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2!!!!!!! DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE !!!!!!!
3This file is built by metaconfig.
4
d7418ba7 5This file contains a description of all the shell variables whose value is
6determined by the Configure script. Variables intended for use in C
269a7913 7programs (e.g. I_UNISTD) are already described in config_h.SH. [`configpm'
ebc74a4b 8generates pod documentation for Config.pm from this file--please try to keep
24412007 9the formatting regular.]
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781b178c 11_a (Unix.U):
9285ede2 12 This variable defines the extension used for ordinary library files.
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13 For unix, it is '.a'. The '.' is included. Other possible
14 values include '.lib'.
15
16_exe (Unix.U):
17 This variable defines the extension used for executable files.
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18 DJGPP, Cygwin and OS/2 use '.exe'. Stratus VOS uses '.pm'.
19 On operating systems which do not require a specific extension
20 for executable files, this variable is empty.
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21
22_o (Unix.U):
23 This variable defines the extension used for object files.
24 For unix, it is '.o'. The '.' is included. Other possible
25 values include '.obj'.
26
27afs (afs.U):
28 This variable is set to 'true' if AFS (Andrew File System) is used
29 on the system, 'false' otherwise. It is possible to override this
30 with a hint value or command line option, but you'd better know
31 what you are doing.
32
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33afsroot (afs.U):
34 This variable is by default set to '/afs'. In the unlikely case
35 this is not the correct root, it is possible to override this with
36 a hint value or command line option. This will be used in subsequent
776a38e3 37 tests for AFSness in the configure and test process.
a6d26a0d 38
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39alignbytes (alignbytes.U):
40 This variable holds the number of bytes required to align a
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41 double-- or a long double when applicable. Usual values are
42 2, 4 and 8. The default is eight, for safety.
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43
44ansi2knr (ansi2knr.U):
635aebb7 45 This variable is set if the user needs to run ansi2knr.
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46 Currently, this is not supported, so we just abort.
47
48aphostname (d_gethname.U):
49 This variable contains the command which can be used to compute the
50 host name. The command is fully qualified by its absolute path, to make
51 it safe when used by a process with super-user privileges.
52
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53api_revision (patchlevel.U):
54 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
55 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
56 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
57 such as '5.6.1', api_revision is the '5'.
58 Prior to 5.5.640, the format was a floating point number,
59 like 5.00563.
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60
61 perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically search in
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62 $sitelib/.. for older directories back to the limit specified
63 by these api_ variables. This is only useful if you have a
64 perl library directory tree structured like the default one.
65 See INSTALL for how this works. The versioned site_perl
66 directory was introduced in 5.005, so that is the lowest
67 possible value. The version list appropriate for the current
68 system is determined in inc_version_list.U.
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69
70 XXX To do: Since compatibility can depend on compile time
08e5223a 71 options (such as bincompat, longlong, etc.) it should
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72 (perhaps) be set by Configure, but currently it isn't.
73 Currently, we read a hard-wired value from patchlevel.h.
74 Perhaps what we ought to do is take the hard-wired value from
75 patchlevel.h but then modify it if the current Configure
76 options warrant. patchlevel.h then would use an #ifdef guard.
77
78api_subversion (patchlevel.U):
79 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
80 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
81 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
82 such as '5.6.1', api_subversion is the '1'. See api_revision for
83 full details.
84
85api_version (patchlevel.U):
86 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
87 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
88 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
89 such as '5.6.1', api_version is the '6'. See api_revision for
90 full details. As a special case, 5.5.0 is rendered in the
91 old-style as 5.005. (In the 5.005_0x maintenance series,
92 this was the only versioned directory in $sitelib.)
93
94api_versionstring (patchlevel.U):
95 This variable combines api_revision, api_version, and
96 api_subversion in a format such as 5.6.1 (or 5_6_1) suitable
97 for use as a directory name. This is filesystem dependent.
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98
99ar (Loc.U):
5bf26616 100 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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101 full pathname (if any) of the ar program. After Configure runs,
102 the value is reset to a plain "ar" and is not useful.
103
104archlib (archlib.U):
105 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
106 to put architecture-dependent public library files for $package.
107 It is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/lib.
108 Programs using this variable must be prepared to deal
109 with filename expansion.
110
111archlibexp (archlib.U):
112 This variable is the same as the archlib variable, but is
113 filename expanded at configuration time, for convenient use.
114
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115archname (archname.U):
116 This variable is a short name to characterize the current
117 architecture. It is used mainly to construct the default archlib.
118
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119archname64 (use64bits.U):
120 This variable is used for the 64-bitness part of $archname.
121
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122archobjs (Unix.U):
123 This variable defines any additional objects that must be linked
124 in with the program on this architecture. On unix, it is usually
125 empty. It is typically used to include emulations of unix calls
126 or other facilities. For perl on OS/2, for example, this would
127 include os2/os2.obj.
128
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129asctime_r_proto (d_asctime_r.U):
130 This variable encodes the prototype of asctime_r.
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131 It is zero if d_asctime_r is undef, and one of the
132 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_asctime_r
133 is defined.
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781b178c 135awk (Loc.U):
5bf26616 136 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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137 full pathname (if any) of the awk program. After Configure runs,
138 the value is reset to a plain "awk" and is not useful.
139
140baserev (baserev.U):
141 The base revision level of this package, from the .package file.
142
143bash (Loc.U):
144 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 145 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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146
147bin (bin.U):
148 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
149 to put publicly executable images for the package in question. It
150 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
151 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
152
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153bin_ELF (dlsrc.U):
154 This variable saves the result from configure if generated binaries
155 are in ELF format. Only set to defined when the test has actually
156 been performed, and the result was positive.
157
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158binexp (bin.U):
159 This is the same as the bin variable, but is filename expanded at
160 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
161
162bison (Loc.U):
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163 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
164 full pathname (if any) of the bison program. After Configure runs,
165 the value is reset to a plain "bison" and is not useful.
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166
167byacc (Loc.U):
5bf26616 168 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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169 full pathname (if any) of the byacc program. After Configure runs,
170 the value is reset to a plain "byacc" and is not useful.
171
172byteorder (byteorder.U):
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173 This variable holds the byte order in a UV. In the following,
174 larger digits indicate more significance. The variable byteorder
175 is either 4321 on a big-endian machine, or 1234 on a little-endian,
176 or 87654321 on a Cray ... or 3412 with weird order !
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177
178c (n.U):
179 This variable contains the \c string if that is what causes the echo
180 command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is
181 $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
182
183castflags (d_castneg.U):
184 This variable contains a flag that precise difficulties the
185 compiler has casting odd floating values to unsigned long:
186 0 = ok
187 1 = couldn't cast < 0
188 2 = couldn't cast >= 0x80000000
189 4 = couldn't cast in argument expression list
190
191cat (Loc.U):
5bf26616 192 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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193 full pathname (if any) of the cat program. After Configure runs,
194 the value is reset to a plain "cat" and is not useful.
195
196cc (cc.U):
197 This variable holds the name of a command to execute a C compiler which
198 can resolve multiple global references that happen to have the same
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199 name. Usual values are 'cc' and 'gcc'.
200 Fervent ANSI compilers may be called 'c89'. AIX has xlc.
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201
202cccdlflags (dlsrc.U):
203 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
204 passed with 'cc -c' to compile modules to be used to create a shared
205 library that will be used for dynamic loading. For hpux, this
206 should be +z. It is up to the makefile to use it.
207
208ccdlflags (dlsrc.U):
209 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
210 passed to cc to link with a shared library for dynamic loading.
211 It is up to the makefile to use it. For sunos 4.1, it should
212 be empty.
213
214ccflags (ccflags.U):
215 This variable contains any additional C compiler flags desired by
216 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
217
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218ccflags_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
219 This variable contains the compiler flags needed by large file builds
220 and added to ccflags by hints files.
221
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222ccname (Checkcc.U):
223 This can set either by hints files or by Configure. If using
224 gcc, this is gcc, and if not, usually equal to cc, unimpressive, no?
225 Some platforms, however, make good use of this by storing the
226 flavor of the C compiler being used here. For example if using
227 the Sun WorkShop suite, ccname will be 'workshop'.
228
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229ccsymbols (Cppsym.U):
230 The variable contains the symbols defined by the C compiler alone.
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231 The symbols defined by cpp or by cc when it calls cpp are not in
232 this list, see cppsymbols and cppccsymbols.
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233 The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
234
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235ccversion (Checkcc.U):
236 This can set either by hints files or by Configure. If using
237 a (non-gcc) vendor cc, this variable may contain a version for
238 the compiler.
239
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240cf_by (cf_who.U):
241 Login name of the person who ran the Configure script and answered the
242 questions. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH.
243
244cf_email (cf_email.U):
245 Electronic mail address of the person who ran Configure. This can be
246 used by units that require the user's e-mail, like MailList.U.
247
248cf_time (cf_who.U):
249 Holds the output of the "date" command when the configuration file was
250 produced. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH.
251
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252charbits (charsize.U):
253 This variable contains the value of the CHARBITS symbol, which
254 indicates to the C program how many bits there are in a character.
255
256charsize (charsize.U):
257 This variable contains the value of the CHARSIZE symbol, which
258 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a character.
259
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260chgrp (Loc.U):
261 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 262 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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263
264chmod (Loc.U):
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265 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
266 full pathname (if any) of the chmod program. After Configure runs,
267 the value is reset to a plain "chmod" and is not useful.
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268
269chown (Loc.U):
270 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 271 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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272
273clocktype (d_times.U):
274 This variable holds the type returned by times(). It can be long,
275 or clock_t on BSD sites (in which case <sys/types.h> should be
276 included).
277
278comm (Loc.U):
5bf26616 279 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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280 full pathname (if any) of the comm program. After Configure runs,
281 the value is reset to a plain "comm" and is not useful.
282
283compress (Loc.U):
284 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 285 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 286
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287config_arg0 (Options.U):
288 This variable contains the string used to invoke the Configure
289 command, as reported by the shell in the $0 variable.
290
291config_argc (Options.U):
47e01c32 292 This variable contains the number of command-line arguments
ecf5c238 293 passed to Configure, as reported by the shell in the $# variable.
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294 The individual arguments are stored as variables config_arg1,
295 config_arg2, etc.
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296
297config_args (Options.U):
298 This variable contains a single string giving the command-line
299 arguments passed to Configure. Spaces within arguments,
300 quotes, and escaped characters are not correctly preserved.
301 To reconstruct the command line, you must assemble the individual
302 command line pieces, given in config_arg[0-9]*.
303
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304contains (contains.U):
305 This variable holds the command to do a grep with a proper return
306 status. On most sane systems it is simply "grep". On insane systems
307 it is a grep followed by a cat followed by a test. This variable
308 is primarily for the use of other Configure units.
309
310cp (Loc.U):
5bf26616 311 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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312 full pathname (if any) of the cp program. After Configure runs,
313 the value is reset to a plain "cp" and is not useful.
314
315cpio (Loc.U):
316 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 317 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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318
319cpp (Loc.U):
5bf26616 320 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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321 full pathname (if any) of the cpp program. After Configure runs,
322 the value is reset to a plain "cpp" and is not useful.
323
324cpp_stuff (cpp_stuff.U):
505656d3 325 This variable contains an identification of the concatenation mechanism
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326 used by the C preprocessor.
327
328cppccsymbols (Cppsym.U):
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329 The variable contains the symbols defined by the C compiler
330 when it calls cpp. The symbols defined by the cc alone or cpp
331 alone are not in this list, see ccsymbols and cppsymbols.
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332 The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
333
334cppflags (ccflags.U):
335 This variable holds the flags that will be passed to the C pre-
336 processor. It is up to the Makefile to use it.
337
338cpplast (cppstdin.U):
339 This variable has the same functionality as cppminus, only it applies
340 to cpprun and not cppstdin.
341
342cppminus (cppstdin.U):
343 This variable contains the second part of the string which will invoke
344 the C preprocessor on the standard input and produce to standard
345 output. This variable will have the value "-" if cppstdin needs
346 a minus to specify standard input, otherwise the value is "".
347
348cpprun (cppstdin.U):
349 This variable contains the command which will invoke a C preprocessor
350 on standard input and put the output to stdout. It is guaranteed not
351 to be a wrapper and may be a null string if no preprocessor can be
352 made directly available. This preprocessor might be different from the
353 one used by the C compiler. Don't forget to append cpplast after the
354 preprocessor options.
355
356cppstdin (cppstdin.U):
357 This variable contains the command which will invoke the C
358 preprocessor on standard input and put the output to stdout.
359 It is primarily used by other Configure units that ask about
360 preprocessor symbols.
361
362cppsymbols (Cppsym.U):
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363 The variable contains the symbols defined by the C preprocessor
364 alone. The symbols defined by cc or by cc when it calls cpp are
365 not in this list, see ccsymbols and cppccsymbols.
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366 The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
367
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368crypt_r_proto (d_crypt_r.U):
369 This variable encodes the prototype of crypt_r.
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370 It is zero if d_crypt_r is undef, and one of the
371 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_crypt_r
372 is defined.
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374cryptlib (d_crypt.U):
375 This variable holds -lcrypt or the path to a libcrypt.a archive if
376 the crypt() function is not defined in the standard C library. It is
377 up to the Makefile to use this.
378
379csh (Loc.U):
5bf26616 380 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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381 full pathname (if any) of the csh program. After Configure runs,
382 the value is reset to a plain "csh" and is not useful.
383
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384ctermid_r_proto (d_ctermid_r.U):
385 This variable encodes the prototype of ctermid_r.
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386 It is zero if d_ctermid_r is undef, and one of the
387 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_ctermid_r
388 is defined.
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389
390ctime_r_proto (d_ctime_r.U):
391 This variable encodes the prototype of ctime_r.
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392 It is zero if d_ctime_r is undef, and one of the
393 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_ctime_r
394 is defined.
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396d__fwalk (d__fwalk.U):
397 This variable conditionally defines HAS__FWALK if _fwalk() is
398 available to apply a function to all the file handles.
399
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400d_access (d_access.U):
401 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ACCESS if the access() system
402 call is available to check for access permissions using real IDs.
403
404d_accessx (d_accessx.U):
405 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ACCESSX symbol, which
406 indicates to the C program that the accessx() routine is available.
407
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408d_acosh (d_acosh.U):
409 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ACOSH symbol, which
410 indicates to the C program that the acosh() routine is available.
411
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412d_aintl (d_aintl.U):
413 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_AINTL symbol, which
414 indicates to the C program that the aintl() routine is available.
415 If copysignl is also present we can emulate modfl.
416
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417d_alarm (d_alarm.U):
418 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ALARM symbol, which
419 indicates to the C program that the alarm() routine is available.
420
421d_archlib (archlib.U):
422 This variable conditionally defines ARCHLIB to hold the pathname
423 of architecture-dependent library files for $package. If
424 $archlib is the same as $privlib, then this is set to undef.
425
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426d_asctime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
427 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ASCTIME64 symbol, which
428 indicates to the C program that the asctime64 () routine is available.
429
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430d_asctime_r (d_asctime_r.U):
431 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ASCTIME_R symbol,
432 which indicates to the C program that the asctime_r()
433 routine is available.
434
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435d_asinh (d_asinh.U):
436 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ASINH symbol, which
437 indicates to the C program that the asinh() routine is available.
438
439d_atanh (d_atanh.U):
440 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ATANH symbol, which
441 indicates to the C program that the atanh() routine is available.
442
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443d_atolf (atolf.U):
444 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ATOLF symbol, which
445 indicates to the C program that the atolf() routine is available.
446
447d_atoll (atoll.U):
448 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ATOLL symbol, which
449 indicates to the C program that the atoll() routine is available.
450
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451d_attribute_deprecated (d_attribut.U):
452 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_DEPRECATED, which
453 indicates that GCC can handle the attribute for marking deprecated
454 APIs
455
df4c34dc 456d_attribute_format (d_attribut.U):
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457 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_FORMAT, which
458 indicates the C compiler can check for printf-like formats.
459
df4c34dc 460d_attribute_malloc (d_attribut.U):
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461 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_MALLOC, which
462 indicates the C compiler can understand functions as having
463 malloc-like semantics.
464
df4c34dc 465d_attribute_nonnull (d_attribut.U):
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466 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_NONNULL, which
467 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain arguments
468 must not be NULL, and will check accordingly at compile time.
469
df4c34dc 470d_attribute_noreturn (d_attribut.U):
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471 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_NORETURN, which
472 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain functions
473 are guaranteed never to return.
474
df4c34dc 475d_attribute_pure (d_attribut.U):
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476 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_PURE, which
477 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain functions
478 are "pure" functions, meaning that they have no side effects, and
479 only rely on function input and/or global data for their results.
480
df4c34dc 481d_attribute_unused (d_attribut.U):
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482 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, which
483 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain variables
484 and arguments may not always be used, and to not throw warnings
485 if they don't get used.
486
df4c34dc 487d_attribute_warn_unused_result (d_attribut.U):
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488 This variable conditionally defines
489 HASATTRIBUTE_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT, which indicates that the C
490 compiler can know that certain functions have a return values
491 that must not be ignored, such as malloc() or open().
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493d_backtrace (d_backtrace.U):
494 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BACKTRACE symbol, which
495 indicates to the C program that the backtrace() routine is available
496 to get a stack trace.
497
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498d_bcmp (d_bcmp.U):
499 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BCMP symbol if
500 the bcmp() routine is available to compare strings.
501
502d_bcopy (d_bcopy.U):
503 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BCOPY symbol if
504 the bcopy() routine is available to copy strings.
505
506d_bsd (Guess.U):
507 This symbol conditionally defines the symbol BSD when running on a
508 BSD system.
509
510d_bsdgetpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
511 This variable conditionally defines USE_BSD_GETPGRP if
512 getpgrp needs one arguments whereas USG one needs none.
513
514d_bsdsetpgrp (d_setpgrp.U):
515 This variable conditionally defines USE_BSD_SETPGRP if
516 setpgrp needs two arguments whereas USG one needs none.
517 See also d_setpgid for a POSIX interface.
518
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519d_builtin_choose_expr (d_builtin.U):
520 This conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_CHOOSE_EXPR, which
521 indicates that the compiler supports __builtin_choose_expr(x,y,z).
522 This built-in function is analogous to the "x?y:z" operator in C,
523 except that the expression returned has its type unaltered by
524 promotion rules. Also, the built-in function does not evaluate
525 the expression that was not chosen.
526
527d_builtin_expect (d_builtin.U):
528 This conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_EXPECT, which indicates
529 that the compiler supports __builtin_expect(exp,c). You may use
530 __builtin_expect to provide the compiler with branch prediction
531 information.
532
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533d_bzero (d_bzero.U):
534 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BZERO symbol if
535 the bzero() routine is available to set memory to 0.
536
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537d_c99_variadic_macros (d_c99_variadic.U):
538 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_C99_VARIADIC_MACROS
539 symbol, which indicates to the C program that C99 variadic macros
540 are available.
541
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542d_casti32 (d_casti32.U):
543 This variable conditionally defines CASTI32, which indicates
544 whether the C compiler can cast large floats to 32-bit ints.
545
546d_castneg (d_castneg.U):
547 This variable conditionally defines CASTNEG, which indicates
47e01c32 548 whether the C compiler can cast negative float to unsigned.
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550d_cbrt (d_cbrt.U):
551 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CBRT symbol, which
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552 indicates to the C program that the cbrt() (cube root) function
553 is available.
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555d_charvspr (d_vprintf.U):
556 This variable conditionally defines CHARVSPRINTF if this system
557 has vsprintf returning type (char*). The trend seems to be to
558 declare it as "int vsprintf()".
559
560d_chown (d_chown.U):
561 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CHOWN symbol, which
562 indicates to the C program that the chown() routine is available.
563
564d_chroot (d_chroot.U):
565 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CHROOT symbol, which
566 indicates to the C program that the chroot() routine is available.
567
568d_chsize (d_chsize.U):
569 This variable conditionally defines the CHSIZE symbol, which
570 indicates to the C program that the chsize() routine is available
571 to truncate files. You might need a -lx to get this routine.
572
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573d_class (d_class.U):
574 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CLASS symbol, which
575 indicates to the C program that the class() routine is available.
576
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577d_clearenv (d_clearenv.U):
578 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CLEARENV symbol, which
579 indicates to the C program that the clearenv () routine is available.
580
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581d_closedir (d_closedir.U):
582 This variable conditionally defines HAS_CLOSEDIR if closedir() is
583 available.
584
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585d_cmsghdr_s (d_cmsghdr_s.U):
586 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_CMSGHDR symbol,
587 which indicates that the struct cmsghdr is supported.
588
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589d_const (d_const.U):
590 This variable conditionally defines the HASCONST symbol, which
591 indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows about the
592 const type.
593
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594d_copysign (d_copysign.U):
595 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_COPYSIGN symbol, which
596 indicates to the C program that the copysign() routine is available.
597
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598d_copysignl (d_copysignl.U):
599 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_COPYSIGNL symbol, which
600 indicates to the C program that the copysignl() routine is available.
601 If aintl is also present we can emulate modfl.
602
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603d_cplusplus (d_cplusplus.U):
604 This variable conditionally defines the USE_CPLUSPLUS symbol, which
605 indicates that a C++ compiler was used to compiled Perl and will be
606 used to compile extensions.
607
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608d_crypt (d_crypt.U):
609 This variable conditionally defines the CRYPT symbol, which
610 indicates to the C program that the crypt() routine is available
611 to encrypt passwords and the like.
612
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613d_crypt_r (d_crypt_r.U):
614 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CRYPT_R symbol,
615 which indicates to the C program that the crypt_r()
616 routine is available.
617
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618d_csh (d_csh.U):
619 This variable conditionally defines the CSH symbol, which
620 indicates to the C program that the C-shell exists.
621
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622d_ctermid (d_ctermid.U):
623 This variable conditionally defines CTERMID if ctermid() is
624 available to generate filename for terminal.
625
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626d_ctermid_r (d_ctermid_r.U):
627 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTERMID_R symbol,
628 which indicates to the C program that the ctermid_r()
629 routine is available.
630
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631d_ctime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
632 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTIME64 symbol, which
633 indicates to the C program that the ctime64 () routine is available.
634
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635d_ctime_r (d_ctime_r.U):
636 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTIME_R symbol,
637 which indicates to the C program that the ctime_r()
638 routine is available.
639
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640d_cuserid (d_cuserid.U):
641 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CUSERID symbol, which
642 indicates to the C program that the cuserid() routine is available
643 to get character login names.
644
645d_dbl_dig (d_dbl_dig.U):
646 This variable conditionally defines d_dbl_dig if this system's
647 header files provide DBL_DIG, which is the number of significant
648 digits in a double precision number.
649
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650d_dbminitproto (d_dbminitproto.U):
651 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DBMINIT_PROTO symbol,
652 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
653 a prototype for the dbminit() function. Otherwise, it is
654 up to the program to supply one.
655
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656d_difftime (d_difftime.U):
657 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIFFTIME symbol, which
658 indicates to the C program that the difftime() routine is available.
659
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660d_difftime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
661 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIFFTIME64 symbol, which
662 indicates to the C program that the difftime64 () routine is available.
663
066e7355 664d_dir_dd_fd (d_dir_dd_fd.U):
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666 indicates that the DIR directory stream type contains a member
667 variable called dd_fd.
668
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669d_dirfd (d_dirfd.U):
670 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIRFD constant,
671 which indicates to the C program that dirfd() is available
672 to return the file descriptor of a directory stream.
673
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674d_dirnamlen (i_dirent.U):
675 This variable conditionally defines DIRNAMLEN, which indicates
676 to the C program that the length of directory entry names is
677 provided by a d_namelen field.
678
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679d_dladdr (d_dladdr.U):
680 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLADDR symbol, which
681 indicates to the C program that the dladdr() routine is available
682 to get a stack trace.
683
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684d_dlerror (d_dlerror.U):
685 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLERROR symbol, which
686 indicates to the C program that the dlerror() routine is available.
687
688d_dlopen (d_dlopen.U):
689 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLOPEN symbol, which
690 indicates to the C program that the dlopen() routine is available.
691
692d_dlsymun (d_dlsymun.U):
693 This variable conditionally defines DLSYM_NEEDS_UNDERSCORE, which
694 indicates that we need to prepend an underscore to the symbol
695 name before calling dlsym().
696
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697d_double_has_inf (infnan.U):
698 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_HAS_INF
699 which indicates that the double type has an infinity.
700
701d_double_has_nan (infnan.U):
702 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_HAS_INF
703 which indicates that the double type has a not-a-number.
704
705d_double_has_negative_zero (infnan.U):
706 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_HAS_NEGATIVE_ZERO
707 which indicates that the double type has a negative zero.
708
709d_double_has_subnormals (infnan.U):
710 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_HAS_SUBNORMALS
711 which indicates that the double type has subnormals (denormals).
712
713d_double_style_cray (longdblfio.U):
714 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_STYLE_CRAY
715 which indicates that the double is the 64-bit CRAY mainframe format.
716
717d_double_style_ibm (longdblfio.U):
718 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_STYLE_IBM,
719 which indicates that the double is the 64-bit IBM mainframe format.
720
721d_double_style_ieee (longdblfio.U):
722 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE,
723 which indicates that the double is the 64-bit IEEE 754.
724
725d_double_style_vax (longdblfio.U):
726 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_STYLE_VAX,
727 which indicates that the double is the 64-bit VAX format D or G.
728
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729d_dosuid (d_dosuid.U):
730 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOSUID, which
731 tells the C program that it should insert setuid emulation code
732 on hosts which have setuid #! scripts disabled.
733
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734d_drand48_r (d_drand48_r.U):
735 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DRAND48_R symbol,
736 which indicates to the C program that the drand48_r()
737 routine is available.
738
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739d_drand48proto (d_drand48proto.U):
740 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DRAND48_PROTO symbol,
741 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
742 a prototype for the drand48() function. Otherwise, it is
743 up to the program to supply one.
744
745d_dup2 (d_dup2.U):
746 This variable conditionally defines HAS_DUP2 if dup2() is
747 available to duplicate file descriptors.
748
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749d_duplocale (d_newlocale.U):
750 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DUPLOCALE symbol, which
751 indicates to the C program that the duplocale() routine is available
752 to duplicate a locale object.
753
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754d_eaccess (d_eaccess.U):
755 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_EACCESS symbol, which
756 indicates to the C program that the eaccess() routine is available.
757
758d_endgrent (d_endgrent.U):
759 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDGRENT symbol, which
760 indicates to the C program that the endgrent() routine is available
761 for sequential access of the group database.
762
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763d_endgrent_r (d_endgrent_r.U):
764 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDGRENT_R symbol,
765 which indicates to the C program that the endgrent_r()
766 routine is available.
767
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768d_endhent (d_endhent.U):
769 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDHOSTENT if endhostent() is
770 available to close whatever was being used for host queries.
