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2!!!!!!! DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE !!!!!!!
3This file is built by metaconfig.
4
d7418ba7 5This file contains a description of all the shell variables whose value is
6determined by the Configure script. Variables intended for use in C
269a7913 7programs (e.g. I_UNISTD) are already described in config_h.SH. [`configpm'
ebc74a4b 8generates pod documentation for Config.pm from this file--please try to keep
24412007 9the formatting regular.]
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781b178c 11_a (Unix.U):
9285ede2 12 This variable defines the extension used for ordinary library files.
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13 For unix, it is '.a'. The '.' is included. Other possible
14 values include '.lib'.
15
16_exe (Unix.U):
17 This variable defines the extension used for executable files.
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18 DJGPP, Cygwin and OS/2 use '.exe'. Stratus VOS uses '.pm'.
19 On operating systems which do not require a specific extension
20 for executable files, this variable is empty.
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21
22_o (Unix.U):
23 This variable defines the extension used for object files.
24 For unix, it is '.o'. The '.' is included. Other possible
25 values include '.obj'.
26
27afs (afs.U):
28 This variable is set to 'true' if AFS (Andrew File System) is used
29 on the system, 'false' otherwise. It is possible to override this
30 with a hint value or command line option, but you'd better know
31 what you are doing.
32
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33afsroot (afs.U):
34 This variable is by default set to '/afs'. In the unlikely case
35 this is not the correct root, it is possible to override this with
36 a hint value or command line option. This will be used in subsequent
776a38e3 37 tests for AFSness in the configure and test process.
a6d26a0d 38
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39alignbytes (alignbytes.U):
40 This variable holds the number of bytes required to align a
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41 double-- or a long double when applicable. Usual values are
42 2, 4 and 8. The default is eight, for safety.
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43
44aphostname (d_gethname.U):
45 This variable contains the command which can be used to compute the
46 host name. The command is fully qualified by its absolute path, to make
47 it safe when used by a process with super-user privileges.
48
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49api_revision (patchlevel.U):
50 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
51 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
52 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
53 such as '5.6.1', api_revision is the '5'.
54 Prior to 5.5.640, the format was a floating point number,
55 like 5.00563.
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56
57 perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically search in
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58 $sitelib/.. for older directories back to the limit specified
59 by these api_ variables. This is only useful if you have a
60 perl library directory tree structured like the default one.
61 See INSTALL for how this works. The versioned site_perl
62 directory was introduced in 5.005, so that is the lowest
63 possible value. The version list appropriate for the current
64 system is determined in inc_version_list.U.
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65
66 XXX To do: Since compatibility can depend on compile time
08e5223a 67 options (such as bincompat, longlong, etc.) it should
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68 (perhaps) be set by Configure, but currently it isn't.
69 Currently, we read a hard-wired value from patchlevel.h.
70 Perhaps what we ought to do is take the hard-wired value from
71 patchlevel.h but then modify it if the current Configure
72 options warrant. patchlevel.h then would use an #ifdef guard.
73
74api_subversion (patchlevel.U):
75 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
76 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
77 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
78 such as '5.6.1', api_subversion is the '1'. See api_revision for
79 full details.
80
81api_version (patchlevel.U):
82 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
83 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
84 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
85 such as '5.6.1', api_version is the '6'. See api_revision for
86 full details. As a special case, 5.5.0 is rendered in the
87 old-style as 5.005. (In the 5.005_0x maintenance series,
88 this was the only versioned directory in $sitelib.)
89
90api_versionstring (patchlevel.U):
91 This variable combines api_revision, api_version, and
92 api_subversion in a format such as 5.6.1 (or 5_6_1) suitable
93 for use as a directory name. This is filesystem dependent.
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94
95ar (Loc.U):
5bf26616 96 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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97 full pathname (if any) of the ar program. After Configure runs,
98 the value is reset to a plain "ar" and is not useful.
99
100archlib (archlib.U):
101 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
102 to put architecture-dependent public library files for $package.
103 It is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/lib.
104 Programs using this variable must be prepared to deal
105 with filename expansion.
106
107archlibexp (archlib.U):
108 This variable is the same as the archlib variable, but is
109 filename expanded at configuration time, for convenient use.
110
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111archname (archname.U):
112 This variable is a short name to characterize the current
113 architecture. It is used mainly to construct the default archlib.
114
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115archname64 (use64bits.U):
116 This variable is used for the 64-bitness part of $archname.
117
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118archobjs (Unix.U):
119 This variable defines any additional objects that must be linked
120 in with the program on this architecture. On unix, it is usually
121 empty. It is typically used to include emulations of unix calls
122 or other facilities. For perl on OS/2, for example, this would
123 include os2/os2.obj.
124
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125asctime_r_proto (d_asctime_r.U):
126 This variable encodes the prototype of asctime_r.
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127 It is zero if d_asctime_r is undef, and one of the
128 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_asctime_r
129 is defined.
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781b178c 131awk (Loc.U):
5bf26616 132 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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133 full pathname (if any) of the awk program. After Configure runs,
134 the value is reset to a plain "awk" and is not useful.
135
136baserev (baserev.U):
137 The base revision level of this package, from the .package file.
138
139bash (Loc.U):
140 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 141 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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142
143bin (bin.U):
144 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
145 to put publicly executable images for the package in question. It
146 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
147 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
148
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149bin_ELF (dlsrc.U):
150 This variable saves the result from configure if generated binaries
151 are in ELF format. Only set to defined when the test has actually
152 been performed, and the result was positive.
153
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154binexp (bin.U):
155 This is the same as the bin variable, but is filename expanded at
156 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
157
158bison (Loc.U):
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159 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
160 full pathname (if any) of the bison program. After Configure runs,
161 the value is reset to a plain "bison" and is not useful.
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162
163byacc (Loc.U):
5bf26616 164 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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165 full pathname (if any) of the byacc program. After Configure runs,
166 the value is reset to a plain "byacc" and is not useful.
167
168byteorder (byteorder.U):
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169 This variable holds the byte order in a UV. In the following,
170 larger digits indicate more significance. The variable byteorder
171 is either 4321 on a big-endian machine, or 1234 on a little-endian,
172 or 87654321 on a Cray ... or 3412 with weird order !
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173
174c (n.U):
175 This variable contains the \c string if that is what causes the echo
176 command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is
177 $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
178
179castflags (d_castneg.U):
180 This variable contains a flag that precise difficulties the
181 compiler has casting odd floating values to unsigned long:
182 0 = ok
183 1 = couldn't cast < 0
184 2 = couldn't cast >= 0x80000000
185 4 = couldn't cast in argument expression list
186
187cat (Loc.U):
5bf26616 188 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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189 full pathname (if any) of the cat program. After Configure runs,
190 the value is reset to a plain "cat" and is not useful.
191
192cc (cc.U):
193 This variable holds the name of a command to execute a C compiler which
194 can resolve multiple global references that happen to have the same
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195 name. Usual values are 'cc' and 'gcc'.
196 Fervent ANSI compilers may be called 'c89'. AIX has xlc.
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197
198cccdlflags (dlsrc.U):
199 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
200 passed with 'cc -c' to compile modules to be used to create a shared
201 library that will be used for dynamic loading. For hpux, this
202 should be +z. It is up to the makefile to use it.
203
204ccdlflags (dlsrc.U):
205 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
206 passed to cc to link with a shared library for dynamic loading.
207 It is up to the makefile to use it. For sunos 4.1, it should
208 be empty.
209
210ccflags (ccflags.U):
211 This variable contains any additional C compiler flags desired by
212 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
213
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214ccflags_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
215 This variable contains the compiler flags needed by large file builds
216 and added to ccflags by hints files.
217
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218ccname (Checkcc.U):
219 This can set either by hints files or by Configure. If using
220 gcc, this is gcc, and if not, usually equal to cc, unimpressive, no?
221 Some platforms, however, make good use of this by storing the
222 flavor of the C compiler being used here. For example if using
223 the Sun WorkShop suite, ccname will be 'workshop'.
224
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225ccsymbols (Cppsym.U):
226 The variable contains the symbols defined by the C compiler alone.
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227 The symbols defined by cpp or by cc when it calls cpp are not in
228 this list, see cppsymbols and cppccsymbols.
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229 The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
230
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231ccversion (Checkcc.U):
232 This can set either by hints files or by Configure. If using
233 a (non-gcc) vendor cc, this variable may contain a version for
234 the compiler.
235
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236cf_by (cf_who.U):
237 Login name of the person who ran the Configure script and answered the
238 questions. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH.
239
240cf_email (cf_email.U):
241 Electronic mail address of the person who ran Configure. This can be
242 used by units that require the user's e-mail, like MailList.U.
243
244cf_time (cf_who.U):
245 Holds the output of the "date" command when the configuration file was
246 produced. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH.
247
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248charbits (charsize.U):
249 This variable contains the value of the CHARBITS symbol, which
250 indicates to the C program how many bits there are in a character.
251
252charsize (charsize.U):
253 This variable contains the value of the CHARSIZE symbol, which
254 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a character.
255
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256chgrp (Loc.U):
257 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 258 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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259
260chmod (Loc.U):
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261 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
262 full pathname (if any) of the chmod program. After Configure runs,
263 the value is reset to a plain "chmod" and is not useful.
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264
265chown (Loc.U):
266 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 267 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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268
269clocktype (d_times.U):
270 This variable holds the type returned by times(). It can be long,
271 or clock_t on BSD sites (in which case <sys/types.h> should be
272 included).
273
274comm (Loc.U):
5bf26616 275 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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276 full pathname (if any) of the comm program. After Configure runs,
277 the value is reset to a plain "comm" and is not useful.
278
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279compiler_warning (compiler_warning.U):
280 This variable holds the command to check if the file specified as a
281 parameter contains a compiler warning
282
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283compress (Loc.U):
284 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 285 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 286
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287config_arg0 (Options.U):
288 This variable contains the string used to invoke the Configure
289 command, as reported by the shell in the $0 variable.
290
291config_argc (Options.U):
47e01c32 292 This variable contains the number of command-line arguments
ecf5c238 293 passed to Configure, as reported by the shell in the $# variable.
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294 The individual arguments are stored as variables config_arg1,
295 config_arg2, etc.
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297config_args (Options.U):
298 This variable contains a single string giving the command-line
299 arguments passed to Configure. Spaces within arguments,
300 quotes, and escaped characters are not correctly preserved.
301 To reconstruct the command line, you must assemble the individual
302 command line pieces, given in config_arg[0-9]*.
303
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304contains (contains.U):
305 This variable holds the command to do a grep with a proper return
306 status. On most sane systems it is simply "grep". On insane systems
307 it is a grep followed by a cat followed by a test. This variable
308 is primarily for the use of other Configure units.
309
310cp (Loc.U):
5bf26616 311 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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312 full pathname (if any) of the cp program. After Configure runs,
313 the value is reset to a plain "cp" and is not useful.
314
315cpio (Loc.U):
316 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 317 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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318
319cpp (Loc.U):
5bf26616 320 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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321 full pathname (if any) of the cpp program. After Configure runs,
322 the value is reset to a plain "cpp" and is not useful.
323
324cpp_stuff (cpp_stuff.U):
505656d3 325 This variable contains an identification of the concatenation mechanism
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326 used by the C preprocessor.
327
328cppccsymbols (Cppsym.U):
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329 The variable contains the symbols defined by the C compiler
330 when it calls cpp. The symbols defined by the cc alone or cpp
331 alone are not in this list, see ccsymbols and cppsymbols.
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332 The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
333
334cppflags (ccflags.U):
335 This variable holds the flags that will be passed to the C pre-
336 processor. It is up to the Makefile to use it.
337
338cpplast (cppstdin.U):
339 This variable has the same functionality as cppminus, only it applies
340 to cpprun and not cppstdin.
341
342cppminus (cppstdin.U):
343 This variable contains the second part of the string which will invoke
344 the C preprocessor on the standard input and produce to standard
345 output. This variable will have the value "-" if cppstdin needs
346 a minus to specify standard input, otherwise the value is "".
347
348cpprun (cppstdin.U):
349 This variable contains the command which will invoke a C preprocessor
350 on standard input and put the output to stdout. It is guaranteed not
351 to be a wrapper and may be a null string if no preprocessor can be
352 made directly available. This preprocessor might be different from the
353 one used by the C compiler. Don't forget to append cpplast after the
354 preprocessor options.
355
356cppstdin (cppstdin.U):
357 This variable contains the command which will invoke the C
358 preprocessor on standard input and put the output to stdout.
359 It is primarily used by other Configure units that ask about
360 preprocessor symbols.
361
362cppsymbols (Cppsym.U):
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363 The variable contains the symbols defined by the C preprocessor
364 alone. The symbols defined by cc or by cc when it calls cpp are
365 not in this list, see ccsymbols and cppccsymbols.
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366 The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
367
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368crypt_r_proto (d_crypt_r.U):
369 This variable encodes the prototype of crypt_r.
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370 It is zero if d_crypt_r is undef, and one of the
371 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_crypt_r
372 is defined.
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374cryptlib (d_crypt.U):
375 This variable holds -lcrypt or the path to a libcrypt.a archive if
376 the crypt() function is not defined in the standard C library. It is
377 up to the Makefile to use this.
378
379csh (Loc.U):
5bf26616 380 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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381 full pathname (if any) of the csh program. After Configure runs,
382 the value is reset to a plain "csh" and is not useful.
383
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384ctermid_r_proto (d_ctermid_r.U):
385 This variable encodes the prototype of ctermid_r.
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386 It is zero if d_ctermid_r is undef, and one of the
387 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_ctermid_r
388 is defined.
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389
390ctime_r_proto (d_ctime_r.U):
391 This variable encodes the prototype of ctime_r.
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392 It is zero if d_ctime_r is undef, and one of the
393 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_ctime_r
394 is defined.
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396d__fwalk (d__fwalk.U):
397 This variable conditionally defines HAS__FWALK if _fwalk() is
398 available to apply a function to all the file handles.
399
5c7252f4 400d_accept4 (d_accept4.U):
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401 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ACCEPT4 if accept4() is
402 available to accept socket connections.
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404d_access (d_access.U):
405 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ACCESS if the access() system
406 call is available to check for access permissions using real IDs.
407
408d_accessx (d_accessx.U):
409 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ACCESSX symbol, which
410 indicates to the C program that the accessx() routine is available.
411
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412d_acosh (d_acosh.U):
413 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ACOSH symbol, which
414 indicates to the C program that the acosh() routine is available.
415
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416d_aintl (d_aintl.U):
417 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_AINTL symbol, which
418 indicates to the C program that the aintl() routine is available.
419 If copysignl is also present we can emulate modfl.
420
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421d_alarm (d_alarm.U):
422 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ALARM symbol, which
423 indicates to the C program that the alarm() routine is available.
424
425d_archlib (archlib.U):
426 This variable conditionally defines ARCHLIB to hold the pathname
427 of architecture-dependent library files for $package. If
428 $archlib is the same as $privlib, then this is set to undef.
429
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430d_asctime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
431 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ASCTIME64 symbol, which
432 indicates to the C program that the asctime64 () routine is available.
433
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434d_asctime_r (d_asctime_r.U):
435 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ASCTIME_R symbol,
436 which indicates to the C program that the asctime_r()
437 routine is available.
438
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439d_asinh (d_asinh.U):
440 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ASINH symbol, which
441 indicates to the C program that the asinh() routine is available.
442
443d_atanh (d_atanh.U):
444 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ATANH symbol, which
445 indicates to the C program that the atanh() routine is available.
446
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447d_atolf (atolf.U):
448 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ATOLF symbol, which
449 indicates to the C program that the atolf() routine is available.
450
451d_atoll (atoll.U):
452 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ATOLL symbol, which
453 indicates to the C program that the atoll() routine is available.
454
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455d_attribute_always_inline (d_attribut.U):
456 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE,
457 which indicates that the C compiler can know that certain
458 functions should always be inlined.
459
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460d_attribute_deprecated (d_attribut.U):
461 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_DEPRECATED, which
462 indicates that GCC can handle the attribute for marking deprecated
463 APIs
464
df4c34dc 465d_attribute_format (d_attribut.U):
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466 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_FORMAT, which
467 indicates the C compiler can check for printf-like formats.
468
df4c34dc 469d_attribute_malloc (d_attribut.U):
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470 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_MALLOC, which
471 indicates the C compiler can understand functions as having
472 malloc-like semantics.
473
df4c34dc 474d_attribute_nonnull (d_attribut.U):
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475 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_NONNULL, which
476 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain arguments
477 must not be NULL, and will check accordingly at compile time.
478
df4c34dc 479d_attribute_noreturn (d_attribut.U):
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480 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_NORETURN, which
481 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain functions
482 are guaranteed never to return.
483
df4c34dc 484d_attribute_pure (d_attribut.U):
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485 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_PURE, which
486 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain functions
487 are "pure" functions, meaning that they have no side effects, and
488 only rely on function input and/or global data for their results.
489
df4c34dc 490d_attribute_unused (d_attribut.U):
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491 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, which
492 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain variables
493 and arguments may not always be used, and to not throw warnings
494 if they don't get used.
495
df4c34dc 496d_attribute_warn_unused_result (d_attribut.U):
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497 This variable conditionally defines
498 HASATTRIBUTE_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT, which indicates that the C
499 compiler can know that certain functions have a return values
500 that must not be ignored, such as malloc() or open().
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502d_backtrace (d_backtrace.U):
503 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BACKTRACE symbol, which
504 indicates to the C program that the backtrace() routine is available
505 to get a stack trace.
506
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507d_bsd (Guess.U):
508 This symbol conditionally defines the symbol BSD when running on a
509 BSD system.
510
511d_bsdgetpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
512 This variable conditionally defines USE_BSD_GETPGRP if
513 getpgrp needs one arguments whereas USG one needs none.
514
515d_bsdsetpgrp (d_setpgrp.U):
516 This variable conditionally defines USE_BSD_SETPGRP if
517 setpgrp needs two arguments whereas USG one needs none.
518 See also d_setpgid for a POSIX interface.
519
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520d_builtin_add_overflow (d_builtin_overflow.U):
521 This variable conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_ADD_OVERFLOW, which
522 indicates that the compiler supports __builtin_add_overflow(x,y,&z)
523 for safely adding x and y into z while checking for overflow.
524
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525d_builtin_choose_expr (d_builtin.U):
526 This conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_CHOOSE_EXPR, which
527 indicates that the compiler supports __builtin_choose_expr(x,y,z).
528 This built-in function is analogous to the "x?y:z" operator in C,
529 except that the expression returned has its type unaltered by
530 promotion rules. Also, the built-in function does not evaluate
531 the expression that was not chosen.
532
533d_builtin_expect (d_builtin.U):
534 This conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_EXPECT, which indicates
535 that the compiler supports __builtin_expect(exp,c). You may use
536 __builtin_expect to provide the compiler with branch prediction
537 information.
538
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539d_builtin_mul_overflow (d_builtin_overflow.U):
540 This variable conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_MUL_OVERFLOW, which
541 indicates that the compiler supports __builtin_mul_overflow(x,y,&z)
542 for safely multiplying x and y into z while checking for overflow.
543
544d_builtin_sub_overflow (d_builtin_overflow.U):
545 This variable conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_SUB_OVERFLOW, which
546 indicates that the compiler supports __builtin_sub_overflow(x,y,&z)
547 for safely subtracting y from x into z while checking for overflow.
548
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549d_c99_variadic_macros (d_c99_variadic.U):
550 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_C99_VARIADIC_MACROS
551 symbol, which indicates to the C program that C99 variadic macros
552 are available.
553
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554d_casti32 (d_casti32.U):
555 This variable conditionally defines CASTI32, which indicates
556 whether the C compiler can cast large floats to 32-bit ints.
557
558d_castneg (d_castneg.U):
559 This variable conditionally defines CASTNEG, which indicates
47e01c32 560 whether the C compiler can cast negative float to unsigned.
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562d_cbrt (d_cbrt.U):
563 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CBRT symbol, which
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564 indicates to the C program that the cbrt() (cube root) function
565 is available.
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567d_chown (d_chown.U):
568 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CHOWN symbol, which
569 indicates to the C program that the chown() routine is available.
570
571d_chroot (d_chroot.U):
572 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CHROOT symbol, which
573 indicates to the C program that the chroot() routine is available.
574
575d_chsize (d_chsize.U):
576 This variable conditionally defines the CHSIZE symbol, which
577 indicates to the C program that the chsize() routine is available
578 to truncate files. You might need a -lx to get this routine.
579
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580d_class (d_class.U):
581 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CLASS symbol, which
582 indicates to the C program that the class() routine is available.
583
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584d_clearenv (d_clearenv.U):
585 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CLEARENV symbol, which
586 indicates to the C program that the clearenv () routine is available.
587
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588d_closedir (d_closedir.U):
589 This variable conditionally defines HAS_CLOSEDIR if closedir() is
590 available.
591
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592d_cmsghdr_s (d_cmsghdr_s.U):
593 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_CMSGHDR symbol,
594 which indicates that the struct cmsghdr is supported.
595
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596d_copysign (d_copysign.U):
597 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_COPYSIGN symbol, which
598 indicates to the C program that the copysign() routine is available.
599
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600d_copysignl (d_copysignl.U):
601 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_COPYSIGNL symbol, which
602 indicates to the C program that the copysignl() routine is available.
