arguments are stored as variables config_arg1,
295 config_arg2, etc.
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296
297config_args (Options.U):
298 This variable contains a single string giving the command-line
299 arguments passed to Configure. Spaces within arguments,
300 quotes, and escaped characters are not correctly preserved.
301 To reconstruct the command line, you must assemble the individual
302 command line pieces, given in config_arg[0-9]*.
303
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304contains (contains.U):
305 This variable holds the command to do a grep with a proper return
306 status. On most sane systems it is simply "grep". On insane systems
307 it is a grep followed by a cat followed by a test. This variable
308 is primarily for the use of other Configure units.
309
310cp (Loc.U):
5bf26616 311 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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312 full pathname (if any) of the cp program. After Configure runs,
313 the value is reset to a plain "cp" and is not useful.
314
315cpio (Loc.U):
316 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 317 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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318
319cpp (Loc.U):
5bf26616 320 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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321 full pathname (if any) of the cpp program. After Configure runs,
322 the value is reset to a plain "cpp" and is not useful.
323
324cpp_stuff (cpp_stuff.U):
505656d3 325 This variable contains an identification of the concatenation mechanism
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326 used by the C preprocessor.
327
328cppccsymbols (Cppsym.U):
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329 The variable contains the symbols defined by the C compiler
330 when it calls cpp. The symbols defined by the cc alone or cpp
331 alone are not in this list, see ccsymbols and cppsymbols.
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332 The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
333
334cppflags (ccflags.U):
335 This variable holds the flags that will be passed to the C pre-
336 processor. It is up to the Makefile to use it.
337
338cpplast (cppstdin.U):
339 This variable has the same functionality as cppminus, only it applies
340 to cpprun and not cppstdin.
341
342cppminus (cppstdin.U):
343 This variable contains the second part of the string which will invoke
344 the C preprocessor on the standard input and produce to standard
345 output. This variable will have the value "-" if cppstdin needs
346 a minus to specify standard input, otherwise the value is "".
347
348cpprun (cppstdin.U):
349 This variable contains the command which will invoke a C preprocessor
350 on standard input and put the output to stdout. It is guaranteed not
351 to be a wrapper and may be a null string if no preprocessor can be
352 made directly available. This preprocessor might be different from the
353 one used by the C compiler. Don't forget to append cpplast after the
354 preprocessor options.
355
356cppstdin (cppstdin.U):
357 This variable contains the command which will invoke the C
358 preprocessor on standard input and put the output to stdout.
359 It is primarily used by other Configure units that ask about
360 preprocessor symbols.
361
362cppsymbols (Cppsym.U):
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363 The variable contains the symbols defined by the C preprocessor
364 alone. The symbols defined by cc or by cc when it calls cpp are
365 not in this list, see ccsymbols and cppccsymbols.
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366 The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
367
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368crypt_r_proto (d_crypt_r.U):
369 This variable encodes the prototype of crypt_r.
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370 It is zero if d_crypt_r is undef, and one of the
371 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_crypt_r
372 is defined.
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374cryptlib (d_crypt.U):
375 This variable holds -lcrypt or the path to a libcrypt.a archive if
376 the crypt() function is not defined in the standard C library. It is
377 up to the Makefile to use this.
378
379csh (Loc.U):
5bf26616 380 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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381 full pathname (if any) of the csh program. After Configure runs,
382 the value is reset to a plain "csh" and is not useful.
383
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384ctermid_r_proto (d_ctermid_r.U):
385 This variable encodes the prototype of ctermid_r.
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386 It is zero if d_ctermid_r is undef, and one of the
387 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_ctermid_r
388 is defined.
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389
390ctime_r_proto (d_ctime_r.U):
391 This variable encodes the prototype of ctime_r.
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392 It is zero if d_ctime_r is undef, and one of the
393 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_ctime_r
394 is defined.
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396d__fwalk (d__fwalk.U):
397 This variable conditionally defines HAS__FWALK if _fwalk() is
398 available to apply a function to all the file handles.
399
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400d_access (d_access.U):
401 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ACCESS if the access() system
402 call is available to check for access permissions using real IDs.
403
404d_accessx (d_accessx.U):
405 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ACCESSX symbol, which
406 indicates to the C program that the accessx() routine is available.
407
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408d_acosh (d_acosh.U):
409 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ACOSH symbol, which
410 indicates to the C program that the acosh() routine is available.
411
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412d_aintl (d_aintl.U):
413 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_AINTL symbol, which
414 indicates to the C program that the aintl() routine is available.
415 If copysignl is also present we can emulate modfl.
416
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417d_alarm (d_alarm.U):
418 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ALARM symbol, which
419 indicates to the C program that the alarm() routine is available.
420
421d_archlib (archlib.U):
422 This variable conditionally defines ARCHLIB to hold the pathname
423 of architecture-dependent library files for $package. If
424 $archlib is the same as $privlib, then this is set to undef.
425
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426d_asctime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
427 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ASCTIME64 symbol, which
428 indicates to the C program that the asctime64 () routine is available.
429
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430d_asctime_r (d_asctime_r.U):
431 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ASCTIME_R symbol,
432 which indicates to the C program that the asctime_r()
433 routine is available.
434
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435d_atolf (atolf.U):
436 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ATOLF symbol, which
437 indicates to the C program that the atolf() routine is available.
438
439d_atoll (atoll.U):
440 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ATOLL symbol, which
441 indicates to the C program that the atoll() routine is available.
442
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443d_attribute_deprecated (d_attribut.U):
444 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_DEPRECATED, which
445 indicates that GCC can handle the attribute for marking deprecated
446 APIs
447
df4c34dc 448d_attribute_format (d_attribut.U):
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449 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_FORMAT, which
450 indicates the C compiler can check for printf-like formats.
451
df4c34dc 452d_attribute_malloc (d_attribut.U):
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453 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_MALLOC, which
454 indicates the C compiler can understand functions as having
455 malloc-like semantics.
456
df4c34dc 457d_attribute_nonnull (d_attribut.U):
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458 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_NONNULL, which
459 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain arguments
460 must not be NULL, and will check accordingly at compile time.
461
df4c34dc 462d_attribute_noreturn (d_attribut.U):
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463 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_NORETURN, which
464 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain functions
465 are guaranteed never to return.
466
df4c34dc 467d_attribute_pure (d_attribut.U):
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468 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_PURE, which
469 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain functions
470 are "pure" functions, meaning that they have no side effects, and
471 only rely on function input and/or global data for their results.
472
df4c34dc 473d_attribute_unused (d_attribut.U):
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474 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, which
475 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain variables
476 and arguments may not always be used, and to not throw warnings
477 if they don't get used.
478
df4c34dc 479d_attribute_warn_unused_result (d_attribut.U):
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480 This variable conditionally defines
481 HASATTRIBUTE_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT, which indicates that the C
482 compiler can know that certain functions have a return values
483 that must not be ignored, such as malloc() or open().
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485d_backtrace (d_backtrace.U):
486 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BACKTRACE symbol, which
487 indicates to the C program that the backtrace() routine is available
488 to get a stack trace.
489
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490d_bcmp (d_bcmp.U):
491 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BCMP symbol if
492 the bcmp() routine is available to compare strings.
493
494d_bcopy (d_bcopy.U):
495 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BCOPY symbol if
496 the bcopy() routine is available to copy strings.
497
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_choose_expr (d_builtin.U):
512 This conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_CHOOSE_EXPR, which
513 indicates that the compiler supports __builtin_choose_expr(x,y,z).
514 This built-in function is analogous to the "x?y:z" operator in C,
515 except that the expression returned has its type unaltered by
516 promotion rules. Also, the built-in function does not evaluate
517 the expression that was not chosen.
518
519d_builtin_expect (d_builtin.U):
520 This conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_EXPECT, which indicates
521 that the compiler supports __builtin_expect(exp,c). You may use
522 __builtin_expect to provide the compiler with branch prediction
523 information.
524
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525d_bzero (d_bzero.U):
526 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BZERO symbol if
527 the bzero() routine is available to set memory to 0.
528
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529d_c99_variadic_macros (d_c99_variadic.U):
530 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_C99_VARIADIC_MACROS
531 symbol, which indicates to the C program that C99 variadic macros
532 are available.
533
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534d_casti32 (d_casti32.U):
535 This variable conditionally defines CASTI32, which indicates
536 whether the C compiler can cast large floats to 32-bit ints.
537
538d_castneg (d_castneg.U):
539 This variable conditionally defines CASTNEG, which indicates
47e01c32 540 whether the C compiler can cast negative float to unsigned.
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541
542d_charvspr (d_vprintf.U):
543 This variable conditionally defines CHARVSPRINTF if this system
544 has vsprintf returning type (char*). The trend seems to be to
545 declare it as "int vsprintf()".
546
547d_chown (d_chown.U):
548 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CHOWN symbol, which
549 indicates to the C program that the chown() routine is available.
550
551d_chroot (d_chroot.U):
552 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CHROOT symbol, which
553 indicates to the C program that the chroot() routine is available.
554
555d_chsize (d_chsize.U):
556 This variable conditionally defines the CHSIZE symbol, which
557 indicates to the C program that the chsize() routine is available
558 to truncate files. You might need a -lx to get this routine.
559
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560d_class (d_class.U):
561 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CLASS symbol, which
562 indicates to the C program that the class() routine is available.
563
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564d_clearenv (d_clearenv.U):
565 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CLEARENV symbol, which
566 indicates to the C program that the clearenv () routine is available.
567
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568d_closedir (d_closedir.U):
569 This variable conditionally defines HAS_CLOSEDIR if closedir() is
570 available.
571
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572d_cmsghdr_s (d_cmsghdr_s.U):
573 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_CMSGHDR symbol,
574 which indicates that the struct cmsghdr is supported.
575
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576d_const (d_const.U):
577 This variable conditionally defines the HASCONST symbol, which
578 indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows about the
579 const type.
580
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581d_copysignl (d_copysignl.U):
582 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_COPYSIGNL symbol, which
583 indicates to the C program that the copysignl() routine is available.
584 If aintl is also present we can emulate modfl.
585
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586d_cplusplus (d_cplusplus.U):
587 This variable conditionally defines the USE_CPLUSPLUS symbol, which
588 indicates that a C++ compiler was used to compiled Perl and will be
589 used to compile extensions.
590
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591d_crypt (d_crypt.U):
592 This variable conditionally defines the CRYPT symbol, which
593 indicates to the C program that the crypt() routine is available
594 to encrypt passwords and the like.
595
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596d_crypt_r (d_crypt_r.U):
597 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CRYPT_R symbol,
598 which indicates to the C program that the crypt_r()
599 routine is available.
600
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601d_csh (d_csh.U):
602 This variable conditionally defines the CSH symbol, which
603 indicates to the C program that the C-shell exists.
604
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605d_ctermid (d_ctermid.U):
606 This variable conditionally defines CTERMID if ctermid() is
607 available to generate filename for terminal.
608
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609d_ctermid_r (d_ctermid_r.U):
610 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTERMID_R symbol,
611 which indicates to the C program that the ctermid_r()
612 routine is available.
613
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614d_ctime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
615 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTIME64 symbol, which
616 indicates to the C program that the ctime64 () routine is available.
617
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618d_ctime_r (d_ctime_r.U):
619 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTIME_R symbol,
620 which indicates to the C program that the ctime_r()
621 routine is available.
622
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623d_cuserid (d_cuserid.U):
624 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CUSERID symbol, which
625 indicates to the C program that the cuserid() routine is available
626 to get character login names.
627
628d_dbl_dig (d_dbl_dig.U):
629 This variable conditionally defines d_dbl_dig if this system's
630 header files provide DBL_DIG, which is the number of significant
631 digits in a double precision number.
632
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633d_dbminitproto (d_dbminitproto.U):
634 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DBMINIT_PROTO symbol,
635 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
636 a prototype for the dbminit() function. Otherwise, it is
637 up to the program to supply one.
638
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639d_difftime (d_difftime.U):
640 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIFFTIME symbol, which
641 indicates to the C program that the difftime() routine is available.
642
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643d_difftime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
644 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIFFTIME64 symbol, which
645 indicates to the C program that the difftime64 () routine is available.
646
066e7355 647d_dir_dd_fd (d_dir_dd_fd.U):
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649 indicates that the DIR directory stream type contains a member
650 variable called dd_fd.
651
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652d_dirfd (d_dirfd.U):
653 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIRFD constant,
654 which indicates to the C program that dirfd() is available
655 to return the file descriptor of a directory stream.
656
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657d_dirnamlen (i_dirent.U):
658 This variable conditionally defines DIRNAMLEN, which indicates
659 to the C program that the length of directory entry names is
660 provided by a d_namelen field.
661
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662d_dladdr (d_dladdr.U):
663 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLADDR symbol, which
664 indicates to the C program that the dladdr() routine is available
665 to get a stack trace.
666
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667d_dlerror (d_dlerror.U):
668 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLERROR symbol, which
669 indicates to the C program that the dlerror() routine is available.
670
671d_dlopen (d_dlopen.U):
672 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLOPEN symbol, which
673 indicates to the C program that the dlopen() routine is available.
674
675d_dlsymun (d_dlsymun.U):
676 This variable conditionally defines DLSYM_NEEDS_UNDERSCORE, which
677 indicates that we need to prepend an underscore to the symbol
678 name before calling dlsym().
679
680d_dosuid (d_dosuid.U):
681 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOSUID, which
682 tells the C program that it should insert setuid emulation code
683 on hosts which have setuid #! scripts disabled.
684
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685d_drand48_r (d_drand48_r.U):
686 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DRAND48_R symbol,
687 which indicates to the C program that the drand48_r()
688 routine is available.
689
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690d_drand48proto (d_drand48proto.U):
691 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DRAND48_PROTO symbol,
692 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
693 a prototype for the drand48() function. Otherwise, it is
694 up to the program to supply one.
695
696d_dup2 (d_dup2.U):
697 This variable conditionally defines HAS_DUP2 if dup2() is
698 available to duplicate file descriptors.
699
700d_eaccess (d_eaccess.U):
701 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_EACCESS symbol, which
702 indicates to the C program that the eaccess() routine is available.
703
704d_endgrent (d_endgrent.U):
705 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDGRENT symbol, which
706 indicates to the C program that the endgrent() routine is available
707 for sequential access of the group database.
708
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709d_endgrent_r (d_endgrent_r.U):
710 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDGRENT_R symbol,
711 which indicates to the C program that the endgrent_r()
712 routine is available.
713
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714d_endhent (d_endhent.U):
715 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDHOSTENT if endhostent() is
716 available to close whatever was being used for host queries.
717
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718d_endhostent_r (d_endhostent_r.U):
719 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDHOSTENT_R symbol,
720 which indicates to the C program that the endhostent_r()
721 routine is available.
722
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723d_endnent (d_endnent.U):
724 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDNETENT if endnetent() is
725 available to close whatever was being used for network queries.
726
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727d_endnetent_r (d_endnetent_r.U):
728 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDNETENT_R symbol,
729 which indicates to the C program that the endnetent_r()
730 routine is available.
731
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732d_endpent (d_endpent.U):
733 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDPROTOENT if endprotoent() is
734 available to close whatever was being used for protocol queries.
735
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736d_endprotoent_r (d_endprotoent_r.U):
737 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPROTOENT_R symbol,
738 which indicates to the C program that the endprotoent_r()
739 routine is available.
740
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741d_endpwent (d_endpwent.U):
742 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPWENT symbol, which
743 indicates to the C program that the endpwent() routine is available
744 for sequential access of the passwd database.
745
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746d_endpwent_r (d_endpwent_r.U):
747 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPWENT_R symbol,
748 which indicates to the C program that the endpwent_r()
749 routine is available.
750
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751d_endsent (d_endsent.U):
752 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDSERVENT if endservent() is
753 available to close whatever was being used for service queries.
754
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755d_endservent_r (d_endservent_r.U):
756 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDSERVENT_R symbol,
757 which indicates to the C program that the endservent_r()
758 routine is available.
759
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760d_eofnblk (nblock_io.U):
761 This variable conditionally defines EOF_NONBLOCK if EOF can be seen
762 when reading from a non-blocking I/O source.
763
764d_eunice (Guess.U):
765 This variable conditionally defines the symbols EUNICE and VAX, which
47e01c32 766 alerts the C program that it must deal with idiosyncrasies of VMS.
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768d_faststdio (d_faststdio.U):
769 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FAST_STDIO symbol,
770 which indicates to the C program that the "fast stdio" is available
771 to manipulate the stdio buffers directly.
772
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773d_fchdir (d_fchdir.U):
774 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHDIR symbol, which
775 indicates to the C program that the fchdir() routine is available.
776
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777d_fchmod (d_fchmod.U):
778 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHMOD symbol, which
779 indicates to the C program that the fchmod() routine is available
780 to change mode of opened files.
781
782d_fchown (d_fchown.U):
783 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHOWN symbol, which
784 indicates to the C program that the fchown() routine is available
785 to change ownership of opened files.
786
787d_fcntl (d_fcntl.U):
788 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCNTL symbol, and indicates
789 whether the fcntl() function exists
790
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791d_fcntl_can_lock (d_fcntl_can_lock.U):
792 This variable conditionally defines the FCNTL_CAN_LOCK symbol
793 and indicates whether file locking with fcntl() works.
794
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795d_fd_macros (d_fd_set.U):
796 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FD_MACROS symbol,
797 which indicates if your C compiler knows about the macros which
798 manipulate an fd_set.
799
800d_fd_set (d_fd_set.U):
801 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FD_SET symbol,
802 which indicates if your C compiler knows about the fd_set typedef.
803
804d_fds_bits (d_fd_set.U):
805 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FDS_BITS symbol,
806 which indicates if your fd_set typedef contains the fds_bits member.
807 If you have an fd_set typedef, but the dweebs who installed it did
808 a half-fast job and neglected to provide the macros to manipulate
809 an fd_set, HAS_FDS_BITS will let us know how to fix the gaffe.
810
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811d_fgetpos (d_fgetpos.U):
812 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FGETPOS if fgetpos() is
813 available to get the file position indicator.
814
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815d_finite (d_finite.U):
816 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FINITE symbol, which
817 indicates to the C program that the finite() routine is available.
818
819d_finitel (d_finitel.U):
820 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FINITEL symbol, which
821 indicates to the C program that the finitel() routine is available.
822
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823d_flexfnam (d_flexfnam.U):
824 This variable conditionally defines the FLEXFILENAMES symbol, which
825 indicates that the system supports filenames longer than 14 characters.
826
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827d_flock (d_flock.U):
828 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FLOCK if flock() is
829 available to do file locking.
830
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831d_flockproto (d_flockproto.U):
832 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FLOCK_PROTO symbol,
833 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
834 a prototype for the flock() function. Otherwise, it is
835 up to the program to supply one.
836
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837d_fork (d_fork.U):
838 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FORK symbol, which
839 indicates to the C program that the fork() routine is available.
840
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841d_fp_class (d_fp_class.U):
842 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FP_CLASS symbol, which
843 indicates to the C program that the fp_class() routine is available.
844
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845d_fp_class_l (d_fp_classl.U):
846 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FP_CLASSL symbol, which
847 indicates to the C program that the fp_classl() routine is available.
848
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849d_fp_classify (d_fp_classify.U):
850 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FP_CLASSIFY symbol, which
851 indicates to the C program that the fp_classify() routine is available.
852
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853d_fpathconf (d_pathconf.U):
854 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPATHCONF symbol, which
855 indicates to the C program that the pathconf() routine is available
856 to determine file-system related limits and options associated
857 with a given open file descriptor.
858
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859d_fpclass (d_fpclass.U):
860 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASS symbol, which
861 indicates to the C program that the fpclass() routine is available.
862
863d_fpclassify (d_fpclassify.U):
864 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASSIFY symbol, which
865 indicates to the C program that the fpclassify() routine is available.
866
867d_fpclassl (d_fpclassl.U):
868 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASSL symbol, which
869 indicates to the C program that the fpclassl() routine is available.
870
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ca24dfc6 872 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports fpos64_t.
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874d_frexpl (d_frexpl.U):
875 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FREXPL symbol, which
876 indicates to the C program that the frexpl() routine is available.
877
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879 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_FS_DATA symbol,
880 which indicates that the struct fs_data is supported.
881
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882d_fseeko (d_fseeko.U):
883 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSEEKO symbol, which
884 indicates to the C program that the fseeko() routine is available.
885
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886d_fsetpos (d_fsetpos.U):
887 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FSETPOS if fsetpos() is
888 available to set the file position indicator.
889
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891 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSTATFS symbol, which
892 indicates to the C program that the fstatfs() routine is available.
893
894d_fstatvfs (d_statvfs.U):
895 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSTATVFS symbol, which
896 indicates to the C program that the fstatvfs() routine is available.
897
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898d_fsync (d_fsync.U):
899 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSYNC symbol, which
900 indicates to the C program that the fsync() routine is available.
901
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902d_ftello (d_ftello.U):
903 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTELLO symbol, which
904 indicates to the C program that the ftello() routine is available.
905
906d_ftime (d_ftime.U):
907 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTIME symbol, which indicates
908 that the ftime() routine exists. The ftime() routine is basically
909 a sub-second accuracy clock.
910
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912 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FUTIMES symbol, which
913 indicates to the C program that the futimes() routine is available.
914
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915d_Gconvert (d_gconvert.U):
916 This variable holds what Gconvert is defined as to convert
917 floating point numbers into strings. By default, Configure
918 sets this macro to use the first of gconvert, gcvt, or sprintf
1332606d 919 that pass sprintf-%g-like behavior tests. If perl is using
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920 long doubles, the macro uses the first of the following
921 functions that pass Configure's tests: qgcvt, sprintf (if
922 Configure knows how to make sprintf format long doubles--see
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924 The gconvert_preference and gconvert_ld_preference variables
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927 space-separated list of one or more of the above function
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928 names in the order they should be tried.
929
930 d_Gconvert may be set to override Configure with a platform-
931 specific function. If this function expects a double, a
932 different value may need to be set by the uselongdouble.cbu
933 call-back unit so that long doubles can be formatted without
934 loss of precision.
935
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936d_gdbm_ndbm_h_uses_prototypes (i_ndbm.U):
937 This variable conditionally defines the NDBM_H_USES_PROTOTYPES symbol,
938 which indicates that the gdbm-ndbm.h include file uses real ANSI C
939 prototypes instead of K&R style function declarations. K&R style
940 declarations are unsupported in C++, so the include file requires
941 special handling when using a C++ compiler and this variable is
942 undefined. Consult the different d_*ndbm_h_uses_prototypes variables
943 to get the same information for alternative ndbm.h include files.
944
945d_gdbmndbm_h_uses_prototypes (i_ndbm.U):
946 This variable conditionally defines the NDBM_H_USES_PROTOTYPES symbol,
947 which indicates that the gdbm/ndbm.h include file uses real ANSI C
948 prototypes instead of K&R style function declarations. K&R style
949 declarations are unsupported in C++, so the include file requires
950 special handling when using a C++ compiler and this variable is
951 undefined. Consult the different d_*ndbm_h_uses_prototypes variables
952 to get the same information for alternative ndbm.h include files.
953
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954d_getaddrinfo (d_getaddrinfo.U):
955 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETADDRINFO symbol,
956 which indicates to the C program that the getaddrinfo() function
957 is available.
