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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
44aphostname (d_gethname.U):
45 This variable contains the command which can be used to compute the
46 host name. The command is fully qualified by its absolute path, to make
47 it safe when used by a process with super-user privileges.
48
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49api_revision (patchlevel.U):
50 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
51 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
52 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
53 such as '5.6.1', api_revision is the '5'.
54 Prior to 5.5.640, the format was a floating point number,
55 like 5.00563.
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56
57 perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically search in
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58 $sitelib/.. for older directories back to the limit specified
59 by these api_ variables. This is only useful if you have a
60 perl library directory tree structured like the default one.
61 See INSTALL for how this works. The versioned site_perl
62 directory was introduced in 5.005, so that is the lowest
63 possible value. The version list appropriate for the current
64 system is determined in inc_version_list.U.
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65
66 XXX To do: Since compatibility can depend on compile time
08e5223a 67 options (such as bincompat, longlong, etc.) it should
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68 (perhaps) be set by Configure, but currently it isn't.
69 Currently, we read a hard-wired value from patchlevel.h.
70 Perhaps what we ought to do is take the hard-wired value from
71 patchlevel.h but then modify it if the current Configure
72 options warrant. patchlevel.h then would use an #ifdef guard.
73
74api_subversion (patchlevel.U):
75 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
76 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
77 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
78 such as '5.6.1', api_subversion is the '1'. See api_revision for
79 full details.
80
81api_version (patchlevel.U):
82 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
83 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
84 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
85 such as '5.6.1', api_version is the '6'. See api_revision for
86 full details. As a special case, 5.5.0 is rendered in the
87 old-style as 5.005. (In the 5.005_0x maintenance series,
88 this was the only versioned directory in $sitelib.)
89
90api_versionstring (patchlevel.U):
91 This variable combines api_revision, api_version, and
92 api_subversion in a format such as 5.6.1 (or 5_6_1) suitable
93 for use as a directory name. This is filesystem dependent.
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94
95ar (Loc.U):
5bf26616 96 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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97 full pathname (if any) of the ar program. After Configure runs,
98 the value is reset to a plain "ar" and is not useful.
99
100archlib (archlib.U):
101 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
102 to put architecture-dependent public library files for $package.
103 It is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/lib.
104 Programs using this variable must be prepared to deal
105 with filename expansion.
106
107archlibexp (archlib.U):
108 This variable is the same as the archlib variable, but is
109 filename expanded at configuration time, for convenient use.
110
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111archname (archname.U):
112 This variable is a short name to characterize the current
113 architecture. It is used mainly to construct the default archlib.
114
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115archname64 (use64bits.U):
116 This variable is used for the 64-bitness part of $archname.
117
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118archobjs (Unix.U):
119 This variable defines any additional objects that must be linked
120 in with the program on this architecture. On unix, it is usually
121 empty. It is typically used to include emulations of unix calls
122 or other facilities. For perl on OS/2, for example, this would
123 include os2/os2.obj.
124
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125asctime_r_proto (d_asctime_r.U):
126 This variable encodes the prototype of asctime_r.
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127 It is zero if d_asctime_r is undef, and one of the
128 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_asctime_r
129 is defined.
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781b178c 131awk (Loc.U):
5bf26616 132 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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133 full pathname (if any) of the awk program. After Configure runs,
134 the value is reset to a plain "awk" and is not useful.
135
136baserev (baserev.U):
137 The base revision level of this package, from the .package file.
138
139bash (Loc.U):
140 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 141 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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142
143bin (bin.U):
144 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
145 to put publicly executable images for the package in question. It
146 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
147 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
148
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149bin_ELF (dlsrc.U):
150 This variable saves the result from configure if generated binaries
151 are in ELF format. Only set to defined when the test has actually
152 been performed, and the result was positive.
153
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154binexp (bin.U):
155 This is the same as the bin variable, but is filename expanded at
156 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
157
158bison (Loc.U):
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159 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
160 full pathname (if any) of the bison program. After Configure runs,
161 the value is reset to a plain "bison" and is not useful.
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162
163byacc (Loc.U):
5bf26616 164 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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165 full pathname (if any) of the byacc program. After Configure runs,
166 the value is reset to a plain "byacc" and is not useful.
167
168byteorder (byteorder.U):
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169 This variable holds the byte order in a UV. In the following,
170 larger digits indicate more significance. The variable byteorder
171 is either 4321 on a big-endian machine, or 1234 on a little-endian,
172 or 87654321 on a Cray ... or 3412 with weird order !
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173
174c (n.U):
175 This variable contains the \c string if that is what causes the echo
176 command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is
177 $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
178
179castflags (d_castneg.U):
180 This variable contains a flag that precise difficulties the
181 compiler has casting odd floating values to unsigned long:
182 0 = ok
183 1 = couldn't cast < 0
184 2 = couldn't cast >= 0x80000000
185 4 = couldn't cast in argument expression list
186
187cat (Loc.U):
5bf26616 188 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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189 full pathname (if any) of the cat program. After Configure runs,
190 the value is reset to a plain "cat" and is not useful.
191
192cc (cc.U):
193 This variable holds the name of a command to execute a C compiler which
194 can resolve multiple global references that happen to have the same
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195 name. Usual values are 'cc' and 'gcc'.
196 Fervent ANSI compilers may be called 'c89'. AIX has xlc.
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197
198cccdlflags (dlsrc.U):
199 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
200 passed with 'cc -c' to compile modules to be used to create a shared
201 library that will be used for dynamic loading. For hpux, this
202 should be +z. It is up to the makefile to use it.
203
204ccdlflags (dlsrc.U):
205 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
206 passed to cc to link with a shared library for dynamic loading.
207 It is up to the makefile to use it. For sunos 4.1, it should
208 be empty.
209
210ccflags (ccflags.U):
211 This variable contains any additional C compiler flags desired by
212 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
213
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214ccflags_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
215 This variable contains the compiler flags needed by large file builds
216 and added to ccflags by hints files.
217
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218ccname (Checkcc.U):
219 This can set either by hints files or by Configure. If using
220 gcc, this is gcc, and if not, usually equal to cc, unimpressive, no?
221 Some platforms, however, make good use of this by storing the
222 flavor of the C compiler being used here. For example if using
223 the Sun WorkShop suite, ccname will be 'workshop'.
224
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225ccsymbols (Cppsym.U):
226 The variable contains the symbols defined by the C compiler alone.
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227 The symbols defined by cpp or by cc when it calls cpp are not in
228 this list, see cppsymbols and cppccsymbols.
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229 The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
230
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231ccversion (Checkcc.U):
232 This can set either by hints files or by Configure. If using
233 a (non-gcc) vendor cc, this variable may contain a version for
234 the compiler.
235
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236cf_by (cf_who.U):
237 Login name of the person who ran the Configure script and answered the
238 questions. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH.
239
240cf_email (cf_email.U):
241 Electronic mail address of the person who ran Configure. This can be
242 used by units that require the user's e-mail, like MailList.U.
243
244cf_time (cf_who.U):
245 Holds the output of the "date" command when the configuration file was
246 produced. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH.
247
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248charbits (charsize.U):
249 This variable contains the value of the CHARBITS symbol, which
250 indicates to the C program how many bits there are in a character.
251
252charsize (charsize.U):
253 This variable contains the value of the CHARSIZE symbol, which
254 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a character.
255
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256chgrp (Loc.U):
257 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 258 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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259
260chmod (Loc.U):
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261 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
262 full pathname (if any) of the chmod program. After Configure runs,
263 the value is reset to a plain "chmod" and is not useful.
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264
265chown (Loc.U):
266 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 267 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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268
269clocktype (d_times.U):
270 This variable holds the type returned by times(). It can be long,
271 or clock_t on BSD sites (in which case <sys/types.h> should be
272 included).
273
274comm (Loc.U):
5bf26616 275 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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276 full pathname (if any) of the comm program. After Configure runs,
277 the value is reset to a plain "comm" and is not useful.
278
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279compiler_warning (compiler_warning.U):
280 This variable holds the command to check if the file specified as a
281 parameter contains a compiler warning
282
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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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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
5c7252f4 400d_accept4 (d_accept4.U):
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401 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ACCEPT4 if accept4() is
402 available to accept socket connections.
5c7252f4 403
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404d_access (d_access.U):
405 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ACCESS if the access() system
406 call is available to check for access permissions using real IDs.
407
408d_accessx (d_accessx.U):
409 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ACCESSX symbol, which
410 indicates to the C program that the accessx() routine is available.
411
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412d_acosh (d_acosh.U):
413 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ACOSH symbol, which
414 indicates to the C program that the acosh() routine is available.
415
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416d_aintl (d_aintl.U):
417 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_AINTL symbol, which
418 indicates to the C program that the aintl() routine is available.
419 If copysignl is also present we can emulate modfl.
420
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421d_alarm (d_alarm.U):
422 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ALARM symbol, which
423 indicates to the C program that the alarm() routine is available.
424
425d_archlib (archlib.U):
426 This variable conditionally defines ARCHLIB to hold the pathname
427 of architecture-dependent library files for $package. If
428 $archlib is the same as $privlib, then this is set to undef.
429
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430d_asctime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
431 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ASCTIME64 symbol, which
432 indicates to the C program that the asctime64 () routine is available.
433
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434d_asctime_r (d_asctime_r.U):
435 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ASCTIME_R symbol,
436 which indicates to the C program that the asctime_r()
437 routine is available.
438
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439d_asinh (d_asinh.U):
440 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ASINH symbol, which
441 indicates to the C program that the asinh() routine is available.
442
443d_atanh (d_atanh.U):
444 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ATANH symbol, which
445 indicates to the C program that the atanh() routine is available.
446
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447d_atolf (atolf.U):
448 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ATOLF symbol, which
449 indicates to the C program that the atolf() routine is available.
450
451d_atoll (atoll.U):
452 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ATOLL symbol, which
453 indicates to the C program that the atoll() routine is available.
454
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455d_attribute_always_inline (d_attribut.U):
456 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE,
457 which indicates that the C compiler can know that certain
458 functions should always be inlined.
459
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460d_attribute_deprecated (d_attribut.U):
461 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_DEPRECATED, which
462 indicates that GCC can handle the attribute for marking deprecated
463 APIs
464
df4c34dc 465d_attribute_format (d_attribut.U):
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466 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_FORMAT, which
467 indicates the C compiler can check for printf-like formats.
468
df4c34dc 469d_attribute_malloc (d_attribut.U):
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470 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_MALLOC, which
471 indicates the C compiler can understand functions as having
472 malloc-like semantics.
473
df4c34dc 474d_attribute_nonnull (d_attribut.U):
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475 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_NONNULL, which
476 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain arguments
477 must not be NULL, and will check accordingly at compile time.
478
df4c34dc 479d_attribute_noreturn (d_attribut.U):
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480 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_NORETURN, which
481 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain functions
482 are guaranteed never to return.
483
df4c34dc 484d_attribute_pure (d_attribut.U):
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485 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_PURE, which
486 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain functions
487 are "pure" functions, meaning that they have no side effects, and
488 only rely on function input and/or global data for their results.
489
df4c34dc 490d_attribute_unused (d_attribut.U):
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491 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, which
492 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain variables
493 and arguments may not always be used, and to not throw warnings
494 if they don't get used.
495
df4c34dc 496d_attribute_warn_unused_result (d_attribut.U):
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497 This variable conditionally defines
498 HASATTRIBUTE_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT, which indicates that the C
499 compiler can know that certain functions have a return values
500 that must not be ignored, such as malloc() or open().
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502d_backtrace (d_backtrace.U):
503 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BACKTRACE symbol, which
504 indicates to the C program that the backtrace() routine is available
505 to get a stack trace.
506
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507d_bsd (Guess.U):
508 This symbol conditionally defines the symbol BSD when running on a
509 BSD system.
510
511d_bsdgetpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
512 This variable conditionally defines USE_BSD_GETPGRP if
513 getpgrp needs one arguments whereas USG one needs none.
514
515d_bsdsetpgrp (d_setpgrp.U):
516 This variable conditionally defines USE_BSD_SETPGRP if
517 setpgrp needs two arguments whereas USG one needs none.
518 See also d_setpgid for a POSIX interface.
519
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520d_builtin_add_overflow (d_builtin_overflow.U):
521 This variable conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_ADD_OVERFLOW, which
522 indicates that the compiler supports __builtin_add_overflow(x,y,&z)
523 for safely adding x and y into z while checking for overflow.
524
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525d_builtin_choose_expr (d_builtin.U):
526 This conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_CHOOSE_EXPR, which
527 indicates that the compiler supports __builtin_choose_expr(x,y,z).
528 This built-in function is analogous to the "x?y:z" operator in C,
529 except that the expression returned has its type unaltered by
530 promotion rules. Also, the built-in function does not evaluate
531 the expression that was not chosen.
532
533d_builtin_expect (d_builtin.U):
534 This conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_EXPECT, which indicates
535 that the compiler supports __builtin_expect(exp,c). You may use
536 __builtin_expect to provide the compiler with branch prediction
537 information.
538
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539d_builtin_mul_overflow (d_builtin_overflow.U):
540 This variable conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_MUL_OVERFLOW, which
541 indicates that the compiler supports __builtin_mul_overflow(x,y,&z)
542 for safely multiplying x and y into z while checking for overflow.
543
544d_builtin_sub_overflow (d_builtin_overflow.U):
545 This variable conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_SUB_OVERFLOW, which
546 indicates that the compiler supports __builtin_sub_overflow(x,y,&z)
547 for safely subtracting y from x into z while checking for overflow.
548
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549d_c99_variadic_macros (d_c99_variadic.U):
550 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_C99_VARIADIC_MACROS
551 symbol, which indicates to the C program that C99 variadic macros
552 are available.
553
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554d_casti32 (d_casti32.U):
555 This variable conditionally defines CASTI32, which indicates
556 whether the C compiler can cast large floats to 32-bit ints.
557
558d_castneg (d_castneg.U):
559 This variable conditionally defines CASTNEG, which indicates
47e01c32 560 whether the C compiler can cast negative float to unsigned.
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562d_cbrt (d_cbrt.U):
563 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CBRT symbol, which
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564 indicates to the C program that the cbrt() (cube root) function
565 is available.
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567d_chown (d_chown.U):
568 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CHOWN symbol, which
569 indicates to the C program that the chown() routine is available.
570
571d_chroot (d_chroot.U):
572 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CHROOT symbol, which
573 indicates to the C program that the chroot() routine is available.
574
575d_chsize (d_chsize.U):
576 This variable conditionally defines the CHSIZE symbol, which
577 indicates to the C program that the chsize() routine is available
578 to truncate files. You might need a -lx to get this routine.
579
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580d_class (d_class.U):
581 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CLASS symbol, which
582 indicates to the C program that the class() routine is available.
583
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584d_clearenv (d_clearenv.U):
585 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CLEARENV symbol, which
586 indicates to the C program that the clearenv () routine is available.
587
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588d_closedir (d_closedir.U):
589 This variable conditionally defines HAS_CLOSEDIR if closedir() is
590 available.
591
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592d_cmsghdr_s (d_cmsghdr_s.U):
593 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_CMSGHDR symbol,
594 which indicates that the struct cmsghdr is supported.
595
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596d_copysign (d_copysign.U):
597 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_COPYSIGN symbol, which
598 indicates to the C program that the copysign() routine is available.
599
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600d_copysignl (d_copysignl.U):
601 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_COPYSIGNL symbol, which
602 indicates to the C program that the copysignl() routine is available.
603 If aintl is also present we can emulate modfl.
604
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605d_cplusplus (d_cplusplus.U):
606 This variable conditionally defines the USE_CPLUSPLUS symbol, which
607 indicates that a C++ compiler was used to compiled Perl and will be
608 used to compile extensions.
609
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610d_crypt (d_crypt.U):
611 This variable conditionally defines the CRYPT symbol, which
612 indicates to the C program that the crypt() routine is available
613 to encrypt passwords and the like.
614
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615d_crypt_r (d_crypt_r.U):
616 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CRYPT_R symbol,
617 which indicates to the C program that the crypt_r()
618 routine is available.
619
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620d_csh (d_csh.U):
621 This variable conditionally defines the CSH symbol, which
622 indicates to the C program that the C-shell exists.
623
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624d_ctermid (d_ctermid.U):
625 This variable conditionally defines CTERMID if ctermid() is
626 available to generate filename for terminal.
627
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628d_ctermid_r (d_ctermid_r.U):
629 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTERMID_R symbol,
630 which indicates to the C program that the ctermid_r()
631 routine is available.
632
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633d_ctime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
634 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTIME64 symbol, which
635 indicates to the C program that the ctime64 () routine is available.
636
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637d_ctime_r (d_ctime_r.U):
638 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTIME_R symbol,
639 which indicates to the C program that the ctime_r()
640 routine is available.
641
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642d_cuserid (d_cuserid.U):
643 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CUSERID symbol, which
644 indicates to the C program that the cuserid() routine is available
645 to get character login names.
646
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647d_dbminitproto (d_dbminitproto.U):
648 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DBMINIT_PROTO symbol,
649 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
650 a prototype for the dbminit() function. Otherwise, it is
651 up to the program to supply one.
652
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653d_difftime (d_difftime.U):
654 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIFFTIME symbol, which
655 indicates to the C program that the difftime() routine is available.
656
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657d_difftime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
658 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIFFTIME64 symbol, which
659 indicates to the C program that the difftime64 () routine is available.
660
066e7355 661d_dir_dd_fd (d_dir_dd_fd.U):
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662 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIR_DD_FD symbol, which
663 indicates that the DIR directory stream type contains a member
664 variable called dd_fd.
665
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666d_dirfd (d_dirfd.U):
667 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIRFD constant,
668 which indicates to the C program that dirfd() is available
669 to return the file descriptor of a directory stream.
670
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671d_dirnamlen (i_dirent.U):
672 This variable conditionally defines DIRNAMLEN, which indicates
673 to the C program that the length of directory entry names is
674 provided by a d_namelen field.
675
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676d_dladdr (d_dladdr.U):
677 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLADDR symbol, which
678 indicates to the C program that the dladdr() routine is available
679 to get a stack trace.
680
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681d_dlerror (d_dlerror.U):
682 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLERROR symbol, which
683 indicates to the C program that the dlerror() routine is available.
684
685d_dlopen (d_dlopen.U):
686 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLOPEN symbol, which
687 indicates to the C program that the dlopen() routine is available.
688
689d_dlsymun (d_dlsymun.U):
690 This variable conditionally defines DLSYM_NEEDS_UNDERSCORE, which
691 indicates that we need to prepend an underscore to the symbol
692 name before calling dlsym().
693
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694d_dosuid (d_dosuid.U):
695 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOSUID, which
696 tells the C program that it should insert setuid emulation code
697 on hosts which have setuid #! scripts disabled.
698
699d_double_has_inf (longdblfio.U):
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700 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_HAS_INF
701 which indicates that the double type has an infinity.
702
3c29c5aa 703d_double_has_nan (longdblfio.U):
7e03b2e3 704 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_HAS_NAN
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705 which indicates that the double type has a not-a-number.
706
3c29c5aa 707d_double_has_negative_zero (longdblfio.U):
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708 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_HAS_NEGATIVE_ZERO
709 which indicates that the double type has a negative zero.
710
3c29c5aa 711d_double_has_subnormals (longdblfio.U):
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712 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_HAS_SUBNORMALS
713 which indicates that the double type has subnormals (denormals).
714
715d_double_style_cray (longdblfio.U):
716 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_STYLE_CRAY
717 which indicates that the double is the 64-bit CRAY mainframe format.
718
719d_double_style_ibm (longdblfio.U):
720 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_STYLE_IBM,
721 which indicates that the double is the 64-bit IBM mainframe format.
722
723d_double_style_ieee (longdblfio.U):
724 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE,
725 which indicates that the double is the 64-bit IEEE 754.
726
727d_double_style_vax (longdblfio.U):
728 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_STYLE_VAX,
729 which indicates that the double is the 64-bit VAX format D or G.
730
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731d_drand48_r (d_drand48_r.U):
732 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DRAND48_R symbol,
733 which indicates to the C program that the drand48_r()
734 routine is available.
735
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736d_drand48proto (d_drand48proto.U):
737 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DRAND48_PROTO symbol,
738 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
739 a prototype for the drand48() function. Otherwise, it is
740 up to the program to supply one.
741
742d_dup2 (d_dup2.U):
743 This variable conditionally defines HAS_DUP2 if dup2() is
744 available to duplicate file descriptors.
745
5c7252f4 746d_dup3 (d_dup3.U):
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747 This variable conditionally defines HAS_DUP3 if dup3() is
748 available to duplicate file descriptors.
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750d_duplocale (d_newlocale.U):
751 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DUPLOCALE symbol, which
752 indicates to the C program that the duplocale() routine is available
753 to duplicate a locale object.
754
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755d_eaccess (d_eaccess.U):
756 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_EACCESS symbol, which
757 indicates to the C program that the eaccess() routine is available.
758
759d_endgrent (d_endgrent.U):
760 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDGRENT symbol, which
761 indicates to the C program that the endgrent() routine is available
762 for sequential access of the group database.
763
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764d_endgrent_r (d_endgrent_r.U):
765 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDGRENT_R symbol,
766 which indicates to the C program that the endgrent_r()
767 routine is available.
768
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769d_endhent (d_endhent.U):
770 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDHOSTENT if endhostent() is
771 available to close whatever was being used for host queries.
772
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773d_endhostent_r (d_endhostent_r.U):
774 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDHOSTENT_R symbol,
775 which indicates to the C program that the endhostent_r()
776 routine is available.
777
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778d_endnent (d_endnent.U):
779 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDNETENT if endnetent() is
780 available to close whatever was being used for network queries.
781
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782d_endnetent_r (d_endnetent_r.U):
783 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDNETENT_R symbol,
784 which indicates to the C program that the endnetent_r()
785 routine is available.
786
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787d_endpent (d_endpent.U):
788 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDPROTOENT if endprotoent() is
789 available to close whatever was being used for protocol queries.
790
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791d_endprotoent_r (d_endprotoent_r.U):
792 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPROTOENT_R symbol,
793 which indicates to the C program that the endprotoent_r()
794 routine is available.
795
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796d_endpwent (d_endpwent.U):
797 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPWENT symbol, which
798 indicates to the C program that the endpwent() routine is available
799 for sequential access of the passwd database.
800
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801d_endpwent_r (d_endpwent_r.U):
802 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPWENT_R symbol,
803 which indicates to the C program that the endpwent_r()
804 routine is available.
805
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806d_endsent (d_endsent.U):
807 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDSERVENT if endservent() is
808 available to close whatever was being used for service queries.
809
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810d_endservent_r (d_endservent_r.U):
811 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDSERVENT_R symbol,
812 which indicates to the C program that the endservent_r()
813 routine is available.
814
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815d_eofnblk (nblock_io.U):
816 This variable conditionally defines EOF_NONBLOCK if EOF can be seen
817 when reading from a non-blocking I/O source.
818
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819d_erf (d_erf.U):
820 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ERF symbol, which
821 indicates to the C program that the erf() routine is available.
822
823d_erfc (d_erfc.U):
824 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ERFC symbol, which
825 indicates to the C program that the erfc() routine is available.
826
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827d_eunice (Guess.U):
828 This variable conditionally defines the symbols EUNICE and VAX, which
47e01c32 829 alerts the C program that it must deal with idiosyncrasies of VMS.
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831d_exp2 (d_exp2.U):
832 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_EXP2 symbol, which
833 indicates to the C program that the exp2() routine is available.
834
835d_expm1 (d_expm1.U):
836 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_EXPM1 symbol, which
837 indicates to the C program that the expm1() routine is available.
838
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839d_faststdio (d_faststdio.U):
840 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FAST_STDIO symbol,
841 which indicates to the C program that the "fast stdio" is available
842 to manipulate the stdio buffers directly.
843
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844d_fchdir (d_fchdir.U):
845 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHDIR symbol, which
846 indicates to the C program that the fchdir() routine is available.
847
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848d_fchmod (d_fchmod.U):
849 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHMOD symbol, which
850 indicates to the C program that the fchmod() routine is available
851 to change mode of opened files.
852
3c29c5aa 853d_fchmodat (d_fsat.U):
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854 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHMODAT symbol, which
855 indicates the POSIX fchmodat() function is available.
856
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857d_fchown (d_fchown.U):
858 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHOWN symbol, which
859 indicates to the C program that the fchown() routine is available
860 to change ownership of opened files.
861
862d_fcntl (d_fcntl.U):
863 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCNTL symbol, and indicates
864 whether the fcntl() function exists
865
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867 This variable conditionally defines the FCNTL_CAN_LOCK symbol
868 and indicates whether file locking with fcntl() works.
869
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870d_fd_macros (d_fd_set.U):
871 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FD_MACROS symbol,
872 which indicates if your C compiler knows about the macros which
873 manipulate an fd_set.
874
875d_fd_set (d_fd_set.U):
876 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FD_SET symbol,
877 which indicates if your C compiler knows about the fd_set typedef.
878
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879d_fdclose (d_fdclose.U):
880 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FDCLOSE symbol, which
881 indicates to the C program that the fdclose() routine is available.
882
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883d_fdim (d_fdim.U):
884 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FDIM symbol, which
885 indicates to the C program that the fdim() routine is available.
886
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887d_fds_bits (d_fd_set.U):
888 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FDS_BITS symbol,
889 which indicates if your fd_set typedef contains the fds_bits member.
890 If you have an fd_set typedef, but the dweebs who installed it did
891 a half-fast job and neglected to provide the macros to manipulate
892 an fd_set, HAS_FDS_BITS will let us know how to fix the gaffe.
893
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894d_fegetround (d_fegetround.U):
895 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FEGETROUND if fegetround() is
896 available to get the floating point rounding mode.
897
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898d_ffs (d_ffs.U):
899 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FFS symbol, which
900 indicates to the C program that the ffs() routine is available
901 to find the first bit which is set in its integer argument.
902
903d_ffsl (d_ffs.U):
904 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FFSL symbol, which
905 indicates to the C program that the ffsl() routine is available
906 to find the first bit which is set in its long integer argument.
907
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908d_fgetpos (d_fgetpos.U):
909 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FGETPOS if fgetpos() is
910 available to get the file position indicator.
911
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912d_finite (d_finite.U):
913 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FINITE symbol, which
914 indicates to the C program that the finite() routine is available.