771
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772d_endhostent_r (d_endhostent_r.U):
773 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDHOSTENT_R symbol,
774 which indicates to the C program that the endhostent_r()
775 routine is available.
776
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777d_endnent (d_endnent.U):
778 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDNETENT if endnetent() is
779 available to close whatever was being used for network queries.
780
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781d_endnetent_r (d_endnetent_r.U):
782 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDNETENT_R symbol,
783 which indicates to the C program that the endnetent_r()
784 routine is available.
785
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786d_endpent (d_endpent.U):
787 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDPROTOENT if endprotoent() is
788 available to close whatever was being used for protocol queries.
789
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790d_endprotoent_r (d_endprotoent_r.U):
791 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPROTOENT_R symbol,
792 which indicates to the C program that the endprotoent_r()
793 routine is available.
794
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795d_endpwent (d_endpwent.U):
796 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPWENT symbol, which
797 indicates to the C program that the endpwent() routine is available
798 for sequential access of the passwd database.
799
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800d_endpwent_r (d_endpwent_r.U):
801 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPWENT_R symbol,
802 which indicates to the C program that the endpwent_r()
803 routine is available.
804
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805d_endsent (d_endsent.U):
806 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDSERVENT if endservent() is
807 available to close whatever was being used for service queries.
808
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809d_endservent_r (d_endservent_r.U):
810 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDSERVENT_R symbol,
811 which indicates to the C program that the endservent_r()
812 routine is available.
813
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814d_eofnblk (nblock_io.U):
815 This variable conditionally defines EOF_NONBLOCK if EOF can be seen
816 when reading from a non-blocking I/O source.
817
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818d_erf (d_erf.U):
819 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ERF symbol, which
820 indicates to the C program that the erf() routine is available.
821
822d_erfc (d_erfc.U):
823 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ERFC symbol, which
824 indicates to the C program that the erfc() routine is available.
825
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826d_eunice (Guess.U):
827 This variable conditionally defines the symbols EUNICE and VAX, which
47e01c32 828 alerts the C program that it must deal with idiosyncrasies of VMS.
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830d_exp2 (d_exp2.U):
831 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_EXP2 symbol, which
832 indicates to the C program that the exp2() routine is available.
833
834d_expm1 (d_expm1.U):
835 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_EXPM1 symbol, which
836 indicates to the C program that the expm1() routine is available.
837
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838d_faststdio (d_faststdio.U):
839 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FAST_STDIO symbol,
840 which indicates to the C program that the "fast stdio" is available
841 to manipulate the stdio buffers directly.
842
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843d_fchdir (d_fchdir.U):
844 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHDIR symbol, which
845 indicates to the C program that the fchdir() routine is available.
846
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847d_fchmod (d_fchmod.U):
848 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHMOD symbol, which
849 indicates to the C program that the fchmod() routine is available
850 to change mode of opened files.
851
852d_fchown (d_fchown.U):
853 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHOWN symbol, which
854 indicates to the C program that the fchown() routine is available
855 to change ownership of opened files.
856
857d_fcntl (d_fcntl.U):
858 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCNTL symbol, and indicates
859 whether the fcntl() function exists
860
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861d_fcntl_can_lock (d_fcntl_can_lock.U):
862 This variable conditionally defines the FCNTL_CAN_LOCK symbol
863 and indicates whether file locking with fcntl() works.
864
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865d_fd_macros (d_fd_set.U):
866 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FD_MACROS symbol,
867 which indicates if your C compiler knows about the macros which
868 manipulate an fd_set.
869
870d_fd_set (d_fd_set.U):
871 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FD_SET symbol,
872 which indicates if your C compiler knows about the fd_set typedef.
873
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874d_fdclose (d_fdclose.U):
875 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FDCLOSE symbol, which
876 indicates to the C program that the fdclose() routine is available.
877
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878d_fdim (d_fdim.U):
879 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FDIM symbol, which
880 indicates to the C program that the fdim() routine is available.
881
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882d_fds_bits (d_fd_set.U):
883 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FDS_BITS symbol,
884 which indicates if your fd_set typedef contains the fds_bits member.
885 If you have an fd_set typedef, but the dweebs who installed it did
886 a half-fast job and neglected to provide the macros to manipulate
887 an fd_set, HAS_FDS_BITS will let us know how to fix the gaffe.
888
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889d_fegetround (d_fegetround.U):
890 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FEGETROUND if fegetround() is
891 available to get the floating point rounding mode.
892
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893d_fgetpos (d_fgetpos.U):
894 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FGETPOS if fgetpos() is
895 available to get the file position indicator.
896
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897d_finite (d_finite.U):
898 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FINITE symbol, which
899 indicates to the C program that the finite() routine is available.
900
901d_finitel (d_finitel.U):
902 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FINITEL symbol, which
903 indicates to the C program that the finitel() routine is available.
904
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905d_flexfnam (d_flexfnam.U):
906 This variable conditionally defines the FLEXFILENAMES symbol, which
907 indicates that the system supports filenames longer than 14 characters.
908
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909d_flock (d_flock.U):
910 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FLOCK if flock() is
911 available to do file locking.
912
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913d_flockproto (d_flockproto.U):
914 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FLOCK_PROTO symbol,
915 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
916 a prototype for the flock() function. Otherwise, it is
917 up to the program to supply one.
918
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919d_fma (d_fma.U):
920 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FMA symbol, which
921 indicates to the C program that the fma() routine is available.
922
923d_fmax (d_fmax.U):
924 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FMAX symbol, which
925 indicates to the C program that the fmax() routine is available.
926
927d_fmin (d_fmin.U):
928 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FMIN symbol, which
929 indicates to the C program that the fmin() routine is available.
930
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931d_fork (d_fork.U):
932 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FORK symbol, which
933 indicates to the C program that the fork() routine is available.
934
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935d_fp_class (d_fp_class.U):
936 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FP_CLASS symbol, which
937 indicates to the C program that the fp_class() routine is available.
938
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940 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FP_CLASSIFY symbol, which
941 indicates to the C program that the fp_classify() routine is available.
942
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943d_fp_classl (d_fp_classl.U):
944 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FP_CLASSL symbol, which
945 indicates to the C program that the fp_classl() routine is available.
946
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947d_fpathconf (d_pathconf.U):
948 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPATHCONF symbol, which
949 indicates to the C program that the pathconf() routine is available
950 to determine file-system related limits and options associated
951 with a given open file descriptor.
952
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953d_fpclass (d_fpclass.U):
954 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASS symbol, which
955 indicates to the C program that the fpclass() routine is available.
956
957d_fpclassify (d_fpclassify.U):
958 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASSIFY symbol, which
959 indicates to the C program that the fpclassify() routine is available.
960
961d_fpclassl (d_fpclassl.U):
962 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASSL symbol, which
963 indicates to the C program that the fpclassl() routine is available.
964
4c1a9b0c 965d_fpgetround (d_fpgetround.U):
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966 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FPGETROUND if fpgetround()
967 is available to get the floating point rounding mode.
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c890dc6c 969d_fpos64_t (d_fpos64_t.U):
ca24dfc6 970 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports fpos64_t.
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972d_freelocale (d_newlocale.U):
973 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FREELOCALE symbol, which
974 indicates to the C program that the freelocale() routine is available
975 to deallocates the resources associated with a locale object.
976
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977d_frexpl (d_frexpl.U):
978 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FREXPL symbol, which
979 indicates to the C program that the frexpl() routine is available.
980
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981d_fs_data_s (d_fs_data_s.U):
982 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_FS_DATA symbol,
983 which indicates that the struct fs_data is supported.
984
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985d_fseeko (d_fseeko.U):
986 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSEEKO symbol, which
987 indicates to the C program that the fseeko() routine is available.
988
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989d_fsetpos (d_fsetpos.U):
990 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FSETPOS if fsetpos() is
991 available to set the file position indicator.
992
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993d_fstatfs (d_fstatfs.U):
994 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSTATFS symbol, which
995 indicates to the C program that the fstatfs() routine is available.
996
997d_fstatvfs (d_statvfs.U):
998 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSTATVFS symbol, which
999 indicates to the C program that the fstatvfs() routine is available.
1000
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1001d_fsync (d_fsync.U):
1002 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSYNC symbol, which
1003 indicates to the C program that the fsync() routine is available.
1004
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1005d_ftello (d_ftello.U):
1006 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTELLO symbol, which
1007 indicates to the C program that the ftello() routine is available.
1008
1009d_ftime (d_ftime.U):
1010 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTIME symbol, which indicates
1011 that the ftime() routine exists. The ftime() routine is basically
1012 a sub-second accuracy clock.
1013
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1015 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FUTIMES symbol, which
1016 indicates to the C program that the futimes() routine is available.
1017
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1018d_gai_strerror (d_gai_strerror.U):
1019 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GAI_STRERROR symbol
1020 if the gai_strerror() routine is available and can be used to
1021 translate error codes returned by getaddrinfo() into human
1022 readable strings.
1023
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1024d_Gconvert (d_gconvert.U):
1025 This variable holds what Gconvert is defined as to convert
1026 floating point numbers into strings. By default, Configure
1027 sets this macro to use the first of gconvert, gcvt, or sprintf
1332606d 1028 that pass sprintf-%g-like behavior tests. If perl is using
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1029 long doubles, the macro uses the first of the following
1030 functions that pass Configure's tests: qgcvt, sprintf (if
1031 Configure knows how to make sprintf format long doubles--see
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1033 The gconvert_preference and gconvert_ld_preference variables
4d54317a 1034 can be used to alter Configure's preferences, for doubles and
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1036 space-separated list of one or more of the above function
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1037 names in the order they should be tried.
1038
1039 d_Gconvert may be set to override Configure with a platform-
1040 specific function. If this function expects a double, a
1041 different value may need to be set by the uselongdouble.cbu
1042 call-back unit so that long doubles can be formatted without
1043 loss of precision.
1044
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1045d_gdbm_ndbm_h_uses_prototypes (i_ndbm.U):
1046 This variable conditionally defines the NDBM_H_USES_PROTOTYPES symbol,
1047 which indicates that the gdbm-ndbm.h include file uses real ANSI C
1048 prototypes instead of K&R style function declarations. K&R style
1049 declarations are unsupported in C++, so the include file requires
1050 special handling when using a C++ compiler and this variable is
1051 undefined. Consult the different d_*ndbm_h_uses_prototypes variables
1052 to get the same information for alternative ndbm.h include files.
1053
1054d_gdbmndbm_h_uses_prototypes (i_ndbm.U):
1055 This variable conditionally defines the NDBM_H_USES_PROTOTYPES symbol,
1056 which indicates that the gdbm/ndbm.h include file uses real ANSI C
1057 prototypes instead of K&R style function declarations. K&R style
1058 declarations are unsupported in C++, so the include file requires
1059 special handling when using a C++ compiler and this variable is
1060 undefined. Consult the different d_*ndbm_h_uses_prototypes variables
1061 to get the same information for alternative ndbm.h include files.
1062
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1063d_getaddrinfo (d_getaddrinfo.U):
1064 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETADDRINFO symbol,
1065 which indicates to the C program that the getaddrinfo() function
1066 is available.
1067
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1068d_getcwd (d_getcwd.U):
1069 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETCWD symbol, which
1070 indicates to the C program that the getcwd() routine is available
1071 to get the current working directory.
1072
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1073d_getespwnam (d_getespwnam.U):
1074 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETESPWNAM if getespwnam() is
47e01c32 1075 available to retrieve enhanced (shadow) password entries by name.
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1077d_getfsstat (d_getfsstat.U):
1078 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETFSSTAT symbol, which
1079 indicates to the C program that the getfsstat() routine is available.
1080
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1081d_getgrent (d_getgrent.U):
1082 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRENT symbol, which
1083 indicates to the C program that the getgrent() routine is available
1084 for sequential access of the group database.
1085
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1086d_getgrent_r (d_getgrent_r.U):
1087 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRENT_R symbol,
1088 which indicates to the C program that the getgrent_r()
1089 routine is available.
1090
1091d_getgrgid_r (d_getgrgid_r.U):
1092 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRGID_R symbol,
1093 which indicates to the C program that the getgrgid_r()
1094 routine is available.
1095
1096d_getgrnam_r (d_getgrnam_r.U):
1097 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRNAM_R symbol,
1098 which indicates to the C program that the getgrnam_r()
1099 routine is available.
1100
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1101d_getgrps (d_getgrps.U):
1102 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGROUPS symbol, which
1103 indicates to the C program that the getgroups() routine is available
1104 to get the list of process groups.
1105
1106d_gethbyaddr (d_gethbyad.U):
1107 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYADDR symbol, which
1108 indicates to the C program that the gethostbyaddr() routine is available
1109 to look up hosts by their IP addresses.
1110
1111d_gethbyname (d_gethbynm.U):
1112 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYNAME symbol, which
1113 indicates to the C program that the gethostbyname() routine is available
1114 to look up host names in some data base or other.
1115
1116d_gethent (d_gethent.U):
1117 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETHOSTENT if gethostent() is
1118 available to look up host names in some data base or another.
1119
1120d_gethname (d_gethname.U):
1121 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTNAME symbol, which
1122 indicates to the C program that the gethostname() routine may be
1123 used to derive the host name.
1124
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1125d_gethostbyaddr_r (d_gethostbyaddr_r.U):
1126 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYADDR_R symbol,
1127 which indicates to the C program that the gethostbyaddr_r()
1128 routine is available.
1129
1130d_gethostbyname_r (d_gethostbyname_r.U):
1131 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYNAME_R symbol,
1132 which indicates to the C program that the gethostbyname_r()
1133 routine is available.
1134
1135d_gethostent_r (d_gethostent_r.U):
1136 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTENT_R symbol,
1137 which indicates to the C program that the gethostent_r()
1138 routine is available.
1139
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1140d_gethostprotos (d_gethostprotos.U):
1141 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOST_PROTOS symbol,
1142 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
635aebb7 1143 prototypes for the various gethost*() functions.
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1144 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1145
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1146d_getitimer (d_getitimer.U):
1147 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETITIMER symbol, which
1148 indicates to the C program that the getitimer() routine is available.
1149
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1150d_getlogin (d_getlogin.U):
1151 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETLOGIN symbol, which
1152 indicates to the C program that the getlogin() routine is available
1153 to get the login name.
1154
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1155d_getlogin_r (d_getlogin_r.U):
1156 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETLOGIN_R symbol,
1157 which indicates to the C program that the getlogin_r()
1158 routine is available.
1159
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1160d_getmnt (d_getmnt.U):
1161 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETMNT symbol, which
1162 indicates to the C program that the getmnt() routine is available
1163 to retrieve one or more mount info blocks by filename.
1164
1165d_getmntent (d_getmntent.U):
1166 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETMNTENT symbol, which
1167 indicates to the C program that the getmntent() routine is available
1168 to iterate through mounted files to get their mount info.
1169
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1170d_getnameinfo (d_getnameinfo.U):
1171 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNAMEINFO symbol,
1172 which indicates to the C program that the getnameinfo() function
1173 is available.
1174
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1175d_getnbyaddr (d_getnbyad.U):
1176 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYADDR symbol, which
1177 indicates to the C program that the getnetbyaddr() routine is available
1178 to look up networks by their IP addresses.
1179
1180d_getnbyname (d_getnbynm.U):
1181 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYNAME symbol, which
1182 indicates to the C program that the getnetbyname() routine is available
1183 to look up networks by their names.
1184
1185d_getnent (d_getnent.U):
1186 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETNETENT if getnetent() is
1187 available to look up network names in some data base or another.
1188
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1189d_getnetbyaddr_r (d_getnetbyaddr_r.U):
1190 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYADDR_R symbol,
1191 which indicates to the C program that the getnetbyaddr_r()
1192 routine is available.
1193
1194d_getnetbyname_r (d_getnetbyname_r.U):
1195 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYNAME_R symbol,
1196 which indicates to the C program that the getnetbyname_r()
1197 routine is available.
1198
1199d_getnetent_r (d_getnetent_r.U):
1200 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETENT_R symbol,
1201 which indicates to the C program that the getnetent_r()
1202 routine is available.
1203
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1204d_getnetprotos (d_getnetprotos.U):
1205 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNET_PROTOS symbol,
1206 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
635aebb7 1207 prototypes for the various getnet*() functions.
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1208 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1209
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1210d_getpagsz (d_getpagsz.U):
1211 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPAGESIZE if getpagesize()
1212 is available to get the system page size.
1213
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1216 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1217 getprotobyname() routine is available to look up protocols
1218 by their name.
1219
1220d_getpbynumber (d_getprotby.U):
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1221 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNUMBER
1222 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1223 getprotobynumber() routine is available to look up protocols
1224 by their number.
1225
1226d_getpent (d_getpent.U):
1227 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPROTOENT if getprotoent() is
1228 available to look up protocols in some data base or another.
1229
1230d_getpgid (d_getpgid.U):
1231 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGID symbol, which
1232 indicates to the C program that the getpgid(pid) function
1233 is available to get the process group id.
1234
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1235d_getpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
1236 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPGRP if getpgrp() is
1237 available to get the current process group.
1238
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1239d_getpgrp2 (d_getpgrp2.U):
1240 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGRP2 symbol, which
1241 indicates to the C program that the getpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine
1242 is available to get the current process group.
1243
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1244d_getppid (d_getppid.U):
1245 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPPID symbol, which
1246 indicates to the C program that the getppid() routine is available
1247 to get the parent process ID.
1248
1249d_getprior (d_getprior.U):
1250 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPRIORITY if getpriority()
1251 is available to get a process's priority.
1252
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1253d_getprotobyname_r (d_getprotobyname_r.U):
1254 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNAME_R symbol,
1255 which indicates to the C program that the getprotobyname_r()
1256 routine is available.
1257
1258d_getprotobynumber_r (d_getprotobynumber_r.U):
1259 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNUMBER_R symbol,
1260 which indicates to the C program that the getprotobynumber_r()
1261 routine is available.
1262
1263d_getprotoent_r (d_getprotoent_r.U):
1264 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOENT_R symbol,
1265 which indicates to the C program that the getprotoent_r()
1266 routine is available.
1267
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1268d_getprotoprotos (d_getprotoprotos.U):
1269 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTO_PROTOS symbol,
1270 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
635aebb7 1271 prototypes for the various getproto*() functions.
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1272 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1273
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1274d_getprpwnam (d_getprpwnam.U):
1275 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPRPWNAM if getprpwnam() is
1276 available to retrieve protected (shadow) password entries by name.
1277
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1278d_getpwent (d_getpwent.U):
1279 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWENT symbol, which
1280 indicates to the C program that the getpwent() routine is available
1281 for sequential access of the passwd database.
1282
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1283d_getpwent_r (d_getpwent_r.U):
1284 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWENT_R symbol,
1285 which indicates to the C program that the getpwent_r()
1286 routine is available.
1287
1288d_getpwnam_r (d_getpwnam_r.U):
1289 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWNAM_R symbol,
1290 which indicates to the C program that the getpwnam_r()
1291 routine is available.
1292
1293d_getpwuid_r (d_getpwuid_r.U):
1294 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWUID_R symbol,
1295 which indicates to the C program that the getpwuid_r()
1296 routine is available.
1297
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1299 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYNAME
1300 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1301 getservbyname() routine is available to look up services
1302 by their name.
1303
1304d_getsbyport (d_getsrvby.U):
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1305 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYPORT
1306 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1307 getservbyport() routine is available to look up services
1308 by their port.
1309
1310d_getsent (d_getsent.U):
1311 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETSERVENT if getservent() is
1312 available to look up network services in some data base or another.
1313
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1314d_getservbyname_r (d_getservbyname_r.U):
1315 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYNAME_R symbol,
1316 which indicates to the C program that the getservbyname_r()
1317 routine is available.
1318
1319d_getservbyport_r (d_getservbyport_r.U):
1320 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYPORT_R symbol,
1321 which indicates to the C program that the getservbyport_r()
1322 routine is available.
1323
1324d_getservent_r (d_getservent_r.U):
1325 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVENT_R symbol,
1326 which indicates to the C program that the getservent_r()
1327 routine is available.
1328
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1329d_getservprotos (d_getservprotos.U):
1330 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERV_PROTOS symbol,
1331 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
635aebb7 1332 prototypes for the various getserv*() functions.
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1333 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1334
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1335d_getspnam (d_getspnam.U):
1336 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETSPNAM if getspnam() is
1337 available to retrieve SysV shadow password entries by name.
1338
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1339d_getspnam_r (d_getspnam_r.U):
1340 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSPNAM_R symbol,
1341 which indicates to the C program that the getspnam_r()
1342 routine is available.
1343
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1344d_gettimeod (d_ftime.U):
1345 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY symbol, which
1346 indicates that the gettimeofday() system call exists (to obtain a
1347 sub-second accuracy clock). You should probably include <sys/resource.h>.
1348
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1349d_gmtime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
1350 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GMTIME64 symbol, which
1351 indicates to the C program that the gmtime64 () routine is available.
1352
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1353d_gmtime_r (d_gmtime_r.U):
1354 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GMTIME_R symbol,
1355 which indicates to the C program that the gmtime_r()
1356 routine is available.
1357
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1358d_gnulibc (d_gnulibc.U):
1359 Defined if we're dealing with the GNU C Library.
1360
1361d_grpasswd (i_grp.U):
1362 This variable conditionally defines GRPASSWD, which indicates
1363 that struct group in <grp.h> contains gr_passwd.
1364
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1365d_hasmntopt (d_hasmntopt.U):
1366 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_HASMNTOPT symbol, which
1367 indicates to the C program that the hasmntopt() routine is available
1368 to query the mount options of file systems.
1369
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1370d_htonl (d_htonl.U):
1371 This variable conditionally defines HAS_HTONL if htonl() and its
1372 friends are available to do network order byte swapping.
1373
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1374d_hypot (d_hypot.U):
1375 This variable conditionally defines HAS_HYPOT if hypot is available
1376 for numerically stable hypotenuse function.
1377
1378d_ilogb (d_ilogb.U):
1379 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ILOGB symbol, which
1380 indicates to the C program that the ilogb() routine is available
1381 for extracting the exponent of double x as a signed integer.
1382
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1383d_ilogbl (d_ilogbl.U):
1384 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ILOGBL symbol, which
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1385 indicates to the C program that the ilogbl() routine is available
1386 for extracting the exponent of long double x as a signed integer.
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1387 If scalbnl is also present we can emulate frexpl.
1388
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1389d_inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U):
1390 This variable conditionally defines PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST.
1391 It is set to undef when PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST is empty.
1392
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1393d_index (d_strchr.U):
1394 This variable conditionally defines HAS_INDEX if index() and
1395 rindex() are available for string searching.
1396
1397d_inetaton (d_inetaton.U):
1398 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INET_ATON symbol, which
1399 indicates to the C program that the inet_aton() function is available
1400 to parse IP address "dotted-quad" strings.
1401
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1402d_inetntop (d_inetntop.U):
1403 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INETNTOP symbol,
1404 which indicates to the C program that the inet_ntop() function
1405 is available.
1406
1407d_inetpton (d_inetpton.U):
1408 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INETPTON symbol,
1409 which indicates to the C program that the inet_pton() function
1410 is available.
1411
13b3f787 1412d_int64_t (d_int64_t.U):
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1413 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports int64_t.
1414
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1415d_ip_mreq (d_socket.U):
1416 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IP_MREQ symbol, which
1417 indicates the availability of a struct ip_mreq.
1418
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1419d_ip_mreq_source (d_socket.U):
1420 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IP_MREQ_SOURCE symbol,
1421 which indicates the availability of a struct ip_mreq_source.
1422
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1423d_ipv6_mreq (d_socket.U):
1424 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IPV6_MREQ symbol, which
1425 indicates the availability of a struct ipv6_mreq.
1426
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1427d_ipv6_mreq_source (d_socket.U):
1428 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IPV6_MREQ_SOURCE symbol,
1429 which indicates the availability of a struct ipv6_mreq_source.
1430
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1431d_isascii (d_isascii.U):
1432 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISASCII constant,
1433 which indicates to the C program that isascii() is available.
1434
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1435d_isblank (d_isblank.U):
1436 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISBLANK constant,
1437 which indicates to the C program that isblank() is available.
1438
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1439d_isfinite (d_isfinite.U):
1440 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISFINITE symbol, which
1441 indicates to the C program that the isfinite() routine is available.
1442
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1443d_isfinitel (d_isfinitel.U):
1444 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISFINITEL symbol, which
1445 indicates to the C program that the isfinitel() routine is available.
1446
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1447d_isinf (d_isinf.U):
1448 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISINF symbol, which
1449 indicates to the C program that the isinf() routine is available.
1450
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1451d_isinfl (d_isinfl.U):
1452 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISINFL symbol, which
1453 indicates to the C program that the isinfl() routine is available.
1454
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1455d_isless (d_isless.U):
1456 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISLESS symbol, which
1457 indicates to the C program that the isless() routine is available.
1458
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1459d_isnan (d_isnan.U):
1460 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNAN symbol, which
1461 indicates to the C program that the isnan() routine is available.
1462
1463d_isnanl (d_isnanl.U):
1464 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNANL symbol, which
1465 indicates to the C program that the isnanl() routine is available.
1466
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1467d_isnormal (d_isnormal.U):
1468 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNORMAL symbol, which
1469 indicates to the C program that the isnormal() routine is available.
1470
4671125a 1471d_j0 (d_j0.U):
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1472 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_J0 symbol, which
1473 indicates to the C program that the j0() routine is available.
1474
d0166596 1475d_j0l (d_j0.U):
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1476 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_J0L symbol, which
1477 indicates to the C program that the j0l() routine is available.
1478
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1479d_killpg (d_killpg.U):
1480 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_KILLPG symbol, which
1481 indicates to the C program that the killpg() routine is available
1482 to kill process groups.
1483
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1484d_lc_monetary_2008 (d_lc_monetary_2008.U):
1485 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LC_MONETARY_2008 if libc
1486 has the international currency locale rules from POSIX
1487 1003.1-2008.
1488
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1489d_lchown (d_lchown.U):
1490 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LCHOWN symbol, which
1491 indicates to the C program that the lchown() routine is available
1492 to operate on a symbolic link (instead of following the link).
1493
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1494d_ldbl_dig (d_ldbl_dig.U):
1495 This variable conditionally defines d_ldbl_dig if this system's
1496 header files provide LDBL_DIG, which is the number of significant
1497 digits in a long double precision number.
1498
db8b8c75 1499d_ldexpl (d_longdbl.U):
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1500 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LDEXPL symbol, which
1501 indicates to the C program that the ldexpl() routine is available.
1502
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1503d_lgamma (d_lgamma.U):
1504 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LGAMMA symbol, which
1505 indicates to the C program that the lgamma() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1506 for the log gamma function. See also d_tgamma and d_lgamma_r.
