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d7418ba7 1This file contains a description of all the shell variables whose value is
2determined by the Configure script. Variables intended for use in C
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3programs (e.g. I_UNISTD) are already described in config_h.SH. [`configpm'
4generates pod documentation for Config.pm from this file--please try to keep
5the formatting regular.]
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7_a (Unix.U):
8 This variable defines the extension used for ordinary libraries.
9 For unix, it is '.a'. The '.' is included. Other possible
10 values include '.lib'.
11
12_exe (Unix.U):
13 This variable defines the extension used for executable files.
14 For unix it is empty. Other possible values include '.exe'.
15
16_o (Unix.U):
17 This variable defines the extension used for object files.
18 For unix, it is '.o'. The '.' is included. Other possible
19 values include '.obj'.
20
21afs (afs.U):
22 This variable is set to 'true' if AFS (Andrew File System) is used
23 on the system, 'false' otherwise. It is possible to override this
24 with a hint value or command line option, but you'd better know
25 what you are doing.
26
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27afsroot (afs.U):
28 This variable is by default set to '/afs'. In the unlikely case
29 this is not the correct root, it is possible to override this with
30 a hint value or command line option. This will be used in subsequent
31 tests for AFSness in the Perl configure and test process.
32
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33alignbytes (alignbytes.U):
34 This variable holds the number of bytes required to align a
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35 double-- or a long double when applicable. Usual values are
36 2, 4 and 8. The default is eight, for safety.
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37
38ansi2knr (ansi2knr.U):
39 This variable is set if the user needs to run ansi2knr.
40 Currently, this is not supported, so we just abort.
41
42aphostname (d_gethname.U):
43 This variable contains the command which can be used to compute the
44 host name. The command is fully qualified by its absolute path, to make
45 it safe when used by a process with super-user privileges.
46
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47api_revision (patchlevel.U):
48 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
49 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
50 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
51 such as '5.6.1', api_revision is the '5'.
52 Prior to 5.5.640, the format was a floating point number,
53 like 5.00563.
54 perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically search in
55 $sitelib/.. for older directories back to the limit specified
56 by these api_ variables. This is only useful if you have a
57 perl library directory tree structured like the default one.
58 See INSTALL for how this works. The versioned site_perl
59 directory was introduced in 5.005, so that is the lowest
60 possible value. The version list appropriate for the current
61 system is determined in inc_version_list.U.
62 XXX To do: Since compatibility can depend on compile time
63 options (such as bincompat, longlong, etc.) it should
64 (perhaps) be set by Configure, but currently it isn't.
65 Currently, we read a hard-wired value from patchlevel.h.
66 Perhaps what we ought to do is take the hard-wired value from
67 patchlevel.h but then modify it if the current Configure
68 options warrant. patchlevel.h then would use an #ifdef guard.
69
70api_subversion (patchlevel.U):
71 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
72 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
73 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
74 such as '5.6.1', api_subversion is the '1'. See api_revision for
75 full details.
76
77api_version (patchlevel.U):
78 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
79 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
80 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
81 such as '5.6.1', api_version is the '6'. See api_revision for
82 full details. As a special case, 5.5.0 is rendered in the
83 old-style as 5.005. (In the 5.005_0x maintenance series,
84 this was the only versioned directory in $sitelib.)
85
86api_versionstring (patchlevel.U):
87 This variable combines api_revision, api_version, and
88 api_subversion in a format such as 5.6.1 (or 5_6_1) suitable
89 for use as a directory name. This is filesystem dependent.
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90
91ar (Loc.U):
5bf26616 92 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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93 full pathname (if any) of the ar program. After Configure runs,
94 the value is reset to a plain "ar" and is not useful.
95
96archlib (archlib.U):
97 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
98 to put architecture-dependent public library files for $package.
99 It is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/lib.
100 Programs using this variable must be prepared to deal
101 with filename expansion.
102
103archlibexp (archlib.U):
104 This variable is the same as the archlib variable, but is
105 filename expanded at configuration time, for convenient use.
106
107archname64 (use64bits.U):
108 This variable is used for the 64-bitness part of $archname.
109
110archname (archname.U):
111 This variable is a short name to characterize the current
112 architecture. It is used mainly to construct the default archlib.
113
114archobjs (Unix.U):
115 This variable defines any additional objects that must be linked
116 in with the program on this architecture. On unix, it is usually
117 empty. It is typically used to include emulations of unix calls
118 or other facilities. For perl on OS/2, for example, this would
119 include os2/os2.obj.
120
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121asctime_r_proto (d_asctime_r.U):
122 This variable encodes the prototype of asctime_r.
123
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5bf26616 125 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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126 full pathname (if any) of the awk program. After Configure runs,
127 the value is reset to a plain "awk" and is not useful.
128
129baserev (baserev.U):
130 The base revision level of this package, from the .package file.
131
132bash (Loc.U):
133 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
134 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
135
136bin (bin.U):
137 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
138 to put publicly executable images for the package in question. It
139 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
140 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
141
d71b2b6b 142bincompat5005 (bincompat5005.U):
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143 This variable contains y if this version of Perl should be
144 binary-compatible with Perl 5.005.
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146binexp (bin.U):
147 This is the same as the bin variable, but is filename expanded at
148 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
149
150bison (Loc.U):
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151 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
152 full pathname (if any) of the bison program. After Configure runs,
153 the value is reset to a plain "bison" and is not useful.
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154
155byacc (Loc.U):
5bf26616 156 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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157 full pathname (if any) of the byacc program. After Configure runs,
158 the value is reset to a plain "byacc" and is not useful.
159
160byteorder (byteorder.U):
161 This variable holds the byte order. In the following, larger digits
162 indicate more significance. The variable byteorder is either 4321
163 on a big-endian machine, or 1234 on a little-endian, or 87654321
164 on a Cray ... or 3412 with weird order !
165
166c (n.U):
167 This variable contains the \c string if that is what causes the echo
168 command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is
169 $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
170
171castflags (d_castneg.U):
172 This variable contains a flag that precise difficulties the
173 compiler has casting odd floating values to unsigned long:
174 0 = ok
175 1 = couldn't cast < 0
176 2 = couldn't cast >= 0x80000000
177 4 = couldn't cast in argument expression list
178
179cat (Loc.U):
5bf26616 180 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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181 full pathname (if any) of the cat program. After Configure runs,
182 the value is reset to a plain "cat" and is not useful.
183
184cc (cc.U):
185 This variable holds the name of a command to execute a C compiler which
186 can resolve multiple global references that happen to have the same
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187 name. Usual values are 'cc' and 'gcc'.
188 Fervent ANSI compilers may be called 'c89'. AIX has xlc.
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189
190cccdlflags (dlsrc.U):
191 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
192 passed with 'cc -c' to compile modules to be used to create a shared
193 library that will be used for dynamic loading. For hpux, this
194 should be +z. It is up to the makefile to use it.
195
196ccdlflags (dlsrc.U):
197 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
198 passed to cc to link with a shared library for dynamic loading.
199 It is up to the makefile to use it. For sunos 4.1, it should
200 be empty.
201
202ccflags (ccflags.U):
203 This variable contains any additional C compiler flags desired by
204 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
205
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206ccflags_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
207 This variable contains the compiler flags needed by large file builds
208 and added to ccflags by hints files.
209
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210ccname (Checkcc.U):
211 This can set either by hints files or by Configure. If using
212 gcc, this is gcc, and if not, usually equal to cc, unimpressive, no?
213 Some platforms, however, make good use of this by storing the
214 flavor of the C compiler being used here. For example if using
215 the Sun WorkShop suite, ccname will be 'workshop'.
216
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217ccsymbols (Cppsym.U):
218 The variable contains the symbols defined by the C compiler alone.
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219 The symbols defined by cpp or by cc when it calls cpp are not in
220 this list, see cppsymbols and cppccsymbols.
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221 The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
222
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223ccversion (Checkcc.U):
224 This can set either by hints files or by Configure. If using
225 a (non-gcc) vendor cc, this variable may contain a version for
226 the compiler.
227
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228cf_by (cf_who.U):
229 Login name of the person who ran the Configure script and answered the
230 questions. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH.
231
232cf_email (cf_email.U):
233 Electronic mail address of the person who ran Configure. This can be
234 used by units that require the user's e-mail, like MailList.U.
235
236cf_time (cf_who.U):
237 Holds the output of the "date" command when the configuration file was
238 produced. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH.
239
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240charsize (charsize.U):
241 This variable contains the value of the CHARSIZE symbol, which
242 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a character.
243
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244chgrp (Loc.U):
245 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
246 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
247
248chmod (Loc.U):
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249 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
250 full pathname (if any) of the chmod program. After Configure runs,
251 the value is reset to a plain "chmod" and is not useful.
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252
253chown (Loc.U):
254 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
255 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
256
257clocktype (d_times.U):
258 This variable holds the type returned by times(). It can be long,
259 or clock_t on BSD sites (in which case <sys/types.h> should be
260 included).
261
262comm (Loc.U):
5bf26616 263 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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264 full pathname (if any) of the comm program. After Configure runs,
265 the value is reset to a plain "comm" and is not useful.
266
267compress (Loc.U):
268 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
269 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
270
271contains (contains.U):
272 This variable holds the command to do a grep with a proper return
273 status. On most sane systems it is simply "grep". On insane systems
274 it is a grep followed by a cat followed by a test. This variable
275 is primarily for the use of other Configure units.
276
277cp (Loc.U):
5bf26616 278 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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279 full pathname (if any) of the cp program. After Configure runs,
280 the value is reset to a plain "cp" and is not useful.
281
282cpio (Loc.U):
283 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
284 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
285
286cpp (Loc.U):
5bf26616 287 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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288 full pathname (if any) of the cpp program. After Configure runs,
289 the value is reset to a plain "cpp" and is not useful.
290
291cpp_stuff (cpp_stuff.U):
292 This variable contains an identification of the catenation mechanism
293 used by the C preprocessor.
294
295cppccsymbols (Cppsym.U):
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296 The variable contains the symbols defined by the C compiler
297 when it calls cpp. The symbols defined by the cc alone or cpp
298 alone are not in this list, see ccsymbols and cppsymbols.
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299 The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
300
301cppflags (ccflags.U):
302 This variable holds the flags that will be passed to the C pre-
303 processor. It is up to the Makefile to use it.
304
305cpplast (cppstdin.U):
306 This variable has the same functionality as cppminus, only it applies
307 to cpprun and not cppstdin.
308
309cppminus (cppstdin.U):
310 This variable contains the second part of the string which will invoke
311 the C preprocessor on the standard input and produce to standard
312 output. This variable will have the value "-" if cppstdin needs
313 a minus to specify standard input, otherwise the value is "".
314
315cpprun (cppstdin.U):
316 This variable contains the command which will invoke a C preprocessor
317 on standard input and put the output to stdout. It is guaranteed not
318 to be a wrapper and may be a null string if no preprocessor can be
319 made directly available. This preprocessor might be different from the
320 one used by the C compiler. Don't forget to append cpplast after the
321 preprocessor options.
322
323cppstdin (cppstdin.U):
324 This variable contains the command which will invoke the C
325 preprocessor on standard input and put the output to stdout.
326 It is primarily used by other Configure units that ask about
327 preprocessor symbols.
328
329cppsymbols (Cppsym.U):
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330 The variable contains the symbols defined by the C preprocessor
331 alone. The symbols defined by cc or by cc when it calls cpp are
332 not in this list, see ccsymbols and cppccsymbols.
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333 The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
334
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335crypt_r_proto (d_crypt_r.U):
336 This variable encodes the prototype of crypt_r.
337
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338cryptlib (d_crypt.U):
339 This variable holds -lcrypt or the path to a libcrypt.a archive if
340 the crypt() function is not defined in the standard C library. It is
341 up to the Makefile to use this.
342
343csh (Loc.U):
5bf26616 344 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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345 full pathname (if any) of the csh program. After Configure runs,
346 the value is reset to a plain "csh" and is not useful.
347
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348ctermid_r_proto (d_ctermid_r.U):
349 This variable encodes the prototype of ctermid_r.
350
351ctime_r_proto (d_ctime_r.U):
352 This variable encodes the prototype of ctime_r.
353
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354d__fwalk (d__fwalk.U):
355 This variable conditionally defines HAS__FWALK if _fwalk() is
356 available to apply a function to all the file handles.
357
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358d_access (d_access.U):
359 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ACCESS if the access() system
360 call is available to check for access permissions using real IDs.
361
362d_accessx (d_accessx.U):
363 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ACCESSX symbol, which
364 indicates to the C program that the accessx() routine is available.
365
366d_alarm (d_alarm.U):
367 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ALARM symbol, which
368 indicates to the C program that the alarm() routine is available.
369
370d_archlib (archlib.U):
371 This variable conditionally defines ARCHLIB to hold the pathname
372 of architecture-dependent library files for $package. If
373 $archlib is the same as $privlib, then this is set to undef.
374
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375d_asctime_r (d_asctime_r.U):
376 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ASCTIME_R symbol,
377 which indicates to the C program that the asctime_r()
378 routine is available.
379
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380d_atolf (atolf.U):
381 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ATOLF symbol, which
382 indicates to the C program that the atolf() routine is available.
383
384d_atoll (atoll.U):
385 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ATOLL symbol, which
386 indicates to the C program that the atoll() routine is available.
387
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388d_attribut (d_attribut.U):
389 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE, which
390 indicates the C compiler can check for function attributes,
391 such as printf formats.
392
393d_bcmp (d_bcmp.U):
394 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BCMP symbol if
395 the bcmp() routine is available to compare strings.
396
397d_bcopy (d_bcopy.U):
398 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BCOPY symbol if
399 the bcopy() routine is available to copy strings.
400
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401d_bincompat5005 (bincompat5005.U):
402 This variable conditionally defines BINCOMPAT5005 so that embed.h
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403 can take special action if this version of Perl should be
404 binary-compatible with Perl 5.005. This is impossible for builds
405 that use features like threads and multiplicity it is always $undef
406 for those versions.
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408d_bsd (Guess.U):
409 This symbol conditionally defines the symbol BSD when running on a
410 BSD system.
411
412d_bsdgetpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
413 This variable conditionally defines USE_BSD_GETPGRP if
414 getpgrp needs one arguments whereas USG one needs none.
415
416d_bsdsetpgrp (d_setpgrp.U):
417 This variable conditionally defines USE_BSD_SETPGRP if
418 setpgrp needs two arguments whereas USG one needs none.
419 See also d_setpgid for a POSIX interface.
420
421d_bzero (d_bzero.U):
422 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BZERO symbol if
423 the bzero() routine is available to set memory to 0.
424
425d_casti32 (d_casti32.U):
426 This variable conditionally defines CASTI32, which indicates
427 whether the C compiler can cast large floats to 32-bit ints.
428
429d_castneg (d_castneg.U):
430 This variable conditionally defines CASTNEG, which indicates
431 wether the C compiler can cast negative float to unsigned.
432
433d_charvspr (d_vprintf.U):
434 This variable conditionally defines CHARVSPRINTF if this system
435 has vsprintf returning type (char*). The trend seems to be to
436 declare it as "int vsprintf()".
437
438d_chown (d_chown.U):
439 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CHOWN symbol, which
440 indicates to the C program that the chown() routine is available.
441
442d_chroot (d_chroot.U):
443 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CHROOT symbol, which
444 indicates to the C program that the chroot() routine is available.
445
446d_chsize (d_chsize.U):
447 This variable conditionally defines the CHSIZE symbol, which
448 indicates to the C program that the chsize() routine is available
449 to truncate files. You might need a -lx to get this routine.
450
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451d_class (d_class.U):
452 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CLASS symbol, which
453 indicates to the C program that the class() routine is available.
454
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455d_closedir (d_closedir.U):
456 This variable conditionally defines HAS_CLOSEDIR if closedir() is
457 available.
458
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459d_cmsghdr_s (d_cmsghdr_s.U):
460 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_CMSGHDR symbol,
461 which indicates that the struct cmsghdr is supported.
462
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463d_const (d_const.U):
464 This variable conditionally defines the HASCONST symbol, which
465 indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows about the
466 const type.
467
468d_crypt (d_crypt.U):
469 This variable conditionally defines the CRYPT symbol, which
470 indicates to the C program that the crypt() routine is available
471 to encrypt passwords and the like.
472
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473d_crypt_r (d_crypt_r.U):
474 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CRYPT_R symbol,
475 which indicates to the C program that the crypt_r()
476 routine is available.
477
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478d_csh (d_csh.U):
479 This variable conditionally defines the CSH symbol, which
480 indicates to the C program that the C-shell exists.
481
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482d_ctermid_r (d_ctermid_r.U):
483 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTERMID_R symbol,
484 which indicates to the C program that the ctermid_r()
485 routine is available.
486
487d_ctime_r (d_ctime_r.U):
488 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTIME_R symbol,
489 which indicates to the C program that the ctime_r()
490 routine is available.
491
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492d_cuserid (d_cuserid.U):
493 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CUSERID symbol, which
494 indicates to the C program that the cuserid() routine is available
495 to get character login names.
496
497d_dbl_dig (d_dbl_dig.U):
498 This variable conditionally defines d_dbl_dig if this system's
499 header files provide DBL_DIG, which is the number of significant
500 digits in a double precision number.
501
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502d_dbminitproto (d_dbminitproto.U):
503 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DBMINIT_PROTO symbol,
504 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
505 a prototype for the dbminit() function. Otherwise, it is
506 up to the program to supply one.
507
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508d_difftime (d_difftime.U):
509 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIFFTIME symbol, which
510 indicates to the C program that the difftime() routine is available.
511
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512d_dirfd (d_dirfd.U):
513 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIRFD constant,
514 which indicates to the C program that dirfd() is available
515 to return the file descriptor of a directory stream.
516
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517d_dirnamlen (i_dirent.U):
518 This variable conditionally defines DIRNAMLEN, which indicates
519 to the C program that the length of directory entry names is
520 provided by a d_namelen field.
521
522d_dlerror (d_dlerror.U):
523 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLERROR symbol, which
524 indicates to the C program that the dlerror() routine is available.
525
526d_dlopen (d_dlopen.U):
527 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLOPEN symbol, which
528 indicates to the C program that the dlopen() routine is available.
529
530d_dlsymun (d_dlsymun.U):
531 This variable conditionally defines DLSYM_NEEDS_UNDERSCORE, which
532 indicates that we need to prepend an underscore to the symbol
533 name before calling dlsym().
534
535d_dosuid (d_dosuid.U):
536 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOSUID, which
537 tells the C program that it should insert setuid emulation code
538 on hosts which have setuid #! scripts disabled.
539
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540d_drand48_r (d_drand48_r.U):
541 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DRAND48_R symbol,
542 which indicates to the C program that the drand48_r()
543 routine is available.
544
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545d_drand48proto (d_drand48proto.U):
546 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DRAND48_PROTO symbol,
547 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
548 a prototype for the drand48() function. Otherwise, it is
549 up to the program to supply one.
550
551d_dup2 (d_dup2.U):
552 This variable conditionally defines HAS_DUP2 if dup2() is
553 available to duplicate file descriptors.
554
555d_eaccess (d_eaccess.U):
556 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_EACCESS symbol, which
557 indicates to the C program that the eaccess() routine is available.
558
559d_endgrent (d_endgrent.U):
560 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDGRENT symbol, which
561 indicates to the C program that the endgrent() routine is available
562 for sequential access of the group database.
563
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564d_endgrent_r (d_endgrent_r.U):
565 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDGRENT_R symbol,
566 which indicates to the C program that the endgrent_r()
567 routine is available.
568
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569d_endhent (d_endhent.U):
570 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDHOSTENT if endhostent() is
571 available to close whatever was being used for host queries.