915
916d_finitel (d_finitel.U):
917 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FINITEL symbol, which
918 indicates to the C program that the finitel() routine is available.
919
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920d_flexfnam (d_flexfnam.U):
921 This variable conditionally defines the FLEXFILENAMES symbol, which
922 indicates that the system supports filenames longer than 14 characters.
923
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924d_flock (d_flock.U):
925 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FLOCK if flock() is
926 available to do file locking.
927
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928d_flockproto (d_flockproto.U):
929 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FLOCK_PROTO symbol,
930 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
931 a prototype for the flock() function. Otherwise, it is
932 up to the program to supply one.
933
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934d_fma (d_fma.U):
935 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FMA symbol, which
936 indicates to the C program that the fma() routine is available.
937
938d_fmax (d_fmax.U):
939 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FMAX symbol, which
940 indicates to the C program that the fmax() routine is available.
941
942d_fmin (d_fmin.U):
943 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FMIN symbol, which
944 indicates to the C program that the fmin() routine is available.
945
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946d_fork (d_fork.U):
947 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FORK symbol, which
948 indicates to the C program that the fork() routine is available.
949
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950d_fp_class (d_fp_class.U):
951 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FP_CLASS symbol, which
952 indicates to the C program that the fp_class() routine is available.
953
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955 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FP_CLASSIFY symbol, which
956 indicates to the C program that the fp_classify() routine is available.
957
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958d_fp_classl (d_fp_classl.U):
959 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FP_CLASSL symbol, which
960 indicates to the C program that the fp_classl() routine is available.
961
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962d_fpathconf (d_pathconf.U):
963 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPATHCONF symbol, which
964 indicates to the C program that the pathconf() routine is available
965 to determine file-system related limits and options associated
966 with a given open file descriptor.
967
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968d_fpclass (d_fpclass.U):
969 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASS symbol, which
970 indicates to the C program that the fpclass() routine is available.
971
972d_fpclassify (d_fpclassify.U):
973 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASSIFY symbol, which
974 indicates to the C program that the fpclassify() routine is available.
975
976d_fpclassl (d_fpclassl.U):
977 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASSL symbol, which
978 indicates to the C program that the fpclassl() routine is available.
979
4c1a9b0c 980d_fpgetround (d_fpgetround.U):
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981 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FPGETROUND if fpgetround()
982 is available to get the floating point rounding mode.
4c1a9b0c 983
c890dc6c 984d_fpos64_t (d_fpos64_t.U):
ca24dfc6 985 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports fpos64_t.
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987d_freelocale (d_newlocale.U):
988 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FREELOCALE symbol, which
989 indicates to the C program that the freelocale() routine is available
990 to deallocates the resources associated with a locale object.
991
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992d_frexpl (d_frexpl.U):
993 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FREXPL symbol, which
994 indicates to the C program that the frexpl() routine is available.
995
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996d_fs_data_s (d_fs_data_s.U):
997 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_FS_DATA symbol,
998 which indicates that the struct fs_data is supported.
999
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1000d_fseeko (d_fseeko.U):
1001 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSEEKO symbol, which
1002 indicates to the C program that the fseeko() routine is available.
1003
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1004d_fsetpos (d_fsetpos.U):
1005 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FSETPOS if fsetpos() is
1006 available to set the file position indicator.
1007
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1008d_fstatfs (d_fstatfs.U):
1009 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSTATFS symbol, which
1010 indicates to the C program that the fstatfs() routine is available.
1011
1012d_fstatvfs (d_statvfs.U):
1013 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSTATVFS symbol, which
1014 indicates to the C program that the fstatvfs() routine is available.
1015
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1016d_fsync (d_fsync.U):
1017 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSYNC symbol, which
1018 indicates to the C program that the fsync() routine is available.
1019
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1020d_ftello (d_ftello.U):
1021 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTELLO symbol, which
1022 indicates to the C program that the ftello() routine is available.
1023
1024d_ftime (d_ftime.U):
1025 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTIME symbol, which indicates
1026 that the ftime() routine exists. The ftime() routine is basically
1027 a sub-second accuracy clock.
1028
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1030 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FUTIMES symbol, which
1031 indicates to the C program that the futimes() routine is available.
1032
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1033d_gai_strerror (d_gai_strerror.U):
1034 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GAI_STRERROR symbol
1035 if the gai_strerror() routine is available and can be used to
1036 translate error codes returned by getaddrinfo() into human
1037 readable strings.
1038
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1039d_Gconvert (d_gconvert.U):
1040 This variable holds what Gconvert is defined as to convert
1041 floating point numbers into strings. By default, Configure
1042 sets this macro to use the first of gconvert, gcvt, or sprintf
1332606d 1043 that pass sprintf-%g-like behavior tests. If perl is using
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1044 long doubles, the macro uses the first of the following
1045 functions that pass Configure's tests: qgcvt, sprintf (if
1046 Configure knows how to make sprintf format long doubles--see
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1048 The gconvert_preference and gconvert_ld_preference variables
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1051 space-separated list of one or more of the above function
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1052 names in the order they should be tried.
1053
1054 d_Gconvert may be set to override Configure with a platform-
1055 specific function. If this function expects a double, a
1056 different value may need to be set by the uselongdouble.cbu
1057 call-back unit so that long doubles can be formatted without
1058 loss of precision.
1059
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1060d_gdbm_ndbm_h_uses_prototypes (i_ndbm.U):
1061 This variable conditionally defines the NDBM_H_USES_PROTOTYPES symbol,
1062 which indicates that the gdbm-ndbm.h include file uses real ANSI C
1063 prototypes instead of K&R style function declarations. K&R style
1064 declarations are unsupported in C++, so the include file requires
1065 special handling when using a C++ compiler and this variable is
1066 undefined. Consult the different d_*ndbm_h_uses_prototypes variables
1067 to get the same information for alternative ndbm.h include files.
1068
1069d_gdbmndbm_h_uses_prototypes (i_ndbm.U):
1070 This variable conditionally defines the NDBM_H_USES_PROTOTYPES symbol,
1071 which indicates that the gdbm/ndbm.h include file uses real ANSI C
1072 prototypes instead of K&R style function declarations. K&R style
1073 declarations are unsupported in C++, so the include file requires
1074 special handling when using a C++ compiler and this variable is
1075 undefined. Consult the different d_*ndbm_h_uses_prototypes variables
1076 to get the same information for alternative ndbm.h include files.
1077
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1078d_getaddrinfo (d_getaddrinfo.U):
1079 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETADDRINFO symbol,
1080 which indicates to the C program that the getaddrinfo() function
1081 is available.
1082
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1083d_getcwd (d_getcwd.U):
1084 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETCWD symbol, which
1085 indicates to the C program that the getcwd() routine is available
1086 to get the current working directory.
1087
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1088d_getenv_preserves_other_thread (d_getenv_thread.U):
1089 This variable conditionally defines the GETENV_PRESERVES_OTHER_THREAD
1090 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the getenv() system call
1091 does not zap the static buffer in a different thread.
1092
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1093d_getespwnam (d_getespwnam.U):
1094 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETESPWNAM if getespwnam() is
47e01c32 1095 available to retrieve enhanced (shadow) password entries by name.
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1097d_getfsstat (d_getfsstat.U):
1098 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETFSSTAT symbol, which
1099 indicates to the C program that the getfsstat() routine is available.
1100
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1101d_getgrent (d_getgrent.U):
1102 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRENT symbol, which
1103 indicates to the C program that the getgrent() routine is available
1104 for sequential access of the group database.
1105
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1106d_getgrent_r (d_getgrent_r.U):
1107 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRENT_R symbol,
1108 which indicates to the C program that the getgrent_r()
1109 routine is available.
1110
1111d_getgrgid_r (d_getgrgid_r.U):
1112 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRGID_R symbol,
1113 which indicates to the C program that the getgrgid_r()
1114 routine is available.
1115
1116d_getgrnam_r (d_getgrnam_r.U):
1117 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRNAM_R symbol,
1118 which indicates to the C program that the getgrnam_r()
1119 routine is available.
1120
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1121d_getgrps (d_getgrps.U):
1122 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGROUPS symbol, which
1123 indicates to the C program that the getgroups() routine is available
1124 to get the list of process groups.
1125
1126d_gethbyaddr (d_gethbyad.U):
1127 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYADDR symbol, which
1128 indicates to the C program that the gethostbyaddr() routine is available
1129 to look up hosts by their IP addresses.
1130
1131d_gethbyname (d_gethbynm.U):
1132 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYNAME symbol, which
1133 indicates to the C program that the gethostbyname() routine is available
1134 to look up host names in some data base or other.
1135
1136d_gethent (d_gethent.U):
1137 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETHOSTENT if gethostent() is
1138 available to look up host names in some data base or another.
1139
1140d_gethname (d_gethname.U):
1141 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTNAME symbol, which
1142 indicates to the C program that the gethostname() routine may be
1143 used to derive the host name.
1144
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1145d_gethostbyaddr_r (d_gethostbyaddr_r.U):
1146 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYADDR_R symbol,
1147 which indicates to the C program that the gethostbyaddr_r()
1148 routine is available.
1149
1150d_gethostbyname_r (d_gethostbyname_r.U):
1151 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYNAME_R symbol,
1152 which indicates to the C program that the gethostbyname_r()
1153 routine is available.
1154
1155d_gethostent_r (d_gethostent_r.U):
1156 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTENT_R symbol,
1157 which indicates to the C program that the gethostent_r()
1158 routine is available.
1159
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1160d_gethostprotos (d_gethostprotos.U):
1161 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOST_PROTOS symbol,
1162 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
635aebb7 1163 prototypes for the various gethost*() functions.
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1165
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1166d_getitimer (d_getitimer.U):
1167 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETITIMER symbol, which
1168 indicates to the C program that the getitimer() routine is available.
1169
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1170d_getlogin (d_getlogin.U):
1171 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETLOGIN symbol, which
1172 indicates to the C program that the getlogin() routine is available
1173 to get the login name.
1174
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1175d_getlogin_r (d_getlogin_r.U):
1176 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETLOGIN_R symbol,
1177 which indicates to the C program that the getlogin_r()
1178 routine is available.
1179
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1180d_getmnt (d_getmnt.U):
1181 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETMNT symbol, which
1182 indicates to the C program that the getmnt() routine is available
1183 to retrieve one or more mount info blocks by filename.
1184
1185d_getmntent (d_getmntent.U):
1186 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETMNTENT symbol, which
1187 indicates to the C program that the getmntent() routine is available
1188 to iterate through mounted files to get their mount info.
1189
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1190d_getnameinfo (d_getnameinfo.U):
1191 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNAMEINFO symbol,
1192 which indicates to the C program that the getnameinfo() function
1193 is available.
1194
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1195d_getnbyaddr (d_getnbyad.U):
1196 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYADDR symbol, which
1197 indicates to the C program that the getnetbyaddr() routine is available
1198 to look up networks by their IP addresses.
1199
1200d_getnbyname (d_getnbynm.U):
1201 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYNAME symbol, which
1202 indicates to the C program that the getnetbyname() routine is available
1203 to look up networks by their names.
1204
1205d_getnent (d_getnent.U):
1206 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETNETENT if getnetent() is
1207 available to look up network names in some data base or another.
1208
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1209d_getnetbyaddr_r (d_getnetbyaddr_r.U):
1210 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYADDR_R symbol,
1211 which indicates to the C program that the getnetbyaddr_r()
1212 routine is available.
1213
1214d_getnetbyname_r (d_getnetbyname_r.U):
1215 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYNAME_R symbol,
1216 which indicates to the C program that the getnetbyname_r()
1217 routine is available.
1218
1219d_getnetent_r (d_getnetent_r.U):
1220 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETENT_R symbol,
1221 which indicates to the C program that the getnetent_r()
1222 routine is available.
1223
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1224d_getnetprotos (d_getnetprotos.U):
1225 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNET_PROTOS symbol,
1226 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
635aebb7 1227 prototypes for the various getnet*() functions.
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1228 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1229
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1230d_getpagsz (d_getpagsz.U):
1231 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPAGESIZE if getpagesize()
1232 is available to get the system page size.
1233
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1235 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNAME
1236 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1237 getprotobyname() routine is available to look up protocols
1238 by their name.
1239
1240d_getpbynumber (d_getprotby.U):
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1241 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNUMBER
1242 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1243 getprotobynumber() routine is available to look up protocols
1244 by their number.
1245
1246d_getpent (d_getpent.U):
1247 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPROTOENT if getprotoent() is
1248 available to look up protocols in some data base or another.
1249
1250d_getpgid (d_getpgid.U):
1251 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGID symbol, which
1252 indicates to the C program that the getpgid(pid) function
1253 is available to get the process group id.
1254
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1255d_getpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
1256 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPGRP if getpgrp() is
1257 available to get the current process group.
1258
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1259d_getpgrp2 (d_getpgrp2.U):
1260 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGRP2 symbol, which
1261 indicates to the C program that the getpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine
1262 is available to get the current process group.
1263
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1264d_getppid (d_getppid.U):
1265 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPPID symbol, which
1266 indicates to the C program that the getppid() routine is available
1267 to get the parent process ID.
1268
1269d_getprior (d_getprior.U):
1270 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPRIORITY if getpriority()
1271 is available to get a process's priority.
1272
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1273d_getprotobyname_r (d_getprotobyname_r.U):
1274 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNAME_R symbol,
1275 which indicates to the C program that the getprotobyname_r()
1276 routine is available.
1277
1278d_getprotobynumber_r (d_getprotobynumber_r.U):
1279 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNUMBER_R symbol,
1280 which indicates to the C program that the getprotobynumber_r()
1281 routine is available.
1282
1283d_getprotoent_r (d_getprotoent_r.U):
1284 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOENT_R symbol,
1285 which indicates to the C program that the getprotoent_r()
1286 routine is available.
1287
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1288d_getprotoprotos (d_getprotoprotos.U):
1289 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTO_PROTOS symbol,
1290 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
635aebb7 1291 prototypes for the various getproto*() functions.
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1292 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1293
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1294d_getprpwnam (d_getprpwnam.U):
1295 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPRPWNAM if getprpwnam() is
1296 available to retrieve protected (shadow) password entries by name.
1297
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1298d_getpwent (d_getpwent.U):
1299 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWENT symbol, which
1300 indicates to the C program that the getpwent() routine is available
1301 for sequential access of the passwd database.
1302
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1303d_getpwent_r (d_getpwent_r.U):
1304 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWENT_R symbol,
1305 which indicates to the C program that the getpwent_r()
1306 routine is available.
1307
1308d_getpwnam_r (d_getpwnam_r.U):
1309 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWNAM_R symbol,
1310 which indicates to the C program that the getpwnam_r()
1311 routine is available.
1312
1313d_getpwuid_r (d_getpwuid_r.U):
1314 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWUID_R symbol,
1315 which indicates to the C program that the getpwuid_r()
1316 routine is available.
1317
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1319 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYNAME
1320 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1321 getservbyname() routine is available to look up services
1322 by their name.
1323
1324d_getsbyport (d_getsrvby.U):
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1325 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYPORT
1326 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1327 getservbyport() routine is available to look up services
1328 by their port.
1329
1330d_getsent (d_getsent.U):
1331 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETSERVENT if getservent() is
1332 available to look up network services in some data base or another.
1333
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1334d_getservbyname_r (d_getservbyname_r.U):
1335 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYNAME_R symbol,
1336 which indicates to the C program that the getservbyname_r()
1337 routine is available.
1338
1339d_getservbyport_r (d_getservbyport_r.U):
1340 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYPORT_R symbol,
1341 which indicates to the C program that the getservbyport_r()
1342 routine is available.
1343
1344d_getservent_r (d_getservent_r.U):
1345 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVENT_R symbol,
1346 which indicates to the C program that the getservent_r()
1347 routine is available.
1348
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1349d_getservprotos (d_getservprotos.U):
1350 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERV_PROTOS symbol,
1351 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
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1353 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1354
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1355d_getspnam (d_getspnam.U):
1356 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETSPNAM if getspnam() is
1357 available to retrieve SysV shadow password entries by name.
1358
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1359d_getspnam_r (d_getspnam_r.U):
1360 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSPNAM_R symbol,
1361 which indicates to the C program that the getspnam_r()
1362 routine is available.
1363
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1364d_gettimeod (d_ftime.U):
1365 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY symbol, which
1366 indicates that the gettimeofday() system call exists (to obtain a
1367 sub-second accuracy clock). You should probably include <sys/resource.h>.
1368
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1369d_gmtime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
1370 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GMTIME64 symbol, which
1371 indicates to the C program that the gmtime64 () routine is available.
1372
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1373d_gmtime_r (d_gmtime_r.U):
1374 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GMTIME_R symbol,
1375 which indicates to the C program that the gmtime_r()
1376 routine is available.
1377
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1378d_gnulibc (d_gnulibc.U):
1379 Defined if we're dealing with the GNU C Library.
1380
1381d_grpasswd (i_grp.U):
1382 This variable conditionally defines GRPASSWD, which indicates
1383 that struct group in <grp.h> contains gr_passwd.
1384
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1385d_has_C_UTF8 (d_setlocale.U):
1386 This variable is set to either "true" or "false" depending on
1387 whether the compilation system supports the C.UTF-8 locale.
1388
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1389d_hasmntopt (d_hasmntopt.U):
1390 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_HASMNTOPT symbol, which
1391 indicates to the C program that the hasmntopt() routine is available
1392 to query the mount options of file systems.
1393
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1394d_htonl (d_htonl.U):
1395 This variable conditionally defines HAS_HTONL if htonl() and its
1396 friends are available to do network order byte swapping.
1397
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1398d_hypot (d_hypot.U):
1399 This variable conditionally defines HAS_HYPOT if hypot is available
1400 for numerically stable hypotenuse function.
1401
1402d_ilogb (d_ilogb.U):
1403 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ILOGB symbol, which
1404 indicates to the C program that the ilogb() routine is available
1405 for extracting the exponent of double x as a signed integer.
1406
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1407d_ilogbl (d_ilogbl.U):
1408 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ILOGBL symbol, which
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1409 indicates to the C program that the ilogbl() routine is available
1410 for extracting the exponent of long double x as a signed integer.
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1411 If scalbnl is also present we can emulate frexpl.
1412
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1413d_inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U):
1414 This variable conditionally defines PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST.
1415 It is set to undef when PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST is empty.
1416
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1417d_inetaton (d_inetaton.U):
1418 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INET_ATON symbol, which
1419 indicates to the C program that the inet_aton() function is available
1420 to parse IP address "dotted-quad" strings.
1421
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1422d_inetntop (d_inetntop.U):
1423 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INETNTOP symbol,
1424 which indicates to the C program that the inet_ntop() function
1425 is available.
1426
1427d_inetpton (d_inetpton.U):
1428 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INETPTON symbol,
1429 which indicates to the C program that the inet_pton() function
1430 is available.
1431
13b3f787 1432d_int64_t (d_int64_t.U):
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1433 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports int64_t.
1434
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1435d_ip_mreq (d_socket.U):
1436 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IP_MREQ symbol, which
1437 indicates the availability of a struct ip_mreq.
1438
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1439d_ip_mreq_source (d_socket.U):
1440 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IP_MREQ_SOURCE symbol,
1441 which indicates the availability of a struct ip_mreq_source.
1442
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1443d_ipv6_mreq (d_socket.U):
1444 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IPV6_MREQ symbol, which
1445 indicates the availability of a struct ipv6_mreq.
1446
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1447d_ipv6_mreq_source (d_socket.U):
1448 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IPV6_MREQ_SOURCE symbol,
1449 which indicates the availability of a struct ipv6_mreq_source.
1450
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1451d_isascii (d_isascii.U):
1452 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISASCII constant,
1453 which indicates to the C program that isascii() is available.
1454
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1455d_isblank (d_isblank.U):
1456 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISBLANK constant,
1457 which indicates to the C program that isblank() is available.
1458
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1459d_isfinite (d_isfinite.U):
1460 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISFINITE symbol, which
1461 indicates to the C program that the isfinite() routine is available.
1462
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1463d_isfinitel (d_isfinitel.U):
1464 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISFINITEL symbol, which
1465 indicates to the C program that the isfinitel() routine is available.
1466
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1467d_isinf (d_isinf.U):
1468 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISINF symbol, which
1469 indicates to the C program that the isinf() routine is available.
1470
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1471d_isinfl (d_isinfl.U):
1472 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISINFL symbol, which
1473 indicates to the C program that the isinfl() routine is available.
1474
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1475d_isless (d_isless.U):
1476 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISLESS symbol, which
1477 indicates to the C program that the isless() routine is available.
1478
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1479d_isnan (d_isnan.U):
1480 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNAN symbol, which
1481 indicates to the C program that the isnan() routine is available.
1482
1483d_isnanl (d_isnanl.U):
1484 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNANL symbol, which
1485 indicates to the C program that the isnanl() routine is available.
1486
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1487d_isnormal (d_isnormal.U):
1488 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNORMAL symbol, which
1489 indicates to the C program that the isnormal() routine is available.
1490
4671125a 1491d_j0 (d_j0.U):
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1492 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_J0 symbol, which
1493 indicates to the C program that the j0() routine is available.
1494
d0166596 1495d_j0l (d_j0.U):
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1496 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_J0L symbol, which
1497 indicates to the C program that the j0l() routine is available.
1498
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1499d_killpg (d_killpg.U):
1500 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_KILLPG symbol, which
1501 indicates to the C program that the killpg() routine is available
1502 to kill process groups.
1503
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1504d_lc_monetary_2008 (d_lc_monetary_2008.U):
1505 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LC_MONETARY_2008 if libc
1506 has the international currency locale rules from POSIX
1507 1003.1-2008.
1508
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1509d_lchown (d_lchown.U):
1510 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LCHOWN symbol, which
1511 indicates to the C program that the lchown() routine is available
1512 to operate on a symbolic link (instead of following the link).
1513
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1514d_ldbl_dig (d_ldbl_dig.U):
1515 This variable conditionally defines d_ldbl_dig if this system's
1516 header files provide LDBL_DIG, which is the number of significant
1517 digits in a long double precision number.
1518
db8b8c75 1519d_ldexpl (d_longdbl.U):
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1520 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LDEXPL symbol, which
1521 indicates to the C program that the ldexpl() routine is available.
1522
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1523d_lgamma (d_lgamma.U):
1524 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LGAMMA symbol, which
1525 indicates to the C program that the lgamma() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1526 for the log gamma function. See also d_tgamma and d_lgamma_r.
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1527
1528d_lgamma_r (d_lgamma_r.U):
1529 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LGAMMA_R symbol, which
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1530 indicates to the C program that the lgamma_r() routine is available
1531 for the log gamma function, without using the global signgam variable.
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1533d_libm_lib_version (d_libm_lib_version.U):
1534 This variable conditionally defines the LIBM_LIB_VERSION symbol,
1535 which indicates to the C program that math.h defines _LIB_VERSION
1536 being available in libm
1537
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1538d_libname_unique (so.U):
1539 This variable is defined if the target system insists on unique
1540 basenames for shared library files. This is currently true on Android,
1541 false everywhere else we know of.
1542 Defaults to 'undef'.
1543
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1544d_link (d_link.U):
1545 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LINK if link() is
1546 available to create hard links.
1547
3c29c5aa 1548d_linkat (d_fsat.U):
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1549 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LINKAT symbol, which
1550 indicates the POSIX linkat() function is available.
1551
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1552d_llrint (d_llrint.U):
1553 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLRINT symbol, which
1554 indicates to the C program that the llrint() routine is available
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1555 to return the long long value closest to a double (according
1556 to the current rounding mode).
427d28ce 1557
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1558d_llrintl (d_llrintl.U):
1559 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLRINTL symbol, which
1560 indicates to the C program that the llrintl() routine is available
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1561 to return the long long value closest to a long double (according
1562 to the current rounding mode).
bc580dd3 1563
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1564d_llround (d_llround.U):
1565 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLROUND symbol, which
1566 indicates to the C program that the llround() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1567 to return the long long value nearest to x.
427d28ce 1568
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1569d_llroundl (d_llroundl.U):
1570 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLROUNDL symbol, which
1571 indicates to the C program that the llroundl() routine is available
2640dfa8 1572 to return the long long value nearest to x away from zero.
bc580dd3 1573
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1574d_localeconv_l (d_localeconv_l.U):
1575 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOCALECONV_L symbol, which
1576 indicates to the C program that the localeconv_l() routine is available.
1577
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1578d_localtime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
1579 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOCALTIME64 symbol, which
1580 indicates to the C program that the localtime64 () routine is available.
1581
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1582d_localtime_r (d_localtime_r.U):
1583 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOCALTIME_R symbol,
1584 which indicates to the C program that the localtime_r()
1585 routine is available.
1586
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1587d_localtime_r_needs_tzset (d_localtime_r.U):
1588 This variable conditionally defines the LOCALTIME_R_NEEDS_TZSET
1589 symbol, which makes us call tzset before localtime_r()
1590
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1591d_locconv (d_locconv.U):
1592 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LOCALECONV if localeconv() is
1593 available for numeric and monetary formatting conventions.
1594
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1595d_lockf (d_lockf.U):
1596 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LOCKF if lockf() is
1597 available to do file locking.
1598
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1599d_log1p (d_log1p.U):
1600 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOG1P symbol, which
1601 indicates to the C program that the logp1() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1602 to compute log(1 + x) for values of x close to zero.
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1603
1604d_log2 (d_log2.U):
1605 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOG2 symbol, which
1606 indicates to the C program that the log2() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1607 to compute log base two.
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1608
1609d_logb (d_logb.U):
1610 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOGB symbol, which
1611 indicates to the C program that the logb() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1612 to extract the exponent of x.
427d28ce 1613
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1614d_long_double_style_ieee (d_longdbl.U):
1615 This variable conditionally defines LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE
1616 if the long double is any of the IEEE 754 style long doubles:
1617 LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_STD, LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_EXTENDED,
1618 LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_DOUBLEDOUBLE.
1619
1620d_long_double_style_ieee_doubledouble (d_longdbl.U):
1621 This variable conditionally defines LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_DOUBLEDOUBLE
1622 if the long double is the 128-bit IEEE 754 double-double.
1623
1624d_long_double_style_ieee_extended (d_longdbl.U):
1625 This variable conditionally defines LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_EXTENDED
1626 if the long double is the 80-bit IEEE 754 extended precision.