603 If aintl is also present we can emulate modfl.
604
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605d_cplusplus (d_cplusplus.U):
606 This variable conditionally defines the USE_CPLUSPLUS symbol, which
607 indicates that a C++ compiler was used to compiled Perl and will be
608 used to compile extensions.
609
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610d_crypt (d_crypt.U):
611 This variable conditionally defines the CRYPT symbol, which
612 indicates to the C program that the crypt() routine is available
613 to encrypt passwords and the like.
614
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615d_crypt_r (d_crypt_r.U):
616 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CRYPT_R symbol,
617 which indicates to the C program that the crypt_r()
618 routine is available.
619
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620d_csh (d_csh.U):
621 This variable conditionally defines the CSH symbol, which
622 indicates to the C program that the C-shell exists.
623
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624d_ctermid (d_ctermid.U):
625 This variable conditionally defines CTERMID if ctermid() is
626 available to generate filename for terminal.
627
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628d_ctermid_r (d_ctermid_r.U):
629 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTERMID_R symbol,
630 which indicates to the C program that the ctermid_r()
631 routine is available.
632
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633d_ctime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
634 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTIME64 symbol, which
635 indicates to the C program that the ctime64 () routine is available.
636
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637d_ctime_r (d_ctime_r.U):
638 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTIME_R symbol,
639 which indicates to the C program that the ctime_r()
640 routine is available.
641
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642d_cuserid (d_cuserid.U):
643 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CUSERID symbol, which
644 indicates to the C program that the cuserid() routine is available
645 to get character login names.
646
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647d_dbminitproto (d_dbminitproto.U):
648 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DBMINIT_PROTO symbol,
649 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
650 a prototype for the dbminit() function. Otherwise, it is
651 up to the program to supply one.
652
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653d_difftime (d_difftime.U):
654 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIFFTIME symbol, which
655 indicates to the C program that the difftime() routine is available.
656
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657d_difftime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
658 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIFFTIME64 symbol, which
659 indicates to the C program that the difftime64 () routine is available.
660
066e7355 661d_dir_dd_fd (d_dir_dd_fd.U):
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662 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIR_DD_FD symbol, which
663 indicates that the DIR directory stream type contains a member
664 variable called dd_fd.
665
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666d_dirfd (d_dirfd.U):
667 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIRFD constant,
668 which indicates to the C program that dirfd() is available
669 to return the file descriptor of a directory stream.
670
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671d_dirnamlen (i_dirent.U):
672 This variable conditionally defines DIRNAMLEN, which indicates
673 to the C program that the length of directory entry names is
674 provided by a d_namelen field.
675
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676d_dladdr (d_dladdr.U):
677 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLADDR symbol, which
678 indicates to the C program that the dladdr() routine is available
679 to get a stack trace.
680
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681d_dlerror (d_dlerror.U):
682 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLERROR symbol, which
683 indicates to the C program that the dlerror() routine is available.
684
685d_dlopen (d_dlopen.U):
686 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLOPEN symbol, which
687 indicates to the C program that the dlopen() routine is available.
688
689d_dlsymun (d_dlsymun.U):
690 This variable conditionally defines DLSYM_NEEDS_UNDERSCORE, which
691 indicates that we need to prepend an underscore to the symbol
692 name before calling dlsym().
693
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694d_dosuid (d_dosuid.U):
695 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOSUID, which
696 tells the C program that it should insert setuid emulation code
697 on hosts which have setuid #! scripts disabled.
698
699d_double_has_inf (longdblfio.U):
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700 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_HAS_INF
701 which indicates that the double type has an infinity.
702
3c29c5aa 703d_double_has_nan (longdblfio.U):
7e03b2e3 704 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_HAS_NAN
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705 which indicates that the double type has a not-a-number.
706
3c29c5aa 707d_double_has_negative_zero (longdblfio.U):
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708 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_HAS_NEGATIVE_ZERO
709 which indicates that the double type has a negative zero.
710
3c29c5aa 711d_double_has_subnormals (longdblfio.U):
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712 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_HAS_SUBNORMALS
713 which indicates that the double type has subnormals (denormals).
714
715d_double_style_cray (longdblfio.U):
716 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_STYLE_CRAY
717 which indicates that the double is the 64-bit CRAY mainframe format.
718
719d_double_style_ibm (longdblfio.U):
720 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_STYLE_IBM,
721 which indicates that the double is the 64-bit IBM mainframe format.
722
723d_double_style_ieee (longdblfio.U):
724 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE,
725 which indicates that the double is the 64-bit IEEE 754.
726
727d_double_style_vax (longdblfio.U):
728 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOUBLE_STYLE_VAX,
729 which indicates that the double is the 64-bit VAX format D or G.
730
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731d_drand48_r (d_drand48_r.U):
732 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DRAND48_R symbol,
733 which indicates to the C program that the drand48_r()
734 routine is available.
735
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736d_drand48proto (d_drand48proto.U):
737 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DRAND48_PROTO symbol,
738 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
739 a prototype for the drand48() function. Otherwise, it is
740 up to the program to supply one.
741
742d_dup2 (d_dup2.U):
743 This variable conditionally defines HAS_DUP2 if dup2() is
744 available to duplicate file descriptors.
745
5c7252f4 746d_dup3 (d_dup3.U):
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747 This variable conditionally defines HAS_DUP3 if dup3() is
748 available to duplicate file descriptors.
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750d_duplocale (d_newlocale.U):
751 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DUPLOCALE symbol, which
752 indicates to the C program that the duplocale() routine is available
753 to duplicate a locale object.
754
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755d_eaccess (d_eaccess.U):
756 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_EACCESS symbol, which
757 indicates to the C program that the eaccess() routine is available.
758
759d_endgrent (d_endgrent.U):
760 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDGRENT symbol, which
761 indicates to the C program that the endgrent() routine is available
762 for sequential access of the group database.
763
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764d_endgrent_r (d_endgrent_r.U):
765 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDGRENT_R symbol,
766 which indicates to the C program that the endgrent_r()
767 routine is available.
768
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769d_endhent (d_endhent.U):
770 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDHOSTENT if endhostent() is
771 available to close whatever was being used for host queries.
772
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773d_endhostent_r (d_endhostent_r.U):
774 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDHOSTENT_R symbol,
775 which indicates to the C program that the endhostent_r()
776 routine is available.
777
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778d_endnent (d_endnent.U):
779 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDNETENT if endnetent() is
780 available to close whatever was being used for network queries.
781
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782d_endnetent_r (d_endnetent_r.U):
783 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDNETENT_R symbol,
784 which indicates to the C program that the endnetent_r()
785 routine is available.
786
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787d_endpent (d_endpent.U):
788 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDPROTOENT if endprotoent() is
789 available to close whatever was being used for protocol queries.
790
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791d_endprotoent_r (d_endprotoent_r.U):
792 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPROTOENT_R symbol,
793 which indicates to the C program that the endprotoent_r()
794 routine is available.
795
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796d_endpwent (d_endpwent.U):
797 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPWENT symbol, which
798 indicates to the C program that the endpwent() routine is available
799 for sequential access of the passwd database.
800
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801d_endpwent_r (d_endpwent_r.U):
802 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPWENT_R symbol,
803 which indicates to the C program that the endpwent_r()
804 routine is available.
805
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806d_endsent (d_endsent.U):
807 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDSERVENT if endservent() is
808 available to close whatever was being used for service queries.
809
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810d_endservent_r (d_endservent_r.U):
811 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDSERVENT_R symbol,
812 which indicates to the C program that the endservent_r()
813 routine is available.
814
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815d_eofnblk (nblock_io.U):
816 This variable conditionally defines EOF_NONBLOCK if EOF can be seen
817 when reading from a non-blocking I/O source.
818
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819d_erf (d_erf.U):
820 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ERF symbol, which
821 indicates to the C program that the erf() routine is available.
822
823d_erfc (d_erfc.U):
824 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ERFC symbol, which
825 indicates to the C program that the erfc() routine is available.
826
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827d_eunice (Guess.U):
828 This variable conditionally defines the symbols EUNICE and VAX, which
47e01c32 829 alerts the C program that it must deal with idiosyncrasies of VMS.
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831d_exp2 (d_exp2.U):
832 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_EXP2 symbol, which
833 indicates to the C program that the exp2() routine is available.
834
835d_expm1 (d_expm1.U):
836 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_EXPM1 symbol, which
837 indicates to the C program that the expm1() routine is available.
838
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839d_faststdio (d_faststdio.U):
840 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FAST_STDIO symbol,
841 which indicates to the C program that the "fast stdio" is available
842 to manipulate the stdio buffers directly.
843
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844d_fchdir (d_fchdir.U):
845 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHDIR symbol, which
846 indicates to the C program that the fchdir() routine is available.
847
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848d_fchmod (d_fchmod.U):
849 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHMOD symbol, which
850 indicates to the C program that the fchmod() routine is available
851 to change mode of opened files.
852
3c29c5aa 853d_fchmodat (d_fsat.U):
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854 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHMODAT symbol, which
855 indicates the POSIX fchmodat() function is available.
856
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857d_fchown (d_fchown.U):
858 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHOWN symbol, which
859 indicates to the C program that the fchown() routine is available
860 to change ownership of opened files.
861
862d_fcntl (d_fcntl.U):
863 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCNTL symbol, and indicates
864 whether the fcntl() function exists
865
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867 This variable conditionally defines the FCNTL_CAN_LOCK symbol
868 and indicates whether file locking with fcntl() works.
869
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870d_fd_macros (d_fd_set.U):
871 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FD_MACROS symbol,
872 which indicates if your C compiler knows about the macros which
873 manipulate an fd_set.
874
875d_fd_set (d_fd_set.U):
876 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FD_SET symbol,
877 which indicates if your C compiler knows about the fd_set typedef.
878
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879d_fdclose (d_fdclose.U):
880 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FDCLOSE symbol, which
881 indicates to the C program that the fdclose() routine is available.
882
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883d_fdim (d_fdim.U):
884 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FDIM symbol, which
885 indicates to the C program that the fdim() routine is available.
886
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887d_fds_bits (d_fd_set.U):
888 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FDS_BITS symbol,
889 which indicates if your fd_set typedef contains the fds_bits member.
890 If you have an fd_set typedef, but the dweebs who installed it did
891 a half-fast job and neglected to provide the macros to manipulate
892 an fd_set, HAS_FDS_BITS will let us know how to fix the gaffe.
893
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894d_fegetround (d_fegetround.U):
895 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FEGETROUND if fegetround() is
896 available to get the floating point rounding mode.
897
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898d_ffs (d_ffs.U):
899 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FFS symbol, which
900 indicates to the C program that the ffs() routine is available
901 to find the first bit which is set in its integer argument.
902
903d_ffsl (d_ffs.U):
904 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FFSL symbol, which
905 indicates to the C program that the ffsl() routine is available
906 to find the first bit which is set in its long integer argument.
907
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908d_fgetpos (d_fgetpos.U):
909 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FGETPOS if fgetpos() is
910 available to get the file position indicator.
911
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912d_finite (d_finite.U):
913 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FINITE symbol, which
914 indicates to the C program that the finite() routine is available.
915
916d_finitel (d_finitel.U):
917 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FINITEL symbol, which
918 indicates to the C program that the finitel() routine is available.
919
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920d_flexfnam (d_flexfnam.U):
921 This variable conditionally defines the FLEXFILENAMES symbol, which
922 indicates that the system supports filenames longer than 14 characters.
923
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924d_flock (d_flock.U):
925 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FLOCK if flock() is
926 available to do file locking.
927
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928d_flockproto (d_flockproto.U):
929 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FLOCK_PROTO symbol,
930 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
931 a prototype for the flock() function. Otherwise, it is
932 up to the program to supply one.
933
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934d_fma (d_fma.U):
935 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FMA symbol, which
936 indicates to the C program that the fma() routine is available.
937
938d_fmax (d_fmax.U):
939 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FMAX symbol, which
940 indicates to the C program that the fmax() routine is available.
941
942d_fmin (d_fmin.U):
943 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FMIN symbol, which
944 indicates to the C program that the fmin() routine is available.
945
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946d_fork (d_fork.U):
947 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FORK symbol, which
948 indicates to the C program that the fork() routine is available.
949
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950d_fp_class (d_fp_class.U):
951 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FP_CLASS symbol, which
952 indicates to the C program that the fp_class() routine is available.
953
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955 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FP_CLASSIFY symbol, which
956 indicates to the C program that the fp_classify() routine is available.
957
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958d_fp_classl (d_fp_classl.U):
959 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FP_CLASSL symbol, which
960 indicates to the C program that the fp_classl() routine is available.
961
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962d_fpathconf (d_pathconf.U):
963 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPATHCONF symbol, which
964 indicates to the C program that the pathconf() routine is available
965 to determine file-system related limits and options associated
966 with a given open file descriptor.
967
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968d_fpclass (d_fpclass.U):
969 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASS symbol, which
970 indicates to the C program that the fpclass() routine is available.
971
972d_fpclassify (d_fpclassify.U):
973 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASSIFY symbol, which
974 indicates to the C program that the fpclassify() routine is available.
975
976d_fpclassl (d_fpclassl.U):
977 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASSL symbol, which
978 indicates to the C program that the fpclassl() routine is available.
979
4c1a9b0c 980d_fpgetround (d_fpgetround.U):
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981 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FPGETROUND if fpgetround()
982 is available to get the floating point rounding mode.
4c1a9b0c 983
c890dc6c 984d_fpos64_t (d_fpos64_t.U):
ca24dfc6 985 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports fpos64_t.
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987d_freelocale (d_newlocale.U):
988 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FREELOCALE symbol, which
989 indicates to the C program that the freelocale() routine is available
990 to deallocates the resources associated with a locale object.
991
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992d_frexpl (d_frexpl.U):
993 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FREXPL symbol, which
994 indicates to the C program that the frexpl() routine is available.
995
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996d_fs_data_s (d_fs_data_s.U):
997 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_FS_DATA symbol,
998 which indicates that the struct fs_data is supported.
999
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1000d_fseeko (d_fseeko.U):
1001 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSEEKO symbol, which
1002 indicates to the C program that the fseeko() routine is available.
1003
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1004d_fsetpos (d_fsetpos.U):
1005 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FSETPOS if fsetpos() is
1006 available to set the file position indicator.
1007
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1008d_fstatfs (d_fstatfs.U):
1009 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSTATFS symbol, which
1010 indicates to the C program that the fstatfs() routine is available.
1011
1012d_fstatvfs (d_statvfs.U):
1013 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSTATVFS symbol, which
1014 indicates to the C program that the fstatvfs() routine is available.
1015
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1016d_fsync (d_fsync.U):
1017 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSYNC symbol, which
1018 indicates to the C program that the fsync() routine is available.
1019
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1020d_ftello (d_ftello.U):
1021 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTELLO symbol, which
1022 indicates to the C program that the ftello() routine is available.
1023
1024d_ftime (d_ftime.U):
1025 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTIME symbol, which indicates
1026 that the ftime() routine exists. The ftime() routine is basically
1027 a sub-second accuracy clock.
1028
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1030 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FUTIMES symbol, which
1031 indicates to the C program that the futimes() routine is available.
1032
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1033d_gai_strerror (d_gai_strerror.U):
1034 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GAI_STRERROR symbol
1035 if the gai_strerror() routine is available and can be used to
1036 translate error codes returned by getaddrinfo() into human
1037 readable strings.
1038
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1039d_Gconvert (d_gconvert.U):
1040 This variable holds what Gconvert is defined as to convert
1041 floating point numbers into strings. By default, Configure
1042 sets this macro to use the first of gconvert, gcvt, or sprintf
1332606d 1043 that pass sprintf-%g-like behavior tests. If perl is using
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1044 long doubles, the macro uses the first of the following
1045 functions that pass Configure's tests: qgcvt, sprintf (if
1046 Configure knows how to make sprintf format long doubles--see
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1048 The gconvert_preference and gconvert_ld_preference variables
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1051 space-separated list of one or more of the above function
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1052 names in the order they should be tried.
1053
1054 d_Gconvert may be set to override Configure with a platform-
1055 specific function. If this function expects a double, a
1056 different value may need to be set by the uselongdouble.cbu
1057 call-back unit so that long doubles can be formatted without
1058 loss of precision.
1059
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1060d_gdbm_ndbm_h_uses_prototypes (i_ndbm.U):
1061 This variable conditionally defines the NDBM_H_USES_PROTOTYPES symbol,
1062 which indicates that the gdbm-ndbm.h include file uses real ANSI C
1063 prototypes instead of K&R style function declarations. K&R style
1064 declarations are unsupported in C++, so the include file requires
1065 special handling when using a C++ compiler and this variable is
1066 undefined. Consult the different d_*ndbm_h_uses_prototypes variables
1067 to get the same information for alternative ndbm.h include files.
1068
1069d_gdbmndbm_h_uses_prototypes (i_ndbm.U):
1070 This variable conditionally defines the NDBM_H_USES_PROTOTYPES symbol,
1071 which indicates that the gdbm/ndbm.h include file uses real ANSI C
1072 prototypes instead of K&R style function declarations. K&R style
1073 declarations are unsupported in C++, so the include file requires
1074 special handling when using a C++ compiler and this variable is
1075 undefined. Consult the different d_*ndbm_h_uses_prototypes variables
1076 to get the same information for alternative ndbm.h include files.
1077
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1078d_getaddrinfo (d_getaddrinfo.U):
1079 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETADDRINFO symbol,
1080 which indicates to the C program that the getaddrinfo() function
1081 is available.
1082
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1083d_getcwd (d_getcwd.U):
1084 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETCWD symbol, which
1085 indicates to the C program that the getcwd() routine is available
1086 to get the current working directory.
1087
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1088d_getenv_preserves_other_thread (d_getenv_thread.U):
1089 This variable conditionally defines the GETENV_PRESERVES_OTHER_THREAD
1090 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the getenv() system call
1091 does not zap the static buffer in a different thread.
1092
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1093d_getespwnam (d_getespwnam.U):
1094 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETESPWNAM if getespwnam() is
47e01c32 1095 available to retrieve enhanced (shadow) password entries by name.
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1097d_getfsstat (d_getfsstat.U):
1098 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETFSSTAT symbol, which
1099 indicates to the C program that the getfsstat() routine is available.
1100
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1101d_getgrent (d_getgrent.U):
1102 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRENT symbol, which
1103 indicates to the C program that the getgrent() routine is available
1104 for sequential access of the group database.
1105
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1106d_getgrent_r (d_getgrent_r.U):
1107 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRENT_R symbol,
1108 which indicates to the C program that the getgrent_r()
1109 routine is available.
1110
1111d_getgrgid_r (d_getgrgid_r.U):
1112 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRGID_R symbol,
1113 which indicates to the C program that the getgrgid_r()
1114 routine is available.
1115
1116d_getgrnam_r (d_getgrnam_r.U):
1117 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRNAM_R symbol,
1118 which indicates to the C program that the getgrnam_r()
1119 routine is available.
1120
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1121d_getgrps (d_getgrps.U):
1122 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGROUPS symbol, which
1123 indicates to the C program that the getgroups() routine is available
1124 to get the list of process groups.
1125
1126d_gethbyaddr (d_gethbyad.U):
1127 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYADDR symbol, which
1128 indicates to the C program that the gethostbyaddr() routine is available
1129 to look up hosts by their IP addresses.
1130
1131d_gethbyname (d_gethbynm.U):
1132 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYNAME symbol, which
1133 indicates to the C program that the gethostbyname() routine is available
1134 to look up host names in some data base or other.
1135
1136d_gethent (d_gethent.U):
1137 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETHOSTENT if gethostent() is
1138 available to look up host names in some data base or another.
1139
1140d_gethname (d_gethname.U):
1141 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTNAME symbol, which
1142 indicates to the C program that the gethostname() routine may be
1143 used to derive the host name.
1144
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1145d_gethostbyaddr_r (d_gethostbyaddr_r.U):
1146 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYADDR_R symbol,
1147 which indicates to the C program that the gethostbyaddr_r()
1148 routine is available.
1149
1150d_gethostbyname_r (d_gethostbyname_r.U):
1151 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYNAME_R symbol,
1152 which indicates to the C program that the gethostbyname_r()
1153 routine is available.
1154
1155d_gethostent_r (d_gethostent_r.U):
1156 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTENT_R symbol,
1157 which indicates to the C program that the gethostent_r()
1158 routine is available.
1159
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1160d_gethostprotos (d_gethostprotos.U):
1161 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOST_PROTOS symbol,
1162 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
635aebb7 1163 prototypes for the various gethost*() functions.
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1165
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1166d_getitimer (d_getitimer.U):
1167 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETITIMER symbol, which
1168 indicates to the C program that the getitimer() routine is available.
1169
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1170d_getlogin (d_getlogin.U):
1171 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETLOGIN symbol, which
1172 indicates to the C program that the getlogin() routine is available
1173 to get the login name.
1174
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1175d_getlogin_r (d_getlogin_r.U):
1176 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETLOGIN_R symbol,
1177 which indicates to the C program that the getlogin_r()
1178 routine is available.
1179
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1180d_getmnt (d_getmnt.U):
1181 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETMNT symbol, which
1182 indicates to the C program that the getmnt() routine is available
1183 to retrieve one or more mount info blocks by filename.
1184
1185d_getmntent (d_getmntent.U):
1186 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETMNTENT symbol, which
1187 indicates to the C program that the getmntent() routine is available
1188 to iterate through mounted files to get their mount info.