958
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959d_getcwd (d_getcwd.U):
960 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETCWD symbol, which
961 indicates to the C program that the getcwd() routine is available
962 to get the current working directory.
963
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964d_getespwnam (d_getespwnam.U):
965 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETESPWNAM if getespwnam() is
47e01c32 966 available to retrieve enhanced (shadow) password entries by name.
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968d_getfsstat (d_getfsstat.U):
969 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETFSSTAT symbol, which
970 indicates to the C program that the getfsstat() routine is available.
971
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972d_getgrent (d_getgrent.U):
973 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRENT symbol, which
974 indicates to the C program that the getgrent() routine is available
975 for sequential access of the group database.
976
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977d_getgrent_r (d_getgrent_r.U):
978 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRENT_R symbol,
979 which indicates to the C program that the getgrent_r()
980 routine is available.
981
982d_getgrgid_r (d_getgrgid_r.U):
983 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRGID_R symbol,
984 which indicates to the C program that the getgrgid_r()
985 routine is available.
986
987d_getgrnam_r (d_getgrnam_r.U):
988 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRNAM_R symbol,
989 which indicates to the C program that the getgrnam_r()
990 routine is available.
991
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992d_getgrps (d_getgrps.U):
993 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGROUPS symbol, which
994 indicates to the C program that the getgroups() routine is available
995 to get the list of process groups.
996
997d_gethbyaddr (d_gethbyad.U):
998 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYADDR symbol, which
999 indicates to the C program that the gethostbyaddr() routine is available
1000 to look up hosts by their IP addresses.
1001
1002d_gethbyname (d_gethbynm.U):
1003 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYNAME symbol, which
1004 indicates to the C program that the gethostbyname() routine is available
1005 to look up host names in some data base or other.
1006
1007d_gethent (d_gethent.U):
1008 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETHOSTENT if gethostent() is
1009 available to look up host names in some data base or another.
1010
1011d_gethname (d_gethname.U):
1012 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTNAME symbol, which
1013 indicates to the C program that the gethostname() routine may be
1014 used to derive the host name.
1015
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1016d_gethostbyaddr_r (d_gethostbyaddr_r.U):
1017 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYADDR_R symbol,
1018 which indicates to the C program that the gethostbyaddr_r()
1019 routine is available.
1020
1021d_gethostbyname_r (d_gethostbyname_r.U):
1022 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYNAME_R symbol,
1023 which indicates to the C program that the gethostbyname_r()
1024 routine is available.
1025
1026d_gethostent_r (d_gethostent_r.U):
1027 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTENT_R symbol,
1028 which indicates to the C program that the gethostent_r()
1029 routine is available.
1030
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1031d_gethostprotos (d_gethostprotos.U):
1032 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOST_PROTOS symbol,
1033 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
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1036
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1037d_getitimer (d_getitimer.U):
1038 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETITIMER symbol, which
1039 indicates to the C program that the getitimer() routine is available.
1040
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1041d_getlogin (d_getlogin.U):
1042 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETLOGIN symbol, which
1043 indicates to the C program that the getlogin() routine is available
1044 to get the login name.
1045
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1046d_getlogin_r (d_getlogin_r.U):
1047 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETLOGIN_R symbol,
1048 which indicates to the C program that the getlogin_r()
1049 routine is available.
1050
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1051d_getmnt (d_getmnt.U):
1052 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETMNT symbol, which
1053 indicates to the C program that the getmnt() routine is available
1054 to retrieve one or more mount info blocks by filename.
1055
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1056d_getmntent (d_getmntent.U):
1057 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETMNTENT symbol, which
1058 indicates to the C program that the getmntent() routine is available
0617aed7 1059 to iterate through mounted files to get their mount info.
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1061d_getnameinfo (d_getnameinfo.U):
1062 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNAMEINFO symbol,
1063 which indicates to the C program that the getnameinfo() function
1064 is available.
1065
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1066d_getnbyaddr (d_getnbyad.U):
1067 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYADDR symbol, which
1068 indicates to the C program that the getnetbyaddr() routine is available
1069 to look up networks by their IP addresses.
1070
1071d_getnbyname (d_getnbynm.U):
1072 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYNAME symbol, which
1073 indicates to the C program that the getnetbyname() routine is available
1074 to look up networks by their names.
1075
1076d_getnent (d_getnent.U):
1077 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETNETENT if getnetent() is
1078 available to look up network names in some data base or another.
1079
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1080d_getnetbyaddr_r (d_getnetbyaddr_r.U):
1081 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYADDR_R symbol,
1082 which indicates to the C program that the getnetbyaddr_r()
1083 routine is available.
1084
1085d_getnetbyname_r (d_getnetbyname_r.U):
1086 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYNAME_R symbol,
1087 which indicates to the C program that the getnetbyname_r()
1088 routine is available.
1089
1090d_getnetent_r (d_getnetent_r.U):
1091 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETENT_R symbol,
1092 which indicates to the C program that the getnetent_r()
1093 routine is available.
1094
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1095d_getnetprotos (d_getnetprotos.U):
1096 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNET_PROTOS symbol,
1097 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
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1099 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1100
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1101d_getpagsz (d_getpagsz.U):
1102 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPAGESIZE if getpagesize()
1103 is available to get the system page size.
1104
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1107 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1108 getprotobyname() routine is available to look up protocols
1109 by their name.
1110
1111d_getpbynumber (d_getprotby.U):
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1112 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNUMBER
1113 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1114 getprotobynumber() routine is available to look up protocols
1115 by their number.
1116
1117d_getpent (d_getpent.U):
1118 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPROTOENT if getprotoent() is
1119 available to look up protocols in some data base or another.
1120
1121d_getpgid (d_getpgid.U):
1122 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGID symbol, which
1123 indicates to the C program that the getpgid(pid) function
1124 is available to get the process group id.
1125
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1126d_getpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
1127 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPGRP if getpgrp() is
1128 available to get the current process group.
1129
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1130d_getpgrp2 (d_getpgrp2.U):
1131 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGRP2 symbol, which
1132 indicates to the C program that the getpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine
1133 is available to get the current process group.
1134
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1135d_getppid (d_getppid.U):
1136 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPPID symbol, which
1137 indicates to the C program that the getppid() routine is available
1138 to get the parent process ID.
1139
1140d_getprior (d_getprior.U):
1141 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPRIORITY if getpriority()
1142 is available to get a process's priority.
1143
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1144d_getprotobyname_r (d_getprotobyname_r.U):
1145 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNAME_R symbol,
1146 which indicates to the C program that the getprotobyname_r()
1147 routine is available.
1148
1149d_getprotobynumber_r (d_getprotobynumber_r.U):
1150 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNUMBER_R symbol,
1151 which indicates to the C program that the getprotobynumber_r()
1152 routine is available.
1153
1154d_getprotoent_r (d_getprotoent_r.U):
1155 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOENT_R symbol,
1156 which indicates to the C program that the getprotoent_r()
1157 routine is available.
1158
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1159d_getprotoprotos (d_getprotoprotos.U):
1160 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTO_PROTOS symbol,
1161 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
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1163 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1164
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1165d_getprpwnam (d_getprpwnam.U):
1166 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPRPWNAM if getprpwnam() is
1167 available to retrieve protected (shadow) password entries by name.
1168
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1169d_getpwent (d_getpwent.U):
1170 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWENT symbol, which
1171 indicates to the C program that the getpwent() routine is available
1172 for sequential access of the passwd database.
1173
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1174d_getpwent_r (d_getpwent_r.U):
1175 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWENT_R symbol,
1176 which indicates to the C program that the getpwent_r()
1177 routine is available.
1178
1179d_getpwnam_r (d_getpwnam_r.U):
1180 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWNAM_R symbol,
1181 which indicates to the C program that the getpwnam_r()
1182 routine is available.
1183
1184d_getpwuid_r (d_getpwuid_r.U):
1185 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWUID_R symbol,
1186 which indicates to the C program that the getpwuid_r()
1187 routine is available.
1188
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1191 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1192 getservbyname() routine is available to look up services
1193 by their name.
1194
1195d_getsbyport (d_getsrvby.U):
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1197 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1198 getservbyport() routine is available to look up services
1199 by their port.
1200
1201d_getsent (d_getsent.U):
1202 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETSERVENT if getservent() is
1203 available to look up network services in some data base or another.
1204
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1205d_getservbyname_r (d_getservbyname_r.U):
1206 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYNAME_R symbol,
1207 which indicates to the C program that the getservbyname_r()
1208 routine is available.
1209
1210d_getservbyport_r (d_getservbyport_r.U):
1211 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYPORT_R symbol,
1212 which indicates to the C program that the getservbyport_r()
1213 routine is available.
1214
1215d_getservent_r (d_getservent_r.U):
1216 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVENT_R symbol,
1217 which indicates to the C program that the getservent_r()
1218 routine is available.
1219
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1220d_getservprotos (d_getservprotos.U):
1221 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERV_PROTOS symbol,
1222 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
635aebb7 1223 prototypes for the various getserv*() functions.
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1224 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1225
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1226d_getspnam (d_getspnam.U):
1227 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETSPNAM if getspnam() is
1228 available to retrieve SysV shadow password entries by name.
1229
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1230d_getspnam_r (d_getspnam_r.U):
1231 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSPNAM_R symbol,
1232 which indicates to the C program that the getspnam_r()
1233 routine is available.
1234
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1235d_gettimeod (d_ftime.U):
1236 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY symbol, which
1237 indicates that the gettimeofday() system call exists (to obtain a
1238 sub-second accuracy clock). You should probably include <sys/resource.h>.
1239
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1240d_gmtime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
1241 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GMTIME64 symbol, which
1242 indicates to the C program that the gmtime64 () routine is available.
1243
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1244d_gmtime_r (d_gmtime_r.U):
1245 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GMTIME_R symbol,
1246 which indicates to the C program that the gmtime_r()
1247 routine is available.
1248
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1249d_gnulibc (d_gnulibc.U):
1250 Defined if we're dealing with the GNU C Library.
1251
1252d_grpasswd (i_grp.U):
1253 This variable conditionally defines GRPASSWD, which indicates
1254 that struct group in <grp.h> contains gr_passwd.
1255
1256d_hasmntopt (d_hasmntopt.U):
1257 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_HASMNTOPT symbol, which
1258 indicates to the C program that the hasmntopt() routine is available
1259 to query the mount options of file systems.
1260
1261d_htonl (d_htonl.U):
1262 This variable conditionally defines HAS_HTONL if htonl() and its
1263 friends are available to do network order byte swapping.
1264
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1265d_ilogbl (d_ilogbl.U):
1266 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ILOGBL symbol, which
1267 indicates to the C program that the ilogbl() routine is available.
1268 If scalbnl is also present we can emulate frexpl.
1269
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1270d_inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U):
1271 This variable conditionally defines PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST.
1272 It is set to undef when PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST is empty.
1273
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1274d_index (d_strchr.U):
1275 This variable conditionally defines HAS_INDEX if index() and
1276 rindex() are available for string searching.
1277
1278d_inetaton (d_inetaton.U):
1279 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INET_ATON symbol, which
1280 indicates to the C program that the inet_aton() function is available
1281 to parse IP address "dotted-quad" strings.
1282
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1283d_inetntop (d_inetntop.U):
1284 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INETNTOP symbol,
1285 which indicates to the C program that the inet_ntop() function
1286 is available.
1287
1288d_inetpton (d_inetpton.U):
1289 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INETPTON symbol,
1290 which indicates to the C program that the inet_pton() function
1291 is available.
1292
13b3f787 1293d_int64_t (d_int64_t.U):
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1294 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports int64_t.
1295
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1296d_ip_mreq (d_socket.U):
1297 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IP_MREQ symbol, which
1298 indicates the availability of a struct ip_mreq.
1299
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1300d_ip_mreq_source (d_socket.U):
1301 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IP_MREQ_SOURCE symbol,
1302 which indicates the availability of a struct ip_mreq_source.
1303
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1304d_ipv6_mreq (d_socket.U):
1305 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IPV6_MREQ symbol, which
1306 indicates the availability of a struct ipv6_mreq.
1307
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1308d_ipv6_mreq_source (d_socket.U):
1309 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IPV6_MREQ_SOURCE symbol,
1310 which indicates the availability of a struct ipv6_mreq_source.
1311
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1312d_isascii (d_isascii.U):
1313 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISASCII constant,
1314 which indicates to the C program that isascii() is available.
1315
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1316d_isblank (d_isblank.U):
1317 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISBLANK constant,
1318 which indicates to the C program that isblank() is available.
1319
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1320d_isfinite (d_isfinite.U):
1321 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISFINITE symbol, which
1322 indicates to the C program that the isfinite() routine is available.
1323
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1324d_isfinitel (d_isfinitel.U):
1325 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISFINITEL symbol, which
1326 indicates to the C program that the isfinitel() routine is available.
1327
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1328d_isinf (d_isinf.U):
1329 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISINF symbol, which
1330 indicates to the C program that the isinf() routine is available.
1331
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1332d_isinfl (d_isinfl.U):
1333 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISINFL symbol, which
1334 indicates to the C program that the isinfl() routine is available.
1335
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1336d_isnan (d_isnan.U):
1337 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNAN symbol, which
1338 indicates to the C program that the isnan() routine is available.
1339
1340d_isnanl (d_isnanl.U):
1341 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNANL symbol, which
1342 indicates to the C program that the isnanl() routine is available.
1343
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1344d_j0 (d_j0.U):
1345
1346 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_J0 symbol, which
1347 indicates to the C program that the j0() routine is available.
1348
1349d_j0l (d_j0l.U):
1350
1351 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_J0L symbol, which
1352 indicates to the C program that the j0l() routine is available.
1353
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1354d_killpg (d_killpg.U):
1355 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_KILLPG symbol, which
1356 indicates to the C program that the killpg() routine is available
1357 to kill process groups.
1358
1359d_lchown (d_lchown.U):
1360 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LCHOWN symbol, which
1361 indicates to the C program that the lchown() routine is available
1362 to operate on a symbolic link (instead of following the link).
1363
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1364d_ldbl_dig (d_ldbl_dig.U):
1365 This variable conditionally defines d_ldbl_dig if this system's
1366 header files provide LDBL_DIG, which is the number of significant
1367 digits in a long double precision number.
1368
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1370 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LDEXPL symbol, which
1371 indicates to the C program that the ldexpl() routine is available.
1372
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1373d_libm_lib_version (d_libm_lib_version.U):
1374 This variable conditionally defines the LIBM_LIB_VERSION symbol,
1375 which indicates to the C program that math.h defines _LIB_VERSION
1376 being available in libm
1377
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1378d_libname_unique (so.U):
1379 This variable is defined if the target system insists on unique
1380 basenames for shared library files. This is currently true on Android,
1381 false everywhere else we know of.
1382 Defaults to 'undef'.
1383
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1384d_link (d_link.U):
1385 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LINK if link() is
1386 available to create hard links.
1387
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1388d_localtime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
1389 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOCALTIME64 symbol, which
1390 indicates to the C program that the localtime64 () routine is available.
1391
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1392d_localtime_r (d_localtime_r.U):
1393 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOCALTIME_R symbol,
1394 which indicates to the C program that the localtime_r()
1395 routine is available.
1396
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1397d_localtime_r_needs_tzset (d_localtime_r.U):
1398 This variable conditionally defines the LOCALTIME_R_NEEDS_TZSET
1399 symbol, which makes us call tzset before localtime_r()
1400
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1401d_locconv (d_locconv.U):
1402 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LOCALECONV if localeconv() is
1403 available for numeric and monetary formatting conventions.
1404
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1405d_lockf (d_lockf.U):
1406 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LOCKF if lockf() is
1407 available to do file locking.
1408
1409d_longdbl (d_longdbl.U):
635aebb7 1410 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LONG_DOUBLE if
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1411 the long double type is supported.
1412
1413d_longlong (d_longlong.U):
635aebb7 1414 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LONG_LONG if
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1415 the long long type is supported.
1416
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1417d_lseekproto (d_lseekproto.U):
1418 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LSEEK_PROTO symbol,
1419 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
1420 a prototype for the lseek() function. Otherwise, it is
1421 up to the program to supply one.
1422
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1423d_lstat (d_lstat.U):
1424 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LSTAT if lstat() is
1425 available to do file stats on symbolic links.
1426
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1427d_madvise (d_madvise.U):
1428 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MADVISE if madvise() is
1429 available to map a file into memory.
1430
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1431d_malloc_good_size (d_malloc_size.U):
1432 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the malloc_good_size
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1433 routine is available for use.
1434
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1435d_malloc_size (d_malloc_size.U):
1436 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the malloc_size
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1437 routine is available for use.
1438
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1439d_mblen (d_mblen.U):
1440 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBLEN symbol, which
1441 indicates to the C program that the mblen() routine is available
1442 to find the number of bytes in a multibye character.
1443
1444d_mbstowcs (d_mbstowcs.U):
1445 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBSTOWCS symbol, which
1446 indicates to the C program that the mbstowcs() routine is available
1447 to convert a multibyte string into a wide character string.
1448
1449d_mbtowc (d_mbtowc.U):
1450 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBTOWC symbol, which
1451 indicates to the C program that the mbtowc() routine is available
1452 to convert multibyte to a wide character.
1453
1454d_memchr (d_memchr.U):
1455 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMCHR symbol, which
1456 indicates to the C program that the memchr() routine is available
1457 to locate characters within a C string.
1458
1459d_memcmp (d_memcmp.U):
1460 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMCMP symbol, which
1461 indicates to the C program that the memcmp() routine is available
1462 to compare blocks of memory.
1463
1464d_memcpy (d_memcpy.U):
1465 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMCPY symbol, which
1466 indicates to the C program that the memcpy() routine is available
1467 to copy blocks of memory.
1468
1469d_memmove (d_memmove.U):
1470 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMMOVE symbol, which
1471 indicates to the C program that the memmove() routine is available
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1473
1474d_memset (d_memset.U):
1475 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMSET symbol, which
1476 indicates to the C program that the memset() routine is available
1477 to set blocks of memory.
1478
1479d_mkdir (d_mkdir.U):
1480 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKDIR symbol, which
1481 indicates to the C program that the mkdir() routine is available
209e5c0a 1482 to create directories..
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1484d_mkdtemp (d_mkdtemp.U):
1485 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKDTEMP symbol, which
1486 indicates to the C program that the mkdtemp() routine is available
1487 to exclusively create a uniquely named temporary directory.
1488
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1489d_mkfifo (d_mkfifo.U):
1490 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKFIFO symbol, which
1491 indicates to the C program that the mkfifo() routine is available.
1492
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1493d_mkstemp (d_mkstemp.U):
1494 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKSTEMP symbol, which
1495 indicates to the C program that the mkstemp() routine is available
1496 to exclusively create and open a uniquely named temporary file.
1497
1498d_mkstemps (d_mkstemps.U):
1499 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKSTEMPS symbol, which
1500 indicates to the C program that the mkstemps() routine is available
1501 to exclusively create and open a uniquely named (with a suffix)
1502 temporary file.
1503
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1504d_mktime (d_mktime.U):
1505 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKTIME symbol, which
1506 indicates to the C program that the mktime() routine is available.
1507
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1508d_mktime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
1509 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKTIME64 symbol, which
1510 indicates to the C program that the mktime64 () routine is available.
1511
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1512d_mmap (d_mmap.U):
1513 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MMAP if mmap() is
1514 available to map a file into memory.
1515
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1516d_modfl (d_modfl.U):
1517 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MODFL symbol, which
1518 indicates to the C program that the modfl() routine is available.
1519
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1520d_modfl_pow32_bug (d_modfl.U):
1521 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MODFL_POW32_BUG symbol,
1522 which indicates that modfl() is broken for long doubles >= pow(2, 32).
1523 For example from 4294967303.150000 one would get 4294967302.000000
1524 and 1.150000. The bug has been seen in certain versions of glibc,
1525 release 2.2.2 is known to be okay.
1526
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1527d_modflproto (d_modfl.U):
1528 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the system provides
1529 a prototype for the modfl() function. Otherwise, it is up
1530 to the program to supply one. C99 says it should be
1531 long double modfl(long double, long double *);
1532
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1533d_mprotect (d_mprotect.U):
1534 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MPROTECT if mprotect() is
1535 available to modify the access protection of a memory mapped file.
1536
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1537d_msg (d_msg.U):
1538 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG symbol, which
1539 indicates that the entire msg*(2) library is present.
1540
1541d_msg_ctrunc (d_socket.U):
1542 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_CTRUNC symbol,
1543 which indicates that the MSG_CTRUNC is available. #ifdef is
1544 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1545
1546d_msg_dontroute (d_socket.U):
1547 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_DONTROUTE symbol,
1548 which indicates that the MSG_DONTROUTE is available. #ifdef is
1549 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1550
1551d_msg_oob (d_socket.U):
1552 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_OOB symbol,
1553 which indicates that the MSG_OOB is available. #ifdef is
1554 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1555
1556d_msg_peek (d_socket.U):
1557 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_PEEK symbol,
1558 which indicates that the MSG_PEEK is available. #ifdef is
1559 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1560
1561d_msg_proxy (d_socket.U):
1562 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_PROXY symbol,
1563 which indicates that the MSG_PROXY is available. #ifdef is
1564 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1565
1566d_msgctl (d_msgctl.U):
1567 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGCTL symbol, which
1568 indicates to the C program that the msgctl() routine is available.
1569
1570d_msgget (d_msgget.U):
1571 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGGET symbol, which
1572 indicates to the C program that the msgget() routine is available.
1573
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1574d_msghdr_s (d_msghdr_s.U):
1575 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_MSGHDR symbol,
1576 which indicates that the struct msghdr is supported.
1577
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1578d_msgrcv (d_msgrcv.U):
1579 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGRCV symbol, which
1580 indicates to the C program that the msgrcv() routine is available.
1581
1582d_msgsnd (d_msgsnd.U):
1583 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGSND symbol, which
1584 indicates to the C program that the msgsnd() routine is available.
1585
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1586d_msync (d_msync.U):
1587 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MSYNC if msync() is
1588 available to synchronize a mapped file.
1589
1590d_munmap (d_munmap.U):
1591 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MUNMAP if munmap() is
1592 available to unmap a region mapped by mmap().
1593
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1594d_mymalloc (mallocsrc.U):
1595 This variable conditionally defines MYMALLOC in case other parts
1596 of the source want to take special action if MYMALLOC is used.
1597 This may include different sorts of profiling or error detection.
1598
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1599d_ndbm (i_ndbm.U):
1600 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NDBM symbol, which
1601 indicates that both the ndbm.h include file and an appropriate ndbm
1602 library exist. Consult the different i_*ndbm variables
1603 to find out the actual include location. Sometimes, a system has the
1604 header file but not the library. This variable will only be set if
1605 the system has both.
1606
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1607d_ndbm_h_uses_prototypes (i_ndbm.U):
1608 This variable conditionally defines the NDBM_H_USES_PROTOTYPES symbol,
1609 which indicates that the ndbm.h include file uses real ANSI C
1610 prototypes instead of K&R style function declarations. K&R style
1611 declarations are unsupported in C++, so the include file requires
1612 special handling when using a C++ compiler and this variable is
1613 undefined. Consult the different d_*ndbm_h_uses_prototypes variables
1614 to get the same information for alternative ndbm.h include files.
1615
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1616d_nice (d_nice.U):
1617 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NICE symbol, which
1618 indicates to the C program that the nice() routine is available.