1627 Note that despite the 'extended' this is less than the 'std',
f1460a66 1628 since this is an extension of the double precision.
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1629
1630d_long_double_style_ieee_std (d_longdbl.U):
1631 This variable conditionally defines LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_STD
1632 if the long double is the 128-bit IEEE 754.
1633
1634d_long_double_style_vax (d_longdbl.U):
1635 This variable conditionally defines LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_VAX
1636 if the long double is the 128-bit VAX format H.
1637
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1638d_longdbl (d_longdbl.U):
1639 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LONG_DOUBLE if
1640 the long double type is supported.
1641
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635aebb7 1643 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LONG_LONG if
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1644 the long long type is supported.
1645
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1646d_lrint (d_lrint.U):
1647 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LRINT symbol, which
1648 indicates to the C program that the lrint() routine is available
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1649 to return the integral value closest to a double (according
1650 to the current rounding mode).
427d28ce 1651
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1652d_lrintl (d_lrintl.U):
1653 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LRINTL symbol, which
1654 indicates to the C program that the lrintl() routine is available
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1655 to return the integral value closest to a long double (according
1656 to the current rounding mode).
bc580dd3 1657
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1658d_lround (d_lround.U):
1659 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LROUND symbol, which
1660 indicates to the C program that the lround() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1661 to return the integral value nearest to x.
427d28ce 1662
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1663d_lroundl (d_lroundl.U):
1664 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LROUNDL symbol, which
1665 indicates to the C program that the lroundl() routine is available
2640dfa8 1666 to return the integral value nearest to x away from zero.
bc580dd3 1667
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1668d_lseekproto (d_lseekproto.U):
1669 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LSEEK_PROTO symbol,
1670 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
1671 a prototype for the lseek() function. Otherwise, it is
1672 up to the program to supply one.
1673
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1674d_lstat (d_lstat.U):
1675 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LSTAT if lstat() is
1676 available to do file stats on symbolic links.
1677
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1678d_madvise (d_madvise.U):
1679 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MADVISE if madvise() is
1680 available to map a file into memory.
1681
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1682d_malloc_good_size (d_malloc_size.U):
1683 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the malloc_good_size
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1684 routine is available for use.
1685
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1686d_malloc_size (d_malloc_size.U):
1687 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the malloc_size
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1688 routine is available for use.
1689
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1690d_malloc_usable_size (d_malloc_size.U):
1691 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the malloc_usable_size
1692 routine is available for use.
1693
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1694d_mblen (d_mblen.U):
1695 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBLEN symbol, which
1696 indicates to the C program that the mblen() routine is available
f1460a66 1697 to find the number of bytes in a multibyte character.
781b178c 1698
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1699d_mbrlen (d_mbrlen.U):
1700 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBRLEN symbol if the
1701 mbrlen() routine is available to be used to get the length of
1702 multi-byte character strings.
1703
1704d_mbrtowc (d_mbrtowc.U):
1705 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBRTOWC symbol if the
1706 mbrtowc() routine is available to be used to convert a multi-byte
1707 character into a wide character.
1708
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1709d_mbstowcs (d_mbstowcs.U):
1710 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBSTOWCS symbol, which
1711 indicates to the C program that the mbstowcs() routine is available
1712 to convert a multibyte string into a wide character string.
1713
1714d_mbtowc (d_mbtowc.U):
1715 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBTOWC symbol, which
1716 indicates to the C program that the mbtowc() routine is available
1717 to convert multibyte to a wide character.
781b178c 1718
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1719d_memmem (d_memmem.U):
1720 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMMEM symbol, which
1721 indicates to the C program that the memmem() routine is available
f1460a66 1722 to return a pointer to the start of the first occurrence of a
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1723 substring in a memory area (or NULL if not found).
1724
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1725d_memrchr (d_memrchr.U):
1726 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMRCHR symbol, which
1727 indicates to the C program that the memrchr() routine is available
1728 to return a pointer to the last occurrence of a byte in a memory
1729 area (or NULL if not found).
1730
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1731d_mkdir (d_mkdir.U):
1732 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKDIR symbol, which
1733 indicates to the C program that the mkdir() routine is available
209e5c0a 1734 to create directories..
781b178c 1735
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1736d_mkdtemp (d_mkdtemp.U):
1737 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKDTEMP symbol, which
1738 indicates to the C program that the mkdtemp() routine is available
1739 to exclusively create a uniquely named temporary directory.
1740
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1741d_mkfifo (d_mkfifo.U):
1742 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKFIFO symbol, which
1743 indicates to the C program that the mkfifo() routine is available.
1744
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1746 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MKOSTEMP if mkostemp() is
1747 available to exclusively create and open a uniquely named (with a
1748 suffix) temporary file.
226394c3 1749
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1750d_mkstemp (d_mkstemp.U):
1751 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKSTEMP symbol, which
1752 indicates to the C program that the mkstemp() routine is available
1753 to exclusively create and open a uniquely named temporary file.
1754
1755d_mkstemps (d_mkstemps.U):
1756 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKSTEMPS symbol, which
1757 indicates to the C program that the mkstemps() routine is available
1758 to exclusively create and open a uniquely named (with a suffix)
1759 temporary file.
1760
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1761d_mktime (d_mktime.U):
1762 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKTIME symbol, which
1763 indicates to the C program that the mktime() routine is available.
1764
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1765d_mktime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
1766 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKTIME64 symbol, which
1767 indicates to the C program that the mktime64 () routine is available.
1768
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1769d_mmap (d_mmap.U):
1770 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MMAP if mmap() is
1771 available to map a file into memory.
1772
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1773d_modfl (d_modfl.U):
1774 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MODFL symbol, which
1775 indicates to the C program that the modfl() routine is available.
1776
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1777d_modflproto (d_modfl.U):
1778 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the system provides
1779 a prototype for the modfl() function. Otherwise, it is up
1780 to the program to supply one. C99 says it should be
1781 long double modfl(long double, long double *);
1782
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1783d_mprotect (d_mprotect.U):
1784 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MPROTECT if mprotect() is
1785 available to modify the access protection of a memory mapped file.
1786
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1787d_msg (d_msg.U):
1788 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG symbol, which
1789 indicates that the entire msg*(2) library is present.
1790
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1791d_msg_ctrunc (d_socket.U):
1792 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_CTRUNC symbol,
1793 which indicates that the MSG_CTRUNC is available. #ifdef is
1794 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1795
1796d_msg_dontroute (d_socket.U):
1797 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_DONTROUTE symbol,
1798 which indicates that the MSG_DONTROUTE is available. #ifdef is
1799 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1800
1801d_msg_oob (d_socket.U):
1802 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_OOB symbol,
1803 which indicates that the MSG_OOB is available. #ifdef is
1804 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1805
1806d_msg_peek (d_socket.U):
1807 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_PEEK symbol,
1808 which indicates that the MSG_PEEK is available. #ifdef is
1809 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1810
1811d_msg_proxy (d_socket.U):
1812 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_PROXY symbol,
1813 which indicates that the MSG_PROXY is available. #ifdef is
1814 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1815
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1816d_msgctl (d_msgctl.U):
1817 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGCTL symbol, which
1818 indicates to the C program that the msgctl() routine is available.
1819
1820d_msgget (d_msgget.U):
1821 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGGET symbol, which
1822 indicates to the C program that the msgget() routine is available.
1823
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1824d_msghdr_s (d_msghdr_s.U):
1825 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_MSGHDR symbol,
1826 which indicates that the struct msghdr is supported.
1827
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1828d_msgrcv (d_msgrcv.U):
1829 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGRCV symbol, which
1830 indicates to the C program that the msgrcv() routine is available.
1831
1832d_msgsnd (d_msgsnd.U):
1833 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGSND symbol, which
1834 indicates to the C program that the msgsnd() routine is available.
1835
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1836d_msync (d_msync.U):
1837 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MSYNC if msync() is
1838 available to synchronize a mapped file.
1839
1840d_munmap (d_munmap.U):
1841 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MUNMAP if munmap() is
1842 available to unmap a region mapped by mmap().
1843
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1844d_mymalloc (mallocsrc.U):
1845 This variable conditionally defines MYMALLOC in case other parts
1846 of the source want to take special action if MYMALLOC is used.
1847 This may include different sorts of profiling or error detection.
1848
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1849d_nan (d_nan.U):
1850 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NAN if nan() is
1851 available to generate NaN.
1852
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1853d_nanosleep (d_nanosleep.U):
1854 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NANOSLEEP
1855 if nanosleep() is available to sleep with 1E-9 sec accuracy.
1856
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1857d_ndbm (i_ndbm.U):
1858 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NDBM symbol, which
1859 indicates that both the ndbm.h include file and an appropriate ndbm
1860 library exist. Consult the different i_*ndbm variables
1861 to find out the actual include location. Sometimes, a system has the
1862 header file but not the library. This variable will only be set if
1863 the system has both.
1864
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1865d_ndbm_h_uses_prototypes (i_ndbm.U):
1866 This variable conditionally defines the NDBM_H_USES_PROTOTYPES symbol,
1867 which indicates that the ndbm.h include file uses real ANSI C
1868 prototypes instead of K&R style function declarations. K&R style
1869 declarations are unsupported in C++, so the include file requires
1870 special handling when using a C++ compiler and this variable is
1871 undefined. Consult the different d_*ndbm_h_uses_prototypes variables
1872 to get the same information for alternative ndbm.h include files.
1873
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1874d_nearbyint (d_nearbyint.U):
1875 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NEARBYINT if nearbyint()
1876 is available to return the integral value closest to (according to
1877 the current rounding mode) to x.
1878
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1879d_newlocale (d_newlocale.U):
1880 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NEWLOCALE symbol, which
1881 indicates to the C program that the newlocale() routine is available
1882 to return a new locale object or modify an existing locale object.
1883
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1884d_nextafter (d_nextafter.U):
1885 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NEXTAFTER if nextafter()
1886 is available to return the next machine representable double from
1887 x in direction y.
1888
1889d_nexttoward (d_nexttoward.U):
1890 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NEXTTOWARD if nexttoward()
1891 is available to return the next machine representable long double from
1892 x in direction y.
1893
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1894d_nice (d_nice.U):
1895 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NICE symbol, which
1896 indicates to the C program that the nice() routine is available.
1897
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1898d_nl_langinfo (d_nl_langinfo.U):
1899 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NL_LANGINFO symbol, which
1900 indicates to the C program that the nl_langinfo() routine is available.
1901
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1902d_nl_langinfo_l (d_nl_langinfo_l.U):
1903 This variable contains the eventual value of the
1904 HAS_NL_LANGINFO_L symbol, which indicates if the
1905 nl_langinfo_l() function exists.
1906
1907d_non_int_bitfields (d_bitfield.U):
1908 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NON_INT_BITFIELDS
1909 which indicates that the C compiler accepts struct bitfields of sizes
1910 that aren't 'int' or 'unsigned int'
1911
78691af5 1912d_nv_preserves_uv (perlxv.U):
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1913 This variable indicates whether a variable of type nvtype
1914 can preserve all the bits a variable of type uvtype.
1915
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1916d_nv_zero_is_allbits_zero (perlxv.U):
1917 This variable indicates whether a variable of type nvtype
1918 stores 0.0 in memory as all bits zero.
1919
c890dc6c 1920d_off64_t (d_off64_t.U):
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1921 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports off64_t.
1922
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1923d_old_pthread_create_joinable (d_pthrattrj.U):
1924 This variable conditionally defines pthread_create_joinable.
1925 undef if pthread.h defines PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE.
1926
1927d_oldpthreads (usethreads.U):
1928 This variable conditionally defines the OLD_PTHREADS_API symbol,
1929 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the old
8c09e4ca 1930 draft POSIX threads API. This is only potentially meaningful if
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1931 usethreads is set.
1932
1933d_oldsock (d_socket.U):
1934 This variable conditionally defines the OLDSOCKET symbol, which
1935 indicates that the BSD socket interface is based on 4.1c and not 4.2.
1936
1937d_open3 (d_open3.U):
1938 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_OPEN3 manifest constant,
1939 which indicates to the C program that the 3 argument version of
1940 the open(2) function is available.
1941
3c29c5aa 1942d_openat (d_fsat.U):
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1943 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_OPENAT symbol, which
1944 indicates the POSIX openat() function is available.
1945
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1946d_pathconf (d_pathconf.U):
1947 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PATHCONF symbol, which
1948 indicates to the C program that the pathconf() routine is available
1949 to determine file-system related limits and options associated
1950 with a given filename.
1951
1952d_pause (d_pause.U):
1953 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PAUSE symbol, which
1954 indicates to the C program that the pause() routine is available
1955 to suspend a process until a signal is received.
1956
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1957d_perl_otherlibdirs (otherlibdirs.U):
1958 This variable conditionally defines PERL_OTHERLIBDIRS, which
1959 contains a colon-separated set of paths for the perl binary to
1960 include in @INC. See also otherlibdirs.
1961
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1962d_phostname (d_gethname.U):
1963 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PHOSTNAME symbol, which
1964 contains the shell command which, when fed to popen(), may be
1965 used to derive the host name.
1966
1967d_pipe (d_pipe.U):
1968 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PIPE symbol, which
1969 indicates to the C program that the pipe() routine is available
1970 to create an inter-process channel.
1971
5c7252f4 1972d_pipe2 (d_pipe2.U):
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1973 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PIPE2 symbol, which
1974 indicates to the C program that the pipe2() routine is available
1975 to create an inter-process channel.
5c7252f4 1976
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1977d_poll (d_poll.U):
1978 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_POLL symbol, which
1979 indicates to the C program that the poll() routine is available
1980 to poll active file descriptors.
1981
1982d_portable (d_portable.U):
1983 This variable conditionally defines the PORTABLE symbol, which
1984 indicates to the C program that it should not assume that it is
1985 running on the machine it was compiled on.
1986
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1987d_prctl (d_prctl.U):
1988 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PRCTL symbol, which
1989 indicates to the C program that the prctl() routine is available.
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1990 Note that there are at least two prctl variants: Linux and Irix.
1991 While they are somewhat similar, they are incompatible.
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1993d_prctl_set_name (d_prctl.U):
1994 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PRCTL_SET_NAME symbol,
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1995 which indicates to the C program that the prctl() routine supports
1996 the PR_SET_NAME option.
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1998d_PRId64 (quadfio.U):
1999 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRId64 symbol, which
47e01c32 2000 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit decimal numbers.
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2001
2002d_PRIeldbl (longdblfio.U):
2003 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 2004 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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2005
2006d_PRIEUldbl (longdblfio.U):
2007 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 2008 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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2009 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIeldbl so that even
2010 case-blind systems can see the difference.
2011
2012d_PRIfldbl (longdblfio.U):
2013 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 2014 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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2016d_PRIFUldbl (longdblfio.U):
2017 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 2018 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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2019 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIfldbl so that even
2020 case-blind systems can see the difference.
2021
2022d_PRIgldbl (longdblfio.U):
2023 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 2024 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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2025
2026d_PRIGUldbl (longdblfio.U):
2027 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 2028 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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2029 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIgldbl so that even
2030 case-blind systems can see the difference.
2031
2032d_PRIi64 (quadfio.U):
2033 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIi64 symbol, which
47e01c32 2034 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit decimal numbers.
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066e7355 2036d_printf_format_null (d_attribut.U):
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2037 This variable conditionally defines PRINTF_FORMAT_NULL_OK, which
2038 indicates the C compiler allows printf-like formats to be null.
2039
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2040d_PRIo64 (quadfio.U):
2041 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIo64 symbol, which
47e01c32 2042 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit octal numbers.
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2043
2044d_PRIu64 (quadfio.U):
2045 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIu64 symbol, which
47e01c32 2046 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit unsigned decimal
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2047 numbers.
2048
2049d_PRIx64 (quadfio.U):
2050 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIx64 symbol, which
47e01c32 2051 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit hexadecimal numbers.
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2052
2053d_PRIXU64 (quadfio.U):
2054 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIXU64 symbol, which
47e01c32 2055 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit hExADECimAl numbers.
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2056 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIx64 so that even
2057 case-blind systems can see the difference.
2058
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2059d_procselfexe (d_procselfexe.U):
2060 Defined if $procselfexe is symlink to the absolute
2061 pathname of the executing program.
2062
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2063d_pseudofork (d_vfork.U):
2064 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PSEUDOFORK symbol,
2065 which indicates that an emulation of the fork routine is available.
2066
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2067d_pthread_atfork (d_pthread_atfork.U):
2068 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PTHREAD_ATFORK symbol,
2069 which indicates to the C program that the pthread_atfork()
2070 routine is available.
2071
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2072d_pthread_attr_setscope (d_pthread_attr_ss.U):
2073 This variable conditionally defines HAS_PTHREAD_ATTR_SETSCOPE if
2074 pthread_attr_setscope() is available to set the contention scope
2075 attribute of a thread attribute object.
2076
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2077d_pthread_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
2078 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PTHREAD_YIELD
2079 symbol if the pthread_yield routine is available to yield
2080 the execution of the current thread.
2081
0e0c5f82 2082d_ptrdiff_t (d_ptrdiff_t.U):
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2084
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2085d_pwage (i_pwd.U):
2086 This variable conditionally defines PWAGE, which indicates
2087 that struct passwd contains pw_age.
2088
2089d_pwchange (i_pwd.U):
2090 This variable conditionally defines PWCHANGE, which indicates
2091 that struct passwd contains pw_change.
2092
2093d_pwclass (i_pwd.U):
2094 This variable conditionally defines PWCLASS, which indicates
2095 that struct passwd contains pw_class.
2096
2097d_pwcomment (i_pwd.U):
2098 This variable conditionally defines PWCOMMENT, which indicates
2099 that struct passwd contains pw_comment.
2100
2101d_pwexpire (i_pwd.U):
2102 This variable conditionally defines PWEXPIRE, which indicates
2103 that struct passwd contains pw_expire.
2104
2105d_pwgecos (i_pwd.U):
2106 This variable conditionally defines PWGECOS, which indicates
2107 that struct passwd contains pw_gecos.
2108
2109d_pwpasswd (i_pwd.U):
2110 This variable conditionally defines PWPASSWD, which indicates
2111 that struct passwd contains pw_passwd.
2112
2113d_pwquota (i_pwd.U):
2114 This variable conditionally defines PWQUOTA, which indicates
2115 that struct passwd contains pw_quota.
2116
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2117d_qgcvt (d_qgcvt.U):
2118 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_QGCVT symbol, which
2119 indicates to the C program that the qgcvt() routine is available.
2120
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2121d_quad (quadtype.U):
2122 This variable, if defined, tells that there's a 64-bit integer type,
2123 quadtype.
2124
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2125d_querylocale (d_newlocale.U):
2126 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_QUERYLOCALE symbol, which
2127 indicates to the C program that the querylocale() routine is available
2128 to return the name of the locale for a category mask.
2129
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2130d_random_r (d_random_r.U):
2131 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RANDOM_R symbol,
2132 which indicates to the C program that the random_r()
2133 routine is available.
2134
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2135d_re_comp (d_regcmp.U):
2136 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RECOMP symbol, which
2137 indicates to the C program that the re_comp() routine is available
4357af6c 2138 for regular pattern matching (usually on BSD). If so, it is likely that
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2139 re_exec() exists.
2140
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2141d_readdir (d_readdir.U):
2142 This variable conditionally defines HAS_READDIR if readdir() is
2143 available to read directory entries.
2144
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2145d_readdir64_r (d_readdir64_r.U):
2146 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READDIR64_R symbol,
2147 which indicates to the C program that the readdir64_r()
2148 routine is available.
2149
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2150d_readdir_r (d_readdir_r.U):
2151 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READDIR_R symbol,
2152 which indicates to the C program that the readdir_r()
2153 routine is available.
2154
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2155d_readlink (d_readlink.U):
2156 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READLINK symbol, which
2157 indicates to the C program that the readlink() routine is available
2158 to read the value of a symbolic link.
2159
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2160d_readv (d_readv.U):
2161 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READV symbol, which
2162 indicates to the C program that the readv() routine is available.
2163
2164d_recvmsg (d_recvmsg.U):
2165 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RECVMSG symbol, which
2166 indicates to the C program that the recvmsg() routine is available.
2167
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2168d_regcmp (d_regcmp.U):
2169 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_REGCMP symbol, which
2170 indicates to the C program that the regcmp() routine is available
4357af6c 2171 for regular pattern matching (usually on System V).
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2172
2173d_regcomp (d_regcmp.U):
2174 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_REGCOMP symbol, which
2175 indicates to the C program that the regcomp() routine is available
4357af6c 2176 for regular pattern matching (usually on POSIX.2 conforming systems).
f40bbcbf 2177
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2178d_remainder (d_remainder.U):
2179 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_REMAINDER symbol, which
2180 indicates to the C program that the remainder() routine is available.
2181
2182d_remquo (d_remquo.U):
2183 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_REMQUO symbol, which
2184 indicates to the C program that the remquo() routine is available.
2185
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2186d_rename (d_rename.U):
2187 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RENAME symbol, which
2188 indicates to the C program that the rename() routine is available
2189 to rename files.
2190
3c29c5aa 2191d_renameat (d_fsat.U):
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2192 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RENAMEAT symbol, which
2193 indicates the POSIX renameat() function is available.
2194
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2195d_rewinddir (d_readdir.U):
2196 This variable conditionally defines HAS_REWINDDIR if rewinddir() is
2197 available.
2198
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2199d_rint (d_rint.U):
2200 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RINT symbol, which
2201 indicates to the C program that the rint() routine is available.
2202
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2203d_rmdir (d_rmdir.U):
2204 This variable conditionally defines HAS_RMDIR if rmdir() is
2205 available to remove directories.
2206
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2207d_round (d_round.U):
2208 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ROUND symbol, which
2209 indicates to the C program that the round() routine is available.
2210
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2211d_sbrkproto (d_sbrkproto.U):
2212 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SBRK_PROTO symbol,
2213 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2214 a prototype for the sbrk() function. Otherwise, it is
2215 up to the program to supply one.
2216
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2217d_scalbn (d_scalbn.U):
2218 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCALBN symbol, which
2219 indicates to the C program that the scalbn() routine is available.
2220
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2221d_scalbnl (d_scalbnl.U):
2222 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCALBNL symbol, which
2223 indicates to the C program that the scalbnl() routine is available.
2224 If ilogbl is also present we can emulate frexpl.
2225
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2226d_sched_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
2227 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCHED_YIELD
2228 symbol if the sched_yield routine is available to yield
2229 the execution of the current thread.
2230
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2231d_scm_rights (d_socket.U):
2232 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCM_RIGHTS symbol,
2233 which indicates that the SCM_RIGHTS is available. #ifdef is
2234 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
2235
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2236d_SCNfldbl (longdblfio.U):
2237 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 2238 indicates that stdio has a symbol to scan long doubles.
4d54317a 2239
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2240d_seekdir (d_readdir.U):
2241 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SEEKDIR if seekdir() is
2242 available.
2243
2244d_select (d_select.U):
2245 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SELECT if select() is
2246 available to select active file descriptors. A <sys/time.h>
2247 inclusion may be necessary for the timeout field.
2248
2249d_sem (d_sem.U):
2250 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEM symbol, which
2251 indicates that the entire sem*(2) library is present.
2252
2253d_semctl (d_semctl.U):
2254 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMCTL symbol, which
2255 indicates to the C program that the semctl() routine is available.
2256
2257d_semctl_semid_ds (d_union_semun.U):
2258 This variable conditionally defines USE_SEMCTL_SEMID_DS, which
2259 indicates that struct semid_ds * is to be used for semctl IPC_STAT.
2260
2261d_semctl_semun (d_union_semun.U):
2262 This variable conditionally defines USE_SEMCTL_SEMUN, which
2263 indicates that union semun is to be used for semctl IPC_STAT.
2264
2265d_semget (d_semget.U):
2266 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMGET symbol, which
2267 indicates to the C program that the semget() routine is available.
2268
2269d_semop (d_semop.U):
2270 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMOP symbol, which
2271 indicates to the C program that the semop() routine is available.
2272
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2273d_sendmsg (d_sendmsg.U):
2274 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SENDMSG symbol, which
2275 indicates to the C program that the sendmsg() routine is available.
2276
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2277d_setegid (d_setegid.U):
2278 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETEGID symbol, which
2279 indicates to the C program that the setegid() routine is available
2280 to change the effective gid of the current program.
2281
2282d_seteuid (d_seteuid.U):
2283 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETEUID symbol, which
2284 indicates to the C program that the seteuid() routine is available
2285 to change the effective uid of the current program.
2286
2287d_setgrent (d_setgrent.U):
2288 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGRENT symbol, which
2289 indicates to the C program that the setgrent() routine is available
2290 for initializing sequential access to the group database.
2291
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2292d_setgrent_r (d_setgrent_r.U):
2293 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGRENT_R symbol,
2294 which indicates to the C program that the setgrent_r()
2295 routine is available.
2296
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2297d_setgrps (d_setgrps.U):
2298 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGROUPS symbol, which
2299 indicates to the C program that the setgroups() routine is available
2300 to set the list of process groups.
2301
2302d_sethent (d_sethent.U):
2303 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETHOSTENT if sethostent() is
2304 available.
2305
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2306d_sethostent_r (d_sethostent_r.U):
2307 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETHOSTENT_R symbol,
2308 which indicates to the C program that the sethostent_r()
2309 routine is available.
2310
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2311d_setitimer (d_setitimer.U):
2312 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETITIMER symbol, which
2313 indicates to the C program that the setitimer() routine is available.
2314
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2315d_setlinebuf (d_setlnbuf.U):
2316 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETLINEBUF symbol, which
2317 indicates to the C program that the setlinebuf() routine is available
2318 to change stderr or stdout from block-buffered or unbuffered to a
2319 line-buffered mode.
2320
2321d_setlocale (d_setlocale.U):
2322 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETLOCALE if setlocale() is
2323 available to handle locale-specific ctype implementations.
2324
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2325d_setlocale_accepts_any_locale_name (d_setlocale.U):
2326 This variable conditionally defines SETLOCALE_ACCEPTS_ANY_LOCALE_NAME
2327 if setlocale() accepts any locale name.
2328
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2329d_setlocale_r (d_setlocale_r.U):
2330 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETLOCALE_R symbol,
2331 which indicates to the C program that the setlocale_r()
2332 routine is available.
2333
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2334d_setnent (d_setnent.U):
2335 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETNETENT if setnetent() is
2336 available.