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1507
1508d_lgamma_r (d_lgamma_r.U):
1509 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LGAMMA_R symbol, which
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1510 indicates to the C program that the lgamma_r() routine is available
1511 for the log gamma function, without using the global signgam variable.
427d28ce 1512
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1513d_libm_lib_version (d_libm_lib_version.U):
1514 This variable conditionally defines the LIBM_LIB_VERSION symbol,
1515 which indicates to the C program that math.h defines _LIB_VERSION
1516 being available in libm
1517
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1518d_libname_unique (so.U):
1519 This variable is defined if the target system insists on unique
1520 basenames for shared library files. This is currently true on Android,
1521 false everywhere else we know of.
1522 Defaults to 'undef'.
1523
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1524d_link (d_link.U):
1525 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LINK if link() is
1526 available to create hard links.
1527
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1528d_llrint (d_llrint.U):
1529 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLRINT symbol, which
1530 indicates to the C program that the llrint() routine is available
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1531 to return the long long value closest to a double (according
1532 to the current rounding mode).
427d28ce 1533
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1534d_llrintl (d_llrintl.U):
1535 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLRINTL symbol, which
1536 indicates to the C program that the llrintl() routine is available
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1537 to return the long long value closest to a long double (according
1538 to the current rounding mode).
bc580dd3 1539
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1540d_llround (d_llround.U):
1541 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLROUND symbol, which
1542 indicates to the C program that the llround() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1543 to return the long long value nearest to x.
427d28ce 1544
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1545d_llroundl (d_llroundl.U):
1546 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLROUNDL symbol, which
1547 indicates to the C program that the llroundl() routine is available
2640dfa8 1548 to return the long long value nearest to x away from zero.
bc580dd3 1549
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1550d_localtime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
1551 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOCALTIME64 symbol, which
1552 indicates to the C program that the localtime64 () routine is available.
1553
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1554d_localtime_r (d_localtime_r.U):
1555 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOCALTIME_R symbol,
1556 which indicates to the C program that the localtime_r()
1557 routine is available.
1558
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1559d_localtime_r_needs_tzset (d_localtime_r.U):
1560 This variable conditionally defines the LOCALTIME_R_NEEDS_TZSET
1561 symbol, which makes us call tzset before localtime_r()
1562
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1563d_locconv (d_locconv.U):
1564 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LOCALECONV if localeconv() is
1565 available for numeric and monetary formatting conventions.
1566
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1567d_lockf (d_lockf.U):
1568 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LOCKF if lockf() is
1569 available to do file locking.
1570
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1571d_log1p (d_log1p.U):
1572 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOG1P symbol, which
1573 indicates to the C program that the logp1() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1574 to compute log(1 + x) for values of x close to zero.
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1575
1576d_log2 (d_log2.U):
1577 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOG2 symbol, which
1578 indicates to the C program that the log2() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1579 to compute log base two.
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1580
1581d_logb (d_logb.U):
1582 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOGB symbol, which
1583 indicates to the C program that the logb() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1584 to extract the exponent of x.
427d28ce 1585
781b178c 1586d_longdbl (d_longdbl.U):
635aebb7 1587 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LONG_DOUBLE if
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1588 the long double type is supported.
1589
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1590d_long_double_style_ieee (d_longdbl.U):
1591 This variable conditionally defines LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE
1592 if the long double is any of the IEEE 754 style long doubles:
1593 LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_STD, LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_EXTENDED,
1594 LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_DOUBLEDOUBLE.
1595
1596d_long_double_style_ieee_doubledouble (d_longdbl.U):
1597 This variable conditionally defines LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_DOUBLEDOUBLE
1598 if the long double is the 128-bit IEEE 754 double-double.
1599
1600d_long_double_style_ieee_extended (d_longdbl.U):
1601 This variable conditionally defines LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_EXTENDED
1602 if the long double is the 80-bit IEEE 754 extended precision.
1603 Note that despite the 'extended' this is less than the 'std',
1604 since thisis an extension of the double precision.
1605
1606d_long_double_style_ieee_std (d_longdbl.U):
1607 This variable conditionally defines LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_STD
1608 if the long double is the 128-bit IEEE 754.
1609
1610d_long_double_style_vax (d_longdbl.U):
1611 This variable conditionally defines LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_VAX
1612 if the long double is the 128-bit VAX format H.
1613
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635aebb7 1615 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LONG_LONG if
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1616 the long long type is supported.
1617
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1618d_lrint (d_lrint.U):
1619 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LRINT symbol, which
1620 indicates to the C program that the lrint() routine is available
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1621 to return the integral value closest to a double (according
1622 to the current rounding mode).
427d28ce 1623
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1624d_lrintl (d_lrintl.U):
1625 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LRINTL symbol, which
1626 indicates to the C program that the lrintl() routine is available
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1627 to return the integral value closest to a long double (according
1628 to the current rounding mode).
bc580dd3 1629
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1630d_lround (d_lround.U):
1631 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LROUND symbol, which
1632 indicates to the C program that the lround() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1633 to return the integral value nearest to x.
427d28ce 1634
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1635d_lroundl (d_lroundl.U):
1636 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LROUNDL symbol, which
1637 indicates to the C program that the lroundl() routine is available
2640dfa8 1638 to return the integral value nearest to x away from zero.
bc580dd3 1639
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1640d_lseekproto (d_lseekproto.U):
1641 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LSEEK_PROTO symbol,
1642 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
1643 a prototype for the lseek() function. Otherwise, it is
1644 up to the program to supply one.
1645
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1646d_lstat (d_lstat.U):
1647 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LSTAT if lstat() is
1648 available to do file stats on symbolic links.
1649
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1650d_madvise (d_madvise.U):
1651 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MADVISE if madvise() is
1652 available to map a file into memory.
1653
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1654d_malloc_good_size (d_malloc_size.U):
1655 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the malloc_good_size
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1656 routine is available for use.
1657
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1658d_malloc_size (d_malloc_size.U):
1659 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the malloc_size
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1660 routine is available for use.
1661
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1662d_mblen (d_mblen.U):
1663 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBLEN symbol, which
1664 indicates to the C program that the mblen() routine is available
1665 to find the number of bytes in a multibye character.
1666
1667d_mbstowcs (d_mbstowcs.U):
1668 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBSTOWCS symbol, which
1669 indicates to the C program that the mbstowcs() routine is available
1670 to convert a multibyte string into a wide character string.
1671
1672d_mbtowc (d_mbtowc.U):
1673 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBTOWC symbol, which
1674 indicates to the C program that the mbtowc() routine is available
1675 to convert multibyte to a wide character.
1676
1677d_memchr (d_memchr.U):
1678 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMCHR symbol, which
1679 indicates to the C program that the memchr() routine is available
1680 to locate characters within a C string.
1681
1682d_memcmp (d_memcmp.U):
1683 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMCMP symbol, which
1684 indicates to the C program that the memcmp() routine is available
1685 to compare blocks of memory.
1686
1687d_memcpy (d_memcpy.U):
1688 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMCPY symbol, which
1689 indicates to the C program that the memcpy() routine is available
1690 to copy blocks of memory.
1691
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1692d_memmem (d_memmem.U):
1693 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMMEM symbol, which
1694 indicates to the C program that the memmem() routine is available
1695 to return a pointer to the start of the first occurance of a
1696 substring in a memory area (or NULL if not found).
1697
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1698d_memmove (d_memmove.U):
1699 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMMOVE symbol, which
1700 indicates to the C program that the memmove() routine is available
47e01c32 1701 to copy potentially overlapping blocks of memory.
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1702
1703d_memset (d_memset.U):
1704 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMSET symbol, which
1705 indicates to the C program that the memset() routine is available
1706 to set blocks of memory.
1707
1708d_mkdir (d_mkdir.U):
1709 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKDIR symbol, which
1710 indicates to the C program that the mkdir() routine is available
209e5c0a 1711 to create directories..
781b178c 1712
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1713d_mkdtemp (d_mkdtemp.U):
1714 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKDTEMP symbol, which
1715 indicates to the C program that the mkdtemp() routine is available
1716 to exclusively create a uniquely named temporary directory.
1717
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1718d_mkfifo (d_mkfifo.U):
1719 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKFIFO symbol, which
1720 indicates to the C program that the mkfifo() routine is available.
1721
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1722d_mkstemp (d_mkstemp.U):
1723 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKSTEMP symbol, which
1724 indicates to the C program that the mkstemp() routine is available
1725 to exclusively create and open a uniquely named temporary file.
1726
1727d_mkstemps (d_mkstemps.U):
1728 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKSTEMPS symbol, which
1729 indicates to the C program that the mkstemps() routine is available
1730 to exclusively create and open a uniquely named (with a suffix)
1731 temporary file.
1732
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1733d_mktime (d_mktime.U):
1734 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKTIME symbol, which
1735 indicates to the C program that the mktime() routine is available.
1736
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1737d_mktime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
1738 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKTIME64 symbol, which
1739 indicates to the C program that the mktime64 () routine is available.
1740
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1741d_mmap (d_mmap.U):
1742 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MMAP if mmap() is
1743 available to map a file into memory.
1744
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1745d_modfl (d_modfl.U):
1746 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MODFL symbol, which
1747 indicates to the C program that the modfl() routine is available.
1748
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1749d_modflproto (d_modfl.U):
1750 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the system provides
1751 a prototype for the modfl() function. Otherwise, it is up
1752 to the program to supply one. C99 says it should be
1753 long double modfl(long double, long double *);
1754
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1755d_mprotect (d_mprotect.U):
1756 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MPROTECT if mprotect() is
1757 available to modify the access protection of a memory mapped file.
1758
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1759d_msg (d_msg.U):
1760 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG symbol, which
1761 indicates that the entire msg*(2) library is present.
1762
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1763d_msg_ctrunc (d_socket.U):
1764 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_CTRUNC symbol,
1765 which indicates that the MSG_CTRUNC is available. #ifdef is
1766 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1767
1768d_msg_dontroute (d_socket.U):
1769 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_DONTROUTE symbol,
1770 which indicates that the MSG_DONTROUTE is available. #ifdef is
1771 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1772
1773d_msg_oob (d_socket.U):
1774 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_OOB symbol,
1775 which indicates that the MSG_OOB is available. #ifdef is
1776 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1777
1778d_msg_peek (d_socket.U):
1779 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_PEEK symbol,
1780 which indicates that the MSG_PEEK is available. #ifdef is
1781 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1782
1783d_msg_proxy (d_socket.U):
1784 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_PROXY symbol,
1785 which indicates that the MSG_PROXY is available. #ifdef is
1786 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1787
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1788d_msgctl (d_msgctl.U):
1789 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGCTL symbol, which
1790 indicates to the C program that the msgctl() routine is available.
1791
1792d_msgget (d_msgget.U):
1793 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGGET symbol, which
1794 indicates to the C program that the msgget() routine is available.
1795
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1796d_msghdr_s (d_msghdr_s.U):
1797 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_MSGHDR symbol,
1798 which indicates that the struct msghdr is supported.
1799
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1800d_msgrcv (d_msgrcv.U):
1801 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGRCV symbol, which
1802 indicates to the C program that the msgrcv() routine is available.
1803
1804d_msgsnd (d_msgsnd.U):
1805 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGSND symbol, which
1806 indicates to the C program that the msgsnd() routine is available.
1807
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1808d_msync (d_msync.U):
1809 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MSYNC if msync() is
1810 available to synchronize a mapped file.
1811
1812d_munmap (d_munmap.U):
1813 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MUNMAP if munmap() is
1814 available to unmap a region mapped by mmap().
1815
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1816d_mymalloc (mallocsrc.U):
1817 This variable conditionally defines MYMALLOC in case other parts
1818 of the source want to take special action if MYMALLOC is used.
1819 This may include different sorts of profiling or error detection.
1820
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1821d_nan (d_nan.U):
1822 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NAN if nan() is
1823 available to generate NaN.
1824
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1825d_ndbm (i_ndbm.U):
1826 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NDBM symbol, which
1827 indicates that both the ndbm.h include file and an appropriate ndbm
1828 library exist. Consult the different i_*ndbm variables
1829 to find out the actual include location. Sometimes, a system has the
1830 header file but not the library. This variable will only be set if
1831 the system has both.
1832
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1833d_ndbm_h_uses_prototypes (i_ndbm.U):
1834 This variable conditionally defines the NDBM_H_USES_PROTOTYPES symbol,
1835 which indicates that the ndbm.h include file uses real ANSI C
1836 prototypes instead of K&R style function declarations. K&R style
1837 declarations are unsupported in C++, so the include file requires
1838 special handling when using a C++ compiler and this variable is
1839 undefined. Consult the different d_*ndbm_h_uses_prototypes variables
1840 to get the same information for alternative ndbm.h include files.
1841
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1842d_nearbyint (d_nearbyint.U):
1843 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NEARBYINT if nearbyint()
1844 is available to return the integral value closest to (according to
1845 the current rounding mode) to x.
1846
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1847d_newlocale (d_newlocale.U):
1848 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NEWLOCALE symbol, which
1849 indicates to the C program that the newlocale() routine is available
1850 to return a new locale object or modify an existing locale object.
1851
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1852d_nextafter (d_nextafter.U):
1853 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NEXTAFTER if nextafter()
1854 is available to return the next machine representable double from
1855 x in direction y.
1856
1857d_nexttoward (d_nexttoward.U):
1858 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NEXTTOWARD if nexttoward()
1859 is available to return the next machine representable long double from
1860 x in direction y.
1861
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1862d_nice (d_nice.U):
1863 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NICE symbol, which
1864 indicates to the C program that the nice() routine is available.
1865
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1866d_nl_langinfo (d_nl_langinfo.U):
1867 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NL_LANGINFO symbol, which
1868 indicates to the C program that the nl_langinfo() routine is available.
1869
78691af5 1870d_nv_preserves_uv (perlxv.U):
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1871 This variable indicates whether a variable of type nvtype
1872 can preserve all the bits a variable of type uvtype.
1873
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1874d_nv_zero_is_allbits_zero (perlxv.U):
1875 This variable indicates whether a variable of type nvtype
1876 stores 0.0 in memory as all bits zero.
1877
c890dc6c 1878d_off64_t (d_off64_t.U):
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1879 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports off64_t.
1880
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1881d_old_pthread_create_joinable (d_pthrattrj.U):
1882 This variable conditionally defines pthread_create_joinable.
1883 undef if pthread.h defines PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE.
1884
1885d_oldpthreads (usethreads.U):
1886 This variable conditionally defines the OLD_PTHREADS_API symbol,
1887 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the old
8c09e4ca 1888 draft POSIX threads API. This is only potentially meaningful if
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1889 usethreads is set.
1890
1891d_oldsock (d_socket.U):
1892 This variable conditionally defines the OLDSOCKET symbol, which
1893 indicates that the BSD socket interface is based on 4.1c and not 4.2.
1894
1895d_open3 (d_open3.U):
1896 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_OPEN3 manifest constant,
1897 which indicates to the C program that the 3 argument version of
1898 the open(2) function is available.
1899
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1900d_pathconf (d_pathconf.U):
1901 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PATHCONF symbol, which
1902 indicates to the C program that the pathconf() routine is available
1903 to determine file-system related limits and options associated
1904 with a given filename.
1905
1906d_pause (d_pause.U):
1907 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PAUSE symbol, which
1908 indicates to the C program that the pause() routine is available
1909 to suspend a process until a signal is received.
1910
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1911d_perl_otherlibdirs (otherlibdirs.U):
1912 This variable conditionally defines PERL_OTHERLIBDIRS, which
1913 contains a colon-separated set of paths for the perl binary to
1914 include in @INC. See also otherlibdirs.
1915
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1916d_phostname (d_gethname.U):
1917 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PHOSTNAME symbol, which
1918 contains the shell command which, when fed to popen(), may be
1919 used to derive the host name.
1920
1921d_pipe (d_pipe.U):
1922 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PIPE symbol, which
1923 indicates to the C program that the pipe() routine is available
1924 to create an inter-process channel.
1925
1926d_poll (d_poll.U):
1927 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_POLL symbol, which
1928 indicates to the C program that the poll() routine is available
1929 to poll active file descriptors.
1930
1931d_portable (d_portable.U):
1932 This variable conditionally defines the PORTABLE symbol, which
1933 indicates to the C program that it should not assume that it is
1934 running on the machine it was compiled on.
1935
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1936d_prctl (d_prctl.U):
1937 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PRCTL symbol, which
1938 indicates to the C program that the prctl() routine is available.
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1939 Note that there are at least two prctl variants: Linux and Irix.
1940 While they are somewhat similar, they are incompatible.
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1942d_prctl_set_name (d_prctl.U):
1943 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PRCTL_SET_NAME symbol,
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1944 which indicates to the C program that the prctl() routine supports
1945 the PR_SET_NAME option.
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1947d_PRId64 (quadfio.U):
1948 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRId64 symbol, which
47e01c32 1949 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit decimal numbers.
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1950
1951d_PRIeldbl (longdblfio.U):
1952 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1953 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1954
1955d_PRIEUldbl (longdblfio.U):
1956 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1957 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1958 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIeldbl so that even
1959 case-blind systems can see the difference.
1960
1961d_PRIfldbl (longdblfio.U):
1962 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1963 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1964
1965d_PRIFUldbl (longdblfio.U):
1966 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1967 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1968 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIfldbl so that even
1969 case-blind systems can see the difference.
1970
1971d_PRIgldbl (longdblfio.U):
1972 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1973 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1974
1975d_PRIGUldbl (longdblfio.U):
1976 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 1977 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1978 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIgldbl so that even
1979 case-blind systems can see the difference.
1980
1981d_PRIi64 (quadfio.U):
1982 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIi64 symbol, which
47e01c32 1983 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit decimal numbers.
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066e7355 1985d_printf_format_null (d_attribut.U):
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1986 This variable conditionally defines PRINTF_FORMAT_NULL_OK, which
1987 indicates the C compiler allows printf-like formats to be null.
1988
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1989d_PRIo64 (quadfio.U):
1990 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIo64 symbol, which
47e01c32 1991 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit octal numbers.
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1992
1993d_PRIu64 (quadfio.U):
1994 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIu64 symbol, which
47e01c32 1995 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit unsigned decimal
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1996 numbers.
1997
1998d_PRIx64 (quadfio.U):
1999 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIx64 symbol, which
47e01c32 2000 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit hexadecimal numbers.
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2001
2002d_PRIXU64 (quadfio.U):
2003 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIXU64 symbol, which
47e01c32 2004 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit hExADECimAl numbers.
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2005 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIx64 so that even
2006 case-blind systems can see the difference.
2007
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2008d_procselfexe (d_procselfexe.U):
2009 Defined if $procselfexe is symlink to the absolute
2010 pathname of the executing program.
2011
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2012d_pseudofork (d_vfork.U):
2013 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PSEUDOFORK symbol,
2014 which indicates that an emulation of the fork routine is available.
2015
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2016d_pthread_atfork (d_pthread_atfork.U):
2017 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PTHREAD_ATFORK symbol,
2018 which indicates to the C program that the pthread_atfork()
2019 routine is available.
2020
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2021d_pthread_attr_setscope (d_pthread_attr_ss.U):
2022 This variable conditionally defines HAS_PTHREAD_ATTR_SETSCOPE if
2023 pthread_attr_setscope() is available to set the contention scope
2024 attribute of a thread attribute object.
2025
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2026d_pthread_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
2027 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PTHREAD_YIELD
2028 symbol if the pthread_yield routine is available to yield
2029 the execution of the current thread.
2030
0e0c5f82 2031d_ptrdiff_t (d_ptrdiff_t.U):
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2032 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports ptrdiff_t.
2033
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2034d_pwage (i_pwd.U):
2035 This variable conditionally defines PWAGE, which indicates
2036 that struct passwd contains pw_age.
2037
2038d_pwchange (i_pwd.U):
2039 This variable conditionally defines PWCHANGE, which indicates
2040 that struct passwd contains pw_change.
2041
2042d_pwclass (i_pwd.U):
2043 This variable conditionally defines PWCLASS, which indicates
2044 that struct passwd contains pw_class.
2045
2046d_pwcomment (i_pwd.U):
2047 This variable conditionally defines PWCOMMENT, which indicates
2048 that struct passwd contains pw_comment.
2049
2050d_pwexpire (i_pwd.U):
2051 This variable conditionally defines PWEXPIRE, which indicates
2052 that struct passwd contains pw_expire.
2053
2054d_pwgecos (i_pwd.U):
2055 This variable conditionally defines PWGECOS, which indicates
2056 that struct passwd contains pw_gecos.
2057
2058d_pwpasswd (i_pwd.U):
2059 This variable conditionally defines PWPASSWD, which indicates
2060 that struct passwd contains pw_passwd.
2061
2062d_pwquota (i_pwd.U):
2063 This variable conditionally defines PWQUOTA, which indicates
2064 that struct passwd contains pw_quota.
2065
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2066d_qgcvt (d_qgcvt.U):
2067 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_QGCVT symbol, which
2068 indicates to the C program that the qgcvt() routine is available.
2069
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2070d_quad (quadtype.U):
2071 This variable, if defined, tells that there's a 64-bit integer type,
2072 quadtype.
2073
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2074d_querylocale (d_newlocale.U):
2075 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_QUERYLOCALE symbol, which
2076 indicates to the C program that the querylocale() routine is available
2077 to return the name of the locale for a category mask.
2078
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2079d_random_r (d_random_r.U):
2080 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RANDOM_R symbol,
2081 which indicates to the C program that the random_r()
2082 routine is available.
2083
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2084d_re_comp (d_regcmp.U):
2085 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RECOMP symbol, which
2086 indicates to the C program that the re_comp() routine is available
2087 for regular patern matching (usally on BSD). If so, it is likely that
2088 re_exec() exists.
2089
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2090d_readdir (d_readdir.U):
2091 This variable conditionally defines HAS_READDIR if readdir() is
2092 available to read directory entries.
2093
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2094d_readdir64_r (d_readdir64_r.U):
2095 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READDIR64_R symbol,
2096 which indicates to the C program that the readdir64_r()
2097 routine is available.
2098
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2099d_readdir_r (d_readdir_r.U):
2100 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READDIR_R symbol,
2101 which indicates to the C program that the readdir_r()
2102 routine is available.
2103
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2104d_readlink (d_readlink.U):
2105 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READLINK symbol, which
2106 indicates to the C program that the readlink() routine is available
2107 to read the value of a symbolic link.
2108
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2109d_readv (d_readv.U):
2110 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READV symbol, which
2111 indicates to the C program that the readv() routine is available.
2112
2113d_recvmsg (d_recvmsg.U):
2114 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RECVMSG symbol, which
2115 indicates to the C program that the recvmsg() routine is available.
2116
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2117d_regcmp (d_regcmp.U):
2118 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_REGCMP symbol, which
2119 indicates to the C program that the regcmp() routine is available
2120 for regular patern matching (usally on System V).
2121
2122d_regcomp (d_regcmp.U):
2123 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_REGCOMP symbol, which
2124 indicates to the C program that the regcomp() routine is available
2125 for regular patern matching (usally on POSIX.2 conforming systems).
2126
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2127d_remainder (d_remainder.U):
2128 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_REMAINDER symbol, which
2129 indicates to the C program that the remainder() routine is available.
2130
2131d_remquo (d_remquo.U):
2132 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_REMQUO symbol, which
2133 indicates to the C program that the remquo() routine is available.
2134
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2135d_rename (d_rename.U):
2136 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RENAME symbol, which
2137 indicates to the C program that the rename() routine is available
2138 to rename files.
2139
2140d_rewinddir (d_readdir.U):
2141 This variable conditionally defines HAS_REWINDDIR if rewinddir() is
2142 available.
2143
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2144d_rint (d_rint.U):
2145 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RINT symbol, which
2146 indicates to the C program that the rint() routine is available.
2147
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2148d_rmdir (d_rmdir.U):
2149 This variable conditionally defines HAS_RMDIR if rmdir() is
2150 available to remove directories.
2151
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2152d_round (d_round.U):
2153 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ROUND symbol, which
2154 indicates to the C program that the round() routine is available.
2155
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2156d_safebcpy (d_safebcpy.U):
2157 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SAFE_BCOPY symbol if
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2159 should probably use memmove().
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2160
2161d_safemcpy (d_safemcpy.U):
2162 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SAFE_MEMCPY symbol if
2163 the memcpy() routine can do overlapping copies.
b6cc3bc4 2164 For overlapping copies, memmove() should be used, if available.
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2165
2166d_sanemcmp (d_sanemcmp.U):
2167 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SANE_MEMCMP symbol if
2168 the memcpy() routine is available and can be used to compare relative
2169 magnitudes of chars with their high bits set.
2170
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2171d_sbrkproto (d_sbrkproto.U):
2172 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SBRK_PROTO symbol,
2173 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2174 a prototype for the sbrk() function. Otherwise, it is
2175 up to the program to supply one.
2176
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2177d_scalbn (d_scalbn.U):
2178 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCALBN symbol, which
2179 indicates to the C program that the scalbn() routine is available.
2180
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2181d_scalbnl (d_scalbnl.U):
2182 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCALBNL symbol, which
2183 indicates to the C program that the scalbnl() routine is available.
2184 If ilogbl is also present we can emulate frexpl.
2185
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2186d_sched_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
2187 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCHED_YIELD
2188 symbol if the sched_yield routine is available to yield
2189 the execution of the current thread.
2190
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2191d_scm_rights (d_socket.U):
2192 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCM_RIGHTS symbol,
2193 which indicates that the SCM_RIGHTS is available. #ifdef is
2194 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
2195
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2196d_SCNfldbl (longdblfio.U):
2197 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 2198 indicates that stdio has a symbol to scan long doubles.
4d54317a 2199
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2200d_seekdir (d_readdir.U):
2201 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SEEKDIR if seekdir() is
2202 available.
2203
2204d_select (d_select.U):
2205 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SELECT if select() is
2206 available to select active file descriptors. A <sys/time.h>
2207 inclusion may be necessary for the timeout field.
2208
2209d_sem (d_sem.U):
2210 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEM symbol, which
2211 indicates that the entire sem*(2) library is present.
2212
2213d_semctl (d_semctl.U):
2214 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMCTL symbol, which
2215 indicates to the C program that the semctl() routine is available.
2216
2217d_semctl_semid_ds (d_union_semun.U):
2218 This variable conditionally defines USE_SEMCTL_SEMID_DS, which
2219 indicates that struct semid_ds * is to be used for semctl IPC_STAT.
2220
2221d_semctl_semun (d_union_semun.U):
2222 This variable conditionally defines USE_SEMCTL_SEMUN, which
2223 indicates that union semun is to be used for semctl IPC_STAT.
2224
2225d_semget (d_semget.U):
2226 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMGET symbol, which
2227 indicates to the C program that the semget() routine is available.