1189
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1190d_getnameinfo (d_getnameinfo.U):
1191 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNAMEINFO symbol,
1192 which indicates to the C program that the getnameinfo() function
1193 is available.
1194
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1195d_getnbyaddr (d_getnbyad.U):
1196 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYADDR symbol, which
1197 indicates to the C program that the getnetbyaddr() routine is available
1198 to look up networks by their IP addresses.
1199
1200d_getnbyname (d_getnbynm.U):
1201 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYNAME symbol, which
1202 indicates to the C program that the getnetbyname() routine is available
1203 to look up networks by their names.
1204
1205d_getnent (d_getnent.U):
1206 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETNETENT if getnetent() is
1207 available to look up network names in some data base or another.
1208
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1209d_getnetbyaddr_r (d_getnetbyaddr_r.U):
1210 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYADDR_R symbol,
1211 which indicates to the C program that the getnetbyaddr_r()
1212 routine is available.
1213
1214d_getnetbyname_r (d_getnetbyname_r.U):
1215 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYNAME_R symbol,
1216 which indicates to the C program that the getnetbyname_r()
1217 routine is available.
1218
1219d_getnetent_r (d_getnetent_r.U):
1220 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETENT_R symbol,
1221 which indicates to the C program that the getnetent_r()
1222 routine is available.
1223
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1224d_getnetprotos (d_getnetprotos.U):
1225 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNET_PROTOS symbol,
1226 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
635aebb7 1227 prototypes for the various getnet*() functions.
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1228 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1229
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1230d_getpagsz (d_getpagsz.U):
1231 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPAGESIZE if getpagesize()
1232 is available to get the system page size.
1233
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1235 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNAME
1236 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1237 getprotobyname() routine is available to look up protocols
1238 by their name.
1239
1240d_getpbynumber (d_getprotby.U):
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1241 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNUMBER
1242 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1243 getprotobynumber() routine is available to look up protocols
1244 by their number.
1245
1246d_getpent (d_getpent.U):
1247 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPROTOENT if getprotoent() is
1248 available to look up protocols in some data base or another.
1249
1250d_getpgid (d_getpgid.U):
1251 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGID symbol, which
1252 indicates to the C program that the getpgid(pid) function
1253 is available to get the process group id.
1254
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1255d_getpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
1256 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPGRP if getpgrp() is
1257 available to get the current process group.
1258
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1259d_getpgrp2 (d_getpgrp2.U):
1260 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGRP2 symbol, which
1261 indicates to the C program that the getpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine
1262 is available to get the current process group.
1263
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1264d_getppid (d_getppid.U):
1265 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPPID symbol, which
1266 indicates to the C program that the getppid() routine is available
1267 to get the parent process ID.
1268
1269d_getprior (d_getprior.U):
1270 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPRIORITY if getpriority()
1271 is available to get a process's priority.
1272
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1273d_getprotobyname_r (d_getprotobyname_r.U):
1274 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNAME_R symbol,
1275 which indicates to the C program that the getprotobyname_r()
1276 routine is available.
1277
1278d_getprotobynumber_r (d_getprotobynumber_r.U):
1279 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNUMBER_R symbol,
1280 which indicates to the C program that the getprotobynumber_r()
1281 routine is available.
1282
1283d_getprotoent_r (d_getprotoent_r.U):
1284 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOENT_R symbol,
1285 which indicates to the C program that the getprotoent_r()
1286 routine is available.
1287
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1288d_getprotoprotos (d_getprotoprotos.U):
1289 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTO_PROTOS symbol,
1290 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
635aebb7 1291 prototypes for the various getproto*() functions.
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1292 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1293
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1294d_getprpwnam (d_getprpwnam.U):
1295 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPRPWNAM if getprpwnam() is
1296 available to retrieve protected (shadow) password entries by name.
1297
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1298d_getpwent (d_getpwent.U):
1299 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWENT symbol, which
1300 indicates to the C program that the getpwent() routine is available
1301 for sequential access of the passwd database.
1302
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1303d_getpwent_r (d_getpwent_r.U):
1304 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWENT_R symbol,
1305 which indicates to the C program that the getpwent_r()
1306 routine is available.
1307
1308d_getpwnam_r (d_getpwnam_r.U):
1309 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWNAM_R symbol,
1310 which indicates to the C program that the getpwnam_r()
1311 routine is available.
1312
1313d_getpwuid_r (d_getpwuid_r.U):
1314 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWUID_R symbol,
1315 which indicates to the C program that the getpwuid_r()
1316 routine is available.
1317
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1319 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYNAME
1320 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1321 getservbyname() routine is available to look up services
1322 by their name.
1323
1324d_getsbyport (d_getsrvby.U):
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1325 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYPORT
1326 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
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1327 getservbyport() routine is available to look up services
1328 by their port.
1329
1330d_getsent (d_getsent.U):
1331 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETSERVENT if getservent() is
1332 available to look up network services in some data base or another.
1333
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1334d_getservbyname_r (d_getservbyname_r.U):
1335 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYNAME_R symbol,
1336 which indicates to the C program that the getservbyname_r()
1337 routine is available.
1338
1339d_getservbyport_r (d_getservbyport_r.U):
1340 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYPORT_R symbol,
1341 which indicates to the C program that the getservbyport_r()
1342 routine is available.
1343
1344d_getservent_r (d_getservent_r.U):
1345 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVENT_R symbol,
1346 which indicates to the C program that the getservent_r()
1347 routine is available.
1348
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1349d_getservprotos (d_getservprotos.U):
1350 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERV_PROTOS symbol,
1351 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
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1353 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1354
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1355d_getspnam (d_getspnam.U):
1356 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETSPNAM if getspnam() is
1357 available to retrieve SysV shadow password entries by name.
1358
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1359d_getspnam_r (d_getspnam_r.U):
1360 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSPNAM_R symbol,
1361 which indicates to the C program that the getspnam_r()
1362 routine is available.
1363
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1364d_gettimeod (d_ftime.U):
1365 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY symbol, which
1366 indicates that the gettimeofday() system call exists (to obtain a
1367 sub-second accuracy clock). You should probably include <sys/resource.h>.
1368
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1369d_gmtime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
1370 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GMTIME64 symbol, which
1371 indicates to the C program that the gmtime64 () routine is available.
1372
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1373d_gmtime_r (d_gmtime_r.U):
1374 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GMTIME_R symbol,
1375 which indicates to the C program that the gmtime_r()
1376 routine is available.
1377
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1378d_gnulibc (d_gnulibc.U):
1379 Defined if we're dealing with the GNU C Library.
1380
1381d_grpasswd (i_grp.U):
1382 This variable conditionally defines GRPASSWD, which indicates
1383 that struct group in <grp.h> contains gr_passwd.
1384
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1385d_has_C_UTF8 (d_setlocale.U):
1386 This variable is set to either "true" or "false" depending on
1387 whether the compilation system supports the C.UTF-8 locale.
1388
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1389d_hasmntopt (d_hasmntopt.U):
1390 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_HASMNTOPT symbol, which
1391 indicates to the C program that the hasmntopt() routine is available
1392 to query the mount options of file systems.
1393
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1394d_htonl (d_htonl.U):
1395 This variable conditionally defines HAS_HTONL if htonl() and its
1396 friends are available to do network order byte swapping.
1397
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1398d_hypot (d_hypot.U):
1399 This variable conditionally defines HAS_HYPOT if hypot is available
1400 for numerically stable hypotenuse function.
1401
1402d_ilogb (d_ilogb.U):
1403 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ILOGB symbol, which
1404 indicates to the C program that the ilogb() routine is available
1405 for extracting the exponent of double x as a signed integer.
1406
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1407d_ilogbl (d_ilogbl.U):
1408 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ILOGBL symbol, which
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1409 indicates to the C program that the ilogbl() routine is available
1410 for extracting the exponent of long double x as a signed integer.
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1411 If scalbnl is also present we can emulate frexpl.
1412
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1413d_inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U):
1414 This variable conditionally defines PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST.
1415 It is set to undef when PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST is empty.
1416
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1417d_inetaton (d_inetaton.U):
1418 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INET_ATON symbol, which
1419 indicates to the C program that the inet_aton() function is available
1420 to parse IP address "dotted-quad" strings.
1421
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1422d_inetntop (d_inetntop.U):
1423 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INETNTOP symbol,
1424 which indicates to the C program that the inet_ntop() function
1425 is available.
1426
1427d_inetpton (d_inetpton.U):
1428 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INETPTON symbol,
1429 which indicates to the C program that the inet_pton() function
1430 is available.
1431
13b3f787 1432d_int64_t (d_int64_t.U):
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1433 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports int64_t.
1434
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1435d_ip_mreq (d_socket.U):
1436 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IP_MREQ symbol, which
1437 indicates the availability of a struct ip_mreq.
1438
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1439d_ip_mreq_source (d_socket.U):
1440 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IP_MREQ_SOURCE symbol,
1441 which indicates the availability of a struct ip_mreq_source.
1442
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1443d_ipv6_mreq (d_socket.U):
1444 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IPV6_MREQ symbol, which
1445 indicates the availability of a struct ipv6_mreq.
1446
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1447d_ipv6_mreq_source (d_socket.U):
1448 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IPV6_MREQ_SOURCE symbol,
1449 which indicates the availability of a struct ipv6_mreq_source.
1450
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1451d_isascii (d_isascii.U):
1452 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISASCII constant,
1453 which indicates to the C program that isascii() is available.
1454
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1455d_isblank (d_isblank.U):
1456 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISBLANK constant,
1457 which indicates to the C program that isblank() is available.
1458
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1459d_isfinite (d_isfinite.U):
1460 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISFINITE symbol, which
1461 indicates to the C program that the isfinite() routine is available.
1462
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1463d_isfinitel (d_isfinitel.U):
1464 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISFINITEL symbol, which
1465 indicates to the C program that the isfinitel() routine is available.
1466
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1467d_isinf (d_isinf.U):
1468 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISINF symbol, which
1469 indicates to the C program that the isinf() routine is available.
1470
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1471d_isinfl (d_isinfl.U):
1472 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISINFL symbol, which
1473 indicates to the C program that the isinfl() routine is available.
1474
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1475d_isless (d_isless.U):
1476 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISLESS symbol, which
1477 indicates to the C program that the isless() routine is available.
1478
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1479d_isnan (d_isnan.U):
1480 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNAN symbol, which
1481 indicates to the C program that the isnan() routine is available.
1482
1483d_isnanl (d_isnanl.U):
1484 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNANL symbol, which
1485 indicates to the C program that the isnanl() routine is available.
1486
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1487d_isnormal (d_isnormal.U):
1488 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNORMAL symbol, which
1489 indicates to the C program that the isnormal() routine is available.
1490
4671125a 1491d_j0 (d_j0.U):
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1492 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_J0 symbol, which
1493 indicates to the C program that the j0() routine is available.
1494
d0166596 1495d_j0l (d_j0.U):
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1496 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_J0L symbol, which
1497 indicates to the C program that the j0l() routine is available.
1498
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1499d_killpg (d_killpg.U):
1500 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_KILLPG symbol, which
1501 indicates to the C program that the killpg() routine is available
1502 to kill process groups.
1503
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1504d_lc_monetary_2008 (d_lc_monetary_2008.U):
1505 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LC_MONETARY_2008 if libc
1506 has the international currency locale rules from POSIX
1507 1003.1-2008.
1508
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1509d_lchown (d_lchown.U):
1510 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LCHOWN symbol, which
1511 indicates to the C program that the lchown() routine is available
1512 to operate on a symbolic link (instead of following the link).
1513
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1514d_ldbl_dig (d_ldbl_dig.U):
1515 This variable conditionally defines d_ldbl_dig if this system's
1516 header files provide LDBL_DIG, which is the number of significant
1517 digits in a long double precision number.
1518
db8b8c75 1519d_ldexpl (d_longdbl.U):
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1520 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LDEXPL symbol, which
1521 indicates to the C program that the ldexpl() routine is available.
1522
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1523d_lgamma (d_lgamma.U):
1524 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LGAMMA symbol, which
1525 indicates to the C program that the lgamma() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1526 for the log gamma function. See also d_tgamma and d_lgamma_r.
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1527
1528d_lgamma_r (d_lgamma_r.U):
1529 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LGAMMA_R symbol, which
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1530 indicates to the C program that the lgamma_r() routine is available
1531 for the log gamma function, without using the global signgam variable.
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1533d_libm_lib_version (d_libm_lib_version.U):
1534 This variable conditionally defines the LIBM_LIB_VERSION symbol,
1535 which indicates to the C program that math.h defines _LIB_VERSION
1536 being available in libm
1537
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1538d_libname_unique (so.U):
1539 This variable is defined if the target system insists on unique
1540 basenames for shared library files. This is currently true on Android,
1541 false everywhere else we know of.
1542 Defaults to 'undef'.
1543
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1544d_link (d_link.U):
1545 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LINK if link() is
1546 available to create hard links.
1547
3c29c5aa 1548d_linkat (d_fsat.U):
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1549 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LINKAT symbol, which
1550 indicates the POSIX linkat() function is available.
1551
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1552d_llrint (d_llrint.U):
1553 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLRINT symbol, which
1554 indicates to the C program that the llrint() routine is available
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1555 to return the long long value closest to a double (according
1556 to the current rounding mode).
427d28ce 1557
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1558d_llrintl (d_llrintl.U):
1559 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLRINTL symbol, which
1560 indicates to the C program that the llrintl() routine is available
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1561 to return the long long value closest to a long double (according
1562 to the current rounding mode).
bc580dd3 1563
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1564d_llround (d_llround.U):
1565 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLROUND symbol, which
1566 indicates to the C program that the llround() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1567 to return the long long value nearest to x.
427d28ce 1568
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1569d_llroundl (d_llroundl.U):
1570 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLROUNDL symbol, which
1571 indicates to the C program that the llroundl() routine is available
2640dfa8 1572 to return the long long value nearest to x away from zero.
bc580dd3 1573
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1574d_localeconv_l (d_localeconv_l.U):
1575 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOCALECONV_L symbol, which
1576 indicates to the C program that the localeconv_l() routine is available.
1577
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1578d_localtime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
1579 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOCALTIME64 symbol, which
1580 indicates to the C program that the localtime64 () routine is available.
1581
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1582d_localtime_r (d_localtime_r.U):
1583 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOCALTIME_R symbol,
1584 which indicates to the C program that the localtime_r()
1585 routine is available.
1586
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1587d_localtime_r_needs_tzset (d_localtime_r.U):
1588 This variable conditionally defines the LOCALTIME_R_NEEDS_TZSET
1589 symbol, which makes us call tzset before localtime_r()
1590
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1591d_locconv (d_locconv.U):
1592 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LOCALECONV if localeconv() is
1593 available for numeric and monetary formatting conventions.
1594
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1595d_lockf (d_lockf.U):
1596 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LOCKF if lockf() is
1597 available to do file locking.
1598
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1599d_log1p (d_log1p.U):
1600 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOG1P symbol, which
1601 indicates to the C program that the logp1() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1602 to compute log(1 + x) for values of x close to zero.
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1603
1604d_log2 (d_log2.U):
1605 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOG2 symbol, which
1606 indicates to the C program that the log2() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1607 to compute log base two.
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1608
1609d_logb (d_logb.U):
1610 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOGB symbol, which
1611 indicates to the C program that the logb() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1612 to extract the exponent of x.
427d28ce 1613
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1614d_long_double_style_ieee (d_longdbl.U):
1615 This variable conditionally defines LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE
1616 if the long double is any of the IEEE 754 style long doubles:
1617 LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_STD, LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_EXTENDED,
1618 LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_DOUBLEDOUBLE.
1619
1620d_long_double_style_ieee_doubledouble (d_longdbl.U):
1621 This variable conditionally defines LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_DOUBLEDOUBLE
1622 if the long double is the 128-bit IEEE 754 double-double.
1623
1624d_long_double_style_ieee_extended (d_longdbl.U):
1625 This variable conditionally defines LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_EXTENDED
1626 if the long double is the 80-bit IEEE 754 extended precision.
1627 Note that despite the 'extended' this is less than the 'std',
f1460a66 1628 since this is an extension of the double precision.
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1629
1630d_long_double_style_ieee_std (d_longdbl.U):
1631 This variable conditionally defines LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_IEEE_STD
1632 if the long double is the 128-bit IEEE 754.
1633
1634d_long_double_style_vax (d_longdbl.U):
1635 This variable conditionally defines LONG_DOUBLE_STYLE_VAX
1636 if the long double is the 128-bit VAX format H.
1637
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1638d_longdbl (d_longdbl.U):
1639 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LONG_DOUBLE if
1640 the long double type is supported.
1641
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635aebb7 1643 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LONG_LONG if
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1644 the long long type is supported.
1645
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1646d_lrint (d_lrint.U):
1647 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LRINT symbol, which
1648 indicates to the C program that the lrint() routine is available
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1649 to return the integral value closest to a double (according
1650 to the current rounding mode).
427d28ce 1651
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1652d_lrintl (d_lrintl.U):
1653 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LRINTL symbol, which
1654 indicates to the C program that the lrintl() routine is available
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1655 to return the integral value closest to a long double (according
1656 to the current rounding mode).
bc580dd3 1657
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1658d_lround (d_lround.U):
1659 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LROUND symbol, which
1660 indicates to the C program that the lround() routine is available
f40bbcbf 1661 to return the integral value nearest to x.
427d28ce 1662
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1663d_lroundl (d_lroundl.U):
1664 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LROUNDL symbol, which
1665 indicates to the C program that the lroundl() routine is available
2640dfa8 1666 to return the integral value nearest to x away from zero.
bc580dd3 1667
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1668d_lseekproto (d_lseekproto.U):
1669 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LSEEK_PROTO symbol,
1670 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
1671 a prototype for the lseek() function. Otherwise, it is
1672 up to the program to supply one.
1673
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1674d_lstat (d_lstat.U):
1675 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LSTAT if lstat() is
1676 available to do file stats on symbolic links.
1677
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1678d_madvise (d_madvise.U):
1679 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MADVISE if madvise() is
1680 available to map a file into memory.
1681
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1682d_malloc_good_size (d_malloc_size.U):
1683 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the malloc_good_size
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1684 routine is available for use.
1685
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1686d_malloc_size (d_malloc_size.U):
1687 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the malloc_size
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1688 routine is available for use.
1689
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1690d_malloc_usable_size (d_malloc_size.U):
1691 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the malloc_usable_size
1692 routine is available for use.
1693
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1694d_mblen (d_mblen.U):
1695 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBLEN symbol, which
1696 indicates to the C program that the mblen() routine is available
f1460a66 1697 to find the number of bytes in a multibyte character.
781b178c 1698
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1699d_mbrlen (d_mbrlen.U):
1700 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBRLEN symbol if the
1701 mbrlen() routine is available to be used to get the length of
1702 multi-byte character strings.
1703
1704d_mbrtowc (d_mbrtowc.U):
1705 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBRTOWC symbol if the
1706 mbrtowc() routine is available to be used to convert a multi-byte
1707 character into a wide character.
1708
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1709d_mbstowcs (d_mbstowcs.U):
1710 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBSTOWCS symbol, which
1711 indicates to the C program that the mbstowcs() routine is available
1712 to convert a multibyte string into a wide character string.
1713
1714d_mbtowc (d_mbtowc.U):
1715 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBTOWC symbol, which
1716 indicates to the C program that the mbtowc() routine is available
1717 to convert multibyte to a wide character.
781b178c 1718
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1719d_memmem (d_memmem.U):
1720 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMMEM symbol, which
1721 indicates to the C program that the memmem() routine is available
f1460a66 1722 to return a pointer to the start of the first occurrence of a
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1723 substring in a memory area (or NULL if not found).
1724
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1725d_memrchr (d_memrchr.U):
1726 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMRCHR symbol, which
1727 indicates to the C program that the memrchr() routine is available
1728 to return a pointer to the last occurrence of a byte in a memory
1729 area (or NULL if not found).
1730
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1731d_mkdir (d_mkdir.U):
1732 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKDIR symbol, which
1733 indicates to the C program that the mkdir() routine is available
209e5c0a 1734 to create directories..
781b178c 1735
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1736d_mkdtemp (d_mkdtemp.U):
1737 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKDTEMP symbol, which
1738 indicates to the C program that the mkdtemp() routine is available
1739 to exclusively create a uniquely named temporary directory.
1740
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1741d_mkfifo (d_mkfifo.U):
1742 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKFIFO symbol, which
1743 indicates to the C program that the mkfifo() routine is available.
1744
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1746 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MKOSTEMP if mkostemp() is
1747 available to exclusively create and open a uniquely named (with a
1748 suffix) temporary file.
226394c3 1749
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1750d_mkstemp (d_mkstemp.U):
1751 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKSTEMP symbol, which
1752 indicates to the C program that the mkstemp() routine is available
1753 to exclusively create and open a uniquely named temporary file.
1754
1755d_mkstemps (d_mkstemps.U):
1756 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKSTEMPS symbol, which
1757 indicates to the C program that the mkstemps() routine is available
1758 to exclusively create and open a uniquely named (with a suffix)
1759 temporary file.
1760
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1761d_mktime (d_mktime.U):
1762 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKTIME symbol, which
1763 indicates to the C program that the mktime() routine is available.