572
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573d_endhostent_r (d_endhostent_r.U):
574 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDHOSTENT_R symbol,
575 which indicates to the C program that the endhostent_r()
576 routine is available.
577
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578d_endnent (d_endnent.U):
579 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDNETENT if endnetent() is
580 available to close whatever was being used for network queries.
581
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582d_endnetent_r (d_endnetent_r.U):
583 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDNETENT_R symbol,
584 which indicates to the C program that the endnetent_r()
585 routine is available.
586
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587d_endpent (d_endpent.U):
588 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDPROTOENT if endprotoent() is
589 available to close whatever was being used for protocol queries.
590
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591d_endprotoent_r (d_endprotoent_r.U):
592 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPROTOENT_R symbol,
593 which indicates to the C program that the endprotoent_r()
594 routine is available.
595
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596d_endpwent (d_endpwent.U):
597 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPWENT symbol, which
598 indicates to the C program that the endpwent() routine is available
599 for sequential access of the passwd database.
600
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601d_endpwent_r (d_endpwent_r.U):
602 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPWENT_R symbol,
603 which indicates to the C program that the endpwent_r()
604 routine is available.
605
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606d_endsent (d_endsent.U):
607 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDSERVENT if endservent() is
608 available to close whatever was being used for service queries.
609
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610d_endservent_r (d_endservent_r.U):
611 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDSERVENT_R symbol,
612 which indicates to the C program that the endservent_r()
613 routine is available.
614
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615d_eofnblk (nblock_io.U):
616 This variable conditionally defines EOF_NONBLOCK if EOF can be seen
617 when reading from a non-blocking I/O source.
618
619d_eunice (Guess.U):
620 This variable conditionally defines the symbols EUNICE and VAX, which
621 alerts the C program that it must deal with ideosyncracies of VMS.
622
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623d_fchdir (d_fchdir.U):
624 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHDIR symbol, which
625 indicates to the C program that the fchdir() routine is available.
626
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627d_fchmod (d_fchmod.U):
628 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHMOD symbol, which
629 indicates to the C program that the fchmod() routine is available
630 to change mode of opened files.
631
632d_fchown (d_fchown.U):
633 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHOWN symbol, which
634 indicates to the C program that the fchown() routine is available
635 to change ownership of opened files.
636
637d_fcntl (d_fcntl.U):
638 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCNTL symbol, and indicates
639 whether the fcntl() function exists
640
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642 This variable conditionally defines the FCNTL_CAN_LOCK symbol
643 and indicates whether file locking with fcntl() works.
644
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645d_fd_macros (d_fd_set.U):
646 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FD_MACROS symbol,
647 which indicates if your C compiler knows about the macros which
648 manipulate an fd_set.
649
650d_fd_set (d_fd_set.U):
651 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FD_SET symbol,
652 which indicates if your C compiler knows about the fd_set typedef.
653
654d_fds_bits (d_fd_set.U):
655 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FDS_BITS symbol,
656 which indicates if your fd_set typedef contains the fds_bits member.
657 If you have an fd_set typedef, but the dweebs who installed it did
658 a half-fast job and neglected to provide the macros to manipulate
659 an fd_set, HAS_FDS_BITS will let us know how to fix the gaffe.
660
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661d_fgetpos (d_fgetpos.U):
662 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FGETPOS if fgetpos() is
663 available to get the file position indicator.
664
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665d_finite (d_finite.U):
666 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FINITE symbol, which
667 indicates to the C program that the finite() routine is available.
668
669d_finitel (d_finitel.U):
670 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FINITEL symbol, which
671 indicates to the C program that the finitel() routine is available.
672
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673d_flexfnam (d_flexfnam.U):
674 This variable conditionally defines the FLEXFILENAMES symbol, which
675 indicates that the system supports filenames longer than 14 characters.
676
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677d_flock (d_flock.U):
678 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FLOCK if flock() is
679 available to do file locking.
680
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681d_flockproto (d_flockproto.U):
682 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FLOCK_PROTO symbol,
683 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
684 a prototype for the flock() function. Otherwise, it is
685 up to the program to supply one.
686
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687d_fork (d_fork.U):
688 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FORK symbol, which
689 indicates to the C program that the fork() routine is available.
690
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691d_fp_class (d_fp_class.U):
692 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FP_CLASS symbol, which
693 indicates to the C program that the fp_class() routine is available.
694
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695d_fpathconf (d_pathconf.U):
696 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPATHCONF symbol, which
697 indicates to the C program that the pathconf() routine is available
698 to determine file-system related limits and options associated
699 with a given open file descriptor.
700
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701d_fpclass (d_fpclass.U):
702 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASS symbol, which
703 indicates to the C program that the fpclass() routine is available.
704
705d_fpclassify (d_fpclassify.U):
706 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASSIFY symbol, which
707 indicates to the C program that the fpclassify() routine is available.
708
709d_fpclassl (d_fpclassl.U):
710 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASSL symbol, which
711 indicates to the C program that the fpclassl() routine is available.
712
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ca24dfc6 714 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports fpos64_t.
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716d_frexpl (d_frexpl.U):
717 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FREXPL symbol, which
718 indicates to the C program that the frexpl() routine is available.
719
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721 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_FS_DATA symbol,
722 which indicates that the struct fs_data is supported.
723
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724d_fseeko (d_fseeko.U):
725 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSEEKO symbol, which
726 indicates to the C program that the fseeko() routine is available.
727
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728d_fsetpos (d_fsetpos.U):
729 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FSETPOS if fsetpos() is
730 available to set the file position indicator.
731
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733 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSTATFS symbol, which
734 indicates to the C program that the fstatfs() routine is available.
735
736d_fstatvfs (d_statvfs.U):
737 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSTATVFS symbol, which
738 indicates to the C program that the fstatvfs() routine is available.
739
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740d_fsync (d_fsync.U):
741 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSYNC symbol, which
742 indicates to the C program that the fsync() routine is available.
743
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744d_ftello (d_ftello.U):
745 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTELLO symbol, which
746 indicates to the C program that the ftello() routine is available.
747
748d_ftime (d_ftime.U):
749 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTIME symbol, which indicates
750 that the ftime() routine exists. The ftime() routine is basically
751 a sub-second accuracy clock.
752
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753d_Gconvert (d_gconvert.U):
754 This variable holds what Gconvert is defined as to convert
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755 floating point numbers into strings. By default, Configure
756 sets this macro to use the first of gconvert, gcvt, or sprintf
757 that pass sprintf-%g-like behaviour tests. If perl is using
758 long doubles, the macro uses the first of the following
759 functions that pass Configure's tests: qgcvt, sprintf (if
760 Configure knows how to make sprintf format long doubles--see
761 sPRIgldbl), gconvert, gcvt, and sprintf (casting to double).
762 The gconvert_preference and gconvert_ld_preference variables
763 can be used to alter Configure's preferences, for doubles and
764 long doubles, respectively. If present, they contain a
765 space-separated list of one or more of the above function
766 names in the order they should be tried.
767 d_Gconvert may be set to override Configure with a platform-
768 specific function. If this function expects a double, a
769 different value may need to be set by the uselongdouble.cbu
770 call-back unit so that long doubles can be formatted without
771 loss of precision.
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773d_getcwd (d_getcwd.U):
774 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETCWD symbol, which
775 indicates to the C program that the getcwd() routine is available
776 to get the current working directory.
777
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778d_getespwnam (d_getespwnam.U):
779 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETESPWNAM if getespwnam() is
780 available to retrieve enchanced (shadow) password entries by name.
781
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782d_getfsstat (d_getfsstat.U):
783 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETFSSTAT symbol, which
784 indicates to the C program that the getfsstat() routine is available.
785
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786d_getgrent (d_getgrent.U):
787 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRENT symbol, which
788 indicates to the C program that the getgrent() routine is available
789 for sequential access of the group database.
790
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791d_getgrent_r (d_getgrent_r.U):
792 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRENT_R symbol,
793 which indicates to the C program that the getgrent_r()
794 routine is available.
795
796d_getgrgid_r (d_getgrgid_r.U):
797 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRGID_R symbol,
798 which indicates to the C program that the getgrgid_r()
799 routine is available.
800
801d_getgrnam_r (d_getgrnam_r.U):
802 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRNAM_R symbol,
803 which indicates to the C program that the getgrnam_r()
804 routine is available.
805
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806d_getgrps (d_getgrps.U):
807 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGROUPS symbol, which
808 indicates to the C program that the getgroups() routine is available
809 to get the list of process groups.
810
811d_gethbyaddr (d_gethbyad.U):
812 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYADDR symbol, which
813 indicates to the C program that the gethostbyaddr() routine is available
814 to look up hosts by their IP addresses.
815
816d_gethbyname (d_gethbynm.U):
817 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYNAME symbol, which
818 indicates to the C program that the gethostbyname() routine is available
819 to look up host names in some data base or other.
820
821d_gethent (d_gethent.U):
822 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETHOSTENT if gethostent() is
823 available to look up host names in some data base or another.
824
825d_gethname (d_gethname.U):
826 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTNAME symbol, which
827 indicates to the C program that the gethostname() routine may be
828 used to derive the host name.
829
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830d_gethostbyaddr_r (d_gethostbyaddr_r.U):
831 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYADDR_R symbol,
832 which indicates to the C program that the gethostbyaddr_r()
833 routine is available.
834
835d_gethostbyname_r (d_gethostbyname_r.U):
836 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYNAME_R symbol,
837 which indicates to the C program that the gethostbyname_r()
838 routine is available.
839
840d_gethostent_r (d_gethostent_r.U):
841 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTENT_R symbol,
842 which indicates to the C program that the gethostent_r()
843 routine is available.
844
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845d_gethostprotos (d_gethostprotos.U):
846 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOST_PROTOS symbol,
847 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
848 prototypes for the various gethost*() functions.
849 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
850
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851d_getitimer (d_getitimer.U):
852 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETITIMER symbol, which
853 indicates to the C program that the getitimer() routine is available.
854
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855d_getlogin (d_getlogin.U):
856 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETLOGIN symbol, which
857 indicates to the C program that the getlogin() routine is available
858 to get the login name.
859
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860d_getlogin_r (d_getlogin_r.U):
861 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETLOGIN_R symbol,
862 which indicates to the C program that the getlogin_r()
863 routine is available.
864
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865d_getmnt (d_getmnt.U):
866 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETMNT symbol, which
867 indicates to the C program that the getmnt() routine is available
868 to retrieve one or more mount info blocks by filename.
869
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870d_getmntent (d_getmntent.U):
871 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETMNTENT symbol, which
872 indicates to the C program that the getmntent() routine is available
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875d_getnbyaddr (d_getnbyad.U):
876 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYADDR symbol, which
877 indicates to the C program that the getnetbyaddr() routine is available
878 to look up networks by their IP addresses.
879
880d_getnbyname (d_getnbynm.U):
881 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYNAME symbol, which
882 indicates to the C program that the getnetbyname() routine is available
883 to look up networks by their names.
884
885d_getnent (d_getnent.U):
886 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETNETENT if getnetent() is
887 available to look up network names in some data base or another.
888
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889d_getnetbyaddr_r (d_getnetbyaddr_r.U):
890 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYADDR_R symbol,
891 which indicates to the C program that the getnetbyaddr_r()
892 routine is available.
893
894d_getnetbyname_r (d_getnetbyname_r.U):
895 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYNAME_R symbol,
896 which indicates to the C program that the getnetbyname_r()
897 routine is available.
898
899d_getnetent_r (d_getnetent_r.U):
900 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETENT_R symbol,
901 which indicates to the C program that the getnetent_r()
902 routine is available.
903
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904d_getnetprotos (d_getnetprotos.U):
905 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNET_PROTOS symbol,
906 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
907 prototypes for the various getnet*() functions.
908 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
909
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910d_getpagsz (d_getpagsz.U):
911 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPAGESIZE if getpagesize()
912 is available to get the system page size.
913
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914d_getpbyname (d_getprotby.U):
915 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNAME
916 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
917 getprotobyname() routine is available to look up protocols
918 by their name.
919
920d_getpbynumber (d_getprotby.U):
921 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNUMBER
922 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
923 getprotobynumber() routine is available to look up protocols
924 by their number.
925
926d_getpent (d_getpent.U):
927 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPROTOENT if getprotoent() is
928 available to look up protocols in some data base or another.
929
930d_getpgid (d_getpgid.U):
931 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGID symbol, which
932 indicates to the C program that the getpgid(pid) function
933 is available to get the process group id.
934
935d_getpgrp2 (d_getpgrp2.U):
936 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGRP2 symbol, which
937 indicates to the C program that the getpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine
938 is available to get the current process group.
939
940d_getpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
941 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPGRP if getpgrp() is
942 available to get the current process group.
943
944d_getppid (d_getppid.U):
945 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPPID symbol, which
946 indicates to the C program that the getppid() routine is available
947 to get the parent process ID.
948
949d_getprior (d_getprior.U):
950 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPRIORITY if getpriority()
951 is available to get a process's priority.
952
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953d_getprotobyname_r (d_getprotobyname_r.U):
954 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNAME_R symbol,
955 which indicates to the C program that the getprotobyname_r()
956 routine is available.
957
958d_getprotobynumber_r (d_getprotobynumber_r.U):
959 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNUMBER_R symbol,
960 which indicates to the C program that the getprotobynumber_r()
961 routine is available.
962
963d_getprotoent_r (d_getprotoent_r.U):
964 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOENT_R symbol,
965 which indicates to the C program that the getprotoent_r()
966 routine is available.
967
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968d_getprotoprotos (d_getprotoprotos.U):
969 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTO_PROTOS symbol,
970 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
971 prototypes for the various getproto*() functions.
972 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
973
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974d_getprpwnam (d_getprpwnam.U):
975 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPRPWNAM if getprpwnam() is
976 available to retrieve protected (shadow) password entries by name.
977
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978d_getpwent (d_getpwent.U):
979 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWENT symbol, which
980 indicates to the C program that the getpwent() routine is available
981 for sequential access of the passwd database.
982
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983d_getpwent_r (d_getpwent_r.U):
984 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWENT_R symbol,
985 which indicates to the C program that the getpwent_r()
986 routine is available.
987
988d_getpwnam_r (d_getpwnam_r.U):
989 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWNAM_R symbol,
990 which indicates to the C program that the getpwnam_r()
991 routine is available.
992
993d_getpwuid_r (d_getpwuid_r.U):
994 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWUID_R symbol,
995 which indicates to the C program that the getpwuid_r()
996 routine is available.
997
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998d_getsbyname (d_getsrvby.U):
999 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYNAME
1000 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
1001 getservbyname() routine is available to look up services
1002 by their name.
1003
1004d_getsbyport (d_getsrvby.U):
1005 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYPORT
1006 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
1007 getservbyport() routine is available to look up services
1008 by their port.
1009
1010d_getsent (d_getsent.U):
1011 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETSERVENT if getservent() is
1012 available to look up network services in some data base or another.
1013
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1014d_getservbyname_r (d_getservbyname_r.U):
1015 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYNAME_R symbol,
1016 which indicates to the C program that the getservbyname_r()
1017 routine is available.
1018
1019d_getservbyport_r (d_getservbyport_r.U):
1020 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYPORT_R symbol,
1021 which indicates to the C program that the getservbyport_r()
1022 routine is available.
1023
1024d_getservent_r (d_getservent_r.U):
1025 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVENT_R symbol,
1026 which indicates to the C program that the getservent_r()
1027 routine is available.
1028
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1030 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERV_PROTOS symbol,
1031 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
1032 prototypes for the various getserv*() functions.
1033 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1034
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1035d_getspnam (d_getspnam.U):
1036 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETSPNAM if getspnam() is
1037 available to retrieve SysV shadow password entries by name.
1038
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1039d_getspnam_r (d_getspnam_r.U):
1040 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSPNAM_R symbol,
1041 which indicates to the C program that the getspnam_r()
1042 routine is available.
1043
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1044d_gettimeod (d_ftime.U):
1045 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY symbol, which
1046 indicates that the gettimeofday() system call exists (to obtain a
1047 sub-second accuracy clock). You should probably include <sys/resource.h>.
1048
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1049d_gmtime_r (d_gmtime_r.U):
1050 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GMTIME_R symbol,
1051 which indicates to the C program that the gmtime_r()
1052 routine is available.
1053
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1054d_gnulibc (d_gnulibc.U):
1055 Defined if we're dealing with the GNU C Library.
1056
1057d_grpasswd (i_grp.U):
1058 This variable conditionally defines GRPASSWD, which indicates
1059 that struct group in <grp.h> contains gr_passwd.
1060
1061d_hasmntopt (d_hasmntopt.U):
1062 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_HASMNTOPT symbol, which
1063 indicates to the C program that the hasmntopt() routine is available
1064 to query the mount options of file systems.
1065
1066d_htonl (d_htonl.U):
1067 This variable conditionally defines HAS_HTONL if htonl() and its
1068 friends are available to do network order byte swapping.
1069
1070d_index (d_strchr.U):
1071 This variable conditionally defines HAS_INDEX if index() and
1072 rindex() are available for string searching.
1073
1074d_inetaton (d_inetaton.U):
1075 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INET_ATON symbol, which
1076 indicates to the C program that the inet_aton() function is available
1077 to parse IP address "dotted-quad" strings.
1078
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1081
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1082d_isascii (d_isascii.U):
1083 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISASCII constant,
1084 which indicates to the C program that isascii() is available.
1085
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1086d_isfinite (d_isfinite.U):
1087 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISFINITE symbol, which
1088 indicates to the C program that the isfinite() routine is available.
1089
1090d_isinf (d_isinf.U):
1091 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISINF symbol, which
1092 indicates to the C program that the isinf() routine is available.
1093
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1094d_isnan (d_isnan.U):
1095 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNAN symbol, which
1096 indicates to the C program that the isnan() routine is available.
1097
1098d_isnanl (d_isnanl.U):
1099 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNANL symbol, which
1100 indicates to the C program that the isnanl() routine is available.
1101
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1102d_killpg (d_killpg.U):
1103 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_KILLPG symbol, which
1104 indicates to the C program that the killpg() routine is available
1105 to kill process groups.
1106
1107d_lchown (d_lchown.U):
1108 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LCHOWN symbol, which
1109 indicates to the C program that the lchown() routine is available
1110 to operate on a symbolic link (instead of following the link).
1111
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1112d_ldbl_dig (d_ldbl_dig.U):
1113 This variable conditionally defines d_ldbl_dig if this system's
1114 header files provide LDBL_DIG, which is the number of significant
1115 digits in a long double precision number.
1116
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1117d_link (d_link.U):
1118 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LINK if link() is
1119 available to create hard links.
1120
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1121d_localtime_r (d_localtime_r.U):
1122 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOCALTIME_R symbol,
1123 which indicates to the C program that the localtime_r()
1124 routine is available.
1125
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1126d_locconv (d_locconv.U):
1127 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LOCALECONV if localeconv() is
1128 available for numeric and monetary formatting conventions.
1129
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1130d_lockf (d_lockf.U):
1131 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LOCKF if lockf() is
1132 available to do file locking.
1133
1134d_longdbl (d_longdbl.U):
1135 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LONG_DOUBLE if
1136 the long double type is supported.
1137
1138d_longlong (d_longlong.U):
1139 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LONG_LONG if
1140 the long long type is supported.
1141
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1142d_lseekproto (d_lseekproto.U):
1143 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LSEEK_PROTO symbol,
1144 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
1145 a prototype for the lseek() function. Otherwise, it is
1146 up to the program to supply one.
1147
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1148d_lstat (d_lstat.U):
1149 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LSTAT if lstat() is
1150 available to do file stats on symbolic links.