2228
2229d_semop (d_semop.U):
2230 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMOP symbol, which
2231 indicates to the C program that the semop() routine is available.
2232
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2233d_sendmsg (d_sendmsg.U):
2234 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SENDMSG symbol, which
2235 indicates to the C program that the sendmsg() routine is available.
2236
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2237d_setegid (d_setegid.U):
2238 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETEGID symbol, which
2239 indicates to the C program that the setegid() routine is available
2240 to change the effective gid of the current program.
2241
2242d_seteuid (d_seteuid.U):
2243 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETEUID symbol, which
2244 indicates to the C program that the seteuid() routine is available
2245 to change the effective uid of the current program.
2246
2247d_setgrent (d_setgrent.U):
2248 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGRENT symbol, which
2249 indicates to the C program that the setgrent() routine is available
2250 for initializing sequential access to the group database.
2251
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2252d_setgrent_r (d_setgrent_r.U):
2253 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGRENT_R symbol,
2254 which indicates to the C program that the setgrent_r()
2255 routine is available.
2256
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2257d_setgrps (d_setgrps.U):
2258 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGROUPS symbol, which
2259 indicates to the C program that the setgroups() routine is available
2260 to set the list of process groups.
2261
2262d_sethent (d_sethent.U):
2263 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETHOSTENT if sethostent() is
2264 available.
2265
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2266d_sethostent_r (d_sethostent_r.U):
2267 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETHOSTENT_R symbol,
2268 which indicates to the C program that the sethostent_r()
2269 routine is available.
2270
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2271d_setitimer (d_setitimer.U):
2272 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETITIMER symbol, which
2273 indicates to the C program that the setitimer() routine is available.
2274
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2275d_setlinebuf (d_setlnbuf.U):
2276 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETLINEBUF symbol, which
2277 indicates to the C program that the setlinebuf() routine is available
2278 to change stderr or stdout from block-buffered or unbuffered to a
2279 line-buffered mode.
2280
2281d_setlocale (d_setlocale.U):
2282 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETLOCALE if setlocale() is
2283 available to handle locale-specific ctype implementations.
2284
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2285d_setlocale_r (d_setlocale_r.U):
2286 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETLOCALE_R symbol,
2287 which indicates to the C program that the setlocale_r()
2288 routine is available.
2289
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2290d_setnent (d_setnent.U):
2291 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETNETENT if setnetent() is
2292 available.
2293
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2294d_setnetent_r (d_setnetent_r.U):
2295 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETNETENT_R symbol,
2296 which indicates to the C program that the setnetent_r()
2297 routine is available.
2298
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2299d_setpent (d_setpent.U):
2300 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPROTOENT if setprotoent() is
2301 available.
2302
2303d_setpgid (d_setpgid.U):
2304 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGID symbol if the
2305 setpgid(pid, gpid) function is available to set process group ID.
2306
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2307d_setpgrp (d_setpgrp.U):
2308 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPGRP if setpgrp() is
2309 available to set the current process group.
2310
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2311d_setpgrp2 (d_setpgrp2.U):
2312 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGRP2 symbol, which
2313 indicates to the C program that the setpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine
2314 is available to set the current process group.
2315
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2316d_setprior (d_setprior.U):
2317 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPRIORITY if setpriority()
2318 is available to set a process's priority.
2319
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2320d_setproctitle (d_setproctitle.U):
2321 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPROCTITLE symbol,
2322 which indicates to the C program that the setproctitle() routine
2323 is available.
2324
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2325d_setprotoent_r (d_setprotoent_r.U):
2326 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPROTOENT_R symbol,
2327 which indicates to the C program that the setprotoent_r()
2328 routine is available.
2329
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2330d_setpwent (d_setpwent.U):
2331 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPWENT symbol, which
2332 indicates to the C program that the setpwent() routine is available
2333 for initializing sequential access to the passwd database.
2334
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2335d_setpwent_r (d_setpwent_r.U):
2336 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPWENT_R symbol,
2337 which indicates to the C program that the setpwent_r()
2338 routine is available.
2339
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2340d_setregid (d_setregid.U):
2341 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREGID if setregid() is
2342 available to change the real and effective gid of the current
2343 process.
2344
2345d_setresgid (d_setregid.U):
2346 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETRESGID if setresgid() is
2347 available to change the real, effective and saved gid of the current
2348 process.
2349
2350d_setresuid (d_setreuid.U):
2351 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREUID if setresuid() is
2352 available to change the real, effective and saved uid of the current
2353 process.
2354
2355d_setreuid (d_setreuid.U):
2356 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREUID if setreuid() is
2357 available to change the real and effective uid of the current
2358 process.
2359
2360d_setrgid (d_setrgid.U):
2361 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRGID symbol, which
2362 indicates to the C program that the setrgid() routine is available
2363 to change the real gid of the current program.
2364
2365d_setruid (d_setruid.U):
2366 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRUID symbol, which
2367 indicates to the C program that the setruid() routine is available
2368 to change the real uid of the current program.
2369
2370d_setsent (d_setsent.U):
2371 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSERVENT if setservent() is
2372 available.
2373
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2374d_setservent_r (d_setservent_r.U):
2375 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETSERVENT_R symbol,
2376 which indicates to the C program that the setservent_r()
2377 routine is available.
2378
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2379d_setsid (d_setsid.U):
2380 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSID if setsid() is
2381 available to set the process group ID.
2382
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2383d_setvbuf (d_setvbuf.U):
2384 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETVBUF symbol, which
2385 indicates to the C program that the setvbuf() routine is available
2386 to change buffering on an open stdio stream.
2387
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2388d_shm (d_shm.U):
2389 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHM symbol, which
2390 indicates that the entire shm*(2) library is present.
2391
2392d_shmat (d_shmat.U):
2393 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMAT symbol, which
2394 indicates to the C program that the shmat() routine is available.
2395
2396d_shmatprototype (d_shmat.U):
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2398 symbol, which indicates that sys/shm.h has a prototype for
2399 shmat.
2400
2401d_shmctl (d_shmctl.U):
2402 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMCTL symbol, which
2403 indicates to the C program that the shmctl() routine is available.
2404
2405d_shmdt (d_shmdt.U):
2406 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMDT symbol, which
2407 indicates to the C program that the shmdt() routine is available.
2408
2409d_shmget (d_shmget.U):
2410 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMGET symbol, which
2411 indicates to the C program that the shmget() routine is available.
2412
2413d_sigaction (d_sigaction.U):
2414 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGACTION symbol, which
2415 indicates that the Vr4 sigaction() routine is available.
2416
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2417d_siginfo_si_addr (d_siginfo_si.U):
2418 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_ADDR symbol,
2419 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_addr member.
2420
2421d_siginfo_si_band (d_siginfo_si.U):
2422 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_BAND symbol,
2423 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_band member.
2424
2425d_siginfo_si_errno (d_siginfo_si.U):
2426 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_ERRNO symbol,
2427 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_errno member.
2428
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2429d_siginfo_si_fd (d_siginfo_si.U):
2430 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_FD symbol,
2431 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_fd member.
2432
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2433d_siginfo_si_pid (d_siginfo_si.U):
2434 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_PID symbol,
2435 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_pid member.
2436
2437d_siginfo_si_status (d_siginfo_si.U):
2438 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_STATUS symbol,
2439 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_status member.
2440
2441d_siginfo_si_uid (d_siginfo_si.U):
2442 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_UID symbol,
2443 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_uid member.
2444
2445d_siginfo_si_value (d_siginfo_si.U):
2446 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_VALUE symbol,
2447 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_value member.
2448
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2449d_signbit (d_signbit.U):
2450 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGNBIT symbol, which
2451 indicates to the C program that the signbit() routine is available
2452 and safe to use with perl's intern NV type.
2453
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2454d_sigprocmask (d_sigprocmask.U):
2455 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SIGPROCMASK
2456 if sigprocmask() is available to examine or change the signal mask
2457 of the calling process.
2458
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2459d_sigsetjmp (d_sigsetjmp.U):
2460 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGSETJMP symbol,
2461 which indicates that the sigsetjmp() routine is available to
2462 call setjmp() and optionally save the process's signal mask.
2463
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2464d_sin6_scope_id (d_socket.U):
2465 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIN6_SCOPE_ID symbol, which
2466 indicates that a struct sockaddr_in6 structure has the sin6_scope_id
2467 member.
2468
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2469d_sitearch (sitearch.U):
2470 This variable conditionally defines SITEARCH to hold the pathname
2471 of architecture-dependent library files for $package. If
2472 $sitearch is the same as $archlib, then this is set to undef.
2473
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2474d_snprintf (d_snprintf.U):
2475 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SNPRINTF symbol, which
2476 indicates to the C program that the snprintf () library function
2477 is available.
2478
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2479d_sockaddr_in6 (d_socket.U):
2480 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKADDR_IN6 symbol, which
2481 indicates the availability of a struct sockaddr_in6.
2482
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2483d_sockaddr_sa_len (d_socket.U):
2484 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKADDR_SA_LEN symbol,
2485 which indicates that a struct sockaddr structure has the sa_len
2486 member.
2487
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2488d_sockatmark (d_sockatmark.U):
2489 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKATMARK symbol, which
2490 indicates to the C program that the sockatmark() routine is available.
2491
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2492d_sockatmarkproto (d_sockatmarkproto.U):
2493 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKATMARK_PROTO symbol,
2494 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2495 a prototype for the sockatmark() function. Otherwise, it is
2496 up to the program to supply one.
2497
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2498d_socket (d_socket.U):
2499 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SOCKET, which indicates
2500 that the BSD socket interface is supported.
2501
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2502d_socklen_t (d_socklen_t.U):
2503 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports socklen_t.
2504
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2505d_sockpair (d_socket.U):
2506 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKETPAIR symbol, which
2507 indicates that the BSD socketpair() is supported.
2508
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2509d_socks5_init (d_socks5_init.U):
2510 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKS5_INIT symbol, which
2511 indicates to the C program that the socks5_init() routine is available.
2512
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2514 This variable defines whether sprintf returns the length of the string
2515 (as per the ANSI spec). Some C libraries retain compatibility with
2516 pre-ANSI C and return a pointer to the passed in buffer; for these
2517 this variable will be undef.
2518
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2519d_sqrtl (d_sqrtl.U):
2520 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SQRTL symbol, which
2521 indicates to the C program that the sqrtl() routine is available.
2522
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2523d_srand48_r (d_srand48_r.U):
2524 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SRAND48_R symbol,
2525 which indicates to the C program that the srand48_r()
2526 routine is available.
2527
2528d_srandom_r (d_srandom_r.U):
2529 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SRANDOM_R symbol,
2530 which indicates to the C program that the srandom_r()
2531 routine is available.
2532
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2533d_sresgproto (d_sresgproto.U):
2534 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRESGID_PROTO symbol,
2535 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2536 a prototype for the setresgid() function. Otherwise, it is
2537 up to the program to supply one.
2538
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2539d_sresuproto (d_sresuproto.U):
2540 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRESUID_PROTO symbol,
2541 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2542 a prototype for the setresuid() function. Otherwise, it is
2543 up to the program to supply one.
2544
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2545d_stat (d_stat.U):
2546 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STAT if stat() is
2547 available to get file status.
2548
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2549d_statblks (d_statblks.U):
2550 This variable conditionally defines USE_STAT_BLOCKS
2551 if this system has a stat structure declaring
2552 st_blksize and st_blocks.
2553
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2554d_statfs_f_flags (d_statfs_f_flags.U):
2555 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_STATFS_F_FLAGS
2556 symbol, which indicates to struct statfs from has f_flags member.
2557 This kind of struct statfs is coming from sys/mount.h (BSD),
2558 not from sys/statfs.h (SYSV).
2559
2560d_statfs_s (d_statfs_s.U):
2561 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_STATFS symbol,
2562 which indicates that the struct statfs is supported.
2563
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2564d_static_inline (d_static_inline.U):
2565 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STATIC_INLINE symbol,
2566 which indicates that the C compiler supports C99-style static
2567 inline. That is, the function can't be called from another
2568 translation unit.
2569
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2570d_statvfs (d_statvfs.U):
2571 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STATVFS symbol, which
2572 indicates to the C program that the statvfs() routine is available.
2573
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2574d_stdio_cnt_lval (d_stdstdio.U):
2575 This variable conditionally defines STDIO_CNT_LVALUE if the
2576 FILE_cnt macro can be used as an lvalue.
2577
2578d_stdio_ptr_lval (d_stdstdio.U):
2579 This variable conditionally defines STDIO_PTR_LVALUE if the
2580 FILE_ptr macro can be used as an lvalue.
2581
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2582d_stdio_ptr_lval_nochange_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
2583 This symbol is defined if using the FILE_ptr macro as an lvalue
2584 to increase the pointer by n leaves File_cnt(fp) unchanged.
2585
2586d_stdio_ptr_lval_sets_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
2587 This symbol is defined if using the FILE_ptr macro as an lvalue
2588 to increase the pointer by n has the side effect of decreasing the
2589 value of File_cnt(fp) by n.
2590
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2591d_stdio_stream_array (stdio_streams.U):
2592 This variable tells whether there is an array holding
2593 the stdio streams.
2594
2595d_stdiobase (d_stdstdio.U):
2596 This variable conditionally defines USE_STDIO_BASE if this system
2597 has a FILE structure declaring a usable _base field (or equivalent)
2598 in stdio.h.
2599
2600d_stdstdio (d_stdstdio.U):
2601 This variable conditionally defines USE_STDIO_PTR if this system
2602 has a FILE structure declaring usable _ptr and _cnt fields (or
2603 equivalent) in stdio.h.
2604
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2605d_strchr (d_strchr.U):
2606 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRCHR if strchr() and
2607 strrchr() are available for string searching.
2608
2609d_strcoll (d_strcoll.U):
2610 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRCOLL if strcoll() is
2611 available to compare strings using collating information.
2612
2613d_strctcpy (d_strctcpy.U):
2614 This variable conditionally defines the USE_STRUCT_COPY symbol, which
2615 indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows how to copy
2616 structures.
2617
2618d_strerrm (d_strerror.U):
1332606d 2619 This variable holds what Strerror is defined as to translate an error
781b178c 2620 code condition into an error message string. It could be 'strerror'
1332606d 2621 or a more complex macro emulating strerror with sys_errlist[], or the
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2622 "unknown" string when both strerror and sys_errlist are missing.
2623
2624d_strerror (d_strerror.U):
2625 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRERROR if strerror() is
2626 available to translate error numbers to strings.
2627
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2628d_strerror_l (d_strerror_l.U):
2629 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRERROR_L symbol, which
2630 indicates to the C program that the strerror_l() routine is available
2631 to return the error message for a given errno value in a particular
2632 locale (identified by a locale_t object).
2633
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2634d_strerror_r (d_strerror_r.U):
2635 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRERROR_R symbol,
2636 which indicates to the C program that the strerror_r()
2637 routine is available.
2638
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2639d_strftime (d_strftime.U):
2640 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRFTIME symbol, which
2641 indicates to the C program that the strftime() routine is available.
2642
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2643d_strlcat (d_strlcat.U):
2644 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRLCAT symbol, which
2645 indicates to the C program that the strlcat () routine is available.
2646
2647d_strlcpy (d_strlcpy.U):
2648 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRLCPY symbol, which
2649 indicates to the C program that the strlcpy () routine is available.
2650
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2651d_strtod (d_strtod.U):
2652 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOD symbol, which
2653 indicates to the C program that the strtod() routine is available
2654 to provide better numeric string conversion than atof().
2655
2656d_strtol (d_strtol.U):
2657 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOL symbol, which
2658 indicates to the C program that the strtol() routine is available
2659 to provide better numeric string conversion than atoi() and friends.
2660
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2661d_strtold (d_strtold.U):
2662 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLD symbol, which
2663 indicates to the C program that the strtold() routine is available.
2664
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2665d_strtoll (d_strtoll.U):
2666 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLL symbol, which
2667 indicates to the C program that the strtoll() routine is available.
2668
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2669d_strtoq (d_strtoq.U):
2670 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOQ symbol, which
2671 indicates to the C program that the strtoq() routine is available.
2672
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2673d_strtoul (d_strtoul.U):
2674 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUL symbol, which
2675 indicates to the C program that the strtoul() routine is available
2676 to provide conversion of strings to unsigned long.
2677
ff935051 2678d_strtoull (d_strtoull.U):
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2679 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOULL symbol, which
2680 indicates to the C program that the strtoull() routine is available.
2681
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2682d_strtouq (d_strtouq.U):
2683 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUQ symbol, which
2684 indicates to the C program that the strtouq() routine is available.
2685
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2686d_strxfrm (d_strxfrm.U):
2687 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRXFRM if strxfrm() is
2688 available to transform strings.
2689
2690d_suidsafe (d_dosuid.U):
2691 This variable conditionally defines SETUID_SCRIPTS_ARE_SECURE_NOW
2692 if setuid scripts can be secure. This test looks in /dev/fd/.
2693
2694d_symlink (d_symlink.U):
2695 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYMLINK symbol, which
2696 indicates to the C program that the symlink() routine is available
2697 to create symbolic links.
2698
2699d_syscall (d_syscall.U):
2700 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYSCALL if syscall() is
2701 available call arbitrary system calls.
2702
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2703d_syscallproto (d_syscallproto.U):
2704 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYSCALL_PROTO symbol,
2705 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2706 a prototype for the syscall() function. Otherwise, it is
2707 up to the program to supply one.
2708
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2709d_sysconf (d_sysconf.U):
2710 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYSCONF symbol, which
2711 indicates to the C program that the sysconf() routine is available
2712 to determine system related limits and options.
2713
2714d_sysernlst (d_strerror.U):
2715 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYS_ERRNOLIST if sys_errnolist[]
2716 is available to translate error numbers to the symbolic name.
2717
2718d_syserrlst (d_strerror.U):
2719 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYS_ERRLIST if sys_errlist[] is
2720 available to translate error numbers to strings.
2721
2722d_system (d_system.U):
2723 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYSTEM if system() is
2724 available to issue a shell command.
2725
2726d_tcgetpgrp (d_tcgtpgrp.U):
2727 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TCGETPGRP symbol, which
2728 indicates to the C program that the tcgetpgrp() routine is available.
2729 to get foreground process group ID.
2730
2731d_tcsetpgrp (d_tcstpgrp.U):
2732 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TCSETPGRP symbol, which
2733 indicates to the C program that the tcsetpgrp() routine is available
2734 to set foreground process group ID.
2735
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2736d_telldir (d_readdir.U):
2737 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TELLDIR if telldir() is
2738 available.
2739
2740d_telldirproto (d_telldirproto.U):
2741 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TELLDIR_PROTO symbol,
2742 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2743 a prototype for the telldir() function. Otherwise, it is
2744 up to the program to supply one.
2745
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2746d_tgamma (d_tgamma.U):
2747 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TGAMMA symbol, which
2748 indicates to the C program that the tgamma() routine is available
f40bbcbf 2749 for the gamma function. See also d_lgamma.
427d28ce 2750
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2751d_time (d_time.U):
2752 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIME symbol, which indicates
47e01c32 2753 that the time() routine exists. The time() routine is normally
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2754 provided on UNIX systems.
2755
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2756d_timegm (d_timegm.U):
2757 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIMEGM symbol, which
2758 indicates to the C program that the timegm () routine is available.
2759
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2760d_times (d_times.U):
2761 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIMES symbol, which indicates
47e01c32 2762 that the times() routine exists. The times() routine is normally
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2763 provided on UNIX systems. You may have to include <sys/times.h>.
2764
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2765d_tm_tm_gmtoff (i_time.U):
2766 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TM_TM_GMTOFF, which indicates
2767 indicates to the C program that the struct tm has the tm_gmtoff field.
2768
2769d_tm_tm_zone (i_time.U):
2770 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TM_TM_ZONE, which indicates
2771 indicates to the C program that the struct tm has the tm_zone field.
2772
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2773d_tmpnam_r (d_tmpnam_r.U):
2774 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TMPNAM_R symbol,
2775 which indicates to the C program that the tmpnam_r()
2776 routine is available.
2777
427d28ce 2778d_trunc (d_trunc.U):
f40bbcbf 2779 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TRUNC symbol, which
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2780 indicates to the C program that the trunc() routine is available
2781 to round doubles towards zero.
2782
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2783d_truncate (d_truncate.U):
2784 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TRUNCATE if truncate() is
2785 available to truncate files.
2786
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2787d_truncl (d_truncl.U):
2788 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TRUNCL symbol, which
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2789 indicates to the C program that the truncl() routine is available
2790 to round long doubles towards zero. If copysignl is also present,
2791 we can emulate modfl.
4842dad7 2792
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2793d_ttyname_r (d_ttyname_r.U):
2794 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TTYNAME_R symbol,
2795 which indicates to the C program that the ttyname_r()
2796 routine is available.
2797
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2798d_tzname (d_tzname.U):
2799 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TZNAME if tzname[] is
2800 available to access timezone names.
2801
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2802d_u32align (d_u32align.U):
2803 This variable tells whether you must access character data
2804 through U32-aligned pointers.
2805
2806d_ualarm (d_ualarm.U):
2807 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UALARM symbol, which
2808 indicates to the C program that the ualarm() routine is available.
2809
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2810d_umask (d_umask.U):
2811 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UMASK symbol, which
2812 indicates to the C program that the umask() routine is available.
2813 to set and get the value of the file creation mask.
2814
2815d_uname (d_gethname.U):
2816 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNAME symbol, which
2817 indicates to the C program that the uname() routine may be
2818 used to derive the host name.
2819
2820d_union_semun (d_union_semun.U):
2821 This variable conditionally defines HAS_UNION_SEMUN if the
2822 union semun is defined by including <sys/sem.h>.
2823
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2824d_unordered (d_unordered.U):
2825 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNORDERED symbol, which
2826 indicates to the C program that the unordered() routine is available.
2827
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2828d_unsetenv (d_unsetenv.U):
2829 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNSETENV symbol, which
2830 indicates to the C program that the unsetenv () routine is available.
2831
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2832d_uselocale (d_newlocale.U):
2833 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_USELOCALE symbol, which
2834 indicates to the C program that the uselocale() routine is available
2835 to set the current locale for the calling thread.
2836
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2837d_usleep (d_usleep.U):
2838 This variable conditionally defines HAS_USLEEP if usleep() is
2839 available to do high granularity sleeps.
2840
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2841d_usleepproto (d_usleepproto.U):
2842 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_USLEEP_PROTO symbol,
2843 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2844 a prototype for the usleep() function. Otherwise, it is
2845 up to the program to supply one.
2846
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2847d_ustat (d_ustat.U):
2848 This variable conditionally defines HAS_USTAT if ustat() is
2849 available to query file system statistics by dev_t.
2850
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2851d_vendorarch (vendorarch.U):
2852 This variable conditionally defined PERL_VENDORARCH.
2853
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2854d_vendorbin (vendorbin.U):
2855 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORBIN.
2856
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2857d_vendorlib (vendorlib.U):
2858 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORLIB.
2859
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2860d_vendorscript (vendorscript.U):
2861 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORSCRIPT.
2862
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2863d_vfork (d_vfork.U):
2864 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VFORK symbol, which
2865 indicates the vfork() routine is available.
2866
2867d_void_closedir (d_closedir.U):
2868 This variable conditionally defines VOID_CLOSEDIR if closedir()
2869 does not return a value.
2870
2871d_voidsig (d_voidsig.U):
2872 This variable conditionally defines VOIDSIG if this system
2873 declares "void (*signal(...))()" in signal.h. The old way was to
2874 declare it as "int (*signal(...))()".
2875
2876d_voidtty (i_sysioctl.U):
2877 This variable conditionally defines USE_IOCNOTTY to indicate that the
2878 ioctl() call with TIOCNOTTY should be used to void tty association.
2879 Otherwise (on USG probably), it is enough to close the standard file
47e01c32 2880 descriptors and do a setpgrp().
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2881
2882d_volatile (d_volatile.U):
2883 This variable conditionally defines the HASVOLATILE symbol, which
2884 indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows about the
2885 volatile declaration.
2886
2887d_vprintf (d_vprintf.U):
2888 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VPRINTF symbol, which
2889 indicates to the C program that the vprintf() routine is available
2890 to printf with a pointer to an argument list.
2891
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2892d_vsnprintf (d_snprintf.U):
2893 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VSNPRINTF symbol, which
2894 indicates to the C program that the vsnprintf () library function
2895 is available.
2896
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2897d_wait4 (d_wait4.U):
2898 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WAIT4 symbol, which
2899 indicates the wait4() routine is available.
2900
2901d_waitpid (d_waitpid.U):
2902 This variable conditionally defines HAS_WAITPID if waitpid() is
2903 available to wait for child process.
2904
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2905d_wcscmp (d_wcscmp.U):
2906 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSCMP symbol if the
2907 wcscmp() routine is available and can be used to compare wide
2908 character strings.
2909
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2910d_wcstombs (d_wcstombs.U):
2911 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSTOMBS symbol, which
2912 indicates to the C program that the wcstombs() routine is available
2913 to convert wide character strings to multibyte strings.
2914
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2915d_wcsxfrm (d_wcsxfrm.U):
2916 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSXFRM symbol if the
2917 wcsxfrm() routine is available and can be used to compare wide
2918 character strings.
2919
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2920d_wctomb (d_wctomb.U):
2921 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCTOMB symbol, which
2922 indicates to the C program that the wctomb() routine is available
2923 to convert a wide character to a multibyte.
2924
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2925d_writev (d_writev.U):
2926 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WRITEV symbol, which
2927 indicates to the C program that the writev() routine is available.
2928
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2929d_xenix (Guess.U):
2930 This variable conditionally defines the symbol XENIX, which alerts
2931 the C program that it runs under Xenix.
2932
2933date (Loc.U):
5bf26616 2934 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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2935 full pathname (if any) of the date program. After Configure runs,
2936 the value is reset to a plain "date" and is not useful.
2937
2938db_hashtype (i_db.U):
2939 This variable contains the type of the hash structure element
2940 in the <db.h> header file. In older versions of DB, it was
2941 int, while in newer ones it is u_int32_t.
2942
2943db_prefixtype (i_db.U):
2944 This variable contains the type of the prefix structure element
2945 in the <db.h> header file. In older versions of DB, it was
2946 int, while in newer ones it is size_t.
2947
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2948db_version_major (i_db.U):
2949 This variable contains the major version number of
2950 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
2951
2952db_version_minor (i_db.U):
2953 This variable contains the minor version number of
2954 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
2955 For DB version 1 this is always 0.
2956
2957db_version_patch (i_db.U):
2958 This variable contains the patch version number of
2959 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
2960 For DB version 1 this is always 0.
2961
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2962default_inc_excludes_dot (defaultincdot.U):
2963 When defined, remove the legacy '.' from @INC
2964
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2965direntrytype (i_dirent.U):
2966 This symbol is set to 'struct direct' or 'struct dirent' depending on
2967 whether dirent is available or not. You should use this pseudo type to
2968 portably declare your directory entries.