2337
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2338d_setnetent_r (d_setnetent_r.U):
2339 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETNETENT_R symbol,
2340 which indicates to the C program that the setnetent_r()
2341 routine is available.
2342
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2343d_setpent (d_setpent.U):
2344 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPROTOENT if setprotoent() is
2345 available.
2346
2347d_setpgid (d_setpgid.U):
2348 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGID symbol if the
2349 setpgid(pid, gpid) function is available to set process group ID.
2350
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2351d_setpgrp (d_setpgrp.U):
2352 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPGRP if setpgrp() is
2353 available to set the current process group.
2354
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2355d_setpgrp2 (d_setpgrp2.U):
2356 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGRP2 symbol, which
2357 indicates to the C program that the setpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine
2358 is available to set the current process group.
2359
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2360d_setprior (d_setprior.U):
2361 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPRIORITY if setpriority()
2362 is available to set a process's priority.
2363
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2364d_setproctitle (d_setproctitle.U):
2365 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPROCTITLE symbol,
2366 which indicates to the C program that the setproctitle() routine
2367 is available.
2368
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2369d_setprotoent_r (d_setprotoent_r.U):
2370 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPROTOENT_R symbol,
2371 which indicates to the C program that the setprotoent_r()
2372 routine is available.
2373
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2374d_setpwent (d_setpwent.U):
2375 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPWENT symbol, which
2376 indicates to the C program that the setpwent() routine is available
2377 for initializing sequential access to the passwd database.
2378
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2379d_setpwent_r (d_setpwent_r.U):
2380 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPWENT_R symbol,
2381 which indicates to the C program that the setpwent_r()
2382 routine is available.
2383
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2384d_setregid (d_setregid.U):
2385 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREGID if setregid() is
2386 available to change the real and effective gid of the current
2387 process.
2388
2389d_setresgid (d_setregid.U):
2390 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETRESGID if setresgid() is
2391 available to change the real, effective and saved gid of the current
2392 process.
2393
2394d_setresuid (d_setreuid.U):
2395 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREUID if setresuid() is
2396 available to change the real, effective and saved uid of the current
2397 process.
2398
2399d_setreuid (d_setreuid.U):
2400 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREUID if setreuid() is
2401 available to change the real and effective uid of the current
2402 process.
2403
2404d_setrgid (d_setrgid.U):
2405 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRGID symbol, which
2406 indicates to the C program that the setrgid() routine is available
2407 to change the real gid of the current program.
2408
2409d_setruid (d_setruid.U):
2410 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRUID symbol, which
2411 indicates to the C program that the setruid() routine is available
2412 to change the real uid of the current program.
2413
2414d_setsent (d_setsent.U):
2415 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSERVENT if setservent() is
2416 available.
2417
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2418d_setservent_r (d_setservent_r.U):
2419 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETSERVENT_R symbol,
2420 which indicates to the C program that the setservent_r()
2421 routine is available.
2422
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2423d_setsid (d_setsid.U):
2424 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSID if setsid() is
2425 available to set the process group ID.
2426
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2427d_setvbuf (d_setvbuf.U):
2428 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETVBUF symbol, which
2429 indicates to the C program that the setvbuf() routine is available
2430 to change buffering on an open stdio stream.
2431
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2432d_shm (d_shm.U):
2433 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHM symbol, which
2434 indicates that the entire shm*(2) library is present.
2435
2436d_shmat (d_shmat.U):
2437 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMAT symbol, which
2438 indicates to the C program that the shmat() routine is available.
2439
2440d_shmatprototype (d_shmat.U):
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2442 symbol, which indicates that sys/shm.h has a prototype for
2443 shmat.
2444
2445d_shmctl (d_shmctl.U):
2446 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMCTL symbol, which
2447 indicates to the C program that the shmctl() routine is available.
2448
2449d_shmdt (d_shmdt.U):
2450 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMDT symbol, which
2451 indicates to the C program that the shmdt() routine is available.
2452
2453d_shmget (d_shmget.U):
2454 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMGET symbol, which
2455 indicates to the C program that the shmget() routine is available.
2456
2457d_sigaction (d_sigaction.U):
2458 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGACTION symbol, which
2459 indicates that the Vr4 sigaction() routine is available.
2460
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2461d_siginfo_si_addr (d_siginfo_si.U):
2462 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_ADDR symbol,
2463 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_addr member.
2464
2465d_siginfo_si_band (d_siginfo_si.U):
2466 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_BAND symbol,
2467 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_band member.
2468
2469d_siginfo_si_errno (d_siginfo_si.U):
2470 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_ERRNO symbol,
2471 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_errno member.
2472
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2473d_siginfo_si_fd (d_siginfo_si.U):
2474 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_FD symbol,
2475 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_fd member.
2476
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2477d_siginfo_si_pid (d_siginfo_si.U):
2478 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_PID symbol,
2479 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_pid member.
2480
2481d_siginfo_si_status (d_siginfo_si.U):
2482 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_STATUS symbol,
2483 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_status member.
2484
2485d_siginfo_si_uid (d_siginfo_si.U):
2486 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_UID symbol,
2487 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_uid member.
2488
2489d_siginfo_si_value (d_siginfo_si.U):
2490 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_VALUE symbol,
2491 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_value member.
2492
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2493d_signbit (d_signbit.U):
2494 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGNBIT symbol, which
2495 indicates to the C program that the signbit() routine is available
2496 and safe to use with perl's intern NV type.
2497
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2498d_sigprocmask (d_sigprocmask.U):
2499 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SIGPROCMASK
2500 if sigprocmask() is available to examine or change the signal mask
2501 of the calling process.
2502
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2503d_sigsetjmp (d_sigsetjmp.U):
2504 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGSETJMP symbol,
2505 which indicates that the sigsetjmp() routine is available to
2506 call setjmp() and optionally save the process's signal mask.
2507
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2508d_sin6_scope_id (d_socket.U):
2509 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIN6_SCOPE_ID symbol, which
2510 indicates that a struct sockaddr_in6 structure has the sin6_scope_id
2511 member.
2512
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2513d_sitearch (sitearch.U):
2514 This variable conditionally defines SITEARCH to hold the pathname
2515 of architecture-dependent library files for $package. If
2516 $sitearch is the same as $archlib, then this is set to undef.
2517
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2518d_snprintf (d_snprintf.U):
2519 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SNPRINTF symbol, which
2520 indicates to the C program that the snprintf () library function
2521 is available.
2522
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2523d_sockaddr_in6 (d_socket.U):
2524 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKADDR_IN6 symbol, which
2525 indicates the availability of a struct sockaddr_in6.
2526
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2527d_sockaddr_sa_len (d_socket.U):
2528 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKADDR_SA_LEN symbol,
2529 which indicates that a struct sockaddr structure has the sa_len
2530 member.
2531
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2532d_sockaddr_storage (d_socket.U):
2533 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKADDR_STORAGE symbol,
2534 which indicates the availability of a struct sockaddr_storage.
2535
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2536d_sockatmark (d_sockatmark.U):
2537 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKATMARK symbol, which
2538 indicates to the C program that the sockatmark() routine is available.
2539
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2540d_sockatmarkproto (d_sockatmarkproto.U):
2541 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKATMARK_PROTO symbol,
2542 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2543 a prototype for the sockatmark() function. Otherwise, it is
2544 up to the program to supply one.
2545
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2546d_socket (d_socket.U):
2547 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SOCKET, which indicates
2548 that the BSD socket interface is supported.
2549
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2550d_socklen_t (d_socklen_t.U):
2551 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports socklen_t.
2552
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2553d_sockpair (d_socket.U):
2554 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKETPAIR symbol, which
2555 indicates that the BSD socketpair() is supported.
2556
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2557d_socks5_init (d_socks5_init.U):
2558 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKS5_INIT symbol, which
2559 indicates to the C program that the socks5_init() routine is available.
2560
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2561d_sqrtl (d_sqrtl.U):
2562 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SQRTL symbol, which
2563 indicates to the C program that the sqrtl() routine is available.
2564
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2565d_srand48_r (d_srand48_r.U):
2566 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SRAND48_R symbol,
2567 which indicates to the C program that the srand48_r()
2568 routine is available.
2569
2570d_srandom_r (d_srandom_r.U):
2571 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SRANDOM_R symbol,
2572 which indicates to the C program that the srandom_r()
2573 routine is available.
2574
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2575d_sresgproto (d_sresgproto.U):
2576 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRESGID_PROTO symbol,
2577 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2578 a prototype for the setresgid() function. Otherwise, it is
2579 up to the program to supply one.
2580
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2581d_sresuproto (d_sresuproto.U):
2582 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRESUID_PROTO symbol,
2583 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2584 a prototype for the setresuid() function. Otherwise, it is
2585 up to the program to supply one.
2586
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2587d_stat (d_stat.U):
2588 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STAT if stat() is
2589 available to get file status.
2590
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2591d_statblks (d_statblks.U):
2592 This variable conditionally defines USE_STAT_BLOCKS
2593 if this system has a stat structure declaring
2594 st_blksize and st_blocks.
2595
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2596d_statfs_f_flags (d_statfs_f_flags.U):
2597 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_STATFS_F_FLAGS
2598 symbol, which indicates to struct statfs from has f_flags member.
2599 This kind of struct statfs is coming from sys/mount.h (BSD),
2600 not from sys/statfs.h (SYSV).
2601
2602d_statfs_s (d_statfs_s.U):
2603 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_STATFS symbol,
2604 which indicates that the struct statfs is supported.
2605
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2606d_static_inline (d_static_inline.U):
2607 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STATIC_INLINE symbol,
2608 which indicates that the C compiler supports C99-style static
2609 inline. That is, the function can't be called from another
2610 translation unit.
2611
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2612d_statvfs (d_statvfs.U):
2613 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STATVFS symbol, which
2614 indicates to the C program that the statvfs() routine is available.
2615
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2616d_stdio_cnt_lval (d_stdstdio.U):
2617 This variable conditionally defines STDIO_CNT_LVALUE if the
2618 FILE_cnt macro can be used as an lvalue.
2619
2620d_stdio_ptr_lval (d_stdstdio.U):
2621 This variable conditionally defines STDIO_PTR_LVALUE if the
2622 FILE_ptr macro can be used as an lvalue.
2623
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2624d_stdio_ptr_lval_nochange_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
2625 This symbol is defined if using the FILE_ptr macro as an lvalue
2626 to increase the pointer by n leaves File_cnt(fp) unchanged.
2627
2628d_stdio_ptr_lval_sets_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
2629 This symbol is defined if using the FILE_ptr macro as an lvalue
2630 to increase the pointer by n has the side effect of decreasing the
2631 value of File_cnt(fp) by n.
2632
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2633d_stdio_stream_array (stdio_streams.U):
2634 This variable tells whether there is an array holding
2635 the stdio streams.
2636
2637d_stdiobase (d_stdstdio.U):
2638 This variable conditionally defines USE_STDIO_BASE if this system
2639 has a FILE structure declaring a usable _base field (or equivalent)
2640 in stdio.h.
2641
2642d_stdstdio (d_stdstdio.U):
2643 This variable conditionally defines USE_STDIO_PTR if this system
2644 has a FILE structure declaring usable _ptr and _cnt fields (or
2645 equivalent) in stdio.h.
2646
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2647d_strcoll (d_strcoll.U):
2648 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRCOLL if strcoll() is
2649 available to compare strings using collating information.
2650
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2651d_strerror_l (d_strerror_l.U):
2652 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRERROR_L symbol, which
2653 indicates to the C program that the strerror_l() routine is available
2654 to return the error message for a given errno value in a particular
2655 locale (identified by a locale_t object).
2656
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2657d_strerror_r (d_strerror_r.U):
2658 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRERROR_R symbol,
2659 which indicates to the C program that the strerror_r()
2660 routine is available.
2661
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2662d_strftime (d_strftime.U):
2663 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRFTIME symbol, which
2664 indicates to the C program that the strftime() routine is available.
2665
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2666d_strlcat (d_strlcat.U):
2667 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRLCAT symbol, which
2668 indicates to the C program that the strlcat () routine is available.
2669
2670d_strlcpy (d_strlcpy.U):
2671 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRLCPY symbol, which
2672 indicates to the C program that the strlcpy () routine is available.
2673
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2674d_strnlen (d_strnlen.U):
2675 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRNLEN symbol, which
2676 indicates to the C program that the strnlen () routine is available.
2677
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2678d_strtod (d_strtod.U):
2679 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOD symbol, which
2680 indicates to the C program that the strtod() routine is available
2681 to provide better numeric string conversion than atof().
2682
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2683d_strtod_l (d_strtod_l.U):
2684 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOD_L symbol, which
2685 indicates to the C program that the strtod_l() routine is available.
2686
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2687d_strtol (d_strtol.U):
2688 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOL symbol, which
2689 indicates to the C program that the strtol() routine is available
2690 to provide better numeric string conversion than atoi() and friends.
2691
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2692d_strtold (d_strtold.U):
2693 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLD symbol, which
2694 indicates to the C program that the strtold() routine is available.
2695
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2696d_strtold_l (d_strtold_l.U):
2697 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLD_L symbol, which
2698 indicates to the C program that the strtold_l() routine is available.
2699
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2700d_strtoll (d_strtoll.U):
2701 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLL symbol, which
2702 indicates to the C program that the strtoll() routine is available.
2703
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2704d_strtoq (d_strtoq.U):
2705 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOQ symbol, which
2706 indicates to the C program that the strtoq() routine is available.
2707
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2708d_strtoul (d_strtoul.U):
2709 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUL symbol, which
2710 indicates to the C program that the strtoul() routine is available
2711 to provide conversion of strings to unsigned long.
2712
ff935051 2713d_strtoull (d_strtoull.U):
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2714 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOULL symbol, which
2715 indicates to the C program that the strtoull() routine is available.
2716
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2717d_strtouq (d_strtouq.U):
2718 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUQ symbol, which
2719 indicates to the C program that the strtouq() routine is available.
2720
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2721d_strxfrm (d_strxfrm.U):
2722 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRXFRM if strxfrm() is
2723 available to transform strings.
2724
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2725d_strxfrm_l (d_strxfrm_l.U):
2726 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRXFRM_L if strxfrm_l() is
2727 available to transform strings.
2728
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2729d_suidsafe (d_dosuid.U):
2730 This variable conditionally defines SETUID_SCRIPTS_ARE_SECURE_NOW
2731 if setuid scripts can be secure. This test looks in /dev/fd/.
2732
2733d_symlink (d_symlink.U):
2734 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYMLINK symbol, which
2735 indicates to the C program that the symlink() routine is available
2736 to create symbolic links.
2737
2738d_syscall (d_syscall.U):
2739 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYSCALL if syscall() is
2740 available call arbitrary system calls.
2741
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2742d_syscallproto (d_syscallproto.U):
2743 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYSCALL_PROTO symbol,
2744 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2745 a prototype for the syscall() function. Otherwise, it is
2746 up to the program to supply one.
2747
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2748d_sysconf (d_sysconf.U):
2749 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYSCONF symbol, which
2750 indicates to the C program that the sysconf() routine is available
2751 to determine system related limits and options.
2752
2753d_sysernlst (d_strerror.U):
2754 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYS_ERRNOLIST if sys_errnolist[]
2755 is available to translate error numbers to the symbolic name.
2756
2757d_syserrlst (d_strerror.U):
2758 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYS_ERRLIST if sys_errlist[] is
2759 available to translate error numbers to strings.
2760
2761d_system (d_system.U):
2762 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYSTEM if system() is
2763 available to issue a shell command.
2764
2765d_tcgetpgrp (d_tcgtpgrp.U):
2766 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TCGETPGRP symbol, which
2767 indicates to the C program that the tcgetpgrp() routine is available.
2768 to get foreground process group ID.
2769
2770d_tcsetpgrp (d_tcstpgrp.U):
2771 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TCSETPGRP symbol, which
2772 indicates to the C program that the tcsetpgrp() routine is available
2773 to set foreground process group ID.
2774
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2775d_telldir (d_readdir.U):
2776 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TELLDIR if telldir() is
2777 available.
2778
2779d_telldirproto (d_telldirproto.U):
2780 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TELLDIR_PROTO symbol,
2781 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2782 a prototype for the telldir() function. Otherwise, it is
2783 up to the program to supply one.
2784
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2785d_tgamma (d_tgamma.U):
2786 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TGAMMA symbol, which
2787 indicates to the C program that the tgamma() routine is available
f40bbcbf 2788 for the gamma function. See also d_lgamma.
427d28ce 2789
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2790d_thread_local (d_thread_local.U):
2791 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_THREAD_LOCAL symbol. In
2792 turn that gives a linkage specification for thread-local storage.
2793
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2794d_thread_safe_nl_langinfo_l (d_nl_langinfo_l.U):
2795 This variable contains the eventual value of the
2796 HAS_THREAD_SAFE_NL_LANGINFO_L symbol, which indicates if the
2797 nl_langinfo_l() function exists and is thread-safe.
2798
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2799d_time (d_time.U):
2800 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIME symbol, which indicates
47e01c32 2801 that the time() routine exists. The time() routine is normally
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2802 provided on UNIX systems.
2803
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2804d_timegm (d_timegm.U):
2805 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIMEGM symbol, which
2806 indicates to the C program that the timegm () routine is available.
2807
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2808d_times (d_times.U):
2809 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIMES symbol, which indicates
47e01c32 2810 that the times() routine exists. The times() routine is normally
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2811 provided on UNIX systems. You may have to include <sys/times.h>.
2812
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2813d_tm_tm_gmtoff (i_time.U):
2814 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TM_TM_GMTOFF, which indicates
a3815e44 2815 to the C program that the struct tm has the tm_gmtoff field.
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2816
2817d_tm_tm_zone (i_time.U):
2818 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TM_TM_ZONE, which indicates
a3815e44 2819 to the C program that the struct tm has the tm_zone field.
511116db 2820
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2821d_tmpnam_r (d_tmpnam_r.U):
2822 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TMPNAM_R symbol,
2823 which indicates to the C program that the tmpnam_r()
2824 routine is available.
2825
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2826d_towlower (d_towlower.U):
2827 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TOWLOWER symbol, which
2828 indicates to the C program that the towlower() routine is available.
2829
2830d_towupper (d_towupper.U):
2831 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TOWUPPER symbol, which
2832 indicates to the C program that the towupper() routine is available.
2833
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f40bbcbf 2835 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TRUNC symbol, which
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2836 indicates to the C program that the trunc() routine is available
2837 to round doubles towards zero.
2838
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2839d_truncate (d_truncate.U):
2840 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TRUNCATE if truncate() is
2841 available to truncate files.
2842
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2843d_truncl (d_truncl.U):
2844 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TRUNCL symbol, which
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2845 indicates to the C program that the truncl() routine is available
2846 to round long doubles towards zero. If copysignl is also present,
2847 we can emulate modfl.
4842dad7 2848
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2849d_ttyname_r (d_ttyname_r.U):
2850 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TTYNAME_R symbol,
2851 which indicates to the C program that the ttyname_r()
2852 routine is available.
2853
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2854d_tzname (d_tzname.U):
2855 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TZNAME if tzname[] is
2856 available to access timezone names.
2857
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2858d_u32align (d_u32align.U):
2859 This variable tells whether you must access character data
2860 through U32-aligned pointers.
2861
2862d_ualarm (d_ualarm.U):
2863 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UALARM symbol, which
2864 indicates to the C program that the ualarm() routine is available.
2865
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2866d_umask (d_umask.U):
2867 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UMASK symbol, which
2868 indicates to the C program that the umask() routine is available.
2869 to set and get the value of the file creation mask.
2870
2871d_uname (d_gethname.U):
2872 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNAME symbol, which
2873 indicates to the C program that the uname() routine may be
2874 used to derive the host name.
2875
2876d_union_semun (d_union_semun.U):
2877 This variable conditionally defines HAS_UNION_SEMUN if the
2878 union semun is defined by including <sys/sem.h>.
2879
3c29c5aa 2880d_unlinkat (d_fsat.U):
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2881 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNLINKAT symbol, which
2882 indicates the POSIX unlinkat() function isavailable.
2883
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2884d_unordered (d_unordered.U):
2885 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNORDERED symbol, which
2886 indicates to the C program that the unordered() routine is available.
2887
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2888d_unsetenv (d_unsetenv.U):
2889 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNSETENV symbol, which
2890 indicates to the C program that the unsetenv () routine is available.
2891
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2892d_uselocale (d_newlocale.U):
2893 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_USELOCALE symbol, which
2894 indicates to the C program that the uselocale() routine is available
2895 to set the current locale for the calling thread.
2896
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2897d_usleep (d_usleep.U):
2898 This variable conditionally defines HAS_USLEEP if usleep() is
2899 available to do high granularity sleeps.
2900
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2901d_usleepproto (d_usleepproto.U):
2902 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_USLEEP_PROTO symbol,
2903 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2904 a prototype for the usleep() function. Otherwise, it is
2905 up to the program to supply one.
2906
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2907d_ustat (d_ustat.U):
2908 This variable conditionally defines HAS_USTAT if ustat() is
2909 available to query file system statistics by dev_t.
2910
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2911d_vendorarch (vendorarch.U):
2912 This variable conditionally defined PERL_VENDORARCH.
2913
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2914d_vendorbin (vendorbin.U):
2915 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORBIN.
2916
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2917d_vendorlib (vendorlib.U):
2918 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORLIB.
2919
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2920d_vendorscript (vendorscript.U):
2921 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORSCRIPT.
2922
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2923d_vfork (d_vfork.U):
2924 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VFORK symbol, which
2925 indicates the vfork() routine is available.
2926
2927d_void_closedir (d_closedir.U):
2928 This variable conditionally defines VOID_CLOSEDIR if closedir()
2929 does not return a value.
2930
2931d_voidsig (d_voidsig.U):
2932 This variable conditionally defines VOIDSIG if this system
2933 declares "void (*signal(...))()" in signal.h. The old way was to
2934 declare it as "int (*signal(...))()".
2935
2936d_voidtty (i_sysioctl.U):
2937 This variable conditionally defines USE_IOCNOTTY to indicate that the
2938 ioctl() call with TIOCNOTTY should be used to void tty association.
2939 Otherwise (on USG probably), it is enough to close the standard file
47e01c32 2940 descriptors and do a setpgrp().
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2942d_vsnprintf (d_snprintf.U):
2943 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VSNPRINTF symbol, which
2944 indicates to the C program that the vsnprintf () library function
2945 is available.
2946
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2947d_wait4 (d_wait4.U):
2948 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WAIT4 symbol, which
2949 indicates the wait4() routine is available.
2950
2951d_waitpid (d_waitpid.U):
2952 This variable conditionally defines HAS_WAITPID if waitpid() is
2953 available to wait for child process.
2954
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2955d_wcrtomb (d_wcrtomb.U):
2956 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCRTOMB symbol if the
2957 wcrtomb() routine is available to be used to convert a wide character
2958 into a multi-byte character.
2959
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2960d_wcscmp (d_wcscmp.U):
2961 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSCMP symbol if the
2962 wcscmp() routine is available and can be used to compare wide
2963 character strings.
2964
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2965d_wcstombs (d_wcstombs.U):
2966 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSTOMBS symbol, which
2967 indicates to the C program that the wcstombs() routine is available
2968 to convert wide character strings to multibyte strings.
2969
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2970d_wcsxfrm (d_wcsxfrm.U):
2971 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSXFRM symbol if the
2972 wcsxfrm() routine is available and can be used to compare wide
2973 character strings.
2974
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2975d_wctomb (d_wctomb.U):
2976 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCTOMB symbol, which
2977 indicates to the C program that the wctomb() routine is available
2978 to convert a wide character to a multibyte.
2979
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2980d_writev (d_writev.U):
2981 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WRITEV symbol, which
2982 indicates to the C program that the writev() routine is available.
2983
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2984d_xenix (Guess.U):
2985 This variable conditionally defines the symbol XENIX, which alerts
2986 the C program that it runs under Xenix.
2987
2988date (Loc.U):
5bf26616 2989 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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2990 full pathname (if any) of the date program. After Configure runs,
2991 the value is reset to a plain "date" and is not useful.
2992
2993db_hashtype (i_db.U):
2994 This variable contains the type of the hash structure element
2995 in the <db.h> header file. In older versions of DB, it was
2996 int, while in newer ones it is u_int32_t.
2997
2998db_prefixtype (i_db.U):
2999 This variable contains the type of the prefix structure element
3000 in the <db.h> header file. In older versions of DB, it was
3001 int, while in newer ones it is size_t.
3002
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3003db_version_major (i_db.U):
3004 This variable contains the major version number of
3005 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
3006
3007db_version_minor (i_db.U):
3008 This variable contains the minor version number of
3009 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
3010 For DB version 1 this is always 0.
3011
3012db_version_patch (i_db.U):
3013 This variable contains the patch version number of
3014 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
3015 For DB version 1 this is always 0.
3016
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3017default_inc_excludes_dot (defaultincdot.U):
3018 When defined, remove the legacy '.' from @INC
3019
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3020direntrytype (i_dirent.U):
3021 This symbol is set to 'struct direct' or 'struct dirent' depending on
3022 whether dirent is available or not. You should use this pseudo type to
3023 portably declare your directory entries.
3024
3025dlext (dlext.U):
3026 This variable contains the extension that is to be used for the
1332606d 3027 dynamically loaded modules that perl generates.
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3028
3029dlsrc (dlsrc.U):
3030 This variable contains the name of the dynamic loading file that
3031 will be used with the package.
3032
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3033doubleinfbytes (infnan.U):
3034 This variable contains comma-separated list of hexadecimal bytes
3035 for the double precision infinity.
3036
f40bbcbf 3037doublekind (longdblfio.U):
bade9271 3038 This variable, if defined, encodes the type of a double:
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3039 1 = IEEE 754 32-bit little endian,
3040 2 = IEEE 754 32-bit big endian,
3041 3 = IEEE 754 64-bit little endian,
3042 4 = IEEE 754 64-bit big endian,
3043 5 = IEEE 754 128-bit little endian,
3044 6 = IEEE 754 128-bit big endian,
3045 7 = IEEE 754 64-bit mixed endian le-be,
3046 8 = IEEE 754 64-bit mixed endian be-le,
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3047 9 = VAX 32bit little endian F float format
3048 10 = VAX 64bit little endian D float format
3049 11 = VAX 64bit little endian G float format
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3050 12 = IBM 32bit format
3051 13 = IBM 64bit format
3052 14 = Cray 64bit format
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3053 -1 = unknown format.