1619
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1620d_nl_langinfo (d_nl_langinfo.U):
1621 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NL_LANGINFO symbol, which
1622 indicates to the C program that the nl_langinfo() routine is available.
1623
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1625 This variable indicates whether a variable of type nvtype
1626 can preserve all the bits a variable of type uvtype.
1627
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1628d_nv_zero_is_allbits_zero (perlxv.U):
1629 This variable indicates whether a variable of type nvtype
1630 stores 0.0 in memory as all bits zero.
1631
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1633 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports off64_t.
1634
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1635d_old_pthread_create_joinable (d_pthrattrj.U):
1636 This variable conditionally defines pthread_create_joinable.
1637 undef if pthread.h defines PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE.
1638
1639d_oldpthreads (usethreads.U):
1640 This variable conditionally defines the OLD_PTHREADS_API symbol,
1641 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the old
8c09e4ca 1642 draft POSIX threads API. This is only potentially meaningful if
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1643 usethreads is set.
1644
1645d_oldsock (d_socket.U):
1646 This variable conditionally defines the OLDSOCKET symbol, which
1647 indicates that the BSD socket interface is based on 4.1c and not 4.2.
1648
1649d_open3 (d_open3.U):
1650 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_OPEN3 manifest constant,
1651 which indicates to the C program that the 3 argument version of
1652 the open(2) function is available.
1653
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1654d_pathconf (d_pathconf.U):
1655 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PATHCONF symbol, which
1656 indicates to the C program that the pathconf() routine is available
1657 to determine file-system related limits and options associated
1658 with a given filename.
1659
1660d_pause (d_pause.U):
1661 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PAUSE symbol, which
1662 indicates to the C program that the pause() routine is available
1663 to suspend a process until a signal is received.
1664
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1665d_perl_otherlibdirs (otherlibdirs.U):
1666 This variable conditionally defines PERL_OTHERLIBDIRS, which
1667 contains a colon-separated set of paths for the perl binary to
1668 include in @INC. See also otherlibdirs.
1669
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1670d_phostname (d_gethname.U):
1671 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PHOSTNAME symbol, which
1672 contains the shell command which, when fed to popen(), may be
1673 used to derive the host name.
1674
1675d_pipe (d_pipe.U):
1676 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PIPE symbol, which
1677 indicates to the C program that the pipe() routine is available
1678 to create an inter-process channel.
1679
1680d_poll (d_poll.U):
1681 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_POLL symbol, which
1682 indicates to the C program that the poll() routine is available
1683 to poll active file descriptors.
1684
1685d_portable (d_portable.U):
1686 This variable conditionally defines the PORTABLE symbol, which
1687 indicates to the C program that it should not assume that it is
1688 running on the machine it was compiled on.
1689
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1690d_prctl (d_prctl.U):
1691 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PRCTL symbol, which
1692 indicates to the C program that the prctl() routine is available.
1693
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1694d_prctl_set_name (d_prctl.U):
1695 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PRCTL_SET_NAME symbol,
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1696 which indicates to the C program that the prctl() routine supports
1697 the PR_SET_NAME option.
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1699d_PRId64 (quadfio.U):
1700 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRId64 symbol, which
47e01c32 1701 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit decimal numbers.
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1702
1703d_PRIeldbl (longdblfio.U):
1704 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1705 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1706
1707d_PRIEUldbl (longdblfio.U):
1708 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1709 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1710 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIeldbl so that even
1711 case-blind systems can see the difference.
1712
1713d_PRIfldbl (longdblfio.U):
1714 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1715 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1716
1717d_PRIFUldbl (longdblfio.U):
1718 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1719 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1720 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIfldbl so that even
1721 case-blind systems can see the difference.
1722
1723d_PRIgldbl (longdblfio.U):
1724 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1725 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1726
1727d_PRIGUldbl (longdblfio.U):
1728 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1729 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1730 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIgldbl so that even
1731 case-blind systems can see the difference.
1732
1733d_PRIi64 (quadfio.U):
1734 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIi64 symbol, which
47e01c32 1735 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit decimal numbers.
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1738 This variable conditionally defines PRINTF_FORMAT_NULL_OK, which
1739 indicates the C compiler allows printf-like formats to be null.
1740
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1741d_PRIo64 (quadfio.U):
1742 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIo64 symbol, which
47e01c32 1743 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit octal numbers.
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1744
1745d_PRIu64 (quadfio.U):
1746 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIu64 symbol, which
47e01c32 1747 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit unsigned decimal
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1748 numbers.
1749
1750d_PRIx64 (quadfio.U):
1751 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIx64 symbol, which
47e01c32 1752 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit hexadecimal numbers.
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1753
1754d_PRIXU64 (quadfio.U):
1755 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIXU64 symbol, which
47e01c32 1756 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit hExADECimAl numbers.
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1757 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIx64 so that even
1758 case-blind systems can see the difference.
1759
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1760d_procselfexe (d_procselfexe.U):
1761 Defined if $procselfexe is symlink to the absolute
1762 pathname of the executing program.
1763
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1764d_pseudofork (d_vfork.U):
1765 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PSEUDOFORK symbol,
1766 which indicates that an emulation of the fork routine is available.
1767
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1768d_pthread_atfork (d_pthread_atfork.U):
1769 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PTHREAD_ATFORK symbol,
1770 which indicates to the C program that the pthread_atfork()
1771 routine is available.
1772
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1773d_pthread_attr_setscope (d_pthread_attr_ss.U):
1774 This variable conditionally defines HAS_PTHREAD_ATTR_SETSCOPE if
1775 pthread_attr_setscope() is available to set the contention scope
1776 attribute of a thread attribute object.
1777
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1778d_pthread_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
1779 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PTHREAD_YIELD
1780 symbol if the pthread_yield routine is available to yield
1781 the execution of the current thread.
1782
0e0c5f82 1783d_ptrdiff_t (d_ptrdiff_t.U):
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1784 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports ptrdiff_t.
1785
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1786d_pwage (i_pwd.U):
1787 This variable conditionally defines PWAGE, which indicates
1788 that struct passwd contains pw_age.
1789
1790d_pwchange (i_pwd.U):
1791 This variable conditionally defines PWCHANGE, which indicates
1792 that struct passwd contains pw_change.
1793
1794d_pwclass (i_pwd.U):
1795 This variable conditionally defines PWCLASS, which indicates
1796 that struct passwd contains pw_class.
1797
1798d_pwcomment (i_pwd.U):
1799 This variable conditionally defines PWCOMMENT, which indicates
1800 that struct passwd contains pw_comment.
1801
1802d_pwexpire (i_pwd.U):
1803 This variable conditionally defines PWEXPIRE, which indicates
1804 that struct passwd contains pw_expire.
1805
1806d_pwgecos (i_pwd.U):
1807 This variable conditionally defines PWGECOS, which indicates
1808 that struct passwd contains pw_gecos.
1809
1810d_pwpasswd (i_pwd.U):
1811 This variable conditionally defines PWPASSWD, which indicates
1812 that struct passwd contains pw_passwd.
1813
1814d_pwquota (i_pwd.U):
1815 This variable conditionally defines PWQUOTA, which indicates
1816 that struct passwd contains pw_quota.
1817
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1818d_qgcvt (d_qgcvt.U):
1819 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_QGCVT symbol, which
1820 indicates to the C program that the qgcvt() routine is available.
1821
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1822d_quad (quadtype.U):
1823 This variable, if defined, tells that there's a 64-bit integer type,
1824 quadtype.
1825
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1826d_random_r (d_random_r.U):
1827 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RANDOM_R symbol,
1828 which indicates to the C program that the random_r()
1829 routine is available.
1830
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1831d_readdir (d_readdir.U):
1832 This variable conditionally defines HAS_READDIR if readdir() is
1833 available to read directory entries.
1834
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1835d_readdir64_r (d_readdir64_r.U):
1836 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READDIR64_R symbol,
1837 which indicates to the C program that the readdir64_r()
1838 routine is available.
1839
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1840d_readdir_r (d_readdir_r.U):
1841 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READDIR_R symbol,
1842 which indicates to the C program that the readdir_r()
1843 routine is available.
1844
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1845d_readlink (d_readlink.U):
1846 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READLINK symbol, which
1847 indicates to the C program that the readlink() routine is available
1848 to read the value of a symbolic link.
1849
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1850d_readv (d_readv.U):
1851 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READV symbol, which
1852 indicates to the C program that the readv() routine is available.
1853
1854d_recvmsg (d_recvmsg.U):
1855 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RECVMSG symbol, which
1856 indicates to the C program that the recvmsg() routine is available.
1857
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1858d_rename (d_rename.U):
1859 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RENAME symbol, which
1860 indicates to the C program that the rename() routine is available
1861 to rename files.
1862
1863d_rewinddir (d_readdir.U):
1864 This variable conditionally defines HAS_REWINDDIR if rewinddir() is
1865 available.
1866
1867d_rmdir (d_rmdir.U):
1868 This variable conditionally defines HAS_RMDIR if rmdir() is
1869 available to remove directories.
1870
1871d_safebcpy (d_safebcpy.U):
1872 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SAFE_BCOPY symbol if
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1874 should probably use memmove().
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1875
1876d_safemcpy (d_safemcpy.U):
1877 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SAFE_MEMCPY symbol if
1878 the memcpy() routine can do overlapping copies.
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1880
1881d_sanemcmp (d_sanemcmp.U):
1882 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SANE_MEMCMP symbol if
1883 the memcpy() routine is available and can be used to compare relative
1884 magnitudes of chars with their high bits set.
1885
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1886d_sbrkproto (d_sbrkproto.U):
1887 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SBRK_PROTO symbol,
1888 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
1889 a prototype for the sbrk() function. Otherwise, it is
1890 up to the program to supply one.
1891
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1892d_scalbnl (d_scalbnl.U):
1893 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCALBNL symbol, which
1894 indicates to the C program that the scalbnl() routine is available.
1895 If ilogbl is also present we can emulate frexpl.
1896
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1897d_sched_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
1898 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCHED_YIELD
1899 symbol if the sched_yield routine is available to yield
1900 the execution of the current thread.
1901
1902d_scm_rights (d_socket.U):
1903 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCM_RIGHTS symbol,
1904 which indicates that the SCM_RIGHTS is available. #ifdef is
1905 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1906
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1907d_SCNfldbl (longdblfio.U):
1908 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1909 indicates that stdio has a symbol to scan long doubles.
4d54317a 1910
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1911d_seekdir (d_readdir.U):
1912 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SEEKDIR if seekdir() is
1913 available.
1914
1915d_select (d_select.U):
1916 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SELECT if select() is
1917 available to select active file descriptors. A <sys/time.h>
1918 inclusion may be necessary for the timeout field.
1919
1920d_sem (d_sem.U):
1921 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEM symbol, which
1922 indicates that the entire sem*(2) library is present.
1923
1924d_semctl (d_semctl.U):
1925 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMCTL symbol, which
1926 indicates to the C program that the semctl() routine is available.
1927
1928d_semctl_semid_ds (d_union_semun.U):
1929 This variable conditionally defines USE_SEMCTL_SEMID_DS, which
1930 indicates that struct semid_ds * is to be used for semctl IPC_STAT.
1931
1932d_semctl_semun (d_union_semun.U):
1933 This variable conditionally defines USE_SEMCTL_SEMUN, which
1934 indicates that union semun is to be used for semctl IPC_STAT.
1935
1936d_semget (d_semget.U):
1937 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMGET symbol, which
1938 indicates to the C program that the semget() routine is available.
1939
1940d_semop (d_semop.U):
1941 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMOP symbol, which
1942 indicates to the C program that the semop() routine is available.
1943
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1944d_sendmsg (d_sendmsg.U):
1945 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SENDMSG symbol, which
1946 indicates to the C program that the sendmsg() routine is available.
1947
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1948d_setegid (d_setegid.U):
1949 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETEGID symbol, which
1950 indicates to the C program that the setegid() routine is available
1951 to change the effective gid of the current program.
1952
1953d_seteuid (d_seteuid.U):
1954 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETEUID symbol, which
1955 indicates to the C program that the seteuid() routine is available
1956 to change the effective uid of the current program.
1957
1958d_setgrent (d_setgrent.U):
1959 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGRENT symbol, which
1960 indicates to the C program that the setgrent() routine is available
1961 for initializing sequential access to the group database.
1962
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1963d_setgrent_r (d_setgrent_r.U):
1964 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGRENT_R symbol,
1965 which indicates to the C program that the setgrent_r()
1966 routine is available.
1967
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1968d_setgrps (d_setgrps.U):
1969 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGROUPS symbol, which
1970 indicates to the C program that the setgroups() routine is available
1971 to set the list of process groups.
1972
1973d_sethent (d_sethent.U):
1974 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETHOSTENT if sethostent() is
1975 available.
1976
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1977d_sethostent_r (d_sethostent_r.U):
1978 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETHOSTENT_R symbol,
1979 which indicates to the C program that the sethostent_r()
1980 routine is available.
1981
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1982d_setitimer (d_setitimer.U):
1983 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETITIMER symbol, which
1984 indicates to the C program that the setitimer() routine is available.
1985
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1986d_setlinebuf (d_setlnbuf.U):
1987 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETLINEBUF symbol, which
1988 indicates to the C program that the setlinebuf() routine is available
1989 to change stderr or stdout from block-buffered or unbuffered to a
1990 line-buffered mode.
1991
1992d_setlocale (d_setlocale.U):
1993 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETLOCALE if setlocale() is
1994 available to handle locale-specific ctype implementations.
1995
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1996d_setlocale_r (d_setlocale_r.U):
1997 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETLOCALE_R symbol,
1998 which indicates to the C program that the setlocale_r()
1999 routine is available.
2000
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2001d_setnent (d_setnent.U):
2002 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETNETENT if setnetent() is
2003 available.
2004
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2005d_setnetent_r (d_setnetent_r.U):
2006 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETNETENT_R symbol,
2007 which indicates to the C program that the setnetent_r()
2008 routine is available.
2009
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2010d_setpent (d_setpent.U):
2011 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPROTOENT if setprotoent() is
2012 available.
2013
2014d_setpgid (d_setpgid.U):
2015 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGID symbol if the
2016 setpgid(pid, gpid) function is available to set process group ID.
2017
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2018d_setpgrp (d_setpgrp.U):
2019 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPGRP if setpgrp() is
2020 available to set the current process group.
2021
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2022d_setpgrp2 (d_setpgrp2.U):
2023 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGRP2 symbol, which
2024 indicates to the C program that the setpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine
2025 is available to set the current process group.
2026
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2027d_setprior (d_setprior.U):
2028 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPRIORITY if setpriority()
2029 is available to set a process's priority.
2030
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2031d_setproctitle (d_setproctitle.U):
2032 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPROCTITLE symbol,
2033 which indicates to the C program that the setproctitle() routine
2034 is available.
2035
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2036d_setprotoent_r (d_setprotoent_r.U):
2037 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPROTOENT_R symbol,
2038 which indicates to the C program that the setprotoent_r()
2039 routine is available.
2040
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2041d_setpwent (d_setpwent.U):
2042 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPWENT symbol, which
2043 indicates to the C program that the setpwent() routine is available
2044 for initializing sequential access to the passwd database.
2045
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2046d_setpwent_r (d_setpwent_r.U):
2047 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPWENT_R symbol,
2048 which indicates to the C program that the setpwent_r()
2049 routine is available.
2050
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2051d_setregid (d_setregid.U):
2052 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREGID if setregid() is
2053 available to change the real and effective gid of the current
2054 process.
2055
2056d_setresgid (d_setregid.U):
2057 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETRESGID if setresgid() is
2058 available to change the real, effective and saved gid of the current
2059 process.
2060
2061d_setresuid (d_setreuid.U):
2062 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREUID if setresuid() is
2063 available to change the real, effective and saved uid of the current
2064 process.
2065
2066d_setreuid (d_setreuid.U):
2067 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREUID if setreuid() is
2068 available to change the real and effective uid of the current
2069 process.
2070
2071d_setrgid (d_setrgid.U):
2072 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRGID symbol, which
2073 indicates to the C program that the setrgid() routine is available
2074 to change the real gid of the current program.
2075
2076d_setruid (d_setruid.U):
2077 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRUID symbol, which
2078 indicates to the C program that the setruid() routine is available
2079 to change the real uid of the current program.
2080
2081d_setsent (d_setsent.U):
2082 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSERVENT if setservent() is
2083 available.
2084
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2085d_setservent_r (d_setservent_r.U):
2086 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETSERVENT_R symbol,
2087 which indicates to the C program that the setservent_r()
2088 routine is available.
2089
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2090d_setsid (d_setsid.U):
2091 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSID if setsid() is
2092 available to set the process group ID.
2093
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2094d_setvbuf (d_setvbuf.U):
2095 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETVBUF symbol, which
2096 indicates to the C program that the setvbuf() routine is available
2097 to change buffering on an open stdio stream.
2098
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2099d_shm (d_shm.U):
2100 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHM symbol, which
2101 indicates that the entire shm*(2) library is present.
2102
2103d_shmat (d_shmat.U):
2104 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMAT symbol, which
2105 indicates to the C program that the shmat() routine is available.
2106
2107d_shmatprototype (d_shmat.U):
635aebb7 2108 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMAT_PROTOTYPE
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2109 symbol, which indicates that sys/shm.h has a prototype for
2110 shmat.
2111
2112d_shmctl (d_shmctl.U):
2113 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMCTL symbol, which
2114 indicates to the C program that the shmctl() routine is available.
2115
2116d_shmdt (d_shmdt.U):
2117 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMDT symbol, which
2118 indicates to the C program that the shmdt() routine is available.
2119
2120d_shmget (d_shmget.U):
2121 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMGET symbol, which
2122 indicates to the C program that the shmget() routine is available.
2123
2124d_sigaction (d_sigaction.U):
2125 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGACTION symbol, which
2126 indicates that the Vr4 sigaction() routine is available.
2127
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2128d_signbit (d_signbit.U):
2129 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGNBIT symbol, which
2130 indicates to the C program that the signbit() routine is available
2131 and safe to use with perl's intern NV type.
2132
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2133d_sigprocmask (d_sigprocmask.U):
2134 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SIGPROCMASK
2135 if sigprocmask() is available to examine or change the signal mask
2136 of the calling process.
2137
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2138d_sigsetjmp (d_sigsetjmp.U):
2139 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGSETJMP symbol,
2140 which indicates that the sigsetjmp() routine is available to
2141 call setjmp() and optionally save the process's signal mask.
2142
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2143d_sin6_scope_id (d_socket.U):
2144 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIN6_SCOPE_ID symbol, which
2145 indicates that a struct sockaddr_in6 structure has the sin6_scope_id
2146 member.
2147
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2148d_sitearch (sitearch.U):
2149 This variable conditionally defines SITEARCH to hold the pathname
2150 of architecture-dependent library files for $package. If
2151 $sitearch is the same as $archlib, then this is set to undef.
2152
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2153d_snprintf (d_snprintf.U):
2154 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SNPRINTF symbol, which
2155 indicates to the C program that the snprintf () library function
2156 is available.
2157
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2158d_sockaddr_in6 (d_socket.U):
2159 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKADDR_IN6 symbol, which
2160 indicates the availability of a struct sockaddr_in6.
2161
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2162d_sockaddr_sa_len (d_socket.U):
2163 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKADDR_SA_LEN symbol,
2164 which indicates that a struct sockaddr structure has the sa_len
2165 member.
2166
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2167d_sockatmark (d_sockatmark.U):
2168 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKATMARK symbol, which
2169 indicates to the C program that the sockatmark() routine is available.
2170
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2171d_sockatmarkproto (d_sockatmarkproto.U):
2172 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKATMARK_PROTO symbol,
2173 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2174 a prototype for the sockatmark() function. Otherwise, it is
2175 up to the program to supply one.
2176
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2177d_socket (d_socket.U):
2178 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SOCKET, which indicates
2179 that the BSD socket interface is supported.
2180
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2181d_socklen_t (d_socklen_t.U):
2182 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports socklen_t.
2183
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2184d_sockpair (d_socket.U):
2185 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKETPAIR symbol, which
2186 indicates that the BSD socketpair() is supported.
2187
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2188d_socks5_init (d_socks5_init.U):
2189 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKS5_INIT symbol, which
2190 indicates to the C program that the socks5_init() routine is available.
2191
df4c34dc 2192d_sprintf_returns_strlen (d_sprintf_len.U):
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2193 This variable defines whether sprintf returns the length of the string
2194 (as per the ANSI spec). Some C libraries retain compatibility with
2195 pre-ANSI C and return a pointer to the passed in buffer; for these
2196 this variable will be undef.
2197
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2198d_sqrtl (d_sqrtl.U):
2199 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SQRTL symbol, which
2200 indicates to the C program that the sqrtl() routine is available.
2201
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2202d_srand48_r (d_srand48_r.U):
2203 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SRAND48_R symbol,
2204 which indicates to the C program that the srand48_r()
2205 routine is available.
2206
2207d_srandom_r (d_srandom_r.U):
2208 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SRANDOM_R symbol,
2209 which indicates to the C program that the srandom_r()
2210 routine is available.
2211
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2212d_sresgproto (d_sresgproto.U):
2213 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRESGID_PROTO symbol,
2214 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2215 a prototype for the setresgid() function. Otherwise, it is
2216 up to the program to supply one.
2217
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2218d_sresuproto (d_sresuproto.U):
2219 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRESUID_PROTO symbol,
2220 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2221 a prototype for the setresuid() function. Otherwise, it is
2222 up to the program to supply one.
2223
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2224d_statblks (d_statblks.U):
2225 This variable conditionally defines USE_STAT_BLOCKS
2226 if this system has a stat structure declaring
2227 st_blksize and st_blocks.
2228
ad27e871 2229d_statfs_f_flags (d_statfs_f_flags.U):
0545a864 2230 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_STATFS_F_FLAGS
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2231 symbol, which indicates to struct statfs from has f_flags member.
2232 This kind of struct statfs is coming from sys/mount.h (BSD),
2233 not from sys/statfs.h (SYSV).
2234
ad27e871 2235d_statfs_s (d_statfs_s.U):
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2236 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_STATFS symbol,
2237 which indicates that the struct statfs is supported.
2238
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2239d_static_inline (d_static_inline.U):
2240 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STATIC_INLINE symbol,
2241 which indicates that the C compiler supports C99-style static
2242 inline. That is, the function can't be called from another
2243 translation unit.
2244
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2245d_statvfs (d_statvfs.U):
2246 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STATVFS symbol, which
2247 indicates to the C program that the statvfs() routine is available.
2248
2249d_stdio_cnt_lval (d_stdstdio.U):
2250 This variable conditionally defines STDIO_CNT_LVALUE if the
2251 FILE_cnt macro can be used as an lvalue.
2252
2253d_stdio_ptr_lval (d_stdstdio.U):
2254 This variable conditionally defines STDIO_PTR_LVALUE if the
2255 FILE_ptr macro can be used as an lvalue.
2256
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2257d_stdio_ptr_lval_nochange_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
2258 This symbol is defined if using the FILE_ptr macro as an lvalue
2259 to increase the pointer by n leaves File_cnt(fp) unchanged.
2260
2261d_stdio_ptr_lval_sets_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
2262 This symbol is defined if using the FILE_ptr macro as an lvalue
2263 to increase the pointer by n has the side effect of decreasing the
2264 value of File_cnt(fp) by n.