2969
2970dlext (dlext.U):
2971 This variable contains the extension that is to be used for the
1332606d 2972 dynamically loaded modules that perl generates.
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2973
2974dlsrc (dlsrc.U):
2975 This variable contains the name of the dynamic loading file that
2976 will be used with the package.
2977
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2978doubleinfbytes (infnan.U):
2979 This variable contains comma-separated list of hexadecimal bytes
2980 for the double precision infinity.
2981
f40bbcbf 2982doublekind (longdblfio.U):
bade9271 2983 This variable, if defined, encodes the type of a double:
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2984 1 = IEEE 754 32-bit little endian,
2985 2 = IEEE 754 32-bit big endian,
2986 3 = IEEE 754 64-bit little endian,
2987 4 = IEEE 754 64-bit big endian,
2988 5 = IEEE 754 128-bit little endian,
2989 6 = IEEE 754 128-bit big endian,
2990 7 = IEEE 754 64-bit mixed endian le-be,
2991 8 = IEEE 754 64-bit mixed endian be-le,
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2992 9 = VAX 32bit little endian F float format
2993 10 = VAX 64bit little endian D float format
2994 11 = VAX 64bit little endian G float format
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2995 12 = IBM 32bit format
2996 13 = IBM 64bit format
2997 14 = Cray 64bit format
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2998 -1 = unknown format.
2999
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3000doublemantbits (mantbits.U):
3001 This symbol, if defined, tells how many mantissa bits
3002 there are in double precision floating point format.
3003 Note that this is usually DBL_MANT_DIG minus one, since
3004 with the standard IEEE 754 formats DBL_MANT_DIG includes
3005 the implicit bit which doesn't really exist.
3006
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3007doublenanbytes (infnan.U):
3008 This variable contains comma-separated list of hexadecimal bytes
3009 for the double precision not-a-number.
3010
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3011doublesize (doublesize.U):
3012 This variable contains the value of the DOUBLESIZE symbol, which
3013 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a double.
3014
3015drand01 (randfunc.U):
3016 Indicates the macro to be used to generate normalized
3017 random numbers. Uses randfunc, often divided by
3018 (double) (((unsigned long) 1 << randbits)) in order to
3019 normalize the result.
3020 In C programs, the macro 'Drand01' is mapped to drand01.
3021
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3022drand48_r_proto (d_drand48_r.U):
3023 This variable encodes the prototype of drand48_r.
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3024 It is zero if d_drand48_r is undef, and one of the
3025 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_drand48_r
3026 is defined.
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3028dtrace (usedtrace.U):
3029 This variable holds the location of the dtrace executable.
3030
2640dfa8 3031dtraceobject (dtraceobject.U):
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3032 Whether we need to build an object file with the dtrace tool.
3033
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3034dynamic_ext (Extensions.U):
3035 This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to
3036 link dynamically into the package. It is used by Makefile.
3037
3038eagain (nblock_io.U):
3039 This variable bears the symbolic errno code set by read() when no
3040 data is present on the file and non-blocking I/O was enabled (otherwise,
3041 read() blocks naturally).
3042
3043ebcdic (ebcdic.U):
3044 This variable conditionally defines EBCDIC if this
1332606d 3045 system uses EBCDIC encoding.
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3046
3047echo (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3048 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3049 full pathname (if any) of the echo program. After Configure runs,
3050 the value is reset to a plain "echo" and is not useful.
3051
3052egrep (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3053 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3054 full pathname (if any) of the egrep program. After Configure runs,
3055 the value is reset to a plain "egrep" and is not useful.
3056
3057emacs (Loc.U):
3058 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3059 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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f40bbcbf 3061endgrent_r_proto (d_endgrent_r.U):
10bc17b6 3062 This variable encodes the prototype of endgrent_r.
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3063 It is zero if d_endgrent_r is undef, and one of the
3064 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endgrent_r
3065 is defined.
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3066
3067endhostent_r_proto (d_endhostent_r.U):
3068 This variable encodes the prototype of endhostent_r.
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3069 It is zero if d_endhostent_r is undef, and one of the
3070 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endhostent_r
3071 is defined.
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3072
3073endnetent_r_proto (d_endnetent_r.U):
3074 This variable encodes the prototype of endnetent_r.
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3075 It is zero if d_endnetent_r is undef, and one of the
3076 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endnetent_r
3077 is defined.
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3078
3079endprotoent_r_proto (d_endprotoent_r.U):
3080 This variable encodes the prototype of endprotoent_r.
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3081 It is zero if d_endprotoent_r is undef, and one of the
3082 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endprotoent_r
3083 is defined.
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3084
3085endpwent_r_proto (d_endpwent_r.U):
3086 This variable encodes the prototype of endpwent_r.
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3087 It is zero if d_endpwent_r is undef, and one of the
3088 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endpwent_r
3089 is defined.
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3090
3091endservent_r_proto (d_endservent_r.U):
3092 This variable encodes the prototype of endservent_r.
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3093 It is zero if d_endservent_r is undef, and one of the
3094 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endservent_r
3095 is defined.
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3097eunicefix (Init.U):
3098 When running under Eunice this variable contains a command which will
3099 convert a shell script to the proper form of text file for it to be
3100 executable by the shell. On other systems it is a no-op.
3101
3102exe_ext (Unix.U):
3103 This is an old synonym for _exe.
3104
3105expr (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3106 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3107 full pathname (if any) of the expr program. After Configure runs,
3108 the value is reset to a plain "expr" and is not useful.
3109
3110extensions (Extensions.U):
3111 This variable holds a list of all extension files (both XS and
f7b3892b 3112 non-xs) installed with the package. It is propagated to Config.pm
47e01c32 3113 and is typically used to test whether a particular extension
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3114 is available.
3115
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3116extern_C (Csym.U):
3117 ANSI C requires 'extern' where C++ requires 'extern "C"'. This
3118 variable can be used in Configure to do the right thing.
3119
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3120extras (Extras.U):
3121 This variable holds a list of extra modules to install.
3122
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3123fflushall (fflushall.U):
3124 This symbol, if defined, tells that to flush
3125 all pending stdio output one must loop through all
3126 the stdio file handles stored in an array and fflush them.
3127 Note that if fflushNULL is defined, fflushall will not
3128 even be probed for and will be left undefined.
3129
4d54317a 3130fflushNULL (fflushall.U):
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3131 This symbol, if defined, tells that fflush(NULL) correctly
3132 flushes all pending stdio output without side effects. In
3133 particular, on some platforms calling fflush(NULL) *still*
3134 corrupts STDIN if it is a pipe.
4d54317a 3135
781b178c 3136find (Loc.U):
ff935051 3137 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3138 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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3139
3140firstmakefile (Unix.U):
3141 This variable defines the first file searched by make. On unix,
3142 it is makefile (then Makefile). On case-insensitive systems,
3143 it might be something else. This is only used to deal with
3144 convoluted make depend tricks.
3145
3146flex (Loc.U):
3147 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3148 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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3150fpossize (fpossize.U):
3151 This variable contains the size of a fpostype in bytes.
3152
781b178c 3153fpostype (fpostype.U):
635aebb7 3154 This variable defines Fpos_t to be something like fpos_t, long,
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3155 uint, or whatever type is used to declare file positions in libc.
3156
3157freetype (mallocsrc.U):
3158 This variable contains the return type of free(). It is usually
3159 void, but occasionally int.
3160
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3161from (Cross.U):
3162 This variable contains the command used by Configure
3163 to copy files from the target host. Useful and available
3164 only during Perl build.
3165 The string ':' if not cross-compiling.
3166
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3167full_ar (Loc_ar.U):
3168 This variable contains the full pathname to 'ar', whether or
3169 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
3170 in the Makefile.SH.
3171
3172full_csh (d_csh.U):
3173 This variable contains the full pathname to 'csh', whether or
3174 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
3175 in the compiled C program, and we assume that all systems which
3176 can share this executable will have the same full pathname to
3177 'csh.'
3178
3179full_sed (Loc_sed.U):
3180 This variable contains the full pathname to 'sed', whether or
3181 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
3182 in the compiled C program, and we assume that all systems which
3183 can share this executable will have the same full pathname to
3184 'sed.'
3185
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3186gccansipedantic (gccvers.U):
3187 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable will enable (if set) the
3188 -ansi and -pedantic ccflags for building core files (through
3189 cflags script). (See Porting/pumpkin.pod for full description).
3190
af960fef 3191gccosandvers (gccvers.U):
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3192 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable holds the operating system
3193 and version used to compile gcc. It is set to '' if not gcc,
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3194 or if nothing useful can be parsed as the os version.
3195
3196gccversion (gccvers.U):
123f32c0 3197 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable holds '1' or '2' to
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3198 indicate whether the compiler is version 1 or 2. This is used in
3199 setting some of the default cflags. It is set to '' if not gcc.
3200
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3201getgrent_r_proto (d_getgrent_r.U):
3202 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrent_r.
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3203 It is zero if d_getgrent_r is undef, and one of the
3204 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getgrent_r
3205 is defined.
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3206
3207getgrgid_r_proto (d_getgrgid_r.U):
3208 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrgid_r.
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3209 It is zero if d_getgrgid_r is undef, and one of the
3210 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getgrgid_r
3211 is defined.
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3212
3213getgrnam_r_proto (d_getgrnam_r.U):
3214 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrnam_r.
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3215 It is zero if d_getgrnam_r is undef, and one of the
3216 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getgrnam_r
3217 is defined.
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3218
3219gethostbyaddr_r_proto (d_gethostbyaddr_r.U):
3220 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostbyaddr_r.
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3221 It is zero if d_gethostbyaddr_r is undef, and one of the
3222 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gethostbyaddr_r
3223 is defined.
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3224
3225gethostbyname_r_proto (d_gethostbyname_r.U):
3226 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostbyname_r.
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3227 It is zero if d_gethostbyname_r is undef, and one of the
3228 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gethostbyname_r
3229 is defined.
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3230
3231gethostent_r_proto (d_gethostent_r.U):
3232 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostent_r.
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3233 It is zero if d_gethostent_r is undef, and one of the
3234 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gethostent_r
3235 is defined.
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3236
3237getlogin_r_proto (d_getlogin_r.U):
3238 This variable encodes the prototype of getlogin_r.
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3239 It is zero if d_getlogin_r is undef, and one of the
3240 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getlogin_r
3241 is defined.
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3242
3243getnetbyaddr_r_proto (d_getnetbyaddr_r.U):
3244 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetbyaddr_r.
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3245 It is zero if d_getnetbyaddr_r is undef, and one of the
3246 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getnetbyaddr_r
3247 is defined.
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3248
3249getnetbyname_r_proto (d_getnetbyname_r.U):
3250 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetbyname_r.
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3251 It is zero if d_getnetbyname_r is undef, and one of the
3252 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getnetbyname_r
3253 is defined.
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3254
3255getnetent_r_proto (d_getnetent_r.U):
3256 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetent_r.
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3257 It is zero if d_getnetent_r is undef, and one of the
3258 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getnetent_r
3259 is defined.
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3260
3261getprotobyname_r_proto (d_getprotobyname_r.U):
3262 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotobyname_r.
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3263 It is zero if d_getprotobyname_r is undef, and one of the
3264 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getprotobyname_r
3265 is defined.
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3266
3267getprotobynumber_r_proto (d_getprotobynumber_r.U):
3268 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotobynumber_r.
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3269 It is zero if d_getprotobynumber_r is undef, and one of the
3270 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getprotobynumber_r
3271 is defined.
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3272
3273getprotoent_r_proto (d_getprotoent_r.U):
3274 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotoent_r.
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3275 It is zero if d_getprotoent_r is undef, and one of the
3276 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getprotoent_r
3277 is defined.
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3278
3279getpwent_r_proto (d_getpwent_r.U):
3280 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwent_r.
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3281 It is zero if d_getpwent_r is undef, and one of the
3282 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getpwent_r
3283 is defined.
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3284
3285getpwnam_r_proto (d_getpwnam_r.U):
3286 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwnam_r.
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3287 It is zero if d_getpwnam_r is undef, and one of the
3288 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getpwnam_r
3289 is defined.
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3290
3291getpwuid_r_proto (d_getpwuid_r.U):
3292 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwuid_r.
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3293 It is zero if d_getpwuid_r is undef, and one of the
3294 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getpwuid_r
3295 is defined.
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3296
3297getservbyname_r_proto (d_getservbyname_r.U):
3298 This variable encodes the prototype of getservbyname_r.
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3299 It is zero if d_getservbyname_r is undef, and one of the
3300 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getservbyname_r
3301 is defined.
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3302
3303getservbyport_r_proto (d_getservbyport_r.U):
3304 This variable encodes the prototype of getservbyport_r.
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3305 It is zero if d_getservbyport_r is undef, and one of the
3306 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getservbyport_r
3307 is defined.
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3308
3309getservent_r_proto (d_getservent_r.U):
3310 This variable encodes the prototype of getservent_r.
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3311 It is zero if d_getservent_r is undef, and one of the
3312 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getservent_r
3313 is defined.
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3314
3315getspnam_r_proto (d_getspnam_r.U):
3316 This variable encodes the prototype of getspnam_r.
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3317 It is zero if d_getspnam_r is undef, and one of the
3318 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getspnam_r
3319 is defined.
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3321gidformat (gidf.U):
3322 This variable contains the format string used for printing a Gid_t.
3323
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3324gidsign (gidsign.U):
3325 This variable contains the signedness of a gidtype.
3326 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
3327
3328gidsize (gidsize.U):
3329 This variable contains the size of a gidtype in bytes.
3330
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3331gidtype (gidtype.U):
3332 This variable defines Gid_t to be something like gid_t, int,
3333 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare the return type
3334 of getgid(). Typically, it is the type of group ids in the kernel.
3335
3336glibpth (libpth.U):
3337 This variable holds the general path (space-separated) used to
3338 find libraries. It may contain directories that do not exist on
3339 this platform, libpth is the cleaned-up version.
3340
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3341gmake (Loc.U):
3342 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
3343 full pathname (if any) of the gmake program. After Configure runs,
3344 the value is reset to a plain "gmake" and is not useful.
3345
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3346gmtime_r_proto (d_gmtime_r.U):
3347 This variable encodes the prototype of gmtime_r.
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3348 It is zero if d_gmtime_r is undef, and one of the
3349 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gmtime_r
3350 is defined.
10bc17b6 3351
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3352gnulibc_version (d_gnulibc.U):
3353 This variable contains the version number of the GNU C library.
3354 It is usually something like '2.2.5'. It is a plain '' if this
3355 is not the GNU C library, or if the version is unknown.
3356
781b178c 3357grep (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3358 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3359 full pathname (if any) of the grep program. After Configure runs,
3360 the value is reset to a plain "grep" and is not useful.
3361
3362groupcat (nis.U):
3363 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
3364 /etc/group file. This is normally "cat /etc/group", but can be
3365 "ypcat group" when NIS is used.
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3366 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
3367 command, in which case this variable is unset.
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3368
3369groupstype (groupstype.U):
635aebb7 3370 This variable defines Groups_t to be something like gid_t, int,
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3371 ushort, or whatever type is used for the second argument to
3372 getgroups() and setgroups(). Usually, this is the same as
3373 gidtype (gid_t), but sometimes it isn't.
3374
3375gzip (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3376 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3377 full pathname (if any) of the gzip program. After Configure runs,
3378 the value is reset to a plain "gzip" and is not useful.
3379
3380h_fcntl (h_fcntl.U):
3381 This is variable gets set in various places to tell i_fcntl that
3382 <fcntl.h> should be included.
3383
3384h_sysfile (h_sysfile.U):
3385 This is variable gets set in various places to tell i_sys_file that
3386 <sys/file.h> should be included.
3387
3388hint (Oldconfig.U):
3389 Gives the type of hints used for previous answers. May be one of
3390 "default", "recommended" or "previous".
3391
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3392hostcat (nis.U):
3393 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
3394 /etc/hosts file. This is normally "cat /etc/hosts", but can be
3395 "ypcat hosts" when NIS is used.
3396 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
3397 command, in which case this variable is unset.
8b6a017c 3398
a6d9d244 3399hostgenerate (Cross.U):
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BF
3400 This variable contains the path to a generate_uudmap binary that
3401 can be run on the host OS when cross-compiling. Useful and
3402 available only during Perl build.
3403 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
3404
a6d9d244 3405hostosname (Cross.U):
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BF
3406 This variable contains the original value of '$^O' for hostperl
3407 when cross-compiling. This is useful to pick the proper tools
3408 when running build code in the host.
3409 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
3410
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3411hostperl (Cross.U):
3412 This variable contains the path to a miniperl binary that can be
3413 run on the host OS when cross-compiling. Useful and available only
3414 during Perl build.
3415 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
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3417html1dir (html1dir.U):
3418 This variable contains the name of the directory in which html
3419 source pages are to be put. This directory is for pages
3420 that describe whole programs, not libraries or modules. It
3421 is intended to correspond roughly to section 1 of the Unix
3422 manuals.
3423
3424html1direxp (html1dir.U):
3425 This variable is the same as the html1dir variable, but is filename
3426 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
3427
3428html3dir (html3dir.U):
3429 This variable contains the name of the directory in which html
3430 source pages are to be put. This directory is for pages
3431 that describe libraries or modules. It is intended to
3432 correspond roughly to section 3 of the Unix manuals.
3433
3434html3direxp (html3dir.U):
3435 This variable is the same as the html3dir variable, but is filename
3436 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
3437
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3438i16size (perlxv.U):
3439 This variable is the size of an I16 in bytes.
3440
3441i16type (perlxv.U):
3442 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I16.
3443
3444i32size (perlxv.U):
3445 This variable is the size of an I32 in bytes.
3446
3447i32type (perlxv.U):
3448 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I32.
3449
3450i64size (perlxv.U):
3451 This variable is the size of an I64 in bytes.
3452
3453i64type (perlxv.U):
3454 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I64.
3455
3456i8size (perlxv.U):
3457 This variable is the size of an I8 in bytes.
3458
3459i8type (perlxv.U):
3460 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I8.
3461
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3462i_arpainet (i_arpainet.U):
3463 This variable conditionally defines the I_ARPA_INET symbol,
3464 and indicates whether a C program should include <arpa/inet.h>.
3465
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3466i_assert (i_assert.U):
3467 This variable conditionally defines the I_ASSERT symbol, which
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3468 indicates to the C program that <assert.h> exists and could be
3469 included.
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3471i_bfd (i_bfd.U):
3472 This variable conditionally defines the I_BFD symbol, and
3473 indicates whether a C program can include <bfd.h>.
3474
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3475i_bsdioctl (i_sysioctl.U):
3476 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_BSDIOCTL symbol, which
3477 indicates to the C program that <sys/bsdioctl.h> exists and should
3478 be included.
3479
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3480i_crypt (i_crypt.U):
3481 This variable conditionally defines the I_CRYPT symbol, and indicates
3482 whether a C program should include <crypt.h>.
3483
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3484i_db (i_db.U):
3485 This variable conditionally defines the I_DB symbol, and indicates
3486 whether a C program may include Berkeley's DB include file <db.h>.
3487
3488i_dbm (i_dbm.U):
3489 This variable conditionally defines the I_DBM symbol, which
3490 indicates to the C program that <dbm.h> exists and should
3491 be included.
3492
3493i_dirent (i_dirent.U):
3494 This variable conditionally defines I_DIRENT, which indicates
3495 to the C program that it should include <dirent.h>.
3496
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3497i_dlfcn (i_dlfcn.U):
3498 This variable conditionally defines the I_DLFCN symbol, which
3499 indicates to the C program that <dlfcn.h> exists and should
3500 be included.
3501
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3502i_execinfo (i_execinfo.U):
3503 This variable conditionally defines the I_EXECINFO symbol, and indicates
3504 whether a C program may include <execinfo.h>, for backtrace() support.
3505
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3506i_fcntl (i_fcntl.U):
3507 This variable controls the value of I_FCNTL (which tells
3508 the C program to include <fcntl.h>).
3509
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3510i_fenv (i_fenv.U):
3511 This variable conditionally defines the I_FENV symbol, which
3512 indicates to the C program that <fenv.h> exists and should
3513 be included.
3514
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3515i_float (i_float.U):
3516 This variable conditionally defines the I_FLOAT symbol, and indicates
3517 whether a C program may include <float.h> to get symbols like DBL_MAX
3518 or DBL_MIN, i.e. machine dependent floating point values.
3519
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3520i_fp (i_fp.U):
3521 This variable conditionally defines the I_FP symbol, and indicates
3522 whether a C program should include <fp.h>.
3523
3524i_fp_class (i_fp_class.U):
3525 This variable conditionally defines the I_FP_CLASS symbol, and indicates
3526 whether a C program should include <fp_class.h>.
3527
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3528i_gdbm (i_gdbm.U):
3529 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBM symbol, which
3530 indicates to the C program that <gdbm.h> exists and should
3531 be included.
3532
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3533i_gdbm_ndbm (i_ndbm.U):
3534 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBM_NDBM symbol, which
3535 indicates to the C program that <gdbm-ndbm.h> exists and should
3536 be included. This is the location of the ndbm.h compatibility file
3537 in Debian 4.0.
3538
3539i_gdbmndbm (i_ndbm.U):
3540 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBMNDBM symbol, which
3541 indicates to the C program that <gdbm/ndbm.h> exists and should
3542 be included. This was the location of the ndbm.h compatibility file
3543 in RedHat 7.1.
3544
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3545i_grp (i_grp.U):
3546 This variable conditionally defines the I_GRP symbol, and indicates
3547 whether a C program should include <grp.h>.
3548
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3549i_ieeefp (i_ieeefp.U):
3550 This variable conditionally defines the I_IEEEFP symbol, and indicates
3551 whether a C program should include <ieeefp.h>.
3552
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3553i_inttypes (i_inttypes.U):
3554 This variable conditionally defines the I_INTTYPES symbol,
3555 and indicates whether a C program should include <inttypes.h>.
3556
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3557i_langinfo (i_langinfo.U):
3558 This variable conditionally defines the I_LANGINFO symbol,
3559 and indicates whether a C program should include <langinfo.h>.
3560
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3561i_libutil (i_libutil.U):
3562 This variable conditionally defines the I_LIBUTIL symbol, and indicates
3563 whether a C program should include <libutil.h>.
3564
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3565i_limits (i_limits.U):
3566 This variable conditionally defines the I_LIMITS symbol, and indicates
3567 whether a C program may include <limits.h> to get symbols like WORD_BIT
3568 and friends.
3569
3570i_locale (i_locale.U):
3571 This variable conditionally defines the I_LOCALE symbol,
3572 and indicates whether a C program should include <locale.h>.
3573
3574i_machcthr (i_machcthr.U):
3575 This variable conditionally defines the I_MACH_CTHREADS symbol,
3576 and indicates whether a C program should include <mach/cthreads.h>.
3577
3578i_malloc (i_malloc.U):
3579 This variable conditionally defines the I_MALLOC symbol, and indicates
3580 whether a C program should include <malloc.h>.
3581
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3582i_mallocmalloc (i_mallocmalloc.U):
3583 This variable conditionally defines the I_MALLOCMALLOC symbol,
3584 and indicates whether a C program should include <malloc/malloc.h>.
3585
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3586i_math (i_math.U):
3587 This variable conditionally defines the I_MATH symbol, and indicates
3588 whether a C program may include <math.h>.
3589
3590i_memory (i_memory.U):
3591 This variable conditionally defines the I_MEMORY symbol, and indicates
3592 whether a C program should include <memory.h>.
3593
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3594i_mntent (i_mntent.U):
3595 This variable conditionally defines the I_MNTENT symbol, and indicates
3596 whether a C program should include <mntent.h>.
3597
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3598i_ndbm (i_ndbm.U):
3599 This variable conditionally defines the I_NDBM symbol, which
3600 indicates to the C program that <ndbm.h> exists and should
3601 be included.
3602
3603i_netdb (i_netdb.U):
3604 This variable conditionally defines the I_NETDB symbol, and indicates
3605 whether a C program should include <netdb.h>.
3606
3607i_neterrno (i_neterrno.U):
3608 This variable conditionally defines the I_NET_ERRNO symbol, which
3609 indicates to the C program that <net/errno.h> exists and should
3610 be included.
3611
3612i_netinettcp (i_netinettcp.U):
3613 This variable conditionally defines the I_NETINET_TCP symbol,
3614 and indicates whether a C program should include <netinet/tcp.h>.
3615
3616i_niin (i_niin.U):
3617 This variable conditionally defines I_NETINET_IN, which indicates
3618 to the C program that it should include <netinet/in.h>. Otherwise,
3619 you may try <sys/in.h>.
3620
3621i_poll (i_poll.U):
3622 This variable conditionally defines the I_POLL symbol, and indicates
3623 whether a C program should include <poll.h>.
3624
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3625i_prot (i_prot.U):
3626 This variable conditionally defines the I_PROT symbol, and indicates
3627 whether a C program should include <prot.h>.
3628
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190b66db 3630 This variable conditionally defines the I_PTHREAD symbol,
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3631 and indicates whether a C program should include <pthread.h>.
3632
3633i_pwd (i_pwd.U):
3634 This variable conditionally defines I_PWD, which indicates
3635 to the C program that it should include <pwd.h>.
3636
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3637i_quadmath (i_quadmath.U):
3638 This variable conditionally defines I_QUADMATH, which indicates
3639 to the C program that it should include <quadmath.h>.
3640
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3641i_rpcsvcdbm (i_dbm.U):
3642 This variable conditionally defines the I_RPCSVC_DBM symbol, which
3643 indicates to the C program that <rpcsvc/dbm.h> exists and should
3644 be included. Some System V systems might need this instead of <dbm.h>.
3645
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3646i_sgtty (i_termio.U):
3647 This variable conditionally defines the I_SGTTY symbol, which
3648 indicates to the C program that it should include <sgtty.h> rather
3649 than <termio.h>.
3650
3651i_shadow (i_shadow.U):
3652 This variable conditionally defines the I_SHADOW symbol, and indicates
3653 whether a C program should include <shadow.h>.
3654
3655i_socks (i_socks.U):
3656 This variable conditionally defines the I_SOCKS symbol, and indicates
3657 whether a C program should include <socks.h>.
3658
3659i_stdarg (i_varhdr.U):
3660 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDARG symbol, which
3661 indicates to the C program that <stdarg.h> exists and should
3662 be included.
3663
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3664i_stdbool (i_stdbool.U):
3665 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDBOOL symbol, which
3666 indicates to the C program that <stdbool.h> exists and should
3667 be included.