1151
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1152d_madvise (d_madvise.U):
1153 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MADVISE if madvise() is
1154 available to map a file into memory.
1155
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1156d_mblen (d_mblen.U):
1157 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBLEN symbol, which
1158 indicates to the C program that the mblen() routine is available
1159 to find the number of bytes in a multibye character.
1160
1161d_mbstowcs (d_mbstowcs.U):
1162 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBSTOWCS symbol, which
1163 indicates to the C program that the mbstowcs() routine is available
1164 to convert a multibyte string into a wide character string.
1165
1166d_mbtowc (d_mbtowc.U):
1167 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBTOWC symbol, which
1168 indicates to the C program that the mbtowc() routine is available
1169 to convert multibyte to a wide character.
1170
1171d_memchr (d_memchr.U):
1172 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMCHR symbol, which
1173 indicates to the C program that the memchr() routine is available
1174 to locate characters within a C string.
1175
1176d_memcmp (d_memcmp.U):
1177 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMCMP symbol, which
1178 indicates to the C program that the memcmp() routine is available
1179 to compare blocks of memory.
1180
1181d_memcpy (d_memcpy.U):
1182 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMCPY symbol, which
1183 indicates to the C program that the memcpy() routine is available
1184 to copy blocks of memory.
1185
1186d_memmove (d_memmove.U):
1187 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMMOVE symbol, which
1188 indicates to the C program that the memmove() routine is available
1189 to copy potentatially overlapping blocks of memory.
1190
1191d_memset (d_memset.U):
1192 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMSET symbol, which
1193 indicates to the C program that the memset() routine is available
1194 to set blocks of memory.
1195
1196d_mkdir (d_mkdir.U):
1197 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKDIR symbol, which
1198 indicates to the C program that the mkdir() routine is available
209e5c0a 1199 to create directories..
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1201d_mkdtemp (d_mkdtemp.U):
1202 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKDTEMP symbol, which
1203 indicates to the C program that the mkdtemp() routine is available
1204 to exclusively create a uniquely named temporary directory.
1205
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1206d_mkfifo (d_mkfifo.U):
1207 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKFIFO symbol, which
1208 indicates to the C program that the mkfifo() routine is available.
1209
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1210d_mkstemp (d_mkstemp.U):
1211 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKSTEMP symbol, which
1212 indicates to the C program that the mkstemp() routine is available
1213 to exclusively create and open a uniquely named temporary file.
1214
1215d_mkstemps (d_mkstemps.U):
1216 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKSTEMPS symbol, which
1217 indicates to the C program that the mkstemps() routine is available
1218 to exclusively create and open a uniquely named (with a suffix)
1219 temporary file.
1220
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1221d_mktime (d_mktime.U):
1222 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKTIME symbol, which
1223 indicates to the C program that the mktime() routine is available.
1224
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1225d_mmap (d_mmap.U):
1226 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MMAP if mmap() is
1227 available to map a file into memory.
1228
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1229d_modfl (d_modfl.U):
1230 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MODFL symbol, which
1231 indicates to the C program that the modfl() routine is available.
1232
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1233d_modfl_pow32_bug (d_modfl.U):
1234 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MODFL_POW32_BUG symbol,
1235 which indicates that modfl() is broken for long doubles >= pow(2, 32).
1236 For example from 4294967303.150000 one would get 4294967302.000000
1237 and 1.150000. The bug has been seen in certain versions of glibc,
1238 release 2.2.2 is known to be okay.
1239
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1240d_mprotect (d_mprotect.U):
1241 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MPROTECT if mprotect() is
1242 available to modify the access protection of a memory mapped file.
1243
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1244d_msg (d_msg.U):
1245 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG symbol, which
1246 indicates that the entire msg*(2) library is present.
1247
1248d_msg_ctrunc (d_socket.U):
1249 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_CTRUNC symbol,
1250 which indicates that the MSG_CTRUNC is available. #ifdef is
1251 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1252
1253d_msg_dontroute (d_socket.U):
1254 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_DONTROUTE symbol,
1255 which indicates that the MSG_DONTROUTE is available. #ifdef is
1256 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1257
1258d_msg_oob (d_socket.U):
1259 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_OOB symbol,
1260 which indicates that the MSG_OOB is available. #ifdef is
1261 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1262
1263d_msg_peek (d_socket.U):
1264 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_PEEK symbol,
1265 which indicates that the MSG_PEEK is available. #ifdef is
1266 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1267
1268d_msg_proxy (d_socket.U):
1269 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_PROXY symbol,
1270 which indicates that the MSG_PROXY is available. #ifdef is
1271 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1272
1273d_msgctl (d_msgctl.U):
1274 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGCTL symbol, which
1275 indicates to the C program that the msgctl() routine is available.
1276
1277d_msgget (d_msgget.U):
1278 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGGET symbol, which
1279 indicates to the C program that the msgget() routine is available.
1280
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1281d_msghdr_s (d_msghdr_s.U):
1282 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_MSGHDR symbol,
1283 which indicates that the struct msghdr is supported.
1284
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1285d_msgrcv (d_msgrcv.U):
1286 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGRCV symbol, which
1287 indicates to the C program that the msgrcv() routine is available.
1288
1289d_msgsnd (d_msgsnd.U):
1290 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGSND symbol, which
1291 indicates to the C program that the msgsnd() routine is available.
1292
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1293d_msync (d_msync.U):
1294 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MSYNC if msync() is
1295 available to synchronize a mapped file.
1296
1297d_munmap (d_munmap.U):
1298 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MUNMAP if munmap() is
1299 available to unmap a region mapped by mmap().
1300
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1301d_mymalloc (mallocsrc.U):
1302 This variable conditionally defines MYMALLOC in case other parts
1303 of the source want to take special action if MYMALLOC is used.
1304 This may include different sorts of profiling or error detection.
1305
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1306d_nice (d_nice.U):
1307 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NICE symbol, which
1308 indicates to the C program that the nice() routine is available.
1309
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1310d_nl_langinfo (d_nl_langinfo.U):
1311 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NL_LANGINFO symbol, which
1312 indicates to the C program that the nl_langinfo() routine is available.
1313
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1315 This variable indicates whether a variable of type nvtype
1316 can preserve all the bits a variable of type uvtype.
1317
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1319 This variable indicates how many of bits type uvtype
1320 a variable nvtype can preserve.
1321
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1323 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports off64_t.
1324
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1325d_old_pthread_create_joinable (d_pthrattrj.U):
1326 This variable conditionally defines pthread_create_joinable.
1327 undef if pthread.h defines PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE.
1328
1329d_oldpthreads (usethreads.U):
1330 This variable conditionally defines the OLD_PTHREADS_API symbol,
1331 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the old
8c09e4ca 1332 draft POSIX threads API. This is only potentially meaningful if
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1333 usethreads is set.
1334
1335d_oldsock (d_socket.U):
1336 This variable conditionally defines the OLDSOCKET symbol, which
1337 indicates that the BSD socket interface is based on 4.1c and not 4.2.
1338
1339d_open3 (d_open3.U):
1340 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_OPEN3 manifest constant,
1341 which indicates to the C program that the 3 argument version of
1342 the open(2) function is available.
1343
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1344d_pathconf (d_pathconf.U):
1345 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PATHCONF symbol, which
1346 indicates to the C program that the pathconf() routine is available
1347 to determine file-system related limits and options associated
1348 with a given filename.
1349
1350d_pause (d_pause.U):
1351 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PAUSE symbol, which
1352 indicates to the C program that the pause() routine is available
1353 to suspend a process until a signal is received.
1354
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1355d_perl_otherlibdirs (otherlibdirs.U):
1356 This variable conditionally defines PERL_OTHERLIBDIRS, which
1357 contains a colon-separated set of paths for the perl binary to
1358 include in @INC. See also otherlibdirs.
1359
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1360d_phostname (d_gethname.U):
1361 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PHOSTNAME symbol, which
1362 contains the shell command which, when fed to popen(), may be
1363 used to derive the host name.
1364
1365d_pipe (d_pipe.U):
1366 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PIPE symbol, which
1367 indicates to the C program that the pipe() routine is available
1368 to create an inter-process channel.
1369
1370d_poll (d_poll.U):
1371 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_POLL symbol, which
1372 indicates to the C program that the poll() routine is available
1373 to poll active file descriptors.
1374
1375d_portable (d_portable.U):
1376 This variable conditionally defines the PORTABLE symbol, which
1377 indicates to the C program that it should not assume that it is
1378 running on the machine it was compiled on.
1379
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1380d_PRId64 (quadfio.U):
1381 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRId64 symbol, which
1382 indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit decimal numbers.
1383
1384d_PRIeldbl (longdblfio.U):
6b356c8e 1385 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
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1386 indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
1387
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1388d_PRIEUldbl (longdblfio.U):
1389 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
ff935051 1390 indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1391 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIeldbl so that even
1392 case-blind systems can see the difference.
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1393
1394d_PRIfldbl (longdblfio.U):
6b356c8e 1395 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
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1396 indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
1397
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1398d_PRIFUldbl (longdblfio.U):
1399 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
ff935051 1400 indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1401 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIfldbl so that even
1402 case-blind systems can see the difference.
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1403
1404d_PRIgldbl (longdblfio.U):
6b356c8e 1405 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
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1406 indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
1407
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1408d_PRIGUldbl (longdblfio.U):
1409 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
ff935051 1410 indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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1411 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIgldbl so that even
1412 case-blind systems can see the difference.
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1413
1414d_PRIi64 (quadfio.U):
1415 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIi64 symbol, which
1416 indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit decimal numbers.
1417
1418d_PRIo64 (quadfio.U):
1419 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIo64 symbol, which
1420 indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit octal numbers.
1421
1422d_PRIu64 (quadfio.U):
1423 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIu64 symbol, which
1424 indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit unsigned decimal
1425 numbers.
1426
1427d_PRIx64 (quadfio.U):
1428 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIx64 symbol, which
1429 indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit hexadecimal numbers.
1430
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1431d_PRIXU64 (quadfio.U):
1432 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIXU64 symbol, which
ff935051 1433 indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit hExADECimAl numbers.
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1434 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIx64 so that even
1435 case-blind systems can see the difference.
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1437d_procselfexe (d_procselfexe.U):
1438 Defined if $procselfexe is symlink to the absolute
1439 pathname of the executing program.
1440
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1441d_pthread_atfork (d_pthread_atfork.U):
1442 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PTHREAD_ATFORK symbol,
1443 which indicates to the C program that the pthread_atfork()
1444 routine is available.
1445
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1446d_pthread_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
1447 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PTHREAD_YIELD
1448 symbol if the pthread_yield routine is available to yield
1449 the execution of the current thread.
1450
1451d_pwage (i_pwd.U):
1452 This variable conditionally defines PWAGE, which indicates
1453 that struct passwd contains pw_age.
1454
1455d_pwchange (i_pwd.U):
1456 This variable conditionally defines PWCHANGE, which indicates
1457 that struct passwd contains pw_change.
1458
1459d_pwclass (i_pwd.U):
1460 This variable conditionally defines PWCLASS, which indicates
1461 that struct passwd contains pw_class.
1462
1463d_pwcomment (i_pwd.U):
1464 This variable conditionally defines PWCOMMENT, which indicates
1465 that struct passwd contains pw_comment.
1466
1467d_pwexpire (i_pwd.U):
1468 This variable conditionally defines PWEXPIRE, which indicates
1469 that struct passwd contains pw_expire.
1470
1471d_pwgecos (i_pwd.U):
1472 This variable conditionally defines PWGECOS, which indicates
1473 that struct passwd contains pw_gecos.
1474
1475d_pwpasswd (i_pwd.U):
1476 This variable conditionally defines PWPASSWD, which indicates
1477 that struct passwd contains pw_passwd.
1478
1479d_pwquota (i_pwd.U):
1480 This variable conditionally defines PWQUOTA, which indicates
1481 that struct passwd contains pw_quota.
1482
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1483d_qgcvt (d_qgcvt.U):
1484 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_QGCVT symbol, which
1485 indicates to the C program that the qgcvt() routine is available.
1486
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1487d_quad (quadtype.U):
1488 This variable, if defined, tells that there's a 64-bit integer type,
1489 quadtype.
1490
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1491d_random_r (d_random_r.U):
1492 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RANDOM_R symbol,
1493 which indicates to the C program that the random_r()
1494 routine is available.
1495
1496d_readdir64_r (d_readdir64_r.U):
1497 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READDIR64_R symbol,
1498 which indicates to the C program that the readdir64_r()
1499 routine is available.
1500
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1501d_readdir (d_readdir.U):
1502 This variable conditionally defines HAS_READDIR if readdir() is
1503 available to read directory entries.
1504
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1505d_readdir_r (d_readdir_r.U):
1506 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READDIR_R symbol,
1507 which indicates to the C program that the readdir_r()
1508 routine is available.
1509
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1510d_readlink (d_readlink.U):
1511 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READLINK symbol, which
1512 indicates to the C program that the readlink() routine is available
1513 to read the value of a symbolic link.
1514
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1515d_readv (d_readv.U):
1516 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READV symbol, which
1517 indicates to the C program that the readv() routine is available.
1518
1519d_recvmsg (d_recvmsg.U):
1520 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RECVMSG symbol, which
1521 indicates to the C program that the recvmsg() routine is available.
1522
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1523d_rename (d_rename.U):
1524 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RENAME symbol, which
1525 indicates to the C program that the rename() routine is available
1526 to rename files.
1527
1528d_rewinddir (d_readdir.U):
1529 This variable conditionally defines HAS_REWINDDIR if rewinddir() is
1530 available.
1531
1532d_rmdir (d_rmdir.U):
1533 This variable conditionally defines HAS_RMDIR if rmdir() is
1534 available to remove directories.
1535
1536d_safebcpy (d_safebcpy.U):
1537 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SAFE_BCOPY symbol if
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1539 should probably use memmove().
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1540
1541d_safemcpy (d_safemcpy.U):
1542 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SAFE_MEMCPY symbol if
1543 the memcpy() routine can do overlapping copies.
b6cc3bc4 1544 For overlapping copies, memmove() should be used, if available.
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1545
1546d_sanemcmp (d_sanemcmp.U):
1547 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SANE_MEMCMP symbol if
1548 the memcpy() routine is available and can be used to compare relative
1549 magnitudes of chars with their high bits set.
1550
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1551d_sbrkproto (d_sbrkproto.U):
1552 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SBRK_PROTO symbol,
1553 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
1554 a prototype for the sbrk() function. Otherwise, it is
1555 up to the program to supply one.
1556
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1557d_sched_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
1558 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCHED_YIELD
1559 symbol if the sched_yield routine is available to yield
1560 the execution of the current thread.
1561
1562d_scm_rights (d_socket.U):
1563 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCM_RIGHTS symbol,
1564 which indicates that the SCM_RIGHTS is available. #ifdef is
1565 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1566
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1567d_SCNfldbl (longdblfio.U):
1568 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
1569 indiciates that stdio has a symbol to scan long doubles.
1570
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1571d_seekdir (d_readdir.U):
1572 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SEEKDIR if seekdir() is
1573 available.
1574
1575d_select (d_select.U):
1576 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SELECT if select() is
1577 available to select active file descriptors. A <sys/time.h>
1578 inclusion may be necessary for the timeout field.
1579
1580d_sem (d_sem.U):
1581 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEM symbol, which
1582 indicates that the entire sem*(2) library is present.
1583
1584d_semctl (d_semctl.U):
1585 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMCTL symbol, which
1586 indicates to the C program that the semctl() routine is available.
1587
1588d_semctl_semid_ds (d_union_semun.U):
1589 This variable conditionally defines USE_SEMCTL_SEMID_DS, which
1590 indicates that struct semid_ds * is to be used for semctl IPC_STAT.
1591
1592d_semctl_semun (d_union_semun.U):
1593 This variable conditionally defines USE_SEMCTL_SEMUN, which
1594 indicates that union semun is to be used for semctl IPC_STAT.
1595
1596d_semget (d_semget.U):
1597 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMGET symbol, which
1598 indicates to the C program that the semget() routine is available.
1599
1600d_semop (d_semop.U):
1601 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMOP symbol, which
1602 indicates to the C program that the semop() routine is available.
1603
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1604d_sendmsg (d_sendmsg.U):
1605 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SENDMSG symbol, which
1606 indicates to the C program that the sendmsg() routine is available.
1607
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1608d_setegid (d_setegid.U):
1609 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETEGID symbol, which
1610 indicates to the C program that the setegid() routine is available
1611 to change the effective gid of the current program.
1612
1613d_seteuid (d_seteuid.U):
1614 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETEUID symbol, which
1615 indicates to the C program that the seteuid() routine is available
1616 to change the effective uid of the current program.
1617
1618d_setgrent (d_setgrent.U):
1619 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGRENT symbol, which
1620 indicates to the C program that the setgrent() routine is available
1621 for initializing sequential access to the group database.
1622
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1623d_setgrent_r (d_setgrent_r.U):
1624 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGRENT_R symbol,
1625 which indicates to the C program that the setgrent_r()
1626 routine is available.
1627
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1628d_setgrps (d_setgrps.U):
1629 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGROUPS symbol, which
1630 indicates to the C program that the setgroups() routine is available
1631 to set the list of process groups.
1632
1633d_sethent (d_sethent.U):
1634 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETHOSTENT if sethostent() is
1635 available.
1636
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1637d_sethostent_r (d_sethostent_r.U):
1638 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETHOSTENT_R symbol,
1639 which indicates to the C program that the sethostent_r()
1640 routine is available.
1641
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1642d_setitimer (d_setitimer.U):
1643 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETITIMER symbol, which
1644 indicates to the C program that the setitimer() routine is available.
1645
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1646d_setlinebuf (d_setlnbuf.U):
1647 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETLINEBUF symbol, which
1648 indicates to the C program that the setlinebuf() routine is available
1649 to change stderr or stdout from block-buffered or unbuffered to a
1650 line-buffered mode.
1651
1652d_setlocale (d_setlocale.U):
1653 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETLOCALE if setlocale() is
1654 available to handle locale-specific ctype implementations.
1655
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1656d_setlocale_r (d_setlocale_r.U):
1657 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETLOCALE_R symbol,
1658 which indicates to the C program that the setlocale_r()
1659 routine is available.
1660
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1661d_setnent (d_setnent.U):
1662 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETNETENT if setnetent() is
1663 available.
1664
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1665d_setnetent_r (d_setnetent_r.U):
1666 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETNETENT_R symbol,
1667 which indicates to the C program that the setnetent_r()
1668 routine is available.
1669
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1670d_setpent (d_setpent.U):
1671 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPROTOENT if setprotoent() is
1672 available.
1673
1674d_setpgid (d_setpgid.U):
1675 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGID symbol if the
1676 setpgid(pid, gpid) function is available to set process group ID.
1677
1678d_setpgrp2 (d_setpgrp2.U):
1679 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGRP2 symbol, which
1680 indicates to the C program that the setpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine
1681 is available to set the current process group.
1682
1683d_setpgrp (d_setpgrp.U):
1684 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPGRP if setpgrp() is
1685 available to set the current process group.
1686
1687d_setprior (d_setprior.U):
1688 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPRIORITY if setpriority()
1689 is available to set a process's priority.
1690
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1691d_setproctitle (d_setproctitle.U):
1692 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPROCTITLE symbol,
1693 which indicates to the C program that the setproctitle() routine
1694 is available.
1695
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1696d_setprotoent_r (d_setprotoent_r.U):
1697 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPROTOENT_R symbol,
1698 which indicates to the C program that the setprotoent_r()
1699 routine is available.