1764
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1765d_mktime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
1766 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKTIME64 symbol, which
1767 indicates to the C program that the mktime64 () routine is available.
1768
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1769d_mmap (d_mmap.U):
1770 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MMAP if mmap() is
1771 available to map a file into memory.
1772
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1773d_modfl (d_modfl.U):
1774 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MODFL symbol, which
1775 indicates to the C program that the modfl() routine is available.
1776
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1777d_modflproto (d_modfl.U):
1778 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the system provides
1779 a prototype for the modfl() function. Otherwise, it is up
1780 to the program to supply one. C99 says it should be
1781 long double modfl(long double, long double *);
1782
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1783d_mprotect (d_mprotect.U):
1784 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MPROTECT if mprotect() is
1785 available to modify the access protection of a memory mapped file.
1786
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1787d_msg (d_msg.U):
1788 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG symbol, which
1789 indicates that the entire msg*(2) library is present.
1790
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1791d_msg_ctrunc (d_socket.U):
1792 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_CTRUNC symbol,
1793 which indicates that the MSG_CTRUNC is available. #ifdef is
1794 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1795
1796d_msg_dontroute (d_socket.U):
1797 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_DONTROUTE symbol,
1798 which indicates that the MSG_DONTROUTE is available. #ifdef is
1799 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1800
1801d_msg_oob (d_socket.U):
1802 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_OOB symbol,
1803 which indicates that the MSG_OOB is available. #ifdef is
1804 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1805
1806d_msg_peek (d_socket.U):
1807 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_PEEK symbol,
1808 which indicates that the MSG_PEEK is available. #ifdef is
1809 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1810
1811d_msg_proxy (d_socket.U):
1812 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_PROXY symbol,
1813 which indicates that the MSG_PROXY is available. #ifdef is
1814 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1815
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1816d_msgctl (d_msgctl.U):
1817 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGCTL symbol, which
1818 indicates to the C program that the msgctl() routine is available.
1819
1820d_msgget (d_msgget.U):
1821 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGGET symbol, which
1822 indicates to the C program that the msgget() routine is available.
1823
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1824d_msghdr_s (d_msghdr_s.U):
1825 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_MSGHDR symbol,
1826 which indicates that the struct msghdr is supported.
1827
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1828d_msgrcv (d_msgrcv.U):
1829 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGRCV symbol, which
1830 indicates to the C program that the msgrcv() routine is available.
1831
1832d_msgsnd (d_msgsnd.U):
1833 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGSND symbol, which
1834 indicates to the C program that the msgsnd() routine is available.
1835
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1836d_msync (d_msync.U):
1837 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MSYNC if msync() is
1838 available to synchronize a mapped file.
1839
1840d_munmap (d_munmap.U):
1841 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MUNMAP if munmap() is
1842 available to unmap a region mapped by mmap().
1843
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1844d_mymalloc (mallocsrc.U):
1845 This variable conditionally defines MYMALLOC in case other parts
1846 of the source want to take special action if MYMALLOC is used.
1847 This may include different sorts of profiling or error detection.
1848
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1849d_nan (d_nan.U):
1850 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NAN if nan() is
1851 available to generate NaN.
1852
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1853d_nanosleep (d_nanosleep.U):
1854 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NANOSLEEP
1855 if nanosleep() is available to sleep with 1E-9 sec accuracy.
1856
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1857d_ndbm (i_ndbm.U):
1858 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NDBM symbol, which
1859 indicates that both the ndbm.h include file and an appropriate ndbm
1860 library exist. Consult the different i_*ndbm variables
1861 to find out the actual include location. Sometimes, a system has the
1862 header file but not the library. This variable will only be set if
1863 the system has both.
1864
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1865d_ndbm_h_uses_prototypes (i_ndbm.U):
1866 This variable conditionally defines the NDBM_H_USES_PROTOTYPES symbol,
1867 which indicates that the ndbm.h include file uses real ANSI C
1868 prototypes instead of K&R style function declarations. K&R style
1869 declarations are unsupported in C++, so the include file requires
1870 special handling when using a C++ compiler and this variable is
1871 undefined. Consult the different d_*ndbm_h_uses_prototypes variables
1872 to get the same information for alternative ndbm.h include files.
1873
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1874d_nearbyint (d_nearbyint.U):
1875 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NEARBYINT if nearbyint()
1876 is available to return the integral value closest to (according to
1877 the current rounding mode) to x.
1878
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1879d_newlocale (d_newlocale.U):
1880 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NEWLOCALE symbol, which
1881 indicates to the C program that the newlocale() routine is available
1882 to return a new locale object or modify an existing locale object.
1883
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1884d_nextafter (d_nextafter.U):
1885 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NEXTAFTER if nextafter()
1886 is available to return the next machine representable double from
1887 x in direction y.
1888
1889d_nexttoward (d_nexttoward.U):
1890 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NEXTTOWARD if nexttoward()
1891 is available to return the next machine representable long double from
1892 x in direction y.
1893
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1894d_nice (d_nice.U):
1895 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NICE symbol, which
1896 indicates to the C program that the nice() routine is available.
1897
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1898d_nl_langinfo (d_nl_langinfo.U):
1899 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NL_LANGINFO symbol, which
1900 indicates to the C program that the nl_langinfo() routine is available.
1901
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1902d_nl_langinfo_l (d_nl_langinfo_l.U):
1903 This variable contains the eventual value of the
1904 HAS_NL_LANGINFO_L symbol, which indicates if the
1905 nl_langinfo_l() function exists.
1906
1907d_non_int_bitfields (d_bitfield.U):
1908 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NON_INT_BITFIELDS
1909 which indicates that the C compiler accepts struct bitfields of sizes
1910 that aren't 'int' or 'unsigned int'
1911
78691af5 1912d_nv_preserves_uv (perlxv.U):
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1913 This variable indicates whether a variable of type nvtype
1914 can preserve all the bits a variable of type uvtype.
1915
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1916d_nv_zero_is_allbits_zero (perlxv.U):
1917 This variable indicates whether a variable of type nvtype
1918 stores 0.0 in memory as all bits zero.
1919
c890dc6c 1920d_off64_t (d_off64_t.U):
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1921 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports off64_t.
1922
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1923d_old_pthread_create_joinable (d_pthrattrj.U):
1924 This variable conditionally defines pthread_create_joinable.
1925 undef if pthread.h defines PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE.
1926
1927d_oldpthreads (usethreads.U):
1928 This variable conditionally defines the OLD_PTHREADS_API symbol,
1929 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the old
8c09e4ca 1930 draft POSIX threads API. This is only potentially meaningful if
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1931 usethreads is set.
1932
1933d_oldsock (d_socket.U):
1934 This variable conditionally defines the OLDSOCKET symbol, which
1935 indicates that the BSD socket interface is based on 4.1c and not 4.2.
1936
1937d_open3 (d_open3.U):
1938 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_OPEN3 manifest constant,
1939 which indicates to the C program that the 3 argument version of
1940 the open(2) function is available.
1941
3c29c5aa 1942d_openat (d_fsat.U):
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1943 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_OPENAT symbol, which
1944 indicates the POSIX openat() function is available.
1945
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1946d_pathconf (d_pathconf.U):
1947 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PATHCONF symbol, which
1948 indicates to the C program that the pathconf() routine is available
1949 to determine file-system related limits and options associated
1950 with a given filename.
1951
1952d_pause (d_pause.U):
1953 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PAUSE symbol, which
1954 indicates to the C program that the pause() routine is available
1955 to suspend a process until a signal is received.
1956
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1957d_perl_otherlibdirs (otherlibdirs.U):
1958 This variable conditionally defines PERL_OTHERLIBDIRS, which
1959 contains a colon-separated set of paths for the perl binary to
1960 include in @INC. See also otherlibdirs.
1961
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1962d_phostname (d_gethname.U):
1963 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PHOSTNAME symbol, which
1964 contains the shell command which, when fed to popen(), may be
1965 used to derive the host name.
1966
1967d_pipe (d_pipe.U):
1968 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PIPE symbol, which
1969 indicates to the C program that the pipe() routine is available
1970 to create an inter-process channel.
1971
5c7252f4 1972d_pipe2 (d_pipe2.U):
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1973 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PIPE2 symbol, which
1974 indicates to the C program that the pipe2() routine is available
1975 to create an inter-process channel.
5c7252f4 1976
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1977d_poll (d_poll.U):
1978 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_POLL symbol, which
1979 indicates to the C program that the poll() routine is available
1980 to poll active file descriptors.
1981
1982d_portable (d_portable.U):
1983 This variable conditionally defines the PORTABLE symbol, which
1984 indicates to the C program that it should not assume that it is
1985 running on the machine it was compiled on.
1986
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1987d_prctl (d_prctl.U):
1988 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PRCTL symbol, which
1989 indicates to the C program that the prctl() routine is available.
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1990 Note that there are at least two prctl variants: Linux and Irix.
1991 While they are somewhat similar, they are incompatible.
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1993d_prctl_set_name (d_prctl.U):
1994 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PRCTL_SET_NAME symbol,
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1995 which indicates to the C program that the prctl() routine supports
1996 the PR_SET_NAME option.
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1998d_PRId64 (quadfio.U):
1999 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRId64 symbol, which
47e01c32 2000 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit decimal numbers.
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2001
2002d_PRIeldbl (longdblfio.U):
2003 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 2004 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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2005
2006d_PRIEUldbl (longdblfio.U):
2007 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 2008 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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2009 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIeldbl so that even
2010 case-blind systems can see the difference.
2011
2012d_PRIfldbl (longdblfio.U):
2013 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 2014 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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2016d_PRIFUldbl (longdblfio.U):
2017 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 2018 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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2019 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIfldbl so that even
2020 case-blind systems can see the difference.
2021
2022d_PRIgldbl (longdblfio.U):
2023 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 2024 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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2025
2026d_PRIGUldbl (longdblfio.U):
2027 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 2028 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
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2029 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIgldbl so that even
2030 case-blind systems can see the difference.
2031
2032d_PRIi64 (quadfio.U):
2033 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIi64 symbol, which
47e01c32 2034 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit decimal numbers.
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066e7355 2036d_printf_format_null (d_attribut.U):
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2037 This variable conditionally defines PRINTF_FORMAT_NULL_OK, which
2038 indicates the C compiler allows printf-like formats to be null.
2039
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2040d_PRIo64 (quadfio.U):
2041 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIo64 symbol, which
47e01c32 2042 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit octal numbers.
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2043
2044d_PRIu64 (quadfio.U):
2045 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIu64 symbol, which
47e01c32 2046 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit unsigned decimal
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2047 numbers.
2048
2049d_PRIx64 (quadfio.U):
2050 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIx64 symbol, which
47e01c32 2051 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit hexadecimal numbers.
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2052
2053d_PRIXU64 (quadfio.U):
2054 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIXU64 symbol, which
47e01c32 2055 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit hExADECimAl numbers.
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2056 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIx64 so that even
2057 case-blind systems can see the difference.
2058
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2059d_procselfexe (d_procselfexe.U):
2060 Defined if $procselfexe is symlink to the absolute
2061 pathname of the executing program.
2062
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2063d_pseudofork (d_vfork.U):
2064 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PSEUDOFORK symbol,
2065 which indicates that an emulation of the fork routine is available.
2066
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2067d_pthread_atfork (d_pthread_atfork.U):
2068 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PTHREAD_ATFORK symbol,
2069 which indicates to the C program that the pthread_atfork()
2070 routine is available.
2071
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2072d_pthread_attr_setscope (d_pthread_attr_ss.U):
2073 This variable conditionally defines HAS_PTHREAD_ATTR_SETSCOPE if
2074 pthread_attr_setscope() is available to set the contention scope
2075 attribute of a thread attribute object.
2076
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2077d_pthread_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
2078 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PTHREAD_YIELD
2079 symbol if the pthread_yield routine is available to yield
2080 the execution of the current thread.
2081
0e0c5f82 2082d_ptrdiff_t (d_ptrdiff_t.U):
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2084
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2085d_pwage (i_pwd.U):
2086 This variable conditionally defines PWAGE, which indicates
2087 that struct passwd contains pw_age.
2088
2089d_pwchange (i_pwd.U):
2090 This variable conditionally defines PWCHANGE, which indicates
2091 that struct passwd contains pw_change.
2092
2093d_pwclass (i_pwd.U):
2094 This variable conditionally defines PWCLASS, which indicates
2095 that struct passwd contains pw_class.
2096
2097d_pwcomment (i_pwd.U):
2098 This variable conditionally defines PWCOMMENT, which indicates
2099 that struct passwd contains pw_comment.
2100
2101d_pwexpire (i_pwd.U):
2102 This variable conditionally defines PWEXPIRE, which indicates
2103 that struct passwd contains pw_expire.
2104
2105d_pwgecos (i_pwd.U):
2106 This variable conditionally defines PWGECOS, which indicates
2107 that struct passwd contains pw_gecos.
2108
2109d_pwpasswd (i_pwd.U):
2110 This variable conditionally defines PWPASSWD, which indicates
2111 that struct passwd contains pw_passwd.
2112
2113d_pwquota (i_pwd.U):
2114 This variable conditionally defines PWQUOTA, which indicates
2115 that struct passwd contains pw_quota.
2116
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2117d_qgcvt (d_qgcvt.U):
2118 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_QGCVT symbol, which
2119 indicates to the C program that the qgcvt() routine is available.
2120
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2121d_quad (quadtype.U):
2122 This variable, if defined, tells that there's a 64-bit integer type,
2123 quadtype.
2124
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2125d_querylocale (d_newlocale.U):
2126 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_QUERYLOCALE symbol, which
2127 indicates to the C program that the querylocale() routine is available
2128 to return the name of the locale for a category mask.
2129
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2130d_random_r (d_random_r.U):
2131 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RANDOM_R symbol,
2132 which indicates to the C program that the random_r()
2133 routine is available.
2134
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2135d_re_comp (d_regcmp.U):
2136 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RECOMP symbol, which
2137 indicates to the C program that the re_comp() routine is available
4357af6c 2138 for regular pattern matching (usually on BSD). If so, it is likely that
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2139 re_exec() exists.
2140
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2141d_readdir (d_readdir.U):
2142 This variable conditionally defines HAS_READDIR if readdir() is
2143 available to read directory entries.
2144
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2145d_readdir64_r (d_readdir64_r.U):
2146 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READDIR64_R symbol,
2147 which indicates to the C program that the readdir64_r()
2148 routine is available.
2149
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2150d_readdir_r (d_readdir_r.U):
2151 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READDIR_R symbol,
2152 which indicates to the C program that the readdir_r()
2153 routine is available.
2154
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2155d_readlink (d_readlink.U):
2156 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READLINK symbol, which
2157 indicates to the C program that the readlink() routine is available
2158 to read the value of a symbolic link.
2159
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2160d_readv (d_readv.U):
2161 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READV symbol, which
2162 indicates to the C program that the readv() routine is available.
2163
2164d_recvmsg (d_recvmsg.U):
2165 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RECVMSG symbol, which
2166 indicates to the C program that the recvmsg() routine is available.
2167
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2168d_regcmp (d_regcmp.U):
2169 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_REGCMP symbol, which
2170 indicates to the C program that the regcmp() routine is available
4357af6c 2171 for regular pattern matching (usually on System V).
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2172
2173d_regcomp (d_regcmp.U):
2174 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_REGCOMP symbol, which
2175 indicates to the C program that the regcomp() routine is available
4357af6c 2176 for regular pattern matching (usually on POSIX.2 conforming systems).
f40bbcbf 2177
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2178d_remainder (d_remainder.U):
2179 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_REMAINDER symbol, which
2180 indicates to the C program that the remainder() routine is available.
2181
2182d_remquo (d_remquo.U):
2183 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_REMQUO symbol, which
2184 indicates to the C program that the remquo() routine is available.
2185
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2186d_rename (d_rename.U):
2187 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RENAME symbol, which
2188 indicates to the C program that the rename() routine is available
2189 to rename files.
2190
3c29c5aa 2191d_renameat (d_fsat.U):
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2192 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RENAMEAT symbol, which
2193 indicates the POSIX renameat() function is available.
2194
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2195d_rewinddir (d_readdir.U):
2196 This variable conditionally defines HAS_REWINDDIR if rewinddir() is
2197 available.
2198
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2199d_rint (d_rint.U):
2200 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RINT symbol, which
2201 indicates to the C program that the rint() routine is available.
2202
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2203d_rmdir (d_rmdir.U):
2204 This variable conditionally defines HAS_RMDIR if rmdir() is
2205 available to remove directories.
2206
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2207d_round (d_round.U):
2208 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ROUND symbol, which
2209 indicates to the C program that the round() routine is available.
2210
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2211d_sbrkproto (d_sbrkproto.U):
2212 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SBRK_PROTO symbol,
2213 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2214 a prototype for the sbrk() function. Otherwise, it is
2215 up to the program to supply one.
2216
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2217d_scalbn (d_scalbn.U):
2218 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCALBN symbol, which
2219 indicates to the C program that the scalbn() routine is available.
2220
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2221d_scalbnl (d_scalbnl.U):
2222 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCALBNL symbol, which
2223 indicates to the C program that the scalbnl() routine is available.
2224 If ilogbl is also present we can emulate frexpl.
2225
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2226d_sched_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
2227 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCHED_YIELD
2228 symbol if the sched_yield routine is available to yield
2229 the execution of the current thread.
2230
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2231d_scm_rights (d_socket.U):
2232 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCM_RIGHTS symbol,
2233 which indicates that the SCM_RIGHTS is available. #ifdef is
2234 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
2235
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2236d_SCNfldbl (longdblfio.U):
2237 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
47e01c32 2238 indicates that stdio has a symbol to scan long doubles.
4d54317a 2239
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2240d_seekdir (d_readdir.U):
2241 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SEEKDIR if seekdir() is
2242 available.
2243
2244d_select (d_select.U):
2245 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SELECT if select() is
2246 available to select active file descriptors. A <sys/time.h>
2247 inclusion may be necessary for the timeout field.
2248
2249d_sem (d_sem.U):
2250 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEM symbol, which
2251 indicates that the entire sem*(2) library is present.
2252
2253d_semctl (d_semctl.U):
2254 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMCTL symbol, which
2255 indicates to the C program that the semctl() routine is available.
2256
2257d_semctl_semid_ds (d_union_semun.U):
2258 This variable conditionally defines USE_SEMCTL_SEMID_DS, which
2259 indicates that struct semid_ds * is to be used for semctl IPC_STAT.
2260
2261d_semctl_semun (d_union_semun.U):
2262 This variable conditionally defines USE_SEMCTL_SEMUN, which
2263 indicates that union semun is to be used for semctl IPC_STAT.
2264
2265d_semget (d_semget.U):
2266 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMGET symbol, which
2267 indicates to the C program that the semget() routine is available.
2268
2269d_semop (d_semop.U):
2270 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMOP symbol, which
2271 indicates to the C program that the semop() routine is available.
2272
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2273d_sendmsg (d_sendmsg.U):
2274 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SENDMSG symbol, which
2275 indicates to the C program that the sendmsg() routine is available.
2276
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2277d_setegid (d_setegid.U):
2278 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETEGID symbol, which
2279 indicates to the C program that the setegid() routine is available
2280 to change the effective gid of the current program.
2281
2282d_seteuid (d_seteuid.U):
2283 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETEUID symbol, which
2284 indicates to the C program that the seteuid() routine is available
2285 to change the effective uid of the current program.
2286
2287d_setgrent (d_setgrent.U):
2288 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGRENT symbol, which
2289 indicates to the C program that the setgrent() routine is available
2290 for initializing sequential access to the group database.
2291
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2292d_setgrent_r (d_setgrent_r.U):
2293 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGRENT_R symbol,
2294 which indicates to the C program that the setgrent_r()
2295 routine is available.
2296
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2297d_setgrps (d_setgrps.U):
2298 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGROUPS symbol, which
2299 indicates to the C program that the setgroups() routine is available
2300 to set the list of process groups.
2301
2302d_sethent (d_sethent.U):
2303 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETHOSTENT if sethostent() is
2304 available.
2305
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2306d_sethostent_r (d_sethostent_r.U):
2307 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETHOSTENT_R symbol,
2308 which indicates to the C program that the sethostent_r()
2309 routine is available.
2310
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2311d_setitimer (d_setitimer.U):
2312 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETITIMER symbol, which
2313 indicates to the C program that the setitimer() routine is available.
2314
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2315d_setlinebuf (d_setlnbuf.U):
2316 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETLINEBUF symbol, which
2317 indicates to the C program that the setlinebuf() routine is available
2318 to change stderr or stdout from block-buffered or unbuffered to a
2319 line-buffered mode.
2320
2321d_setlocale (d_setlocale.U):
2322 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETLOCALE if setlocale() is
2323 available to handle locale-specific ctype implementations.
2324
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2325d_setlocale_accepts_any_locale_name (d_setlocale.U):
2326 This variable conditionally defines SETLOCALE_ACCEPTS_ANY_LOCALE_NAME
2327 if setlocale() accepts any locale name.
2328
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2329d_setlocale_r (d_setlocale_r.U):
2330 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETLOCALE_R symbol,
2331 which indicates to the C program that the setlocale_r()
2332 routine is available.
2333
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2334d_setnent (d_setnent.U):
2335 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETNETENT if setnetent() is
2336 available.