2265
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2266d_stdio_stream_array (stdio_streams.U):
2267 This variable tells whether there is an array holding
2268 the stdio streams.
2269
2270d_stdiobase (d_stdstdio.U):
2271 This variable conditionally defines USE_STDIO_BASE if this system
2272 has a FILE structure declaring a usable _base field (or equivalent)
2273 in stdio.h.
2274
2275d_stdstdio (d_stdstdio.U):
2276 This variable conditionally defines USE_STDIO_PTR if this system
2277 has a FILE structure declaring usable _ptr and _cnt fields (or
2278 equivalent) in stdio.h.
2279
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2280d_strchr (d_strchr.U):
2281 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRCHR if strchr() and
2282 strrchr() are available for string searching.
2283
2284d_strcoll (d_strcoll.U):
2285 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRCOLL if strcoll() is
2286 available to compare strings using collating information.
2287
2288d_strctcpy (d_strctcpy.U):
2289 This variable conditionally defines the USE_STRUCT_COPY symbol, which
2290 indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows how to copy
2291 structures.
2292
2293d_strerrm (d_strerror.U):
1332606d 2294 This variable holds what Strerror is defined as to translate an error
781b178c 2295 code condition into an error message string. It could be 'strerror'
1332606d 2296 or a more complex macro emulating strerror with sys_errlist[], or the
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2297 "unknown" string when both strerror and sys_errlist are missing.
2298
2299d_strerror (d_strerror.U):
2300 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRERROR if strerror() is
2301 available to translate error numbers to strings.
2302
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2303d_strerror_r (d_strerror_r.U):
2304 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRERROR_R symbol,
2305 which indicates to the C program that the strerror_r()
2306 routine is available.
2307
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2308d_strftime (d_strftime.U):
2309 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRFTIME symbol, which
2310 indicates to the C program that the strftime() routine is available.
2311
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2312d_strlcat (d_strlcat.U):
2313 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRLCAT symbol, which
2314 indicates to the C program that the strlcat () routine is available.
2315
2316d_strlcpy (d_strlcpy.U):
2317 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRLCPY symbol, which
2318 indicates to the C program that the strlcpy () routine is available.
2319
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2320d_strtod (d_strtod.U):
2321 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOD symbol, which
2322 indicates to the C program that the strtod() routine is available
2323 to provide better numeric string conversion than atof().
2324
2325d_strtol (d_strtol.U):
2326 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOL symbol, which
2327 indicates to the C program that the strtol() routine is available
2328 to provide better numeric string conversion than atoi() and friends.
2329
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2330d_strtold (d_strtold.U):
2331 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLD symbol, which
2332 indicates to the C program that the strtold() routine is available.
2333
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2334d_strtoll (d_strtoll.U):
2335 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLL symbol, which
2336 indicates to the C program that the strtoll() routine is available.
2337
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2338d_strtoq (d_strtoq.U):
2339 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOQ symbol, which
2340 indicates to the C program that the strtoq() routine is available.
2341
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2342d_strtoul (d_strtoul.U):
2343 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUL symbol, which
2344 indicates to the C program that the strtoul() routine is available
2345 to provide conversion of strings to unsigned long.
2346
ff935051 2347d_strtoull (d_strtoull.U):
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2348 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOULL symbol, which
2349 indicates to the C program that the strtoull() routine is available.
2350
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2351d_strtouq (d_strtouq.U):
2352 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUQ symbol, which
2353 indicates to the C program that the strtouq() routine is available.
2354
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2355d_strxfrm (d_strxfrm.U):
2356 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRXFRM if strxfrm() is
2357 available to transform strings.
2358
2359d_suidsafe (d_dosuid.U):
2360 This variable conditionally defines SETUID_SCRIPTS_ARE_SECURE_NOW
2361 if setuid scripts can be secure. This test looks in /dev/fd/.
2362
2363d_symlink (d_symlink.U):
2364 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYMLINK symbol, which
2365 indicates to the C program that the symlink() routine is available
2366 to create symbolic links.
2367
2368d_syscall (d_syscall.U):
2369 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYSCALL if syscall() is
2370 available call arbitrary system calls.
2371
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2372d_syscallproto (d_syscallproto.U):
2373 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYSCALL_PROTO symbol,
2374 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2375 a prototype for the syscall() function. Otherwise, it is
2376 up to the program to supply one.
2377
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2378d_sysconf (d_sysconf.U):
2379 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYSCONF symbol, which
2380 indicates to the C program that the sysconf() routine is available
2381 to determine system related limits and options.
2382
2383d_sysernlst (d_strerror.U):
2384 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYS_ERRNOLIST if sys_errnolist[]
2385 is available to translate error numbers to the symbolic name.
2386
2387d_syserrlst (d_strerror.U):
2388 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYS_ERRLIST if sys_errlist[] is
2389 available to translate error numbers to strings.
2390
2391d_system (d_system.U):
2392 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYSTEM if system() is
2393 available to issue a shell command.
2394
2395d_tcgetpgrp (d_tcgtpgrp.U):
2396 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TCGETPGRP symbol, which
2397 indicates to the C program that the tcgetpgrp() routine is available.
2398 to get foreground process group ID.
2399
2400d_tcsetpgrp (d_tcstpgrp.U):
2401 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TCSETPGRP symbol, which
2402 indicates to the C program that the tcsetpgrp() routine is available
2403 to set foreground process group ID.
2404
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2405d_telldir (d_readdir.U):
2406 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TELLDIR if telldir() is
2407 available.
2408
2409d_telldirproto (d_telldirproto.U):
2410 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TELLDIR_PROTO symbol,
2411 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2412 a prototype for the telldir() function. Otherwise, it is
2413 up to the program to supply one.
2414
2415d_time (d_time.U):
2416 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIME symbol, which indicates
47e01c32 2417 that the time() routine exists. The time() routine is normally
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2418 provided on UNIX systems.
2419
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2420d_timegm (d_timegm.U):
2421 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIMEGM symbol, which
2422 indicates to the C program that the timegm () routine is available.
2423
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2424d_times (d_times.U):
2425 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIMES symbol, which indicates
47e01c32 2426 that the times() routine exists. The times() routine is normally
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2427 provided on UNIX systems. You may have to include <sys/times.h>.
2428
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2429d_tm_tm_gmtoff (i_time.U):
2430 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TM_TM_GMTOFF, which indicates
2431 indicates to the C program that the struct tm has the tm_gmtoff field.
2432
2433d_tm_tm_zone (i_time.U):
2434 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TM_TM_ZONE, which indicates
2435 indicates to the C program that the struct tm has the tm_zone field.
2436
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2437d_tmpnam_r (d_tmpnam_r.U):
2438 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TMPNAM_R symbol,
2439 which indicates to the C program that the tmpnam_r()
2440 routine is available.
2441
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2442d_truncate (d_truncate.U):
2443 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TRUNCATE if truncate() is
2444 available to truncate files.
2445
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2446d_ttyname_r (d_ttyname_r.U):
2447 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TTYNAME_R symbol,
2448 which indicates to the C program that the ttyname_r()
2449 routine is available.
2450
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2451d_tzname (d_tzname.U):
2452 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TZNAME if tzname[] is
2453 available to access timezone names.
2454
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2455d_u32align (d_u32align.U):
2456 This variable tells whether you must access character data
2457 through U32-aligned pointers.
2458
2459d_ualarm (d_ualarm.U):
2460 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UALARM symbol, which
2461 indicates to the C program that the ualarm() routine is available.
2462
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2463d_umask (d_umask.U):
2464 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UMASK symbol, which
2465 indicates to the C program that the umask() routine is available.
2466 to set and get the value of the file creation mask.
2467
2468d_uname (d_gethname.U):
2469 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNAME symbol, which
2470 indicates to the C program that the uname() routine may be
2471 used to derive the host name.
2472
2473d_union_semun (d_union_semun.U):
2474 This variable conditionally defines HAS_UNION_SEMUN if the
2475 union semun is defined by including <sys/sem.h>.
2476
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2477d_unordered (d_unordered.U):
2478 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNORDERED symbol, which
2479 indicates to the C program that the unordered() routine is available.
2480
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2481d_unsetenv (d_unsetenv.U):
2482 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNSETENV symbol, which
2483 indicates to the C program that the unsetenv () routine is available.
2484
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2485d_usleep (d_usleep.U):
2486 This variable conditionally defines HAS_USLEEP if usleep() is
2487 available to do high granularity sleeps.
2488
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2489d_usleepproto (d_usleepproto.U):
2490 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_USLEEP_PROTO symbol,
2491 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2492 a prototype for the usleep() function. Otherwise, it is
2493 up to the program to supply one.
2494
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2495d_ustat (d_ustat.U):
2496 This variable conditionally defines HAS_USTAT if ustat() is
2497 available to query file system statistics by dev_t.
2498
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2499d_vendorarch (vendorarch.U):
2500 This variable conditionally defined PERL_VENDORARCH.
2501
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2502d_vendorbin (vendorbin.U):
2503 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORBIN.
2504
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2505d_vendorlib (vendorlib.U):
2506 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORLIB.
2507
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2508d_vendorscript (vendorscript.U):
2509 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORSCRIPT.
2510
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2511d_vfork (d_vfork.U):
2512 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VFORK symbol, which
2513 indicates the vfork() routine is available.
2514
2515d_void_closedir (d_closedir.U):
2516 This variable conditionally defines VOID_CLOSEDIR if closedir()
2517 does not return a value.
2518
2519d_voidsig (d_voidsig.U):
2520 This variable conditionally defines VOIDSIG if this system
2521 declares "void (*signal(...))()" in signal.h. The old way was to
2522 declare it as "int (*signal(...))()".
2523
2524d_voidtty (i_sysioctl.U):
2525 This variable conditionally defines USE_IOCNOTTY to indicate that the
2526 ioctl() call with TIOCNOTTY should be used to void tty association.
2527 Otherwise (on USG probably), it is enough to close the standard file
47e01c32 2528 descriptors and do a setpgrp().
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2529
2530d_volatile (d_volatile.U):
2531 This variable conditionally defines the HASVOLATILE symbol, which
2532 indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows about the
2533 volatile declaration.
2534
2535d_vprintf (d_vprintf.U):
2536 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VPRINTF symbol, which
2537 indicates to the C program that the vprintf() routine is available
2538 to printf with a pointer to an argument list.
2539
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2540d_vsnprintf (d_snprintf.U):
2541 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VSNPRINTF symbol, which
2542 indicates to the C program that the vsnprintf () library function
2543 is available.
2544
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2545d_wait4 (d_wait4.U):
2546 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WAIT4 symbol, which
2547 indicates the wait4() routine is available.
2548
2549d_waitpid (d_waitpid.U):
2550 This variable conditionally defines HAS_WAITPID if waitpid() is
2551 available to wait for child process.
2552
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2553d_wcscmp (d_wcscmp.U):
2554 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSCMP symbol if the
2555 wcscmp() routine is available and can be used to compare wide
2556 character strings.
2557
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2558d_wcstombs (d_wcstombs.U):
2559 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSTOMBS symbol, which
2560 indicates to the C program that the wcstombs() routine is available
2561 to convert wide character strings to multibyte strings.
2562
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2563d_wcsxfrm (d_wcsxfrm.U):
2564 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSXFRM symbol if the
2565 wcsxfrm() routine is available and can be used to compare wide
2566 character strings.
2567
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2568d_wctomb (d_wctomb.U):
2569 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCTOMB symbol, which
2570 indicates to the C program that the wctomb() routine is available
2571 to convert a wide character to a multibyte.
2572
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2573d_writev (d_writev.U):
2574 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WRITEV symbol, which
2575 indicates to the C program that the writev() routine is available.
2576
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2577d_xenix (Guess.U):
2578 This variable conditionally defines the symbol XENIX, which alerts
2579 the C program that it runs under Xenix.
2580
2581date (Loc.U):
5bf26616 2582 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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2583 full pathname (if any) of the date program. After Configure runs,
2584 the value is reset to a plain "date" and is not useful.
2585
2586db_hashtype (i_db.U):
2587 This variable contains the type of the hash structure element
2588 in the <db.h> header file. In older versions of DB, it was
2589 int, while in newer ones it is u_int32_t.
2590
2591db_prefixtype (i_db.U):
2592 This variable contains the type of the prefix structure element
2593 in the <db.h> header file. In older versions of DB, it was
2594 int, while in newer ones it is size_t.
2595
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2596db_version_major (i_db.U):
2597 This variable contains the major version number of
2598 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
2599
2600db_version_minor (i_db.U):
2601 This variable contains the minor version number of
2602 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
2603 For DB version 1 this is always 0.
2604
2605db_version_patch (i_db.U):
2606 This variable contains the patch version number of
2607 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
2608 For DB version 1 this is always 0.
2609
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2610direntrytype (i_dirent.U):
2611 This symbol is set to 'struct direct' or 'struct dirent' depending on
2612 whether dirent is available or not. You should use this pseudo type to
2613 portably declare your directory entries.
2614
2615dlext (dlext.U):
2616 This variable contains the extension that is to be used for the
1332606d 2617 dynamically loaded modules that perl generates.
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2618
2619dlsrc (dlsrc.U):
2620 This variable contains the name of the dynamic loading file that
2621 will be used with the package.
2622
2623doublesize (doublesize.U):
2624 This variable contains the value of the DOUBLESIZE symbol, which
2625 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a double.
2626
2627drand01 (randfunc.U):
2628 Indicates the macro to be used to generate normalized
2629 random numbers. Uses randfunc, often divided by
2630 (double) (((unsigned long) 1 << randbits)) in order to
2631 normalize the result.
2632 In C programs, the macro 'Drand01' is mapped to drand01.
2633
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2634drand48_r_proto (d_drand48_r.U):
2635 This variable encodes the prototype of drand48_r.
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2636 It is zero if d_drand48_r is undef, and one of the
2637 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_drand48_r
2638 is defined.
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2640dtrace (usedtrace.U):
2641 This variable holds the location of the dtrace executable.
2642
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2643dynamic_ext (Extensions.U):
2644 This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to
2645 link dynamically into the package. It is used by Makefile.
2646
2647eagain (nblock_io.U):
2648 This variable bears the symbolic errno code set by read() when no
2649 data is present on the file and non-blocking I/O was enabled (otherwise,
2650 read() blocks naturally).
2651
2652ebcdic (ebcdic.U):
2653 This variable conditionally defines EBCDIC if this
1332606d 2654 system uses EBCDIC encoding.
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2655
2656echo (Loc.U):
5bf26616 2657 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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2658 full pathname (if any) of the echo program. After Configure runs,
2659 the value is reset to a plain "echo" and is not useful.
2660
2661egrep (Loc.U):
5bf26616 2662 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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2663 full pathname (if any) of the egrep program. After Configure runs,
2664 the value is reset to a plain "egrep" and is not useful.
2665
2666emacs (Loc.U):
2667 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 2668 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 2669
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2670endgrent_r_proto (d_endgrent_r.U):
2671 This variable encodes the prototype of endgrent_r.
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2672 It is zero if d_endgrent_r is undef, and one of the
2673 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endgrent_r
2674 is defined.
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2675
2676endhostent_r_proto (d_endhostent_r.U):
2677 This variable encodes the prototype of endhostent_r.
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2678 It is zero if d_endhostent_r is undef, and one of the
2679 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endhostent_r
2680 is defined.
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2681
2682endnetent_r_proto (d_endnetent_r.U):
2683 This variable encodes the prototype of endnetent_r.
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2684 It is zero if d_endnetent_r is undef, and one of the
2685 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endnetent_r
2686 is defined.
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2687
2688endprotoent_r_proto (d_endprotoent_r.U):
2689 This variable encodes the prototype of endprotoent_r.
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2690 It is zero if d_endprotoent_r is undef, and one of the
2691 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endprotoent_r
2692 is defined.
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2693
2694endpwent_r_proto (d_endpwent_r.U):
2695 This variable encodes the prototype of endpwent_r.
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2696 It is zero if d_endpwent_r is undef, and one of the
2697 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endpwent_r
2698 is defined.
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2699
2700endservent_r_proto (d_endservent_r.U):
2701 This variable encodes the prototype of endservent_r.
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2702 It is zero if d_endservent_r is undef, and one of the
2703 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endservent_r
2704 is defined.
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2706eunicefix (Init.U):
2707 When running under Eunice this variable contains a command which will
2708 convert a shell script to the proper form of text file for it to be
2709 executable by the shell. On other systems it is a no-op.
2710
2711exe_ext (Unix.U):
2712 This is an old synonym for _exe.
2713
2714expr (Loc.U):
5bf26616 2715 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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2716 full pathname (if any) of the expr program. After Configure runs,
2717 the value is reset to a plain "expr" and is not useful.
2718
2719extensions (Extensions.U):
2720 This variable holds a list of all extension files (both XS and
f7b3892b 2721 non-xs) installed with the package. It is propagated to Config.pm
47e01c32 2722 and is typically used to test whether a particular extension
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2723 is available.
2724
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2725extern_C (Csym.U):
2726 ANSI C requires 'extern' where C++ requires 'extern "C"'. This
2727 variable can be used in Configure to do the right thing.
2728
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2729extras (Extras.U):
2730 This variable holds a list of extra modules to install.
2731
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2732fflushall (fflushall.U):
2733 This symbol, if defined, tells that to flush
2734 all pending stdio output one must loop through all
2735 the stdio file handles stored in an array and fflush them.
2736 Note that if fflushNULL is defined, fflushall will not
2737 even be probed for and will be left undefined.
2738
4d54317a 2739fflushNULL (fflushall.U):
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2740 This symbol, if defined, tells that fflush(NULL) correctly
2741 flushes all pending stdio output without side effects. In
2742 particular, on some platforms calling fflush(NULL) *still*
2743 corrupts STDIN if it is a pipe.
4d54317a 2744
781b178c 2745find (Loc.U):
ff935051 2746 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 2747 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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2748
2749firstmakefile (Unix.U):
2750 This variable defines the first file searched by make. On unix,
2751 it is makefile (then Makefile). On case-insensitive systems,
2752 it might be something else. This is only used to deal with
2753 convoluted make depend tricks.
2754
2755flex (Loc.U):
2756 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 2757 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 2758
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2759fpossize (fpossize.U):
2760 This variable contains the size of a fpostype in bytes.
2761
781b178c 2762fpostype (fpostype.U):
635aebb7 2763 This variable defines Fpos_t to be something like fpos_t, long,
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2764 uint, or whatever type is used to declare file positions in libc.
2765
2766freetype (mallocsrc.U):
2767 This variable contains the return type of free(). It is usually
2768 void, but occasionally int.
2769
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2770from (Cross.U):
2771 This variable contains the command used by Configure
2772 to copy files from the target host. Useful and available
2773 only during Perl build.
2774 The string ':' if not cross-compiling.
2775
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2776full_ar (Loc_ar.U):
2777 This variable contains the full pathname to 'ar', whether or
2778 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
2779 in the Makefile.SH.
2780
2781full_csh (d_csh.U):
2782 This variable contains the full pathname to 'csh', whether or
2783 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
2784 in the compiled C program, and we assume that all systems which
2785 can share this executable will have the same full pathname to
2786 'csh.'
2787
2788full_sed (Loc_sed.U):
2789 This variable contains the full pathname to 'sed', whether or
2790 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
2791 in the compiled C program, and we assume that all systems which
2792 can share this executable will have the same full pathname to
2793 'sed.'
2794
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2795gccansipedantic (gccvers.U):
2796 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable will enable (if set) the
2797 -ansi and -pedantic ccflags for building core files (through
2798 cflags script). (See Porting/pumpkin.pod for full description).
2799
af960fef 2800gccosandvers (gccvers.U):
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2801 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable holds the operating system
2802 and version used to compile gcc. It is set to '' if not gcc,
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2803 or if nothing useful can be parsed as the os version.
2804
2805gccversion (gccvers.U):
123f32c0 2806 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable holds '1' or '2' to
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2807 indicate whether the compiler is version 1 or 2. This is used in
2808 setting some of the default cflags. It is set to '' if not gcc.
2809
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2810getgrent_r_proto (d_getgrent_r.U):
2811 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrent_r.
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2812 It is zero if d_getgrent_r is undef, and one of the
2813 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getgrent_r
2814 is defined.
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2815
2816getgrgid_r_proto (d_getgrgid_r.U):
2817 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrgid_r.
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2818 It is zero if d_getgrgid_r is undef, and one of the
2819 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getgrgid_r
2820 is defined.
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2821
2822getgrnam_r_proto (d_getgrnam_r.U):
2823 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrnam_r.
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2824 It is zero if d_getgrnam_r is undef, and one of the
2825 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getgrnam_r
2826 is defined.
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2827
2828gethostbyaddr_r_proto (d_gethostbyaddr_r.U):
2829 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostbyaddr_r.
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2830 It is zero if d_gethostbyaddr_r is undef, and one of the
2831 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gethostbyaddr_r
2832 is defined.
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2833
2834gethostbyname_r_proto (d_gethostbyname_r.U):
2835 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostbyname_r.
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2836 It is zero if d_gethostbyname_r is undef, and one of the
2837 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gethostbyname_r
2838 is defined.
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2839
2840gethostent_r_proto (d_gethostent_r.U):
2841 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostent_r.
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2842 It is zero if d_gethostent_r is undef, and one of the
2843 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gethostent_r
2844 is defined.
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2845
2846getlogin_r_proto (d_getlogin_r.U):
2847 This variable encodes the prototype of getlogin_r.
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2848 It is zero if d_getlogin_r is undef, and one of the
2849 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getlogin_r
2850 is defined.
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2851
2852getnetbyaddr_r_proto (d_getnetbyaddr_r.U):
2853 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetbyaddr_r.
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2854 It is zero if d_getnetbyaddr_r is undef, and one of the
2855 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getnetbyaddr_r
2856 is defined.
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2857
2858getnetbyname_r_proto (d_getnetbyname_r.U):
2859 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetbyname_r.
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2860 It is zero if d_getnetbyname_r is undef, and one of the
2861 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getnetbyname_r
2862 is defined.
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2863
2864getnetent_r_proto (d_getnetent_r.U):
2865 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetent_r.
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2866 It is zero if d_getnetent_r is undef, and one of the
2867 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getnetent_r
2868 is defined.
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2869
2870getprotobyname_r_proto (d_getprotobyname_r.U):
2871 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotobyname_r.
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2872 It is zero if d_getprotobyname_r is undef, and one of the
2873 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getprotobyname_r
2874 is defined.
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2875
2876getprotobynumber_r_proto (d_getprotobynumber_r.U):
2877 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotobynumber_r.
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2878 It is zero if d_getprotobynumber_r is undef, and one of the
2879 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getprotobynumber_r
2880 is defined.
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2881
2882getprotoent_r_proto (d_getprotoent_r.U):
2883 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotoent_r.
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2884 It is zero if d_getprotoent_r is undef, and one of the
2885 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getprotoent_r
2886 is defined.
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2887
2888getpwent_r_proto (d_getpwent_r.U):
2889 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwent_r.
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2890 It is zero if d_getpwent_r is undef, and one of the
2891 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getpwent_r
2892 is defined.
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2893
2894getpwnam_r_proto (d_getpwnam_r.U):
2895 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwnam_r.
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2896 It is zero if d_getpwnam_r is undef, and one of the
2897 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getpwnam_r
2898 is defined.