3054
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3055doublemantbits (mantbits.U):
3056 This symbol, if defined, tells how many mantissa bits
3057 there are in double precision floating point format.
3058 Note that this is usually DBL_MANT_DIG minus one, since
3059 with the standard IEEE 754 formats DBL_MANT_DIG includes
3060 the implicit bit which doesn't really exist.
3061
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3062doublenanbytes (infnan.U):
3063 This variable contains comma-separated list of hexadecimal bytes
3064 for the double precision not-a-number.
3065
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3066doublesize (doublesize.U):
3067 This variable contains the value of the DOUBLESIZE symbol, which
3068 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a double.
3069
3070drand01 (randfunc.U):
3071 Indicates the macro to be used to generate normalized
3072 random numbers. Uses randfunc, often divided by
3073 (double) (((unsigned long) 1 << randbits)) in order to
3074 normalize the result.
3075 In C programs, the macro 'Drand01' is mapped to drand01.
3076
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3077drand48_r_proto (d_drand48_r.U):
3078 This variable encodes the prototype of drand48_r.
39183afa
JH
3079 It is zero if d_drand48_r is undef, and one of the
3080 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_drand48_r
3081 is defined.
10bc17b6 3082
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MB
3083dtrace (usedtrace.U):
3084 This variable holds the location of the dtrace executable.
3085
2640dfa8 3086dtraceobject (dtraceobject.U):
c2538af7
TC
3087 Whether we need to build an object file with the dtrace tool.
3088
f2a60c1f
TC
3089dtracexnolibs (dtraceobject.U):
3090 Whether dtrace accepts -xnolibs. If available we call dtrace -h
3091 and dtrace -G with -xnolibs to allow dtrace to run in a jail on
3092 FreeBSD.
3093
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3094dynamic_ext (Extensions.U):
3095 This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to
3096 link dynamically into the package. It is used by Makefile.
3097
3098eagain (nblock_io.U):
3099 This variable bears the symbolic errno code set by read() when no
3100 data is present on the file and non-blocking I/O was enabled (otherwise,
3101 read() blocks naturally).
3102
3103ebcdic (ebcdic.U):
3104 This variable conditionally defines EBCDIC if this
1332606d 3105 system uses EBCDIC encoding.
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3106
3107echo (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3108 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3109 full pathname (if any) of the echo program. After Configure runs,
3110 the value is reset to a plain "echo" and is not useful.
3111
3112egrep (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3113 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3114 full pathname (if any) of the egrep program. After Configure runs,
3115 the value is reset to a plain "egrep" and is not useful.
3116
3117emacs (Loc.U):
3118 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3119 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 3120
f40bbcbf 3121endgrent_r_proto (d_endgrent_r.U):
10bc17b6 3122 This variable encodes the prototype of endgrent_r.
39183afa
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3123 It is zero if d_endgrent_r is undef, and one of the
3124 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endgrent_r
3125 is defined.
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3126
3127endhostent_r_proto (d_endhostent_r.U):
3128 This variable encodes the prototype of endhostent_r.
39183afa
JH
3129 It is zero if d_endhostent_r is undef, and one of the
3130 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endhostent_r
3131 is defined.
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3132
3133endnetent_r_proto (d_endnetent_r.U):
3134 This variable encodes the prototype of endnetent_r.
39183afa
JH
3135 It is zero if d_endnetent_r is undef, and one of the
3136 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endnetent_r
3137 is defined.
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3138
3139endprotoent_r_proto (d_endprotoent_r.U):
3140 This variable encodes the prototype of endprotoent_r.
39183afa
JH
3141 It is zero if d_endprotoent_r is undef, and one of the
3142 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endprotoent_r
3143 is defined.
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3144
3145endpwent_r_proto (d_endpwent_r.U):
3146 This variable encodes the prototype of endpwent_r.
39183afa
JH
3147 It is zero if d_endpwent_r is undef, and one of the
3148 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endpwent_r
3149 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3150
3151endservent_r_proto (d_endservent_r.U):
3152 This variable encodes the prototype of endservent_r.
39183afa
JH
3153 It is zero if d_endservent_r is undef, and one of the
3154 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endservent_r
3155 is defined.
10bc17b6 3156
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3157eunicefix (Init.U):
3158 When running under Eunice this variable contains a command which will
3159 convert a shell script to the proper form of text file for it to be
3160 executable by the shell. On other systems it is a no-op.
3161
3162exe_ext (Unix.U):
3163 This is an old synonym for _exe.
3164
3165expr (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3166 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3167 full pathname (if any) of the expr program. After Configure runs,
3168 the value is reset to a plain "expr" and is not useful.
3169
3170extensions (Extensions.U):
3171 This variable holds a list of all extension files (both XS and
f7b3892b 3172 non-xs) installed with the package. It is propagated to Config.pm
47e01c32 3173 and is typically used to test whether a particular extension
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3174 is available.
3175
61c26d18
MHM
3176extern_C (Csym.U):
3177 ANSI C requires 'extern' where C++ requires 'extern "C"'. This
3178 variable can be used in Configure to do the right thing.
3179
cb7ddd31
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3180extras (Extras.U):
3181 This variable holds a list of extra modules to install.
3182
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3183fflushall (fflushall.U):
3184 This symbol, if defined, tells that to flush
3185 all pending stdio output one must loop through all
3186 the stdio file handles stored in an array and fflush them.
3187 Note that if fflushNULL is defined, fflushall will not
3188 even be probed for and will be left undefined.
3189
4d54317a 3190fflushNULL (fflushall.U):
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MB
3191 This symbol, if defined, tells that fflush(NULL) correctly
3192 flushes all pending stdio output without side effects. In
3193 particular, on some platforms calling fflush(NULL) *still*
3194 corrupts STDIN if it is a pipe.
4d54317a 3195
781b178c 3196find (Loc.U):
ff935051 3197 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3198 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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3199
3200firstmakefile (Unix.U):
3201 This variable defines the first file searched by make. On unix,
3202 it is makefile (then Makefile). On case-insensitive systems,
3203 it might be something else. This is only used to deal with
3204 convoluted make depend tricks.
3205
3206flex (Loc.U):
3207 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3208 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 3209
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3210fpossize (fpossize.U):
3211 This variable contains the size of a fpostype in bytes.
3212
781b178c 3213fpostype (fpostype.U):
635aebb7 3214 This variable defines Fpos_t to be something like fpos_t, long,
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3215 uint, or whatever type is used to declare file positions in libc.
3216
3217freetype (mallocsrc.U):
3218 This variable contains the return type of free(). It is usually
3219 void, but occasionally int.
3220
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3221from (Cross.U):
3222 This variable contains the command used by Configure
3223 to copy files from the target host. Useful and available
3224 only during Perl build.
3225 The string ':' if not cross-compiling.
3226
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3227full_ar (Loc_ar.U):
3228 This variable contains the full pathname to 'ar', whether or
3229 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
3230 in the Makefile.SH.
3231
3232full_csh (d_csh.U):
3233 This variable contains the full pathname to 'csh', whether or
3234 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
3235 in the compiled C program, and we assume that all systems which
3236 can share this executable will have the same full pathname to
3237 'csh.'
3238
3239full_sed (Loc_sed.U):
3240 This variable contains the full pathname to 'sed', whether or
3241 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
3242 in the compiled C program, and we assume that all systems which
3243 can share this executable will have the same full pathname to
3244 'sed.'
3245
123f32c0
MB
3246gccansipedantic (gccvers.U):
3247 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable will enable (if set) the
3248 -ansi and -pedantic ccflags for building core files (through
3249 cflags script). (See Porting/pumpkin.pod for full description).
3250
af960fef 3251gccosandvers (gccvers.U):
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MB
3252 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable holds the operating system
3253 and version used to compile gcc. It is set to '' if not gcc,
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3254 or if nothing useful can be parsed as the os version.
3255
3256gccversion (gccvers.U):
123f32c0 3257 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable holds '1' or '2' to
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3258 indicate whether the compiler is version 1 or 2. This is used in
3259 setting some of the default cflags. It is set to '' if not gcc.
3260
10bc17b6
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3261getgrent_r_proto (d_getgrent_r.U):
3262 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrent_r.
39183afa
JH
3263 It is zero if d_getgrent_r is undef, and one of the
3264 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getgrent_r
3265 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3266
3267getgrgid_r_proto (d_getgrgid_r.U):
3268 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrgid_r.
39183afa
JH
3269 It is zero if d_getgrgid_r is undef, and one of the
3270 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getgrgid_r
3271 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3272
3273getgrnam_r_proto (d_getgrnam_r.U):
3274 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrnam_r.
39183afa
JH
3275 It is zero if d_getgrnam_r is undef, and one of the
3276 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getgrnam_r
3277 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3278
3279gethostbyaddr_r_proto (d_gethostbyaddr_r.U):
3280 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostbyaddr_r.
39183afa
JH
3281 It is zero if d_gethostbyaddr_r is undef, and one of the
3282 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gethostbyaddr_r
3283 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3284
3285gethostbyname_r_proto (d_gethostbyname_r.U):
3286 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostbyname_r.
39183afa
JH
3287 It is zero if d_gethostbyname_r is undef, and one of the
3288 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gethostbyname_r
3289 is defined.
10bc17b6
JH
3290
3291gethostent_r_proto (d_gethostent_r.U):
3292 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostent_r.
39183afa
JH
3293 It is zero if d_gethostent_r is undef, and one of the
3294 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gethostent_r
3295 is defined.
10bc17b6
JH
3296
3297getlogin_r_proto (d_getlogin_r.U):
3298 This variable encodes the prototype of getlogin_r.
39183afa
JH
3299 It is zero if d_getlogin_r is undef, and one of the
3300 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getlogin_r
3301 is defined.
10bc17b6
JH
3302
3303getnetbyaddr_r_proto (d_getnetbyaddr_r.U):
3304 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetbyaddr_r.
39183afa
JH
3305 It is zero if d_getnetbyaddr_r is undef, and one of the
3306 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getnetbyaddr_r
3307 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3308
3309getnetbyname_r_proto (d_getnetbyname_r.U):
3310 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetbyname_r.
39183afa
JH
3311 It is zero if d_getnetbyname_r is undef, and one of the
3312 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getnetbyname_r
3313 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3314
3315getnetent_r_proto (d_getnetent_r.U):
3316 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetent_r.
39183afa
JH
3317 It is zero if d_getnetent_r is undef, and one of the
3318 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getnetent_r
3319 is defined.
10bc17b6
JH
3320
3321getprotobyname_r_proto (d_getprotobyname_r.U):
3322 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotobyname_r.
39183afa
JH
3323 It is zero if d_getprotobyname_r is undef, and one of the
3324 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getprotobyname_r
3325 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3326
3327getprotobynumber_r_proto (d_getprotobynumber_r.U):
3328 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotobynumber_r.
39183afa
JH
3329 It is zero if d_getprotobynumber_r is undef, and one of the
3330 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getprotobynumber_r
3331 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3332
3333getprotoent_r_proto (d_getprotoent_r.U):
3334 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotoent_r.
39183afa
JH
3335 It is zero if d_getprotoent_r is undef, and one of the
3336 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getprotoent_r
3337 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3338
3339getpwent_r_proto (d_getpwent_r.U):
3340 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwent_r.
39183afa
JH
3341 It is zero if d_getpwent_r is undef, and one of the
3342 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getpwent_r
3343 is defined.
10bc17b6
JH
3344
3345getpwnam_r_proto (d_getpwnam_r.U):
3346 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwnam_r.
39183afa
JH
3347 It is zero if d_getpwnam_r is undef, and one of the
3348 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getpwnam_r
3349 is defined.
10bc17b6
JH
3350
3351getpwuid_r_proto (d_getpwuid_r.U):
3352 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwuid_r.
39183afa
JH
3353 It is zero if d_getpwuid_r is undef, and one of the
3354 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getpwuid_r
3355 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3356
3357getservbyname_r_proto (d_getservbyname_r.U):
3358 This variable encodes the prototype of getservbyname_r.
39183afa
JH
3359 It is zero if d_getservbyname_r is undef, and one of the
3360 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getservbyname_r
3361 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3362
3363getservbyport_r_proto (d_getservbyport_r.U):
3364 This variable encodes the prototype of getservbyport_r.
39183afa
JH
3365 It is zero if d_getservbyport_r is undef, and one of the
3366 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getservbyport_r
3367 is defined.
10bc17b6
JH
3368
3369getservent_r_proto (d_getservent_r.U):
3370 This variable encodes the prototype of getservent_r.
39183afa
JH
3371 It is zero if d_getservent_r is undef, and one of the
3372 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getservent_r
3373 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3374
3375getspnam_r_proto (d_getspnam_r.U):
3376 This variable encodes the prototype of getspnam_r.
39183afa
JH
3377 It is zero if d_getspnam_r is undef, and one of the
3378 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getspnam_r
3379 is defined.
10bc17b6 3380
a22e52b9
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3381gidformat (gidf.U):
3382 This variable contains the format string used for printing a Gid_t.
3383
785fb66b
JH
3384gidsign (gidsign.U):
3385 This variable contains the signedness of a gidtype.
3386 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
3387
3388gidsize (gidsize.U):
3389 This variable contains the size of a gidtype in bytes.
3390
781b178c
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3391gidtype (gidtype.U):
3392 This variable defines Gid_t to be something like gid_t, int,
3393 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare the return type
3394 of getgid(). Typically, it is the type of group ids in the kernel.
3395
3396glibpth (libpth.U):
3397 This variable holds the general path (space-separated) used to
3398 find libraries. It may contain directories that do not exist on
3399 this platform, libpth is the cleaned-up version.
3400
c68a00c0
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3401gmake (Loc.U):
3402 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
3403 full pathname (if any) of the gmake program. After Configure runs,
3404 the value is reset to a plain "gmake" and is not useful.
3405
10bc17b6
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3406gmtime_r_proto (d_gmtime_r.U):
3407 This variable encodes the prototype of gmtime_r.
39183afa
JH
3408 It is zero if d_gmtime_r is undef, and one of the
3409 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gmtime_r
3410 is defined.
10bc17b6 3411
00fac743
JH
3412gnulibc_version (d_gnulibc.U):
3413 This variable contains the version number of the GNU C library.
3414 It is usually something like '2.2.5'. It is a plain '' if this
3415 is not the GNU C library, or if the version is unknown.
3416
781b178c 3417grep (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3418 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3419 full pathname (if any) of the grep program. After Configure runs,
3420 the value is reset to a plain "grep" and is not useful.
3421
3422groupcat (nis.U):
3423 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
3424 /etc/group file. This is normally "cat /etc/group", but can be
3425 "ypcat group" when NIS is used.
aaacdc8b
GS
3426 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
3427 command, in which case this variable is unset.
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3428
3429groupstype (groupstype.U):
635aebb7 3430 This variable defines Groups_t to be something like gid_t, int,
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3431 ushort, or whatever type is used for the second argument to
3432 getgroups() and setgroups(). Usually, this is the same as
3433 gidtype (gid_t), but sometimes it isn't.
3434
3435gzip (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3436 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3437 full pathname (if any) of the gzip program. After Configure runs,
3438 the value is reset to a plain "gzip" and is not useful.
3439
3440h_fcntl (h_fcntl.U):
3441 This is variable gets set in various places to tell i_fcntl that
3442 <fcntl.h> should be included.
3443
3444h_sysfile (h_sysfile.U):
3445 This is variable gets set in various places to tell i_sys_file that
3446 <sys/file.h> should be included.
3447
3448hint (Oldconfig.U):
3449 Gives the type of hints used for previous answers. May be one of
3450 "default", "recommended" or "previous".
3451
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MB
3452hostcat (nis.U):
3453 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
3454 /etc/hosts file. This is normally "cat /etc/hosts", but can be
3455 "ypcat hosts" when NIS is used.
3456 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
3457 command, in which case this variable is unset.
8b6a017c 3458
a6d9d244 3459hostgenerate (Cross.U):
8b6a017c
BF
3460 This variable contains the path to a generate_uudmap binary that
3461 can be run on the host OS when cross-compiling. Useful and
3462 available only during Perl build.
3463 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
3464
a6d9d244 3465hostosname (Cross.U):
8b6a017c
BF
3466 This variable contains the original value of '$^O' for hostperl
3467 when cross-compiling. This is useful to pick the proper tools
3468 when running build code in the host.
3469 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
3470
1d38f63f
MB
3471hostperl (Cross.U):
3472 This variable contains the path to a miniperl binary that can be
3473 run on the host OS when cross-compiling. Useful and available only
3474 during Perl build.
3475 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
781b178c 3476
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3477html1dir (html1dir.U):
3478 This variable contains the name of the directory in which html
3479 source pages are to be put. This directory is for pages
3480 that describe whole programs, not libraries or modules. It
3481 is intended to correspond roughly to section 1 of the Unix
3482 manuals.
3483
3484html1direxp (html1dir.U):
3485 This variable is the same as the html1dir variable, but is filename
3486 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
3487
3488html3dir (html3dir.U):
3489 This variable contains the name of the directory in which html
3490 source pages are to be put. This directory is for pages
3491 that describe libraries or modules. It is intended to
3492 correspond roughly to section 3 of the Unix manuals.
3493
3494html3direxp (html3dir.U):
3495 This variable is the same as the html3dir variable, but is filename
3496 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
3497
a22e52b9
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3498i16size (perlxv.U):
3499 This variable is the size of an I16 in bytes.
3500
3501i16type (perlxv.U):
3502 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I16.
3503
3504i32size (perlxv.U):
3505 This variable is the size of an I32 in bytes.
3506
3507i32type (perlxv.U):
3508 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I32.
3509
3510i64size (perlxv.U):
3511 This variable is the size of an I64 in bytes.
3512
3513i64type (perlxv.U):
3514 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I64.
3515
3516i8size (perlxv.U):
3517 This variable is the size of an I8 in bytes.
3518
3519i8type (perlxv.U):
3520 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I8.
3521
781b178c
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3522i_arpainet (i_arpainet.U):
3523 This variable conditionally defines the I_ARPA_INET symbol,
3524 and indicates whether a C program should include <arpa/inet.h>.
3525
f6a82ade
MB
3526i_bfd (i_bfd.U):
3527 This variable conditionally defines the I_BFD symbol, and
3528 indicates whether a C program can include <bfd.h>.
3529
781b178c
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3530i_bsdioctl (i_sysioctl.U):
3531 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_BSDIOCTL symbol, which
3532 indicates to the C program that <sys/bsdioctl.h> exists and should
3533 be included.
3534
10bc17b6
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3535i_crypt (i_crypt.U):
3536 This variable conditionally defines the I_CRYPT symbol, and indicates
3537 whether a C program should include <crypt.h>.
3538
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3539i_db (i_db.U):
3540 This variable conditionally defines the I_DB symbol, and indicates
3541 whether a C program may include Berkeley's DB include file <db.h>.
3542
3543i_dbm (i_dbm.U):
3544 This variable conditionally defines the I_DBM symbol, which
3545 indicates to the C program that <dbm.h> exists and should
3546 be included.
3547
3548i_dirent (i_dirent.U):
3549 This variable conditionally defines I_DIRENT, which indicates
3550 to the C program that it should include <dirent.h>.
3551
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3552i_dlfcn (i_dlfcn.U):
3553 This variable conditionally defines the I_DLFCN symbol, which
3554 indicates to the C program that <dlfcn.h> exists and should
3555 be included.
3556
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3557i_execinfo (i_execinfo.U):
3558 This variable conditionally defines the I_EXECINFO symbol, and indicates
3559 whether a C program may include <execinfo.h>, for backtrace() support.
3560
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3561i_fcntl (i_fcntl.U):
3562 This variable controls the value of I_FCNTL (which tells
3563 the C program to include <fcntl.h>).
3564
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3565i_fenv (i_fenv.U):
3566 This variable conditionally defines the I_FENV symbol, which
3567 indicates to the C program that <fenv.h> exists and should
3568 be included.
3569
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3570i_fp (i_fp.U):
3571 This variable conditionally defines the I_FP symbol, and indicates
3572 whether a C program should include <fp.h>.
3573
3574i_fp_class (i_fp_class.U):
3575 This variable conditionally defines the I_FP_CLASS symbol, and indicates
3576 whether a C program should include <fp_class.h>.
3577
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3578i_gdbm (i_gdbm.U):
3579 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBM symbol, which
3580 indicates to the C program that <gdbm.h> exists and should
3581 be included.
3582
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3583i_gdbm_ndbm (i_ndbm.U):
3584 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBM_NDBM symbol, which
3585 indicates to the C program that <gdbm-ndbm.h> exists and should
3586 be included. This is the location of the ndbm.h compatibility file
3587 in Debian 4.0.
3588
3589i_gdbmndbm (i_ndbm.U):
3590 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBMNDBM symbol, which
3591 indicates to the C program that <gdbm/ndbm.h> exists and should
3592 be included. This was the location of the ndbm.h compatibility file
3593 in RedHat 7.1.
3594
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3595i_grp (i_grp.U):
3596 This variable conditionally defines the I_GRP symbol, and indicates
3597 whether a C program should include <grp.h>.
3598
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3599i_ieeefp (i_ieeefp.U):
3600 This variable conditionally defines the I_IEEEFP symbol, and indicates
3601 whether a C program should include <ieeefp.h>.
3602
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3603i_inttypes (i_inttypes.U):
3604 This variable conditionally defines the I_INTTYPES symbol,
3605 and indicates whether a C program should include <inttypes.h>.
3606
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3607i_langinfo (i_langinfo.U):
3608 This variable conditionally defines the I_LANGINFO symbol,
3609 and indicates whether a C program should include <langinfo.h>.
3610
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3611i_libutil (i_libutil.U):
3612 This variable conditionally defines the I_LIBUTIL symbol, and indicates
3613 whether a C program should include <libutil.h>.
3614
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3615i_locale (i_locale.U):
3616 This variable conditionally defines the I_LOCALE symbol,
3617 and indicates whether a C program should include <locale.h>.
3618
3619i_machcthr (i_machcthr.U):
3620 This variable conditionally defines the I_MACH_CTHREADS symbol,
3621 and indicates whether a C program should include <mach/cthreads.h>.
3622
3623i_malloc (i_malloc.U):
3624 This variable conditionally defines the I_MALLOC symbol, and indicates
3625 whether a C program should include <malloc.h>.
3626
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3627i_mallocmalloc (i_mallocmalloc.U):
3628 This variable conditionally defines the I_MALLOCMALLOC symbol,
3629 and indicates whether a C program should include <malloc/malloc.h>.
3630
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3631i_mntent (i_mntent.U):
3632 This variable conditionally defines the I_MNTENT symbol, and indicates
3633 whether a C program should include <mntent.h>.
3634
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3635i_ndbm (i_ndbm.U):
3636 This variable conditionally defines the I_NDBM symbol, which
3637 indicates to the C program that <ndbm.h> exists and should
3638 be included.
3639
3640i_netdb (i_netdb.U):
3641 This variable conditionally defines the I_NETDB symbol, and indicates
3642 whether a C program should include <netdb.h>.
3643
3644i_neterrno (i_neterrno.U):
3645 This variable conditionally defines the I_NET_ERRNO symbol, which
3646 indicates to the C program that <net/errno.h> exists and should
3647 be included.
3648
3649i_netinettcp (i_netinettcp.U):
3650 This variable conditionally defines the I_NETINET_TCP symbol,
3651 and indicates whether a C program should include <netinet/tcp.h>.
3652
3653i_niin (i_niin.U):
3654 This variable conditionally defines I_NETINET_IN, which indicates
3655 to the C program that it should include <netinet/in.h>. Otherwise,
3656 you may try <sys/in.h>.
3657
3658i_poll (i_poll.U):
3659 This variable conditionally defines the I_POLL symbol, and indicates
3660 whether a C program should include <poll.h>.
3661
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3662i_prot (i_prot.U):
3663 This variable conditionally defines the I_PROT symbol, and indicates
3664 whether a C program should include <prot.h>.
3665
781b178c 3666i_pthread (i_pthread.U):
190b66db 3667 This variable conditionally defines the I_PTHREAD symbol,
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3668 and indicates whether a C program should include <pthread.h>.
3669
3670i_pwd (i_pwd.U):
3671 This variable conditionally defines I_PWD, which indicates
3672 to the C program that it should include <pwd.h>.
3673
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3674i_quadmath (i_quadmath.U):
3675 This variable conditionally defines I_QUADMATH, which indicates
3676 to the C program that it should include <quadmath.h>.
3677
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3678i_rpcsvcdbm (i_dbm.U):
3679 This variable conditionally defines the I_RPCSVC_DBM symbol, which
3680 indicates to the C program that <rpcsvc/dbm.h> exists and should
3681 be included. Some System V systems might need this instead of <dbm.h>.
3682
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3683i_sgtty (i_termio.U):
3684 This variable conditionally defines the I_SGTTY symbol, which
3685 indicates to the C program that it should include <sgtty.h> rather
3686 than <termio.h>.
3687
3688i_shadow (i_shadow.U):
3689 This variable conditionally defines the I_SHADOW symbol, and indicates
3690 whether a C program should include <shadow.h>.
3691
3692i_socks (i_socks.U):
3693 This variable conditionally defines the I_SOCKS symbol, and indicates
3694 whether a C program should include <socks.h>.
3695
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3696i_stdbool (i_stdbool.U):
3697 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDBOOL symbol, which
3698 indicates to the C program that <stdbool.h> exists and should
3699 be included.
3700
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3701i_stdint (i_stdint.U):
3702 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDINT symbol, which
3703 indicates to the C program that <stdint.h> exists and should
3704 be included.
3705
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3706i_stdlib (i_stdlib.U):
3707 This variable unconditionally defines the I_STDLIB symbol.
3708
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3709i_sunmath (i_sunmath.U):
3710 This variable conditionally defines the I_SUNMATH symbol, and indicates
3711 whether a C program should include <sunmath.h>.
3712
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3713i_sysaccess (i_sysaccess.U):
3714 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_ACCESS symbol,
3715 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/access.h>.
3716
3717i_sysdir (i_sysdir.U):
3718 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_DIR symbol, and indicates
3719 whether a C program should include <sys/dir.h>.
3720
3721i_sysfile (i_sysfile.U):
3722 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_FILE symbol, and indicates
3723 whether a C program should include <sys/file.h> to get R_OK and friends.