2337
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2338d_setnetent_r (d_setnetent_r.U):
2339 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETNETENT_R symbol,
2340 which indicates to the C program that the setnetent_r()
2341 routine is available.
2342
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2343d_setpent (d_setpent.U):
2344 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPROTOENT if setprotoent() is
2345 available.
2346
2347d_setpgid (d_setpgid.U):
2348 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGID symbol if the
2349 setpgid(pid, gpid) function is available to set process group ID.
2350
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2351d_setpgrp (d_setpgrp.U):
2352 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPGRP if setpgrp() is
2353 available to set the current process group.
2354
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2355d_setpgrp2 (d_setpgrp2.U):
2356 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGRP2 symbol, which
2357 indicates to the C program that the setpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine
2358 is available to set the current process group.
2359
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2360d_setprior (d_setprior.U):
2361 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPRIORITY if setpriority()
2362 is available to set a process's priority.
2363
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2364d_setproctitle (d_setproctitle.U):
2365 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPROCTITLE symbol,
2366 which indicates to the C program that the setproctitle() routine
2367 is available.
2368
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2369d_setprotoent_r (d_setprotoent_r.U):
2370 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPROTOENT_R symbol,
2371 which indicates to the C program that the setprotoent_r()
2372 routine is available.
2373
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2374d_setpwent (d_setpwent.U):
2375 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPWENT symbol, which
2376 indicates to the C program that the setpwent() routine is available
2377 for initializing sequential access to the passwd database.
2378
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2379d_setpwent_r (d_setpwent_r.U):
2380 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPWENT_R symbol,
2381 which indicates to the C program that the setpwent_r()
2382 routine is available.
2383
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2384d_setregid (d_setregid.U):
2385 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREGID if setregid() is
2386 available to change the real and effective gid of the current
2387 process.
2388
2389d_setresgid (d_setregid.U):
2390 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETRESGID if setresgid() is
2391 available to change the real, effective and saved gid of the current
2392 process.
2393
2394d_setresuid (d_setreuid.U):
2395 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREUID if setresuid() is
2396 available to change the real, effective and saved uid of the current
2397 process.
2398
2399d_setreuid (d_setreuid.U):
2400 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREUID if setreuid() is
2401 available to change the real and effective uid of the current
2402 process.
2403
2404d_setrgid (d_setrgid.U):
2405 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRGID symbol, which
2406 indicates to the C program that the setrgid() routine is available
2407 to change the real gid of the current program.
2408
2409d_setruid (d_setruid.U):
2410 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRUID symbol, which
2411 indicates to the C program that the setruid() routine is available
2412 to change the real uid of the current program.
2413
2414d_setsent (d_setsent.U):
2415 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSERVENT if setservent() is
2416 available.
2417
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2418d_setservent_r (d_setservent_r.U):
2419 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETSERVENT_R symbol,
2420 which indicates to the C program that the setservent_r()
2421 routine is available.
2422
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2423d_setsid (d_setsid.U):
2424 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSID if setsid() is
2425 available to set the process group ID.
2426
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2427d_setvbuf (d_setvbuf.U):
2428 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETVBUF symbol, which
2429 indicates to the C program that the setvbuf() routine is available
2430 to change buffering on an open stdio stream.
2431
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2432d_shm (d_shm.U):
2433 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHM symbol, which
2434 indicates that the entire shm*(2) library is present.
2435
2436d_shmat (d_shmat.U):
2437 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMAT symbol, which
2438 indicates to the C program that the shmat() routine is available.
2439
2440d_shmatprototype (d_shmat.U):
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2442 symbol, which indicates that sys/shm.h has a prototype for
2443 shmat.
2444
2445d_shmctl (d_shmctl.U):
2446 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMCTL symbol, which
2447 indicates to the C program that the shmctl() routine is available.
2448
2449d_shmdt (d_shmdt.U):
2450 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMDT symbol, which
2451 indicates to the C program that the shmdt() routine is available.
2452
2453d_shmget (d_shmget.U):
2454 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMGET symbol, which
2455 indicates to the C program that the shmget() routine is available.
2456
2457d_sigaction (d_sigaction.U):
2458 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGACTION symbol, which
2459 indicates that the Vr4 sigaction() routine is available.
2460
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2461d_siginfo_si_addr (d_siginfo_si.U):
2462 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_ADDR symbol,
2463 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_addr member.
2464
2465d_siginfo_si_band (d_siginfo_si.U):
2466 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_BAND symbol,
2467 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_band member.
2468
2469d_siginfo_si_errno (d_siginfo_si.U):
2470 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_ERRNO symbol,
2471 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_errno member.
2472
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2473d_siginfo_si_fd (d_siginfo_si.U):
2474 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_FD symbol,
2475 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_fd member.
2476
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2477d_siginfo_si_pid (d_siginfo_si.U):
2478 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_PID symbol,
2479 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_pid member.
2480
2481d_siginfo_si_status (d_siginfo_si.U):
2482 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_STATUS symbol,
2483 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_status member.
2484
2485d_siginfo_si_uid (d_siginfo_si.U):
2486 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_UID symbol,
2487 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_uid member.
2488
2489d_siginfo_si_value (d_siginfo_si.U):
2490 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGINFO_SI_VALUE symbol,
2491 which indicates that the siginfo_t struct has the si_value member.
2492
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2493d_signbit (d_signbit.U):
2494 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGNBIT symbol, which
2495 indicates to the C program that the signbit() routine is available
2496 and safe to use with perl's intern NV type.
2497
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2498d_sigprocmask (d_sigprocmask.U):
2499 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SIGPROCMASK
2500 if sigprocmask() is available to examine or change the signal mask
2501 of the calling process.
2502
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2503d_sigsetjmp (d_sigsetjmp.U):
2504 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGSETJMP symbol,
2505 which indicates that the sigsetjmp() routine is available to
2506 call setjmp() and optionally save the process's signal mask.
2507
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2508d_sin6_scope_id (d_socket.U):
2509 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIN6_SCOPE_ID symbol, which
2510 indicates that a struct sockaddr_in6 structure has the sin6_scope_id
2511 member.
2512
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2513d_sitearch (sitearch.U):
2514 This variable conditionally defines SITEARCH to hold the pathname
2515 of architecture-dependent library files for $package. If
2516 $sitearch is the same as $archlib, then this is set to undef.
2517
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2518d_snprintf (d_snprintf.U):
2519 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SNPRINTF symbol, which
2520 indicates to the C program that the snprintf () library function
2521 is available.
2522
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2523d_sockaddr_in6 (d_socket.U):
2524 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKADDR_IN6 symbol, which
2525 indicates the availability of a struct sockaddr_in6.
2526
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2527d_sockaddr_sa_len (d_socket.U):
2528 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKADDR_SA_LEN symbol,
2529 which indicates that a struct sockaddr structure has the sa_len
2530 member.
2531
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2532d_sockaddr_storage (d_socket.U):
2533 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKADDR_STORAGE symbol,
2534 which indicates the availability of a struct sockaddr_storage.
2535
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2536d_sockatmark (d_sockatmark.U):
2537 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKATMARK symbol, which
2538 indicates to the C program that the sockatmark() routine is available.
2539
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2540d_sockatmarkproto (d_sockatmarkproto.U):
2541 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKATMARK_PROTO symbol,
2542 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2543 a prototype for the sockatmark() function. Otherwise, it is
2544 up to the program to supply one.
2545
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2546d_socket (d_socket.U):
2547 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SOCKET, which indicates
2548 that the BSD socket interface is supported.
2549
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2550d_socklen_t (d_socklen_t.U):
2551 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports socklen_t.
2552
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2553d_sockpair (d_socket.U):
2554 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKETPAIR symbol, which
2555 indicates that the BSD socketpair() is supported.
2556
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2557d_socks5_init (d_socks5_init.U):
2558 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKS5_INIT symbol, which
2559 indicates to the C program that the socks5_init() routine is available.
2560
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2561d_sqrtl (d_sqrtl.U):
2562 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SQRTL symbol, which
2563 indicates to the C program that the sqrtl() routine is available.
2564
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2565d_srand48_r (d_srand48_r.U):
2566 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SRAND48_R symbol,
2567 which indicates to the C program that the srand48_r()
2568 routine is available.
2569
2570d_srandom_r (d_srandom_r.U):
2571 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SRANDOM_R symbol,
2572 which indicates to the C program that the srandom_r()
2573 routine is available.
2574
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2575d_sresgproto (d_sresgproto.U):
2576 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRESGID_PROTO symbol,
2577 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2578 a prototype for the setresgid() function. Otherwise, it is
2579 up to the program to supply one.
2580
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2581d_sresuproto (d_sresuproto.U):
2582 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRESUID_PROTO symbol,
2583 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2584 a prototype for the setresuid() function. Otherwise, it is
2585 up to the program to supply one.
2586
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2587d_stat (d_stat.U):
2588 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STAT if stat() is
2589 available to get file status.
2590
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2591d_statblks (d_statblks.U):
2592 This variable conditionally defines USE_STAT_BLOCKS
2593 if this system has a stat structure declaring
2594 st_blksize and st_blocks.
2595
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2596d_statfs_f_flags (d_statfs_f_flags.U):
2597 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_STATFS_F_FLAGS
2598 symbol, which indicates to struct statfs from has f_flags member.
2599 This kind of struct statfs is coming from sys/mount.h (BSD),
2600 not from sys/statfs.h (SYSV).
2601
2602d_statfs_s (d_statfs_s.U):
2603 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_STATFS symbol,
2604 which indicates that the struct statfs is supported.
2605
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2606d_static_inline (d_static_inline.U):
2607 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STATIC_INLINE symbol,
2608 which indicates that the C compiler supports C99-style static
2609 inline. That is, the function can't be called from another
2610 translation unit.
2611
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2612d_statvfs (d_statvfs.U):
2613 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STATVFS symbol, which
2614 indicates to the C program that the statvfs() routine is available.
2615
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2616d_stdio_cnt_lval (d_stdstdio.U):
2617 This variable conditionally defines STDIO_CNT_LVALUE if the
2618 FILE_cnt macro can be used as an lvalue.
2619
2620d_stdio_ptr_lval (d_stdstdio.U):
2621 This variable conditionally defines STDIO_PTR_LVALUE if the
2622 FILE_ptr macro can be used as an lvalue.
2623
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2624d_stdio_ptr_lval_nochange_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
2625 This symbol is defined if using the FILE_ptr macro as an lvalue
2626 to increase the pointer by n leaves File_cnt(fp) unchanged.
2627
2628d_stdio_ptr_lval_sets_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
2629 This symbol is defined if using the FILE_ptr macro as an lvalue
2630 to increase the pointer by n has the side effect of decreasing the
2631 value of File_cnt(fp) by n.
2632
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2633d_stdio_stream_array (stdio_streams.U):
2634 This variable tells whether there is an array holding
2635 the stdio streams.
2636
2637d_stdiobase (d_stdstdio.U):
2638 This variable conditionally defines USE_STDIO_BASE if this system
2639 has a FILE structure declaring a usable _base field (or equivalent)
2640 in stdio.h.
2641
2642d_stdstdio (d_stdstdio.U):
2643 This variable conditionally defines USE_STDIO_PTR if this system
2644 has a FILE structure declaring usable _ptr and _cnt fields (or
2645 equivalent) in stdio.h.
2646
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2647d_strcoll (d_strcoll.U):
2648 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRCOLL if strcoll() is
2649 available to compare strings using collating information.
2650
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2651d_strerror_l (d_strerror_l.U):
2652 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRERROR_L symbol, which
2653 indicates to the C program that the strerror_l() routine is available
2654 to return the error message for a given errno value in a particular
2655 locale (identified by a locale_t object).
2656
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2657d_strerror_r (d_strerror_r.U):
2658 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRERROR_R symbol,
2659 which indicates to the C program that the strerror_r()
2660 routine is available.
2661
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2662d_strftime (d_strftime.U):
2663 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRFTIME symbol, which
2664 indicates to the C program that the strftime() routine is available.
2665
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2666d_strlcat (d_strlcat.U):
2667 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRLCAT symbol, which
2668 indicates to the C program that the strlcat () routine is available.
2669
2670d_strlcpy (d_strlcpy.U):
2671 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRLCPY symbol, which
2672 indicates to the C program that the strlcpy () routine is available.
2673
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2674d_strnlen (d_strnlen.U):
2675 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRNLEN symbol, which
2676 indicates to the C program that the strnlen () routine is available.
2677
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2678d_strtod (d_strtod.U):
2679 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOD symbol, which
2680 indicates to the C program that the strtod() routine is available
2681 to provide better numeric string conversion than atof().
2682
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2683d_strtod_l (d_strtod_l.U):
2684 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOD_L symbol, which
2685 indicates to the C program that the strtod_l() routine is available.
2686
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2687d_strtol (d_strtol.U):
2688 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOL symbol, which
2689 indicates to the C program that the strtol() routine is available
2690 to provide better numeric string conversion than atoi() and friends.
2691
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2692d_strtold (d_strtold.U):
2693 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLD symbol, which
2694 indicates to the C program that the strtold() routine is available.
2695
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2696d_strtold_l (d_strtold_l.U):
2697 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLD_L symbol, which
2698 indicates to the C program that the strtold_l() routine is available.
2699
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2700d_strtoll (d_strtoll.U):
2701 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLL symbol, which
2702 indicates to the C program that the strtoll() routine is available.
2703
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2704d_strtoq (d_strtoq.U):
2705 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOQ symbol, which
2706 indicates to the C program that the strtoq() routine is available.
2707
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2708d_strtoul (d_strtoul.U):
2709 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUL symbol, which
2710 indicates to the C program that the strtoul() routine is available
2711 to provide conversion of strings to unsigned long.
2712
ff935051 2713d_strtoull (d_strtoull.U):
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2714 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOULL symbol, which
2715 indicates to the C program that the strtoull() routine is available.
2716
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2717d_strtouq (d_strtouq.U):
2718 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUQ symbol, which
2719 indicates to the C program that the strtouq() routine is available.
2720
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2721d_strxfrm (d_strxfrm.U):
2722 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRXFRM if strxfrm() is
2723 available to transform strings.
2724
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2725d_strxfrm_l (d_strxfrm_l.U):
2726 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRXFRM_L if strxfrm_l() is
2727 available to transform strings.
2728
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2729d_suidsafe (d_dosuid.U):
2730 This variable conditionally defines SETUID_SCRIPTS_ARE_SECURE_NOW
2731 if setuid scripts can be secure. This test looks in /dev/fd/.
2732
2733d_symlink (d_symlink.U):
2734 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYMLINK symbol, which
2735 indicates to the C program that the symlink() routine is available
2736 to create symbolic links.
2737
2738d_syscall (d_syscall.U):
2739 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYSCALL if syscall() is
2740 available call arbitrary system calls.
2741
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2742d_syscallproto (d_syscallproto.U):
2743 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYSCALL_PROTO symbol,
2744 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2745 a prototype for the syscall() function. Otherwise, it is
2746 up to the program to supply one.
2747
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2748d_sysconf (d_sysconf.U):
2749 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYSCONF symbol, which
2750 indicates to the C program that the sysconf() routine is available
2751 to determine system related limits and options.
2752
2753d_sysernlst (d_strerror.U):
2754 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYS_ERRNOLIST if sys_errnolist[]
2755 is available to translate error numbers to the symbolic name.
2756
2757d_syserrlst (d_strerror.U):
2758 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYS_ERRLIST if sys_errlist[] is
2759 available to translate error numbers to strings.
2760
2761d_system (d_system.U):
2762 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYSTEM if system() is
2763 available to issue a shell command.
2764
2765d_tcgetpgrp (d_tcgtpgrp.U):
2766 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TCGETPGRP symbol, which
2767 indicates to the C program that the tcgetpgrp() routine is available.
2768 to get foreground process group ID.
2769
2770d_tcsetpgrp (d_tcstpgrp.U):
2771 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TCSETPGRP symbol, which
2772 indicates to the C program that the tcsetpgrp() routine is available
2773 to set foreground process group ID.
2774
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2775d_telldir (d_readdir.U):
2776 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TELLDIR if telldir() is
2777 available.
2778
2779d_telldirproto (d_telldirproto.U):
2780 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TELLDIR_PROTO symbol,
2781 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2782 a prototype for the telldir() function. Otherwise, it is
2783 up to the program to supply one.
2784
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2785d_tgamma (d_tgamma.U):
2786 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TGAMMA symbol, which
2787 indicates to the C program that the tgamma() routine is available
f40bbcbf 2788 for the gamma function. See also d_lgamma.
427d28ce 2789
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2790d_thread_safe_nl_langinfo_l (d_nl_langinfo_l.U):
2791 This variable contains the eventual value of the
2792 HAS_THREAD_SAFE_NL_LANGINFO_L symbol, which indicates if the
2793 nl_langinfo_l() function exists and is thread-safe.
2794
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2795d_time (d_time.U):
2796 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIME symbol, which indicates
47e01c32 2797 that the time() routine exists. The time() routine is normally
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2798 provided on UNIX systems.
2799
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2800d_timegm (d_timegm.U):
2801 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIMEGM symbol, which
2802 indicates to the C program that the timegm () routine is available.
2803
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2804d_times (d_times.U):
2805 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIMES symbol, which indicates
47e01c32 2806 that the times() routine exists. The times() routine is normally
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2807 provided on UNIX systems. You may have to include <sys/times.h>.
2808
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2809d_tm_tm_gmtoff (i_time.U):
2810 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TM_TM_GMTOFF, which indicates
a3815e44 2811 to the C program that the struct tm has the tm_gmtoff field.
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2812
2813d_tm_tm_zone (i_time.U):
2814 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TM_TM_ZONE, which indicates
a3815e44 2815 to the C program that the struct tm has the tm_zone field.
511116db 2816
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2817d_tmpnam_r (d_tmpnam_r.U):
2818 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TMPNAM_R symbol,
2819 which indicates to the C program that the tmpnam_r()
2820 routine is available.
2821
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2822d_towlower (d_towlower.U):
2823 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TOWLOWER symbol, which
2824 indicates to the C program that the towlower() routine is available.
2825
2826d_towupper (d_towupper.U):
2827 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TOWUPPER symbol, which
2828 indicates to the C program that the towupper() routine is available.
2829
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f40bbcbf 2831 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TRUNC symbol, which
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2832 indicates to the C program that the trunc() routine is available
2833 to round doubles towards zero.
2834
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2835d_truncate (d_truncate.U):
2836 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TRUNCATE if truncate() is
2837 available to truncate files.
2838
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2839d_truncl (d_truncl.U):
2840 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TRUNCL symbol, which
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2841 indicates to the C program that the truncl() routine is available
2842 to round long doubles towards zero. If copysignl is also present,
2843 we can emulate modfl.
4842dad7 2844
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2845d_ttyname_r (d_ttyname_r.U):
2846 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TTYNAME_R symbol,
2847 which indicates to the C program that the ttyname_r()
2848 routine is available.
2849
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2850d_tzname (d_tzname.U):
2851 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TZNAME if tzname[] is
2852 available to access timezone names.
2853
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2854d_u32align (d_u32align.U):
2855 This variable tells whether you must access character data
2856 through U32-aligned pointers.
2857
2858d_ualarm (d_ualarm.U):
2859 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UALARM symbol, which
2860 indicates to the C program that the ualarm() routine is available.
2861
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2862d_umask (d_umask.U):
2863 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UMASK symbol, which
2864 indicates to the C program that the umask() routine is available.
2865 to set and get the value of the file creation mask.
2866
2867d_uname (d_gethname.U):
2868 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNAME symbol, which
2869 indicates to the C program that the uname() routine may be
2870 used to derive the host name.
2871
2872d_union_semun (d_union_semun.U):
2873 This variable conditionally defines HAS_UNION_SEMUN if the
2874 union semun is defined by including <sys/sem.h>.
2875
3c29c5aa 2876d_unlinkat (d_fsat.U):
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2877 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNLINKAT symbol, which
2878 indicates the POSIX unlinkat() function isavailable.
2879
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2880d_unordered (d_unordered.U):
2881 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNORDERED symbol, which
2882 indicates to the C program that the unordered() routine is available.
2883
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2884d_unsetenv (d_unsetenv.U):
2885 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNSETENV symbol, which
2886 indicates to the C program that the unsetenv () routine is available.
2887
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2888d_uselocale (d_newlocale.U):
2889 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_USELOCALE symbol, which
2890 indicates to the C program that the uselocale() routine is available
2891 to set the current locale for the calling thread.
2892
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2893d_usleep (d_usleep.U):
2894 This variable conditionally defines HAS_USLEEP if usleep() is
2895 available to do high granularity sleeps.
2896
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2897d_usleepproto (d_usleepproto.U):
2898 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_USLEEP_PROTO symbol,
2899 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2900 a prototype for the usleep() function. Otherwise, it is
2901 up to the program to supply one.
2902
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2903d_ustat (d_ustat.U):
2904 This variable conditionally defines HAS_USTAT if ustat() is
2905 available to query file system statistics by dev_t.
2906
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2907d_vendorarch (vendorarch.U):
2908 This variable conditionally defined PERL_VENDORARCH.
2909
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2910d_vendorbin (vendorbin.U):
2911 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORBIN.
2912
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2913d_vendorlib (vendorlib.U):
2914 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORLIB.
2915
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2916d_vendorscript (vendorscript.U):
2917 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORSCRIPT.
2918
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2919d_vfork (d_vfork.U):
2920 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VFORK symbol, which
2921 indicates the vfork() routine is available.