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2899
2900getpwuid_r_proto (d_getpwuid_r.U):
2901 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwuid_r.
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2902 It is zero if d_getpwuid_r is undef, and one of the
2903 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getpwuid_r
2904 is defined.
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2905
2906getservbyname_r_proto (d_getservbyname_r.U):
2907 This variable encodes the prototype of getservbyname_r.
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2908 It is zero if d_getservbyname_r is undef, and one of the
2909 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getservbyname_r
2910 is defined.
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2911
2912getservbyport_r_proto (d_getservbyport_r.U):
2913 This variable encodes the prototype of getservbyport_r.
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2914 It is zero if d_getservbyport_r is undef, and one of the
2915 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getservbyport_r
2916 is defined.
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2917
2918getservent_r_proto (d_getservent_r.U):
2919 This variable encodes the prototype of getservent_r.
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2920 It is zero if d_getservent_r is undef, and one of the
2921 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getservent_r
2922 is defined.
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2923
2924getspnam_r_proto (d_getspnam_r.U):
2925 This variable encodes the prototype of getspnam_r.
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2926 It is zero if d_getspnam_r is undef, and one of the
2927 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getspnam_r
2928 is defined.
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2930gidformat (gidf.U):
2931 This variable contains the format string used for printing a Gid_t.
2932
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2933gidsign (gidsign.U):
2934 This variable contains the signedness of a gidtype.
2935 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
2936
2937gidsize (gidsize.U):
2938 This variable contains the size of a gidtype in bytes.
2939
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2940gidtype (gidtype.U):
2941 This variable defines Gid_t to be something like gid_t, int,
2942 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare the return type
2943 of getgid(). Typically, it is the type of group ids in the kernel.
2944
2945glibpth (libpth.U):
2946 This variable holds the general path (space-separated) used to
2947 find libraries. It may contain directories that do not exist on
2948 this platform, libpth is the cleaned-up version.
2949
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2950gmake (Loc.U):
2951 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
2952 full pathname (if any) of the gmake program. After Configure runs,
2953 the value is reset to a plain "gmake" and is not useful.
2954
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2955gmtime_r_proto (d_gmtime_r.U):
2956 This variable encodes the prototype of gmtime_r.
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2957 It is zero if d_gmtime_r is undef, and one of the
2958 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gmtime_r
2959 is defined.
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2961gnulibc_version (d_gnulibc.U):
2962 This variable contains the version number of the GNU C library.
2963 It is usually something like '2.2.5'. It is a plain '' if this
2964 is not the GNU C library, or if the version is unknown.
2965
781b178c 2966grep (Loc.U):
5bf26616 2967 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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2968 full pathname (if any) of the grep program. After Configure runs,
2969 the value is reset to a plain "grep" and is not useful.
2970
2971groupcat (nis.U):
2972 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
2973 /etc/group file. This is normally "cat /etc/group", but can be
2974 "ypcat group" when NIS is used.
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2975 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
2976 command, in which case this variable is unset.
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2977
2978groupstype (groupstype.U):
635aebb7 2979 This variable defines Groups_t to be something like gid_t, int,
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2980 ushort, or whatever type is used for the second argument to
2981 getgroups() and setgroups(). Usually, this is the same as
2982 gidtype (gid_t), but sometimes it isn't.
2983
2984gzip (Loc.U):
5bf26616 2985 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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2986 full pathname (if any) of the gzip program. After Configure runs,
2987 the value is reset to a plain "gzip" and is not useful.
2988
2989h_fcntl (h_fcntl.U):
2990 This is variable gets set in various places to tell i_fcntl that
2991 <fcntl.h> should be included.
2992
2993h_sysfile (h_sysfile.U):
2994 This is variable gets set in various places to tell i_sys_file that
2995 <sys/file.h> should be included.
2996
2997hint (Oldconfig.U):
2998 Gives the type of hints used for previous answers. May be one of
2999 "default", "recommended" or "previous".
3000
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3001hostcat (nis.U):
3002 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
3003 /etc/hosts file. This is normally "cat /etc/hosts", but can be
3004 "ypcat hosts" when NIS is used.
3005 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
3006 command, in which case this variable is unset.
8b6a017c 3007
a6d9d244 3008hostgenerate (Cross.U):
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BF
3009 This variable contains the path to a generate_uudmap binary that
3010 can be run on the host OS when cross-compiling. Useful and
3011 available only during Perl build.
3012 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
3013
a6d9d244 3014hostosname (Cross.U):
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BF
3015 This variable contains the original value of '$^O' for hostperl
3016 when cross-compiling. This is useful to pick the proper tools
3017 when running build code in the host.
3018 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
3019
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3020hostperl (Cross.U):
3021 This variable contains the path to a miniperl binary that can be
3022 run on the host OS when cross-compiling. Useful and available only
3023 during Perl build.
3024 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
781b178c 3025
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3026html1dir (html1dir.U):
3027 This variable contains the name of the directory in which html
3028 source pages are to be put. This directory is for pages
3029 that describe whole programs, not libraries or modules. It
3030 is intended to correspond roughly to section 1 of the Unix
3031 manuals.
3032
3033html1direxp (html1dir.U):
3034 This variable is the same as the html1dir variable, but is filename
3035 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
3036
3037html3dir (html3dir.U):
3038 This variable contains the name of the directory in which html
3039 source pages are to be put. This directory is for pages
3040 that describe libraries or modules. It is intended to
3041 correspond roughly to section 3 of the Unix manuals.
3042
3043html3direxp (html3dir.U):
3044 This variable is the same as the html3dir variable, but is filename
3045 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
3046
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3047i16size (perlxv.U):
3048 This variable is the size of an I16 in bytes.
3049
3050i16type (perlxv.U):
3051 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I16.
3052
3053i32size (perlxv.U):
3054 This variable is the size of an I32 in bytes.
3055
3056i32type (perlxv.U):
3057 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I32.
3058
3059i64size (perlxv.U):
3060 This variable is the size of an I64 in bytes.
3061
3062i64type (perlxv.U):
3063 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I64.
3064
3065i8size (perlxv.U):
3066 This variable is the size of an I8 in bytes.
3067
3068i8type (perlxv.U):
3069 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I8.
3070
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3071i_arpainet (i_arpainet.U):
3072 This variable conditionally defines the I_ARPA_INET symbol,
3073 and indicates whether a C program should include <arpa/inet.h>.
3074
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3075i_assert (i_assert.U):
3076 This variable conditionally defines the I_ASSERT symbol, which
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3077 indicates to the C program that <assert.h> exists and could be
3078 included.
2a0de2c5 3079
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3080i_bfd (i_bfd.U):
3081 This variable conditionally defines the I_BFD symbol, and
3082 indicates whether a C program can include <bfd.h>.
3083
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3084i_bsdioctl (i_sysioctl.U):
3085 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_BSDIOCTL symbol, which
3086 indicates to the C program that <sys/bsdioctl.h> exists and should
3087 be included.
3088
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3089i_crypt (i_crypt.U):
3090 This variable conditionally defines the I_CRYPT symbol, and indicates
3091 whether a C program should include <crypt.h>.
3092
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3093i_db (i_db.U):
3094 This variable conditionally defines the I_DB symbol, and indicates
3095 whether a C program may include Berkeley's DB include file <db.h>.
3096
3097i_dbm (i_dbm.U):
3098 This variable conditionally defines the I_DBM symbol, which
3099 indicates to the C program that <dbm.h> exists and should
3100 be included.
3101
3102i_dirent (i_dirent.U):
3103 This variable conditionally defines I_DIRENT, which indicates
3104 to the C program that it should include <dirent.h>.
3105
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3106i_dlfcn (i_dlfcn.U):
3107 This variable conditionally defines the I_DLFCN symbol, which
3108 indicates to the C program that <dlfcn.h> exists and should
3109 be included.
3110
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3111i_execinfo (i_execinfo.U):
3112 This variable conditionally defines the I_EXECINFO symbol, and indicates
3113 whether a C program may include <execinfo.h>, for backtrace() support.
3114
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3115i_fcntl (i_fcntl.U):
3116 This variable controls the value of I_FCNTL (which tells
3117 the C program to include <fcntl.h>).
3118
3119i_float (i_float.U):
3120 This variable conditionally defines the I_FLOAT symbol, and indicates
3121 whether a C program may include <float.h> to get symbols like DBL_MAX
3122 or DBL_MIN, i.e. machine dependent floating point values.
3123
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3124i_fp (i_fp.U):
3125 This variable conditionally defines the I_FP symbol, and indicates
3126 whether a C program should include <fp.h>.
3127
3128i_fp_class (i_fp_class.U):
3129 This variable conditionally defines the I_FP_CLASS symbol, and indicates
3130 whether a C program should include <fp_class.h>.
3131
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3132i_gdbm (i_gdbm.U):
3133 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBM symbol, which
3134 indicates to the C program that <gdbm.h> exists and should
3135 be included.
3136
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3137i_gdbm_ndbm (i_ndbm.U):
3138 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBM_NDBM symbol, which
3139 indicates to the C program that <gdbm-ndbm.h> exists and should
3140 be included. This is the location of the ndbm.h compatibility file
3141 in Debian 4.0.
3142
3143i_gdbmndbm (i_ndbm.U):
3144 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBMNDBM symbol, which
3145 indicates to the C program that <gdbm/ndbm.h> exists and should
3146 be included. This was the location of the ndbm.h compatibility file
3147 in RedHat 7.1.
3148
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3149i_grp (i_grp.U):
3150 This variable conditionally defines the I_GRP symbol, and indicates
3151 whether a C program should include <grp.h>.
3152
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3153i_ieeefp (i_ieeefp.U):
3154 This variable conditionally defines the I_IEEEFP symbol, and indicates
3155 whether a C program should include <ieeefp.h>.
3156
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3157i_inttypes (i_inttypes.U):
3158 This variable conditionally defines the I_INTTYPES symbol,
3159 and indicates whether a C program should include <inttypes.h>.
3160
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3161i_langinfo (i_langinfo.U):
3162 This variable conditionally defines the I_LANGINFO symbol,
3163 and indicates whether a C program should include <langinfo.h>.
3164
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3165i_libutil (i_libutil.U):
3166 This variable conditionally defines the I_LIBUTIL symbol, and indicates
3167 whether a C program should include <libutil.h>.
3168
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3169i_limits (i_limits.U):
3170 This variable conditionally defines the I_LIMITS symbol, and indicates
3171 whether a C program may include <limits.h> to get symbols like WORD_BIT
3172 and friends.
3173
3174i_locale (i_locale.U):
3175 This variable conditionally defines the I_LOCALE symbol,
3176 and indicates whether a C program should include <locale.h>.
3177
3178i_machcthr (i_machcthr.U):
3179 This variable conditionally defines the I_MACH_CTHREADS symbol,
3180 and indicates whether a C program should include <mach/cthreads.h>.
3181
3182i_malloc (i_malloc.U):
3183 This variable conditionally defines the I_MALLOC symbol, and indicates
3184 whether a C program should include <malloc.h>.
3185
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3186i_mallocmalloc (i_mallocmalloc.U):
3187 This variable conditionally defines the I_MALLOCMALLOC symbol,
3188 and indicates whether a C program should include <malloc/malloc.h>.
3189
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3190i_math (i_math.U):
3191 This variable conditionally defines the I_MATH symbol, and indicates
3192 whether a C program may include <math.h>.
3193
3194i_memory (i_memory.U):
3195 This variable conditionally defines the I_MEMORY symbol, and indicates
3196 whether a C program should include <memory.h>.
3197
3198i_mntent (i_mntent.U):
3199 This variable conditionally defines the I_MNTENT symbol, and indicates
3200 whether a C program should include <mntent.h>.
3201
3202i_ndbm (i_ndbm.U):
3203 This variable conditionally defines the I_NDBM symbol, which
3204 indicates to the C program that <ndbm.h> exists and should
3205 be included.
3206
3207i_netdb (i_netdb.U):
3208 This variable conditionally defines the I_NETDB symbol, and indicates
3209 whether a C program should include <netdb.h>.
3210
3211i_neterrno (i_neterrno.U):
3212 This variable conditionally defines the I_NET_ERRNO symbol, which
3213 indicates to the C program that <net/errno.h> exists and should
3214 be included.
3215
3216i_netinettcp (i_netinettcp.U):
3217 This variable conditionally defines the I_NETINET_TCP symbol,
3218 and indicates whether a C program should include <netinet/tcp.h>.
3219
3220i_niin (i_niin.U):
3221 This variable conditionally defines I_NETINET_IN, which indicates
3222 to the C program that it should include <netinet/in.h>. Otherwise,
3223 you may try <sys/in.h>.
3224
3225i_poll (i_poll.U):
3226 This variable conditionally defines the I_POLL symbol, and indicates
3227 whether a C program should include <poll.h>.
3228
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3229i_prot (i_prot.U):
3230 This variable conditionally defines the I_PROT symbol, and indicates
3231 whether a C program should include <prot.h>.
3232
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190b66db 3234 This variable conditionally defines the I_PTHREAD symbol,
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3235 and indicates whether a C program should include <pthread.h>.
3236
3237i_pwd (i_pwd.U):
3238 This variable conditionally defines I_PWD, which indicates
3239 to the C program that it should include <pwd.h>.
3240
3241i_rpcsvcdbm (i_dbm.U):
3242 This variable conditionally defines the I_RPCSVC_DBM symbol, which
3243 indicates to the C program that <rpcsvc/dbm.h> exists and should
3244 be included. Some System V systems might need this instead of <dbm.h>.
3245
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3246i_sgtty (i_termio.U):
3247 This variable conditionally defines the I_SGTTY symbol, which
3248 indicates to the C program that it should include <sgtty.h> rather
3249 than <termio.h>.
3250
3251i_shadow (i_shadow.U):
3252 This variable conditionally defines the I_SHADOW symbol, and indicates
3253 whether a C program should include <shadow.h>.
3254
3255i_socks (i_socks.U):
3256 This variable conditionally defines the I_SOCKS symbol, and indicates
3257 whether a C program should include <socks.h>.
3258
3259i_stdarg (i_varhdr.U):
3260 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDARG symbol, which
3261 indicates to the C program that <stdarg.h> exists and should
3262 be included.
3263
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3264i_stdbool (i_stdbool.U):
3265 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDBOOL symbol, which
3266 indicates to the C program that <stdbool.h> exists and should
3267 be included.
3268
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3269i_stddef (i_stddef.U):
3270 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDDEF symbol, which
3271 indicates to the C program that <stddef.h> exists and should
3272 be included.
3273
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3274i_stdint (i_stdint.U):
3275 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDINT symbol, which
3276 indicates to the C program that <stdint.h> exists and should
3277 be included.
3278
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3279i_stdlib (i_stdlib.U):
3280 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDLIB symbol, which
3281 indicates to the C program that <stdlib.h> exists and should
3282 be included.
3283
3284i_string (i_string.U):
3285 This variable conditionally defines the I_STRING symbol, which
3286 indicates that <string.h> should be included rather than <strings.h>.
3287
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3288i_sunmath (i_sunmath.U):
3289 This variable conditionally defines the I_SUNMATH symbol, and indicates
3290 whether a C program should include <sunmath.h>.
3291
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3292i_sysaccess (i_sysaccess.U):
3293 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_ACCESS symbol,
3294 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/access.h>.
3295
3296i_sysdir (i_sysdir.U):
3297 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_DIR symbol, and indicates
3298 whether a C program should include <sys/dir.h>.
3299
3300i_sysfile (i_sysfile.U):
3301 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_FILE symbol, and indicates
3302 whether a C program should include <sys/file.h> to get R_OK and friends.
3303
3304i_sysfilio (i_sysioctl.U):
3305 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_FILIO symbol, which
3306 indicates to the C program that <sys/filio.h> exists and should
3307 be included in preference to <sys/ioctl.h>.
3308
3309i_sysin (i_niin.U):
3310 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_IN, which indicates
3311 to the C program that it should include <sys/in.h> instead of
3312 <netinet/in.h>.
3313
3314i_sysioctl (i_sysioctl.U):
3315 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_IOCTL symbol, which
3316 indicates to the C program that <sys/ioctl.h> exists and should
3317 be included.
3318
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3319i_syslog (i_syslog.U):
3320 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSLOG symbol,
3321 and indicates whether a C program should include <syslog.h>.
3322
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3323i_sysmman (i_sysmman.U):
3324 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_MMAN symbol, and
3325 indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mman.h>.
3326
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3327i_sysmode (i_sysmode.U):
3328 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSMODE symbol,
3329 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mode.h>.
3330
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3331i_sysmount (i_sysmount.U):
3332 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSMOUNT symbol,
3333 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mount.h>.
3334
3335i_sysndir (i_sysndir.U):
3336 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_NDIR symbol, and indicates
3337 whether a C program should include <sys/ndir.h>.
3338
3339i_sysparam (i_sysparam.U):
3340 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_PARAM symbol, and indicates
3341 whether a C program should include <sys/param.h>.
3342
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3343i_syspoll (i_syspoll.U):
3344 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_POLL symbol, which
3345 indicates to the C program that it should include <sys/poll.h>.
3346
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3347i_sysresrc (i_sysresrc.U):
3348 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_RESOURCE symbol,
3349 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/resource.h>.
3350
3351i_syssecrt (i_syssecrt.U):
3352 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_SECURITY symbol,
3353 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/security.h>.
3354
3355i_sysselct (i_sysselct.U):
3356 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_SELECT, which indicates
3357 to the C program that it should include <sys/select.h> in order to
3358 get the definition of struct timeval.
3359
3360i_syssockio (i_sysioctl.U):
3361 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_SOCKIO to indicate to the
3362 C program that socket ioctl codes may be found in <sys/sockio.h>
3363 instead of <sys/ioctl.h>.
3364
3365i_sysstat (i_sysstat.U):
3366 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_STAT symbol,
3367 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/stat.h>.
3368
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3369i_sysstatfs (i_sysstatfs.U):
3370 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSSTATFS symbol,
3371 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/statfs.h>.
3372
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3373i_sysstatvfs (i_sysstatvfs.U):
3374 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSSTATVFS symbol,
3375 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/statvfs.h>.
3376
3377i_systime (i_time.U):
3378 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_TIME, which indicates
3379 to the C program that it should include <sys/time.h>.
3380
3381i_systimek (i_time.U):
3382 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_TIME_KERNEL, which
3383 indicates to the C program that it should include <sys/time.h>
3384 with KERNEL defined.
3385
3386i_systimes (i_systimes.U):
3387 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_TIMES symbol, and indicates
3388 whether a C program should include <sys/times.h>.
3389
3390i_systypes (i_systypes.U):
3391 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_TYPES symbol,
3392 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/types.h>.
3393
3394i_sysuio (i_sysuio.U):
3395 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSUIO symbol, and indicates
3396 whether a C program should include <sys/uio.h>.
3397
3398i_sysun (i_sysun.U):
3399 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_UN, which indicates
3400 to the C program that it should include <sys/un.h> to get UNIX
3401 domain socket definitions.
3402
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3403i_sysutsname (i_sysutsname.U):
3404 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSUTSNAME symbol,
3405 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/utsname.h>.
3406
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3407i_sysvfs (i_sysvfs.U):
3408 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSVFS symbol,
3409 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/vfs.h>.
3410
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3411i_syswait (i_syswait.U):
3412 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_WAIT, which indicates
3413 to the C program that it should include <sys/wait.h>.
3414
3415i_termio (i_termio.U):
3416 This variable conditionally defines the I_TERMIO symbol, which
3417 indicates to the C program that it should include <termio.h> rather
3418 than <sgtty.h>.
3419
3420i_termios (i_termio.U):
3421 This variable conditionally defines the I_TERMIOS symbol, which
3422 indicates to the C program that the POSIX <termios.h> file is
3423 to be included.
3424
3425i_time (i_time.U):
3426 This variable conditionally defines I_TIME, which indicates
3427 to the C program that it should include <time.h>.
3428
3429i_unistd (i_unistd.U):
3430 This variable conditionally defines the I_UNISTD symbol, and indicates
3431 whether a C program should include <unistd.h>.
3432
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3433i_ustat (i_ustat.U):
3434 This variable conditionally defines the I_USTAT symbol, and indicates
3435 whether a C program should include <ustat.h>.
3436
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3437i_utime (i_utime.U):
3438 This variable conditionally defines the I_UTIME symbol, and indicates
3439 whether a C program should include <utime.h>.
3440
3441i_values (i_values.U):
3442 This variable conditionally defines the I_VALUES symbol, and indicates
3443 whether a C program may include <values.h> to get symbols like MAXLONG
3444 and friends.
3445
3446i_varargs (i_varhdr.U):
3447 This variable conditionally defines I_VARARGS, which indicates
3448 to the C program that it should include <varargs.h>.
3449
3450i_varhdr (i_varhdr.U):
3451 Contains the name of the header to be included to get va_dcl definition.
3452 Typically one of varargs.h or stdarg.h.
3453
3454i_vfork (i_vfork.U):
3455 This variable conditionally defines the I_VFORK symbol, and indicates
3456 whether a C program should include vfork.h.
3457
3458ignore_versioned_solibs (libs.U):
3459 This variable should be non-empty if non-versioned shared
3460 libraries (libfoo.so.x.y) are to be ignored (because they
3461 cannot be linked against).
3462
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3463inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U):
3464 This variable specifies the list of subdirectories in over
3465 which perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically
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3466 search when adding directories to @INC. The elements in
3467 the list are separated by spaces. This is only useful
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3468 if you have a perl library directory tree structured like the
3469 default one. See INSTALL for how this works. The versioned
3470 site_perl directory was introduced in 5.005, so that is the
3471 lowest possible value.
3472
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3473 This list includes architecture-dependent directories back to
3474 version $api_versionstring (e.g. 5.5.640) and
3475 architecture-independent directories all the way back to
3476 5.005.
3477
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3478inc_version_list_init (inc_version_list.U):
3479 This variable holds the same list as inc_version_list, but
635aebb7 3480 each item is enclosed in double quotes and separated by commas,
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3481 suitable for use in the PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST initialization.
3482
781b178c 3483incpath (usrinc.U):
bce0fc72 3484 This variable must precede the normal include path to get the
209e5c0a 3485 right one, as in "$incpath/usr/include" or "$incpath/usr/lib".
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3486 Value can be "" or "/bsd43" on mips.
3487
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3488incpth (libpth.U):
3489 This variable must precede the normal include path to get the
3490 right one, as in "$incpath/usr/include" or "$incpath/usr/lib".
3491 Value can be "" or "/bsd43" on mips.
3492
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3493inews (Loc.U):
3494 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3495 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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3497initialinstalllocation (bin.U):
3498 When userelocatableinc is true, this variable holds the location
3499 that make install should copy the perl binary to, with all the
3500 run-time relocatable paths calculated from this at install time.
1332606d 3501 When used, it is initialized to the original value of binexp, and
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3502 then binexp is set to '.../', as the other binaries are found
3503 relative to the perl binary.
3504
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3505installarchlib (archlib.U):
3506 This variable is really the same as archlibexp but may differ on
3507 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3508 should be used in makefiles.
3509
3510installbin (bin.U):
3511 This variable is the same as binexp unless AFS is running in which case
47e01c32 3512 the user is explicitly prompted for it. This variable should always
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3513 be used in your makefiles for maximum portability.