1700
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1701d_setpwent (d_setpwent.U):
1702 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPWENT symbol, which
1703 indicates to the C program that the setpwent() routine is available
1704 for initializing sequential access to the passwd database.
1705
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1706d_setpwent_r (d_setpwent_r.U):
1707 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPWENT_R symbol,
1708 which indicates to the C program that the setpwent_r()
1709 routine is available.
1710
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1711d_setregid (d_setregid.U):
1712 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREGID if setregid() is
1713 available to change the real and effective gid of the current
1714 process.
1715
1716d_setresgid (d_setregid.U):
1717 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETRESGID if setresgid() is
1718 available to change the real, effective and saved gid of the current
1719 process.
1720
1721d_setresuid (d_setreuid.U):
1722 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREUID if setresuid() is
1723 available to change the real, effective and saved uid of the current
1724 process.
1725
1726d_setreuid (d_setreuid.U):
1727 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREUID if setreuid() is
1728 available to change the real and effective uid of the current
1729 process.
1730
1731d_setrgid (d_setrgid.U):
1732 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRGID symbol, which
1733 indicates to the C program that the setrgid() routine is available
1734 to change the real gid of the current program.
1735
1736d_setruid (d_setruid.U):
1737 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRUID symbol, which
1738 indicates to the C program that the setruid() routine is available
1739 to change the real uid of the current program.
1740
1741d_setsent (d_setsent.U):
1742 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSERVENT if setservent() is
1743 available.
1744
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1745d_setservent_r (d_setservent_r.U):
1746 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETSERVENT_R symbol,
1747 which indicates to the C program that the setservent_r()
1748 routine is available.
1749
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1750d_setsid (d_setsid.U):
1751 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSID if setsid() is
1752 available to set the process group ID.
1753
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1754d_setvbuf (d_setvbuf.U):
1755 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETVBUF symbol, which
1756 indicates to the C program that the setvbuf() routine is available
1757 to change buffering on an open stdio stream.
1758
1759d_sfio (d_sfio.U):
1760 This variable conditionally defines the USE_SFIO symbol,
1761 and indicates whether sfio is available (and should be used).
1762
1763d_shm (d_shm.U):
1764 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHM symbol, which
1765 indicates that the entire shm*(2) library is present.
1766
1767d_shmat (d_shmat.U):
1768 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMAT symbol, which
1769 indicates to the C program that the shmat() routine is available.
1770
1771d_shmatprototype (d_shmat.U):
1772 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMAT_PROTOTYPE
1773 symbol, which indicates that sys/shm.h has a prototype for
1774 shmat.
1775
1776d_shmctl (d_shmctl.U):
1777 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMCTL symbol, which
1778 indicates to the C program that the shmctl() routine is available.
1779
1780d_shmdt (d_shmdt.U):
1781 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMDT symbol, which
1782 indicates to the C program that the shmdt() routine is available.
1783
1784d_shmget (d_shmget.U):
1785 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMGET symbol, which
1786 indicates to the C program that the shmget() routine is available.
1787
1788d_sigaction (d_sigaction.U):
1789 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGACTION symbol, which
1790 indicates that the Vr4 sigaction() routine is available.
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1792d_sigprocmask (d_sigprocmask.U):
1793 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SIGPROCMASK
1794 if sigprocmask() is available to examine or change the signal mask
1795 of the calling process.
1796
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1797d_sigsetjmp (d_sigsetjmp.U):
1798 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGSETJMP symbol,
1799 which indicates that the sigsetjmp() routine is available to
1800 call setjmp() and optionally save the process's signal mask.
1801
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1802d_sockatmark (d_sockatmark.U):
1803 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKATMARK symbol, which
1804 indicates to the C program that the sockatmark() routine is available.
1805
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1806d_sockatmarkproto (d_sockatmarkproto.U):
1807 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKATMARK_PROTO symbol,
1808 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
1809 a prototype for the sockatmark() function. Otherwise, it is
1810 up to the program to supply one.
1811
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1812d_socket (d_socket.U):
1813 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SOCKET, which indicates
1814 that the BSD socket interface is supported.
1815
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1816d_socklen_t (d_socklen_t.U):
1817 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports socklen_t.
1818
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1819d_sockpair (d_socket.U):
1820 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKETPAIR symbol, which
1821 indicates that the BSD socketpair() is supported.
1822
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1823d_socks5_init (d_socks5_init.U):
1824 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKS5_INIT symbol, which
1825 indicates to the C program that the socks5_init() routine is available.
1826
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1827d_sqrtl (d_sqrtl.U):
1828 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SQRTL symbol, which
1829 indicates to the C program that the sqrtl() routine is available.
1830
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1831d_srand48_r (d_srand48_r.U):
1832 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SRAND48_R symbol,
1833 which indicates to the C program that the srand48_r()
1834 routine is available.
1835
1836d_srandom_r (d_srandom_r.U):
1837 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SRANDOM_R symbol,
1838 which indicates to the C program that the srandom_r()
1839 routine is available.
1840
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1841d_sresgproto (d_sresgproto.U):
1842 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRESGID_PROTO symbol,
1843 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
1844 a prototype for the setresgid() function. Otherwise, it is
1845 up to the program to supply one.
1846
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1847d_sresuproto (d_sresuproto.U):
1848 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRESUID_PROTO symbol,
1849 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
1850 a prototype for the setresuid() function. Otherwise, it is
1851 up to the program to supply one.
1852
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1853d_statblks (d_statblks.U):
1854 This variable conditionally defines USE_STAT_BLOCKS
1855 if this system has a stat structure declaring
1856 st_blksize and st_blocks.
1857
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1860 symbol, which indicates to struct statfs from has f_flags member.
1861 This kind of struct statfs is coming from sys/mount.h (BSD),
1862 not from sys/statfs.h (SYSV).
1863
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1865 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_STATFS symbol,
1866 which indicates that the struct statfs is supported.
1867
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1868d_statvfs (d_statvfs.U):
1869 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STATVFS symbol, which
1870 indicates to the C program that the statvfs() routine is available.
1871
1872d_stdio_cnt_lval (d_stdstdio.U):
1873 This variable conditionally defines STDIO_CNT_LVALUE if the
1874 FILE_cnt macro can be used as an lvalue.
1875
1876d_stdio_ptr_lval (d_stdstdio.U):
1877 This variable conditionally defines STDIO_PTR_LVALUE if the
1878 FILE_ptr macro can be used as an lvalue.
1879
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1880d_stdio_ptr_lval_nochange_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
1881 This symbol is defined if using the FILE_ptr macro as an lvalue
1882 to increase the pointer by n leaves File_cnt(fp) unchanged.
1883
1884d_stdio_ptr_lval_sets_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
1885 This symbol is defined if using the FILE_ptr macro as an lvalue
1886 to increase the pointer by n has the side effect of decreasing the
1887 value of File_cnt(fp) by n.
1888
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1889d_stdio_stream_array (stdio_streams.U):
1890 This variable tells whether there is an array holding
1891 the stdio streams.
1892
1893d_stdiobase (d_stdstdio.U):
1894 This variable conditionally defines USE_STDIO_BASE if this system
1895 has a FILE structure declaring a usable _base field (or equivalent)
1896 in stdio.h.
1897
1898d_stdstdio (d_stdstdio.U):
1899 This variable conditionally defines USE_STDIO_PTR if this system
1900 has a FILE structure declaring usable _ptr and _cnt fields (or
1901 equivalent) in stdio.h.
1902
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1903d_strchr (d_strchr.U):
1904 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRCHR if strchr() and
1905 strrchr() are available for string searching.
1906
1907d_strcoll (d_strcoll.U):
1908 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRCOLL if strcoll() is
1909 available to compare strings using collating information.
1910
1911d_strctcpy (d_strctcpy.U):
1912 This variable conditionally defines the USE_STRUCT_COPY symbol, which
1913 indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows how to copy
1914 structures.
1915
1916d_strerrm (d_strerror.U):
1917 This variable holds what Strerrr is defined as to translate an error
1918 code condition into an error message string. It could be 'strerror'
1919 or a more complex macro emulating strrror with sys_errlist[], or the
1920 "unknown" string when both strerror and sys_errlist are missing.
1921
1922d_strerror (d_strerror.U):
1923 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRERROR if strerror() is
1924 available to translate error numbers to strings.
1925
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1926d_strerror_r (d_strerror_r.U):
1927 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRERROR_R symbol,
1928 which indicates to the C program that the strerror_r()
1929 routine is available.
1930
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1931d_strftime (d_strftime.U):
1932 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRFTIME symbol, which
1933 indicates to the C program that the strftime() routine is available.
1934
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1935d_strtod (d_strtod.U):
1936 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOD symbol, which
1937 indicates to the C program that the strtod() routine is available
1938 to provide better numeric string conversion than atof().
1939
1940d_strtol (d_strtol.U):
1941 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOL symbol, which
1942 indicates to the C program that the strtol() routine is available
1943 to provide better numeric string conversion than atoi() and friends.
1944
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1945d_strtold (d_strtold.U):
1946 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLD symbol, which
1947 indicates to the C program that the strtold() routine is available.
1948
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1949d_strtoll (d_strtoll.U):
1950 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLL symbol, which
1951 indicates to the C program that the strtoll() routine is available.
1952
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1953d_strtoq (d_strtoq.U):
1954 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOQ symbol, which
1955 indicates to the C program that the strtoq() routine is available.
1956
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1957d_strtoul (d_strtoul.U):
1958 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUL symbol, which
1959 indicates to the C program that the strtoul() routine is available
1960 to provide conversion of strings to unsigned long.
1961
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1963 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOULL symbol, which
1964 indicates to the C program that the strtoull() routine is available.
1965
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1966d_strtouq (d_strtouq.U):
1967 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUQ symbol, which
1968 indicates to the C program that the strtouq() routine is available.
1969
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1970d_strxfrm (d_strxfrm.U):
1971 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRXFRM if strxfrm() is
1972 available to transform strings.
1973
1974d_suidsafe (d_dosuid.U):
1975 This variable conditionally defines SETUID_SCRIPTS_ARE_SECURE_NOW
1976 if setuid scripts can be secure. This test looks in /dev/fd/.
1977
1978d_symlink (d_symlink.U):
1979 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYMLINK symbol, which
1980 indicates to the C program that the symlink() routine is available
1981 to create symbolic links.
1982
1983d_syscall (d_syscall.U):
1984 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYSCALL if syscall() is
1985 available call arbitrary system calls.
1986
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1987d_syscallproto (d_syscallproto.U):
1988 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYSCALL_PROTO symbol,
1989 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
1990 a prototype for the syscall() function. Otherwise, it is
1991 up to the program to supply one.
1992
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1993d_sysconf (d_sysconf.U):
1994 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYSCONF symbol, which
1995 indicates to the C program that the sysconf() routine is available
1996 to determine system related limits and options.
1997
1998d_sysernlst (d_strerror.U):
1999 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYS_ERRNOLIST if sys_errnolist[]
2000 is available to translate error numbers to the symbolic name.
2001
2002d_syserrlst (d_strerror.U):
2003 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYS_ERRLIST if sys_errlist[] is
2004 available to translate error numbers to strings.
2005
2006d_system (d_system.U):
2007 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYSTEM if system() is
2008 available to issue a shell command.
2009
2010d_tcgetpgrp (d_tcgtpgrp.U):
2011 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TCGETPGRP symbol, which
2012 indicates to the C program that the tcgetpgrp() routine is available.
2013 to get foreground process group ID.
2014
2015d_tcsetpgrp (d_tcstpgrp.U):
2016 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TCSETPGRP symbol, which
2017 indicates to the C program that the tcsetpgrp() routine is available
2018 to set foreground process group ID.
2019
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2020d_telldir (d_readdir.U):
2021 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TELLDIR if telldir() is
2022 available.
2023
2024d_telldirproto (d_telldirproto.U):
2025 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TELLDIR_PROTO symbol,
2026 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2027 a prototype for the telldir() function. Otherwise, it is
2028 up to the program to supply one.
2029
2030d_time (d_time.U):
2031 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIME symbol, which indicates
2032 that the time() routine exists. The time() routine is normaly
2033 provided on UNIX systems.
2034
2035d_times (d_times.U):
2036 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIMES symbol, which indicates
2037 that the times() routine exists. The times() routine is normaly
2038 provided on UNIX systems. You may have to include <sys/times.h>.
2039
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2040d_tm_tm_gmtoff (i_time.U):
2041 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TM_TM_GMTOFF, which indicates
2042 indicates to the C program that the struct tm has the tm_gmtoff field.
2043
2044d_tm_tm_zone (i_time.U):
2045 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TM_TM_ZONE, which indicates
2046 indicates to the C program that the struct tm has the tm_zone field.
2047
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2048d_tmpnam_r (d_tmpnam_r.U):
2049 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TMPNAM_R symbol,
2050 which indicates to the C program that the tmpnam_r()
2051 routine is available.
2052
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2053d_truncate (d_truncate.U):
2054 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TRUNCATE if truncate() is
2055 available to truncate files.
2056
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2057d_ttyname_r (d_ttyname_r.U):
2058 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TTYNAME_R symbol,
2059 which indicates to the C program that the ttyname_r()
2060 routine is available.
2061
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2062d_tzname (d_tzname.U):
2063 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TZNAME if tzname[] is
2064 available to access timezone names.
2065
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2066d_u32align (d_u32align.U):
2067 This variable tells whether you must access character data
2068 through U32-aligned pointers.
2069
2070d_ualarm (d_ualarm.U):
2071 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UALARM symbol, which
2072 indicates to the C program that the ualarm() routine is available.
2073
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2074d_umask (d_umask.U):
2075 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UMASK symbol, which
2076 indicates to the C program that the umask() routine is available.
2077 to set and get the value of the file creation mask.
2078
2079d_uname (d_gethname.U):
2080 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNAME symbol, which
2081 indicates to the C program that the uname() routine may be
2082 used to derive the host name.
2083
2084d_union_semun (d_union_semun.U):
2085 This variable conditionally defines HAS_UNION_SEMUN if the
2086 union semun is defined by including <sys/sem.h>.
2087
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2088d_unordered (d_unordered.U):
2089 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNORDERED symbol, which
2090 indicates to the C program that the unordered() routine is available.
2091
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2092d_usleep (d_usleep.U):
2093 This variable conditionally defines HAS_USLEEP if usleep() is
2094 available to do high granularity sleeps.
2095
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2096d_usleepproto (d_usleepproto.U):
2097 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_USLEEP_PROTO symbol,
2098 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2099 a prototype for the usleep() function. Otherwise, it is
2100 up to the program to supply one.
2101
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2102d_ustat (d_ustat.U):
2103 This variable conditionally defines HAS_USTAT if ustat() is
2104 available to query file system statistics by dev_t.
2105
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2106d_vendorarch (vendorarch.U):
2107 This variable conditionally defined PERL_VENDORARCH.
2108
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2109d_vendorbin (vendorbin.U):
2110 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORBIN.
2111
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2112d_vendorlib (vendorlib.U):
2113 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORLIB.
2114
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2115d_vfork (d_vfork.U):
2116 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VFORK symbol, which
2117 indicates the vfork() routine is available.
2118
2119d_void_closedir (d_closedir.U):
2120 This variable conditionally defines VOID_CLOSEDIR if closedir()
2121 does not return a value.
2122
2123d_voidsig (d_voidsig.U):
2124 This variable conditionally defines VOIDSIG if this system
2125 declares "void (*signal(...))()" in signal.h. The old way was to
2126 declare it as "int (*signal(...))()".
2127
2128d_voidtty (i_sysioctl.U):
2129 This variable conditionally defines USE_IOCNOTTY to indicate that the
2130 ioctl() call with TIOCNOTTY should be used to void tty association.
2131 Otherwise (on USG probably), it is enough to close the standard file
2132 decriptors and do a setpgrp().
2133
2134d_volatile (d_volatile.U):
2135 This variable conditionally defines the HASVOLATILE symbol, which
2136 indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows about the
2137 volatile declaration.
2138
2139d_vprintf (d_vprintf.U):
2140 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VPRINTF symbol, which
2141 indicates to the C program that the vprintf() routine is available
2142 to printf with a pointer to an argument list.
2143
2144d_wait4 (d_wait4.U):
2145 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WAIT4 symbol, which
2146 indicates the wait4() routine is available.
2147
2148d_waitpid (d_waitpid.U):
2149 This variable conditionally defines HAS_WAITPID if waitpid() is
2150 available to wait for child process.
2151
2152d_wcstombs (d_wcstombs.U):
2153 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSTOMBS symbol, which
2154 indicates to the C program that the wcstombs() routine is available
2155 to convert wide character strings to multibyte strings.
2156
2157d_wctomb (d_wctomb.U):
2158 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCTOMB symbol, which
2159 indicates to the C program that the wctomb() routine is available
2160 to convert a wide character to a multibyte.
2161
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2162d_writev (d_writev.U):
2163 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WRITEV symbol, which
2164 indicates to the C program that the writev() routine is available.
2165
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2166d_xenix (Guess.U):
2167 This variable conditionally defines the symbol XENIX, which alerts
2168 the C program that it runs under Xenix.
2169
2170date (Loc.U):
5bf26616 2171 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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2172 full pathname (if any) of the date program. After Configure runs,
2173 the value is reset to a plain "date" and is not useful.
2174
2175db_hashtype (i_db.U):
2176 This variable contains the type of the hash structure element
2177 in the <db.h> header file. In older versions of DB, it was
2178 int, while in newer ones it is u_int32_t.
2179
2180db_prefixtype (i_db.U):
2181 This variable contains the type of the prefix structure element
2182 in the <db.h> header file. In older versions of DB, it was
2183 int, while in newer ones it is size_t.
2184
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2185db_version_major (i_db.U):
2186 This variable contains the major version number of
2187 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
2188
2189db_version_minor (i_db.U):
2190 This variable contains the minor version number of
2191 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
2192 For DB version 1 this is always 0.
2193
2194db_version_patch (i_db.U):
2195 This variable contains the patch version number of
2196 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
2197 For DB version 1 this is always 0.
2198
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2199defvoidused (voidflags.U):
2200 This variable contains the default value of the VOIDUSED symbol (15).
2201
2202direntrytype (i_dirent.U):
2203 This symbol is set to 'struct direct' or 'struct dirent' depending on
2204 whether dirent is available or not. You should use this pseudo type to
2205 portably declare your directory entries.
2206
2207dlext (dlext.U):
2208 This variable contains the extension that is to be used for the
2209 dynamically loaded modules that perl generaties.
2210
2211dlsrc (dlsrc.U):
2212 This variable contains the name of the dynamic loading file that
2213 will be used with the package.
2214
2215doublesize (doublesize.U):
2216 This variable contains the value of the DOUBLESIZE symbol, which
2217 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a double.
2218
2219drand01 (randfunc.U):
2220 Indicates the macro to be used to generate normalized
2221 random numbers. Uses randfunc, often divided by
2222 (double) (((unsigned long) 1 << randbits)) in order to
2223 normalize the result.
2224 In C programs, the macro 'Drand01' is mapped to drand01.
2225
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2226drand48_r_proto (d_drand48_r.U):
2227 This variable encodes the prototype of drand48_r.
2228
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2229dynamic_ext (Extensions.U):
2230 This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to
2231 link dynamically into the package. It is used by Makefile.
2232
2233eagain (nblock_io.U):
2234 This variable bears the symbolic errno code set by read() when no
2235 data is present on the file and non-blocking I/O was enabled (otherwise,
2236 read() blocks naturally).
2237
2238ebcdic (ebcdic.U):
2239 This variable conditionally defines EBCDIC if this
2240 system uses EBCDIC encoding. Among other things, this
2241 means that the character ranges are not contiguous.