2922
2923d_void_closedir (d_closedir.U):
2924 This variable conditionally defines VOID_CLOSEDIR if closedir()
2925 does not return a value.
2926
2927d_voidsig (d_voidsig.U):
2928 This variable conditionally defines VOIDSIG if this system
2929 declares "void (*signal(...))()" in signal.h. The old way was to
2930 declare it as "int (*signal(...))()".
2931
2932d_voidtty (i_sysioctl.U):
2933 This variable conditionally defines USE_IOCNOTTY to indicate that the
2934 ioctl() call with TIOCNOTTY should be used to void tty association.
2935 Otherwise (on USG probably), it is enough to close the standard file
47e01c32 2936 descriptors and do a setpgrp().
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2938d_vsnprintf (d_snprintf.U):
2939 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VSNPRINTF symbol, which
2940 indicates to the C program that the vsnprintf () library function
2941 is available.
2942
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2943d_wait4 (d_wait4.U):
2944 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WAIT4 symbol, which
2945 indicates the wait4() routine is available.
2946
2947d_waitpid (d_waitpid.U):
2948 This variable conditionally defines HAS_WAITPID if waitpid() is
2949 available to wait for child process.
2950
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2951d_wcrtomb (d_wcrtomb.U):
2952 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCRTOMB symbol if the
2953 wcrtomb() routine is available to be used to convert a wide character
2954 into a multi-byte character.
2955
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2956d_wcscmp (d_wcscmp.U):
2957 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSCMP symbol if the
2958 wcscmp() routine is available and can be used to compare wide
2959 character strings.
2960
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2961d_wcstombs (d_wcstombs.U):
2962 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSTOMBS symbol, which
2963 indicates to the C program that the wcstombs() routine is available
2964 to convert wide character strings to multibyte strings.
2965
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2966d_wcsxfrm (d_wcsxfrm.U):
2967 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSXFRM symbol if the
2968 wcsxfrm() routine is available and can be used to compare wide
2969 character strings.
2970
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2971d_wctomb (d_wctomb.U):
2972 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCTOMB symbol, which
2973 indicates to the C program that the wctomb() routine is available
2974 to convert a wide character to a multibyte.
2975
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2976d_writev (d_writev.U):
2977 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WRITEV symbol, which
2978 indicates to the C program that the writev() routine is available.
2979
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2980d_xenix (Guess.U):
2981 This variable conditionally defines the symbol XENIX, which alerts
2982 the C program that it runs under Xenix.
2983
2984date (Loc.U):
5bf26616 2985 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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2986 full pathname (if any) of the date program. After Configure runs,
2987 the value is reset to a plain "date" and is not useful.
2988
2989db_hashtype (i_db.U):
2990 This variable contains the type of the hash structure element
2991 in the <db.h> header file. In older versions of DB, it was
2992 int, while in newer ones it is u_int32_t.
2993
2994db_prefixtype (i_db.U):
2995 This variable contains the type of the prefix structure element
2996 in the <db.h> header file. In older versions of DB, it was
2997 int, while in newer ones it is size_t.
2998
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2999db_version_major (i_db.U):
3000 This variable contains the major version number of
3001 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
3002
3003db_version_minor (i_db.U):
3004 This variable contains the minor version number of
3005 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
3006 For DB version 1 this is always 0.
3007
3008db_version_patch (i_db.U):
3009 This variable contains the patch version number of
3010 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
3011 For DB version 1 this is always 0.
3012
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3013default_inc_excludes_dot (defaultincdot.U):
3014 When defined, remove the legacy '.' from @INC
3015
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3016direntrytype (i_dirent.U):
3017 This symbol is set to 'struct direct' or 'struct dirent' depending on
3018 whether dirent is available or not. You should use this pseudo type to
3019 portably declare your directory entries.
3020
3021dlext (dlext.U):
3022 This variable contains the extension that is to be used for the
1332606d 3023 dynamically loaded modules that perl generates.
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3024
3025dlsrc (dlsrc.U):
3026 This variable contains the name of the dynamic loading file that
3027 will be used with the package.
3028
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3029doubleinfbytes (infnan.U):
3030 This variable contains comma-separated list of hexadecimal bytes
3031 for the double precision infinity.
3032
f40bbcbf 3033doublekind (longdblfio.U):
bade9271 3034 This variable, if defined, encodes the type of a double:
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3035 1 = IEEE 754 32-bit little endian,
3036 2 = IEEE 754 32-bit big endian,
3037 3 = IEEE 754 64-bit little endian,
3038 4 = IEEE 754 64-bit big endian,
3039 5 = IEEE 754 128-bit little endian,
3040 6 = IEEE 754 128-bit big endian,
3041 7 = IEEE 754 64-bit mixed endian le-be,
3042 8 = IEEE 754 64-bit mixed endian be-le,
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3043 9 = VAX 32bit little endian F float format
3044 10 = VAX 64bit little endian D float format
3045 11 = VAX 64bit little endian G float format
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3046 12 = IBM 32bit format
3047 13 = IBM 64bit format
3048 14 = Cray 64bit format
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3049 -1 = unknown format.
3050
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3051doublemantbits (mantbits.U):
3052 This symbol, if defined, tells how many mantissa bits
3053 there are in double precision floating point format.
3054 Note that this is usually DBL_MANT_DIG minus one, since
3055 with the standard IEEE 754 formats DBL_MANT_DIG includes
3056 the implicit bit which doesn't really exist.
3057
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3058doublenanbytes (infnan.U):
3059 This variable contains comma-separated list of hexadecimal bytes
3060 for the double precision not-a-number.
3061
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3062doublesize (doublesize.U):
3063 This variable contains the value of the DOUBLESIZE symbol, which
3064 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a double.
3065
3066drand01 (randfunc.U):
3067 Indicates the macro to be used to generate normalized
3068 random numbers. Uses randfunc, often divided by
3069 (double) (((unsigned long) 1 << randbits)) in order to
3070 normalize the result.
3071 In C programs, the macro 'Drand01' is mapped to drand01.
3072
10bc17b6
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3073drand48_r_proto (d_drand48_r.U):
3074 This variable encodes the prototype of drand48_r.
39183afa
JH
3075 It is zero if d_drand48_r is undef, and one of the
3076 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_drand48_r
3077 is defined.
10bc17b6 3078
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MB
3079dtrace (usedtrace.U):
3080 This variable holds the location of the dtrace executable.
3081
2640dfa8 3082dtraceobject (dtraceobject.U):
c2538af7
TC
3083 Whether we need to build an object file with the dtrace tool.
3084
f2a60c1f
TC
3085dtracexnolibs (dtraceobject.U):
3086 Whether dtrace accepts -xnolibs. If available we call dtrace -h
3087 and dtrace -G with -xnolibs to allow dtrace to run in a jail on
3088 FreeBSD.
3089
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3090dynamic_ext (Extensions.U):
3091 This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to
3092 link dynamically into the package. It is used by Makefile.
3093
3094eagain (nblock_io.U):
3095 This variable bears the symbolic errno code set by read() when no
3096 data is present on the file and non-blocking I/O was enabled (otherwise,
3097 read() blocks naturally).
3098
3099ebcdic (ebcdic.U):
3100 This variable conditionally defines EBCDIC if this
1332606d 3101 system uses EBCDIC encoding.
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3102
3103echo (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3104 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3105 full pathname (if any) of the echo program. After Configure runs,
3106 the value is reset to a plain "echo" and is not useful.
3107
3108egrep (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3109 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3110 full pathname (if any) of the egrep program. After Configure runs,
3111 the value is reset to a plain "egrep" and is not useful.
3112
3113emacs (Loc.U):
3114 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3115 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 3116
f40bbcbf 3117endgrent_r_proto (d_endgrent_r.U):
10bc17b6 3118 This variable encodes the prototype of endgrent_r.
39183afa
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3119 It is zero if d_endgrent_r is undef, and one of the
3120 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endgrent_r
3121 is defined.
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3122
3123endhostent_r_proto (d_endhostent_r.U):
3124 This variable encodes the prototype of endhostent_r.
39183afa
JH
3125 It is zero if d_endhostent_r is undef, and one of the
3126 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endhostent_r
3127 is defined.
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3128
3129endnetent_r_proto (d_endnetent_r.U):
3130 This variable encodes the prototype of endnetent_r.
39183afa
JH
3131 It is zero if d_endnetent_r is undef, and one of the
3132 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endnetent_r
3133 is defined.
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3134
3135endprotoent_r_proto (d_endprotoent_r.U):
3136 This variable encodes the prototype of endprotoent_r.
39183afa
JH
3137 It is zero if d_endprotoent_r is undef, and one of the
3138 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endprotoent_r
3139 is defined.
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3140
3141endpwent_r_proto (d_endpwent_r.U):
3142 This variable encodes the prototype of endpwent_r.
39183afa
JH
3143 It is zero if d_endpwent_r is undef, and one of the
3144 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endpwent_r
3145 is defined.
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3146
3147endservent_r_proto (d_endservent_r.U):
3148 This variable encodes the prototype of endservent_r.
39183afa
JH
3149 It is zero if d_endservent_r is undef, and one of the
3150 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endservent_r
3151 is defined.
10bc17b6 3152
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3153eunicefix (Init.U):
3154 When running under Eunice this variable contains a command which will
3155 convert a shell script to the proper form of text file for it to be
3156 executable by the shell. On other systems it is a no-op.
3157
3158exe_ext (Unix.U):
3159 This is an old synonym for _exe.
3160
3161expr (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3162 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3163 full pathname (if any) of the expr program. After Configure runs,
3164 the value is reset to a plain "expr" and is not useful.
3165
3166extensions (Extensions.U):
3167 This variable holds a list of all extension files (both XS and
f7b3892b 3168 non-xs) installed with the package. It is propagated to Config.pm
47e01c32 3169 and is typically used to test whether a particular extension
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3170 is available.
3171
61c26d18
MHM
3172extern_C (Csym.U):
3173 ANSI C requires 'extern' where C++ requires 'extern "C"'. This
3174 variable can be used in Configure to do the right thing.
3175
cb7ddd31
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3176extras (Extras.U):
3177 This variable holds a list of extra modules to install.
3178
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3179fflushall (fflushall.U):
3180 This symbol, if defined, tells that to flush
3181 all pending stdio output one must loop through all
3182 the stdio file handles stored in an array and fflush them.
3183 Note that if fflushNULL is defined, fflushall will not
3184 even be probed for and will be left undefined.
3185
4d54317a 3186fflushNULL (fflushall.U):
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3187 This symbol, if defined, tells that fflush(NULL) correctly
3188 flushes all pending stdio output without side effects. In
3189 particular, on some platforms calling fflush(NULL) *still*
3190 corrupts STDIN if it is a pipe.
4d54317a 3191
781b178c 3192find (Loc.U):
ff935051 3193 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3194 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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3195
3196firstmakefile (Unix.U):
3197 This variable defines the first file searched by make. On unix,
3198 it is makefile (then Makefile). On case-insensitive systems,
3199 it might be something else. This is only used to deal with
3200 convoluted make depend tricks.
3201
3202flex (Loc.U):
3203 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3204 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 3205
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3206fpossize (fpossize.U):
3207 This variable contains the size of a fpostype in bytes.
3208
781b178c 3209fpostype (fpostype.U):
635aebb7 3210 This variable defines Fpos_t to be something like fpos_t, long,
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3211 uint, or whatever type is used to declare file positions in libc.
3212
3213freetype (mallocsrc.U):
3214 This variable contains the return type of free(). It is usually
3215 void, but occasionally int.
3216
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3217from (Cross.U):
3218 This variable contains the command used by Configure
3219 to copy files from the target host. Useful and available
3220 only during Perl build.
3221 The string ':' if not cross-compiling.
3222
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3223full_ar (Loc_ar.U):
3224 This variable contains the full pathname to 'ar', whether or
3225 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
3226 in the Makefile.SH.
3227
3228full_csh (d_csh.U):
3229 This variable contains the full pathname to 'csh', whether or
3230 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
3231 in the compiled C program, and we assume that all systems which
3232 can share this executable will have the same full pathname to
3233 'csh.'
3234
3235full_sed (Loc_sed.U):
3236 This variable contains the full pathname to 'sed', whether or
3237 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
3238 in the compiled C program, and we assume that all systems which
3239 can share this executable will have the same full pathname to
3240 'sed.'
3241
123f32c0
MB
3242gccansipedantic (gccvers.U):
3243 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable will enable (if set) the
3244 -ansi and -pedantic ccflags for building core files (through
3245 cflags script). (See Porting/pumpkin.pod for full description).
3246
af960fef 3247gccosandvers (gccvers.U):
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3248 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable holds the operating system
3249 and version used to compile gcc. It is set to '' if not gcc,
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3250 or if nothing useful can be parsed as the os version.
3251
3252gccversion (gccvers.U):
123f32c0 3253 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable holds '1' or '2' to
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3254 indicate whether the compiler is version 1 or 2. This is used in
3255 setting some of the default cflags. It is set to '' if not gcc.
3256
10bc17b6
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3257getgrent_r_proto (d_getgrent_r.U):
3258 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrent_r.
39183afa
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3259 It is zero if d_getgrent_r is undef, and one of the
3260 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getgrent_r
3261 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3262
3263getgrgid_r_proto (d_getgrgid_r.U):
3264 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrgid_r.
39183afa
JH
3265 It is zero if d_getgrgid_r is undef, and one of the
3266 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getgrgid_r
3267 is defined.
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3268
3269getgrnam_r_proto (d_getgrnam_r.U):
3270 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrnam_r.
39183afa
JH
3271 It is zero if d_getgrnam_r is undef, and one of the
3272 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getgrnam_r
3273 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3274
3275gethostbyaddr_r_proto (d_gethostbyaddr_r.U):
3276 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostbyaddr_r.
39183afa
JH
3277 It is zero if d_gethostbyaddr_r is undef, and one of the
3278 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gethostbyaddr_r
3279 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3280
3281gethostbyname_r_proto (d_gethostbyname_r.U):
3282 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostbyname_r.
39183afa
JH
3283 It is zero if d_gethostbyname_r is undef, and one of the
3284 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gethostbyname_r
3285 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3286
3287gethostent_r_proto (d_gethostent_r.U):
3288 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostent_r.
39183afa
JH
3289 It is zero if d_gethostent_r is undef, and one of the
3290 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gethostent_r
3291 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3292
3293getlogin_r_proto (d_getlogin_r.U):
3294 This variable encodes the prototype of getlogin_r.
39183afa
JH
3295 It is zero if d_getlogin_r is undef, and one of the
3296 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getlogin_r
3297 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3298
3299getnetbyaddr_r_proto (d_getnetbyaddr_r.U):
3300 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetbyaddr_r.
39183afa
JH
3301 It is zero if d_getnetbyaddr_r is undef, and one of the
3302 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getnetbyaddr_r
3303 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3304
3305getnetbyname_r_proto (d_getnetbyname_r.U):
3306 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetbyname_r.
39183afa
JH
3307 It is zero if d_getnetbyname_r is undef, and one of the
3308 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getnetbyname_r
3309 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3310
3311getnetent_r_proto (d_getnetent_r.U):
3312 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetent_r.
39183afa
JH
3313 It is zero if d_getnetent_r is undef, and one of the
3314 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getnetent_r
3315 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3316
3317getprotobyname_r_proto (d_getprotobyname_r.U):
3318 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotobyname_r.
39183afa
JH
3319 It is zero if d_getprotobyname_r is undef, and one of the
3320 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getprotobyname_r
3321 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3322
3323getprotobynumber_r_proto (d_getprotobynumber_r.U):
3324 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotobynumber_r.
39183afa
JH
3325 It is zero if d_getprotobynumber_r is undef, and one of the
3326 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getprotobynumber_r
3327 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3328
3329getprotoent_r_proto (d_getprotoent_r.U):
3330 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotoent_r.
39183afa
JH
3331 It is zero if d_getprotoent_r is undef, and one of the
3332 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getprotoent_r
3333 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3334
3335getpwent_r_proto (d_getpwent_r.U):
3336 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwent_r.
39183afa
JH
3337 It is zero if d_getpwent_r is undef, and one of the
3338 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getpwent_r
3339 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3340
3341getpwnam_r_proto (d_getpwnam_r.U):
3342 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwnam_r.
39183afa
JH
3343 It is zero if d_getpwnam_r is undef, and one of the
3344 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getpwnam_r
3345 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3346
3347getpwuid_r_proto (d_getpwuid_r.U):
3348 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwuid_r.
39183afa
JH
3349 It is zero if d_getpwuid_r is undef, and one of the
3350 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getpwuid_r
3351 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3352
3353getservbyname_r_proto (d_getservbyname_r.U):
3354 This variable encodes the prototype of getservbyname_r.
39183afa
JH
3355 It is zero if d_getservbyname_r is undef, and one of the
3356 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getservbyname_r
3357 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3358
3359getservbyport_r_proto (d_getservbyport_r.U):
3360 This variable encodes the prototype of getservbyport_r.
39183afa
JH
3361 It is zero if d_getservbyport_r is undef, and one of the
3362 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getservbyport_r
3363 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3364
3365getservent_r_proto (d_getservent_r.U):
3366 This variable encodes the prototype of getservent_r.
39183afa
JH
3367 It is zero if d_getservent_r is undef, and one of the
3368 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getservent_r
3369 is defined.
10bc17b6
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3370
3371getspnam_r_proto (d_getspnam_r.U):
3372 This variable encodes the prototype of getspnam_r.
39183afa
JH
3373 It is zero if d_getspnam_r is undef, and one of the
3374 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getspnam_r
3375 is defined.
10bc17b6 3376
a22e52b9
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3377gidformat (gidf.U):
3378 This variable contains the format string used for printing a Gid_t.
3379
785fb66b
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3380gidsign (gidsign.U):
3381 This variable contains the signedness of a gidtype.
3382 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
3383
3384gidsize (gidsize.U):
3385 This variable contains the size of a gidtype in bytes.
3386
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3387gidtype (gidtype.U):
3388 This variable defines Gid_t to be something like gid_t, int,
3389 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare the return type
3390 of getgid(). Typically, it is the type of group ids in the kernel.
3391
3392glibpth (libpth.U):
3393 This variable holds the general path (space-separated) used to
3394 find libraries. It may contain directories that do not exist on
3395 this platform, libpth is the cleaned-up version.
3396
c68a00c0
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3397gmake (Loc.U):
3398 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
3399 full pathname (if any) of the gmake program. After Configure runs,
3400 the value is reset to a plain "gmake" and is not useful.
3401
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3402gmtime_r_proto (d_gmtime_r.U):
3403 This variable encodes the prototype of gmtime_r.
39183afa
JH
3404 It is zero if d_gmtime_r is undef, and one of the
3405 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gmtime_r
3406 is defined.
10bc17b6 3407
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3408gnulibc_version (d_gnulibc.U):
3409 This variable contains the version number of the GNU C library.
3410 It is usually something like '2.2.5'. It is a plain '' if this
3411 is not the GNU C library, or if the version is unknown.
3412
781b178c 3413grep (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3414 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3415 full pathname (if any) of the grep program. After Configure runs,
3416 the value is reset to a plain "grep" and is not useful.
3417
3418groupcat (nis.U):
3419 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
3420 /etc/group file. This is normally "cat /etc/group", but can be
3421 "ypcat group" when NIS is used.
aaacdc8b
GS
3422 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
3423 command, in which case this variable is unset.
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3424
3425groupstype (groupstype.U):
635aebb7 3426 This variable defines Groups_t to be something like gid_t, int,
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3427 ushort, or whatever type is used for the second argument to
3428 getgroups() and setgroups(). Usually, this is the same as
3429 gidtype (gid_t), but sometimes it isn't.
3430
3431gzip (Loc.U):
5bf26616 3432 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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3433 full pathname (if any) of the gzip program. After Configure runs,
3434 the value is reset to a plain "gzip" and is not useful.
3435
3436h_fcntl (h_fcntl.U):
3437 This is variable gets set in various places to tell i_fcntl that
3438 <fcntl.h> should be included.
3439
3440h_sysfile (h_sysfile.U):
3441 This is variable gets set in various places to tell i_sys_file that
3442 <sys/file.h> should be included.
3443
3444hint (Oldconfig.U):
3445 Gives the type of hints used for previous answers. May be one of
3446 "default", "recommended" or "previous".
3447
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MB
3448hostcat (nis.U):
3449 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
3450 /etc/hosts file. This is normally "cat /etc/hosts", but can be
3451 "ypcat hosts" when NIS is used.
3452 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
3453 command, in which case this variable is unset.
8b6a017c 3454
a6d9d244 3455hostgenerate (Cross.U):
8b6a017c
BF
3456 This variable contains the path to a generate_uudmap binary that
3457 can be run on the host OS when cross-compiling. Useful and
3458 available only during Perl build.
3459 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
3460
a6d9d244 3461hostosname (Cross.U):
8b6a017c
BF
3462 This variable contains the original value of '$^O' for hostperl
3463 when cross-compiling. This is useful to pick the proper tools
3464 when running build code in the host.
3465 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
3466
1d38f63f
MB
3467hostperl (Cross.U):
3468 This variable contains the path to a miniperl binary that can be
3469 run on the host OS when cross-compiling. Useful and available only
3470 during Perl build.