3514
10305dfa 3515installhtml1dir (html1dir.U):
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3516 This variable is really the same as html1direxp, unless you are
3517 using a different installprefix. For extra portability, you
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3518 should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3519
3520installhtml3dir (html3dir.U):
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3521 This variable is really the same as html3direxp, unless you are
3522 using a different installprefix. For extra portability, you
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3523 should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3524
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3525installman1dir (man1dir.U):
3526 This variable is really the same as man1direxp, unless you are using
3527 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3528 man1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3529 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3530
3531installman3dir (man3dir.U):
3532 This variable is really the same as man3direxp, unless you are using
3533 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3534 man3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3535 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3536
3537installprefix (installprefix.U):
635aebb7 3538 This variable holds the name of the directory below which
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3539 "make install" will install the package. For most users, this
3540 is the same as prefix. However, it is useful for
3541 installing the software into a different (usually temporary)
3542 location after which it can be bundled up and moved somehow
3543 to the final location specified by prefix.
3544
3545installprefixexp (installprefix.U):
3546 This variable holds the full absolute path of installprefix
3547 with all ~-expansion done.
3548
3549installprivlib (privlib.U):
3550 This variable is really the same as privlibexp but may differ on
3551 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3552 should be used in makefiles.
3553
3554installscript (scriptdir.U):
3555 This variable is usually the same as scriptdirexp, unless you are on
3556 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
3557 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
3558
3559installsitearch (sitearch.U):
3560 This variable is really the same as sitearchexp but may differ on
3561 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3562 should be used in makefiles.
3563
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3564installsitebin (sitebin.U):
3565 This variable is usually the same as sitebinexp, unless you are on
3566 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
3567 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
3568
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3569installsitehtml1dir (sitehtml1dir.U):
3570 This variable is really the same as sitehtml1direxp, unless you are using
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3571 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3572 html1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3573 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3574
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3575installsitehtml3dir (sitehtml3dir.U):
3576 This variable is really the same as sitehtml3direxp, unless you are using
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3577 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3578 html3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3579 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3580
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3581installsitelib (sitelib.U):
3582 This variable is really the same as sitelibexp but may differ on
3583 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3584 should be used in makefiles.
3585
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3586installsiteman1dir (siteman1dir.U):
3587 This variable is really the same as siteman1direxp, unless you are using
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3588 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3589 man1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3590 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3591
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3592installsiteman3dir (siteman3dir.U):
3593 This variable is really the same as siteman3direxp, unless you are using
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3594 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3595 man3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3596 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3597
3598installsitescript (sitescript.U):
3599 This variable is usually the same as sitescriptexp, unless you are on
3600 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
3601 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
3602
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3603installstyle (installstyle.U):
3604 This variable describes the "style" of the perl installation.
3605 This is intended to be useful for tools that need to
3606 manipulate entire perl distributions. Perl itself doesn't use
3607 this to find its libraries -- the library directories are
3608 stored directly in Config.pm. Currently, there are only two
3609 styles: "lib" and "lib/perl5". The default library locations
3610 (e.g. privlib, sitelib) are either $prefix/lib or
3611 $prefix/lib/perl5. The former is useful if $prefix is a
3612 directory dedicated to perl (e.g. /opt/perl), while the latter
3613 is useful if $prefix is shared by many packages, e.g. if
3614 $prefix=/usr/local.
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3616 Unfortunately, while this "style" variable is used to set
3617 defaults for all three directory hierarchies (core, vendor, and
3618 site), there is no guarantee that the same style is actually
3619 appropriate for all those directories. For example, $prefix
3620 might be /opt/perl, but $siteprefix might be /usr/local.
3621 (Perhaps, in retrospect, the "lib" style should never have been
3622 supported, but it did seem like a nice idea at the time.)
3623
3624 The situation is even less clear for tools such as MakeMaker
3625 that can be used to install additional modules into
3626 non-standard places. For example, if a user intends to install
3627 a module into a private directory (perhaps by setting PREFIX on
3628 the Makefile.PL command line), then there is no reason to
3629 assume that the Configure-time $installstyle setting will be
3630 relevant for that PREFIX.
3631
9c20e9bc 3632 This may later be extended to include other information, so
781b178c 3633 be careful with pattern-matching on the results.
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3634
3635 For compatibility with perl5.005 and earlier, the default
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3636 setting is based on whether or not $prefix contains the string
3637 "perl".
3638
3639installusrbinperl (instubperl.U):
3640 This variable tells whether Perl should be installed also as
3641 /usr/bin/perl in addition to
3642 $installbin/perl
3643
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3644installvendorarch (vendorarch.U):
3645 This variable is really the same as vendorarchexp but may differ on
3646 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3647 should be used in makefiles.
3648
0617aed7
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3649installvendorbin (vendorbin.U):
3650 This variable is really the same as vendorbinexp but may differ on
3651 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3652 should be used in makefiles.
3653
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3654installvendorhtml1dir (vendorhtml1dir.U):
3655 This variable is really the same as vendorhtml1direxp but may differ on
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3656 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3657 should be used in makefiles.
3658
e755722e
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3659installvendorhtml3dir (vendorhtml3dir.U):
3660 This variable is really the same as vendorhtml3direxp but may differ on
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3661 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3662 should be used in makefiles.
3663
a3635516
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3664installvendorlib (vendorlib.U):
3665 This variable is really the same as vendorlibexp but may differ on
3666 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3667 should be used in makefiles.
3668
e755722e
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3669installvendorman1dir (vendorman1dir.U):
3670 This variable is really the same as vendorman1direxp but may differ on
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3671 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3672 should be used in makefiles.
3673
e755722e
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3674installvendorman3dir (vendorman3dir.U):
3675 This variable is really the same as vendorman3direxp but may differ on
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3676 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3677 should be used in makefiles.
3678
3679installvendorscript (vendorscript.U):
3680 This variable is really the same as vendorscriptexp but may differ on
3681 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3682 should be used in makefiles.
3683
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3684intsize (intsize.U):
3685 This variable contains the value of the INTSIZE symbol, which
3686 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in an int.
3687
4b661809 3688issymlink (issymlink.U):
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3689 This variable holds the test command to test for a symbolic link
3690 (if they are supported). Typical values include 'test -h' and
3691 'test -L'.
4b661809 3692
a22e52b9
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3693ivdformat (perlxvf.U):
3694 This variable contains the format string used for printing
635aebb7 3695 a Perl IV as a signed decimal integer.
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3696
3697ivsize (perlxv.U):
3698 This variable is the size of an IV in bytes.
3699
3700ivtype (perlxv.U):
3701 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's IV.
3702
781b178c 3703known_extensions (Extensions.U):
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3704 This variable holds a list of all extensions (both XS and non-xs)
3705 included in the package source distribution. This information is
3706 only really of use during the Perl build, as the list makes no
3707 distinction between extensions which were build and installed, and
3708 those which where not. See "extensions" for the list of extensions
3709 actually built and available.
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3710
3711ksh (Loc.U):
3712 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3713 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 3714
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3715ld (dlsrc.U):
3716 This variable indicates the program to be used to link
3717 libraries for dynamic loading. On some systems, it is 'ld'.
3718 On ELF systems, it should be $cc. Mostly, we'll try to respect
3719 the hint file setting.
3720
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3721ld_can_script (dlsrc.U):
3722 This variable shows if the loader accepts scripts in the form of
3723 -Wl,--version-script=ld.script. This is currently only supported
3724 for GNU ld on ELF in dynamic loading builds.
3725
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3726lddlflags (dlsrc.U):
3727 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
3728 passed to $ld to create a shared library suitable for dynamic
3729 loading. It is up to the makefile to use it. For hpux, it
3730 should be '-b'. For sunos 4.1, it is empty.
3731
3732ldflags (ccflags.U):
3733 This variable contains any additional C loader flags desired by
3734 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
3735
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3736ldflags_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
3737 This variable contains the loader flags needed by large file builds
3738 and added to ldflags by hints files.
3739
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3740ldlibpthname (libperl.U):
3741 This variable holds the name of the shared library
3742 search path, often LD_LIBRARY_PATH. To get an empty
3743 string, the hints file must set this to 'none'.
3744
3745less (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3746 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3747 full pathname (if any) of the less program. After Configure runs,
3748 the value is reset to a plain "less" and is not useful.
3749
3750lib_ext (Unix.U):
3751 This is an old synonym for _a.
3752
3753libc (libc.U):
3754 This variable contains the location of the C library.
3755
3756libperl (libperl.U):
3757 The perl executable is obtained by linking perlmain.c with
3758 libperl, any static extensions (usually just DynaLoader),
3759 and any other libraries needed on this system. libperl
3760 is usually libperl.a, but can also be libperl.so.xxx if
3761 the user wishes to build a perl executable with a shared
3762 library.
3763
3764libpth (libpth.U):
3765 This variable holds the general path (space-separated) used to find
3766 libraries. It is intended to be used by other units.
3767
3768libs (libs.U):
3769 This variable holds the additional libraries we want to use.
9285ede2 3770 It is up to the Makefile to deal with it. The list can be empty.
781b178c 3771
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3772libsdirs (libs.U):
3773 This variable holds the directory names aka dirnames of the libraries
3774 we found and accepted, duplicates are removed.
3775
3776libsfiles (libs.U):
3777 This variable holds the filenames aka basenames of the libraries
3778 we found and accepted.
3779
3780libsfound (libs.U):
3781 This variable holds the full pathnames of the libraries
3782 we found and accepted.
3783
13b3f787
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3784libspath (libs.U):
3785 This variable holds the directory names probed for libraries.
3786
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3787libswanted (Myinit.U):
3788 This variable holds a list of all the libraries we want to
3789 search. The order is chosen to pick up the c library
3790 ahead of ucb or bsd libraries for SVR4.
3791
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3792libswanted_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
3793 This variable contains the libraries needed by large file builds
3794 and added to ldflags by hints files. It is a space separated list
3795 of the library names without the "lib" prefix or any suffix, just
209e5c0a 3796 like libswanted..
af960fef 3797
781b178c 3798line (Loc.U):
ff935051 3799 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3800 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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3801
3802lint (Loc.U):
3803 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3804 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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3805
3806lkflags (ccflags.U):
3807 This variable contains any additional C partial linker flags desired by
3808 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
3809
3810ln (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3811 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3812 full pathname (if any) of the ln program. After Configure runs,
3813 the value is reset to a plain "ln" and is not useful.
3814
3815lns (lns.U):
635aebb7 3816 This variable holds the name of the command to make
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3817 symbolic links (if they are supported). It can be used
3818 in the Makefile. It is either 'ln -s' or 'ln'
3819
10bc17b6
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3820localtime_r_proto (d_localtime_r.U):
3821 This variable encodes the prototype of localtime_r.
39183afa
JH
3822 It is zero if d_localtime_r is undef, and one of the
3823 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_localtime_r
3824 is defined.
10bc17b6 3825
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3826locincpth (ccflags.U):
3827 This variable contains a list of additional directories to be
3828 searched by the compiler. The appropriate '-I' directives will
3829 be added to ccflags. This is intended to simplify setting
3830 local directories from the Configure command line.
3831 It's not much, but it parallels the loclibpth stuff in libpth.U.
3832
3833loclibpth (libpth.U):
3834 This variable holds the paths (space-separated) used to find local
3835 libraries. It is prepended to libpth, and is intended to be easily
3836 set from the command line.
3837
db8b8c75 3838longdblkind (d_longdbl.U):
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3839 This variable, if defined, encodes the type of a long double:
3840 0 = double, 1 = IEEE 754 128-bit big little endian,
3841 2 = IEEE 754 128-bit big big endian, 3 = x86 80-bit little endian,
3842 4 = x86 80-bit big endian, 5 = double-double 128-bit little endian,
3843 6 = double-double 128-bit big endian, -1 = unknown format.
3844
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3845longdblsize (d_longdbl.U):
3846 This variable contains the value of the LONG_DOUBLESIZE symbol, which
3847 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long double,
3848 if this system supports long doubles.
3849
3850longlongsize (d_longlong.U):
3851 This variable contains the value of the LONGLONGSIZE symbol, which
3852 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long long,
3853 if this system supports long long.
3854
3855longsize (intsize.U):
3856 This variable contains the value of the LONGSIZE symbol, which
3857 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long.
3858
3859lp (Loc.U):
3860 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3861 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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3862
3863lpr (Loc.U):
3864 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3865 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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3866
3867ls (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3868 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3869 full pathname (if any) of the ls program. After Configure runs,
3870 the value is reset to a plain "ls" and is not useful.
3871
3872lseeksize (lseektype.U):
635aebb7 3873 This variable defines lseektype to be something like off_t, long,
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3874 or whatever type is used to declare lseek offset's type in the
3875 kernel (which also appears to be lseek's return type).
3876
3877lseektype (lseektype.U):
635aebb7 3878 This variable defines lseektype to be something like off_t, long,
781b178c
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3879 or whatever type is used to declare lseek offset's type in the
3880 kernel (which also appears to be lseek's return type).
3881
3882mail (Loc.U):
3883 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3884 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c
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3885
3886mailx (Loc.U):
3887 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3888 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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3889
3890make (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3891 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
c532c9d1
JH
3892 full pathname (if any) of the make program. After Configure runs,
3893 the value is reset to a plain "make" and is not useful.
3894
781b178c
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3895make_set_make (make.U):
3896 Some versions of 'make' set the variable MAKE. Others do not.
3897 This variable contains the string to be included in Makefile.SH
3898 so that MAKE is set if needed, and not if not needed.
3899 Possible values are:
44b94491 3900
781b178c 3901 make_set_make='#' # If your make program handles this for you,
44b94491 3902
781b178c 3903 make_set_make="MAKE=$make" # if it doesn't.
44b94491 3904
5bcaa86b 3905 This uses a comment character so that we can distinguish a
1d896104 3906 'set' value (from a previous config.sh or Configure '-D' option)
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3907 from an uncomputed value.
3908
3909mallocobj (mallocsrc.U):
3910 This variable contains the name of the malloc.o that this package
3911 generates, if that malloc.o is preferred over the system malloc.
3912 Otherwise the value is null. This variable is intended for generating
3913 Makefiles. See mallocsrc.
3914
3915mallocsrc (mallocsrc.U):
3916 This variable contains the name of the malloc.c that comes with
3917 the package, if that malloc.c is preferred over the system malloc.
3918 Otherwise the value is null. This variable is intended for generating
3919 Makefiles.
3920
3921malloctype (mallocsrc.U):
3922 This variable contains the kind of ptr returned by malloc and realloc.
3923
3924man1dir (man1dir.U):
3925 This variable contains the name of the directory in which manual
3926 source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
3927 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
3928 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
3929
3930man1direxp (man1dir.U):
3931 This variable is the same as the man1dir variable, but is filename
3932 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
3933
3934man1ext (man1dir.U):
3935 This variable contains the extension that the manual page should
3936 have: one of 'n', 'l', or '1'. The Makefile must supply the '.'.
3937 See man1dir.
3938
3939man3dir (man3dir.U):
3940 This variable contains the name of the directory in which manual
3941 source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
3942 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
3943 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
3944
3945man3direxp (man3dir.U):
3946 This variable is the same as the man3dir variable, but is filename
3947 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
3948
3949man3ext (man3dir.U):
3950 This variable contains the extension that the manual page should
3951 have: one of 'n', 'l', or '3'. The Makefile must supply the '.'.
3952 See man3dir.
3953
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3954mips_type (usrinc.U):
3955 This variable holds the environment type for the mips system.
3956 Possible values are "BSD 4.3" and "System V".
3957
65d1576c 3958mistrustnm (Csym.U):
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JH
3959 This variable can be used to establish a fallthrough for the cases
3960 where nm fails to find a symbol. If usenm is false or usenm is true
3961 and mistrustnm is false, this variable has no effect. If usenm is true
3962 and mistrustnm is "compile", a test program will be compiled to try to
3963 find any symbol that can't be located via nm lookup. If mistrustnm is
3964 "run", the test program will be run as well as being compiled.
3965
781b178c 3966mkdir (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3967 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3968 full pathname (if any) of the mkdir program. After Configure runs,
3969 the value is reset to a plain "mkdir" and is not useful.
3970
fe749a9f
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3971mmaptype (d_mmap.U):
3972 This symbol contains the type of pointer returned by mmap()
3973 (and simultaneously the type of the first argument).
3974 It can be 'void *' or 'caddr_t'.
3975
781b178c 3976modetype (modetype.U):
635aebb7
AL
3977 This variable defines modetype to be something like mode_t,
3978 int, unsigned short, or whatever type is used to declare file
781b178c
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3979 modes for system calls.
3980
3981more (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3982 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3983 full pathname (if any) of the more program. After Configure runs,
3984 the value is reset to a plain "more" and is not useful.
3985
3986multiarch (multiarch.U):
3987 This variable conditionally defines the MULTIARCH symbol
3988 which signifies the presence of multiplatform files.
3989 This is normally set by hints files.
3990
3991mv (Loc.U):
3992 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3993 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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3994
3995myarchname (archname.U):
3996 This variable holds the architecture name computed by Configure in
3997 a previous run. It is not intended to be perused by any user and
3998 should never be set in a hint file.
3999
4000mydomain (myhostname.U):
4001 This variable contains the eventual value of the MYDOMAIN symbol,
4002 which is the domain of the host the program is going to run on.
4003 The domain must be appended to myhostname to form a complete host name.
4004 The dot comes with mydomain, and need not be supplied by the program.
4005
4006myhostname (myhostname.U):
4007 This variable contains the eventual value of the MYHOSTNAME symbol,
4008 which is the name of the host the program is going to run on.
4009 The domain is not kept with hostname, but must be gotten from mydomain.
4010 The dot comes with mydomain, and need not be supplied by the program.
4011
4012myuname (Oldconfig.U):
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4013 The output of 'uname -a' if available, otherwise the hostname.
4014 The whole thing is then lower-cased and slashes and single quotes are
4015 removed.
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4016
4017n (n.U):
1d896104 4018 This variable contains the '-n' flag if that is what causes the echo
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4019 command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is
4020 $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
4021
2cc61e15
DD
4022need_va_copy (need_va_copy.U):
4023 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the system stores
4024 the variable argument list datatype, va_list, in a format
4025 that cannot be copied by simple assignment, so that some
4026 other means must be used when copying is required.
4027 As such systems vary in their provision (or non-provision)
4028 of copying mechanisms, handy.h defines a platform-
4029 independent macro, Perl_va_copy(src, dst), to do the job.
4030
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4031netdb_hlen_type (netdbtype.U):
4032 This variable holds the type used for the 2nd argument to
4033 gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or size_t or unsigned.
4034 This is only useful if you have gethostbyaddr(), naturally.
4035
4036netdb_host_type (netdbtype.U):
4037 This variable holds the type used for the 1st argument to
4038 gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is char * or void *, possibly
4039 with or without a const prefix.
4040 This is only useful if you have gethostbyaddr(), naturally.
4041
4042netdb_name_type (netdbtype.U):
4043 This variable holds the type used for the argument to
4044 gethostbyname(). Usually, this is char * or const char *.
4045 This is only useful if you have gethostbyname(), naturally.
4046
4047netdb_net_type (netdbtype.U):
4048 This variable holds the type used for the 1st argument to
4049 getnetbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or long.
4050 This is only useful if you have getnetbyaddr(), naturally.
4051
4052nm (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4053 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4054 full pathname (if any) of the nm program. After Configure runs,
4055 the value is reset to a plain "nm" and is not useful.
4056
4057nm_opt (usenm.U):
4058 This variable holds the options that may be necessary for nm.
4059
4060nm_so_opt (usenm.U):
4061 This variable holds the options that may be necessary for nm
4062 to work on a shared library but that can not be used on an
4063 archive library. Currently, this is only used by Linux, where
4064 nm --dynamic is *required* to get symbols from an ELF library which
4065 has been stripped, but nm --dynamic is *fatal* on an archive library.
4066 Maybe Linux should just always set usenm=false.
4067
4068nonxs_ext (Extensions.U):
f7b3892b
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4069 This variable holds a list of all non-xs extensions built and
4070 installed by the package. By default, all non-xs extensions
4071 distributed will be built, with the exception of platform-specific
4072 extensions (currently only one VMS specific extension).
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4073
4074nroff (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4075 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4076 full pathname (if any) of the nroff program. After Configure runs,
4077 the value is reset to a plain "nroff" and is not useful.
4078
b68c599a
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4079nv_overflows_integers_at (perlxv.U):
4080 This variable gives the largest integer value that NVs can hold
4081 as a constant floating point expression.
4082 If it could not be determined, it holds the value 0.
4083
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4084nv_preserves_uv_bits (perlxv.U):
4085 This variable indicates how many of bits type uvtype
4086 a variable nvtype can preserve.
4087
6b4667fc
A
4088nveformat (perlxvf.U):
4089 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4090 a Perl NV using %e-ish floating point format.
4091
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4092nvEUformat (perlxvf.U):
4093 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4094 a Perl NV using %E-ish floating point format.
4095
6b4667fc 4096nvfformat (perlxvf.U):
1332606d 4097 This variable contains the format string used for printing
6b4667fc
A
4098 a Perl NV using %f-ish floating point format.
4099
4d54317a 4100nvFUformat (perlxvf.U):
1332606d 4101 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4d54317a
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4102 a Perl NV using %F-ish floating point format.
4103
6b4667fc
A
4104nvgformat (perlxvf.U):
4105 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4106 a Perl NV using %g-ish floating point format.
4107
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4108nvGUformat (perlxvf.U):
4109 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4110 a Perl NV using %G-ish floating point format.
4111
a22e52b9
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4112nvsize (perlxv.U):
4113 This variable is the size of an NV in bytes.
4114
4115nvtype (perlxv.U):
4116 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's NV.
4117
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4118o_nonblock (nblock_io.U):
4119 This variable bears the symbol value to be used during open() or fcntl()
4120 to turn on non-blocking I/O for a file descriptor. If you wish to switch
4121 between blocking and non-blocking, you may try ioctl(FIOSNBIO) instead,
4122 but that is only supported by some devices.
4123
4124obj_ext (Unix.U):
4125 This is an old synonym for _o.
4126
4127old_pthread_create_joinable (d_pthrattrj.U):
4128 This variable defines the constant to use for creating joinable
4129 (aka undetached) pthreads. Unused if pthread.h defines
4130 PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE. If used, possible values are
4131 PTHREAD_CREATE_UNDETACHED and __UNDETACHED.
4132
4133optimize (ccflags.U):
4134 This variable contains any optimizer/debugger flag that should be used.
4135 It is up to the Makefile to use it.
4136
4137orderlib (orderlib.U):
4138 This variable is "true" if the components of libraries must be ordered
4139 (with `lorder $* | tsort`) before placing them in an archive. Set to
4140 "false" if ranlib or ar can generate random libraries.
4141
4142osname (Oldconfig.U):
4143 This variable contains the operating system name (e.g. sunos,
4144 solaris, hpux, etc.). It can be useful later on for setting
4145 defaults. Any spaces are replaced with underscores. It is set
4146 to a null string if we can't figure it out.
4147
4148osvers (Oldconfig.U):
4149 This variable contains the operating system version (e.g.
4150 4.1.3, 5.2, etc.). It is primarily used for helping select
4151 an appropriate hints file, but might be useful elsewhere for
4152 setting defaults. It is set to '' if we can't figure it out.