2242 See trnl.U
2243
2244echo (Loc.U):
5bf26616 2245 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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2246 full pathname (if any) of the echo program. After Configure runs,
2247 the value is reset to a plain "echo" and is not useful.
2248
2249egrep (Loc.U):
5bf26616 2250 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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2251 full pathname (if any) of the egrep program. After Configure runs,
2252 the value is reset to a plain "egrep" and is not useful.
2253
2254emacs (Loc.U):
2255 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
2256 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
2257
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2258endgrent_r_proto (d_endgrent_r.U):
2259 This variable encodes the prototype of endgrent_r.
2260
2261endhostent_r_proto (d_endhostent_r.U):
2262 This variable encodes the prototype of endhostent_r.
2263
2264endnetent_r_proto (d_endnetent_r.U):
2265 This variable encodes the prototype of endnetent_r.
2266
2267endprotoent_r_proto (d_endprotoent_r.U):
2268 This variable encodes the prototype of endprotoent_r.
2269
2270endpwent_r_proto (d_endpwent_r.U):
2271 This variable encodes the prototype of endpwent_r.
2272
2273endservent_r_proto (d_endservent_r.U):
2274 This variable encodes the prototype of endservent_r.
2275
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2276eunicefix (Init.U):
2277 When running under Eunice this variable contains a command which will
2278 convert a shell script to the proper form of text file for it to be
2279 executable by the shell. On other systems it is a no-op.
2280
2281exe_ext (Unix.U):
2282 This is an old synonym for _exe.
2283
2284expr (Loc.U):
5bf26616 2285 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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2286 full pathname (if any) of the expr program. After Configure runs,
2287 the value is reset to a plain "expr" and is not useful.
2288
2289extensions (Extensions.U):
2290 This variable holds a list of all extension files (both XS and
2291 non-xs linked into the package. It is propagated to Config.pm
2292 and is typically used to test whether a particular extesion
2293 is available.
2294
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2295extras (Extras.U):
2296 This variable holds a list of extra modules to install.
2297
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2298fflushall (fflushall.U):
2299 This symbol, if defined, tells that to flush
2300 all pending stdio output one must loop through all
2301 the stdio file handles stored in an array and fflush them.
2302 Note that if fflushNULL is defined, fflushall will not
2303 even be probed for and will be left undefined.
2304
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2305fflushNULL (fflushall.U):
2306 This symbol, if defined, tells that fflush(NULL) does flush
2307 all pending stdio output.
2308
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2310 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
2311 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
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2312
2313firstmakefile (Unix.U):
2314 This variable defines the first file searched by make. On unix,
2315 it is makefile (then Makefile). On case-insensitive systems,
2316 it might be something else. This is only used to deal with
2317 convoluted make depend tricks.
2318
2319flex (Loc.U):
2320 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
2321 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
2322
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2323fpossize (fpossize.U):
2324 This variable contains the size of a fpostype in bytes.
2325
781b178c 2326fpostype (fpostype.U):
a22e52b9 2327 This variable defines Fpos_t to be something like fpos_t, long,
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2328 uint, or whatever type is used to declare file positions in libc.
2329
2330freetype (mallocsrc.U):
2331 This variable contains the return type of free(). It is usually
2332 void, but occasionally int.
2333
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2334from (Cross.U):
2335 This variable contains the command used by Configure
2336 to copy files from the target host. Useful and available
2337 only during Perl build.
2338 The string ':' if not cross-compiling.
2339
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2340full_ar (Loc_ar.U):
2341 This variable contains the full pathname to 'ar', whether or
2342 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
2343 in the Makefile.SH.
2344
2345full_csh (d_csh.U):
2346 This variable contains the full pathname to 'csh', whether or
2347 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
2348 in the compiled C program, and we assume that all systems which
2349 can share this executable will have the same full pathname to
2350 'csh.'
2351
2352full_sed (Loc_sed.U):
2353 This variable contains the full pathname to 'sed', whether or
2354 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
2355 in the compiled C program, and we assume that all systems which
2356 can share this executable will have the same full pathname to
2357 'sed.'
2358
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2359gccosandvers (gccvers.U):
2360 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable the operating system and
2361 version used to compile the gcc. It is set to '' if not gcc,
2362 or if nothing useful can be parsed as the os version.
2363
2364gccversion (gccvers.U):
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2365 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable holds '1' or '2' to
2366 indicate whether the compiler is version 1 or 2. This is used in
2367 setting some of the default cflags. It is set to '' if not gcc.
2368
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2369getgrent_r_proto (d_getgrent_r.U):
2370 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrent_r.
2371
2372getgrgid_r_proto (d_getgrgid_r.U):
2373 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrgid_r.
2374
2375getgrnam_r_proto (d_getgrnam_r.U):
2376 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrnam_r.
2377
2378gethostbyaddr_r_proto (d_gethostbyaddr_r.U):
2379 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostbyaddr_r.
2380
2381gethostbyname_r_proto (d_gethostbyname_r.U):
2382 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostbyname_r.
2383
2384gethostent_r_proto (d_gethostent_r.U):
2385 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostent_r.
2386
2387getlogin_r_proto (d_getlogin_r.U):
2388 This variable encodes the prototype of getlogin_r.
2389
2390getnetbyaddr_r_proto (d_getnetbyaddr_r.U):
2391 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetbyaddr_r.
2392
2393getnetbyname_r_proto (d_getnetbyname_r.U):
2394 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetbyname_r.
2395
2396getnetent_r_proto (d_getnetent_r.U):
2397 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetent_r.
2398
2399getprotobyname_r_proto (d_getprotobyname_r.U):
2400 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotobyname_r.
2401
2402getprotobynumber_r_proto (d_getprotobynumber_r.U):
2403 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotobynumber_r.
2404
2405getprotoent_r_proto (d_getprotoent_r.U):
2406 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotoent_r.
2407
2408getpwent_r_proto (d_getpwent_r.U):
2409 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwent_r.
2410
2411getpwnam_r_proto (d_getpwnam_r.U):
2412 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwnam_r.
2413
2414getpwuid_r_proto (d_getpwuid_r.U):
2415 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwuid_r.
2416
2417getservbyname_r_proto (d_getservbyname_r.U):
2418 This variable encodes the prototype of getservbyname_r.
2419
2420getservbyport_r_proto (d_getservbyport_r.U):
2421 This variable encodes the prototype of getservbyport_r.
2422
2423getservent_r_proto (d_getservent_r.U):
2424 This variable encodes the prototype of getservent_r.
2425
2426getspnam_r_proto (d_getspnam_r.U):
2427 This variable encodes the prototype of getspnam_r.
2428
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2429gidformat (gidf.U):
2430 This variable contains the format string used for printing a Gid_t.
2431
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2432gidsign (gidsign.U):
2433 This variable contains the signedness of a gidtype.
2434 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
2435
2436gidsize (gidsize.U):
2437 This variable contains the size of a gidtype in bytes.
2438
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2439gidtype (gidtype.U):
2440 This variable defines Gid_t to be something like gid_t, int,
2441 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare the return type
2442 of getgid(). Typically, it is the type of group ids in the kernel.
2443
2444glibpth (libpth.U):
2445 This variable holds the general path (space-separated) used to
2446 find libraries. It may contain directories that do not exist on
2447 this platform, libpth is the cleaned-up version.
2448
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2449gmake (Loc.U):
2450 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
2451 full pathname (if any) of the gmake program. After Configure runs,
2452 the value is reset to a plain "gmake" and is not useful.
2453
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2454gmtime_r_proto (d_gmtime_r.U):
2455 This variable encodes the prototype of gmtime_r.
2456
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5bf26616 2458 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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2459 full pathname (if any) of the grep program. After Configure runs,
2460 the value is reset to a plain "grep" and is not useful.
2461
2462groupcat (nis.U):
2463 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
2464 /etc/group file. This is normally "cat /etc/group", but can be
2465 "ypcat group" when NIS is used.
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2467 command, in which case this variable is unset.
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2468
2469groupstype (groupstype.U):
2470 This variable defines Groups_t to be something like gid_t, int,
2471 ushort, or whatever type is used for the second argument to
2472 getgroups() and setgroups(). Usually, this is the same as
2473 gidtype (gid_t), but sometimes it isn't.
2474
2475gzip (Loc.U):
5bf26616 2476 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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2477 full pathname (if any) of the gzip program. After Configure runs,
2478 the value is reset to a plain "gzip" and is not useful.
2479
2480h_fcntl (h_fcntl.U):
2481 This is variable gets set in various places to tell i_fcntl that
2482 <fcntl.h> should be included.
2483
2484h_sysfile (h_sysfile.U):
2485 This is variable gets set in various places to tell i_sys_file that
2486 <sys/file.h> should be included.
2487
2488hint (Oldconfig.U):
2489 Gives the type of hints used for previous answers. May be one of
2490 "default", "recommended" or "previous".
2491
2492hostcat (nis.U):
2493 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
2494 /etc/hosts file. This is normally "cat /etc/hosts", but can be
2495 "ypcat hosts" when NIS is used.
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2496 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
2497 command, in which case this variable is unset.
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2499i16size (perlxv.U):
2500 This variable is the size of an I16 in bytes.
2501
2502i16type (perlxv.U):
2503 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I16.
2504
2505i32size (perlxv.U):
2506 This variable is the size of an I32 in bytes.
2507
2508i32type (perlxv.U):
2509 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I32.
2510
2511i64size (perlxv.U):
2512 This variable is the size of an I64 in bytes.
2513
2514i64type (perlxv.U):
2515 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I64.
2516
2517i8size (perlxv.U):
2518 This variable is the size of an I8 in bytes.
2519
2520i8type (perlxv.U):
2521 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I8.
2522
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2523i_arpainet (i_arpainet.U):
2524 This variable conditionally defines the I_ARPA_INET symbol,
2525 and indicates whether a C program should include <arpa/inet.h>.
2526
2527i_bsdioctl (i_sysioctl.U):
2528 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_BSDIOCTL symbol, which
2529 indicates to the C program that <sys/bsdioctl.h> exists and should
2530 be included.
2531
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2532i_crypt (i_crypt.U):
2533 This variable conditionally defines the I_CRYPT symbol, and indicates
2534 whether a C program should include <crypt.h>.
2535
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2536i_db (i_db.U):
2537 This variable conditionally defines the I_DB symbol, and indicates
2538 whether a C program may include Berkeley's DB include file <db.h>.
2539
2540i_dbm (i_dbm.U):
2541 This variable conditionally defines the I_DBM symbol, which
2542 indicates to the C program that <dbm.h> exists and should
2543 be included.
2544
2545i_dirent (i_dirent.U):
2546 This variable conditionally defines I_DIRENT, which indicates
2547 to the C program that it should include <dirent.h>.
2548
2549i_dld (i_dld.U):
2550 This variable conditionally defines the I_DLD symbol, which
2551 indicates to the C program that <dld.h> (GNU dynamic loading)
2552 exists and should be included.
2553
2554i_dlfcn (i_dlfcn.U):
2555 This variable conditionally defines the I_DLFCN symbol, which
2556 indicates to the C program that <dlfcn.h> exists and should
2557 be included.
2558
2559i_fcntl (i_fcntl.U):
2560 This variable controls the value of I_FCNTL (which tells
2561 the C program to include <fcntl.h>).
2562
2563i_float (i_float.U):
2564 This variable conditionally defines the I_FLOAT symbol, and indicates
2565 whether a C program may include <float.h> to get symbols like DBL_MAX
2566 or DBL_MIN, i.e. machine dependent floating point values.
2567
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2568i_fp (i_fp.U):
2569 This variable conditionally defines the I_FP symbol, and indicates
2570 whether a C program should include <fp.h>.
2571
2572i_fp_class (i_fp_class.U):
2573 This variable conditionally defines the I_FP_CLASS symbol, and indicates
2574 whether a C program should include <fp_class.h>.
2575
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2576i_gdbm (i_gdbm.U):
2577 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBM symbol, which
2578 indicates to the C program that <gdbm.h> exists and should
2579 be included.
2580
2581i_grp (i_grp.U):
2582 This variable conditionally defines the I_GRP symbol, and indicates
2583 whether a C program should include <grp.h>.
2584
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2585i_ieeefp (i_ieeefp.U):
2586 This variable conditionally defines the I_IEEEFP symbol, and indicates
2587 whether a C program should include <ieeefp.h>.
2588
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2589i_inttypes (i_inttypes.U):
2590 This variable conditionally defines the I_INTTYPES symbol,
2591 and indicates whether a C program should include <inttypes.h>.
2592
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2593i_langinfo (i_langinfo.U):
2594 This variable conditionally defines the I_LANGINFO symbol,
2595 and indicates whether a C program should include <langinfo.h>.
2596
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2597i_libutil (i_libutil.U):
2598 This variable conditionally defines the I_LIBUTIL symbol, and indicates
2599 whether a C program should include <libutil.h>.
2600
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2601i_limits (i_limits.U):
2602 This variable conditionally defines the I_LIMITS symbol, and indicates
2603 whether a C program may include <limits.h> to get symbols like WORD_BIT
2604 and friends.
2605
2606i_locale (i_locale.U):
2607 This variable conditionally defines the I_LOCALE symbol,
2608 and indicates whether a C program should include <locale.h>.
2609
2610i_machcthr (i_machcthr.U):
2611 This variable conditionally defines the I_MACH_CTHREADS symbol,
2612 and indicates whether a C program should include <mach/cthreads.h>.
2613
2614i_malloc (i_malloc.U):
2615 This variable conditionally defines the I_MALLOC symbol, and indicates
2616 whether a C program should include <malloc.h>.
2617
2618i_math (i_math.U):
2619 This variable conditionally defines the I_MATH symbol, and indicates
2620 whether a C program may include <math.h>.
2621
2622i_memory (i_memory.U):
2623 This variable conditionally defines the I_MEMORY symbol, and indicates
2624 whether a C program should include <memory.h>.
2625
2626i_mntent (i_mntent.U):
2627 This variable conditionally defines the I_MNTENT symbol, and indicates
2628 whether a C program should include <mntent.h>.
2629
2630i_ndbm (i_ndbm.U):
2631 This variable conditionally defines the I_NDBM symbol, which
2632 indicates to the C program that <ndbm.h> exists and should
2633 be included.
2634
2635i_netdb (i_netdb.U):
2636 This variable conditionally defines the I_NETDB symbol, and indicates
2637 whether a C program should include <netdb.h>.
2638
2639i_neterrno (i_neterrno.U):
2640 This variable conditionally defines the I_NET_ERRNO symbol, which
2641 indicates to the C program that <net/errno.h> exists and should
2642 be included.
2643
2644i_netinettcp (i_netinettcp.U):
2645 This variable conditionally defines the I_NETINET_TCP symbol,
2646 and indicates whether a C program should include <netinet/tcp.h>.
2647
2648i_niin (i_niin.U):
2649 This variable conditionally defines I_NETINET_IN, which indicates
2650 to the C program that it should include <netinet/in.h>. Otherwise,
2651 you may try <sys/in.h>.
2652
2653i_poll (i_poll.U):
2654 This variable conditionally defines the I_POLL symbol, and indicates
2655 whether a C program should include <poll.h>.
2656
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2657i_prot (i_prot.U):
2658 This variable conditionally defines the I_PROT symbol, and indicates
2659 whether a C program should include <prot.h>.
2660
781b178c 2661i_pthread (i_pthread.U):
190b66db 2662 This variable conditionally defines the I_PTHREAD symbol,
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2663 and indicates whether a C program should include <pthread.h>.
2664
2665i_pwd (i_pwd.U):
2666 This variable conditionally defines I_PWD, which indicates
2667 to the C program that it should include <pwd.h>.
2668
2669i_rpcsvcdbm (i_dbm.U):
2670 This variable conditionally defines the I_RPCSVC_DBM symbol, which
2671 indicates to the C program that <rpcsvc/dbm.h> exists and should
2672 be included. Some System V systems might need this instead of <dbm.h>.
2673
2674i_sfio (i_sfio.U):
2675 This variable conditionally defines the I_SFIO symbol,
2676 and indicates whether a C program should include <sfio.h>.
2677
2678i_sgtty (i_termio.U):
2679 This variable conditionally defines the I_SGTTY symbol, which
2680 indicates to the C program that it should include <sgtty.h> rather
2681 than <termio.h>.
2682
2683i_shadow (i_shadow.U):
2684 This variable conditionally defines the I_SHADOW symbol, and indicates
2685 whether a C program should include <shadow.h>.
2686
2687i_socks (i_socks.U):
2688 This variable conditionally defines the I_SOCKS symbol, and indicates
2689 whether a C program should include <socks.h>.
2690
2691i_stdarg (i_varhdr.U):
2692 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDARG symbol, which
2693 indicates to the C program that <stdarg.h> exists and should
2694 be included.
2695
2696i_stddef (i_stddef.U):
2697 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDDEF symbol, which
2698 indicates to the C program that <stddef.h> exists and should
2699 be included.
2700
2701i_stdlib (i_stdlib.U):
2702 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDLIB symbol, which
2703 indicates to the C program that <stdlib.h> exists and should
2704 be included.
2705
2706i_string (i_string.U):
2707 This variable conditionally defines the I_STRING symbol, which
2708 indicates that <string.h> should be included rather than <strings.h>.
2709
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2710i_sunmath (i_sunmath.U):
2711 This variable conditionally defines the I_SUNMATH symbol, and indicates
2712 whether a C program should include <sunmath.h>.
2713
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2714i_sysaccess (i_sysaccess.U):
2715 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_ACCESS symbol,
2716 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/access.h>.
2717
2718i_sysdir (i_sysdir.U):
2719 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_DIR symbol, and indicates
2720 whether a C program should include <sys/dir.h>.
2721
2722i_sysfile (i_sysfile.U):
2723 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_FILE symbol, and indicates
2724 whether a C program should include <sys/file.h> to get R_OK and friends.
2725
2726i_sysfilio (i_sysioctl.U):
2727 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_FILIO symbol, which
2728 indicates to the C program that <sys/filio.h> exists and should
2729 be included in preference to <sys/ioctl.h>.
2730
2731i_sysin (i_niin.U):
2732 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_IN, which indicates
2733 to the C program that it should include <sys/in.h> instead of
2734 <netinet/in.h>.
2735
2736i_sysioctl (i_sysioctl.U):
2737 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_IOCTL symbol, which
2738 indicates to the C program that <sys/ioctl.h> exists and should
2739 be included.
2740
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2741i_syslog (i_syslog.U):
2742 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSLOG symbol,
2743 and indicates whether a C program should include <syslog.h>.
2744
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2745i_sysmman (i_sysmman.U):
2746 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_MMAN symbol, and
2747 indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mman.h>.
2748
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2749i_sysmode (i_sysmode.U):
2750 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSMODE symbol,
2751 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mode.h>.
2752
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2753i_sysmount (i_sysmount.U):
2754 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSMOUNT symbol,
2755 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mount.h>.
2756
2757i_sysndir (i_sysndir.U):
2758 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_NDIR symbol, and indicates
2759 whether a C program should include <sys/ndir.h>.
2760
2761i_sysparam (i_sysparam.U):
2762 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_PARAM symbol, and indicates
2763 whether a C program should include <sys/param.h>.
2764
2765i_sysresrc (i_sysresrc.U):
2766 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_RESOURCE symbol,
2767 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/resource.h>.
2768
2769i_syssecrt (i_syssecrt.U):
2770 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_SECURITY symbol,
2771 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/security.h>.
2772
2773i_sysselct (i_sysselct.U):
2774 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_SELECT, which indicates
2775 to the C program that it should include <sys/select.h> in order to
2776 get the definition of struct timeval.
2777
2778i_syssockio (i_sysioctl.U):
2779 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_SOCKIO to indicate to the
2780 C program that socket ioctl codes may be found in <sys/sockio.h>
2781 instead of <sys/ioctl.h>.