3724
3725i_sysfilio (i_sysioctl.U):
3726 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_FILIO symbol, which
3727 indicates to the C program that <sys/filio.h> exists and should
3728 be included in preference to <sys/ioctl.h>.
3729
3730i_sysin (i_niin.U):
3731 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_IN, which indicates
3732 to the C program that it should include <sys/in.h> instead of
3733 <netinet/in.h>.
3734
3735i_sysioctl (i_sysioctl.U):
3736 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_IOCTL symbol, which
3737 indicates to the C program that <sys/ioctl.h> exists and should
3738 be included.
3739
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3740i_syslog (i_syslog.U):
3741 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSLOG symbol,
3742 and indicates whether a C program should include <syslog.h>.
3743
fe749a9f 3744i_sysmman (i_sysmman.U):
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3745 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_MMAN symbol,
3746 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mman.h>.
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3748i_sysmode (i_sysmode.U):
3749 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSMODE symbol,
3750 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mode.h>.
3751
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3752i_sysmount (i_sysmount.U):
3753 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSMOUNT symbol,
3754 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mount.h>.
3755
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3756i_sysndir (i_sysndir.U):
3757 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_NDIR symbol, and indicates
3758 whether a C program should include <sys/ndir.h>.
3759
3760i_sysparam (i_sysparam.U):
3761 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_PARAM symbol, and indicates
3762 whether a C program should include <sys/param.h>.
3763
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3764i_syspoll (i_syspoll.U):
3765 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_POLL symbol, which
3766 indicates to the C program that it should include <sys/poll.h>.
3767
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3768i_sysresrc (i_sysresrc.U):
3769 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_RESOURCE symbol,
3770 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/resource.h>.
3771
3772i_syssecrt (i_syssecrt.U):
3773 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_SECURITY symbol,
3774 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/security.h>.
3775
3776i_sysselct (i_sysselct.U):
3777 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_SELECT, which indicates
3778 to the C program that it should include <sys/select.h> in order to
3779 get the definition of struct timeval.
3780
3781i_syssockio (i_sysioctl.U):
3782 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_SOCKIO to indicate to the
3783 C program that socket ioctl codes may be found in <sys/sockio.h>
3784 instead of <sys/ioctl.h>.
3785
3786i_sysstat (i_sysstat.U):
3787 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_STAT symbol,
3788 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/stat.h>.
3789
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3790i_sysstatfs (i_sysstatfs.U):
3791 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSSTATFS symbol,
3792 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/statfs.h>.
3793
3794i_sysstatvfs (i_sysstatvfs.U):
3795 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSSTATVFS symbol,
3796 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/statvfs.h>.
3797
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3798i_systime (i_time.U):
3799 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_TIME, which indicates
3800 to the C program that it should include <sys/time.h>.
3801
3802i_systimek (i_time.U):
3803 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_TIME_KERNEL, which
3804 indicates to the C program that it should include <sys/time.h>
3805 with KERNEL defined.
3806
3807i_systimes (i_systimes.U):
3808 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_TIMES symbol, and indicates
3809 whether a C program should include <sys/times.h>.
3810
3811i_systypes (i_systypes.U):
3812 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_TYPES symbol,
3813 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/types.h>.
3814
3815i_sysuio (i_sysuio.U):
3816 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSUIO symbol, and indicates
3817 whether a C program should include <sys/uio.h>.
3818
3819i_sysun (i_sysun.U):
3820 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_UN, which indicates
3821 to the C program that it should include <sys/un.h> to get UNIX
3822 domain socket definitions.
3823
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3824i_sysutsname (i_sysutsname.U):
3825 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSUTSNAME symbol,
3826 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/utsname.h>.
3827
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3828i_sysvfs (i_sysvfs.U):
3829 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSVFS symbol,
3830 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/vfs.h>.
3831
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3832i_syswait (i_syswait.U):
3833 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_WAIT, which indicates
3834 to the C program that it should include <sys/wait.h>.
3835
3836i_termio (i_termio.U):
3837 This variable conditionally defines the I_TERMIO symbol, which
3838 indicates to the C program that it should include <termio.h> rather
3839 than <sgtty.h>.
3840
3841i_termios (i_termio.U):
3842 This variable conditionally defines the I_TERMIOS symbol, which
3843 indicates to the C program that the POSIX <termios.h> file is
3844 to be included.
3845
3846i_time (i_time.U):
7e03b2e3 3847 This variable unconditionally defines I_TIME, which indicates
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3848 to the C program that it should include <time.h>.
3849
3850i_unistd (i_unistd.U):
3851 This variable conditionally defines the I_UNISTD symbol, and indicates
3852 whether a C program should include <unistd.h>.
3853
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3854i_ustat (i_ustat.U):
3855 This variable conditionally defines the I_USTAT symbol, and indicates
3856 whether a C program should include <ustat.h>.
3857
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3858i_utime (i_utime.U):
3859 This variable conditionally defines the I_UTIME symbol, and indicates
3860 whether a C program should include <utime.h>.
3861
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3862i_vfork (i_vfork.U):
3863 This variable conditionally defines the I_VFORK symbol, and indicates
3864 whether a C program should include vfork.h.
3865
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3866i_wchar (i_wchar.U):
3867 This variable conditionally defines the I_WCHAR symbol,
3868 that indicates whether a C program may include <wchar.h>.
3869
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3870i_wctype (i_wctype.U):
3871 This variable conditionally defines the I_WCTYPE symbol,
3872 that indicates whether a C program may include <wctype.h>.
3873
7e69463d 3874i_xlocale (d_newlocale.U):
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3875 This symbol, if defined, indicates to the C program that the
3876 header xlocale.h is available. See also xlocale_needed.
7e69463d 3877
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3878ignore_versioned_solibs (libs.U):
3879 This variable should be non-empty if non-versioned shared
3880 libraries (libfoo.so.x.y) are to be ignored (because they
3881 cannot be linked against).
3882
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3883inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U):
3884 This variable specifies the list of subdirectories in over
3885 which perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically
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3886 search when adding directories to @INC. The elements in
3887 the list are separated by spaces. This is only useful
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3888 if you have a perl library directory tree structured like the
3889 default one. See INSTALL for how this works. The versioned
3890 site_perl directory was introduced in 5.005, so that is the
3891 lowest possible value.
3892
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3893 This list includes architecture-dependent directories back to
3894 version $api_versionstring (e.g. 5.5.640) and
3895 architecture-independent directories all the way back to
3896 5.005.
3897
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3898inc_version_list_init (inc_version_list.U):
3899 This variable holds the same list as inc_version_list, but
635aebb7 3900 each item is enclosed in double quotes and separated by commas,
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3901 suitable for use in the PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST initialization.
3902
781b178c 3903incpath (usrinc.U):
bce0fc72 3904 This variable must precede the normal include path to get the
209e5c0a 3905 right one, as in "$incpath/usr/include" or "$incpath/usr/lib".
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3906 Value can be "" or "/bsd43" on mips.
3907
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3908incpth (libpth.U):
3909 This variable must precede the normal include path to get the
3910 right one, as in "$incpath/usr/include" or "$incpath/usr/lib".
3911 Value can be "" or "/bsd43" on mips.
3912
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3913inews (Loc.U):
3914 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3915 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 3916
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3917initialinstalllocation (bin.U):
3918 When userelocatableinc is true, this variable holds the location
3919 that make install should copy the perl binary to, with all the
3920 run-time relocatable paths calculated from this at install time.
1332606d 3921 When used, it is initialized to the original value of binexp, and
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3922 then binexp is set to '.../', as the other binaries are found
3923 relative to the perl binary.
3924
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3925installarchlib (archlib.U):
3926 This variable is really the same as archlibexp but may differ on
3927 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3928 should be used in makefiles.
3929
3930installbin (bin.U):
3931 This variable is the same as binexp unless AFS is running in which case
47e01c32 3932 the user is explicitly prompted for it. This variable should always
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3933 be used in your makefiles for maximum portability.
3934
10305dfa 3935installhtml1dir (html1dir.U):
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3936 This variable is really the same as html1direxp, unless you are
3937 using a different installprefix. For extra portability, you
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3938 should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3939
3940installhtml3dir (html3dir.U):
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3941 This variable is really the same as html3direxp, unless you are
3942 using a different installprefix. For extra portability, you
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3943 should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3944
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3945installman1dir (man1dir.U):
3946 This variable is really the same as man1direxp, unless you are using
3947 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3948 man1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3949 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3950
3951installman3dir (man3dir.U):
3952 This variable is really the same as man3direxp, unless you are using
3953 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3954 man3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3955 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3956
3957installprefix (installprefix.U):
635aebb7 3958 This variable holds the name of the directory below which
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3959 "make install" will install the package. For most users, this
3960 is the same as prefix. However, it is useful for
3961 installing the software into a different (usually temporary)
3962 location after which it can be bundled up and moved somehow
3963 to the final location specified by prefix.
3964
3965installprefixexp (installprefix.U):
3966 This variable holds the full absolute path of installprefix
3967 with all ~-expansion done.
3968
3969installprivlib (privlib.U):
3970 This variable is really the same as privlibexp but may differ on
3971 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3972 should be used in makefiles.
3973
3974installscript (scriptdir.U):
3975 This variable is usually the same as scriptdirexp, unless you are on
3976 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
3977 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
3978
3979installsitearch (sitearch.U):
3980 This variable is really the same as sitearchexp but may differ on
3981 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3982 should be used in makefiles.
3983
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3984installsitebin (sitebin.U):
3985 This variable is usually the same as sitebinexp, unless you are on
3986 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
3987 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
3988
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3989installsitehtml1dir (sitehtml1dir.U):
3990 This variable is really the same as sitehtml1direxp, unless you are using
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3991 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3992 html1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3993 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3994
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3995installsitehtml3dir (sitehtml3dir.U):
3996 This variable is really the same as sitehtml3direxp, unless you are using
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3997 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3998 html3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3999 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
4000
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4001installsitelib (sitelib.U):
4002 This variable is really the same as sitelibexp but may differ on
4003 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4004 should be used in makefiles.
4005
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4006installsiteman1dir (siteman1dir.U):
4007 This variable is really the same as siteman1direxp, unless you are using
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4008 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
4009 man1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
4010 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
4011
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4012installsiteman3dir (siteman3dir.U):
4013 This variable is really the same as siteman3direxp, unless you are using
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4014 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
4015 man3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
4016 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
4017
4018installsitescript (sitescript.U):
4019 This variable is usually the same as sitescriptexp, unless you are on
4020 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
4021 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
4022
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4023installstyle (installstyle.U):
4024 This variable describes the "style" of the perl installation.
4025 This is intended to be useful for tools that need to
4026 manipulate entire perl distributions. Perl itself doesn't use
4027 this to find its libraries -- the library directories are
4028 stored directly in Config.pm. Currently, there are only two
4029 styles: "lib" and "lib/perl5". The default library locations
4030 (e.g. privlib, sitelib) are either $prefix/lib or
4031 $prefix/lib/perl5. The former is useful if $prefix is a
4032 directory dedicated to perl (e.g. /opt/perl), while the latter
4033 is useful if $prefix is shared by many packages, e.g. if
4034 $prefix=/usr/local.
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4036 Unfortunately, while this "style" variable is used to set
4037 defaults for all three directory hierarchies (core, vendor, and
4038 site), there is no guarantee that the same style is actually
4039 appropriate for all those directories. For example, $prefix
4040 might be /opt/perl, but $siteprefix might be /usr/local.
4041 (Perhaps, in retrospect, the "lib" style should never have been
4042 supported, but it did seem like a nice idea at the time.)
4043
4044 The situation is even less clear for tools such as MakeMaker
4045 that can be used to install additional modules into
4046 non-standard places. For example, if a user intends to install
4047 a module into a private directory (perhaps by setting PREFIX on
4048 the Makefile.PL command line), then there is no reason to
4049 assume that the Configure-time $installstyle setting will be
4050 relevant for that PREFIX.
4051
9c20e9bc 4052 This may later be extended to include other information, so
781b178c 4053 be careful with pattern-matching on the results.
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4054
4055 For compatibility with perl5.005 and earlier, the default
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4056 setting is based on whether or not $prefix contains the string
4057 "perl".
4058
4059installusrbinperl (instubperl.U):
4060 This variable tells whether Perl should be installed also as
4061 /usr/bin/perl in addition to
4062 $installbin/perl
4063
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4064installvendorarch (vendorarch.U):
4065 This variable is really the same as vendorarchexp but may differ on
4066 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4067 should be used in makefiles.
4068
0617aed7
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4069installvendorbin (vendorbin.U):
4070 This variable is really the same as vendorbinexp but may differ on
4071 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4072 should be used in makefiles.
4073
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4074installvendorhtml1dir (vendorhtml1dir.U):
4075 This variable is really the same as vendorhtml1direxp but may differ on
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4076 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4077 should be used in makefiles.
4078
e755722e
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4079installvendorhtml3dir (vendorhtml3dir.U):
4080 This variable is really the same as vendorhtml3direxp but may differ on
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4081 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4082 should be used in makefiles.
4083
a3635516
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4084installvendorlib (vendorlib.U):
4085 This variable is really the same as vendorlibexp but may differ on
4086 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4087 should be used in makefiles.
4088
e755722e
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4089installvendorman1dir (vendorman1dir.U):
4090 This variable is really the same as vendorman1direxp but may differ on
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4091 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4092 should be used in makefiles.
4093
e755722e
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4094installvendorman3dir (vendorman3dir.U):
4095 This variable is really the same as vendorman3direxp but may differ on
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4096 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4097 should be used in makefiles.
4098
4099installvendorscript (vendorscript.U):
4100 This variable is really the same as vendorscriptexp but may differ on
4101 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4102 should be used in makefiles.
4103
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4104intsize (intsize.U):
4105 This variable contains the value of the INTSIZE symbol, which
4106 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in an int.
4107
4b661809 4108issymlink (issymlink.U):
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4109 This variable holds the test command to test for a symbolic link
4110 (if they are supported). Typical values include 'test -h' and
4111 'test -L'.
4b661809 4112
a22e52b9
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4113ivdformat (perlxvf.U):
4114 This variable contains the format string used for printing
635aebb7 4115 a Perl IV as a signed decimal integer.
a22e52b9
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4116
4117ivsize (perlxv.U):
4118 This variable is the size of an IV in bytes.
4119
4120ivtype (perlxv.U):
4121 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's IV.
4122
781b178c 4123known_extensions (Extensions.U):
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4124 This variable holds a list of all extensions (both XS and non-xs)
4125 included in the package source distribution. This information is
4126 only really of use during the Perl build, as the list makes no
4127 distinction between extensions which were build and installed, and
4128 those which where not. See "extensions" for the list of extensions
4129 actually built and available.
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4130
4131ksh (Loc.U):
4132 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4133 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 4134
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4135ld (dlsrc.U):
4136 This variable indicates the program to be used to link
4137 libraries for dynamic loading. On some systems, it is 'ld'.
4138 On ELF systems, it should be $cc. Mostly, we'll try to respect
4139 the hint file setting.
4140
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4141ld_can_script (dlsrc.U):
4142 This variable shows if the loader accepts scripts in the form of
4143 -Wl,--version-script=ld.script. This is currently only supported
4144 for GNU ld on ELF in dynamic loading builds.
4145
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4146lddlflags (dlsrc.U):
4147 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
4148 passed to $ld to create a shared library suitable for dynamic
4149 loading. It is up to the makefile to use it. For hpux, it
4150 should be '-b'. For sunos 4.1, it is empty.
4151
4152ldflags (ccflags.U):
4153 This variable contains any additional C loader flags desired by
4154 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
4155
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4156ldflags_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
4157 This variable contains the loader flags needed by large file builds
4158 and added to ldflags by hints files.
4159
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4160ldlibpthname (libperl.U):
4161 This variable holds the name of the shared library
4162 search path, often LD_LIBRARY_PATH. To get an empty
4163 string, the hints file must set this to 'none'.
4164
4165less (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4166 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4167 full pathname (if any) of the less program. After Configure runs,
4168 the value is reset to a plain "less" and is not useful.
4169
4170lib_ext (Unix.U):
4171 This is an old synonym for _a.
4172
4173libc (libc.U):
4174 This variable contains the location of the C library.
4175
4176libperl (libperl.U):
4177 The perl executable is obtained by linking perlmain.c with
4178 libperl, any static extensions (usually just DynaLoader),
4179 and any other libraries needed on this system. libperl
4180 is usually libperl.a, but can also be libperl.so.xxx if
4181 the user wishes to build a perl executable with a shared
4182 library.
4183
4184libpth (libpth.U):
4185 This variable holds the general path (space-separated) used to find
4186 libraries. It is intended to be used by other units.
4187
4188libs (libs.U):
4189 This variable holds the additional libraries we want to use.
9285ede2 4190 It is up to the Makefile to deal with it. The list can be empty.
781b178c 4191
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4192libsdirs (libs.U):
4193 This variable holds the directory names aka dirnames of the libraries
4194 we found and accepted, duplicates are removed.
4195
4196libsfiles (libs.U):
4197 This variable holds the filenames aka basenames of the libraries
4198 we found and accepted.
4199
4200libsfound (libs.U):
4201 This variable holds the full pathnames of the libraries
4202 we found and accepted.
4203
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4204libspath (libs.U):
4205 This variable holds the directory names probed for libraries.
4206
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4207libswanted (Myinit.U):
4208 This variable holds a list of all the libraries we want to
4209 search. The order is chosen to pick up the c library
4210 ahead of ucb or bsd libraries for SVR4.
4211
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4212libswanted_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
4213 This variable contains the libraries needed by large file builds
4214 and added to ldflags by hints files. It is a space separated list
4215 of the library names without the "lib" prefix or any suffix, just
209e5c0a 4216 like libswanted..
af960fef 4217
781b178c 4218line (Loc.U):
ff935051 4219 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4220 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4221
4222lint (Loc.U):
4223 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4224 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4225
4226lkflags (ccflags.U):
4227 This variable contains any additional C partial linker flags desired by
4228 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
4229
4230ln (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4231 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4232 full pathname (if any) of the ln program. After Configure runs,
4233 the value is reset to a plain "ln" and is not useful.
4234
4235lns (lns.U):
635aebb7 4236 This variable holds the name of the command to make
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4237 symbolic links (if they are supported). It can be used
4238 in the Makefile. It is either 'ln -s' or 'ln'
4239
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4240localtime_r_proto (d_localtime_r.U):
4241 This variable encodes the prototype of localtime_r.
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4242 It is zero if d_localtime_r is undef, and one of the
4243 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_localtime_r
4244 is defined.
10bc17b6 4245
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4246locincpth (ccflags.U):
4247 This variable contains a list of additional directories to be
4248 searched by the compiler. The appropriate '-I' directives will
4249 be added to ccflags. This is intended to simplify setting
4250 local directories from the Configure command line.
4251 It's not much, but it parallels the loclibpth stuff in libpth.U.
4252
4253loclibpth (libpth.U):
4254 This variable holds the paths (space-separated) used to find local
4255 libraries. It is prepended to libpth, and is intended to be easily
4256 set from the command line.
4257
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4258longdblinfbytes (infnan.U):
4259 This variable contains comma-separated list of hexadecimal bytes
4260 for the long double precision infinity.
4261
db8b8c75 4262longdblkind (d_longdbl.U):
dc91db6c 4263 This variable, if defined, encodes the type of a long double:
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4264 0 = double,
4265 1 = IEEE 754 128-bit little endian,
4266 2 = IEEE 754 128-bit big endian,
4267 3 = x86 80-bit little endian,
4268 4 = x86 80-bit big endian,
4269 5 = double-double 128-bit little endian,
4270 6 = double-double 128-bit big endian,
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4271 7 = 128-bit mixed-endian double-double (64-bit LEs in BE),
4272 8 = 128-bit mixed-endian double-double (64-bit BEs in LE),
4273 9 = 128-bit PDP-style mixed-endian long doubles,
2640dfa8 4274 -1 = unknown format.
dc91db6c 4275
2640dfa8 4276longdblmantbits (mantbits.U):
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4277 This symbol, if defined, tells how many mantissa bits
4278 there are in long double precision floating point format.
4279 Note that this can be LDBL_MANT_DIG minus one,
4280 since LDBL_MANT_DIG can include the IEEE 754 implicit bit.
4281 The common x86-style 80-bit long double does not have
4282 an implicit bit.
4283
44521f3a
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4284longdblnanbytes (infnan.U):
4285 This variable contains comma-separated list of hexadecimal bytes
4286 for the long double precision not-a-number.
4287
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4288longdblsize (d_longdbl.U):
4289 This variable contains the value of the LONG_DOUBLESIZE symbol, which
4290 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long double,
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4291 if this system supports long doubles. Note that this is
4292 sizeof(long double), which may include unused bytes.
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4293
4294longlongsize (d_longlong.U):
4295 This variable contains the value of the LONGLONGSIZE symbol, which
4296 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long long,
4297 if this system supports long long.
4298
4299longsize (intsize.U):
4300 This variable contains the value of the LONGSIZE symbol, which
4301 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long.
4302
4303lp (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
4307lpr (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
4311ls (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4312 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4313 full pathname (if any) of the ls program. After Configure runs,
4314 the value is reset to a plain "ls" and is not useful.
4315
4316lseeksize (lseektype.U):
635aebb7 4317 This variable defines lseektype to be something like off_t, long,
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4318 or whatever type is used to declare lseek offset's type in the
4319 kernel (which also appears to be lseek's return type).
4320
4321lseektype (lseektype.U):
635aebb7 4322 This variable defines lseektype to be something like off_t, long,
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4323 or whatever type is used to declare lseek offset's type in the
4324 kernel (which also appears to be lseek's return type).
4325
4326mail (Loc.U):
4327 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4328 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c
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4329
4330mailx (Loc.U):
4331 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4332 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4333
4334make (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4335 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
c532c9d1
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4336 full pathname (if any) of the make program. After Configure runs,
4337 the value is reset to a plain "make" and is not useful.
4338
781b178c
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4339make_set_make (make.U):
4340 Some versions of 'make' set the variable MAKE. Others do not.
4341 This variable contains the string to be included in Makefile.SH
4342 so that MAKE is set if needed, and not if not needed.
4343 Possible values are:
44b94491 4344
781b178c 4345 make_set_make='#' # If your make program handles this for you,
44b94491 4346
781b178c 4347 make_set_make="MAKE=$make" # if it doesn't.
44b94491 4348
5bcaa86b 4349 This uses a comment character so that we can distinguish a
1a474c3e 4350 'set' value (from a previous config.sh or Configure '-D' option)
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4351 from an uncomputed value.
4352
4353mallocobj (mallocsrc.U):
4354 This variable contains the name of the malloc.o that this package
4355 generates, if that malloc.o is preferred over the system malloc.
4356 Otherwise the value is null. This variable is intended for generating
4357 Makefiles. See mallocsrc.
4358
4359mallocsrc (mallocsrc.U):
4360 This variable contains the name of the malloc.c that comes with
4361 the package, if that malloc.c is preferred over the system malloc.
4362 Otherwise the value is null. This variable is intended for generating
4363 Makefiles.
4364
4365malloctype (mallocsrc.U):
4366 This variable contains the kind of ptr returned by malloc and realloc.
4367
4368man1dir (man1dir.U):
4369 This variable contains the name of the directory in which manual
4370 source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4371 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4372 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4373
4374man1direxp (man1dir.U):
4375 This variable is the same as the man1dir variable, but is filename
4376 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4377
4378man1ext (man1dir.U):
4379 This variable contains the extension that the manual page should
4380 have: one of 'n', 'l', or '1'. The Makefile must supply the '.'.
4381 See man1dir.
4382
4383man3dir (man3dir.U):
4384 This variable contains the name of the directory in which manual
4385 source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4386 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4387 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4388
4389man3direxp (man3dir.U):
4390 This variable is the same as the man3dir variable, but is filename
4391 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4392
4393man3ext (man3dir.U):
4394 This variable contains the extension that the manual page should
4395 have: one of 'n', 'l', or '3'. The Makefile must supply the '.'.
4396 See man3dir.
4397
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4398mips_type (usrinc.U):
4399 This variable holds the environment type for the mips system.
4400 Possible values are "BSD 4.3" and "System V".
4401
65d1576c 4402mistrustnm (Csym.U):
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JH
4403 This variable can be used to establish a fallthrough for the cases
4404 where nm fails to find a symbol. If usenm is false or usenm is true
4405 and mistrustnm is false, this variable has no effect. If usenm is true
4406 and mistrustnm is "compile", a test program will be compiled to try to
4407 find any symbol that can't be located via nm lookup. If mistrustnm is
4408 "run", the test program will be run as well as being compiled.
4409
781b178c 4410mkdir (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4411 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4412 full pathname (if any) of the mkdir program. After Configure runs,
4413 the value is reset to a plain "mkdir" and is not useful.
4414
fe749a9f
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4415mmaptype (d_mmap.U):
4416 This symbol contains the type of pointer returned by mmap()
4417 (and simultaneously the type of the first argument).
4418 It can be 'void *' or 'caddr_t'.
4419
781b178c 4420modetype (modetype.U):
635aebb7
AL
4421 This variable defines modetype to be something like mode_t,
4422 int, unsigned short, or whatever type is used to declare file
781b178c
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4423 modes for system calls.
4424
4425more (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4426 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4427 full pathname (if any) of the more program. After Configure runs,
4428 the value is reset to a plain "more" and is not useful.
4429
4430multiarch (multiarch.U):
4431 This variable conditionally defines the MULTIARCH symbol
4432 which signifies the presence of multiplatform files.
4433 This is normally set by hints files.
4434
4435mv (Loc.U):
4436 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4437 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4438
4439myarchname (archname.U):
4440 This variable holds the architecture name computed by Configure in
4441 a previous run. It is not intended to be perused by any user and
4442 should never be set in a hint file.
4443
4444mydomain (myhostname.U):
4445 This variable contains the eventual value of the MYDOMAIN symbol,
4446 which is the domain of the host the program is going to run on.
4447 The domain must be appended to myhostname to form a complete host name.
4448 The dot comes with mydomain, and need not be supplied by the program.
4449
4450myhostname (myhostname.U):
4451 This variable contains the eventual value of the MYHOSTNAME symbol,
4452 which is the name of the host the program is going to run on.