4153 We try to be flexible about how much of the version number
4154 to keep, e.g. if 4.1.1, 4.1.2, and 4.1.3 are essentially the
4155 same for this package, hints files might just be os_4.0 or
4156 os_4.1, etc., not keeping separate files for each little release.
4157
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4158otherlibdirs (otherlibdirs.U):
4159 This variable contains a colon-separated set of paths for the perl
4160 binary to search for additional library files or modules.
4161 These directories will be tacked to the end of @INC.
4162 Perl will automatically search below each path for version-
4163 and architecture-specific directories. See inc_version_list
4164 for more details.
4165 A value of ' ' means 'none' and is used to preserve this value
4166 for the next run through Configure.
4167
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4168package (package.U):
4169 This variable contains the name of the package being constructed.
4170 It is primarily intended for the use of later Configure units.
4171
4172pager (pager.U):
4173 This variable contains the name of the preferred pager on the system.
4174 Usual values are (the full pathnames of) more, less, pg, or cat.
4175
4176passcat (nis.U):
4177 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
4178 /etc/passwd file. This is normally "cat /etc/passwd", but can be
4179 "ypcat passwd" when NIS is used.
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4180 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
4181 command, in which case this variable is unset.
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4182
4183patchlevel (patchlevel.U):
4184 The patchlevel level of this package.
4185 The value of patchlevel comes from the patchlevel.h file.
ff935051 4186 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "6".
c890dc6c 4187 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_VERSION".
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4188
4189path_sep (Unix.U):
4190 This is an old synonym for p_ in Head.U, the character
4191 used to separate elements in the command shell search PATH.
4192
df4c34dc 4193perl (Loc.U):
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4194 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
4195 full pathname (if any) of the perl program. After Configure runs,
4196 the value is reset to a plain "perl" and is not useful.
df4c34dc 4197
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4198perl5 (perl5.U):
4199 This variable contains the full path (if any) to a previously
4200 installed perl5.005 or later suitable for running the script
4201 to determine inc_version_list.
4202
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4203PERL_API_REVISION (patchlevel.h):
4204 This number describes the earliest compatible PERL_REVISION of
4205 Perl ("compatibility" here being defined as sufficient binary/API
4206 compatibility to run XS code built with the older version).
4207 Normally this does not change across maintenance releases.
4208 Please read the comment in patchlevel.h.
4209
4210PERL_API_SUBVERSION (patchlevel.h):
4211 This number describes the earliest compatible PERL_SUBVERSION of
4212 Perl ("compatibility" here being defined as sufficient binary/API
4213 compatibility to run XS code built with the older version).
4214 Normally this does not change across maintenance releases.
4215 Please read the comment in patchlevel.h.
4216
4217PERL_API_VERSION (patchlevel.h):
4218 This number describes the earliest compatible PERL_VERSION of
4219 Perl ("compatibility" here being defined as sufficient binary/API
4220 compatibility to run XS code built with the older version).
4221 Normally this does not change across maintenance releases.
4222 Please read the comment in patchlevel.h.
4223
4224PERL_CONFIG_SH (Oldsyms.U):
4225 This is set to 'true' in config.sh so that a shell script
4226 sourcing config.sh can tell if it has been sourced already.
4227
4228PERL_PATCHLEVEL (Oldsyms.U):
4229 This symbol reflects the patchlevel, if available. Will usually
4230 come from the .patch file, which is available when the perl
4231 source tree was fetched with rsync.
4232
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4233perl_patchlevel (patchlevel.U):
4234 This is the Perl patch level, a numeric change identifier,
4235 as defined by whichever source code maintenance system
4236 is used to maintain the patches; currently Perforce.
4237 It does not correlate with the Perl version numbers or
4238 the maintenance versus development dichotomy except
4239 by also being increasing.
4240
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4241PERL_REVISION (Oldsyms.U):
4242 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 5.
4243 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
4244
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4245perl_static_inline (d_static_inline.U):
4246 This variable defines the PERL_STATIC_INLINE symbol to
4247 the best-guess incantation to use for static inline functions.
4248 Possibilities include
4249 static inline (c99)
4250 static __inline__ (gcc -ansi)
4251 static __inline (MSVC)
4252 static _inline (older MSVC)
4253 static (c89 compilers)
4254
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4255PERL_SUBVERSION (Oldsyms.U):
4256 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 2.
4257 Values greater than 50 represent potentially unstable
4258 development subversions.
4259 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
4260
4261PERL_VERSION (Oldsyms.U):
4262 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 6.
4263 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
4264
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4265perladmin (perladmin.U):
4266 Electronic mail address of the perl5 administrator.
4267
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4268perllibs (End.U):
4269 The list of libraries needed by Perl only (any libraries needed
4270 by extensions only will by dropped, if using dynamic loading).
4271
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4272perlpath (perlpath.U):
4273 This variable contains the eventual value of the PERLPATH symbol,
4274 which contains the name of the perl interpreter to be used in
4275 shell scripts and in the "eval 'exec'" idiom. This variable is
4276 not necessarily the pathname of the file containing the perl
4277 interpreter; you must append the executable extension (_exe) if
4278 it is not already present. Note that Perl code that runs during
4279 the Perl build process cannot reference this variable, as Perl
4280 may not have been installed, or even if installed, may be a
4281 different version of Perl.
4282
781b178c 4283pg (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4284 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4285 full pathname (if any) of the pg program. After Configure runs,
4286 the value is reset to a plain "pg" and is not useful.
4287
4288phostname (myhostname.U):
4289 This variable contains the eventual value of the PHOSTNAME symbol,
4290 which is a command that can be fed to popen() to get the host name.
4291 The program should probably not presume that the domain is or isn't
4292 there already.
4293
4294pidtype (pidtype.U):
635aebb7 4295 This variable defines PIDTYPE to be something like pid_t, int,
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4296 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare process ids in the kernel.
4297
4298plibpth (libpth.U):
4299 Holds the private path used by Configure to find out the libraries.
4300 Its value is prepend to libpth. This variable takes care of special
4301 machines, like the mips. Usually, it should be empty.
4302
4303pmake (Loc.U):
4304 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4305 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4306
4307pr (Loc.U):
4308 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4309 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4310
4311prefix (prefix.U):
4312 This variable holds the name of the directory below which the
4313 user will install the package. Usually, this is /usr/local, and
4314 executables go in /usr/local/bin, library stuff in /usr/local/lib,
4315 man pages in /usr/local/man, etc. It is only used to set defaults
4316 for things in bin.U, mansrc.U, privlib.U, or scriptdir.U.
4317
4318prefixexp (prefix.U):
4319 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
4320 which the user will install the package. Derived from prefix.
4321
4322privlib (privlib.U):
4323 This variable contains the eventual value of the PRIVLIB symbol,
4324 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
4325 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
4326 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
4327
4328privlibexp (privlib.U):
4329 This variable is the ~name expanded version of privlib, so that you
4330 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
4331
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4332procselfexe (d_procselfexe.U):
4333 If d_procselfexe is defined, $procselfexe is the filename
4334 of the symbolic link pointing to the absolute pathname of
4335 the executing program.
4336
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4337prototype (prototype.U):
4338 This variable holds the eventual value of CAN_PROTOTYPE, which
1332606d 4339 indicates the C compiler can handle function prototypes.
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4340
4341ptrsize (ptrsize.U):
4342 This variable contains the value of the PTRSIZE symbol, which
4343 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a pointer.
4344
e0a10278 4345quadkind (quadtype.U):
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4346 This variable, if defined, encodes the type of a quad:
4347 1 = int, 2 = long, 3 = long long, 4 = int64_t.
4348
4349quadtype (quadtype.U):
635aebb7 4350 This variable defines Quad_t to be something like long, int,
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4351 long long, int64_t, or whatever type is used for 64-bit integers.
4352
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4353randbits (randfunc.U):
4354 Indicates how many bits are produced by the function used to
4355 generate normalized random numbers.
4356
4357randfunc (randfunc.U):
4358 Indicates the name of the random number function to use.
4359 Values include drand48, random, and rand. In C programs,
4360 the 'Drand01' macro is defined to generate uniformly distributed
4361 random numbers over the range [0., 1.[ (see drand01 and nrand).
4362
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4363random_r_proto (d_random_r.U):
4364 This variable encodes the prototype of random_r.
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4365 It is zero if d_random_r is undef, and one of the
4366 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_random_r
4367 is defined.
10bc17b6 4368
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4369randseedtype (randfunc.U):
4370 Indicates the type of the argument of the seedfunc.
4371
4372ranlib (orderlib.U):
4373 This variable is set to the pathname of the ranlib program, if it is
4374 needed to generate random libraries. Set to ":" if ar can generate
4375 random libraries or if random libraries are not supported
4376
4377rd_nodata (nblock_io.U):
4378 This variable holds the return code from read() when no data is
4379 present. It should be -1, but some systems return 0 when O_NDELAY is
4380 used, which is a shame because you cannot make the difference between
209e5c0a 4381 no data and an EOF.. Sigh!
781b178c 4382
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4383readdir64_r_proto (d_readdir64_r.U):
4384 This variable encodes the prototype of readdir64_r.
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4385 It is zero if d_readdir64_r is undef, and one of the
4386 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_readdir64_r
4387 is defined.
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4388
4389readdir_r_proto (d_readdir_r.U):
4390 This variable encodes the prototype of readdir_r.
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4391 It is zero if d_readdir_r is undef, and one of the
4392 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_readdir_r
4393 is defined.
10bc17b6 4394
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4395revision (patchlevel.U):
4396 The value of revision comes from the patchlevel.h file.
4397 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "5".
4398 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_REVISION".
4399
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5bf26616 4401 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4402 full pathname (if any) of the rm program. After Configure runs,
4403 the value is reset to a plain "rm" and is not useful.
4404
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4405rm_try (Unix.U):
4406 This is a cleanup variable for try test programs.
4407 Internal Configure use only.
4408
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4409rmail (Loc.U):
4410 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4411 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 4412
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4413run (Cross.U):
4414 This variable contains the command used by Configure
4415 to copy and execute a cross-compiled executable in the
4416 target host. Useful and available only during Perl build.
4417 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
4418
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4419runnm (usenm.U):
4420 This variable contains 'true' or 'false' depending whether the
4421 nm extraction should be performed or not, according to the value
4422 of usenm and the flags on the Configure command line.
4423
4424sched_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
4425 This variable defines the way to yield the execution
4426 of the current thread.
4427
4428scriptdir (scriptdir.U):
4429 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
4430 to put publicly scripts for the package in question. It is either
4431 the same directory as for binaries, or a special one that can be
4432 mounted across different architectures, like /usr/share. Programs
4433 must be prepared to deal with ~name expansion.
4434
4435scriptdirexp (scriptdir.U):
4436 This variable is the same as scriptdir, but is filename expanded
4437 at configuration time, for programs not wanting to bother with it.
4438
4439sed (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4440 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4441 full pathname (if any) of the sed program. After Configure runs,
4442 the value is reset to a plain "sed" and is not useful.
4443
4444seedfunc (randfunc.U):
4445 Indicates the random number generating seed function.
4446 Values include srand48, srandom, and srand.
4447
4448selectminbits (selectminbits.U):
4449 This variable holds the minimum number of bits operated by select.
4450 That is, if you do select(n, ...), how many bits at least will be
4451 cleared in the masks if some activity is detected. Usually this
4452 is either n or 32*ceil(n/32), especially many little-endians do
4453 the latter. This is only useful if you have select(), naturally.
4454
4455selecttype (selecttype.U):
4456 This variable holds the type used for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th
4457 arguments to select. Usually, this is 'fd_set *', if HAS_FD_SET
635aebb7 4458 is defined, and 'int *' otherwise. This is only useful if you
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4459 have select(), naturally.
4460
4461sendmail (Loc.U):
ff935051 4462 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4463 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 4464
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4465setgrent_r_proto (d_setgrent_r.U):
4466 This variable encodes the prototype of setgrent_r.
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4467 It is zero if d_setgrent_r is undef, and one of the
4468 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setgrent_r
4469 is defined.
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4470
4471sethostent_r_proto (d_sethostent_r.U):
4472 This variable encodes the prototype of sethostent_r.
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4473 It is zero if d_sethostent_r is undef, and one of the
4474 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_sethostent_r
4475 is defined.
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4476
4477setlocale_r_proto (d_setlocale_r.U):
4478 This variable encodes the prototype of setlocale_r.
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4479 It is zero if d_setlocale_r is undef, and one of the
4480 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setlocale_r
4481 is defined.
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4482
4483setnetent_r_proto (d_setnetent_r.U):
4484 This variable encodes the prototype of setnetent_r.
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4485 It is zero if d_setnetent_r is undef, and one of the
4486 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setnetent_r
4487 is defined.
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4488
4489setprotoent_r_proto (d_setprotoent_r.U):
4490 This variable encodes the prototype of setprotoent_r.
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4491 It is zero if d_setprotoent_r is undef, and one of the
4492 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setprotoent_r
4493 is defined.
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4494
4495setpwent_r_proto (d_setpwent_r.U):
4496 This variable encodes the prototype of setpwent_r.
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4497 It is zero if d_setpwent_r is undef, and one of the
4498 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setpwent_r
4499 is defined.
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4500
4501setservent_r_proto (d_setservent_r.U):
4502 This variable encodes the prototype of setservent_r.
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4503 It is zero if d_setservent_r is undef, and one of the
4504 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setservent_r
4505 is defined.
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4507sGMTIME_max (time_size.U):
4508 This variable defines the maximum value of the time_t offset that
4509 the system function gmtime () accepts
4510
4511sGMTIME_min (time_size.U):
4512 This variable defines the minimum value of the time_t offset that
4513 the system function gmtime () accepts
4514
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4515sh (sh.U):
4516 This variable contains the full pathname of the shell used
4517 on this system to execute Bourne shell scripts. Usually, this will be
4518 /bin/sh, though it's possible that some systems will have /bin/ksh,
4519 /bin/pdksh, /bin/ash, /bin/bash, or even something such as
4520 D:/bin/sh.exe.
1d896104 4521 This unit comes before Options.U, so you can't set sh with a '-D'
781b178c 4522 option, though you can override this (and startsh)
1d896104 4523 with '-O -Dsh=/bin/whatever -Dstartsh=whatever'
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4524
4525shar (Loc.U):
4526 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4527 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4528
4529sharpbang (spitshell.U):
4530 This variable contains the string #! if this system supports that
4531 construct.
4532
4533shmattype (d_shmat.U):
4534 This symbol contains the type of pointer returned by shmat().
4535 It can be 'void *' or 'char *'.
4536
4537shortsize (intsize.U):
4538 This variable contains the value of the SHORTSIZE symbol which
4539 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a short.
4540
4541shrpenv (libperl.U):
4542 If the user builds a shared libperl.so, then we need to tell the
635aebb7 4543 'perl' executable where it will be able to find the installed libperl.so.
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4544 One way to do this on some systems is to set the environment variable
4545 LD_RUN_PATH to the directory that will be the final location of the
4546 shared libperl.so. The makefile can use this with something like
4547 $shrpenv $(CC) -o perl perlmain.o $libperl $libs
4548 Typical values are
4549 shrpenv="env LD_RUN_PATH=$archlibexp/CORE"
4550 or
4551 shrpenv=''
4552 See the main perl Makefile.SH for actual working usage.
4553 Alternatively, we might be able to use a command line option such
c68a00c0 4554 as -R $archlibexp/CORE (Solaris) or -Wl,-rpath
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4555 $archlibexp/CORE (Linux).
4556
4557shsharp (spitshell.U):
4558 This variable tells further Configure units whether your sh can
4559 handle # comments.
4560
4561sig_count (sig_name.U):
4562 This variable holds a number larger than the largest valid
4563 signal number. This is usually the same as the NSIG macro.
4564
4565sig_name (sig_name.U):
4566 This variable holds the signal names, space separated. The leading
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4567 SIG in signal name is removed. A ZERO is prepended to the list.
4568 This is currently not used, sig_name_init is used instead.
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4569
4570sig_name_init (sig_name.U):
4571 This variable holds the signal names, enclosed in double quotes and
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4572 separated by commas, suitable for use in the SIG_NAME definition
4573 below. A "ZERO" is prepended to the list, and the list is
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4574 terminated with a plain 0. The leading SIG in signal names
4575 is removed. See sig_num.
4576
4577sig_num (sig_name.U):
4578 This variable holds the signal numbers, space separated. A ZERO is
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4579 prepended to the list (corresponding to the fake SIGZERO).
4580 Those numbers correspond to the value of the signal listed
4581 in the same place within the sig_name list.
4582 This is currently not used, sig_num_init is used instead.
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4583
4584sig_num_init (sig_name.U):
4585 This variable holds the signal numbers, enclosed in double quotes and
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4586 separated by commas, suitable for use in the SIG_NUM definition
4587 below. A "ZERO" is prepended to the list, and the list is
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4588 terminated with a plain 0.
4589
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4590sig_size (sig_name.U):
4591 This variable contains the number of elements of the sig_name
f05fc11d 4592 and sig_num arrays.
76d3c696 4593
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4594signal_t (d_voidsig.U):
4595 This variable holds the type of the signal handler (void or int).
4596
4597sitearch (sitearch.U):
4598 This variable contains the eventual value of the SITEARCH symbol,
4599 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
4600 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
4601 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
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4602 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4603 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4604 architecture-dependent modules in this directory with
4605 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4606 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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4607
4608sitearchexp (sitearch.U):
4609 This variable is the ~name expanded version of sitearch, so that you
4610 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
4611
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4612sitebin (sitebin.U):
4613 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
4614 to put add-on publicly executable files for the package in question. It
4615 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
4616 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
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4617 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4618 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4619 executables in this directory with
4620 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4621 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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4622
4623sitebinexp (sitebin.U):
4624 This is the same as the sitebin variable, but is filename expanded at
4625 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
4626
e755722e 4627sitehtml1dir (sitehtml1dir.U):
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4628 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
4629 html source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4630 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4631 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4632 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4633 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4634 html pages in this directory with
4635 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4636 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
4637
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4638sitehtml1direxp (sitehtml1dir.U):
4639 This variable is the same as the sitehtml1dir variable, but is filename
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4640 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4641
e755722e 4642sitehtml3dir (sitehtml3dir.U):
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4643 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
4644 library html source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4645 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4646 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4647 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4648 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4649 library html pages in this directory with
4650 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4651 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
4652
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4653sitehtml3direxp (sitehtml3dir.U):
4654 This variable is the same as the sitehtml3dir variable, but is filename
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4655 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4656
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4657sitelib (sitelib.U):
4658 This variable contains the eventual value of the SITELIB symbol,
4659 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
4660 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
4661 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
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4662 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4663 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4664 architecture-independent modules in this directory with
4665 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4666 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
781b178c 4667
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4668sitelib_stem (sitelib.U):
4669 This variable is $sitelibexp with any trailing version-specific component
4670 removed. The elements in inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U) can
4671 be tacked onto this variable to generate a list of directories to search.
4672
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4673sitelibexp (sitelib.U):
4674 This variable is the ~name expanded version of sitelib, so that you
4675 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
4676
e755722e 4677siteman1dir (siteman1dir.U):
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4678 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
4679 manual source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4680 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4681 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4682 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4683 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4684 man1 pages in this directory with
4685 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4686 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
4687
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4688siteman1direxp (siteman1dir.U):
4689 This variable is the same as the siteman1dir variable, but is filename
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4690 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4691
e755722e 4692siteman3dir (siteman3dir.U):
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4693 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
4694 library man source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4695 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4696 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4697 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4698 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4699 man3 pages in this directory with
4700 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4701 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
4702
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4703siteman3direxp (siteman3dir.U):
4704 This variable is the same as the siteman3dir variable, but is filename
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4705 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4706
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4707siteprefix (siteprefix.U):
4708 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
4709 which the user will install add-on packages.
f868067f 4710 See INSTALL for usage and examples.
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4711
4712siteprefixexp (siteprefix.U):
4713 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
4714 which the user will install add-on packages. Derived from siteprefix.
4715
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4716sitescript (sitescript.U):
4717 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
4718 to put add-on publicly executable files for the package in question. It
4719 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
4720 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
4721 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4722 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4723 scripts in this directory with
4724 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4725 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
4726
4727sitescriptexp (sitescript.U):
4728 This is the same as the sitescript variable, but is filename expanded at
4729 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
4730
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4731sizesize (sizesize.U):
4732 This variable contains the size of a sizetype in bytes.
4733
781b178c 4734sizetype (sizetype.U):
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4735 This variable defines sizetype to be something like size_t,
4736 unsigned long, or whatever type is used to declare length
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4737 parameters for string functions.
4738
4739sleep (Loc.U):
4740 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4741 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 4742
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4743sLOCALTIME_max (time_size.U):
4744 This variable defines the maximum value of the time_t offset that
4745 the system function localtime () accepts
4746
4747sLOCALTIME_min (time_size.U):
4748 This variable defines the minimum value of the time_t offset that
4749 the system function localtime () accepts
4750
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4751smail (Loc.U):
4752 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4753 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 4754
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4755so (so.U):
4756 This variable holds the extension used to identify shared libraries
4757 (also known as shared objects) on the system. Usually set to 'so'.
4758
4759sockethdr (d_socket.U):
4760 This variable has any cpp '-I' flags needed for socket support.
4761
4762socketlib (d_socket.U):
4763 This variable has the names of any libraries needed for socket support.
4764
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4765socksizetype (socksizetype.U):
4766 This variable holds the type used for the size argument
4767 for various socket calls like accept. Usual values include
4768 socklen_t, size_t, and int.
4769
781b178c 4770sort (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4771 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4772 full pathname (if any) of the sort program. After Configure runs,
4773 the value is reset to a plain "sort" and is not useful.
4774
4775spackage (package.U):
4776 This variable contains the name of the package being constructed,
4777 with the first letter uppercased, i.e. suitable for starting
4778 sentences.
4779
4780spitshell (spitshell.U):
4781 This variable contains the command necessary to spit out a runnable
1d896104 4782 shell on this system. It is either cat or a grep '-v' for # comments.
40814d06 4783
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4784sPRId64 (quadfio.U):
4785 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
4786 format 64-bit decimal numbers (format 'd') for output.
4787
4788sPRIeldbl (longdblfio.U):
4789 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
4790 format long doubles (format 'e') for output.
4791
4792sPRIEUldbl (longdblfio.U):
4793 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
4794 format long doubles (format 'E') for output.
4795 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIeldbl so that even
4796 case-blind systems can see the difference.
4797
4798sPRIfldbl (longdblfio.U):
4799 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
4800 format long doubles (format 'f') for output.
4801
4802sPRIFUldbl (longdblfio.U):
4803 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
4804 format long doubles (format 'F') for output.
4805 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIfldbl so that even
4806 case-blind systems can see the difference.
4807
4808sPRIgldbl (longdblfio.U):
4809 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
4810 format long doubles (format 'g') for output.
4811
4812sPRIGUldbl (longdblfio.U):
4813 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
4814 format long doubles (format 'G') for output.
4815 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIgldbl so that even
4816 case-blind systems can see the difference.
4817
4818sPRIi64 (quadfio.U):
4819 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
4820 format 64-bit decimal numbers (format 'i') for output.
4821
4822sPRIo64 (quadfio.U):
4823 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
4824 format 64-bit octal numbers (format 'o') for output.
4825
4826sPRIu64 (quadfio.U):
4827 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
4828 format 64-bit unsigned decimal numbers (format 'u') for output.