2782
2783i_sysstat (i_sysstat.U):
2784 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_STAT symbol,
2785 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/stat.h>.
2786
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2787i_sysstatfs (i_sysstatfs.U):
2788 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSSTATFS symbol,
2789 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/statfs.h>.
2790
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2791i_sysstatvfs (i_sysstatvfs.U):
2792 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSSTATVFS symbol,
2793 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/statvfs.h>.
2794
2795i_systime (i_time.U):
2796 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_TIME, which indicates
2797 to the C program that it should include <sys/time.h>.
2798
2799i_systimek (i_time.U):
2800 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_TIME_KERNEL, which
2801 indicates to the C program that it should include <sys/time.h>
2802 with KERNEL defined.
2803
2804i_systimes (i_systimes.U):
2805 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_TIMES symbol, and indicates
2806 whether a C program should include <sys/times.h>.
2807
2808i_systypes (i_systypes.U):
2809 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_TYPES symbol,
2810 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/types.h>.
2811
2812i_sysuio (i_sysuio.U):
2813 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSUIO symbol, and indicates
2814 whether a C program should include <sys/uio.h>.
2815
2816i_sysun (i_sysun.U):
2817 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_UN, which indicates
2818 to the C program that it should include <sys/un.h> to get UNIX
2819 domain socket definitions.
2820
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2821i_sysutsname (i_sysutsname.U):
2822 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSUTSNAME symbol,
2823 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/utsname.h>.
2824
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2825i_sysvfs (i_sysvfs.U):
2826 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSVFS symbol,
2827 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/vfs.h>.
2828
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2829i_syswait (i_syswait.U):
2830 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_WAIT, which indicates
2831 to the C program that it should include <sys/wait.h>.
2832
2833i_termio (i_termio.U):
2834 This variable conditionally defines the I_TERMIO symbol, which
2835 indicates to the C program that it should include <termio.h> rather
2836 than <sgtty.h>.
2837
2838i_termios (i_termio.U):
2839 This variable conditionally defines the I_TERMIOS symbol, which
2840 indicates to the C program that the POSIX <termios.h> file is
2841 to be included.
2842
2843i_time (i_time.U):
2844 This variable conditionally defines I_TIME, which indicates
2845 to the C program that it should include <time.h>.
2846
2847i_unistd (i_unistd.U):
2848 This variable conditionally defines the I_UNISTD symbol, and indicates
2849 whether a C program should include <unistd.h>.
2850
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2851i_ustat (i_ustat.U):
2852 This variable conditionally defines the I_USTAT symbol, and indicates
2853 whether a C program should include <ustat.h>.
2854
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2855i_utime (i_utime.U):
2856 This variable conditionally defines the I_UTIME symbol, and indicates
2857 whether a C program should include <utime.h>.
2858
2859i_values (i_values.U):
2860 This variable conditionally defines the I_VALUES symbol, and indicates
2861 whether a C program may include <values.h> to get symbols like MAXLONG
2862 and friends.
2863
2864i_varargs (i_varhdr.U):
2865 This variable conditionally defines I_VARARGS, which indicates
2866 to the C program that it should include <varargs.h>.
2867
2868i_varhdr (i_varhdr.U):
2869 Contains the name of the header to be included to get va_dcl definition.
2870 Typically one of varargs.h or stdarg.h.
2871
2872i_vfork (i_vfork.U):
2873 This variable conditionally defines the I_VFORK symbol, and indicates
2874 whether a C program should include vfork.h.
2875
2876ignore_versioned_solibs (libs.U):
2877 This variable should be non-empty if non-versioned shared
2878 libraries (libfoo.so.x.y) are to be ignored (because they
2879 cannot be linked against).
2880
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2881inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U):
2882 This variable specifies the list of subdirectories in over
2883 which perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically
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2884 search when adding directories to @INC. The elements in
2885 the list are separated by spaces. This is only useful
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2886 if you have a perl library directory tree structured like the
2887 default one. See INSTALL for how this works. The versioned
2888 site_perl directory was introduced in 5.005, so that is the
2889 lowest possible value.
2890
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2891inc_version_list_init (inc_version_list.U):
2892 This variable holds the same list as inc_version_list, but
2893 each item is enclosed in double quotes and separated by commas,
2894 suitable for use in the PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST initialization.
2895
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2897 This variable must preceed the normal include path to get hte
2898 right one, as in "$incpath/usr/include" or "$incpath/usr/lib".
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2899 Value can be "" or "/bsd43" on mips.
2900
2901inews (Loc.U):
2902 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
2903 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
2904
2905installarchlib (archlib.U):
2906 This variable is really the same as archlibexp but may differ on
2907 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
2908 should be used in makefiles.
2909
2910installbin (bin.U):
2911 This variable is the same as binexp unless AFS is running in which case
2912 the user is explicitely prompted for it. This variable should always
2913 be used in your makefiles for maximum portability.
2914
2915installman1dir (man1dir.U):
2916 This variable is really the same as man1direxp, unless you are using
2917 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
2918 man1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
2919 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
2920
2921installman3dir (man3dir.U):
2922 This variable is really the same as man3direxp, unless you are using
2923 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
2924 man3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
2925 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
2926
2927installprefix (installprefix.U):
2928 This variable holds the name of the directory below which
2929 "make install" will install the package. For most users, this
2930 is the same as prefix. However, it is useful for
2931 installing the software into a different (usually temporary)
2932 location after which it can be bundled up and moved somehow
2933 to the final location specified by prefix.
2934
2935installprefixexp (installprefix.U):
2936 This variable holds the full absolute path of installprefix
2937 with all ~-expansion done.
2938
2939installprivlib (privlib.U):
2940 This variable is really the same as privlibexp but may differ on
2941 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
2942 should be used in makefiles.
2943
2944installscript (scriptdir.U):
2945 This variable is usually the same as scriptdirexp, unless you are on
2946 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
2947 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
2948
2949installsitearch (sitearch.U):
2950 This variable is really the same as sitearchexp but may differ on
2951 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
2952 should be used in makefiles.
2953
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2954installsitebin (sitebin.U):
2955 This variable is usually the same as sitebinexp, unless you are on
2956 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
2957 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
2958
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2959installsitelib (sitelib.U):
2960 This variable is really the same as sitelibexp but may differ on
2961 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
2962 should be used in makefiles.
2963
2964installstyle (installstyle.U):
2965 This variable describes the "style" of the perl installation.
2966 This is intended to be useful for tools that need to
2967 manipulate entire perl distributions. Perl itself doesn't use
2968 this to find its libraries -- the library directories are
2969 stored directly in Config.pm. Currently, there are only two
2970 styles: "lib" and "lib/perl5". The default library locations
2971 (e.g. privlib, sitelib) are either $prefix/lib or
2972 $prefix/lib/perl5. The former is useful if $prefix is a
2973 directory dedicated to perl (e.g. /opt/perl), while the latter
2974 is useful if $prefix is shared by many packages, e.g. if
2975 $prefix=/usr/local.
2976 This may later be extended to include other information, so
2977 be careful with pattern-matching on the results.
2978 For compatibility with perl5.005 and earlier, the default
2979 setting is based on whether or not $prefix contains the string
2980 "perl".
2981
2982installusrbinperl (instubperl.U):
2983 This variable tells whether Perl should be installed also as
2984 /usr/bin/perl in addition to
2985 $installbin/perl
2986
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2987installvendorarch (vendorarch.U):
2988 This variable is really the same as vendorarchexp but may differ on
2989 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
2990 should be used in makefiles.
2991
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2992installvendorbin (vendorbin.U):
2993 This variable is really the same as vendorbinexp but may differ on
2994 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
2995 should be used in makefiles.
2996
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2997installvendorlib (vendorlib.U):
2998 This variable is really the same as vendorlibexp but may differ on
2999 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3000 should be used in makefiles.
3001
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3002intsize (intsize.U):
3003 This variable contains the value of the INTSIZE symbol, which
3004 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in an int.
3005
4b661809 3006issymlink (issymlink.U):
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3007 This variable holds the test command to test for a symbolic link
3008 (if they are supported). Typical values include 'test -h' and
3009 'test -L'.
4b661809 3010
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3011ivdformat (perlxvf.U):
3012 This variable contains the format string used for printing
3013 a Perl IV as a signed decimal integer.
3014
3015ivsize (perlxv.U):
3016 This variable is the size of an IV in bytes.
3017
3018ivtype (perlxv.U):
3019 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's IV.
3020
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3021known_extensions (Extensions.U):
3022 This variable holds a list of all XS extensions included in
3023 the package.
3024
3025ksh (Loc.U):
3026 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
3027 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
3028
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3029ld (dlsrc.U):
3030 This variable indicates the program to be used to link
3031 libraries for dynamic loading. On some systems, it is 'ld'.
3032 On ELF systems, it should be $cc. Mostly, we'll try to respect
3033 the hint file setting.
3034
3035lddlflags (dlsrc.U):
3036 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
3037 passed to $ld to create a shared library suitable for dynamic
3038 loading. It is up to the makefile to use it. For hpux, it
3039 should be '-b'. For sunos 4.1, it is empty.
3040
3041ldflags (ccflags.U):
3042 This variable contains any additional C loader flags desired by
3043 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
3044
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3045ldflags_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
3046 This variable contains the loader flags needed by large file builds
3047 and added to ldflags by hints files.
3048
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3049ldlibpthname (libperl.U):
3050 This variable holds the name of the shared library
3051 search path, often LD_LIBRARY_PATH. To get an empty
3052 string, the hints file must set this to 'none'.
3053
3054less (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3055 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3056 full pathname (if any) of the less program. After Configure runs,
3057 the value is reset to a plain "less" and is not useful.
3058
3059lib_ext (Unix.U):
3060 This is an old synonym for _a.
3061
3062libc (libc.U):
3063 This variable contains the location of the C library.
3064
3065libperl (libperl.U):
3066 The perl executable is obtained by linking perlmain.c with
3067 libperl, any static extensions (usually just DynaLoader),
3068 and any other libraries needed on this system. libperl
3069 is usually libperl.a, but can also be libperl.so.xxx if
3070 the user wishes to build a perl executable with a shared
3071 library.
3072
3073libpth (libpth.U):
3074 This variable holds the general path (space-separated) used to find
3075 libraries. It is intended to be used by other units.
3076
3077libs (libs.U):
3078 This variable holds the additional libraries we want to use.
3079 It is up to the Makefile to deal with it.
3080
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3081libsdirs (libs.U):
3082 This variable holds the directory names aka dirnames of the libraries
3083 we found and accepted, duplicates are removed.
3084
3085libsfiles (libs.U):
3086 This variable holds the filenames aka basenames of the libraries
3087 we found and accepted.
3088
3089libsfound (libs.U):
3090 This variable holds the full pathnames of the libraries
3091 we found and accepted.
3092
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3093libspath (libs.U):
3094 This variable holds the directory names probed for libraries.
3095
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3096libswanted (Myinit.U):
3097 This variable holds a list of all the libraries we want to
3098 search. The order is chosen to pick up the c library
3099 ahead of ucb or bsd libraries for SVR4.
3100
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3101libswanted_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
3102 This variable contains the libraries needed by large file builds
3103 and added to ldflags by hints files. It is a space separated list
3104 of the library names without the "lib" prefix or any suffix, just
209e5c0a 3105 like libswanted..
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781b178c 3107line (Loc.U):
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3108 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
3109 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
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3110
3111lint (Loc.U):
3112 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
3113 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
3114
3115lkflags (ccflags.U):
3116 This variable contains any additional C partial linker flags desired by
3117 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
3118
3119ln (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3120 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3121 full pathname (if any) of the ln program. After Configure runs,
3122 the value is reset to a plain "ln" and is not useful.
3123
3124lns (lns.U):
3125 This variable holds the name of the command to make
3126 symbolic links (if they are supported). It can be used
3127 in the Makefile. It is either 'ln -s' or 'ln'
3128
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3129localtime_r_proto (d_localtime_r.U):
3130 This variable encodes the prototype of localtime_r.
3131
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3132locincpth (ccflags.U):
3133 This variable contains a list of additional directories to be
3134 searched by the compiler. The appropriate '-I' directives will
3135 be added to ccflags. This is intended to simplify setting
3136 local directories from the Configure command line.
3137 It's not much, but it parallels the loclibpth stuff in libpth.U.
3138
3139loclibpth (libpth.U):
3140 This variable holds the paths (space-separated) used to find local
3141 libraries. It is prepended to libpth, and is intended to be easily
3142 set from the command line.
3143
3144longdblsize (d_longdbl.U):
3145 This variable contains the value of the LONG_DOUBLESIZE symbol, which
3146 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long double,
3147 if this system supports long doubles.
3148
3149longlongsize (d_longlong.U):
3150 This variable contains the value of the LONGLONGSIZE symbol, which
3151 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long long,
3152 if this system supports long long.
3153
3154longsize (intsize.U):
3155 This variable contains the value of the LONGSIZE symbol, which
3156 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long.
3157
3158lp (Loc.U):
3159 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
3160 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
3161
3162lpr (Loc.U):
3163 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
3164 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
3165
3166ls (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3167 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3168 full pathname (if any) of the ls program. After Configure runs,
3169 the value is reset to a plain "ls" and is not useful.
3170
3171lseeksize (lseektype.U):
3172 This variable defines lseektype to be something like off_t, long,
3173 or whatever type is used to declare lseek offset's type in the
3174 kernel (which also appears to be lseek's return type).
3175
3176lseektype (lseektype.U):
3177 This variable defines lseektype to be something like off_t, long,
3178 or whatever type is used to declare lseek offset's type in the
3179 kernel (which also appears to be lseek's return type).
3180
3181mail (Loc.U):
3182 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
3183 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
3184
3185mailx (Loc.U):
3186 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
3187 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
3188
3189make (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3190 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3191 full pathname (if any) of the make program. After Configure runs,
3192 the value is reset to a plain "make" and is not useful.
3193
3194make_set_make (make.U):
3195 Some versions of 'make' set the variable MAKE. Others do not.
3196 This variable contains the string to be included in Makefile.SH
3197 so that MAKE is set if needed, and not if not needed.
3198 Possible values are:
3199 make_set_make='#' # If your make program handles this for you,
3200 make_set_make="MAKE=$make" # if it doesn't.
3201 I used a comment character so that we can distinguish a
3202 'set' value (from a previous config.sh or Configure '-D' option)
3203 from an uncomputed value.
3204
3205mallocobj (mallocsrc.U):
3206 This variable contains the name of the malloc.o that this package
3207 generates, if that malloc.o is preferred over the system malloc.
3208 Otherwise the value is null. This variable is intended for generating
3209 Makefiles. See mallocsrc.
3210
3211mallocsrc (mallocsrc.U):
3212 This variable contains the name of the malloc.c that comes with
3213 the package, if that malloc.c is preferred over the system malloc.
3214 Otherwise the value is null. This variable is intended for generating
3215 Makefiles.
3216
3217malloctype (mallocsrc.U):
3218 This variable contains the kind of ptr returned by malloc and realloc.
3219
3220man1dir (man1dir.U):
3221 This variable contains the name of the directory in which manual
3222 source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
3223 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
3224 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
3225
3226man1direxp (man1dir.U):
3227 This variable is the same as the man1dir variable, but is filename
3228 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
3229
3230man1ext (man1dir.U):
3231 This variable contains the extension that the manual page should
3232 have: one of 'n', 'l', or '1'. The Makefile must supply the '.'.
3233 See man1dir.
3234
3235man3dir (man3dir.U):
3236 This variable contains the name of the directory in which manual
3237 source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
3238 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
3239 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
3240
3241man3direxp (man3dir.U):
3242 This variable is the same as the man3dir variable, but is filename
3243 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
3244
3245man3ext (man3dir.U):
3246 This variable contains the extension that the manual page should
3247 have: one of 'n', 'l', or '3'. The Makefile must supply the '.'.
3248 See man3dir.
3249
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3250Mcc (Loc.U):
3251 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
3252 full pathname (if any) of the Mcc program. After Configure runs,
3253 the value is reset to a plain "Mcc" and is not useful.
3254
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3255mips_type (usrinc.U):
3256 This variable holds the environment type for the mips system.
3257 Possible values are "BSD 4.3" and "System V".
3258
3259mkdir (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3260 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3261 full pathname (if any) of the mkdir program. After Configure runs,
3262 the value is reset to a plain "mkdir" and is not useful.
3263
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3264mmaptype (d_mmap.U):
3265 This symbol contains the type of pointer returned by mmap()
3266 (and simultaneously the type of the first argument).
3267 It can be 'void *' or 'caddr_t'.
3268
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3269modetype (modetype.U):
3270 This variable defines modetype to be something like mode_t,
3271 int, unsigned short, or whatever type is used to declare file
3272 modes for system calls.
3273
3274more (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3275 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3276 full pathname (if any) of the more program. After Configure runs,
3277 the value is reset to a plain "more" and is not useful.
3278
3279multiarch (multiarch.U):
3280 This variable conditionally defines the MULTIARCH symbol
3281 which signifies the presence of multiplatform files.
3282 This is normally set by hints files.
3283
3284mv (Loc.U):
3285 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
3286 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
3287
3288myarchname (archname.U):
3289 This variable holds the architecture name computed by Configure in
3290 a previous run. It is not intended to be perused by any user and
3291 should never be set in a hint file.
3292
3293mydomain (myhostname.U):
3294 This variable contains the eventual value of the MYDOMAIN symbol,
3295 which is the domain of the host the program is going to run on.
3296 The domain must be appended to myhostname to form a complete host name.
3297 The dot comes with mydomain, and need not be supplied by the program.
3298
3299myhostname (myhostname.U):
3300 This variable contains the eventual value of the MYHOSTNAME symbol,
3301 which is the name of the host the program is going to run on.
3302 The domain is not kept with hostname, but must be gotten from mydomain.
3303 The dot comes with mydomain, and need not be supplied by the program.
3304
3305myuname (Oldconfig.U):
3306 The output of 'uname -a' if available, otherwise the hostname. On Xenix,
3307 pseudo variables assignments in the output are stripped, thank you. The
3308 whole thing is then lower-cased.
3309
3310n (n.U):
3311 This variable contains the '-n' flag if that is what causes the echo
3312 command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is
3313 $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
3314
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3315need_va_copy (need_va_copy.U):
3316 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the system stores
3317 the variable argument list datatype, va_list, in a format
3318 that cannot be copied by simple assignment, so that some
3319 other means must be used when copying is required.
3320 As such systems vary in their provision (or non-provision)
3321 of copying mechanisms, handy.h defines a platform-
3322 independent macro, Perl_va_copy(src, dst), to do the job.
3323
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3324netdb_hlen_type (netdbtype.U):
3325 This variable holds the type used for the 2nd argument to
3326 gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or size_t or unsigned.
3327 This is only useful if you have gethostbyaddr(), naturally.
3328
3329netdb_host_type (netdbtype.U):
3330 This variable holds the type used for the 1st argument to
3331 gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is char * or void *, possibly
3332 with or without a const prefix.
3333 This is only useful if you have gethostbyaddr(), naturally.
3334
3335netdb_name_type (netdbtype.U):
3336 This variable holds the type used for the argument to
3337 gethostbyname(). Usually, this is char * or const char *.
3338 This is only useful if you have gethostbyname(), naturally.
3339
3340netdb_net_type (netdbtype.U):
3341 This variable holds the type used for the 1st argument to
3342 getnetbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or long.
3343 This is only useful if you have getnetbyaddr(), naturally.
3344
3345nm (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3346 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3347 full pathname (if any) of the nm program. After Configure runs,
3348 the value is reset to a plain "nm" and is not useful.