4453 The domain is not kept with hostname, but must be gotten from mydomain.
4454 The dot comes with mydomain, and need not be supplied by the program.
4455
4456myuname (Oldconfig.U):
1332606d
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4457 The output of 'uname -a' if available, otherwise the hostname.
4458 The whole thing is then lower-cased and slashes and single quotes are
4459 removed.
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4460
4461n (n.U):
1a474c3e 4462 This variable contains the '-n' flag if that is what causes the echo
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4463 command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is
4464 $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
4465
2cc61e15
DD
4466need_va_copy (need_va_copy.U):
4467 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the system stores
4468 the variable argument list datatype, va_list, in a format
4469 that cannot be copied by simple assignment, so that some
4470 other means must be used when copying is required.
4471 As such systems vary in their provision (or non-provision)
4472 of copying mechanisms, handy.h defines a platform-
4473 independent macro, Perl_va_copy(src, dst), to do the job.
4474
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4475netdb_hlen_type (netdbtype.U):
4476 This variable holds the type used for the 2nd argument to
4477 gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or size_t or unsigned.
4478 This is only useful if you have gethostbyaddr(), naturally.
4479
4480netdb_host_type (netdbtype.U):
4481 This variable holds the type used for the 1st argument to
4482 gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is char * or void *, possibly
4483 with or without a const prefix.
4484 This is only useful if you have gethostbyaddr(), naturally.
4485
4486netdb_name_type (netdbtype.U):
4487 This variable holds the type used for the argument to
4488 gethostbyname(). Usually, this is char * or const char *.
4489 This is only useful if you have gethostbyname(), naturally.
4490
4491netdb_net_type (netdbtype.U):
4492 This variable holds the type used for the 1st argument to
4493 getnetbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or long.
4494 This is only useful if you have getnetbyaddr(), naturally.
4495
4496nm (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4497 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4498 full pathname (if any) of the nm program. After Configure runs,
4499 the value is reset to a plain "nm" and is not useful.
4500
4501nm_opt (usenm.U):
4502 This variable holds the options that may be necessary for nm.
4503
4504nm_so_opt (usenm.U):
4505 This variable holds the options that may be necessary for nm
4506 to work on a shared library but that can not be used on an
4507 archive library. Currently, this is only used by Linux, where
4508 nm --dynamic is *required* to get symbols from an ELF library which
4509 has been stripped, but nm --dynamic is *fatal* on an archive library.
4510 Maybe Linux should just always set usenm=false.
4511
4512nonxs_ext (Extensions.U):
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4513 This variable holds a list of all non-xs extensions built and
4514 installed by the package. By default, all non-xs extensions
4515 distributed will be built, with the exception of platform-specific
4516 extensions (currently only one VMS specific extension).
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4517
4518nroff (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4519 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4520 full pathname (if any) of the nroff program. After Configure runs,
4521 the value is reset to a plain "nroff" and is not useful.
4522
b68c599a
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4523nv_overflows_integers_at (perlxv.U):
4524 This variable gives the largest integer value that NVs can hold
4525 as a constant floating point expression.
4526 If it could not be determined, it holds the value 0.
4527
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4528nv_preserves_uv_bits (perlxv.U):
4529 This variable indicates how many of bits type uvtype
4530 a variable nvtype can preserve.
4531
6b4667fc
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4532nveformat (perlxvf.U):
4533 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4534 a Perl NV using %e-ish floating point format.
4535
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4536nvEUformat (perlxvf.U):
4537 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4538 a Perl NV using %E-ish floating point format.
4539
6b4667fc 4540nvfformat (perlxvf.U):
1332606d 4541 This variable contains the format string used for printing
6b4667fc
A
4542 a Perl NV using %f-ish floating point format.
4543
4d54317a 4544nvFUformat (perlxvf.U):
1332606d 4545 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4d54317a
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4546 a Perl NV using %F-ish floating point format.
4547
6b4667fc
A
4548nvgformat (perlxvf.U):
4549 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4550 a Perl NV using %g-ish floating point format.
4551
4d54317a
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4552nvGUformat (perlxvf.U):
4553 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4554 a Perl NV using %G-ish floating point format.
4555
5a14060a
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4556nvmantbits (mantbits.U):
4557 This variable tells how many bits the mantissa of a Perl NV has,
4558 not including the possible implicit bit.
4559
a22e52b9 4560nvsize (perlxv.U):
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JH
4561 This variable is the size of a Perl NV in bytes.
4562 Note that some floating point formats have unused bytes.
a22e52b9
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4563
4564nvtype (perlxv.U):
4565 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's NV.
4566
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4567o_nonblock (nblock_io.U):
4568 This variable bears the symbol value to be used during open() or fcntl()
4569 to turn on non-blocking I/O for a file descriptor. If you wish to switch
4570 between blocking and non-blocking, you may try ioctl(FIOSNBIO) instead,
4571 but that is only supported by some devices.
4572
4573obj_ext (Unix.U):
4574 This is an old synonym for _o.
4575
4576old_pthread_create_joinable (d_pthrattrj.U):
4577 This variable defines the constant to use for creating joinable
4578 (aka undetached) pthreads. Unused if pthread.h defines
4579 PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE. If used, possible values are
4580 PTHREAD_CREATE_UNDETACHED and __UNDETACHED.
4581
4582optimize (ccflags.U):
4583 This variable contains any optimizer/debugger flag that should be used.
4584 It is up to the Makefile to use it.
4585
4586orderlib (orderlib.U):
4587 This variable is "true" if the components of libraries must be ordered
4588 (with `lorder $* | tsort`) before placing them in an archive. Set to
4589 "false" if ranlib or ar can generate random libraries.
4590
4591osname (Oldconfig.U):
4592 This variable contains the operating system name (e.g. sunos,
4593 solaris, hpux, etc.). It can be useful later on for setting
4594 defaults. Any spaces are replaced with underscores. It is set
4595 to a null string if we can't figure it out.
4596
4597osvers (Oldconfig.U):
4598 This variable contains the operating system version (e.g.
4599 4.1.3, 5.2, etc.). It is primarily used for helping select
4600 an appropriate hints file, but might be useful elsewhere for
4601 setting defaults. It is set to '' if we can't figure it out.
4602 We try to be flexible about how much of the version number
4603 to keep, e.g. if 4.1.1, 4.1.2, and 4.1.3 are essentially the
4604 same for this package, hints files might just be os_4.0 or
4605 os_4.1, etc., not keeping separate files for each little release.
4606
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4607otherlibdirs (otherlibdirs.U):
4608 This variable contains a colon-separated set of paths for the perl
4609 binary to search for additional library files or modules.
4610 These directories will be tacked to the end of @INC.
4611 Perl will automatically search below each path for version-
4612 and architecture-specific directories. See inc_version_list
4613 for more details.
4614 A value of ' ' means 'none' and is used to preserve this value
4615 for the next run through Configure.
4616
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4617package (package.U):
4618 This variable contains the name of the package being constructed.
4619 It is primarily intended for the use of later Configure units.
4620
4621pager (pager.U):
4622 This variable contains the name of the preferred pager on the system.
4623 Usual values are (the full pathnames of) more, less, pg, or cat.
4624
4625passcat (nis.U):
4626 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
4627 /etc/passwd file. This is normally "cat /etc/passwd", but can be
4628 "ypcat passwd" when NIS is used.
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4629 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
4630 command, in which case this variable is unset.
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4631
4632patchlevel (patchlevel.U):
4633 The patchlevel level of this package.
4634 The value of patchlevel comes from the patchlevel.h file.
ff935051 4635 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "6".
c890dc6c 4636 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_VERSION".
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4637
4638path_sep (Unix.U):
4639 This is an old synonym for p_ in Head.U, the character
4640 used to separate elements in the command shell search PATH.
4641
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4642perl (Loc.U):
4643 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
4644 full pathname (if any) of the perl program. After Configure runs,
4645 the value is reset to a plain "perl" and is not useful.
4646
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4647perl5 (perl5.U):
4648 This variable contains the full path (if any) to a previously
4649 installed perl5.005 or later suitable for running the script
4650 to determine inc_version_list.
4651
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4652PERL_API_REVISION (patchlevel.h):
4653 This number describes the earliest compatible PERL_REVISION of
4654 Perl ("compatibility" here being defined as sufficient binary/API
4655 compatibility to run XS code built with the older version).
4656 Normally this does not change across maintenance releases.
4657 Please read the comment in patchlevel.h.
4658
4659PERL_API_SUBVERSION (patchlevel.h):
4660 This number describes the earliest compatible PERL_SUBVERSION of
4661 Perl ("compatibility" here being defined as sufficient binary/API
4662 compatibility to run XS code built with the older version).
4663 Normally this does not change across maintenance releases.
4664 Please read the comment in patchlevel.h.
4665
4666PERL_API_VERSION (patchlevel.h):
4667 This number describes the earliest compatible PERL_VERSION of
4668 Perl ("compatibility" here being defined as sufficient binary/API
4669 compatibility to run XS code built with the older version).
4670 Normally this does not change across maintenance releases.
4671 Please read the comment in patchlevel.h.
4672
4673PERL_CONFIG_SH (Oldsyms.U):
4674 This is set to 'true' in config.sh so that a shell script
4675 sourcing config.sh can tell if it has been sourced already.
4676
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4677PERL_PATCHLEVEL (Oldsyms.U):
4678 This symbol reflects the patchlevel, if available. Will usually
4679 come from the .patch file, which is available when the perl
4680 source tree was fetched with rsync.
4681
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4682perl_patchlevel (patchlevel.U):
4683 This is the Perl patch level, a numeric change identifier,
4684 as defined by whichever source code maintenance system
4685 is used to maintain the patches; currently Perforce.
4686 It does not correlate with the Perl version numbers or
4687 the maintenance versus development dichotomy except
4688 by also being increasing.
4689
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4690PERL_REVISION (Oldsyms.U):
4691 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 5.
4692 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
4693
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4694perl_static_inline (d_static_inline.U):
4695 This variable defines the PERL_STATIC_INLINE symbol to
4696 the best-guess incantation to use for static inline functions.
4697 Possibilities include
4698 static inline (c99)
4699 static __inline__ (gcc -ansi)
4700 static __inline (MSVC)
4701 static _inline (older MSVC)
4702 static (c89 compilers)
4703
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4704PERL_SUBVERSION (Oldsyms.U):
4705 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 2.
4706 Values greater than 50 represent potentially unstable
4707 development subversions.
4708 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
4709
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4710perl_thread_local (d_thread_local.U):
4711 This variable gives the value for the PERL_THREAD_LOCAL symbol (when
4712 defined), which gives a linkage specification for thread-local storage.
4713
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4714PERL_VERSION (Oldsyms.U):
4715 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 6.
4716 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
4717
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4718perladmin (perladmin.U):
4719 Electronic mail address of the perl5 administrator.
4720
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4721perllibs (End.U):
4722 The list of libraries needed by Perl only (any libraries needed
4723 by extensions only will by dropped, if using dynamic loading).
4724
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4725perlpath (perlpath.U):
4726 This variable contains the eventual value of the PERLPATH symbol,
4727 which contains the name of the perl interpreter to be used in
4728 shell scripts and in the "eval 'exec'" idiom. This variable is
4729 not necessarily the pathname of the file containing the perl
4730 interpreter; you must append the executable extension (_exe) if
4731 it is not already present. Note that Perl code that runs during
4732 the Perl build process cannot reference this variable, as Perl
4733 may not have been installed, or even if installed, may be a
4734 different version of Perl.
4735
781b178c 4736pg (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4737 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4738 full pathname (if any) of the pg program. After Configure runs,
4739 the value is reset to a plain "pg" and is not useful.
4740
4741phostname (myhostname.U):
4742 This variable contains the eventual value of the PHOSTNAME symbol,
4743 which is a command that can be fed to popen() to get the host name.
4744 The program should probably not presume that the domain is or isn't
4745 there already.
4746
4747pidtype (pidtype.U):
635aebb7 4748 This variable defines PIDTYPE to be something like pid_t, int,
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4749 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare process ids in the kernel.
4750
4751plibpth (libpth.U):
4752 Holds the private path used by Configure to find out the libraries.
4753 Its value is prepend to libpth. This variable takes care of special
4754 machines, like the mips. Usually, it should be empty.
4755
4756pmake (Loc.U):
4757 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4758 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4759
4760pr (Loc.U):
4761 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4762 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4763
4764prefix (prefix.U):
4765 This variable holds the name of the directory below which the
4766 user will install the package. Usually, this is /usr/local, and
4767 executables go in /usr/local/bin, library stuff in /usr/local/lib,
4768 man pages in /usr/local/man, etc. It is only used to set defaults
4769 for things in bin.U, mansrc.U, privlib.U, or scriptdir.U.
4770
4771prefixexp (prefix.U):
4772 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
4773 which the user will install the package. Derived from prefix.
4774
4775privlib (privlib.U):
4776 This variable contains the eventual value of the PRIVLIB symbol,
4777 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
4778 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
4779 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
4780
4781privlibexp (privlib.U):
4782 This variable is the ~name expanded version of privlib, so that you
4783 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
4784
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4785procselfexe (d_procselfexe.U):
4786 If d_procselfexe is defined, $procselfexe is the filename
4787 of the symbolic link pointing to the absolute pathname of
4788 the executing program.
4789
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4790ptrsize (ptrsize.U):
4791 This variable contains the value of the PTRSIZE symbol, which
4792 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a pointer.
4793
e0a10278 4794quadkind (quadtype.U):
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4795 This variable, if defined, encodes the type of a quad:
4796 1 = int, 2 = long, 3 = long long, 4 = int64_t.
4797
4798quadtype (quadtype.U):
635aebb7 4799 This variable defines Quad_t to be something like long, int,
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4800 long long, int64_t, or whatever type is used for 64-bit integers.
4801
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4802randbits (randfunc.U):
4803 Indicates how many bits are produced by the function used to
4804 generate normalized random numbers.
4805
4806randfunc (randfunc.U):
4807 Indicates the name of the random number function to use.
4808 Values include drand48, random, and rand. In C programs,
4809 the 'Drand01' macro is defined to generate uniformly distributed
4810 random numbers over the range [0., 1.[ (see drand01 and nrand).
4811
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4812random_r_proto (d_random_r.U):
4813 This variable encodes the prototype of random_r.
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4814 It is zero if d_random_r is undef, and one of the
4815 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_random_r
4816 is defined.
10bc17b6 4817
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4818randseedtype (randfunc.U):
4819 Indicates the type of the argument of the seedfunc.
4820
4821ranlib (orderlib.U):
4822 This variable is set to the pathname of the ranlib program, if it is
4823 needed to generate random libraries. Set to ":" if ar can generate
4824 random libraries or if random libraries are not supported
4825
4826rd_nodata (nblock_io.U):
4827 This variable holds the return code from read() when no data is
4828 present. It should be -1, but some systems return 0 when O_NDELAY is
4829 used, which is a shame because you cannot make the difference between
209e5c0a 4830 no data and an EOF.. Sigh!
781b178c 4831
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4832readdir64_r_proto (d_readdir64_r.U):
4833 This variable encodes the prototype of readdir64_r.
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4834 It is zero if d_readdir64_r is undef, and one of the
4835 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_readdir64_r
4836 is defined.
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4837
4838readdir_r_proto (d_readdir_r.U):
4839 This variable encodes the prototype of readdir_r.
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4840 It is zero if d_readdir_r is undef, and one of the
4841 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_readdir_r
4842 is defined.
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4844revision (patchlevel.U):
4845 The value of revision comes from the patchlevel.h file.
4846 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "5".
4847 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_REVISION".
4848
781b178c 4849rm (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4850 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4851 full pathname (if any) of the rm program. After Configure runs,
4852 the value is reset to a plain "rm" and is not useful.
4853
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4854rm_try (Unix.U):
4855 This is a cleanup variable for try test programs.
4856 Internal Configure use only.
4857
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4858rmail (Loc.U):
4859 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4860 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 4861
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4862run (Cross.U):
4863 This variable contains the command used by Configure
4864 to copy and execute a cross-compiled executable in the
4865 target host. Useful and available only during Perl build.
4866 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
4867
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4868runnm (usenm.U):
4869 This variable contains 'true' or 'false' depending whether the
4870 nm extraction should be performed or not, according to the value
4871 of usenm and the flags on the Configure command line.
4872
4873sched_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
4874 This variable defines the way to yield the execution
4875 of the current thread.
4876
4877scriptdir (scriptdir.U):
4878 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
4879 to put publicly scripts for the package in question. It is either
4880 the same directory as for binaries, or a special one that can be
4881 mounted across different architectures, like /usr/share. Programs
4882 must be prepared to deal with ~name expansion.
4883
4884scriptdirexp (scriptdir.U):
4885 This variable is the same as scriptdir, but is filename expanded
4886 at configuration time, for programs not wanting to bother with it.
4887
4888sed (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4889 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4890 full pathname (if any) of the sed program. After Configure runs,
4891 the value is reset to a plain "sed" and is not useful.
4892
4893seedfunc (randfunc.U):
4894 Indicates the random number generating seed function.
4895 Values include srand48, srandom, and srand.
4896
4897selectminbits (selectminbits.U):
4898 This variable holds the minimum number of bits operated by select.
4899 That is, if you do select(n, ...), how many bits at least will be
4900 cleared in the masks if some activity is detected. Usually this
4901 is either n or 32*ceil(n/32), especially many little-endians do
4902 the latter. This is only useful if you have select(), naturally.
4903
4904selecttype (selecttype.U):
4905 This variable holds the type used for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th
4906 arguments to select. Usually, this is 'fd_set *', if HAS_FD_SET
635aebb7 4907 is defined, and 'int *' otherwise. This is only useful if you
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4908 have select(), naturally.
4909
4910sendmail (Loc.U):
ff935051 4911 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4912 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 4913
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4914setgrent_r_proto (d_setgrent_r.U):
4915 This variable encodes the prototype of setgrent_r.
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4916 It is zero if d_setgrent_r is undef, and one of the
4917 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setgrent_r
4918 is defined.
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4919
4920sethostent_r_proto (d_sethostent_r.U):
4921 This variable encodes the prototype of sethostent_r.
39183afa
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4922 It is zero if d_sethostent_r is undef, and one of the
4923 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_sethostent_r
4924 is defined.
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4925
4926setlocale_r_proto (d_setlocale_r.U):
4927 This variable encodes the prototype of setlocale_r.
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4928 It is zero if d_setlocale_r is undef, and one of the
4929 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setlocale_r
4930 is defined.
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4931
4932setnetent_r_proto (d_setnetent_r.U):
4933 This variable encodes the prototype of setnetent_r.
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4934 It is zero if d_setnetent_r is undef, and one of the
4935 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setnetent_r
4936 is defined.
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4937
4938setprotoent_r_proto (d_setprotoent_r.U):
4939 This variable encodes the prototype of setprotoent_r.
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4940 It is zero if d_setprotoent_r is undef, and one of the
4941 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setprotoent_r
4942 is defined.
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4943
4944setpwent_r_proto (d_setpwent_r.U):
4945 This variable encodes the prototype of setpwent_r.
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4946 It is zero if d_setpwent_r is undef, and one of the
4947 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setpwent_r
4948 is defined.
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4949
4950setservent_r_proto (d_setservent_r.U):
4951 This variable encodes the prototype of setservent_r.
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4952 It is zero if d_setservent_r is undef, and one of the
4953 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setservent_r
4954 is defined.
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4956sGMTIME_max (time_size.U):
4957 This variable defines the maximum value of the time_t offset that
4958 the system function gmtime () accepts
4959
4960sGMTIME_min (time_size.U):
4961 This variable defines the minimum value of the time_t offset that
4962 the system function gmtime () accepts
4963
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4964sh (sh.U):
4965 This variable contains the full pathname of the shell used
4966 on this system to execute Bourne shell scripts. Usually, this will be
4967 /bin/sh, though it's possible that some systems will have /bin/ksh,
4968 /bin/pdksh, /bin/ash, /bin/bash, or even something such as
4969 D:/bin/sh.exe.
1a474c3e 4970 This unit comes before Options.U, so you can't set sh with a '-D'
781b178c 4971 option, though you can override this (and startsh)
1a474c3e 4972 with '-O -Dsh=/bin/whatever -Dstartsh=whatever'
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4973
4974shar (Loc.U):
4975 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4976 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4977
4978sharpbang (spitshell.U):
4979 This variable contains the string #! if this system supports that
4980 construct.
4981
4982shmattype (d_shmat.U):
4983 This symbol contains the type of pointer returned by shmat().
4984 It can be 'void *' or 'char *'.
4985
4986shortsize (intsize.U):
4987 This variable contains the value of the SHORTSIZE symbol which
4988 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a short.
4989
4990shrpenv (libperl.U):
4991 If the user builds a shared libperl.so, then we need to tell the
635aebb7 4992 'perl' executable where it will be able to find the installed libperl.so.
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4993 One way to do this on some systems is to set the environment variable
4994 LD_RUN_PATH to the directory that will be the final location of the
4995 shared libperl.so. The makefile can use this with something like
4996 $shrpenv $(CC) -o perl perlmain.o $libperl $libs
4997 Typical values are
4998 shrpenv="env LD_RUN_PATH=$archlibexp/CORE"
4999 or
5000 shrpenv=''
5001 See the main perl Makefile.SH for actual working usage.
dfaa7b30 5002
781b178c 5003 Alternatively, we might be able to use a command line option such
c68a00c0 5004 as -R $archlibexp/CORE (Solaris) or -Wl,-rpath
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5005 $archlibexp/CORE (Linux).
5006
5007shsharp (spitshell.U):
5008 This variable tells further Configure units whether your sh can
5009 handle # comments.
5010
5011sig_count (sig_name.U):
5012 This variable holds a number larger than the largest valid
5013 signal number. This is usually the same as the NSIG macro.
5014
5015sig_name (sig_name.U):
5016 This variable holds the signal names, space separated. The leading
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5017 SIG in signal name is removed. A ZERO is prepended to the list.
5018 This is currently not used, sig_name_init is used instead.
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5019
5020sig_name_init (sig_name.U):
5021 This variable holds the signal names, enclosed in double quotes and
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5022 separated by commas, suitable for use in the SIG_NAME definition
5023 below. A "ZERO" is prepended to the list, and the list is
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5024 terminated with a plain 0. The leading SIG in signal names
5025 is removed. See sig_num.
5026
5027sig_num (sig_name.U):
5028 This variable holds the signal numbers, space separated. A ZERO is
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5029 prepended to the list (corresponding to the fake SIGZERO).
5030 Those numbers correspond to the value of the signal listed
5031 in the same place within the sig_name list.
5032 This is currently not used, sig_num_init is used instead.
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5033
5034sig_num_init (sig_name.U):
5035 This variable holds the signal numbers, enclosed in double quotes and
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5036 separated by commas, suitable for use in the SIG_NUM definition
5037 below. A "ZERO" is prepended to the list, and the list is
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5038 terminated with a plain 0.
5039
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5040sig_size (sig_name.U):
5041 This variable contains the number of elements of the sig_name
f05fc11d 5042 and sig_num arrays.
76d3c696 5043
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5044signal_t (d_voidsig.U):
5045 This variable holds the type of the signal handler (void or int).
5046
5047sitearch (sitearch.U):
5048 This variable contains the eventual value of the SITEARCH symbol,
5049 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
5050 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
5051 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
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5052 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5053 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5054 architecture-dependent modules in this directory with
5055 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5056 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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5057
5058sitearchexp (sitearch.U):
5059 This variable is the ~name expanded version of sitearch, so that you
5060 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5061
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5062sitebin (sitebin.U):
5063 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
5064 to put add-on publicly executable files for the package in question. It
5065 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
5066 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
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5067 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5068 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5069 executables in this directory with
5070 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5071 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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5072
5073sitebinexp (sitebin.U):
5074 This is the same as the sitebin variable, but is filename expanded at
5075 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
5076
e755722e 5077sitehtml1dir (sitehtml1dir.U):
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5078 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
5079 html source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
5080 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
5081 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
5082 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5083 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5084 html pages in this directory with
5085 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5086 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5087
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5088sitehtml1direxp (sitehtml1dir.U):
5089 This variable is the same as the sitehtml1dir variable, but is filename
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5090 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
5091
e755722e 5092sitehtml3dir (sitehtml3dir.U):
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5093 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
5094 library html source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
5095 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
5096 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
5097 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5098 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5099 library html pages in this directory with
5100 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5101 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5102
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5103sitehtml3direxp (sitehtml3dir.U):
5104 This variable is the same as the sitehtml3dir variable, but is filename
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5105 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
5106
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5107sitelib (sitelib.U):
5108 This variable contains the eventual value of the SITELIB symbol,
5109 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
5110 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
5111 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
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5112 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5113 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5114 architecture-independent modules in this directory with
5115 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5116 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
781b178c 5117
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5118sitelib_stem (sitelib.U):
5119 This variable is $sitelibexp with any trailing version-specific component
5120 removed. The elements in inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U) can
5121 be tacked onto this variable to generate a list of directories to search.
5122
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5123sitelibexp (sitelib.U):
5124 This variable is the ~name expanded version of sitelib, so that you
5125 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5126
e755722e 5127siteman1dir (siteman1dir.U):
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5128 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
5129 manual source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
5130 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
5131 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
5132 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5133 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5134 man1 pages in this directory with
5135 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5136 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5137
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5138siteman1direxp (siteman1dir.U):
5139 This variable is the same as the siteman1dir variable, but is filename
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5140 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
5141
e755722e 5142siteman3dir (siteman3dir.U):
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5143 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
5144 library man source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
5145 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
5146 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
5147 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5148 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5149 man3 pages in this directory with
5150 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5151 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5152
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5153siteman3direxp (siteman3dir.U):
5154 This variable is the same as the siteman3dir variable, but is filename
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5155 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
5156
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5157siteprefix (siteprefix.U):
5158 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
5159 which the user will install add-on packages.
f868067f 5160 See INSTALL for usage and examples.
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5161
5162siteprefixexp (siteprefix.U):
5163 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
5164 which the user will install add-on packages. Derived from siteprefix.
5165
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5166sitescript (sitescript.U):
5167 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
5168 to put add-on publicly executable files for the package in question. It
5169 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
5170 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
5171 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5172 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5173 scripts in this directory with
5174 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5175 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5176
5177sitescriptexp (sitescript.U):
5178 This is the same as the sitescript variable, but is filename expanded at
5179 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
5180
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5181sizesize (sizesize.U):
5182 This variable contains the size of a sizetype in bytes.
5183
781b178c 5184sizetype (sizetype.U):
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5185 This variable defines sizetype to be something like size_t,
5186 unsigned long, or whatever type is used to declare length
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5187 parameters for string functions.