3668
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3669i_stddef (i_stddef.U):
3670 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDDEF symbol, which
3671 indicates to the C program that <stddef.h> exists and should
3672 be included.
3673
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3674i_stdint (i_stdint.U):
3675 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDINT symbol, which
3676 indicates to the C program that <stdint.h> exists and should
3677 be included.
3678
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3679i_stdlib (i_stdlib.U):
3680 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDLIB symbol, which
3681 indicates to the C program that <stdlib.h> exists and should
3682 be included.
3683
3684i_string (i_string.U):
3685 This variable conditionally defines the I_STRING symbol, which
3686 indicates that <string.h> should be included rather than <strings.h>.
3687
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3688i_sunmath (i_sunmath.U):
3689 This variable conditionally defines the I_SUNMATH symbol, and indicates
3690 whether a C program should include <sunmath.h>.
3691
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3692i_sysaccess (i_sysaccess.U):
3693 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_ACCESS symbol,
3694 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/access.h>.
3695
3696i_sysdir (i_sysdir.U):
3697 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_DIR symbol, and indicates
3698 whether a C program should include <sys/dir.h>.
3699
3700i_sysfile (i_sysfile.U):
3701 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_FILE symbol, and indicates
3702 whether a C program should include <sys/file.h> to get R_OK and friends.
3703
3704i_sysfilio (i_sysioctl.U):
3705 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_FILIO symbol, which
3706 indicates to the C program that <sys/filio.h> exists and should
3707 be included in preference to <sys/ioctl.h>.
3708
3709i_sysin (i_niin.U):
3710 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_IN, which indicates
3711 to the C program that it should include <sys/in.h> instead of
3712 <netinet/in.h>.
3713
3714i_sysioctl (i_sysioctl.U):
3715 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_IOCTL symbol, which
3716 indicates to the C program that <sys/ioctl.h> exists and should
3717 be included.
3718
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3719i_syslog (i_syslog.U):
3720 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSLOG symbol,
3721 and indicates whether a C program should include <syslog.h>.
3722
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3723i_sysmman (i_sysmman.U):
3724 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_MMAN symbol, and
3725 indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mman.h>.
3726
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3727i_sysmode (i_sysmode.U):
3728 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSMODE symbol,
3729 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mode.h>.
3730
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3731i_sysmount (i_sysmount.U):
3732 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSMOUNT symbol,
3733 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mount.h>.
3734
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3735i_sysndir (i_sysndir.U):
3736 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_NDIR symbol, and indicates
3737 whether a C program should include <sys/ndir.h>.
3738
3739i_sysparam (i_sysparam.U):
3740 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_PARAM symbol, and indicates
3741 whether a C program should include <sys/param.h>.
3742
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3743i_syspoll (i_syspoll.U):
3744 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_POLL symbol, which
3745 indicates to the C program that it should include <sys/poll.h>.
3746
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3747i_sysresrc (i_sysresrc.U):
3748 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_RESOURCE symbol,
3749 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/resource.h>.
3750
3751i_syssecrt (i_syssecrt.U):
3752 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_SECURITY symbol,
3753 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/security.h>.
3754
3755i_sysselct (i_sysselct.U):
3756 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_SELECT, which indicates
3757 to the C program that it should include <sys/select.h> in order to
3758 get the definition of struct timeval.
3759
3760i_syssockio (i_sysioctl.U):
3761 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_SOCKIO to indicate to the
3762 C program that socket ioctl codes may be found in <sys/sockio.h>
3763 instead of <sys/ioctl.h>.
3764
3765i_sysstat (i_sysstat.U):
3766 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_STAT symbol,
3767 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/stat.h>.
3768
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3769i_sysstatfs (i_sysstatfs.U):
3770 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSSTATFS symbol,
3771 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/statfs.h>.
3772
3773i_sysstatvfs (i_sysstatvfs.U):
3774 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSSTATVFS symbol,
3775 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/statvfs.h>.
3776
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3777i_systime (i_time.U):
3778 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_TIME, which indicates
3779 to the C program that it should include <sys/time.h>.
3780
3781i_systimek (i_time.U):
3782 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_TIME_KERNEL, which
3783 indicates to the C program that it should include <sys/time.h>
3784 with KERNEL defined.
3785
3786i_systimes (i_systimes.U):
3787 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_TIMES symbol, and indicates
3788 whether a C program should include <sys/times.h>.
3789
3790i_systypes (i_systypes.U):
3791 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_TYPES symbol,
3792 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/types.h>.
3793
3794i_sysuio (i_sysuio.U):
3795 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSUIO symbol, and indicates
3796 whether a C program should include <sys/uio.h>.
3797
3798i_sysun (i_sysun.U):
3799 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_UN, which indicates
3800 to the C program that it should include <sys/un.h> to get UNIX
3801 domain socket definitions.
3802
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3803i_sysutsname (i_sysutsname.U):
3804 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSUTSNAME symbol,
3805 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/utsname.h>.
3806
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3807i_sysvfs (i_sysvfs.U):
3808 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSVFS symbol,
3809 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/vfs.h>.
3810
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3811i_syswait (i_syswait.U):
3812 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_WAIT, which indicates
3813 to the C program that it should include <sys/wait.h>.
3814
3815i_termio (i_termio.U):
3816 This variable conditionally defines the I_TERMIO symbol, which
3817 indicates to the C program that it should include <termio.h> rather
3818 than <sgtty.h>.
3819
3820i_termios (i_termio.U):
3821 This variable conditionally defines the I_TERMIOS symbol, which
3822 indicates to the C program that the POSIX <termios.h> file is
3823 to be included.
3824
3825i_time (i_time.U):
3826 This variable conditionally defines I_TIME, which indicates
3827 to the C program that it should include <time.h>.
3828
3829i_unistd (i_unistd.U):
3830 This variable conditionally defines the I_UNISTD symbol, and indicates
3831 whether a C program should include <unistd.h>.
3832
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3833i_ustat (i_ustat.U):
3834 This variable conditionally defines the I_USTAT symbol, and indicates
3835 whether a C program should include <ustat.h>.
3836
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3837i_utime (i_utime.U):
3838 This variable conditionally defines the I_UTIME symbol, and indicates
3839 whether a C program should include <utime.h>.
3840
3841i_values (i_values.U):
3842 This variable conditionally defines the I_VALUES symbol, and indicates
3843 whether a C program may include <values.h> to get symbols like MAXLONG
3844 and friends.
3845
3846i_varargs (i_varhdr.U):
3847 This variable conditionally defines I_VARARGS, which indicates
3848 to the C program that it should include <varargs.h>.
3849
3850i_varhdr (i_varhdr.U):
3851 Contains the name of the header to be included to get va_dcl definition.
3852 Typically one of varargs.h or stdarg.h.
3853
3854i_vfork (i_vfork.U):
3855 This variable conditionally defines the I_VFORK symbol, and indicates
3856 whether a C program should include vfork.h.
3857
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3858i_xlocale (d_newlocale.U):
3859 This symbol, if defined, indicates to the C program that it should
3860 include <xlocale.h> to get uselocale() and its friends
3861
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3862ignore_versioned_solibs (libs.U):
3863 This variable should be non-empty if non-versioned shared
3864 libraries (libfoo.so.x.y) are to be ignored (because they
3865 cannot be linked against).
3866
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3867inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U):
3868 This variable specifies the list of subdirectories in over
3869 which perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically
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3870 search when adding directories to @INC. The elements in
3871 the list are separated by spaces. This is only useful
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3872 if you have a perl library directory tree structured like the
3873 default one. See INSTALL for how this works. The versioned
3874 site_perl directory was introduced in 5.005, so that is the
3875 lowest possible value.
3876
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3877 This list includes architecture-dependent directories back to
3878 version $api_versionstring (e.g. 5.5.640) and
3879 architecture-independent directories all the way back to
3880 5.005.
3881
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3882inc_version_list_init (inc_version_list.U):
3883 This variable holds the same list as inc_version_list, but
635aebb7 3884 each item is enclosed in double quotes and separated by commas,
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3885 suitable for use in the PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST initialization.
3886
781b178c 3887incpath (usrinc.U):
bce0fc72 3888 This variable must precede the normal include path to get the
209e5c0a 3889 right one, as in "$incpath/usr/include" or "$incpath/usr/lib".
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3890 Value can be "" or "/bsd43" on mips.
3891
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3892incpth (libpth.U):
3893 This variable must precede the normal include path to get the
3894 right one, as in "$incpath/usr/include" or "$incpath/usr/lib".
3895 Value can be "" or "/bsd43" on mips.
3896
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3897inews (Loc.U):
3898 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3899 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 3900
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3901initialinstalllocation (bin.U):
3902 When userelocatableinc is true, this variable holds the location
3903 that make install should copy the perl binary to, with all the
3904 run-time relocatable paths calculated from this at install time.
1332606d 3905 When used, it is initialized to the original value of binexp, and
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3906 then binexp is set to '.../', as the other binaries are found
3907 relative to the perl binary.
3908
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3909installarchlib (archlib.U):
3910 This variable is really the same as archlibexp but may differ on
3911 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3912 should be used in makefiles.
3913
3914installbin (bin.U):
3915 This variable is the same as binexp unless AFS is running in which case
47e01c32 3916 the user is explicitly prompted for it. This variable should always
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3917 be used in your makefiles for maximum portability.
3918
10305dfa 3919installhtml1dir (html1dir.U):
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3920 This variable is really the same as html1direxp, unless you are
3921 using a different installprefix. For extra portability, you
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3922 should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3923
3924installhtml3dir (html3dir.U):
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3925 This variable is really the same as html3direxp, unless you are
3926 using a different installprefix. For extra portability, you
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3927 should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3928
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3929installman1dir (man1dir.U):
3930 This variable is really the same as man1direxp, unless you are using
3931 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3932 man1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3933 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3934
3935installman3dir (man3dir.U):
3936 This variable is really the same as man3direxp, unless you are using
3937 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3938 man3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3939 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3940
3941installprefix (installprefix.U):
635aebb7 3942 This variable holds the name of the directory below which
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3943 "make install" will install the package. For most users, this
3944 is the same as prefix. However, it is useful for
3945 installing the software into a different (usually temporary)
3946 location after which it can be bundled up and moved somehow
3947 to the final location specified by prefix.
3948
3949installprefixexp (installprefix.U):
3950 This variable holds the full absolute path of installprefix
3951 with all ~-expansion done.
3952
3953installprivlib (privlib.U):
3954 This variable is really the same as privlibexp but may differ on
3955 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3956 should be used in makefiles.
3957
3958installscript (scriptdir.U):
3959 This variable is usually the same as scriptdirexp, unless you are on
3960 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
3961 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
3962
3963installsitearch (sitearch.U):
3964 This variable is really the same as sitearchexp but may differ on
3965 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3966 should be used in makefiles.
3967
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3968installsitebin (sitebin.U):
3969 This variable is usually the same as sitebinexp, unless you are on
3970 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
3971 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
3972
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3973installsitehtml1dir (sitehtml1dir.U):
3974 This variable is really the same as sitehtml1direxp, unless you are using
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3975 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3976 html1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3977 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3978
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3979installsitehtml3dir (sitehtml3dir.U):
3980 This variable is really the same as sitehtml3direxp, unless you are using
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3981 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3982 html3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3983 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3984
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3985installsitelib (sitelib.U):
3986 This variable is really the same as sitelibexp but may differ on
3987 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3988 should be used in makefiles.
3989
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3990installsiteman1dir (siteman1dir.U):
3991 This variable is really the same as siteman1direxp, unless you are using
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3992 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3993 man1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3994 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3995
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3996installsiteman3dir (siteman3dir.U):
3997 This variable is really the same as siteman3direxp, unless you are using
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3998 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3999 man3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
4000 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
4001
4002installsitescript (sitescript.U):
4003 This variable is usually the same as sitescriptexp, unless you are on
4004 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
4005 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
4006
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4007installstyle (installstyle.U):
4008 This variable describes the "style" of the perl installation.
4009 This is intended to be useful for tools that need to
4010 manipulate entire perl distributions. Perl itself doesn't use
4011 this to find its libraries -- the library directories are
4012 stored directly in Config.pm. Currently, there are only two
4013 styles: "lib" and "lib/perl5". The default library locations
4014 (e.g. privlib, sitelib) are either $prefix/lib or
4015 $prefix/lib/perl5. The former is useful if $prefix is a
4016 directory dedicated to perl (e.g. /opt/perl), while the latter
4017 is useful if $prefix is shared by many packages, e.g. if
4018 $prefix=/usr/local.
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4020 Unfortunately, while this "style" variable is used to set
4021 defaults for all three directory hierarchies (core, vendor, and
4022 site), there is no guarantee that the same style is actually
4023 appropriate for all those directories. For example, $prefix
4024 might be /opt/perl, but $siteprefix might be /usr/local.
4025 (Perhaps, in retrospect, the "lib" style should never have been
4026 supported, but it did seem like a nice idea at the time.)
4027
4028 The situation is even less clear for tools such as MakeMaker
4029 that can be used to install additional modules into
4030 non-standard places. For example, if a user intends to install
4031 a module into a private directory (perhaps by setting PREFIX on
4032 the Makefile.PL command line), then there is no reason to
4033 assume that the Configure-time $installstyle setting will be
4034 relevant for that PREFIX.
4035
9c20e9bc 4036 This may later be extended to include other information, so
781b178c 4037 be careful with pattern-matching on the results.
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4038
4039 For compatibility with perl5.005 and earlier, the default
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4040 setting is based on whether or not $prefix contains the string
4041 "perl".
4042
4043installusrbinperl (instubperl.U):
4044 This variable tells whether Perl should be installed also as
4045 /usr/bin/perl in addition to
4046 $installbin/perl
4047
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4048installvendorarch (vendorarch.U):
4049 This variable is really the same as vendorarchexp but may differ on
4050 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4051 should be used in makefiles.
4052
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4053installvendorbin (vendorbin.U):
4054 This variable is really the same as vendorbinexp but may differ on
4055 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4056 should be used in makefiles.
4057
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4058installvendorhtml1dir (vendorhtml1dir.U):
4059 This variable is really the same as vendorhtml1direxp but may differ on
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4060 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4061 should be used in makefiles.
4062
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4063installvendorhtml3dir (vendorhtml3dir.U):
4064 This variable is really the same as vendorhtml3direxp but may differ on
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4065 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4066 should be used in makefiles.
4067
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4068installvendorlib (vendorlib.U):
4069 This variable is really the same as vendorlibexp but may differ on
4070 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4071 should be used in makefiles.
4072
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4073installvendorman1dir (vendorman1dir.U):
4074 This variable is really the same as vendorman1direxp but may differ on
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4075 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4076 should be used in makefiles.
4077
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4078installvendorman3dir (vendorman3dir.U):
4079 This variable is really the same as vendorman3direxp but may differ on
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4080 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4081 should be used in makefiles.
4082
4083installvendorscript (vendorscript.U):
4084 This variable is really the same as vendorscriptexp but may differ on
4085 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4086 should be used in makefiles.
4087
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4088intsize (intsize.U):
4089 This variable contains the value of the INTSIZE symbol, which
4090 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in an int.
4091
4b661809 4092issymlink (issymlink.U):
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4093 This variable holds the test command to test for a symbolic link
4094 (if they are supported). Typical values include 'test -h' and
4095 'test -L'.
4b661809 4096
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4097ivdformat (perlxvf.U):
4098 This variable contains the format string used for printing
635aebb7 4099 a Perl IV as a signed decimal integer.
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4100
4101ivsize (perlxv.U):
4102 This variable is the size of an IV in bytes.
4103
4104ivtype (perlxv.U):
4105 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's IV.
4106
781b178c 4107known_extensions (Extensions.U):
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4108 This variable holds a list of all extensions (both XS and non-xs)
4109 included in the package source distribution. This information is
4110 only really of use during the Perl build, as the list makes no
4111 distinction between extensions which were build and installed, and
4112 those which where not. See "extensions" for the list of extensions
4113 actually built and available.
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4114
4115ksh (Loc.U):
4116 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4117 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 4118
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4119ld (dlsrc.U):
4120 This variable indicates the program to be used to link
4121 libraries for dynamic loading. On some systems, it is 'ld'.
4122 On ELF systems, it should be $cc. Mostly, we'll try to respect
4123 the hint file setting.
4124
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4125ld_can_script (dlsrc.U):
4126 This variable shows if the loader accepts scripts in the form of
4127 -Wl,--version-script=ld.script. This is currently only supported
4128 for GNU ld on ELF in dynamic loading builds.
4129
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4130lddlflags (dlsrc.U):
4131 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
4132 passed to $ld to create a shared library suitable for dynamic
4133 loading. It is up to the makefile to use it. For hpux, it
4134 should be '-b'. For sunos 4.1, it is empty.
4135
4136ldflags (ccflags.U):
4137 This variable contains any additional C loader flags desired by
4138 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
4139
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4140ldflags_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
4141 This variable contains the loader flags needed by large file builds
4142 and added to ldflags by hints files.
4143
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4144ldlibpthname (libperl.U):
4145 This variable holds the name of the shared library
4146 search path, often LD_LIBRARY_PATH. To get an empty
4147 string, the hints file must set this to 'none'.
4148
4149less (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4150 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4151 full pathname (if any) of the less program. After Configure runs,
4152 the value is reset to a plain "less" and is not useful.
4153
4154lib_ext (Unix.U):
4155 This is an old synonym for _a.
4156
4157libc (libc.U):
4158 This variable contains the location of the C library.
4159
4160libperl (libperl.U):
4161 The perl executable is obtained by linking perlmain.c with
4162 libperl, any static extensions (usually just DynaLoader),
4163 and any other libraries needed on this system. libperl
4164 is usually libperl.a, but can also be libperl.so.xxx if
4165 the user wishes to build a perl executable with a shared
4166 library.
4167
4168libpth (libpth.U):
4169 This variable holds the general path (space-separated) used to find
4170 libraries. It is intended to be used by other units.
4171
4172libs (libs.U):
4173 This variable holds the additional libraries we want to use.
9285ede2 4174 It is up to the Makefile to deal with it. The list can be empty.
781b178c 4175
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4176libsdirs (libs.U):
4177 This variable holds the directory names aka dirnames of the libraries
4178 we found and accepted, duplicates are removed.
4179
4180libsfiles (libs.U):
4181 This variable holds the filenames aka basenames of the libraries
4182 we found and accepted.
4183
4184libsfound (libs.U):
4185 This variable holds the full pathnames of the libraries
4186 we found and accepted.
4187
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4188libspath (libs.U):
4189 This variable holds the directory names probed for libraries.
4190
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4191libswanted (Myinit.U):
4192 This variable holds a list of all the libraries we want to
4193 search. The order is chosen to pick up the c library
4194 ahead of ucb or bsd libraries for SVR4.
4195
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4196libswanted_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
4197 This variable contains the libraries needed by large file builds
4198 and added to ldflags by hints files. It is a space separated list
4199 of the library names without the "lib" prefix or any suffix, just
209e5c0a 4200 like libswanted..
af960fef 4201
781b178c 4202line (Loc.U):
ff935051 4203 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4204 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4205
4206lint (Loc.U):
4207 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4208 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4209
4210lkflags (ccflags.U):
4211 This variable contains any additional C partial linker flags desired by
4212 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
4213
4214ln (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4215 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4216 full pathname (if any) of the ln program. After Configure runs,
4217 the value is reset to a plain "ln" and is not useful.
4218
4219lns (lns.U):
635aebb7 4220 This variable holds the name of the command to make
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4221 symbolic links (if they are supported). It can be used
4222 in the Makefile. It is either 'ln -s' or 'ln'
4223
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4224localtime_r_proto (d_localtime_r.U):
4225 This variable encodes the prototype of localtime_r.
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4226 It is zero if d_localtime_r is undef, and one of the
4227 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_localtime_r
4228 is defined.
10bc17b6 4229
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4230locincpth (ccflags.U):
4231 This variable contains a list of additional directories to be
4232 searched by the compiler. The appropriate '-I' directives will
4233 be added to ccflags. This is intended to simplify setting
4234 local directories from the Configure command line.
4235 It's not much, but it parallels the loclibpth stuff in libpth.U.
4236
4237loclibpth (libpth.U):
4238 This variable holds the paths (space-separated) used to find local
4239 libraries. It is prepended to libpth, and is intended to be easily
4240 set from the command line.
4241
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4242longdblinfbytes (infnan.U):
4243 This variable contains comma-separated list of hexadecimal bytes
4244 for the long double precision infinity.
4245
db8b8c75 4246longdblkind (d_longdbl.U):
dc91db6c 4247 This variable, if defined, encodes the type of a long double:
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4248 0 = double,
4249 1 = IEEE 754 128-bit little endian,
4250 2 = IEEE 754 128-bit big endian,
4251 3 = x86 80-bit little endian,
4252 4 = x86 80-bit big endian,
4253 5 = double-double 128-bit little endian,
4254 6 = double-double 128-bit big endian,
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4255 7 = 128-bit mixed-endian double-double (64-bit LEs in BE),
4256 8 = 128-bit mixed-endian double-double (64-bit BEs in LE),
4257 9 = 128-bit PDP-style mixed-endian long doubles,
2640dfa8 4258 -1 = unknown format.
dc91db6c 4259
2640dfa8 4260longdblmantbits (mantbits.U):
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4261 This symbol, if defined, tells how many mantissa bits
4262 there are in long double precision floating point format.
4263 Note that this can be LDBL_MANT_DIG minus one,
4264 since LDBL_MANT_DIG can include the IEEE 754 implicit bit.
4265 The common x86-style 80-bit long double does not have
4266 an implicit bit.
4267
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4268longdblnanbytes (infnan.U):
4269 This variable contains comma-separated list of hexadecimal bytes
4270 for the long double precision not-a-number.
4271
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4272longdblsize (d_longdbl.U):
4273 This variable contains the value of the LONG_DOUBLESIZE symbol, which
4274 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long double,
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4275 if this system supports long doubles. Note that this is
4276 sizeof(long double), which may include unused bytes.
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4277
4278longlongsize (d_longlong.U):
4279 This variable contains the value of the LONGLONGSIZE symbol, which
4280 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long long,
4281 if this system supports long long.
4282
4283longsize (intsize.U):
4284 This variable contains the value of the LONGSIZE symbol, which
4285 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long.
4286
4287lp (Loc.U):
4288 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4289 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4290
4291lpr (Loc.U):
4292 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4293 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4294
4295ls (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4296 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4297 full pathname (if any) of the ls program. After Configure runs,
4298 the value is reset to a plain "ls" and is not useful.
4299
4300lseeksize (lseektype.U):
635aebb7 4301 This variable defines lseektype to be something like off_t, long,
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4302 or whatever type is used to declare lseek offset's type in the
4303 kernel (which also appears to be lseek's return type).
4304
4305lseektype (lseektype.U):
635aebb7 4306 This variable defines lseektype to be something like off_t, long,
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4307 or whatever type is used to declare lseek offset's type in the
4308 kernel (which also appears to be lseek's return type).
4309
4310mail (Loc.U):
4311 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4312 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4313
4314mailx (Loc.U):
4315 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4316 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4317
4318make (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4319 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4320 full pathname (if any) of the make program. After Configure runs,
4321 the value is reset to a plain "make" and is not useful.
4322
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4323make_set_make (make.U):
4324 Some versions of 'make' set the variable MAKE. Others do not.
4325 This variable contains the string to be included in Makefile.SH
4326 so that MAKE is set if needed, and not if not needed.
4327 Possible values are:
44b94491 4328
781b178c 4329 make_set_make='#' # If your make program handles this for you,
44b94491 4330
781b178c 4331 make_set_make="MAKE=$make" # if it doesn't.
44b94491 4332
5bcaa86b 4333 This uses a comment character so that we can distinguish a
1d896104 4334 'set' value (from a previous config.sh or Configure '-D' option)
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4335 from an uncomputed value.
4336
4337mallocobj (mallocsrc.U):
4338 This variable contains the name of the malloc.o that this package
4339 generates, if that malloc.o is preferred over the system malloc.
4340 Otherwise the value is null. This variable is intended for generating
4341 Makefiles. See mallocsrc.
4342
4343mallocsrc (mallocsrc.U):
4344 This variable contains the name of the malloc.c that comes with
4345 the package, if that malloc.c is preferred over the system malloc.
4346 Otherwise the value is null. This variable is intended for generating
4347 Makefiles.
4348
4349malloctype (mallocsrc.U):
4350 This variable contains the kind of ptr returned by malloc and realloc.
4351
4352man1dir (man1dir.U):
4353 This variable contains the name of the directory in which manual
4354 source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4355 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4356 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4357
4358man1direxp (man1dir.U):
4359 This variable is the same as the man1dir variable, but is filename
4360 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4361
4362man1ext (man1dir.U):
4363 This variable contains the extension that the manual page should
4364 have: one of 'n', 'l', or '1'. The Makefile must supply the '.'.
4365 See man1dir.
4366
4367man3dir (man3dir.U):
4368 This variable contains the name of the directory in which manual
4369 source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4370 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4371 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4372
4373man3direxp (man3dir.U):
4374 This variable is the same as the man3dir variable, but is filename
4375 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4376
4377man3ext (man3dir.U):
4378 This variable contains the extension that the manual page should
4379 have: one of 'n', 'l', or '3'. The Makefile must supply the '.'.
4380 See man3dir.
4381
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4382mips_type (usrinc.U):
4383 This variable holds the environment type for the mips system.
4384 Possible values are "BSD 4.3" and "System V".
4385
65d1576c 4386mistrustnm (Csym.U):
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4387 This variable can be used to establish a fallthrough for the cases
4388 where nm fails to find a symbol. If usenm is false or usenm is true
4389 and mistrustnm is false, this variable has no effect. If usenm is true
4390 and mistrustnm is "compile", a test program will be compiled to try to
4391 find any symbol that can't be located via nm lookup. If mistrustnm is
4392 "run", the test program will be run as well as being compiled.
4393
781b178c 4394mkdir (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4395 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4396 full pathname (if any) of the mkdir program. After Configure runs,
4397 the value is reset to a plain "mkdir" and is not useful.
4398
fe749a9f
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4399mmaptype (d_mmap.U):
4400 This symbol contains the type of pointer returned by mmap()
4401 (and simultaneously the type of the first argument).
4402 It can be 'void *' or 'caddr_t'.
4403
781b178c 4404modetype (modetype.U):
635aebb7
AL
4405 This variable defines modetype to be something like mode_t,
4406 int, unsigned short, or whatever type is used to declare file
781b178c
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4407 modes for system calls.
4408
4409more (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4410 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4411 full pathname (if any) of the more program. After Configure runs,
4412 the value is reset to a plain "more" and is not useful.
4413
4414multiarch (multiarch.U):
4415 This variable conditionally defines the MULTIARCH symbol
4416 which signifies the presence of multiplatform files.