3349
3350nm_opt (usenm.U):
3351 This variable holds the options that may be necessary for nm.
3352
3353nm_so_opt (usenm.U):
3354 This variable holds the options that may be necessary for nm
3355 to work on a shared library but that can not be used on an
3356 archive library. Currently, this is only used by Linux, where
3357 nm --dynamic is *required* to get symbols from an ELF library which
3358 has been stripped, but nm --dynamic is *fatal* on an archive library.
3359 Maybe Linux should just always set usenm=false.
3360
3361nonxs_ext (Extensions.U):
3362 This variable holds a list of all non-xs extensions included
3363 in the package. All of them will be built.
3364
3365nroff (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3366 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3367 full pathname (if any) of the nroff program. After Configure runs,
3368 the value is reset to a plain "nroff" and is not useful.
3369
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3370nveformat (perlxvf.U):
3371 This variable contains the format string used for printing
3372 a Perl NV using %e-ish floating point format.
3373
6b356c8e 3374nvEUformat (perlxvf.U):
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3375 This variable contains the format string used for printing
3376 a Perl NV using %E-ish floating point format.
3377
3378nvfformat (perlxvf.U):
3379 This variable confains the format string used for printing
3380 a Perl NV using %f-ish floating point format.
3381
6b356c8e 3382nvFUformat (perlxvf.U):
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3383 This variable confains the format string used for printing
3384 a Perl NV using %F-ish floating point format.
3385
3386nvgformat (perlxvf.U):
3387 This variable contains the format string used for printing
3388 a Perl NV using %g-ish floating point format.
3389
6b356c8e 3390nvGUformat (perlxvf.U):
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3391 This variable contains the format string used for printing
3392 a Perl NV using %G-ish floating point format.
3393
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3394nvsize (perlxv.U):
3395 This variable is the size of an NV in bytes.
3396
3397nvtype (perlxv.U):
3398 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's NV.
3399
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3400o_nonblock (nblock_io.U):
3401 This variable bears the symbol value to be used during open() or fcntl()
3402 to turn on non-blocking I/O for a file descriptor. If you wish to switch
3403 between blocking and non-blocking, you may try ioctl(FIOSNBIO) instead,
3404 but that is only supported by some devices.
3405
3406obj_ext (Unix.U):
3407 This is an old synonym for _o.
3408
3409old_pthread_create_joinable (d_pthrattrj.U):
3410 This variable defines the constant to use for creating joinable
3411 (aka undetached) pthreads. Unused if pthread.h defines
3412 PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE. If used, possible values are
3413 PTHREAD_CREATE_UNDETACHED and __UNDETACHED.
3414
3415optimize (ccflags.U):
3416 This variable contains any optimizer/debugger flag that should be used.
3417 It is up to the Makefile to use it.
3418
3419orderlib (orderlib.U):
3420 This variable is "true" if the components of libraries must be ordered
3421 (with `lorder $* | tsort`) before placing them in an archive. Set to
3422 "false" if ranlib or ar can generate random libraries.
3423
3424osname (Oldconfig.U):
3425 This variable contains the operating system name (e.g. sunos,
3426 solaris, hpux, etc.). It can be useful later on for setting
3427 defaults. Any spaces are replaced with underscores. It is set
3428 to a null string if we can't figure it out.
3429
3430osvers (Oldconfig.U):
3431 This variable contains the operating system version (e.g.
3432 4.1.3, 5.2, etc.). It is primarily used for helping select
3433 an appropriate hints file, but might be useful elsewhere for
3434 setting defaults. It is set to '' if we can't figure it out.
3435 We try to be flexible about how much of the version number
3436 to keep, e.g. if 4.1.1, 4.1.2, and 4.1.3 are essentially the
3437 same for this package, hints files might just be os_4.0 or
3438 os_4.1, etc., not keeping separate files for each little release.
3439
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3440otherlibdirs (otherlibdirs.U):
3441 This variable contains a colon-separated set of paths for the perl
3442 binary to search for additional library files or modules.
3443 These directories will be tacked to the end of @INC.
3444 Perl will automatically search below each path for version-
3445 and architecture-specific directories. See inc_version_list
3446 for more details.
3447 A value of ' ' means 'none' and is used to preserve this value
3448 for the next run through Configure.
3449
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3450package (package.U):
3451 This variable contains the name of the package being constructed.
3452 It is primarily intended for the use of later Configure units.
3453
3454pager (pager.U):
3455 This variable contains the name of the preferred pager on the system.
3456 Usual values are (the full pathnames of) more, less, pg, or cat.
3457
3458passcat (nis.U):
3459 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
3460 /etc/passwd file. This is normally "cat /etc/passwd", but can be
3461 "ypcat passwd" when NIS is used.
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3462 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
3463 command, in which case this variable is unset.
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3464
3465patchlevel (patchlevel.U):
3466 The patchlevel level of this package.
3467 The value of patchlevel comes from the patchlevel.h file.
ff935051 3468 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "6".
c890dc6c 3469 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_VERSION".
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3470
3471path_sep (Unix.U):
3472 This is an old synonym for p_ in Head.U, the character
3473 used to separate elements in the command shell search PATH.
3474
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3475perl5 (perl5.U):
3476 This variable contains the full path (if any) to a previously
3477 installed perl5.005 or later suitable for running the script
3478 to determine inc_version_list.
3479
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3481 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
3482 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
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3484perl_patchlevel (patchlevel.U):
3485 This is the Perl patch level, a numeric change identifier,
3486 as defined by whichever source code maintenance system
3487 is used to maintain the patches; currently Perforce.
3488 It does not correlate with the Perl version numbers or
3489 the maintenance versus development dichotomy except
3490 by also being increasing.
3491
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3492PERL_REVISION (Oldsyms.U):
3493 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 5.
3494 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
3495
3496PERL_SUBVERSION (Oldsyms.U):
3497 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 2.
3498 Values greater than 50 represent potentially unstable
3499 development subversions.
3500 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
3501
3502PERL_VERSION (Oldsyms.U):
3503 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 6.
3504 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
3505
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3506perladmin (perladmin.U):
3507 Electronic mail address of the perl5 administrator.
3508
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3509perllibs (End.U):
3510 The list of libraries needed by Perl only (any libraries needed
3511 by extensions only will by dropped, if using dynamic loading).
3512
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3513perlpath (perlpath.U):
3514 This variable contains the eventual value of the PERLPATH symbol,
3515 which contains the name of the perl interpreter to be used in
3516 shell scripts and in the "eval 'exec'" idiom.
3517
3518pg (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3519 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3520 full pathname (if any) of the pg program. After Configure runs,
3521 the value is reset to a plain "pg" and is not useful.
3522
3523phostname (myhostname.U):
3524 This variable contains the eventual value of the PHOSTNAME symbol,
3525 which is a command that can be fed to popen() to get the host name.
3526 The program should probably not presume that the domain is or isn't
3527 there already.
3528
3529pidtype (pidtype.U):
3530 This variable defines PIDTYPE to be something like pid_t, int,
3531 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare process ids in the kernel.
3532
3533plibpth (libpth.U):
3534 Holds the private path used by Configure to find out the libraries.
3535 Its value is prepend to libpth. This variable takes care of special
3536 machines, like the mips. Usually, it should be empty.
3537
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3538pm_apiversion (xs_apiversion.U):
3539 This variable contains the version of the oldest perl
3540 compatible with the present perl. (That is, pure perl modules
3541 written for $pm_apiversion will still work for the current
3542 version). perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically
3543 search in $sitelib for older directories across major versions
3544 back to pm_apiversion. This is only useful if you have a perl
3545 library directory tree structured like the default one. The
3546 versioned site_perl library was introduced in 5.005, so that's
3547 the default setting for this variable. It's hard to imagine
3548 it changing before Perl6. It is included here for symmetry
3549 with xs_apiveprsion -- the searching algorithms will
3550 (presumably) be similar.
3551 See the INSTALL file for how this works.
3552
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3553pmake (Loc.U):
3554 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
3555 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
3556
3557pr (Loc.U):
3558 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
3559 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
3560
3561prefix (prefix.U):
3562 This variable holds the name of the directory below which the
3563 user will install the package. Usually, this is /usr/local, and
3564 executables go in /usr/local/bin, library stuff in /usr/local/lib,
3565 man pages in /usr/local/man, etc. It is only used to set defaults
3566 for things in bin.U, mansrc.U, privlib.U, or scriptdir.U.
3567
3568prefixexp (prefix.U):
3569 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
3570 which the user will install the package. Derived from prefix.
3571
3572privlib (privlib.U):
3573 This variable contains the eventual value of the PRIVLIB symbol,
3574 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
3575 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
3576 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
3577
3578privlibexp (privlib.U):
3579 This variable is the ~name expanded version of privlib, so that you
3580 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
3581
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3582procselfexe (d_procselfexe.U):
3583 If d_procselfexe is defined, $procselfexe is the filename
3584 of the symbolic link pointing to the absolute pathname of
3585 the executing program.
3586
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3587prototype (prototype.U):
3588 This variable holds the eventual value of CAN_PROTOTYPE, which
3589 indicates the C compiler can handle funciton prototypes.
3590
3591ptrsize (ptrsize.U):
3592 This variable contains the value of the PTRSIZE symbol, which
3593 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a pointer.
3594
e0a10278 3595quadkind (quadtype.U):
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3596 This variable, if defined, encodes the type of a quad:
3597 1 = int, 2 = long, 3 = long long, 4 = int64_t.
3598
3599quadtype (quadtype.U):
3600 This variable defines Quad_t to be something like long, int,
3601 long long, int64_t, or whatever type is used for 64-bit integers.
3602
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3603randbits (randfunc.U):
3604 Indicates how many bits are produced by the function used to
3605 generate normalized random numbers.
3606
3607randfunc (randfunc.U):
3608 Indicates the name of the random number function to use.
3609 Values include drand48, random, and rand. In C programs,
3610 the 'Drand01' macro is defined to generate uniformly distributed
3611 random numbers over the range [0., 1.[ (see drand01 and nrand).
3612
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3613random_r_proto (d_random_r.U):
3614 This variable encodes the prototype of random_r.
3615
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3616randseedtype (randfunc.U):
3617 Indicates the type of the argument of the seedfunc.
3618
3619ranlib (orderlib.U):
3620 This variable is set to the pathname of the ranlib program, if it is
3621 needed to generate random libraries. Set to ":" if ar can generate
3622 random libraries or if random libraries are not supported
3623
3624rd_nodata (nblock_io.U):
3625 This variable holds the return code from read() when no data is
3626 present. It should be -1, but some systems return 0 when O_NDELAY is
3627 used, which is a shame because you cannot make the difference between
209e5c0a 3628 no data and an EOF.. Sigh!
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3630readdir64_r_proto (d_readdir64_r.U):
3631 This variable encodes the prototype of readdir64_r.
3632
3633readdir_r_proto (d_readdir_r.U):
3634 This variable encodes the prototype of readdir_r.
3635
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3636revision (patchlevel.U):
3637 The value of revision comes from the patchlevel.h file.
3638 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "5".
3639 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_REVISION".
3640
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5bf26616 3642 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3643 full pathname (if any) of the rm program. After Configure runs,
3644 the value is reset to a plain "rm" and is not useful.
3645
3646rmail (Loc.U):
3647 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
3648 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
3649
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3650run (Cross.U):
3651 This variable contains the command used by Configure
3652 to copy and execute a cross-compiled executable in the
3653 target host. Useful and available only during Perl build.
3654 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
3655
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3656runnm (usenm.U):
3657 This variable contains 'true' or 'false' depending whether the
3658 nm extraction should be performed or not, according to the value
3659 of usenm and the flags on the Configure command line.
3660
3661sched_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
3662 This variable defines the way to yield the execution
3663 of the current thread.
3664
3665scriptdir (scriptdir.U):
3666 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
3667 to put publicly scripts for the package in question. It is either
3668 the same directory as for binaries, or a special one that can be
3669 mounted across different architectures, like /usr/share. Programs
3670 must be prepared to deal with ~name expansion.
3671
3672scriptdirexp (scriptdir.U):
3673 This variable is the same as scriptdir, but is filename expanded
3674 at configuration time, for programs not wanting to bother with it.
3675
3676sed (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3677 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3678 full pathname (if any) of the sed program. After Configure runs,
3679 the value is reset to a plain "sed" and is not useful.
3680
3681seedfunc (randfunc.U):
3682 Indicates the random number generating seed function.
3683 Values include srand48, srandom, and srand.
3684
3685selectminbits (selectminbits.U):
3686 This variable holds the minimum number of bits operated by select.
3687 That is, if you do select(n, ...), how many bits at least will be
3688 cleared in the masks if some activity is detected. Usually this
3689 is either n or 32*ceil(n/32), especially many little-endians do
3690 the latter. This is only useful if you have select(), naturally.
3691
3692selecttype (selecttype.U):
3693 This variable holds the type used for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th
3694 arguments to select. Usually, this is 'fd_set *', if HAS_FD_SET
3695 is defined, and 'int *' otherwise. This is only useful if you
3696 have select(), naturally.
3697
3698sendmail (Loc.U):
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3699 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
3700 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
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3702setgrent_r_proto (d_setgrent_r.U):
3703 This variable encodes the prototype of setgrent_r.
3704
3705sethostent_r_proto (d_sethostent_r.U):
3706 This variable encodes the prototype of sethostent_r.
3707
3708setlocale_r_proto (d_setlocale_r.U):
3709 This variable encodes the prototype of setlocale_r.
3710
3711setnetent_r_proto (d_setnetent_r.U):
3712 This variable encodes the prototype of setnetent_r.
3713
3714setprotoent_r_proto (d_setprotoent_r.U):
3715 This variable encodes the prototype of setprotoent_r.
3716
3717setpwent_r_proto (d_setpwent_r.U):
3718 This variable encodes the prototype of setpwent_r.
3719
3720setservent_r_proto (d_setservent_r.U):
3721 This variable encodes the prototype of setservent_r.
3722
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3723sh (sh.U):
3724 This variable contains the full pathname of the shell used
3725 on this system to execute Bourne shell scripts. Usually, this will be
3726 /bin/sh, though it's possible that some systems will have /bin/ksh,
3727 /bin/pdksh, /bin/ash, /bin/bash, or even something such as
3728 D:/bin/sh.exe.
3729 This unit comes before Options.U, so you can't set sh with a '-D'
3730 option, though you can override this (and startsh)
3731 with '-O -Dsh=/bin/whatever -Dstartsh=whatever'
3732
3733shar (Loc.U):
3734 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
3735 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
3736
3737sharpbang (spitshell.U):
3738 This variable contains the string #! if this system supports that
3739 construct.
3740
3741shmattype (d_shmat.U):
3742 This symbol contains the type of pointer returned by shmat().
3743 It can be 'void *' or 'char *'.
3744
3745shortsize (intsize.U):
3746 This variable contains the value of the SHORTSIZE symbol which
3747 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a short.
3748
3749shrpenv (libperl.U):
3750 If the user builds a shared libperl.so, then we need to tell the
3751 'perl' executable where it will be able to find the installed libperl.so.
3752 One way to do this on some systems is to set the environment variable
3753 LD_RUN_PATH to the directory that will be the final location of the
3754 shared libperl.so. The makefile can use this with something like
3755 $shrpenv $(CC) -o perl perlmain.o $libperl $libs
3756 Typical values are
3757 shrpenv="env LD_RUN_PATH=$archlibexp/CORE"
3758 or
3759 shrpenv=''
3760 See the main perl Makefile.SH for actual working usage.
3761 Alternatively, we might be able to use a command line option such
c68a00c0 3762 as -R $archlibexp/CORE (Solaris) or -Wl,-rpath
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3763 $archlibexp/CORE (Linux).
3764
3765shsharp (spitshell.U):
3766 This variable tells further Configure units whether your sh can
3767 handle # comments.
3768
3769sig_count (sig_name.U):
3770 This variable holds a number larger than the largest valid
3771 signal number. This is usually the same as the NSIG macro.
3772
3773sig_name (sig_name.U):
3774 This variable holds the signal names, space separated. The leading
3775 SIG in signal name is removed. A ZERO is prepended to the
3776 list. This is currently not used.
3777
3778sig_name_init (sig_name.U):
3779 This variable holds the signal names, enclosed in double quotes and
3780 separated by commas, suitable for use in the SIG_NAME definition
3781 below. A "ZERO" is prepended to the list, and the list is
3782 terminated with a plain 0. The leading SIG in signal names
3783 is removed. See sig_num.
3784
3785sig_num (sig_name.U):
3786 This variable holds the signal numbers, space separated. A ZERO is
3787 prepended to the list (corresponding to the fake SIGZERO), and
3788 the list is terminated with a 0. Those numbers correspond to
3789 the value of the signal listed in the same place within the
3790 sig_name list.
3791
3792sig_num_init (sig_name.U):
3793 This variable holds the signal numbers, enclosed in double quotes and
3794 separated by commas, suitable for use in the SIG_NUM definition
3795 below. A "ZERO" is prepended to the list, and the list is
3796 terminated with a plain 0.
3797
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3798sig_size (sig_name.U):
3799 This variable contains the number of elements of the sig_name
8966e0c4 3800 and sig_num arrays, excluding the final NULL entry.
76d3c696 3801
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3802signal_t (d_voidsig.U):
3803 This variable holds the type of the signal handler (void or int).
3804
3805sitearch (sitearch.U):
3806 This variable contains the eventual value of the SITEARCH symbol,
3807 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
3808 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
3809 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
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3810 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
3811 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
3812 architecture-dependent modules in this directory with
3813 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
3814 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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3815
3816sitearchexp (sitearch.U):
3817 This variable is the ~name expanded version of sitearch, so that you
3818 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
3819
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3820sitebin (sitebin.U):
3821 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
3822 to put add-on publicly executable files for the package in question. It
3823 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
3824 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
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3825 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
3826 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
3827 executables in this directory with
3828 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
3829 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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3830
3831sitebinexp (sitebin.U):
3832 This is the same as the sitebin variable, but is filename expanded at
3833 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
3834
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3835sitelib (sitelib.U):
3836 This variable contains the eventual value of the SITELIB symbol,
3837 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
3838 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
3839 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
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3840 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
3841 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
3842 architecture-independent modules in this directory with
3843 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
3844 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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3846sitelib_stem (sitelib.U):
3847 This variable is $sitelibexp with any trailing version-specific component
3848 removed. The elements in inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U) can
3849 be tacked onto this variable to generate a list of directories to search.
3850
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3851sitelibexp (sitelib.U):
3852 This variable is the ~name expanded version of sitelib, so that you
3853 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
3854
3855siteprefix (siteprefix.U):
3856 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
3857 which the user will install add-on packages.
f868067f 3858 See INSTALL for usage and examples.
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3859
3860siteprefixexp (siteprefix.U):
3861 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
3862 which the user will install add-on packages. Derived from siteprefix.
3863
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3864sizesize (sizesize.U):
3865 This variable contains the size of a sizetype in bytes.
3866
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3867sizetype (sizetype.U):
3868 This variable defines sizetype to be something like size_t,
3869 unsigned long, or whatever type is used to declare length
3870 parameters for string functions.
3871
3872sleep (Loc.U):
3873 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
3874 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
3875
3876smail (Loc.U):
3877 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
3878 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
3879
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3880so (so.U):
3881 This variable holds the extension used to identify shared libraries
3882 (also known as shared objects) on the system. Usually set to 'so'.
3883
3884sockethdr (d_socket.U):
3885 This variable has any cpp '-I' flags needed for socket support.
3886
3887socketlib (d_socket.U):
3888 This variable has the names of any libraries needed for socket support.
3889
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3890socksizetype (socksizetype.U):
3891 This variable holds the type used for the size argument
3892 for various socket calls like accept. Usual values include
3893 socklen_t, size_t, and int.