4829
4830sPRIx64 (quadfio.U):
4831 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
4832 format 64-bit hexadecimal numbers (format 'x') for output.
4833
4834sPRIXU64 (quadfio.U):
4835 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
4836 format 64-bit hExADECimAl numbers (format 'X') for output.
4837 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIx64 so that even
4838 case-blind systems can see the difference.
4839
40814d06 4840srand48_r_proto (d_srand48_r.U):
10bc17b6 4841 This variable encodes the prototype of srand48_r.
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4842 It is zero if d_srand48_r is undef, and one of the
4843 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_srand48_r
4844 is defined.
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4845
4846srandom_r_proto (d_srandom_r.U):
4847 This variable encodes the prototype of srandom_r.
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4848 It is zero if d_srandom_r is undef, and one of the
4849 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_srandom_r
4850 is defined.
10bc17b6 4851
781b178c 4852src (src.U):
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4853 This variable holds the (possibly relative) path of the package source.
4854 It is up to the Makefile to use this variable and set VPATH accordingly
4855 to find the sources remotely. Use $pkgsrc to have an absolute path.
781b178c 4856
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4857sSCNfldbl (longdblfio.U):
4858 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
4859 format long doubles (format 'f') for input.
4860
781b178c 4861ssizetype (ssizetype.U):
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4862 This variable defines ssizetype to be something like ssize_t,
4863 long or int. It is used by functions that return a count
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4864 of bytes or an error condition. It must be a signed type.
4865 We will pick a type such that sizeof(SSize_t) == sizeof(Size_t).
4866
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4867st_ino_sign (st_ino_def.U):
4868 This variable contains the signedness of struct stat's st_ino.
4869 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
4870
4871st_ino_size (st_ino_def.U):
4872 This variable contains the size of struct stat's st_ino in bytes.
4873
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4874startperl (startperl.U):
4875 This variable contains the string to put on the front of a perl
4876 script to make sure (hopefully) that it runs with perl and not some
4877 shell. Of course, that leading line must be followed by the classical
4878 perl idiom:
4879 eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
4880 if $running_under_some_shell;
4881 to guarantee perl startup should the shell execute the script. Note
47e01c32 4882 that this magic incantation is not understood by csh.
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4883
4884startsh (startsh.U):
4885 This variable contains the string to put on the front of a shell
4886 script to make sure (hopefully) that it runs with sh and not some
4887 other shell.
4888
4889static_ext (Extensions.U):
4890 This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to
4891 link statically into the package. It is used by Makefile.
4892
4893stdchar (stdchar.U):
4894 This variable conditionally defines STDCHAR to be the type of char
4895 used in stdio.h. It has the values "unsigned char" or "char".
4896
4897stdio_base (d_stdstdio.U):
4898 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
4899 _base field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
4900 be used to define the macro FILE_base(fp).
4901
4902stdio_bufsiz (d_stdstdio.U):
4903 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to determine
4904 the number of bytes store in the I/O buffer pointer to by the
4905 _base field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
4906 be used to define the macro FILE_bufsiz(fp).
4907
4908stdio_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
4909 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
4910 _cnt field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
4911 be used to define the macro FILE_cnt(fp).
4912
4913stdio_filbuf (d_stdstdio.U):
4914 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to tell
022735b4 4915 stdio to refill its internal buffers (?). This will
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4916 be used to define the macro FILE_filbuf(fp).
4917
4918stdio_ptr (d_stdstdio.U):
4919 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
4920 _ptr field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
4921 be used to define the macro FILE_ptr(fp).
4922
4923stdio_stream_array (stdio_streams.U):
4924 This variable tells the name of the array holding the stdio streams.
4925 Usual values include _iob, __iob, and __sF.
4926
10bc17b6
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4927strerror_r_proto (d_strerror_r.U):
4928 This variable encodes the prototype of strerror_r.
39183afa
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4929 It is zero if d_strerror_r is undef, and one of the
4930 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_strerror_r
4931 is defined.
10bc17b6 4932
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4933strings (i_string.U):
4934 This variable holds the full path of the string header that will be
4935 used. Typically /usr/include/string.h or /usr/include/strings.h.
4936
4937submit (Loc.U):
4938 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4939 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c
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4940
4941subversion (patchlevel.U):
4942 The subversion level of this package.
4943 The value of subversion comes from the patchlevel.h file.
ff935051 4944 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "1".
c890dc6c 4945 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_SUBVERSION".
781b178c
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4946 This is unique to perl.
4947
4948sysman (sysman.U):
4949 This variable holds the place where the manual is located on this
4950 system. It is not the place where the user wants to put his manual
4951 pages. Rather it is the place where Configure may look to find manual
4952 for unix commands (section 1 of the manual usually). See mansrc.
4953
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4954sysroot (Sysroot.U):
4955 This variable is empty unless supplied by the Configure user.
4956 It can contain a path to an alternative root directory, under which
4957 headers and libraries for the compilation target can be found. This
4958 is generally used when cross-compiling using a gcc-like compiler.
4959
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4960tail (Loc.U):
4961 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4962 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c
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4963
4964tar (Loc.U):
4965 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4966 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 4967
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4968targetarch (Cross.U):
4969 If cross-compiling, this variable contains the target architecture.
4970 If not, this will be empty.
4971
56b575b9 4972targetdir (Cross.U):
51b4c035
KW
4973 This variable contains a path that will be created on the target
4974 host using targetmkdir, and then used to copy the cross-compiled
4975 executables to. Defaults to '/tmp' if not set.
a2c3ce73
BF
4976
4977targetenv (Cross.U):
51b4c035
KW
4978 If cross-compiling, this variable can be used to modify the
4979 environment on the target system.
4980 However, how and where it's used, and even if it's used at all, is
4981 entirely dependent on both the transport mechanism (targetrun) and
4982 what the target system is. Unless the relevant documentation says
4983 otherwise, it is genereally not useful.
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4984
4985targethost (Cross.U):
4986 This variable contains the name of a separate host machine that
4987 can be used to run compiled test programs and perl tests on.
4988 Set to empty string if not in use.
4989
4990targetmkdir (Cross.U):
4991 This variable contains the command used by Configure to create a
4992 new directory on the target host.
4993
4994targetport (Cross.U):
4995 This variable contains the number of a network port to be used to
4996 connect to the host in targethost, if unset defaults to 22 for ssh.
4997
1d38f63f 4998targetsh (sh.U):
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BF
4999 If cross-compiling, this variable contains the location of sh on the
5000 target system.
5001 If not, this will be the same as $sh.
5002
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5003tbl (Loc.U):
5004 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5005 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5006
5007tee (Loc.U):
5008 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5009 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c
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5010
5011test (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5012 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5013 full pathname (if any) of the test program. After Configure runs,
5014 the value is reset to a plain "test" and is not useful.
5015
5016timeincl (i_time.U):
5017 This variable holds the full path of the included time header(s).
5018
5019timetype (d_time.U):
5020 This variable holds the type returned by time(). It can be long,
5021 or time_t on BSD sites (in which case <sys/types.h> should be
5022 included). Anyway, the type Time_t should be used.
5023
10bc17b6
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5024tmpnam_r_proto (d_tmpnam_r.U):
5025 This variable encodes the prototype of tmpnam_r.
39183afa
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5026 It is zero if d_tmpnam_r is undef, and one of the
5027 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_tmpnam_r
5028 is defined.
10bc17b6 5029
5440bc8e
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5030to (Cross.U):
5031 This variable contains the command used by Configure
5032 to copy to from the target host. Useful and available
5033 only during Perl build.
5034 The string ':' if not cross-compiling.
5035
781b178c 5036touch (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5037 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5038 full pathname (if any) of the touch program. After Configure runs,
5039 the value is reset to a plain "touch" and is not useful.
5040
5041tr (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5042 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5043 full pathname (if any) of the tr program. After Configure runs,
5044 the value is reset to a plain "tr" and is not useful.
5045
5046trnl (trnl.U):
5047 This variable contains the value to be passed to the tr(1)
5048 command to transliterate a newline. Typical values are
5049 '\012' and '\n'. This is needed for EBCDIC systems where
5050 newline is not necessarily '\012'.
5051
5052troff (Loc.U):
5053 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5054 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5055
10bc17b6
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5056ttyname_r_proto (d_ttyname_r.U):
5057 This variable encodes the prototype of ttyname_r.
39183afa
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5058 It is zero if d_ttyname_r is undef, and one of the
5059 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_ttyname_r
5060 is defined.
10bc17b6 5061
a22e52b9
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5062u16size (perlxv.U):
5063 This variable is the size of an U16 in bytes.
5064
5065u16type (perlxv.U):
5066 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U16.
5067
5068u32size (perlxv.U):
5069 This variable is the size of an U32 in bytes.
5070
5071u32type (perlxv.U):
5072 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U32.
5073
5074u64size (perlxv.U):
5075 This variable is the size of an U64 in bytes.
5076
5077u64type (perlxv.U):
5078 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U64.
5079
5080u8size (perlxv.U):
5081 This variable is the size of an U8 in bytes.
5082
5083u8type (perlxv.U):
5084 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U8.
5085
5086uidformat (uidf.U):
5087 This variable contains the format string used for printing a Uid_t.
5088
2d228ff3
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5089uidsign (uidsign.U):
5090 This variable contains the signedness of a uidtype.
5091 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
5092
785fb66b
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5093uidsize (uidsize.U):
5094 This variable contains the size of a uidtype in bytes.
5095
781b178c 5096uidtype (uidtype.U):
635aebb7 5097 This variable defines Uid_t to be something like uid_t, int,
781b178c
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5098 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare user ids in the kernel.
5099
5100uname (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5101 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5102 full pathname (if any) of the uname program. After Configure runs,
5103 the value is reset to a plain "uname" and is not useful.
5104
5105uniq (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5106 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5107 full pathname (if any) of the uniq program. After Configure runs,
5108 the value is reset to a plain "uniq" and is not useful.
5109
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5110uquadtype (quadtype.U):
5111 This variable defines Uquad_t to be something like unsigned long,
5112 unsigned int, unsigned long long, uint64_t, or whatever type is
5113 used for 64-bit integers.
5114
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5115use5005threads (usethreads.U):
5116 This variable conditionally defines the USE_5005THREADS symbol,
5117 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the 5.005-based
5c40187f 5118 threading implementation. Only valid up to 5.8.x.
10305dfa 5119
10cc9d2a
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5120use64bitall (use64bits.U):
5121 This variable conditionally defines the USE_64_BIT_ALL symbol,
5122 and indicates that 64-bit integer types should be used
5123 when available. The maximal possible
5124 64-bitness is employed: LP64 or ILP64, meaning that you will
5125 be able to use more than 2 gigabytes of memory. This mode is
5126 even more binary incompatible than USE_64_BIT_INT. You may not
5127 be able to run the resulting executable in a 32-bit CPU at all or
5128 you may need at least to reboot your OS to 64-bit mode.
5129
5130use64bitint (use64bits.U):
5131 This variable conditionally defines the USE_64_BIT_INT symbol,
aaacdc8b 5132 and indicates that 64-bit integer types should be used
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5133 when available. The minimal possible 64-bitness
5134 is employed, just enough to get 64-bit integers into Perl.
5135 This may mean using for example "long longs", while your memory
5136 may still be limited to 2 gigabytes.
781b178c 5137
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5138usecbacktrace (usebacktrace.U):
5139 This variable indicates whether we are compiling with backtrace
5140 support.
5141
5440bc8e
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5142usecrosscompile (Cross.U):
5143 This variable conditionally defines the USE_CROSS_COMPILE symbol,
5144 and indicates that Perl has been cross-compiled.
5145
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5146usedevel (Devel.U):
5147 This variable indicates that Perl was configured with development
5148 features enabled. This should not be done for production builds.
5149
781b178c 5150usedl (dlsrc.U):
ff935051 5151 This variable indicates if the system supports dynamic
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5152 loading of some sort. See also dlsrc and dlobj.
5153
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5154usedtrace (usedtrace.U):
5155 This variable indicates whether we are compiling with dtrace
5156 support. See also dtrace.
5ac1e9b2 5157
4d54317a
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5158usefaststdio (usefaststdio.U):
5159 This variable conditionally defines the USE_FAST_STDIO symbol,
5160 and indicates that Perl should be built to use 'fast stdio'.
5161 Defaults to define in Perls 5.8 and earlier, to undef later.
5162
aaacdc8b
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5163useithreads (usethreads.U):
5164 This variable conditionally defines the USE_ITHREADS symbol,
5165 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the interpreter-based
5166 threading implementation.
5167
269a7913 5168usekernprocpathname (usekernprocpathname.U):
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NC
5169 This variable, indicates that we can use sysctl with
5170 KERN_PROC_PATHNAME to get a full path for the executable, and hence
5171 convert $^X to an absolute path.
5172
5bf26616 5173uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
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5174 This variable conditionally defines the USE_LARGE_FILES symbol,
5175 and indicates that large file interfaces should be used when
c890dc6c 5176 available.
1baac590 5177
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5178uselongdouble (uselongdbl.U):
5179 This variable conditionally defines the USE_LONG_DOUBLE symbol,
5180 and indicates that long doubles should be used when available.
5181
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5182usemallocwrap (mallocsrc.U):
5183 This variable contains y if we are wrapping malloc to prevent
5184 integer overflow during size calculations.
5185
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5186usemorebits (usemorebits.U):
5187 This variable conditionally defines the USE_MORE_BITS symbol,
5188 and indicates that explicit 64-bit interfaces and long doubles
5189 should be used when available.
5190
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5191usemultiplicity (usemultiplicity.U):
5192 This variable conditionally defines the MULTIPLICITY symbol,
5193 and indicates that Perl should be built to use multiplicity.
5194
5195usemymalloc (mallocsrc.U):
5196 This variable contains y if the malloc that comes with this package
5197 is desired over the system's version of malloc. People often include
47e01c32 5198 special versions of malloc for efficiency, but such versions are often
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5199 less portable. See also mallocsrc and mallocobj.
5200 If this is 'y', then -lmalloc is removed from $libs.
5201
5202usenm (usenm.U):
5203 This variable contains 'true' or 'false' depending whether the
5204 nm extraction is wanted or not.
5205
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5206usensgetexecutablepath (usensgetexecutablepath.U):
5207 This symbol, if defined, indicates that we can use _NSGetExecutablePath
5208 and realpath to get a full path for the executable, and hence convert
5209 $^X to an absolute path.
5210
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5211useopcode (Extensions.U):
5212 This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate
5213 whether the Opcode extension should be used. The sole
5214 use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism
5215 for users to skip the Opcode extension from the Configure
5216 command line.
5217
5218useperlio (useperlio.U):
5219 This variable conditionally defines the USE_PERLIO symbol,
5220 and indicates that the PerlIO abstraction should be
5221 used throughout.
5222
5223useposix (Extensions.U):
5224 This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate
5225 whether the POSIX extension should be used. The sole
5226 use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism
5227 for hints files to indicate that POSIX will not compile
5228 on a particular system.
5229
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5230usereentrant (usethreads.U):
5231 This variable conditionally defines the USE_REENTRANT_API symbol,
5232 which indicates that the thread code may try to use the various
5233 _r versions of library functions. This is only potentially
5234 meaningful if usethreads is set and is very experimental, it is
5235 not even prompted for.
5236
df4c34dc 5237userelocatableinc (bin.U):
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5238 This variable is set to true to indicate that perl should relocate
5239 @INC entries at runtime based on the path to the perl binary.
5240 Any @INC paths starting ".../" are relocated relative to the directory
5241 containing the perl binary, and a logical cleanup of the path is then
5242 made around the join point (removing "dir/../" pairs)
5243
781b178c 5244useshrplib (libperl.U):
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5245 This variable is set to 'true' if the user wishes
5246 to build a shared libperl, and 'false' otherwise.
781b178c 5247
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5248usesitecustomize (d_sitecustomize.U):
5249 This variable is set to true when the user requires a mechanism that
5250 allows the sysadmin to add entries to @INC at runtime. This variable
5251 being set, makes perl run '$sitelib/sitecustomize.pl' at startup.
5252
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5253usesocks (usesocks.U):
5254 This variable conditionally defines the USE_SOCKS symbol,
5255 and indicates that Perl should be built to use SOCKS.
5256
5257usethreads (usethreads.U):
b99a9337 5258 This variable conditionally defines the USE_THREADS symbol,
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5259 and indicates that Perl should be built to use threads.
5260
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5261usevendorprefix (vendorprefix.U):
5262 This variable tells whether the vendorprefix
5263 and consequently other vendor* paths are in use.
5264
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5265useversionedarchname (archname.U):
5266 This variable indicates whether to include the $api_versionstring
5267 as a component of the $archname.
5268
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5269usevfork (d_vfork.U):
5270 This variable is set to true when the user accepts to use vfork.
5271 It is set to false when no vfork is available or when the user
47e01c32 5272 explicitly requests not to use vfork.
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5273
5274usrinc (usrinc.U):
5275 This variable holds the path of the include files, which is
5276 usually /usr/include. It is mainly used by other Configure units.
5277
5278uuname (Loc.U):
5279 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5280 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5281
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5282uvoformat (perlxvf.U):
5283 This variable contains the format string used for printing
635aebb7 5284 a Perl UV as an unsigned octal integer.
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5285
5286uvsize (perlxv.U):
5287 This variable is the size of a UV in bytes.
5288
5289uvtype (perlxv.U):
5290 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's UV.
5291
5292uvuformat (perlxvf.U):
5293 This variable contains the format string used for printing
635aebb7 5294 a Perl UV as an unsigned decimal integer.
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5295
5296uvxformat (perlxvf.U):
5297 This variable contains the format string used for printing
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5298 a Perl UV as an unsigned hexadecimal integer in lowercase abcdef.
5299
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5300uvXUformat (perlxvf.U):
5301 This variable contains the format string used for printing
5302 a Perl UV as an unsigned hexadecimal integer in uppercase ABCDEF.
5303
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5304vaproto (vaproto.U):
5305 This variable conditionally defines CAN_VAPROTO on systems supporting
5306 prototype declaration of functions with a variable number of
5307 arguments. See also prototype.
5308
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5309vendorarch (vendorarch.U):
5310 This variable contains the value of the PERL_VENDORARCH symbol.
635aebb7 5311 It may have a ~ on the front.
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5312 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5313 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5314 architecture-dependent modules and extensions in this directory with
635aebb7 5315 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5316 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5317
5318vendorarchexp (vendorarch.U):
5319 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorarch, so that you
5320 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5321
0617aed7 5322vendorbin (vendorbin.U):
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5323 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORBIN symbol.
5324 It may have a ~ on the front.
5325 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5326 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place additional
5327 binaries in this directory with
635aebb7 5328 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
f868067f 5329 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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5330
5331vendorbinexp (vendorbin.U):
5332 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorbin, so that you
5333 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5334
e755722e 5335vendorhtml1dir (vendorhtml1dir.U):
635aebb7 5336 This variable contains the name of the directory for html
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5337 pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5338 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5339 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5340 html pages in this directory with
635aebb7 5341 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5342 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5343
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5344vendorhtml1direxp (vendorhtml1dir.U):
5345 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorhtml1dir, so that you
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5346 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5347
e755722e 5348vendorhtml3dir (vendorhtml3dir.U):
635aebb7 5349 This variable contains the name of the directory for html
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5350 library pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5351 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5352 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5353 html pages for modules and extensions in this directory with
635aebb7 5354 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5355 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5356
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5357vendorhtml3direxp (vendorhtml3dir.U):
5358 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorhtml3dir, so that you
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5359 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5360
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5361vendorlib (vendorlib.U):
5362 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORLIB symbol,
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5363 which is the name of the private library for this package.
5364 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5365 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5366 modules in this directory with
635aebb7 5367 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
f868067f 5368 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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5370vendorlib_stem (vendorlib.U):
5371 This variable is $vendorlibexp with any trailing version-specific component
5372 removed. The elements in inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U) can
5373 be tacked onto this variable to generate a list of directories to search.
5374
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5375vendorlibexp (vendorlib.U):
5376 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorlib, so that you
5377 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5378
e755722e 5379vendorman1dir (vendorman1dir.U):
635aebb7 5380 This variable contains the name of the directory for man1
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5381 pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5382 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5383 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5384 man1 pages in this directory with
635aebb7 5385 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5386 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5387
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5388vendorman1direxp (vendorman1dir.U):
5389 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorman1dir, so that you
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5390 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5391
e755722e 5392vendorman3dir (vendorman3dir.U):
635aebb7 5393 This variable contains the name of the directory for man3
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5394 pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5395 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5396 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5397 man3 pages in this directory with
635aebb7 5398 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5399 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5400
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5401vendorman3direxp (vendorman3dir.U):
5402 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorman3dir, so that you
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5403 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5404
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5405vendorprefix (vendorprefix.U):
5406 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
5407 which the vendor will install add-on packages.
f868067f 5408 See INSTALL for usage and examples.
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5409
5410vendorprefixexp (vendorprefix.U):
5411 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
5412 which the vendor will install add-on packages. Derived from vendorprefix.
5413
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5414vendorscript (vendorscript.U):
5415 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORSCRIPT symbol.
5416 It may have a ~ on the front.
5417 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5418 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place additional
5419 executable scripts in this directory with
635aebb7 5420 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5421 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5422
5423vendorscriptexp (vendorscript.U):
5424 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorscript, so that you
5425 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5426
781b178c 5427version (patchlevel.U):
ff935051 5428 The full version number of this package, such as 5.6.1 (or 5_6_1).
c890dc6c 5429 This combines revision, patchlevel, and subversion to get the
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5430 full version number, including any possible subversions.
5431 This is suitable for use as a directory name, and hence is
5432 filesystem dependent.
781b178c 5433
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5434version_patchlevel_string (patchlevel.U):
5435 This is a string combining version, subversion and
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5436 perl_patchlevel (if perl_patchlevel is non-zero).
5437 It is typically something like
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5438 'version 7 subversion 1' or
5439 'version 7 subversion 1 patchlevel 11224'
5440 It is computed here to avoid duplication of code in myconfig.SH
635aebb7 5441 and lib/Config.pm.
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5443versiononly (versiononly.U):
5444 If set, this symbol indicates that only the version-specific
5445 components of a perl installation should be installed.
5446 This may be useful for making a test installation of a new
5447 version without disturbing the existing installation.
5448 Setting versiononly is equivalent to setting installperl's -v option.
5449 In particular, the non-versioned scripts and programs such as
5450 a2p, c2ph, h2xs, pod2*, and perldoc are not installed
5451 (see INSTALL for a more complete list). Nor are the man
5452 pages installed.
5453 Usually, this is undef.
5454
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5455vi (Loc.U):
5456 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5457 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5458
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5459xlibpth (libpth.U):
5460 This variable holds extra path (space-separated) used to find
5461 libraries on this platform, for example CPU-specific libraries
5462 (on multi-CPU platforms) may be listed here.
5463
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5464yacc (yacc.U):
5465 This variable holds the name of the compiler compiler we
5466 want to use in the Makefile. It can be yacc, byacc, or bison -y.
5467
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5468yaccflags (yacc.U):
5469 This variable contains any additional yacc flags desired by the
5470 user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
5471
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5472zcat (Loc.U):
5473 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5474 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5475
5476zip (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5477 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5478 full pathname (if any) of the zip program. After Configure runs,
5479 the value is reset to a plain "zip" and is not useful.
5480