4417 This is normally set by hints files.
4418
4419mv (Loc.U):
4420 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4421 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4422
4423myarchname (archname.U):
4424 This variable holds the architecture name computed by Configure in
4425 a previous run. It is not intended to be perused by any user and
4426 should never be set in a hint file.
4427
4428mydomain (myhostname.U):
4429 This variable contains the eventual value of the MYDOMAIN symbol,
4430 which is the domain of the host the program is going to run on.
4431 The domain must be appended to myhostname to form a complete host name.
4432 The dot comes with mydomain, and need not be supplied by the program.
4433
4434myhostname (myhostname.U):
4435 This variable contains the eventual value of the MYHOSTNAME symbol,
4436 which is the name of the host the program is going to run on.
4437 The domain is not kept with hostname, but must be gotten from mydomain.
4438 The dot comes with mydomain, and need not be supplied by the program.
4439
4440myuname (Oldconfig.U):
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4441 The output of 'uname -a' if available, otherwise the hostname.
4442 The whole thing is then lower-cased and slashes and single quotes are
4443 removed.
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4444
4445n (n.U):
1d896104 4446 This variable contains the '-n' flag if that is what causes the echo
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4447 command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is
4448 $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
4449
2cc61e15
DD
4450need_va_copy (need_va_copy.U):
4451 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the system stores
4452 the variable argument list datatype, va_list, in a format
4453 that cannot be copied by simple assignment, so that some
4454 other means must be used when copying is required.
4455 As such systems vary in their provision (or non-provision)
4456 of copying mechanisms, handy.h defines a platform-
4457 independent macro, Perl_va_copy(src, dst), to do the job.
4458
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4459netdb_hlen_type (netdbtype.U):
4460 This variable holds the type used for the 2nd argument to
4461 gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or size_t or unsigned.
4462 This is only useful if you have gethostbyaddr(), naturally.
4463
4464netdb_host_type (netdbtype.U):
4465 This variable holds the type used for the 1st argument to
4466 gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is char * or void *, possibly
4467 with or without a const prefix.
4468 This is only useful if you have gethostbyaddr(), naturally.
4469
4470netdb_name_type (netdbtype.U):
4471 This variable holds the type used for the argument to
4472 gethostbyname(). Usually, this is char * or const char *.
4473 This is only useful if you have gethostbyname(), naturally.
4474
4475netdb_net_type (netdbtype.U):
4476 This variable holds the type used for the 1st argument to
4477 getnetbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or long.
4478 This is only useful if you have getnetbyaddr(), naturally.
4479
4480nm (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4481 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4482 full pathname (if any) of the nm program. After Configure runs,
4483 the value is reset to a plain "nm" and is not useful.
4484
4485nm_opt (usenm.U):
4486 This variable holds the options that may be necessary for nm.
4487
4488nm_so_opt (usenm.U):
4489 This variable holds the options that may be necessary for nm
4490 to work on a shared library but that can not be used on an
4491 archive library. Currently, this is only used by Linux, where
4492 nm --dynamic is *required* to get symbols from an ELF library which
4493 has been stripped, but nm --dynamic is *fatal* on an archive library.
4494 Maybe Linux should just always set usenm=false.
4495
4496nonxs_ext (Extensions.U):
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4497 This variable holds a list of all non-xs extensions built and
4498 installed by the package. By default, all non-xs extensions
4499 distributed will be built, with the exception of platform-specific
4500 extensions (currently only one VMS specific extension).
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4501
4502nroff (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4503 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4504 full pathname (if any) of the nroff program. After Configure runs,
4505 the value is reset to a plain "nroff" and is not useful.
4506
b68c599a
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4507nv_overflows_integers_at (perlxv.U):
4508 This variable gives the largest integer value that NVs can hold
4509 as a constant floating point expression.
4510 If it could not be determined, it holds the value 0.
4511
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4512nv_preserves_uv_bits (perlxv.U):
4513 This variable indicates how many of bits type uvtype
4514 a variable nvtype can preserve.
4515
6b4667fc
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4516nveformat (perlxvf.U):
4517 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4518 a Perl NV using %e-ish floating point format.
4519
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4520nvEUformat (perlxvf.U):
4521 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4522 a Perl NV using %E-ish floating point format.
4523
6b4667fc 4524nvfformat (perlxvf.U):
1332606d 4525 This variable contains the format string used for printing
6b4667fc
A
4526 a Perl NV using %f-ish floating point format.
4527
4d54317a 4528nvFUformat (perlxvf.U):
1332606d 4529 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4d54317a
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4530 a Perl NV using %F-ish floating point format.
4531
6b4667fc
A
4532nvgformat (perlxvf.U):
4533 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4534 a Perl NV using %g-ish floating point format.
4535
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4536nvGUformat (perlxvf.U):
4537 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4538 a Perl NV using %G-ish floating point format.
4539
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4540nvmantbits (mantbits.U):
4541 This variable tells how many bits the mantissa of a Perl NV has,
4542 not including the possible implicit bit.
4543
a22e52b9 4544nvsize (perlxv.U):
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JH
4545 This variable is the size of a Perl NV in bytes.
4546 Note that some floating point formats have unused bytes.
a22e52b9
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4547
4548nvtype (perlxv.U):
4549 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's NV.
4550
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4551o_nonblock (nblock_io.U):
4552 This variable bears the symbol value to be used during open() or fcntl()
4553 to turn on non-blocking I/O for a file descriptor. If you wish to switch
4554 between blocking and non-blocking, you may try ioctl(FIOSNBIO) instead,
4555 but that is only supported by some devices.
4556
4557obj_ext (Unix.U):
4558 This is an old synonym for _o.
4559
4560old_pthread_create_joinable (d_pthrattrj.U):
4561 This variable defines the constant to use for creating joinable
4562 (aka undetached) pthreads. Unused if pthread.h defines
4563 PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE. If used, possible values are
4564 PTHREAD_CREATE_UNDETACHED and __UNDETACHED.
4565
4566optimize (ccflags.U):
4567 This variable contains any optimizer/debugger flag that should be used.
4568 It is up to the Makefile to use it.
4569
4570orderlib (orderlib.U):
4571 This variable is "true" if the components of libraries must be ordered
4572 (with `lorder $* | tsort`) before placing them in an archive. Set to
4573 "false" if ranlib or ar can generate random libraries.
4574
4575osname (Oldconfig.U):
4576 This variable contains the operating system name (e.g. sunos,
4577 solaris, hpux, etc.). It can be useful later on for setting
4578 defaults. Any spaces are replaced with underscores. It is set
4579 to a null string if we can't figure it out.
4580
4581osvers (Oldconfig.U):
4582 This variable contains the operating system version (e.g.
4583 4.1.3, 5.2, etc.). It is primarily used for helping select
4584 an appropriate hints file, but might be useful elsewhere for
4585 setting defaults. It is set to '' if we can't figure it out.
4586 We try to be flexible about how much of the version number
4587 to keep, e.g. if 4.1.1, 4.1.2, and 4.1.3 are essentially the
4588 same for this package, hints files might just be os_4.0 or
4589 os_4.1, etc., not keeping separate files for each little release.
4590
3b777bb4
GS
4591otherlibdirs (otherlibdirs.U):
4592 This variable contains a colon-separated set of paths for the perl
4593 binary to search for additional library files or modules.
4594 These directories will be tacked to the end of @INC.
4595 Perl will automatically search below each path for version-
4596 and architecture-specific directories. See inc_version_list
4597 for more details.
4598 A value of ' ' means 'none' and is used to preserve this value
4599 for the next run through Configure.
4600
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4601package (package.U):
4602 This variable contains the name of the package being constructed.
4603 It is primarily intended for the use of later Configure units.
4604
4605pager (pager.U):
4606 This variable contains the name of the preferred pager on the system.
4607 Usual values are (the full pathnames of) more, less, pg, or cat.
4608
4609passcat (nis.U):
4610 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
4611 /etc/passwd file. This is normally "cat /etc/passwd", but can be
4612 "ypcat passwd" when NIS is used.
aaacdc8b
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4613 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
4614 command, in which case this variable is unset.
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4615
4616patchlevel (patchlevel.U):
4617 The patchlevel level of this package.
4618 The value of patchlevel comes from the patchlevel.h file.
ff935051 4619 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "6".
c890dc6c 4620 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_VERSION".
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4621
4622path_sep (Unix.U):
4623 This is an old synonym for p_ in Head.U, the character
4624 used to separate elements in the command shell search PATH.
4625
df4c34dc 4626perl (Loc.U):
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4627 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
4628 full pathname (if any) of the perl program. After Configure runs,
4629 the value is reset to a plain "perl" and is not useful.
df4c34dc 4630
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4631perl5 (perl5.U):
4632 This variable contains the full path (if any) to a previously
4633 installed perl5.005 or later suitable for running the script
4634 to determine inc_version_list.
4635
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4636PERL_API_REVISION (patchlevel.h):
4637 This number describes the earliest compatible PERL_REVISION of
4638 Perl ("compatibility" here being defined as sufficient binary/API
4639 compatibility to run XS code built with the older version).
4640 Normally this does not change across maintenance releases.
4641 Please read the comment in patchlevel.h.
4642
4643PERL_API_SUBVERSION (patchlevel.h):
4644 This number describes the earliest compatible PERL_SUBVERSION of
4645 Perl ("compatibility" here being defined as sufficient binary/API
4646 compatibility to run XS code built with the older version).
4647 Normally this does not change across maintenance releases.
4648 Please read the comment in patchlevel.h.
4649
4650PERL_API_VERSION (patchlevel.h):
4651 This number describes the earliest compatible PERL_VERSION of
4652 Perl ("compatibility" here being defined as sufficient binary/API
4653 compatibility to run XS code built with the older version).
4654 Normally this does not change across maintenance releases.
4655 Please read the comment in patchlevel.h.
4656
4657PERL_CONFIG_SH (Oldsyms.U):
4658 This is set to 'true' in config.sh so that a shell script
4659 sourcing config.sh can tell if it has been sourced already.
4660
4661PERL_PATCHLEVEL (Oldsyms.U):
4662 This symbol reflects the patchlevel, if available. Will usually
4663 come from the .patch file, which is available when the perl
4664 source tree was fetched with rsync.
4665
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4666perl_patchlevel (patchlevel.U):
4667 This is the Perl patch level, a numeric change identifier,
4668 as defined by whichever source code maintenance system
4669 is used to maintain the patches; currently Perforce.
4670 It does not correlate with the Perl version numbers or
4671 the maintenance versus development dichotomy except
4672 by also being increasing.
4673
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4674PERL_REVISION (Oldsyms.U):
4675 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 5.
4676 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
4677
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4678perl_static_inline (d_static_inline.U):
4679 This variable defines the PERL_STATIC_INLINE symbol to
4680 the best-guess incantation to use for static inline functions.
4681 Possibilities include
4682 static inline (c99)
4683 static __inline__ (gcc -ansi)
4684 static __inline (MSVC)
4685 static _inline (older MSVC)
4686 static (c89 compilers)
4687
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4688PERL_SUBVERSION (Oldsyms.U):
4689 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 2.
4690 Values greater than 50 represent potentially unstable
4691 development subversions.
4692 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
4693
4694PERL_VERSION (Oldsyms.U):
4695 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 6.
4696 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
4697
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4698perladmin (perladmin.U):
4699 Electronic mail address of the perl5 administrator.
4700
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4701perllibs (End.U):
4702 The list of libraries needed by Perl only (any libraries needed
4703 by extensions only will by dropped, if using dynamic loading).
4704
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4705perlpath (perlpath.U):
4706 This variable contains the eventual value of the PERLPATH symbol,
4707 which contains the name of the perl interpreter to be used in
4708 shell scripts and in the "eval 'exec'" idiom. This variable is
4709 not necessarily the pathname of the file containing the perl
4710 interpreter; you must append the executable extension (_exe) if
4711 it is not already present. Note that Perl code that runs during
4712 the Perl build process cannot reference this variable, as Perl
4713 may not have been installed, or even if installed, may be a
4714 different version of Perl.
4715
781b178c 4716pg (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4717 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4718 full pathname (if any) of the pg program. After Configure runs,
4719 the value is reset to a plain "pg" and is not useful.
4720
4721phostname (myhostname.U):
4722 This variable contains the eventual value of the PHOSTNAME symbol,
4723 which is a command that can be fed to popen() to get the host name.
4724 The program should probably not presume that the domain is or isn't
4725 there already.
4726
4727pidtype (pidtype.U):
635aebb7 4728 This variable defines PIDTYPE to be something like pid_t, int,
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4729 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare process ids in the kernel.
4730
4731plibpth (libpth.U):
4732 Holds the private path used by Configure to find out the libraries.
4733 Its value is prepend to libpth. This variable takes care of special
4734 machines, like the mips. Usually, it should be empty.
4735
4736pmake (Loc.U):
4737 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4738 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4739
4740pr (Loc.U):
4741 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4742 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4743
4744prefix (prefix.U):
4745 This variable holds the name of the directory below which the
4746 user will install the package. Usually, this is /usr/local, and
4747 executables go in /usr/local/bin, library stuff in /usr/local/lib,
4748 man pages in /usr/local/man, etc. It is only used to set defaults
4749 for things in bin.U, mansrc.U, privlib.U, or scriptdir.U.
4750
4751prefixexp (prefix.U):
4752 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
4753 which the user will install the package. Derived from prefix.
4754
4755privlib (privlib.U):
4756 This variable contains the eventual value of the PRIVLIB symbol,
4757 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
4758 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
4759 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
4760
4761privlibexp (privlib.U):
4762 This variable is the ~name expanded version of privlib, so that you
4763 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
4764
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4765procselfexe (d_procselfexe.U):
4766 If d_procselfexe is defined, $procselfexe is the filename
4767 of the symbolic link pointing to the absolute pathname of
4768 the executing program.
4769
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4770prototype (prototype.U):
4771 This variable holds the eventual value of CAN_PROTOTYPE, which
1332606d 4772 indicates the C compiler can handle function prototypes.
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4773
4774ptrsize (ptrsize.U):
4775 This variable contains the value of the PTRSIZE symbol, which
4776 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a pointer.
4777
e0a10278 4778quadkind (quadtype.U):
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4779 This variable, if defined, encodes the type of a quad:
4780 1 = int, 2 = long, 3 = long long, 4 = int64_t.
4781
4782quadtype (quadtype.U):
635aebb7 4783 This variable defines Quad_t to be something like long, int,
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4784 long long, int64_t, or whatever type is used for 64-bit integers.
4785
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4786randbits (randfunc.U):
4787 Indicates how many bits are produced by the function used to
4788 generate normalized random numbers.
4789
4790randfunc (randfunc.U):
4791 Indicates the name of the random number function to use.
4792 Values include drand48, random, and rand. In C programs,
4793 the 'Drand01' macro is defined to generate uniformly distributed
4794 random numbers over the range [0., 1.[ (see drand01 and nrand).
4795
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4796random_r_proto (d_random_r.U):
4797 This variable encodes the prototype of random_r.
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4798 It is zero if d_random_r is undef, and one of the
4799 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_random_r
4800 is defined.
10bc17b6 4801
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4802randseedtype (randfunc.U):
4803 Indicates the type of the argument of the seedfunc.
4804
4805ranlib (orderlib.U):
4806 This variable is set to the pathname of the ranlib program, if it is
4807 needed to generate random libraries. Set to ":" if ar can generate
4808 random libraries or if random libraries are not supported
4809
4810rd_nodata (nblock_io.U):
4811 This variable holds the return code from read() when no data is
4812 present. It should be -1, but some systems return 0 when O_NDELAY is
4813 used, which is a shame because you cannot make the difference between
209e5c0a 4814 no data and an EOF.. Sigh!
781b178c 4815
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4816readdir64_r_proto (d_readdir64_r.U):
4817 This variable encodes the prototype of readdir64_r.
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4818 It is zero if d_readdir64_r is undef, and one of the
4819 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_readdir64_r
4820 is defined.
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4821
4822readdir_r_proto (d_readdir_r.U):
4823 This variable encodes the prototype of readdir_r.
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4824 It is zero if d_readdir_r is undef, and one of the
4825 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_readdir_r
4826 is defined.
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4828revision (patchlevel.U):
4829 The value of revision comes from the patchlevel.h file.
4830 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "5".
4831 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_REVISION".
4832
781b178c 4833rm (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4834 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4835 full pathname (if any) of the rm program. After Configure runs,
4836 the value is reset to a plain "rm" and is not useful.
4837
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4838rm_try (Unix.U):
4839 This is a cleanup variable for try test programs.
4840 Internal Configure use only.
4841
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4842rmail (Loc.U):
4843 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4844 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 4845
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4846run (Cross.U):
4847 This variable contains the command used by Configure
4848 to copy and execute a cross-compiled executable in the
4849 target host. Useful and available only during Perl build.
4850 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
4851
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4852runnm (usenm.U):
4853 This variable contains 'true' or 'false' depending whether the
4854 nm extraction should be performed or not, according to the value
4855 of usenm and the flags on the Configure command line.
4856
4857sched_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
4858 This variable defines the way to yield the execution
4859 of the current thread.
4860
4861scriptdir (scriptdir.U):
4862 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
4863 to put publicly scripts for the package in question. It is either
4864 the same directory as for binaries, or a special one that can be
4865 mounted across different architectures, like /usr/share. Programs
4866 must be prepared to deal with ~name expansion.
4867
4868scriptdirexp (scriptdir.U):
4869 This variable is the same as scriptdir, but is filename expanded
4870 at configuration time, for programs not wanting to bother with it.
4871
4872sed (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4873 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4874 full pathname (if any) of the sed program. After Configure runs,
4875 the value is reset to a plain "sed" and is not useful.
4876
4877seedfunc (randfunc.U):
4878 Indicates the random number generating seed function.
4879 Values include srand48, srandom, and srand.
4880
4881selectminbits (selectminbits.U):
4882 This variable holds the minimum number of bits operated by select.
4883 That is, if you do select(n, ...), how many bits at least will be
4884 cleared in the masks if some activity is detected. Usually this
4885 is either n or 32*ceil(n/32), especially many little-endians do
4886 the latter. This is only useful if you have select(), naturally.
4887
4888selecttype (selecttype.U):
4889 This variable holds the type used for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th
4890 arguments to select. Usually, this is 'fd_set *', if HAS_FD_SET
635aebb7 4891 is defined, and 'int *' otherwise. This is only useful if you
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4892 have select(), naturally.
4893
4894sendmail (Loc.U):
ff935051 4895 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4896 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 4897
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4898setgrent_r_proto (d_setgrent_r.U):
4899 This variable encodes the prototype of setgrent_r.
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4900 It is zero if d_setgrent_r is undef, and one of the
4901 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setgrent_r
4902 is defined.
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4903
4904sethostent_r_proto (d_sethostent_r.U):
4905 This variable encodes the prototype of sethostent_r.
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4906 It is zero if d_sethostent_r is undef, and one of the
4907 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_sethostent_r
4908 is defined.
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4909
4910setlocale_r_proto (d_setlocale_r.U):
4911 This variable encodes the prototype of setlocale_r.
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4912 It is zero if d_setlocale_r is undef, and one of the
4913 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setlocale_r
4914 is defined.
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4915
4916setnetent_r_proto (d_setnetent_r.U):
4917 This variable encodes the prototype of setnetent_r.
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4918 It is zero if d_setnetent_r is undef, and one of the
4919 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setnetent_r
4920 is defined.
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4921
4922setprotoent_r_proto (d_setprotoent_r.U):
4923 This variable encodes the prototype of setprotoent_r.
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4924 It is zero if d_setprotoent_r is undef, and one of the
4925 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setprotoent_r
4926 is defined.
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4927
4928setpwent_r_proto (d_setpwent_r.U):
4929 This variable encodes the prototype of setpwent_r.
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4930 It is zero if d_setpwent_r is undef, and one of the
4931 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setpwent_r
4932 is defined.
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4933
4934setservent_r_proto (d_setservent_r.U):
4935 This variable encodes the prototype of setservent_r.
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4936 It is zero if d_setservent_r is undef, and one of the
4937 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setservent_r
4938 is defined.
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4940sGMTIME_max (time_size.U):
4941 This variable defines the maximum value of the time_t offset that
4942 the system function gmtime () accepts
4943
4944sGMTIME_min (time_size.U):
4945 This variable defines the minimum value of the time_t offset that
4946 the system function gmtime () accepts
4947
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4948sh (sh.U):
4949 This variable contains the full pathname of the shell used
4950 on this system to execute Bourne shell scripts. Usually, this will be
4951 /bin/sh, though it's possible that some systems will have /bin/ksh,
4952 /bin/pdksh, /bin/ash, /bin/bash, or even something such as
4953 D:/bin/sh.exe.
1d896104 4954 This unit comes before Options.U, so you can't set sh with a '-D'
781b178c 4955 option, though you can override this (and startsh)
1d896104 4956 with '-O -Dsh=/bin/whatever -Dstartsh=whatever'
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4957
4958shar (Loc.U):
4959 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4960 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4961
4962sharpbang (spitshell.U):
4963 This variable contains the string #! if this system supports that
4964 construct.
4965
4966shmattype (d_shmat.U):
4967 This symbol contains the type of pointer returned by shmat().
4968 It can be 'void *' or 'char *'.
4969
4970shortsize (intsize.U):
4971 This variable contains the value of the SHORTSIZE symbol which
4972 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a short.
4973
4974shrpenv (libperl.U):
4975 If the user builds a shared libperl.so, then we need to tell the
635aebb7 4976 'perl' executable where it will be able to find the installed libperl.so.
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4977 One way to do this on some systems is to set the environment variable
4978 LD_RUN_PATH to the directory that will be the final location of the
4979 shared libperl.so. The makefile can use this with something like
4980 $shrpenv $(CC) -o perl perlmain.o $libperl $libs
4981 Typical values are
4982 shrpenv="env LD_RUN_PATH=$archlibexp/CORE"
4983 or
4984 shrpenv=''
4985 See the main perl Makefile.SH for actual working usage.
4986 Alternatively, we might be able to use a command line option such
c68a00c0 4987 as -R $archlibexp/CORE (Solaris) or -Wl,-rpath
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4988 $archlibexp/CORE (Linux).
4989
4990shsharp (spitshell.U):
4991 This variable tells further Configure units whether your sh can
4992 handle # comments.
4993
4994sig_count (sig_name.U):
4995 This variable holds a number larger than the largest valid
4996 signal number. This is usually the same as the NSIG macro.
4997
4998sig_name (sig_name.U):
4999 This variable holds the signal names, space separated. The leading
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5000 SIG in signal name is removed. A ZERO is prepended to the list.
5001 This is currently not used, sig_name_init is used instead.
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5002
5003sig_name_init (sig_name.U):
5004 This variable holds the signal names, enclosed in double quotes and
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5005 separated by commas, suitable for use in the SIG_NAME definition
5006 below. A "ZERO" is prepended to the list, and the list is
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5007 terminated with a plain 0. The leading SIG in signal names
5008 is removed. See sig_num.
5009
5010sig_num (sig_name.U):
5011 This variable holds the signal numbers, space separated. A ZERO is
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5012 prepended to the list (corresponding to the fake SIGZERO).
5013 Those numbers correspond to the value of the signal listed
5014 in the same place within the sig_name list.
5015 This is currently not used, sig_num_init is used instead.
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5016
5017sig_num_init (sig_name.U):
5018 This variable holds the signal numbers, enclosed in double quotes and
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AL
5019 separated by commas, suitable for use in the SIG_NUM definition
5020 below. A "ZERO" is prepended to the list, and the list is
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5021 terminated with a plain 0.
5022
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5023sig_size (sig_name.U):
5024 This variable contains the number of elements of the sig_name
f05fc11d 5025 and sig_num arrays.
76d3c696 5026
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5027signal_t (d_voidsig.U):
5028 This variable holds the type of the signal handler (void or int).
5029
5030sitearch (sitearch.U):
5031 This variable contains the eventual value of the SITEARCH symbol,
5032 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
5033 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
5034 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
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5035 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5036 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5037 architecture-dependent modules in this directory with
5038 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5039 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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5040
5041sitearchexp (sitearch.U):
5042 This variable is the ~name expanded version of sitearch, so that you
5043 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5044
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5045sitebin (sitebin.U):
5046 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
5047 to put add-on publicly executable files for the package in question. It
5048 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
5049 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
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5050 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5051 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5052 executables in this directory with
5053 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5054 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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5055
5056sitebinexp (sitebin.U):
5057 This is the same as the sitebin variable, but is filename expanded at
5058 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
5059
e755722e 5060sitehtml1dir (sitehtml1dir.U):
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5061 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
5062 html source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
5063 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
5064 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
5065 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5066 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5067 html pages in this directory with
5068 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5069 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5070
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5071sitehtml1direxp (sitehtml1dir.U):
5072 This variable is the same as the sitehtml1dir variable, but is filename
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5073 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
5074
e755722e 5075sitehtml3dir (sitehtml3dir.U):
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5076 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
5077 library html source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
5078 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
5079 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
5080 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5081 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5082 library html pages in this directory with
5083 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5084 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5085
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5086sitehtml3direxp (sitehtml3dir.U):
5087 This variable is the same as the sitehtml3dir variable, but is filename
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5088 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
5089
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5090sitelib (sitelib.U):
5091 This variable contains the eventual value of the SITELIB symbol,
5092 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
5093 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
5094 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
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5095 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5096 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5097 architecture-independent modules in this directory with
5098 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5099 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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5101sitelib_stem (sitelib.U):
5102 This variable is $sitelibexp with any trailing version-specific component
5103 removed. The elements in inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U) can
5104 be tacked onto this variable to generate a list of directories to search.
5105
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5106sitelibexp (sitelib.U):
5107 This variable is the ~name expanded version of sitelib, so that you
5108 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5109
e755722e 5110siteman1dir (siteman1dir.U):
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5111 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
5112 manual source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
5113 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
5114 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
5115 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5116 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5117 man1 pages in this directory with
5118 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5119 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5120
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5121siteman1direxp (siteman1dir.U):
5122 This variable is the same as the siteman1dir variable, but is filename
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5123 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
5124
e755722e 5125siteman3dir (siteman3dir.U):
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5126 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
5127 library man source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
5128 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
5129 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
5130 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5131 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5132 man3 pages in this directory with
5133 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5134 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5135
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5136siteman3direxp (siteman3dir.U):
5137 This variable is the same as the siteman3dir variable, but is filename
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5138 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
5139
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5140siteprefix (siteprefix.U):
5141 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
5142 which the user will install add-on packages.
f868067f 5143 See INSTALL for usage and examples.
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5144
5145siteprefixexp (siteprefix.U):
5146 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
5147 which the user will install add-on packages. Derived from siteprefix.