3894
781b178c 3895sort (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3896 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3897 full pathname (if any) of the sort program. After Configure runs,
3898 the value is reset to a plain "sort" and is not useful.
3899
3900spackage (package.U):
3901 This variable contains the name of the package being constructed,
3902 with the first letter uppercased, i.e. suitable for starting
3903 sentences.
3904
3905spitshell (spitshell.U):
3906 This variable contains the command necessary to spit out a runnable
3907 shell on this system. It is either cat or a grep '-v' for # comments.
3908
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3909sPRId64 (quadfio.U):
3910 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
3911 format 64-bit decimal numbers (format 'd') for output.
3912
3913sPRIeldbl (longdblfio.U):
3914 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
3915 format long doubles (format 'e') for output.
3916
6b356c8e 3917sPRIEUldbl (longdblfio.U):
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3918 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
3919 format long doubles (format 'E') for output.
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3920 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIeldbl so that even
3921 case-blind systems can see the difference.
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3922
3923sPRIfldbl (longdblfio.U):
3924 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
3925 format long doubles (format 'f') for output.
3926
6b356c8e 3927sPRIFUldbl (longdblfio.U):
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3928 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
3929 format long doubles (format 'F') for output.
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3930 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIfldbl so that even
3931 case-blind systems can see the difference.
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3932
3933sPRIgldbl (longdblfio.U):
3934 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
3935 format long doubles (format 'g') for output.
3936
6b356c8e 3937sPRIGUldbl (longdblfio.U):
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3938 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
3939 format long doubles (format 'G') for output.
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3940 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIgldbl so that even
3941 case-blind systems can see the difference.
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3942
3943sPRIi64 (quadfio.U):
3944 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
3945 format 64-bit decimal numbers (format 'i') for output.
3946
3947sPRIo64 (quadfio.U):
3948 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
3949 format 64-bit octal numbers (format 'o') for output.
3950
3951sPRIu64 (quadfio.U):
3952 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
3953 format 64-bit unsigned decimal numbers (format 'u') for output.
3954
3955sPRIx64 (quadfio.U):
3956 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
3957 format 64-bit hexadecimal numbers (format 'x') for output.
3958
6b356c8e 3959sPRIXU64 (quadfio.U):
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3960 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
3961 format 64-bit hExADECimAl numbers (format 'X') for output.
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3962 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIx64 so that even
3963 case-blind systems can see the difference.
ff935051 3964
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3965srand48_r_proto (d_srand48_r.U):
3966 This variable encodes the prototype of srand48_r.
3967
3968srandom_r_proto (d_srandom_r.U):
3969 This variable encodes the prototype of srandom_r.
3970
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3971src (src.U):
3972 This variable holds the path to the package source. It is up to
3973 the Makefile to use this variable and set VPATH accordingly to
3974 find the sources remotely.
3975
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3976sSCNfldbl (longdblfio.U):
3977 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
3978 format long doubles (format 'f') for input.
3979
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3980ssizetype (ssizetype.U):
3981 This variable defines ssizetype to be something like ssize_t,
3982 long or int. It is used by functions that return a count
3983 of bytes or an error condition. It must be a signed type.
3984 We will pick a type such that sizeof(SSize_t) == sizeof(Size_t).
3985
3986startperl (startperl.U):
3987 This variable contains the string to put on the front of a perl
3988 script to make sure (hopefully) that it runs with perl and not some
3989 shell. Of course, that leading line must be followed by the classical
3990 perl idiom:
3991 eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
3992 if $running_under_some_shell;
3993 to guarantee perl startup should the shell execute the script. Note
3994 that this magic incatation is not understood by csh.
3995
3996startsh (startsh.U):
3997 This variable contains the string to put on the front of a shell
3998 script to make sure (hopefully) that it runs with sh and not some
3999 other shell.
4000
4001static_ext (Extensions.U):
4002 This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to
4003 link statically into the package. It is used by Makefile.
4004
4005stdchar (stdchar.U):
4006 This variable conditionally defines STDCHAR to be the type of char
4007 used in stdio.h. It has the values "unsigned char" or "char".
4008
4009stdio_base (d_stdstdio.U):
4010 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
4011 _base field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
4012 be used to define the macro FILE_base(fp).
4013
4014stdio_bufsiz (d_stdstdio.U):
4015 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to determine
4016 the number of bytes store in the I/O buffer pointer to by the
4017 _base field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
4018 be used to define the macro FILE_bufsiz(fp).
4019
4020stdio_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
4021 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
4022 _cnt field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
4023 be used to define the macro FILE_cnt(fp).
4024
4025stdio_filbuf (d_stdstdio.U):
4026 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to tell
022735b4 4027 stdio to refill its internal buffers (?). This will
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4028 be used to define the macro FILE_filbuf(fp).
4029
4030stdio_ptr (d_stdstdio.U):
4031 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
4032 _ptr field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
4033 be used to define the macro FILE_ptr(fp).
4034
4035stdio_stream_array (stdio_streams.U):
4036 This variable tells the name of the array holding the stdio streams.
4037 Usual values include _iob, __iob, and __sF.
4038
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4039strerror_r_proto (d_strerror_r.U):
4040 This variable encodes the prototype of strerror_r.
4041
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4042strings (i_string.U):
4043 This variable holds the full path of the string header that will be
4044 used. Typically /usr/include/string.h or /usr/include/strings.h.
4045
4046submit (Loc.U):
4047 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
4048 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
4049
4050subversion (patchlevel.U):
4051 The subversion level of this package.
4052 The value of subversion comes from the patchlevel.h file.
ff935051 4053 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "1".
c890dc6c 4054 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_SUBVERSION".
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4055 This is unique to perl.
4056
4057sysman (sysman.U):
4058 This variable holds the place where the manual is located on this
4059 system. It is not the place where the user wants to put his manual
4060 pages. Rather it is the place where Configure may look to find manual
4061 for unix commands (section 1 of the manual usually). See mansrc.
4062
4063tail (Loc.U):
4064 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
4065 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
4066
4067tar (Loc.U):
4068 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
4069 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
4070
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4071targetarch (Cross.U):
4072 If cross-compiling, this variable contains the target architecture.
4073 If not, this will be empty.
4074
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4075tbl (Loc.U):
4076 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
4077 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
4078
4079tee (Loc.U):
4080 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
4081 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
4082
4083test (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4084 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4085 full pathname (if any) of the test program. After Configure runs,
4086 the value is reset to a plain "test" and is not useful.
4087
4088timeincl (i_time.U):
4089 This variable holds the full path of the included time header(s).
4090
4091timetype (d_time.U):
4092 This variable holds the type returned by time(). It can be long,
4093 or time_t on BSD sites (in which case <sys/types.h> should be
4094 included). Anyway, the type Time_t should be used.
4095
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4096tmpnam_r_proto (d_tmpnam_r.U):
4097 This variable encodes the prototype of tmpnam_r.
4098
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4099to (Cross.U):
4100 This variable contains the command used by Configure
4101 to copy to from the target host. Useful and available
4102 only during Perl build.
4103 The string ':' if not cross-compiling.
4104
781b178c 4105touch (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4106 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4107 full pathname (if any) of the touch program. After Configure runs,
4108 the value is reset to a plain "touch" and is not useful.
4109
4110tr (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4111 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4112 full pathname (if any) of the tr program. After Configure runs,
4113 the value is reset to a plain "tr" and is not useful.
4114
4115trnl (trnl.U):
4116 This variable contains the value to be passed to the tr(1)
4117 command to transliterate a newline. Typical values are
4118 '\012' and '\n'. This is needed for EBCDIC systems where
4119 newline is not necessarily '\012'.
4120
4121troff (Loc.U):
4122 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
4123 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
4124
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4125ttyname_r_proto (d_ttyname_r.U):
4126 This variable encodes the prototype of ttyname_r.
4127
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4128u16size (perlxv.U):
4129 This variable is the size of an U16 in bytes.
4130
4131u16type (perlxv.U):
4132 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U16.
4133
4134u32size (perlxv.U):
4135 This variable is the size of an U32 in bytes.
4136
4137u32type (perlxv.U):
4138 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U32.
4139
4140u64size (perlxv.U):
4141 This variable is the size of an U64 in bytes.
4142
4143u64type (perlxv.U):
4144 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U64.
4145
4146u8size (perlxv.U):
4147 This variable is the size of an U8 in bytes.
4148
4149u8type (perlxv.U):
4150 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U8.
4151
4152uidformat (uidf.U):
4153 This variable contains the format string used for printing a Uid_t.
4154
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4155uidsign (uidsign.U):
4156 This variable contains the signedness of a uidtype.
4157 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
4158
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4159uidsize (uidsize.U):
4160 This variable contains the size of a uidtype in bytes.
4161
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4162uidtype (uidtype.U):
4163 This variable defines Uid_t to be something like uid_t, int,
4164 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare user ids in the kernel.
4165
4166uname (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4167 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4168 full pathname (if any) of the uname program. After Configure runs,
4169 the value is reset to a plain "uname" and is not useful.
4170
4171uniq (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4172 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4173 full pathname (if any) of the uniq program. After Configure runs,
4174 the value is reset to a plain "uniq" and is not useful.
4175
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4176uquadtype (quadtype.U):
4177 This variable defines Uquad_t to be something like unsigned long,
4178 unsigned int, unsigned long long, uint64_t, or whatever type is
4179 used for 64-bit integers.
4180
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4181use5005threads (usethreads.U):
4182 This variable conditionally defines the USE_5005THREADS symbol,
4183 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the 5.005-based
4184 threading implementation.
4185
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4186use64bitall (use64bits.U):
4187 This variable conditionally defines the USE_64_BIT_ALL symbol,
4188 and indicates that 64-bit integer types should be used
4189 when available. The maximal possible
4190 64-bitness is employed: LP64 or ILP64, meaning that you will
4191 be able to use more than 2 gigabytes of memory. This mode is
4192 even more binary incompatible than USE_64_BIT_INT. You may not
4193 be able to run the resulting executable in a 32-bit CPU at all or
4194 you may need at least to reboot your OS to 64-bit mode.
4195
4196use64bitint (use64bits.U):
4197 This variable conditionally defines the USE_64_BIT_INT symbol,
aaacdc8b 4198 and indicates that 64-bit integer types should be used
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4199 when available. The minimal possible 64-bitness
4200 is employed, just enough to get 64-bit integers into Perl.
4201 This may mean using for example "long longs", while your memory
4202 may still be limited to 2 gigabytes.
781b178c 4203
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4204usecrosscompile (Cross.U):
4205 This variable conditionally defines the USE_CROSS_COMPILE symbol,
4206 and indicates that Perl has been cross-compiled.
4207
781b178c 4208usedl (dlsrc.U):
ff935051 4209 This variable indicates if the system supports dynamic
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4210 loading of some sort. See also dlsrc and dlobj.
4211
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4212useithreads (usethreads.U):
4213 This variable conditionally defines the USE_ITHREADS symbol,
4214 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the interpreter-based
4215 threading implementation.
4216
5bf26616 4217uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
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4218 This variable conditionally defines the USE_LARGE_FILES symbol,
4219 and indicates that large file interfaces should be used when
c890dc6c 4220 available.
1baac590 4221
ca24dfc6
LV
4222uselongdouble (uselongdbl.U):
4223 This variable conditionally defines the USE_LONG_DOUBLE symbol,
4224 and indicates that long doubles should be used when available.
4225
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4226usemorebits (usemorebits.U):
4227 This variable conditionally defines the USE_MORE_BITS symbol,
4228 and indicates that explicit 64-bit interfaces and long doubles
4229 should be used when available.
4230
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4231usemultiplicity (usemultiplicity.U):
4232 This variable conditionally defines the MULTIPLICITY symbol,
4233 and indicates that Perl should be built to use multiplicity.
4234
4235usemymalloc (mallocsrc.U):
4236 This variable contains y if the malloc that comes with this package
4237 is desired over the system's version of malloc. People often include
4238 special versions of malloc for effiency, but such versions are often
4239 less portable. See also mallocsrc and mallocobj.
4240 If this is 'y', then -lmalloc is removed from $libs.
4241
4242usenm (usenm.U):
4243 This variable contains 'true' or 'false' depending whether the
4244 nm extraction is wanted or not.
4245
4246useopcode (Extensions.U):
4247 This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate
4248 whether the Opcode extension should be used. The sole
4249 use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism
4250 for users to skip the Opcode extension from the Configure
4251 command line.
4252
4253useperlio (useperlio.U):
4254 This variable conditionally defines the USE_PERLIO symbol,
4255 and indicates that the PerlIO abstraction should be
4256 used throughout.
4257
4258useposix (Extensions.U):
4259 This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate
4260 whether the POSIX extension should be used. The sole
4261 use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism
4262 for hints files to indicate that POSIX will not compile
4263 on a particular system.
4264
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4265usereentrant (usethreads.U):
4266 This variable conditionally defines the USE_REENTRANT_API symbol,
4267 which indicates that the thread code may try to use the various
4268 _r versions of library functions. This is only potentially
4269 meaningful if usethreads is set and is very experimental, it is
4270 not even prompted for.
4271
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4272usesfio (d_sfio.U):
4273 This variable is set to true when the user agrees to use sfio.
4274 It is set to false when sfio is not available or when the user
4275 explicitely requests not to use sfio. It is here primarily so
4276 that command-line settings can override the auto-detection of
4277 d_sfio without running into a "WHOA THERE".
4278
4279useshrplib (libperl.U):
4280 This variable is set to 'yes' if the user wishes
4281 to build a shared libperl, and 'no' otherwise.
4282
4283usesocks (usesocks.U):
4284 This variable conditionally defines the USE_SOCKS symbol,
4285 and indicates that Perl should be built to use SOCKS.
4286
4287usethreads (usethreads.U):
b99a9337 4288 This variable conditionally defines the USE_THREADS symbol,
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4289 and indicates that Perl should be built to use threads.
4290
9f50e519
NA
4291usevendorprefix (vendorprefix.U):
4292 This variable tells whether the vendorprefix
4293 and consequently other vendor* paths are in use.
4294
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4295usevfork (d_vfork.U):
4296 This variable is set to true when the user accepts to use vfork.
4297 It is set to false when no vfork is available or when the user
4298 explicitely requests not to use vfork.
4299
4300usrinc (usrinc.U):
4301 This variable holds the path of the include files, which is
4302 usually /usr/include. It is mainly used by other Configure units.
4303
4304uuname (Loc.U):
4305 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
4306 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
4307
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4308uvoformat (perlxvf.U):
4309 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4310 a Perl UV as an unsigned octal integer.
4311
4312uvsize (perlxv.U):
4313 This variable is the size of a UV in bytes.
4314
4315uvtype (perlxv.U):
4316 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's UV.
4317
4318uvuformat (perlxvf.U):
4319 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4320 a Perl UV as an unsigned decimal integer.
4321
4322uvxformat (perlxvf.U):
4323 This variable contains the format string used for printing
6b4667fc
A
4324 a Perl UV as an unsigned hexadecimal integer in lowercase abcdef.
4325
6b356c8e 4326uvXUformat (perlxvf.U):
6b4667fc
A
4327 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4328 a Perl UV as an unsigned hexadecimal integer in uppercase ABCDEF.
a22e52b9 4329
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4330vendorarch (vendorarch.U):
4331 This variable contains the value of the PERL_VENDORARCH symbol.
4332 It may have a ~ on the front.
4333 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4334 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
4335 architecture-dependent modules and extensions in this directory with
4336 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
4337 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
4338
4339vendorarchexp (vendorarch.U):
4340 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorarch, so that you
4341 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
4342
0617aed7 4343vendorbin (vendorbin.U):
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4344 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORBIN symbol.
4345 It may have a ~ on the front.
4346 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4347 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place additional
4348 binaries in this directory with
4349 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
4350 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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4351
4352vendorbinexp (vendorbin.U):
4353 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorbin, so that you
4354 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
4355
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4356vendorlib (vendorlib.U):
4357 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORLIB symbol,
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4358 which is the name of the private library for this package.
4359 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4360 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
4361 modules in this directory with
4362 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
4363 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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4365vendorlib_stem (vendorlib.U):
4366 This variable is $vendorlibexp with any trailing version-specific component
4367 removed. The elements in inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U) can
4368 be tacked onto this variable to generate a list of directories to search.
4369
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4370vendorlibexp (vendorlib.U):
4371 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorlib, so that you
4372 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
4373
4374vendorprefix (vendorprefix.U):
4375 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
4376 which the vendor will install add-on packages.
f868067f 4377 See INSTALL for usage and examples.
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4378
4379vendorprefixexp (vendorprefix.U):
4380 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
4381 which the vendor will install add-on packages. Derived from vendorprefix.
4382
781b178c 4383version (patchlevel.U):
ff935051 4384 The full version number of this package, such as 5.6.1 (or 5_6_1).
c890dc6c 4385 This combines revision, patchlevel, and subversion to get the
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4386 full version number, including any possible subversions.
4387 This is suitable for use as a directory name, and hence is
4388 filesystem dependent.
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4390version_patchlevel_string (patchlevel.U):
4391 This is a string combining version, subversion and
4392 perl_patchlevel (if perl_patchlevel is non-zero).
4393 It is typically something like
4394 'version 7 subversion 1' or
4395 'version 7 subversion 1 patchlevel 11224'
4396 It is computed here to avoid duplication of code in myconfig.SH
4397 and lib/Config.pm.
4398
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4399versiononly (versiononly.U):
4400 If set, this symbol indicates that only the version-specific
4401 components of a perl installation should be installed.
4402 This may be useful for making a test installation of a new
4403 version without disturbing the existing installation.
4404 Setting versiononly is equivalent to setting installperl's -v option.
4405 In particular, the non-versioned scripts and programs such as
4406 a2p, c2ph, h2xs, pod2*, and perldoc are not installed
4407 (see INSTALL for a more complete list). Nor are the man
4408 pages installed.
4409 Usually, this is undef.
4410
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4411vi (Loc.U):
4412 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
4413 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
4414
4415voidflags (voidflags.U):
4416 This variable contains the eventual value of the VOIDFLAGS symbol,
4417 which indicates how much support of the void type is given by this
4418 compiler. See VOIDFLAGS for more info.
4419
4420xlibpth (libpth.U):
4421 This variable holds extra path (space-separated) used to find
4422 libraries on this platform, for example CPU-specific libraries
4423 (on multi-CPU platforms) may be listed here.
4424
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4425xs_apiversion (xs_apiversion.U):
4426 This variable contains the version of the oldest perl binary
4427 compatible with the present perl. perl.c:incpush() and
4428 lib/lib.pm will automatically search in $sitearch for older
4429 directories across major versions back to xs_apiversion.
4430 This is only useful if you have a perl library directory tree
4431 structured like the default one.
4432 See INSTALL for how this works.
4433 The versioned site_perl directory was introduced in 5.005,
4434 so that is the lowest possible value.
4435 Since this can depend on compile time options (such as
4436 bincompat) it is set by Configure. Other non-default sources
4437 of potential incompatibility, such as multiplicity, threads,
4438 debugging, 64bits, sfio, etc., are not checked for currently,
4439 though in principle we could go snooping around in old
4440 Config.pm files.
4441
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4442yacc (yacc.U):
4443 This variable holds the name of the compiler compiler we
4444 want to use in the Makefile. It can be yacc, byacc, or bison -y.
4445
4446yaccflags (yacc.U):
4447 This variable contains any additional yacc flags desired by the
4448 user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
4449
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4450zcat (Loc.U):
4451 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
4452 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
4453
4454zip (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4455 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4456 full pathname (if any) of the zip program. After Configure runs,
4457 the value is reset to a plain "zip" and is not useful.
4458