3471 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
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3473html1dir (html1dir.U):
3474 This variable contains the name of the directory in which html
3475 source pages are to be put. This directory is for pages
3476 that describe whole programs, not libraries or modules. It
3477 is intended to correspond roughly to section 1 of the Unix
3478 manuals.
3479
3480html1direxp (html1dir.U):
3481 This variable is the same as the html1dir variable, but is filename
3482 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
3483
3484html3dir (html3dir.U):
3485 This variable contains the name of the directory in which html
3486 source pages are to be put. This directory is for pages
3487 that describe libraries or modules. It is intended to
3488 correspond roughly to section 3 of the Unix manuals.
3489
3490html3direxp (html3dir.U):
3491 This variable is the same as the html3dir variable, but is filename
3492 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
3493
a22e52b9
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3494i16size (perlxv.U):
3495 This variable is the size of an I16 in bytes.
3496
3497i16type (perlxv.U):
3498 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I16.
3499
3500i32size (perlxv.U):
3501 This variable is the size of an I32 in bytes.
3502
3503i32type (perlxv.U):
3504 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I32.
3505
3506i64size (perlxv.U):
3507 This variable is the size of an I64 in bytes.
3508
3509i64type (perlxv.U):
3510 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I64.
3511
3512i8size (perlxv.U):
3513 This variable is the size of an I8 in bytes.
3514
3515i8type (perlxv.U):
3516 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I8.
3517
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3518i_arpainet (i_arpainet.U):
3519 This variable conditionally defines the I_ARPA_INET symbol,
3520 and indicates whether a C program should include <arpa/inet.h>.
3521
f6a82ade
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3522i_bfd (i_bfd.U):
3523 This variable conditionally defines the I_BFD symbol, and
3524 indicates whether a C program can include <bfd.h>.
3525
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3526i_bsdioctl (i_sysioctl.U):
3527 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_BSDIOCTL symbol, which
3528 indicates to the C program that <sys/bsdioctl.h> exists and should
3529 be included.
3530
10bc17b6
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3531i_crypt (i_crypt.U):
3532 This variable conditionally defines the I_CRYPT symbol, and indicates
3533 whether a C program should include <crypt.h>.
3534
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3535i_db (i_db.U):
3536 This variable conditionally defines the I_DB symbol, and indicates
3537 whether a C program may include Berkeley's DB include file <db.h>.
3538
3539i_dbm (i_dbm.U):
3540 This variable conditionally defines the I_DBM symbol, which
3541 indicates to the C program that <dbm.h> exists and should
3542 be included.
3543
3544i_dirent (i_dirent.U):
3545 This variable conditionally defines I_DIRENT, which indicates
3546 to the C program that it should include <dirent.h>.
3547
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3548i_dlfcn (i_dlfcn.U):
3549 This variable conditionally defines the I_DLFCN symbol, which
3550 indicates to the C program that <dlfcn.h> exists and should
3551 be included.
3552
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3553i_execinfo (i_execinfo.U):
3554 This variable conditionally defines the I_EXECINFO symbol, and indicates
3555 whether a C program may include <execinfo.h>, for backtrace() support.
3556
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3557i_fcntl (i_fcntl.U):
3558 This variable controls the value of I_FCNTL (which tells
3559 the C program to include <fcntl.h>).
3560
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3561i_fenv (i_fenv.U):
3562 This variable conditionally defines the I_FENV symbol, which
3563 indicates to the C program that <fenv.h> exists and should
3564 be included.
3565
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3566i_fp (i_fp.U):
3567 This variable conditionally defines the I_FP symbol, and indicates
3568 whether a C program should include <fp.h>.
3569
3570i_fp_class (i_fp_class.U):
3571 This variable conditionally defines the I_FP_CLASS symbol, and indicates
3572 whether a C program should include <fp_class.h>.
3573
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3574i_gdbm (i_gdbm.U):
3575 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBM symbol, which
3576 indicates to the C program that <gdbm.h> exists and should
3577 be included.
3578
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3579i_gdbm_ndbm (i_ndbm.U):
3580 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBM_NDBM symbol, which
3581 indicates to the C program that <gdbm-ndbm.h> exists and should
3582 be included. This is the location of the ndbm.h compatibility file
3583 in Debian 4.0.
3584
3585i_gdbmndbm (i_ndbm.U):
3586 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBMNDBM symbol, which
3587 indicates to the C program that <gdbm/ndbm.h> exists and should
3588 be included. This was the location of the ndbm.h compatibility file
3589 in RedHat 7.1.
3590
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3591i_grp (i_grp.U):
3592 This variable conditionally defines the I_GRP symbol, and indicates
3593 whether a C program should include <grp.h>.
3594
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3595i_ieeefp (i_ieeefp.U):
3596 This variable conditionally defines the I_IEEEFP symbol, and indicates
3597 whether a C program should include <ieeefp.h>.
3598
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3599i_inttypes (i_inttypes.U):
3600 This variable conditionally defines the I_INTTYPES symbol,
3601 and indicates whether a C program should include <inttypes.h>.
3602
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3603i_langinfo (i_langinfo.U):
3604 This variable conditionally defines the I_LANGINFO symbol,
3605 and indicates whether a C program should include <langinfo.h>.
3606
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3607i_libutil (i_libutil.U):
3608 This variable conditionally defines the I_LIBUTIL symbol, and indicates
3609 whether a C program should include <libutil.h>.
3610
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3611i_locale (i_locale.U):
3612 This variable conditionally defines the I_LOCALE symbol,
3613 and indicates whether a C program should include <locale.h>.
3614
3615i_machcthr (i_machcthr.U):
3616 This variable conditionally defines the I_MACH_CTHREADS symbol,
3617 and indicates whether a C program should include <mach/cthreads.h>.
3618
3619i_malloc (i_malloc.U):
3620 This variable conditionally defines the I_MALLOC symbol, and indicates
3621 whether a C program should include <malloc.h>.
3622
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3623i_mallocmalloc (i_mallocmalloc.U):
3624 This variable conditionally defines the I_MALLOCMALLOC symbol,
3625 and indicates whether a C program should include <malloc/malloc.h>.
3626
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3627i_mntent (i_mntent.U):
3628 This variable conditionally defines the I_MNTENT symbol, and indicates
3629 whether a C program should include <mntent.h>.
3630
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3631i_ndbm (i_ndbm.U):
3632 This variable conditionally defines the I_NDBM symbol, which
3633 indicates to the C program that <ndbm.h> exists and should
3634 be included.
3635
3636i_netdb (i_netdb.U):
3637 This variable conditionally defines the I_NETDB symbol, and indicates
3638 whether a C program should include <netdb.h>.
3639
3640i_neterrno (i_neterrno.U):
3641 This variable conditionally defines the I_NET_ERRNO symbol, which
3642 indicates to the C program that <net/errno.h> exists and should
3643 be included.
3644
3645i_netinettcp (i_netinettcp.U):
3646 This variable conditionally defines the I_NETINET_TCP symbol,
3647 and indicates whether a C program should include <netinet/tcp.h>.
3648
3649i_niin (i_niin.U):
3650 This variable conditionally defines I_NETINET_IN, which indicates
3651 to the C program that it should include <netinet/in.h>. Otherwise,
3652 you may try <sys/in.h>.
3653
3654i_poll (i_poll.U):
3655 This variable conditionally defines the I_POLL symbol, and indicates
3656 whether a C program should include <poll.h>.
3657
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3658i_prot (i_prot.U):
3659 This variable conditionally defines the I_PROT symbol, and indicates
3660 whether a C program should include <prot.h>.
3661
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190b66db 3663 This variable conditionally defines the I_PTHREAD symbol,
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3664 and indicates whether a C program should include <pthread.h>.
3665
3666i_pwd (i_pwd.U):
3667 This variable conditionally defines I_PWD, which indicates
3668 to the C program that it should include <pwd.h>.
3669
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3670i_quadmath (i_quadmath.U):
3671 This variable conditionally defines I_QUADMATH, which indicates
3672 to the C program that it should include <quadmath.h>.
3673
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3674i_rpcsvcdbm (i_dbm.U):
3675 This variable conditionally defines the I_RPCSVC_DBM symbol, which
3676 indicates to the C program that <rpcsvc/dbm.h> exists and should
3677 be included. Some System V systems might need this instead of <dbm.h>.
3678
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3679i_sgtty (i_termio.U):
3680 This variable conditionally defines the I_SGTTY symbol, which
3681 indicates to the C program that it should include <sgtty.h> rather
3682 than <termio.h>.
3683
3684i_shadow (i_shadow.U):
3685 This variable conditionally defines the I_SHADOW symbol, and indicates
3686 whether a C program should include <shadow.h>.
3687
3688i_socks (i_socks.U):
3689 This variable conditionally defines the I_SOCKS symbol, and indicates
3690 whether a C program should include <socks.h>.
3691
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3692i_stdbool (i_stdbool.U):
3693 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDBOOL symbol, which
3694 indicates to the C program that <stdbool.h> exists and should
3695 be included.
3696
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3697i_stdint (i_stdint.U):
3698 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDINT symbol, which
3699 indicates to the C program that <stdint.h> exists and should
3700 be included.
3701
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3702i_stdlib (i_stdlib.U):
3703 This variable unconditionally defines the I_STDLIB symbol.
3704
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3705i_sunmath (i_sunmath.U):
3706 This variable conditionally defines the I_SUNMATH symbol, and indicates
3707 whether a C program should include <sunmath.h>.
3708
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3709i_sysaccess (i_sysaccess.U):
3710 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_ACCESS symbol,
3711 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/access.h>.
3712
3713i_sysdir (i_sysdir.U):
3714 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_DIR symbol, and indicates
3715 whether a C program should include <sys/dir.h>.
3716
3717i_sysfile (i_sysfile.U):
3718 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_FILE symbol, and indicates
3719 whether a C program should include <sys/file.h> to get R_OK and friends.
3720
3721i_sysfilio (i_sysioctl.U):
3722 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_FILIO symbol, which
3723 indicates to the C program that <sys/filio.h> exists and should
3724 be included in preference to <sys/ioctl.h>.
3725
3726i_sysin (i_niin.U):
3727 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_IN, which indicates
3728 to the C program that it should include <sys/in.h> instead of
3729 <netinet/in.h>.
3730
3731i_sysioctl (i_sysioctl.U):
3732 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_IOCTL symbol, which
3733 indicates to the C program that <sys/ioctl.h> exists and should
3734 be included.
3735
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3736i_syslog (i_syslog.U):
3737 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSLOG symbol,
3738 and indicates whether a C program should include <syslog.h>.
3739
fe749a9f 3740i_sysmman (i_sysmman.U):
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3741 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_MMAN symbol,
3742 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mman.h>.
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3744i_sysmode (i_sysmode.U):
3745 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSMODE symbol,
3746 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mode.h>.
3747
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3748i_sysmount (i_sysmount.U):
3749 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSMOUNT symbol,
3750 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mount.h>.
3751
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3752i_sysndir (i_sysndir.U):
3753 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_NDIR symbol, and indicates
3754 whether a C program should include <sys/ndir.h>.
3755
3756i_sysparam (i_sysparam.U):
3757 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_PARAM symbol, and indicates
3758 whether a C program should include <sys/param.h>.
3759
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3760i_syspoll (i_syspoll.U):
3761 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_POLL symbol, which
3762 indicates to the C program that it should include <sys/poll.h>.
3763
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3764i_sysresrc (i_sysresrc.U):
3765 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_RESOURCE symbol,
3766 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/resource.h>.
3767
3768i_syssecrt (i_syssecrt.U):
3769 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_SECURITY symbol,
3770 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/security.h>.
3771
3772i_sysselct (i_sysselct.U):
3773 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_SELECT, which indicates
3774 to the C program that it should include <sys/select.h> in order to
3775 get the definition of struct timeval.
3776
3777i_syssockio (i_sysioctl.U):
3778 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_SOCKIO to indicate to the
3779 C program that socket ioctl codes may be found in <sys/sockio.h>
3780 instead of <sys/ioctl.h>.
3781
3782i_sysstat (i_sysstat.U):
3783 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_STAT symbol,
3784 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/stat.h>.
3785
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3786i_sysstatfs (i_sysstatfs.U):
3787 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSSTATFS symbol,
3788 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/statfs.h>.
3789
3790i_sysstatvfs (i_sysstatvfs.U):
3791 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSSTATVFS symbol,
3792 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/statvfs.h>.
3793
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3794i_systime (i_time.U):
3795 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_TIME, which indicates
3796 to the C program that it should include <sys/time.h>.
3797
3798i_systimek (i_time.U):
3799 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_TIME_KERNEL, which
3800 indicates to the C program that it should include <sys/time.h>
3801 with KERNEL defined.
3802
3803i_systimes (i_systimes.U):
3804 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_TIMES symbol, and indicates
3805 whether a C program should include <sys/times.h>.
3806
3807i_systypes (i_systypes.U):
3808 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_TYPES symbol,
3809 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/types.h>.
3810
3811i_sysuio (i_sysuio.U):
3812 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSUIO symbol, and indicates
3813 whether a C program should include <sys/uio.h>.
3814
3815i_sysun (i_sysun.U):
3816 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_UN, which indicates
3817 to the C program that it should include <sys/un.h> to get UNIX
3818 domain socket definitions.
3819
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3820i_sysutsname (i_sysutsname.U):
3821 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSUTSNAME symbol,
3822 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/utsname.h>.
3823
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3824i_sysvfs (i_sysvfs.U):
3825 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSVFS symbol,
3826 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/vfs.h>.
3827
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3828i_syswait (i_syswait.U):
3829 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_WAIT, which indicates
3830 to the C program that it should include <sys/wait.h>.
3831
3832i_termio (i_termio.U):
3833 This variable conditionally defines the I_TERMIO symbol, which
3834 indicates to the C program that it should include <termio.h> rather
3835 than <sgtty.h>.
3836
3837i_termios (i_termio.U):
3838 This variable conditionally defines the I_TERMIOS symbol, which
3839 indicates to the C program that the POSIX <termios.h> file is
3840 to be included.
3841
3842i_time (i_time.U):
7e03b2e3 3843 This variable unconditionally defines I_TIME, which indicates
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3844 to the C program that it should include <time.h>.
3845
3846i_unistd (i_unistd.U):
3847 This variable conditionally defines the I_UNISTD symbol, and indicates
3848 whether a C program should include <unistd.h>.
3849
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3850i_ustat (i_ustat.U):
3851 This variable conditionally defines the I_USTAT symbol, and indicates
3852 whether a C program should include <ustat.h>.
3853
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3854i_utime (i_utime.U):
3855 This variable conditionally defines the I_UTIME symbol, and indicates
3856 whether a C program should include <utime.h>.
3857
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3858i_vfork (i_vfork.U):
3859 This variable conditionally defines the I_VFORK symbol, and indicates
3860 whether a C program should include vfork.h.
3861
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3862i_wchar (i_wchar.U):
3863 This variable conditionally defines the I_WCHAR symbol,
3864 that indicates whether a C program may include <wchar.h>.
3865
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3866i_wctype (i_wctype.U):
3867 This variable conditionally defines the I_WCTYPE symbol,
3868 that indicates whether a C program may include <wctype.h>.
3869
7e69463d 3870i_xlocale (d_newlocale.U):
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3871 This symbol, if defined, indicates to the C program that the
3872 header xlocale.h is available. See also xlocale_needed.
7e69463d 3873
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3874ignore_versioned_solibs (libs.U):
3875 This variable should be non-empty if non-versioned shared
3876 libraries (libfoo.so.x.y) are to be ignored (because they
3877 cannot be linked against).
3878
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3879inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U):
3880 This variable specifies the list of subdirectories in over
3881 which perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically
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3882 search when adding directories to @INC. The elements in
3883 the list are separated by spaces. This is only useful
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3884 if you have a perl library directory tree structured like the
3885 default one. See INSTALL for how this works. The versioned
3886 site_perl directory was introduced in 5.005, so that is the
3887 lowest possible value.
3888
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3889 This list includes architecture-dependent directories back to
3890 version $api_versionstring (e.g. 5.5.640) and
3891 architecture-independent directories all the way back to
3892 5.005.
3893
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3894inc_version_list_init (inc_version_list.U):
3895 This variable holds the same list as inc_version_list, but
635aebb7 3896 each item is enclosed in double quotes and separated by commas,
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3897 suitable for use in the PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST initialization.
3898
781b178c 3899incpath (usrinc.U):
bce0fc72 3900 This variable must precede the normal include path to get the
209e5c0a 3901 right one, as in "$incpath/usr/include" or "$incpath/usr/lib".
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3902 Value can be "" or "/bsd43" on mips.
3903
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3904incpth (libpth.U):
3905 This variable must precede the normal include path to get the
3906 right one, as in "$incpath/usr/include" or "$incpath/usr/lib".
3907 Value can be "" or "/bsd43" on mips.
3908
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3909inews (Loc.U):
3910 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 3911 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 3912
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3913initialinstalllocation (bin.U):
3914 When userelocatableinc is true, this variable holds the location
3915 that make install should copy the perl binary to, with all the
3916 run-time relocatable paths calculated from this at install time.
1332606d 3917 When used, it is initialized to the original value of binexp, and
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3918 then binexp is set to '.../', as the other binaries are found
3919 relative to the perl binary.
3920
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3921installarchlib (archlib.U):
3922 This variable is really the same as archlibexp but may differ on
3923 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3924 should be used in makefiles.
3925
3926installbin (bin.U):
3927 This variable is the same as binexp unless AFS is running in which case
47e01c32 3928 the user is explicitly prompted for it. This variable should always
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3929 be used in your makefiles for maximum portability.
3930
10305dfa 3931installhtml1dir (html1dir.U):
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3932 This variable is really the same as html1direxp, unless you are
3933 using a different installprefix. For extra portability, you
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3934 should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3935
3936installhtml3dir (html3dir.U):
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3937 This variable is really the same as html3direxp, unless you are
3938 using a different installprefix. For extra portability, you
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3939 should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3940
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3941installman1dir (man1dir.U):
3942 This variable is really the same as man1direxp, unless you are using
3943 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3944 man1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3945 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3946
3947installman3dir (man3dir.U):
3948 This variable is really the same as man3direxp, unless you are using
3949 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3950 man3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3951 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3952
3953installprefix (installprefix.U):
635aebb7 3954 This variable holds the name of the directory below which
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3955 "make install" will install the package. For most users, this
3956 is the same as prefix. However, it is useful for
3957 installing the software into a different (usually temporary)
3958 location after which it can be bundled up and moved somehow
3959 to the final location specified by prefix.
3960
3961installprefixexp (installprefix.U):
3962 This variable holds the full absolute path of installprefix
3963 with all ~-expansion done.
3964
3965installprivlib (privlib.U):
3966 This variable is really the same as privlibexp but may differ on
3967 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3968 should be used in makefiles.
3969
3970installscript (scriptdir.U):
3971 This variable is usually the same as scriptdirexp, unless you are on
3972 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
3973 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
3974
3975installsitearch (sitearch.U):
3976 This variable is really the same as sitearchexp but may differ on
3977 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3978 should be used in makefiles.
3979
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3980installsitebin (sitebin.U):
3981 This variable is usually the same as sitebinexp, unless you are on
3982 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
3983 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
3984
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3985installsitehtml1dir (sitehtml1dir.U):
3986 This variable is really the same as sitehtml1direxp, unless you are using
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3987 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3988 html1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3989 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3990
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3991installsitehtml3dir (sitehtml3dir.U):
3992 This variable is really the same as sitehtml3direxp, unless you are using
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3993 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3994 html3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3995 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3996
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3997installsitelib (sitelib.U):
3998 This variable is really the same as sitelibexp but may differ on
3999 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4000 should be used in makefiles.
4001
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4002installsiteman1dir (siteman1dir.U):
4003 This variable is really the same as siteman1direxp, unless you are using
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4004 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
4005 man1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
4006 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
4007
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4008installsiteman3dir (siteman3dir.U):
4009 This variable is really the same as siteman3direxp, unless you are using
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4010 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
4011 man3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
4012 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
4013
4014installsitescript (sitescript.U):
4015 This variable is usually the same as sitescriptexp, unless you are on
4016 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
4017 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
4018
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4019installstyle (installstyle.U):
4020 This variable describes the "style" of the perl installation.
4021 This is intended to be useful for tools that need to
4022 manipulate entire perl distributions. Perl itself doesn't use
4023 this to find its libraries -- the library directories are
4024 stored directly in Config.pm. Currently, there are only two
4025 styles: "lib" and "lib/perl5". The default library locations
4026 (e.g. privlib, sitelib) are either $prefix/lib or
4027 $prefix/lib/perl5. The former is useful if $prefix is a
4028 directory dedicated to perl (e.g. /opt/perl), while the latter
4029 is useful if $prefix is shared by many packages, e.g. if
4030 $prefix=/usr/local.
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4032 Unfortunately, while this "style" variable is used to set
4033 defaults for all three directory hierarchies (core, vendor, and
4034 site), there is no guarantee that the same style is actually
4035 appropriate for all those directories. For example, $prefix
4036 might be /opt/perl, but $siteprefix might be /usr/local.
4037 (Perhaps, in retrospect, the "lib" style should never have been
4038 supported, but it did seem like a nice idea at the time.)
4039
4040 The situation is even less clear for tools such as MakeMaker
4041 that can be used to install additional modules into
4042 non-standard places. For example, if a user intends to install
4043 a module into a private directory (perhaps by setting PREFIX on
4044 the Makefile.PL command line), then there is no reason to
4045 assume that the Configure-time $installstyle setting will be
4046 relevant for that PREFIX.