5148
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5149sitescript (sitescript.U):
5150 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
5151 to put add-on publicly executable files for the package in question. It
5152 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
5153 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
5154 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5155 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5156 scripts in this directory with
5157 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5158 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5159
5160sitescriptexp (sitescript.U):
5161 This is the same as the sitescript variable, but is filename expanded at
5162 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
5163
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5164sizesize (sizesize.U):
5165 This variable contains the size of a sizetype in bytes.
5166
781b178c 5167sizetype (sizetype.U):
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5168 This variable defines sizetype to be something like size_t,
5169 unsigned long, or whatever type is used to declare length
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5170 parameters for string functions.
5171
5172sleep (Loc.U):
5173 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5174 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5175
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5176sLOCALTIME_max (time_size.U):
5177 This variable defines the maximum value of the time_t offset that
5178 the system function localtime () accepts
5179
5180sLOCALTIME_min (time_size.U):
5181 This variable defines the minimum value of the time_t offset that
5182 the system function localtime () accepts
5183
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5184smail (Loc.U):
5185 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5186 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5187
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5188so (so.U):
5189 This variable holds the extension used to identify shared libraries
5190 (also known as shared objects) on the system. Usually set to 'so'.
5191
5192sockethdr (d_socket.U):
5193 This variable has any cpp '-I' flags needed for socket support.
5194
5195socketlib (d_socket.U):
5196 This variable has the names of any libraries needed for socket support.
5197
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5198socksizetype (socksizetype.U):
5199 This variable holds the type used for the size argument
5200 for various socket calls like accept. Usual values include
5201 socklen_t, size_t, and int.
5202
781b178c 5203sort (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5204 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5205 full pathname (if any) of the sort program. After Configure runs,
5206 the value is reset to a plain "sort" and is not useful.
5207
5208spackage (package.U):
5209 This variable contains the name of the package being constructed,
5210 with the first letter uppercased, i.e. suitable for starting
5211 sentences.
5212
5213spitshell (spitshell.U):
5214 This variable contains the command necessary to spit out a runnable
1d896104 5215 shell on this system. It is either cat or a grep '-v' for # comments.
40814d06 5216
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5217sPRId64 (quadfio.U):
5218 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5219 format 64-bit decimal numbers (format 'd') for output.
5220
5221sPRIeldbl (longdblfio.U):
5222 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5223 format long doubles (format 'e') for output.
5224
5225sPRIEUldbl (longdblfio.U):
5226 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5227 format long doubles (format 'E') for output.
5228 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIeldbl so that even
5229 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5230
5231sPRIfldbl (longdblfio.U):
5232 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5233 format long doubles (format 'f') for output.
5234
5235sPRIFUldbl (longdblfio.U):
5236 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5237 format long doubles (format 'F') for output.
5238 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIfldbl so that even
5239 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5240
5241sPRIgldbl (longdblfio.U):
5242 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5243 format long doubles (format 'g') for output.
5244
5245sPRIGUldbl (longdblfio.U):
5246 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5247 format long doubles (format 'G') for output.
5248 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIgldbl so that even
5249 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5250
5251sPRIi64 (quadfio.U):
5252 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5253 format 64-bit decimal numbers (format 'i') for output.
5254
5255sPRIo64 (quadfio.U):
5256 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5257 format 64-bit octal numbers (format 'o') for output.
5258
5259sPRIu64 (quadfio.U):
5260 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5261 format 64-bit unsigned decimal numbers (format 'u') for output.
5262
5263sPRIx64 (quadfio.U):
5264 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5265 format 64-bit hexadecimal numbers (format 'x') for output.
5266
5267sPRIXU64 (quadfio.U):
5268 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5269 format 64-bit hExADECimAl numbers (format 'X') for output.
5270 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIx64 so that even
5271 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5272
40814d06 5273srand48_r_proto (d_srand48_r.U):
10bc17b6 5274 This variable encodes the prototype of srand48_r.
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5275 It is zero if d_srand48_r is undef, and one of the
5276 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_srand48_r
5277 is defined.
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5278
5279srandom_r_proto (d_srandom_r.U):
5280 This variable encodes the prototype of srandom_r.
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5281 It is zero if d_srandom_r is undef, and one of the
5282 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_srandom_r
5283 is defined.
10bc17b6 5284
781b178c 5285src (src.U):
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5286 This variable holds the (possibly relative) path of the package source.
5287 It is up to the Makefile to use this variable and set VPATH accordingly
5288 to find the sources remotely. Use $pkgsrc to have an absolute path.
781b178c 5289
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5290sSCNfldbl (longdblfio.U):
5291 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5292 format long doubles (format 'f') for input.
5293
781b178c 5294ssizetype (ssizetype.U):
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5295 This variable defines ssizetype to be something like ssize_t,
5296 long or int. It is used by functions that return a count
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5297 of bytes or an error condition. It must be a signed type.
5298 We will pick a type such that sizeof(SSize_t) == sizeof(Size_t).
5299
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5300st_ino_sign (st_ino_def.U):
5301 This variable contains the signedness of struct stat's st_ino.
5302 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
5303
5304st_ino_size (st_ino_def.U):
5305 This variable contains the size of struct stat's st_ino in bytes.
5306
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5307startperl (startperl.U):
5308 This variable contains the string to put on the front of a perl
5309 script to make sure (hopefully) that it runs with perl and not some
5310 shell. Of course, that leading line must be followed by the classical
5311 perl idiom:
5312 eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
5313 if $running_under_some_shell;
5314 to guarantee perl startup should the shell execute the script. Note
47e01c32 5315 that this magic incantation is not understood by csh.
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5316
5317startsh (startsh.U):
5318 This variable contains the string to put on the front of a shell
5319 script to make sure (hopefully) that it runs with sh and not some
5320 other shell.
5321
5322static_ext (Extensions.U):
5323 This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to
5324 link statically into the package. It is used by Makefile.
5325
5326stdchar (stdchar.U):
5327 This variable conditionally defines STDCHAR to be the type of char
5328 used in stdio.h. It has the values "unsigned char" or "char".
5329
5330stdio_base (d_stdstdio.U):
5331 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
5332 _base field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5333 be used to define the macro FILE_base(fp).
5334
5335stdio_bufsiz (d_stdstdio.U):
5336 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to determine
5337 the number of bytes store in the I/O buffer pointer to by the
5338 _base field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5339 be used to define the macro FILE_bufsiz(fp).
5340
5341stdio_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
5342 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
5343 _cnt field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5344 be used to define the macro FILE_cnt(fp).
5345
5346stdio_filbuf (d_stdstdio.U):
5347 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to tell
022735b4 5348 stdio to refill its internal buffers (?). This will
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5349 be used to define the macro FILE_filbuf(fp).
5350
5351stdio_ptr (d_stdstdio.U):
5352 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
5353 _ptr field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5354 be used to define the macro FILE_ptr(fp).
5355
5356stdio_stream_array (stdio_streams.U):
5357 This variable tells the name of the array holding the stdio streams.
5358 Usual values include _iob, __iob, and __sF.
5359
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5360strerror_r_proto (d_strerror_r.U):
5361 This variable encodes the prototype of strerror_r.
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5362 It is zero if d_strerror_r is undef, and one of the
5363 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_strerror_r
5364 is defined.
10bc17b6 5365
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5366strings (i_string.U):
5367 This variable holds the full path of the string header that will be
5368 used. Typically /usr/include/string.h or /usr/include/strings.h.
5369
5370submit (Loc.U):
5371 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5372 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5373
5374subversion (patchlevel.U):
5375 The subversion level of this package.
5376 The value of subversion comes from the patchlevel.h file.
ff935051 5377 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "1".
c890dc6c 5378 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_SUBVERSION".
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5379 This is unique to perl.
5380
5381sysman (sysman.U):
5382 This variable holds the place where the manual is located on this
5383 system. It is not the place where the user wants to put his manual
5384 pages. Rather it is the place where Configure may look to find manual
5385 for unix commands (section 1 of the manual usually). See mansrc.
5386
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5387sysroot (Sysroot.U):
5388 This variable is empty unless supplied by the Configure user.
5389 It can contain a path to an alternative root directory, under which
5390 headers and libraries for the compilation target can be found. This
5391 is generally used when cross-compiling using a gcc-like compiler.
5392
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5393tail (Loc.U):
5394 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5395 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5396
5397tar (Loc.U):
5398 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5399 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5400
5440bc8e
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5401targetarch (Cross.U):
5402 If cross-compiling, this variable contains the target architecture.
5403 If not, this will be empty.
5404
56b575b9 5405targetdir (Cross.U):
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5406 This variable contains a path that will be created on the target
5407 host using targetmkdir, and then used to copy the cross-compiled
5408 executables to. Defaults to '/tmp' if not set.
a2c3ce73
BF
5409
5410targetenv (Cross.U):
51b4c035
KW
5411 If cross-compiling, this variable can be used to modify the
5412 environment on the target system.
5413 However, how and where it's used, and even if it's used at all, is
5414 entirely dependent on both the transport mechanism (targetrun) and
5415 what the target system is. Unless the relevant documentation says
5416 otherwise, it is genereally not useful.
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5417
5418targethost (Cross.U):
5419 This variable contains the name of a separate host machine that
5420 can be used to run compiled test programs and perl tests on.
5421 Set to empty string if not in use.
5422
5423targetmkdir (Cross.U):
5424 This variable contains the command used by Configure to create a
5425 new directory on the target host.
5426
5427targetport (Cross.U):
5428 This variable contains the number of a network port to be used to
5429 connect to the host in targethost, if unset defaults to 22 for ssh.
5430
1d38f63f 5431targetsh (sh.U):
0f3731c6
BF
5432 If cross-compiling, this variable contains the location of sh on the
5433 target system.
5434 If not, this will be the same as $sh.
5435
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5436tbl (Loc.U):
5437 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5438 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5439
5440tee (Loc.U):
5441 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5442 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5443
5444test (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5445 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5446 full pathname (if any) of the test program. After Configure runs,
5447 the value is reset to a plain "test" and is not useful.
5448
5449timeincl (i_time.U):
5450 This variable holds the full path of the included time header(s).
5451
5452timetype (d_time.U):
5453 This variable holds the type returned by time(). It can be long,
5454 or time_t on BSD sites (in which case <sys/types.h> should be
5455 included). Anyway, the type Time_t should be used.
5456
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5457tmpnam_r_proto (d_tmpnam_r.U):
5458 This variable encodes the prototype of tmpnam_r.
39183afa
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5459 It is zero if d_tmpnam_r is undef, and one of the
5460 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_tmpnam_r
5461 is defined.
10bc17b6 5462
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5463to (Cross.U):
5464 This variable contains the command used by Configure
5465 to copy to from the target host. Useful and available
5466 only during Perl build.
5467 The string ':' if not cross-compiling.
5468
781b178c 5469touch (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5470 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5471 full pathname (if any) of the touch program. After Configure runs,
5472 the value is reset to a plain "touch" and is not useful.
5473
5474tr (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5475 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5476 full pathname (if any) of the tr program. After Configure runs,
5477 the value is reset to a plain "tr" and is not useful.
5478
5479trnl (trnl.U):
5480 This variable contains the value to be passed to the tr(1)
5481 command to transliterate a newline. Typical values are
5482 '\012' and '\n'. This is needed for EBCDIC systems where
5483 newline is not necessarily '\012'.
5484
5485troff (Loc.U):
5486 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5487 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5488
10bc17b6
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5489ttyname_r_proto (d_ttyname_r.U):
5490 This variable encodes the prototype of ttyname_r.
39183afa
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5491 It is zero if d_ttyname_r is undef, and one of the
5492 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_ttyname_r
5493 is defined.
10bc17b6 5494
a22e52b9
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5495u16size (perlxv.U):
5496 This variable is the size of an U16 in bytes.
5497
5498u16type (perlxv.U):
5499 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U16.
5500
5501u32size (perlxv.U):
5502 This variable is the size of an U32 in bytes.
5503
5504u32type (perlxv.U):
5505 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U32.
5506
5507u64size (perlxv.U):
5508 This variable is the size of an U64 in bytes.
5509
5510u64type (perlxv.U):
5511 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U64.
5512
5513u8size (perlxv.U):
5514 This variable is the size of an U8 in bytes.
5515
5516u8type (perlxv.U):
5517 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U8.
5518
5519uidformat (uidf.U):
5520 This variable contains the format string used for printing a Uid_t.
5521
2d228ff3
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5522uidsign (uidsign.U):
5523 This variable contains the signedness of a uidtype.
5524 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
5525
785fb66b
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5526uidsize (uidsize.U):
5527 This variable contains the size of a uidtype in bytes.
5528
781b178c 5529uidtype (uidtype.U):
635aebb7 5530 This variable defines Uid_t to be something like uid_t, int,
781b178c
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5531 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare user ids in the kernel.
5532
5533uname (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5534 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5535 full pathname (if any) of the uname program. After Configure runs,
5536 the value is reset to a plain "uname" and is not useful.
5537
5538uniq (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5539 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5540 full pathname (if any) of the uniq program. After Configure runs,
5541 the value is reset to a plain "uniq" and is not useful.
5542
0befd8de
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5543uquadtype (quadtype.U):
5544 This variable defines Uquad_t to be something like unsigned long,
5545 unsigned int, unsigned long long, uint64_t, or whatever type is
5546 used for 64-bit integers.
5547
10305dfa
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5548use5005threads (usethreads.U):
5549 This variable conditionally defines the USE_5005THREADS symbol,
5550 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the 5.005-based
5c40187f 5551 threading implementation. Only valid up to 5.8.x.
10305dfa 5552
10cc9d2a
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5553use64bitall (use64bits.U):
5554 This variable conditionally defines the USE_64_BIT_ALL symbol,
5555 and indicates that 64-bit integer types should be used
5556 when available. The maximal possible
5557 64-bitness is employed: LP64 or ILP64, meaning that you will
5558 be able to use more than 2 gigabytes of memory. This mode is
5559 even more binary incompatible than USE_64_BIT_INT. You may not
5560 be able to run the resulting executable in a 32-bit CPU at all or
5561 you may need at least to reboot your OS to 64-bit mode.
5562
5563use64bitint (use64bits.U):
5564 This variable conditionally defines the USE_64_BIT_INT symbol,
aaacdc8b 5565 and indicates that 64-bit integer types should be used
c890dc6c
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5566 when available. The minimal possible 64-bitness
5567 is employed, just enough to get 64-bit integers into Perl.
5568 This may mean using for example "long longs", while your memory
5569 may still be limited to 2 gigabytes.
781b178c 5570
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5571usecbacktrace (usebacktrace.U):
5572 This variable indicates whether we are compiling with backtrace
5573 support.
5574
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5575usecrosscompile (Cross.U):
5576 This variable conditionally defines the USE_CROSS_COMPILE symbol,
5577 and indicates that Perl has been cross-compiled.
5578
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MB
5579usedevel (Devel.U):
5580 This variable indicates that Perl was configured with development
5581 features enabled. This should not be done for production builds.
5582
781b178c 5583usedl (dlsrc.U):
ff935051 5584 This variable indicates if the system supports dynamic
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5585 loading of some sort. See also dlsrc and dlobj.
5586
34f1896b
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5587usedtrace (usedtrace.U):
5588 This variable indicates whether we are compiling with dtrace
5589 support. See also dtrace.
5ac1e9b2 5590
4d54317a
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5591usefaststdio (usefaststdio.U):
5592 This variable conditionally defines the USE_FAST_STDIO symbol,
5593 and indicates that Perl should be built to use 'fast stdio'.
5594 Defaults to define in Perls 5.8 and earlier, to undef later.
5595
aaacdc8b
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5596useithreads (usethreads.U):
5597 This variable conditionally defines the USE_ITHREADS symbol,
5598 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the interpreter-based
5599 threading implementation.
5600
269a7913 5601usekernprocpathname (usekernprocpathname.U):
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NC
5602 This variable, indicates that we can use sysctl with
5603 KERN_PROC_PATHNAME to get a full path for the executable, and hence
5604 convert $^X to an absolute path.
5605
5bf26616 5606uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
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JH
5607 This variable conditionally defines the USE_LARGE_FILES symbol,
5608 and indicates that large file interfaces should be used when
c890dc6c 5609 available.
1baac590 5610
ca24dfc6
LV
5611uselongdouble (uselongdbl.U):
5612 This variable conditionally defines the USE_LONG_DOUBLE symbol,
5613 and indicates that long doubles should be used when available.
5614
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5615usemallocwrap (mallocsrc.U):
5616 This variable contains y if we are wrapping malloc to prevent
5617 integer overflow during size calculations.
5618
1baac590
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5619usemorebits (usemorebits.U):
5620 This variable conditionally defines the USE_MORE_BITS symbol,
5621 and indicates that explicit 64-bit interfaces and long doubles
5622 should be used when available.
5623
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5624usemultiplicity (usemultiplicity.U):
5625 This variable conditionally defines the MULTIPLICITY symbol,
5626 and indicates that Perl should be built to use multiplicity.
5627
5628usemymalloc (mallocsrc.U):
5629 This variable contains y if the malloc that comes with this package
5630 is desired over the system's version of malloc. People often include
47e01c32 5631 special versions of malloc for efficiency, but such versions are often
781b178c
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5632 less portable. See also mallocsrc and mallocobj.
5633 If this is 'y', then -lmalloc is removed from $libs.
5634
5635usenm (usenm.U):
5636 This variable contains 'true' or 'false' depending whether the
5637 nm extraction is wanted or not.
5638
ae60cb46
NC
5639usensgetexecutablepath (usensgetexecutablepath.U):
5640 This symbol, if defined, indicates that we can use _NSGetExecutablePath
5641 and realpath to get a full path for the executable, and hence convert
5642 $^X to an absolute path.
5643
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5644useopcode (Extensions.U):
5645 This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate
5646 whether the Opcode extension should be used. The sole
5647 use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism
5648 for users to skip the Opcode extension from the Configure
5649 command line.
5650
5651useperlio (useperlio.U):
5652 This variable conditionally defines the USE_PERLIO symbol,
5653 and indicates that the PerlIO abstraction should be
5654 used throughout.
5655
5656useposix (Extensions.U):
5657 This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate
5658 whether the POSIX extension should be used. The sole
5659 use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism
5660 for hints files to indicate that POSIX will not compile
5661 on a particular system.
5662
d6d36205
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5663usequadmath (usequadmath.U):
5664 This variable conditionally defines the USE_QUADMATH symbol,
5665 and indicates that the quadmath library __float128 long doubles
5666 should be used when available.
5667
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5668usereentrant (usethreads.U):
5669 This variable conditionally defines the USE_REENTRANT_API symbol,
5670 which indicates that the thread code may try to use the various
5671 _r versions of library functions. This is only potentially
5672 meaningful if usethreads is set and is very experimental, it is
5673 not even prompted for.
5674
df4c34dc 5675userelocatableinc (bin.U):
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5676 This variable is set to true to indicate that perl should relocate
5677 @INC entries at runtime based on the path to the perl binary.
5678 Any @INC paths starting ".../" are relocated relative to the directory
5679 containing the perl binary, and a logical cleanup of the path is then
5680 made around the join point (removing "dir/../" pairs)
5681
781b178c 5682useshrplib (libperl.U):
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5683 This variable is set to 'true' if the user wishes
5684 to build a shared libperl, and 'false' otherwise.
781b178c 5685
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5686usesitecustomize (d_sitecustomize.U):
5687 This variable is set to true when the user requires a mechanism that
5688 allows the sysadmin to add entries to @INC at runtime. This variable
5689 being set, makes perl run '$sitelib/sitecustomize.pl' at startup.
5690
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5691usesocks (usesocks.U):
5692 This variable conditionally defines the USE_SOCKS symbol,
5693 and indicates that Perl should be built to use SOCKS.
5694
5695usethreads (usethreads.U):
b99a9337 5696 This variable conditionally defines the USE_THREADS symbol,
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5697 and indicates that Perl should be built to use threads.
5698
9f50e519
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5699usevendorprefix (vendorprefix.U):
5700 This variable tells whether the vendorprefix
5701 and consequently other vendor* paths are in use.
5702
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5703useversionedarchname (archname.U):
5704 This variable indicates whether to include the $api_versionstring
5705 as a component of the $archname.
5706
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5707usevfork (d_vfork.U):
5708 This variable is set to true when the user accepts to use vfork.
5709 It is set to false when no vfork is available or when the user
47e01c32 5710 explicitly requests not to use vfork.
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5711
5712usrinc (usrinc.U):
5713 This variable holds the path of the include files, which is
5714 usually /usr/include. It is mainly used by other Configure units.
5715
5716uuname (Loc.U):
5717 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5718 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5719
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5720uvoformat (perlxvf.U):
5721 This variable contains the format string used for printing
635aebb7 5722 a Perl UV as an unsigned octal integer.
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5723
5724uvsize (perlxv.U):
5725 This variable is the size of a UV in bytes.
5726
5727uvtype (perlxv.U):
5728 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's UV.
5729
5730uvuformat (perlxvf.U):
5731 This variable contains the format string used for printing
635aebb7 5732 a Perl UV as an unsigned decimal integer.
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5733
5734uvxformat (perlxvf.U):
5735 This variable contains the format string used for printing
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5736 a Perl UV as an unsigned hexadecimal integer in lowercase abcdef.
5737
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5738uvXUformat (perlxvf.U):
5739 This variable contains the format string used for printing
5740 a Perl UV as an unsigned hexadecimal integer in uppercase ABCDEF.
5741
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5742vaproto (vaproto.U):
5743 This variable conditionally defines CAN_VAPROTO on systems supporting
5744 prototype declaration of functions with a variable number of
5745 arguments. See also prototype.
5746
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5747vendorarch (vendorarch.U):
5748 This variable contains the value of the PERL_VENDORARCH symbol.
635aebb7 5749 It may have a ~ on the front.
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5750 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5751 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5752 architecture-dependent modules and extensions in this directory with
635aebb7 5753 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5754 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5755
5756vendorarchexp (vendorarch.U):
5757 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorarch, so that you
5758 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5759
0617aed7 5760vendorbin (vendorbin.U):
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5761 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORBIN symbol.
5762 It may have a ~ on the front.
5763 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5764 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place additional
5765 binaries in this directory with
635aebb7 5766 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
f868067f 5767 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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5768
5769vendorbinexp (vendorbin.U):
5770 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorbin, so that you
5771 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5772
e755722e 5773vendorhtml1dir (vendorhtml1dir.U):
635aebb7 5774 This variable contains the name of the directory for html
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5775 pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5776 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5777 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5778 html pages in this directory with
635aebb7 5779 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5780 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5781
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5782vendorhtml1direxp (vendorhtml1dir.U):
5783 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorhtml1dir, so that you
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5784 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5785
e755722e 5786vendorhtml3dir (vendorhtml3dir.U):
635aebb7 5787 This variable contains the name of the directory for html
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5788 library pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5789 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5790 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5791 html pages for modules and extensions in this directory with
635aebb7 5792 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5793 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5794
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5795vendorhtml3direxp (vendorhtml3dir.U):
5796 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorhtml3dir, so that you
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5797 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5798
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5799vendorlib (vendorlib.U):
5800 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORLIB symbol,
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5801 which is the name of the private library for this package.
5802 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5803 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5804 modules in this directory with
635aebb7 5805 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
f868067f 5806 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
a3635516 5807
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5808vendorlib_stem (vendorlib.U):
5809 This variable is $vendorlibexp with any trailing version-specific component
5810 removed. The elements in inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U) can
5811 be tacked onto this variable to generate a list of directories to search.
5812
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5813vendorlibexp (vendorlib.U):
5814 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorlib, so that you
5815 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5816
e755722e 5817vendorman1dir (vendorman1dir.U):
635aebb7 5818 This variable contains the name of the directory for man1
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5819 pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5820 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5821 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5822 man1 pages in this directory with
635aebb7 5823 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5824 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5825
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5826vendorman1direxp (vendorman1dir.U):
5827 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorman1dir, so that you
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5828 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5829
e755722e 5830vendorman3dir (vendorman3dir.U):
635aebb7 5831 This variable contains the name of the directory for man3
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5832 pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5833 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5834 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5835 man3 pages in this directory with
635aebb7 5836 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5837 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5838
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5839vendorman3direxp (vendorman3dir.U):
5840 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorman3dir, so that you
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5841 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5842
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5843vendorprefix (vendorprefix.U):
5844 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
5845 which the vendor will install add-on packages.
f868067f 5846 See INSTALL for usage and examples.
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5847
5848vendorprefixexp (vendorprefix.U):
5849 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
5850 which the vendor will install add-on packages. Derived from vendorprefix.
5851
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5852vendorscript (vendorscript.U):
5853 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORSCRIPT symbol.
5854 It may have a ~ on the front.
5855 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5856 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place additional
5857 executable scripts in this directory with
635aebb7 5858 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5859 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5860
5861vendorscriptexp (vendorscript.U):
5862 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorscript, so that you
5863 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5864
781b178c 5865version (patchlevel.U):
ff935051 5866 The full version number of this package, such as 5.6.1 (or 5_6_1).
c890dc6c 5867 This combines revision, patchlevel, and subversion to get the
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5868 full version number, including any possible subversions.
5869 This is suitable for use as a directory name, and hence is
5870 filesystem dependent.
781b178c 5871
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5872version_patchlevel_string (patchlevel.U):
5873 This is a string combining version, subversion and
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AL
5874 perl_patchlevel (if perl_patchlevel is non-zero).
5875 It is typically something like
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5876 'version 7 subversion 1' or
5877 'version 7 subversion 1 patchlevel 11224'
5878 It is computed here to avoid duplication of code in myconfig.SH
635aebb7 5879 and lib/Config.pm.
27713a04 5880
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5881versiononly (versiononly.U):
5882 If set, this symbol indicates that only the version-specific
5883 components of a perl installation should be installed.
5884 This may be useful for making a test installation of a new
5885 version without disturbing the existing installation.
5886 Setting versiononly is equivalent to setting installperl's -v option.
5887 In particular, the non-versioned scripts and programs such as
5888 a2p, c2ph, h2xs, pod2*, and perldoc are not installed
5889 (see INSTALL for a more complete list). Nor are the man
5890 pages installed.
5891 Usually, this is undef.
5892
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5893vi (Loc.U):
5894 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5895 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5896
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5897xlibpth (libpth.U):
5898 This variable holds extra path (space-separated) used to find
5899 libraries on this platform, for example CPU-specific libraries
5900 (on multi-CPU platforms) may be listed here.
5901
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5902yacc (yacc.U):
5903 This variable holds the name of the compiler compiler we
5904 want to use in the Makefile. It can be yacc, byacc, or bison -y.
5905
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5906yaccflags (yacc.U):
5907 This variable contains any additional yacc flags desired by the
5908 user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
5909
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5910zcat (Loc.U):
5911 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5912 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5913
5914zip (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5915 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5916 full pathname (if any) of the zip program. After Configure runs,
5917 the value is reset to a plain "zip" and is not useful.
5918