5188
5189sleep (Loc.U):
5190 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5191 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5192
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5193sLOCALTIME_max (time_size.U):
5194 This variable defines the maximum value of the time_t offset that
5195 the system function localtime () accepts
5196
5197sLOCALTIME_min (time_size.U):
5198 This variable defines the minimum value of the time_t offset that
5199 the system function localtime () accepts
5200
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5201smail (Loc.U):
5202 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5203 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5204
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5205so (so.U):
5206 This variable holds the extension used to identify shared libraries
5207 (also known as shared objects) on the system. Usually set to 'so'.
5208
5209sockethdr (d_socket.U):
5210 This variable has any cpp '-I' flags needed for socket support.
5211
5212socketlib (d_socket.U):
5213 This variable has the names of any libraries needed for socket support.
5214
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5215socksizetype (socksizetype.U):
5216 This variable holds the type used for the size argument
5217 for various socket calls like accept. Usual values include
5218 socklen_t, size_t, and int.
5219
781b178c 5220sort (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5221 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5222 full pathname (if any) of the sort program. After Configure runs,
5223 the value is reset to a plain "sort" and is not useful.
5224
5225spackage (package.U):
5226 This variable contains the name of the package being constructed,
5227 with the first letter uppercased, i.e. suitable for starting
5228 sentences.
5229
5230spitshell (spitshell.U):
5231 This variable contains the command necessary to spit out a runnable
1a474c3e 5232 shell on this system. It is either cat or a grep '-v' for # comments.
40814d06 5233
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5234sPRId64 (quadfio.U):
5235 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5236 format 64-bit decimal numbers (format 'd') for output.
5237
5238sPRIeldbl (longdblfio.U):
5239 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5240 format long doubles (format 'e') for output.
5241
5242sPRIEUldbl (longdblfio.U):
5243 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5244 format long doubles (format 'E') for output.
5245 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIeldbl so that even
5246 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5247
5248sPRIfldbl (longdblfio.U):
5249 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5250 format long doubles (format 'f') for output.
5251
5252sPRIFUldbl (longdblfio.U):
5253 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5254 format long doubles (format 'F') for output.
5255 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIfldbl so that even
5256 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5257
5258sPRIgldbl (longdblfio.U):
5259 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5260 format long doubles (format 'g') for output.
5261
5262sPRIGUldbl (longdblfio.U):
5263 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5264 format long doubles (format 'G') for output.
5265 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIgldbl so that even
5266 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5267
5268sPRIi64 (quadfio.U):
5269 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5270 format 64-bit decimal numbers (format 'i') for output.
5271
5272sPRIo64 (quadfio.U):
5273 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5274 format 64-bit octal numbers (format 'o') for output.
5275
5276sPRIu64 (quadfio.U):
5277 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5278 format 64-bit unsigned decimal numbers (format 'u') for output.
5279
5280sPRIx64 (quadfio.U):
5281 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5282 format 64-bit hexadecimal numbers (format 'x') for output.
5283
5284sPRIXU64 (quadfio.U):
5285 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5286 format 64-bit hExADECimAl numbers (format 'X') for output.
5287 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIx64 so that even
5288 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5289
40814d06 5290srand48_r_proto (d_srand48_r.U):
10bc17b6 5291 This variable encodes the prototype of srand48_r.
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5292 It is zero if d_srand48_r is undef, and one of the
5293 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_srand48_r
5294 is defined.
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5295
5296srandom_r_proto (d_srandom_r.U):
5297 This variable encodes the prototype of srandom_r.
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5298 It is zero if d_srandom_r is undef, and one of the
5299 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_srandom_r
5300 is defined.
10bc17b6 5301
781b178c 5302src (src.U):
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5303 This variable holds the (possibly relative) path of the package source.
5304 It is up to the Makefile to use this variable and set VPATH accordingly
5305 to find the sources remotely. Use $pkgsrc to have an absolute path.
781b178c 5306
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5307sSCNfldbl (longdblfio.U):
5308 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5309 format long doubles (format 'f') for input.
5310
781b178c 5311ssizetype (ssizetype.U):
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5312 This variable defines ssizetype to be something like ssize_t,
5313 long or int. It is used by functions that return a count
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5314 of bytes or an error condition. It must be a signed type.
5315 We will pick a type such that sizeof(SSize_t) == sizeof(Size_t).
5316
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5317st_ino_sign (st_ino_def.U):
5318 This variable contains the signedness of struct stat's st_ino.
5319 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
5320
5321st_ino_size (st_ino_def.U):
5322 This variable contains the size of struct stat's st_ino in bytes.
5323
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5324startperl (startperl.U):
5325 This variable contains the string to put on the front of a perl
5326 script to make sure (hopefully) that it runs with perl and not some
5327 shell. Of course, that leading line must be followed by the classical
5328 perl idiom:
5329 eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
34050ace 5330 if $running_under_some_shell;
781b178c 5331 to guarantee perl startup should the shell execute the script. Note
47e01c32 5332 that this magic incantation is not understood by csh.
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5333
5334startsh (startsh.U):
5335 This variable contains the string to put on the front of a shell
5336 script to make sure (hopefully) that it runs with sh and not some
5337 other shell.
5338
5339static_ext (Extensions.U):
5340 This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to
5341 link statically into the package. It is used by Makefile.
5342
5343stdchar (stdchar.U):
5344 This variable conditionally defines STDCHAR to be the type of char
5345 used in stdio.h. It has the values "unsigned char" or "char".
5346
5347stdio_base (d_stdstdio.U):
5348 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
5349 _base field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5350 be used to define the macro FILE_base(fp).
5351
5352stdio_bufsiz (d_stdstdio.U):
5353 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to determine
5354 the number of bytes store in the I/O buffer pointer to by the
5355 _base field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5356 be used to define the macro FILE_bufsiz(fp).
5357
5358stdio_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
5359 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
5360 _cnt field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5361 be used to define the macro FILE_cnt(fp).
5362
5363stdio_filbuf (d_stdstdio.U):
5364 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to tell
022735b4 5365 stdio to refill its internal buffers (?). This will
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5366 be used to define the macro FILE_filbuf(fp).
5367
5368stdio_ptr (d_stdstdio.U):
5369 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
5370 _ptr field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5371 be used to define the macro FILE_ptr(fp).
5372
5373stdio_stream_array (stdio_streams.U):
5374 This variable tells the name of the array holding the stdio streams.
5375 Usual values include _iob, __iob, and __sF.
5376
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5377strerror_r_proto (d_strerror_r.U):
5378 This variable encodes the prototype of strerror_r.
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5379 It is zero if d_strerror_r is undef, and one of the
5380 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_strerror_r
5381 is defined.
10bc17b6 5382
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5383submit (Loc.U):
5384 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5385 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5386
5387subversion (patchlevel.U):
5388 The subversion level of this package.
5389 The value of subversion comes from the patchlevel.h file.
ff935051 5390 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "1".
c890dc6c 5391 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_SUBVERSION".
781b178c
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5392 This is unique to perl.
5393
5394sysman (sysman.U):
5395 This variable holds the place where the manual is located on this
5396 system. It is not the place where the user wants to put his manual
5397 pages. Rather it is the place where Configure may look to find manual
5398 for unix commands (section 1 of the manual usually). See mansrc.
5399
56b575b9
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5400sysroot (Sysroot.U):
5401 This variable is empty unless supplied by the Configure user.
5402 It can contain a path to an alternative root directory, under which
5403 headers and libraries for the compilation target can be found. This
5404 is generally used when cross-compiling using a gcc-like compiler.
5405
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5406tail (Loc.U):
5407 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5408 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5409
5410tar (Loc.U):
5411 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5412 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5413
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5414targetarch (Cross.U):
5415 If cross-compiling, this variable contains the target architecture.
5416 If not, this will be empty.
5417
56b575b9 5418targetdir (Cross.U):
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5419 This variable contains a path that will be created on the target
5420 host using targetmkdir, and then used to copy the cross-compiled
5421 executables to. Defaults to '/tmp' if not set.
a2c3ce73
BF
5422
5423targetenv (Cross.U):
51b4c035
KW
5424 If cross-compiling, this variable can be used to modify the
5425 environment on the target system.
5426 However, how and where it's used, and even if it's used at all, is
5427 entirely dependent on both the transport mechanism (targetrun) and
5428 what the target system is. Unless the relevant documentation says
5429 otherwise, it is genereally not useful.
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5430
5431targethost (Cross.U):
5432 This variable contains the name of a separate host machine that
5433 can be used to run compiled test programs and perl tests on.
5434 Set to empty string if not in use.
5435
5436targetmkdir (Cross.U):
5437 This variable contains the command used by Configure to create a
5438 new directory on the target host.
5439
5440targetport (Cross.U):
5441 This variable contains the number of a network port to be used to
5442 connect to the host in targethost, if unset defaults to 22 for ssh.
5443
1d38f63f 5444targetsh (sh.U):
0f3731c6
BF
5445 If cross-compiling, this variable contains the location of sh on the
5446 target system.
5447 If not, this will be the same as $sh.
5448
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5449tbl (Loc.U):
5450 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5451 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c
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5452
5453tee (Loc.U):
5454 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5455 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5456
5457test (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5458 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5459 full pathname (if any) of the test program. After Configure runs,
5460 the value is reset to a plain "test" and is not useful.
5461
5462timeincl (i_time.U):
5463 This variable holds the full path of the included time header(s).
5464
5465timetype (d_time.U):
5466 This variable holds the type returned by time(). It can be long,
5467 or time_t on BSD sites (in which case <sys/types.h> should be
5468 included). Anyway, the type Time_t should be used.
5469
10bc17b6
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5470tmpnam_r_proto (d_tmpnam_r.U):
5471 This variable encodes the prototype of tmpnam_r.
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5472 It is zero if d_tmpnam_r is undef, and one of the
5473 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_tmpnam_r
5474 is defined.
10bc17b6 5475
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5476to (Cross.U):
5477 This variable contains the command used by Configure
5478 to copy to from the target host. Useful and available
5479 only during Perl build.
5480 The string ':' if not cross-compiling.
5481
781b178c 5482touch (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5483 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5484 full pathname (if any) of the touch program. After Configure runs,
5485 the value is reset to a plain "touch" and is not useful.
5486
5487tr (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5488 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5489 full pathname (if any) of the tr program. After Configure runs,
5490 the value is reset to a plain "tr" and is not useful.
5491
5492trnl (trnl.U):
5493 This variable contains the value to be passed to the tr(1)
5494 command to transliterate a newline. Typical values are
5495 '\012' and '\n'. This is needed for EBCDIC systems where
5496 newline is not necessarily '\012'.
5497
5498troff (Loc.U):
5499 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5500 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5501
10bc17b6
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5502ttyname_r_proto (d_ttyname_r.U):
5503 This variable encodes the prototype of ttyname_r.
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5504 It is zero if d_ttyname_r is undef, and one of the
5505 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_ttyname_r
5506 is defined.
10bc17b6 5507
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5508u16size (perlxv.U):
5509 This variable is the size of an U16 in bytes.
5510
5511u16type (perlxv.U):
5512 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U16.
5513
5514u32size (perlxv.U):
5515 This variable is the size of an U32 in bytes.
5516
5517u32type (perlxv.U):
5518 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U32.
5519
5520u64size (perlxv.U):
5521 This variable is the size of an U64 in bytes.
5522
5523u64type (perlxv.U):
5524 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U64.
5525
5526u8size (perlxv.U):
5527 This variable is the size of an U8 in bytes.
5528
5529u8type (perlxv.U):
5530 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U8.
5531
5532uidformat (uidf.U):
5533 This variable contains the format string used for printing a Uid_t.
5534
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5535uidsign (uidsign.U):
5536 This variable contains the signedness of a uidtype.
5537 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
5538
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5539uidsize (uidsize.U):
5540 This variable contains the size of a uidtype in bytes.
5541
781b178c 5542uidtype (uidtype.U):
635aebb7 5543 This variable defines Uid_t to be something like uid_t, int,
781b178c
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5544 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare user ids in the kernel.
5545
5546uname (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5547 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5548 full pathname (if any) of the uname program. After Configure runs,
5549 the value is reset to a plain "uname" and is not useful.
5550
5551uniq (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5552 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5553 full pathname (if any) of the uniq program. After Configure runs,
5554 the value is reset to a plain "uniq" and is not useful.
5555
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5556uquadtype (quadtype.U):
5557 This variable defines Uquad_t to be something like unsigned long,
5558 unsigned int, unsigned long long, uint64_t, or whatever type is
5559 used for 64-bit integers.
5560
10cc9d2a
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5561use64bitall (use64bits.U):
5562 This variable conditionally defines the USE_64_BIT_ALL symbol,
5563 and indicates that 64-bit integer types should be used
5564 when available. The maximal possible
5565 64-bitness is employed: LP64 or ILP64, meaning that you will
5566 be able to use more than 2 gigabytes of memory. This mode is
5567 even more binary incompatible than USE_64_BIT_INT. You may not
5568 be able to run the resulting executable in a 32-bit CPU at all or
5569 you may need at least to reboot your OS to 64-bit mode.
5570
5571use64bitint (use64bits.U):
5572 This variable conditionally defines the USE_64_BIT_INT symbol,
aaacdc8b 5573 and indicates that 64-bit integer types should be used
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5574 when available. The minimal possible 64-bitness
5575 is employed, just enough to get 64-bit integers into Perl.
5576 This may mean using for example "long longs", while your memory
5577 may still be limited to 2 gigabytes.
781b178c 5578
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5579usecbacktrace (usebacktrace.U):
5580 This variable indicates whether we are compiling with backtrace
5581 support.
5582
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5583usecrosscompile (Cross.U):
5584 This variable conditionally defines the USE_CROSS_COMPILE symbol,
5585 and indicates that Perl has been cross-compiled.
5586
19aaf929
TR
5587usedefaultstrict (usedefaultstrict.U):
5588 This setting provides a mechanism for perl developers to enable
5589 strict by default. These defaults do not apply when perl is run
ab2bb8aa 5590 via -e or -E.
19aaf929 5591
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5592usedevel (Devel.U):
5593 This variable indicates that Perl was configured with development
5594 features enabled. This should not be done for production builds.
5595
781b178c 5596usedl (dlsrc.U):
ff935051 5597 This variable indicates if the system supports dynamic
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5598 loading of some sort. See also dlsrc and dlobj.
5599
34f1896b
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5600usedtrace (usedtrace.U):
5601 This variable indicates whether we are compiling with dtrace
5602 support. See also dtrace.
5ac1e9b2 5603
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5604usefaststdio (usefaststdio.U):
5605 This variable conditionally defines the USE_FAST_STDIO symbol,
5606 and indicates that Perl should be built to use 'fast stdio'.
5607 Defaults to define in Perls 5.8 and earlier, to undef later.
5608
aaacdc8b
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5609useithreads (usethreads.U):
5610 This variable conditionally defines the USE_ITHREADS symbol,
5611 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the interpreter-based
5612 threading implementation.
5613
269a7913 5614usekernprocpathname (usekernprocpathname.U):
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5615 This variable, indicates that we can use sysctl with
5616 KERN_PROC_PATHNAME to get a full path for the executable, and hence
5617 convert $^X to an absolute path.
5618
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5619uselanginfo (Extensions.U):
5620 This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate
5621 whether the I18N::Langinfo extension should be used. The sole
5622 use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism for users to skip
5623 this extension from the Configure command line.
5624
5bf26616 5625uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
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5626 This variable conditionally defines the USE_LARGE_FILES symbol,
5627 and indicates that large file interfaces should be used when
c890dc6c 5628 available.
1baac590 5629
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5630uselongdouble (uselongdbl.U):
5631 This variable conditionally defines the USE_LONG_DOUBLE symbol,
5632 and indicates that long doubles should be used when available.
5633
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5634usemallocwrap (mallocsrc.U):
5635 This variable contains y if we are wrapping malloc to prevent
5636 integer overflow during size calculations.
5637
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5638usemorebits (usemorebits.U):
5639 This variable conditionally defines the USE_MORE_BITS symbol,
5640 and indicates that explicit 64-bit interfaces and long doubles
5641 should be used when available.
5642
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5643usemultiplicity (usemultiplicity.U):
5644 This variable conditionally defines the MULTIPLICITY symbol,
5645 and indicates that Perl should be built to use multiplicity.
5646
5647usemymalloc (mallocsrc.U):
5648 This variable contains y if the malloc that comes with this package
5649 is desired over the system's version of malloc. People often include
47e01c32 5650 special versions of malloc for efficiency, but such versions are often
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5651 less portable. See also mallocsrc and mallocobj.
5652 If this is 'y', then -lmalloc is removed from $libs.
5653
5654usenm (usenm.U):
5655 This variable contains 'true' or 'false' depending whether the
5656 nm extraction is wanted or not.
5657
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5658usensgetexecutablepath (usensgetexecutablepath.U):
5659 This symbol, if defined, indicates that we can use _NSGetExecutablePath
5660 and realpath to get a full path for the executable, and hence convert
5661 $^X to an absolute path.
5662
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5663useopcode (Extensions.U):
5664 This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate
5665 whether the Opcode extension should be used. The sole
5666 use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism
5667 for users to skip the Opcode extension from the Configure
5668 command line.
5669
5670useperlio (useperlio.U):
5671 This variable conditionally defines the USE_PERLIO symbol,
5672 and indicates that the PerlIO abstraction should be
5673 used throughout.
5674
5675useposix (Extensions.U):
5676 This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate
5677 whether the POSIX extension should be used. The sole
5678 use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism
5679 for hints files to indicate that POSIX will not compile
5680 on a particular system.
5681
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5682usequadmath (usequadmath.U):
5683 This variable conditionally defines the USE_QUADMATH symbol,
5684 and indicates that the quadmath library __float128 long doubles
5685 should be used when available.
5686
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5687usereentrant (usethreads.U):
5688 This variable conditionally defines the USE_REENTRANT_API symbol,
5689 which indicates that the thread code may try to use the various
5690 _r versions of library functions. This is only potentially
5691 meaningful if usethreads is set and is very experimental, it is
5692 not even prompted for.
5693
df4c34dc 5694userelocatableinc (bin.U):
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5695 This variable is set to true to indicate that perl should relocate
5696 @INC entries at runtime based on the path to the perl binary.
5697 Any @INC paths starting ".../" are relocated relative to the directory
5698 containing the perl binary, and a logical cleanup of the path is then
5699 made around the join point (removing "dir/../" pairs)
5700
781b178c 5701useshrplib (libperl.U):
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5702 This variable is set to 'true' if the user wishes
5703 to build a shared libperl, and 'false' otherwise.
781b178c 5704
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5705usesitecustomize (d_sitecustomize.U):
5706 This variable is set to true when the user requires a mechanism that
5707 allows the sysadmin to add entries to @INC at runtime. This variable
5708 being set, makes perl run '$sitelib/sitecustomize.pl' at startup.
5709
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5710usesocks (usesocks.U):
5711 This variable conditionally defines the USE_SOCKS symbol,
5712 and indicates that Perl should be built to use SOCKS.
5713
5714usethreads (usethreads.U):
b99a9337 5715 This variable conditionally defines the USE_THREADS symbol,
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5716 and indicates that Perl should be built to use threads.
5717
9f50e519
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5718usevendorprefix (vendorprefix.U):
5719 This variable tells whether the vendorprefix
5720 and consequently other vendor* paths are in use.
5721
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5722useversionedarchname (archname.U):
5723 This variable indicates whether to include the $api_versionstring
5724 as a component of the $archname.
5725
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5726usevfork (d_vfork.U):
5727 This variable is set to true when the user accepts to use vfork.
5728 It is set to false when no vfork is available or when the user
47e01c32 5729 explicitly requests not to use vfork.
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5730
5731usrinc (usrinc.U):
5732 This variable holds the path of the include files, which is
5733 usually /usr/include. It is mainly used by other Configure units.
5734
5735uuname (Loc.U):
5736 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5737 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5738
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5739uvoformat (perlxvf.U):
5740 This variable contains the format string used for printing
635aebb7 5741 a Perl UV as an unsigned octal integer.
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5742
5743uvsize (perlxv.U):
5744 This variable is the size of a UV in bytes.
5745
5746uvtype (perlxv.U):
5747 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's UV.
5748
5749uvuformat (perlxvf.U):
5750 This variable contains the format string used for printing
635aebb7 5751 a Perl UV as an unsigned decimal integer.
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5752
5753uvxformat (perlxvf.U):
5754 This variable contains the format string used for printing
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5755 a Perl UV as an unsigned hexadecimal integer in lowercase abcdef.
5756
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5757uvXUformat (perlxvf.U):
5758 This variable contains the format string used for printing
5759 a Perl UV as an unsigned hexadecimal integer in uppercase ABCDEF.
5760
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5761vendorarch (vendorarch.U):
5762 This variable contains the value of the PERL_VENDORARCH symbol.
635aebb7 5763 It may have a ~ on the front.
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5764 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5765 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5766 architecture-dependent modules and extensions in this directory with
635aebb7 5767 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5768 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5769
5770vendorarchexp (vendorarch.U):
5771 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorarch, so that you
5772 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5773
0617aed7 5774vendorbin (vendorbin.U):
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5775 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORBIN symbol.
5776 It may have a ~ on the front.
5777 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5778 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place additional
5779 binaries in this directory with
635aebb7 5780 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
f868067f 5781 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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5782
5783vendorbinexp (vendorbin.U):
5784 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorbin, so that you
5785 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5786
e755722e 5787vendorhtml1dir (vendorhtml1dir.U):
635aebb7 5788 This variable contains the name of the directory for html
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5789 pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5790 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5791 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5792 html pages in this directory with
635aebb7 5793 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
10305dfa
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5794 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5795
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5796vendorhtml1direxp (vendorhtml1dir.U):
5797 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorhtml1dir, so that you
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5798 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5799
e755722e 5800vendorhtml3dir (vendorhtml3dir.U):
635aebb7 5801 This variable contains the name of the directory for html
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5802 library pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5803 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5804 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5805 html pages for modules and extensions in this directory with
635aebb7 5806 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5807 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5808
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5809vendorhtml3direxp (vendorhtml3dir.U):
5810 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorhtml3dir, so that you
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5811 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5812
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5813vendorlib (vendorlib.U):
5814 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORLIB symbol,
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5815 which is the name of the private library for this package.
5816 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5817 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5818 modules in this directory with
635aebb7 5819 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
f868067f 5820 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
a3635516 5821
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5822vendorlib_stem (vendorlib.U):
5823 This variable is $vendorlibexp with any trailing version-specific component
5824 removed. The elements in inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U) can
5825 be tacked onto this variable to generate a list of directories to search.
5826
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5827vendorlibexp (vendorlib.U):
5828 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorlib, so that you
5829 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5830
e755722e 5831vendorman1dir (vendorman1dir.U):
635aebb7 5832 This variable contains the name of the directory for man1
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5833 pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5834 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5835 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5836 man1 pages in this directory with
635aebb7 5837 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5838 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5839
e755722e
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5840vendorman1direxp (vendorman1dir.U):
5841 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorman1dir, so that you
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5842 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5843
e755722e 5844vendorman3dir (vendorman3dir.U):
635aebb7 5845 This variable contains the name of the directory for man3
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5846 pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5847 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5848 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5849 man3 pages in this directory with
635aebb7 5850 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5851 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5852
e755722e
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5853vendorman3direxp (vendorman3dir.U):
5854 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorman3dir, so that you
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5855 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5856
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5857vendorprefix (vendorprefix.U):
5858 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
5859 which the vendor will install add-on packages.
f868067f 5860 See INSTALL for usage and examples.
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5861
5862vendorprefixexp (vendorprefix.U):
5863 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
5864 which the vendor will install add-on packages. Derived from vendorprefix.
5865
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5866vendorscript (vendorscript.U):
5867 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORSCRIPT symbol.
5868 It may have a ~ on the front.
5869 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5870 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place additional
5871 executable scripts in this directory with
635aebb7 5872 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5873 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5874
5875vendorscriptexp (vendorscript.U):
5876 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorscript, so that you
5877 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5878
781b178c 5879version (patchlevel.U):
ff935051 5880 The full version number of this package, such as 5.6.1 (or 5_6_1).
c890dc6c 5881 This combines revision, patchlevel, and subversion to get the
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5882 full version number, including any possible subversions.
5883 This is suitable for use as a directory name, and hence is
5884 filesystem dependent.
781b178c 5885
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5886version_patchlevel_string (patchlevel.U):
5887 This is a string combining version, subversion and
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AL
5888 perl_patchlevel (if perl_patchlevel is non-zero).
5889 It is typically something like
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5890 'version 7 subversion 1' or
5891 'version 7 subversion 1 patchlevel 11224'
5892 It is computed here to avoid duplication of code in myconfig.SH
635aebb7 5893 and lib/Config.pm.
27713a04 5894
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5895versiononly (versiononly.U):
5896 If set, this symbol indicates that only the version-specific
5897 components of a perl installation should be installed.
5898 This may be useful for making a test installation of a new
5899 version without disturbing the existing installation.
5900 Setting versiononly is equivalent to setting installperl's -v option.
5901 In particular, the non-versioned scripts and programs such as
5902 a2p, c2ph, h2xs, pod2*, and perldoc are not installed
5903 (see INSTALL for a more complete list). Nor are the man
5904 pages installed.
5905 Usually, this is undef.
5906
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5907vi (Loc.U):
5908 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5909 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5910
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5911xlibpth (libpth.U):
5912 This variable holds extra path (space-separated) used to find
5913 libraries on this platform, for example CPU-specific libraries
5914 (on multi-CPU platforms) may be listed here.
5915
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5916xlocale_needed (d_newlocale.U):
5917 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the C program should
5918 include <xlocale.h> to get newlocale() and its friends.
5919
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5920yacc (yacc.U):
5921 This variable holds the name of the compiler compiler we
5922 want to use in the Makefile. It can be yacc, byacc, or bison -y.
5923
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5924yaccflags (yacc.U):
5925 This variable contains any additional yacc flags desired by the
5926 user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
5927
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5928zcat (Loc.U):
5929 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5930 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5931
5932zip (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5933 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5934 full pathname (if any) of the zip program. After Configure runs,
5935 the value is reset to a plain "zip" and is not useful.
5936