4047
9c20e9bc 4048 This may later be extended to include other information, so
781b178c 4049 be careful with pattern-matching on the results.
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4050
4051 For compatibility with perl5.005 and earlier, the default
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4052 setting is based on whether or not $prefix contains the string
4053 "perl".
4054
4055installusrbinperl (instubperl.U):
4056 This variable tells whether Perl should be installed also as
4057 /usr/bin/perl in addition to
4058 $installbin/perl
4059
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4060installvendorarch (vendorarch.U):
4061 This variable is really the same as vendorarchexp but may differ on
4062 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4063 should be used in makefiles.
4064
0617aed7
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4065installvendorbin (vendorbin.U):
4066 This variable is really the same as vendorbinexp but may differ on
4067 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4068 should be used in makefiles.
4069
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4070installvendorhtml1dir (vendorhtml1dir.U):
4071 This variable is really the same as vendorhtml1direxp but may differ on
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4072 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4073 should be used in makefiles.
4074
e755722e
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4075installvendorhtml3dir (vendorhtml3dir.U):
4076 This variable is really the same as vendorhtml3direxp but may differ on
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4077 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4078 should be used in makefiles.
4079
a3635516
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4080installvendorlib (vendorlib.U):
4081 This variable is really the same as vendorlibexp but may differ on
4082 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4083 should be used in makefiles.
4084
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4085installvendorman1dir (vendorman1dir.U):
4086 This variable is really the same as vendorman1direxp but may differ on
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4087 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4088 should be used in makefiles.
4089
e755722e
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4090installvendorman3dir (vendorman3dir.U):
4091 This variable is really the same as vendorman3direxp but may differ on
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4092 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4093 should be used in makefiles.
4094
4095installvendorscript (vendorscript.U):
4096 This variable is really the same as vendorscriptexp but may differ on
4097 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
4098 should be used in makefiles.
4099
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4100intsize (intsize.U):
4101 This variable contains the value of the INTSIZE symbol, which
4102 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in an int.
4103
4b661809 4104issymlink (issymlink.U):
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4105 This variable holds the test command to test for a symbolic link
4106 (if they are supported). Typical values include 'test -h' and
4107 'test -L'.
4b661809 4108
a22e52b9
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4109ivdformat (perlxvf.U):
4110 This variable contains the format string used for printing
635aebb7 4111 a Perl IV as a signed decimal integer.
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4112
4113ivsize (perlxv.U):
4114 This variable is the size of an IV in bytes.
4115
4116ivtype (perlxv.U):
4117 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's IV.
4118
781b178c 4119known_extensions (Extensions.U):
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4120 This variable holds a list of all extensions (both XS and non-xs)
4121 included in the package source distribution. This information is
4122 only really of use during the Perl build, as the list makes no
4123 distinction between extensions which were build and installed, and
4124 those which where not. See "extensions" for the list of extensions
4125 actually built and available.
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4126
4127ksh (Loc.U):
4128 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4129 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 4130
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4131ld (dlsrc.U):
4132 This variable indicates the program to be used to link
4133 libraries for dynamic loading. On some systems, it is 'ld'.
4134 On ELF systems, it should be $cc. Mostly, we'll try to respect
4135 the hint file setting.
4136
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4137ld_can_script (dlsrc.U):
4138 This variable shows if the loader accepts scripts in the form of
4139 -Wl,--version-script=ld.script. This is currently only supported
4140 for GNU ld on ELF in dynamic loading builds.
4141
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4142lddlflags (dlsrc.U):
4143 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
4144 passed to $ld to create a shared library suitable for dynamic
4145 loading. It is up to the makefile to use it. For hpux, it
4146 should be '-b'. For sunos 4.1, it is empty.
4147
4148ldflags (ccflags.U):
4149 This variable contains any additional C loader flags desired by
4150 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
4151
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4152ldflags_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
4153 This variable contains the loader flags needed by large file builds
4154 and added to ldflags by hints files.
4155
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4156ldlibpthname (libperl.U):
4157 This variable holds the name of the shared library
4158 search path, often LD_LIBRARY_PATH. To get an empty
4159 string, the hints file must set this to 'none'.
4160
4161less (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4162 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4163 full pathname (if any) of the less program. After Configure runs,
4164 the value is reset to a plain "less" and is not useful.
4165
4166lib_ext (Unix.U):
4167 This is an old synonym for _a.
4168
4169libc (libc.U):
4170 This variable contains the location of the C library.
4171
4172libperl (libperl.U):
4173 The perl executable is obtained by linking perlmain.c with
4174 libperl, any static extensions (usually just DynaLoader),
4175 and any other libraries needed on this system. libperl
4176 is usually libperl.a, but can also be libperl.so.xxx if
4177 the user wishes to build a perl executable with a shared
4178 library.
4179
4180libpth (libpth.U):
4181 This variable holds the general path (space-separated) used to find
4182 libraries. It is intended to be used by other units.
4183
4184libs (libs.U):
4185 This variable holds the additional libraries we want to use.
9285ede2 4186 It is up to the Makefile to deal with it. The list can be empty.
781b178c 4187
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4188libsdirs (libs.U):
4189 This variable holds the directory names aka dirnames of the libraries
4190 we found and accepted, duplicates are removed.
4191
4192libsfiles (libs.U):
4193 This variable holds the filenames aka basenames of the libraries
4194 we found and accepted.
4195
4196libsfound (libs.U):
4197 This variable holds the full pathnames of the libraries
4198 we found and accepted.
4199
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4200libspath (libs.U):
4201 This variable holds the directory names probed for libraries.
4202
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4203libswanted (Myinit.U):
4204 This variable holds a list of all the libraries we want to
4205 search. The order is chosen to pick up the c library
4206 ahead of ucb or bsd libraries for SVR4.
4207
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4208libswanted_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
4209 This variable contains the libraries needed by large file builds
4210 and added to ldflags by hints files. It is a space separated list
4211 of the library names without the "lib" prefix or any suffix, just
209e5c0a 4212 like libswanted..
af960fef 4213
781b178c 4214line (Loc.U):
ff935051 4215 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4216 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4217
4218lint (Loc.U):
4219 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4220 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4221
4222lkflags (ccflags.U):
4223 This variable contains any additional C partial linker flags desired by
4224 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
4225
4226ln (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4227 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4228 full pathname (if any) of the ln program. After Configure runs,
4229 the value is reset to a plain "ln" and is not useful.
4230
4231lns (lns.U):
635aebb7 4232 This variable holds the name of the command to make
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4233 symbolic links (if they are supported). It can be used
4234 in the Makefile. It is either 'ln -s' or 'ln'
4235
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4236localtime_r_proto (d_localtime_r.U):
4237 This variable encodes the prototype of localtime_r.
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4238 It is zero if d_localtime_r is undef, and one of the
4239 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_localtime_r
4240 is defined.
10bc17b6 4241
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4242locincpth (ccflags.U):
4243 This variable contains a list of additional directories to be
4244 searched by the compiler. The appropriate '-I' directives will
4245 be added to ccflags. This is intended to simplify setting
4246 local directories from the Configure command line.
4247 It's not much, but it parallels the loclibpth stuff in libpth.U.
4248
4249loclibpth (libpth.U):
4250 This variable holds the paths (space-separated) used to find local
4251 libraries. It is prepended to libpth, and is intended to be easily
4252 set from the command line.
4253
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4254longdblinfbytes (infnan.U):
4255 This variable contains comma-separated list of hexadecimal bytes
4256 for the long double precision infinity.
4257
db8b8c75 4258longdblkind (d_longdbl.U):
dc91db6c 4259 This variable, if defined, encodes the type of a long double:
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4260 0 = double,
4261 1 = IEEE 754 128-bit little endian,
4262 2 = IEEE 754 128-bit big endian,
4263 3 = x86 80-bit little endian,
4264 4 = x86 80-bit big endian,
4265 5 = double-double 128-bit little endian,
4266 6 = double-double 128-bit big endian,
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4267 7 = 128-bit mixed-endian double-double (64-bit LEs in BE),
4268 8 = 128-bit mixed-endian double-double (64-bit BEs in LE),
4269 9 = 128-bit PDP-style mixed-endian long doubles,
2640dfa8 4270 -1 = unknown format.
dc91db6c 4271
2640dfa8 4272longdblmantbits (mantbits.U):
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4273 This symbol, if defined, tells how many mantissa bits
4274 there are in long double precision floating point format.
4275 Note that this can be LDBL_MANT_DIG minus one,
4276 since LDBL_MANT_DIG can include the IEEE 754 implicit bit.
4277 The common x86-style 80-bit long double does not have
4278 an implicit bit.
4279
44521f3a
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4280longdblnanbytes (infnan.U):
4281 This variable contains comma-separated list of hexadecimal bytes
4282 for the long double precision not-a-number.
4283
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4284longdblsize (d_longdbl.U):
4285 This variable contains the value of the LONG_DOUBLESIZE symbol, which
4286 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long double,
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4287 if this system supports long doubles. Note that this is
4288 sizeof(long double), which may include unused bytes.
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4289
4290longlongsize (d_longlong.U):
4291 This variable contains the value of the LONGLONGSIZE symbol, which
4292 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long long,
4293 if this system supports long long.
4294
4295longsize (intsize.U):
4296 This variable contains the value of the LONGSIZE symbol, which
4297 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long.
4298
4299lp (Loc.U):
4300 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4301 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4302
4303lpr (Loc.U):
4304 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4305 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4306
4307ls (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4308 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4309 full pathname (if any) of the ls program. After Configure runs,
4310 the value is reset to a plain "ls" and is not useful.
4311
4312lseeksize (lseektype.U):
635aebb7 4313 This variable defines lseektype to be something like off_t, long,
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4314 or whatever type is used to declare lseek offset's type in the
4315 kernel (which also appears to be lseek's return type).
4316
4317lseektype (lseektype.U):
635aebb7 4318 This variable defines lseektype to be something like off_t, long,
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4319 or whatever type is used to declare lseek offset's type in the
4320 kernel (which also appears to be lseek's return type).
4321
4322mail (Loc.U):
4323 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4324 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c
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4325
4326mailx (Loc.U):
4327 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4328 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4329
4330make (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4331 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
c532c9d1
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4332 full pathname (if any) of the make program. After Configure runs,
4333 the value is reset to a plain "make" and is not useful.
4334
781b178c
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4335make_set_make (make.U):
4336 Some versions of 'make' set the variable MAKE. Others do not.
4337 This variable contains the string to be included in Makefile.SH
4338 so that MAKE is set if needed, and not if not needed.
4339 Possible values are:
44b94491 4340
781b178c 4341 make_set_make='#' # If your make program handles this for you,
44b94491 4342
781b178c 4343 make_set_make="MAKE=$make" # if it doesn't.
44b94491 4344
5bcaa86b 4345 This uses a comment character so that we can distinguish a
1a474c3e 4346 'set' value (from a previous config.sh or Configure '-D' option)
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4347 from an uncomputed value.
4348
4349mallocobj (mallocsrc.U):
4350 This variable contains the name of the malloc.o that this package
4351 generates, if that malloc.o is preferred over the system malloc.
4352 Otherwise the value is null. This variable is intended for generating
4353 Makefiles. See mallocsrc.
4354
4355mallocsrc (mallocsrc.U):
4356 This variable contains the name of the malloc.c that comes with
4357 the package, if that malloc.c is preferred over the system malloc.
4358 Otherwise the value is null. This variable is intended for generating
4359 Makefiles.
4360
4361malloctype (mallocsrc.U):
4362 This variable contains the kind of ptr returned by malloc and realloc.
4363
4364man1dir (man1dir.U):
4365 This variable contains the name of the directory in which manual
4366 source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4367 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4368 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4369
4370man1direxp (man1dir.U):
4371 This variable is the same as the man1dir variable, but is filename
4372 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4373
4374man1ext (man1dir.U):
4375 This variable contains the extension that the manual page should
4376 have: one of 'n', 'l', or '1'. The Makefile must supply the '.'.
4377 See man1dir.
4378
4379man3dir (man3dir.U):
4380 This variable contains the name of the directory in which manual
4381 source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4382 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4383 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4384
4385man3direxp (man3dir.U):
4386 This variable is the same as the man3dir variable, but is filename
4387 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4388
4389man3ext (man3dir.U):
4390 This variable contains the extension that the manual page should
4391 have: one of 'n', 'l', or '3'. The Makefile must supply the '.'.
4392 See man3dir.
4393
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4394mips_type (usrinc.U):
4395 This variable holds the environment type for the mips system.
4396 Possible values are "BSD 4.3" and "System V".
4397
65d1576c 4398mistrustnm (Csym.U):
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4399 This variable can be used to establish a fallthrough for the cases
4400 where nm fails to find a symbol. If usenm is false or usenm is true
4401 and mistrustnm is false, this variable has no effect. If usenm is true
4402 and mistrustnm is "compile", a test program will be compiled to try to
4403 find any symbol that can't be located via nm lookup. If mistrustnm is
4404 "run", the test program will be run as well as being compiled.
4405
781b178c 4406mkdir (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4407 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4408 full pathname (if any) of the mkdir program. After Configure runs,
4409 the value is reset to a plain "mkdir" and is not useful.
4410
fe749a9f
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4411mmaptype (d_mmap.U):
4412 This symbol contains the type of pointer returned by mmap()
4413 (and simultaneously the type of the first argument).
4414 It can be 'void *' or 'caddr_t'.
4415
781b178c 4416modetype (modetype.U):
635aebb7
AL
4417 This variable defines modetype to be something like mode_t,
4418 int, unsigned short, or whatever type is used to declare file
781b178c
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4419 modes for system calls.
4420
4421more (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4422 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4423 full pathname (if any) of the more program. After Configure runs,
4424 the value is reset to a plain "more" and is not useful.
4425
4426multiarch (multiarch.U):
4427 This variable conditionally defines the MULTIARCH symbol
4428 which signifies the presence of multiplatform files.
4429 This is normally set by hints files.
4430
4431mv (Loc.U):
4432 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4433 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4434
4435myarchname (archname.U):
4436 This variable holds the architecture name computed by Configure in
4437 a previous run. It is not intended to be perused by any user and
4438 should never be set in a hint file.
4439
4440mydomain (myhostname.U):
4441 This variable contains the eventual value of the MYDOMAIN symbol,
4442 which is the domain of the host the program is going to run on.
4443 The domain must be appended to myhostname to form a complete host name.
4444 The dot comes with mydomain, and need not be supplied by the program.
4445
4446myhostname (myhostname.U):
4447 This variable contains the eventual value of the MYHOSTNAME symbol,
4448 which is the name of the host the program is going to run on.
4449 The domain is not kept with hostname, but must be gotten from mydomain.
4450 The dot comes with mydomain, and need not be supplied by the program.
4451
4452myuname (Oldconfig.U):
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4453 The output of 'uname -a' if available, otherwise the hostname.
4454 The whole thing is then lower-cased and slashes and single quotes are
4455 removed.
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4456
4457n (n.U):
1a474c3e 4458 This variable contains the '-n' flag if that is what causes the echo
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4459 command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is
4460 $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
4461
2cc61e15
DD
4462need_va_copy (need_va_copy.U):
4463 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the system stores
4464 the variable argument list datatype, va_list, in a format
4465 that cannot be copied by simple assignment, so that some
4466 other means must be used when copying is required.
4467 As such systems vary in their provision (or non-provision)
4468 of copying mechanisms, handy.h defines a platform-
4469 independent macro, Perl_va_copy(src, dst), to do the job.
4470
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4471netdb_hlen_type (netdbtype.U):
4472 This variable holds the type used for the 2nd argument to
4473 gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or size_t or unsigned.
4474 This is only useful if you have gethostbyaddr(), naturally.
4475
4476netdb_host_type (netdbtype.U):
4477 This variable holds the type used for the 1st argument to
4478 gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is char * or void *, possibly
4479 with or without a const prefix.
4480 This is only useful if you have gethostbyaddr(), naturally.
4481
4482netdb_name_type (netdbtype.U):
4483 This variable holds the type used for the argument to
4484 gethostbyname(). Usually, this is char * or const char *.
4485 This is only useful if you have gethostbyname(), naturally.
4486
4487netdb_net_type (netdbtype.U):
4488 This variable holds the type used for the 1st argument to
4489 getnetbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or long.
4490 This is only useful if you have getnetbyaddr(), naturally.
4491
4492nm (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4493 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4494 full pathname (if any) of the nm program. After Configure runs,
4495 the value is reset to a plain "nm" and is not useful.
4496
4497nm_opt (usenm.U):
4498 This variable holds the options that may be necessary for nm.
4499
4500nm_so_opt (usenm.U):
4501 This variable holds the options that may be necessary for nm
4502 to work on a shared library but that can not be used on an
4503 archive library. Currently, this is only used by Linux, where
4504 nm --dynamic is *required* to get symbols from an ELF library which
4505 has been stripped, but nm --dynamic is *fatal* on an archive library.
4506 Maybe Linux should just always set usenm=false.
4507
4508nonxs_ext (Extensions.U):
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4509 This variable holds a list of all non-xs extensions built and
4510 installed by the package. By default, all non-xs extensions
4511 distributed will be built, with the exception of platform-specific
4512 extensions (currently only one VMS specific extension).
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4513
4514nroff (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4515 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4516 full pathname (if any) of the nroff program. After Configure runs,
4517 the value is reset to a plain "nroff" and is not useful.
4518
b68c599a
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4519nv_overflows_integers_at (perlxv.U):
4520 This variable gives the largest integer value that NVs can hold
4521 as a constant floating point expression.
4522 If it could not be determined, it holds the value 0.
4523
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4524nv_preserves_uv_bits (perlxv.U):
4525 This variable indicates how many of bits type uvtype
4526 a variable nvtype can preserve.
4527
6b4667fc
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4528nveformat (perlxvf.U):
4529 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4530 a Perl NV using %e-ish floating point format.
4531
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4532nvEUformat (perlxvf.U):
4533 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4534 a Perl NV using %E-ish floating point format.
4535
6b4667fc 4536nvfformat (perlxvf.U):
1332606d 4537 This variable contains the format string used for printing
6b4667fc
A
4538 a Perl NV using %f-ish floating point format.
4539
4d54317a 4540nvFUformat (perlxvf.U):
1332606d 4541 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4d54317a
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4542 a Perl NV using %F-ish floating point format.
4543
6b4667fc
A
4544nvgformat (perlxvf.U):
4545 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4546 a Perl NV using %g-ish floating point format.
4547
4d54317a
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4548nvGUformat (perlxvf.U):
4549 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4550 a Perl NV using %G-ish floating point format.
4551
5a14060a
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4552nvmantbits (mantbits.U):
4553 This variable tells how many bits the mantissa of a Perl NV has,
4554 not including the possible implicit bit.
4555
a22e52b9 4556nvsize (perlxv.U):
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JH
4557 This variable is the size of a Perl NV in bytes.
4558 Note that some floating point formats have unused bytes.
a22e52b9
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4559
4560nvtype (perlxv.U):
4561 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's NV.
4562
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4563o_nonblock (nblock_io.U):
4564 This variable bears the symbol value to be used during open() or fcntl()
4565 to turn on non-blocking I/O for a file descriptor. If you wish to switch
4566 between blocking and non-blocking, you may try ioctl(FIOSNBIO) instead,
4567 but that is only supported by some devices.
4568
4569obj_ext (Unix.U):
4570 This is an old synonym for _o.
4571
4572old_pthread_create_joinable (d_pthrattrj.U):
4573 This variable defines the constant to use for creating joinable
4574 (aka undetached) pthreads. Unused if pthread.h defines
4575 PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE. If used, possible values are
4576 PTHREAD_CREATE_UNDETACHED and __UNDETACHED.
4577
4578optimize (ccflags.U):
4579 This variable contains any optimizer/debugger flag that should be used.
4580 It is up to the Makefile to use it.
4581
4582orderlib (orderlib.U):
4583 This variable is "true" if the components of libraries must be ordered
4584 (with `lorder $* | tsort`) before placing them in an archive. Set to
4585 "false" if ranlib or ar can generate random libraries.
4586
4587osname (Oldconfig.U):
4588 This variable contains the operating system name (e.g. sunos,
4589 solaris, hpux, etc.). It can be useful later on for setting
4590 defaults. Any spaces are replaced with underscores. It is set
4591 to a null string if we can't figure it out.
4592
4593osvers (Oldconfig.U):
4594 This variable contains the operating system version (e.g.
4595 4.1.3, 5.2, etc.). It is primarily used for helping select
4596 an appropriate hints file, but might be useful elsewhere for
4597 setting defaults. It is set to '' if we can't figure it out.
4598 We try to be flexible about how much of the version number
4599 to keep, e.g. if 4.1.1, 4.1.2, and 4.1.3 are essentially the
4600 same for this package, hints files might just be os_4.0 or
4601 os_4.1, etc., not keeping separate files for each little release.
4602
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4603otherlibdirs (otherlibdirs.U):
4604 This variable contains a colon-separated set of paths for the perl
4605 binary to search for additional library files or modules.
4606 These directories will be tacked to the end of @INC.
4607 Perl will automatically search below each path for version-
4608 and architecture-specific directories. See inc_version_list
4609 for more details.
4610 A value of ' ' means 'none' and is used to preserve this value
4611 for the next run through Configure.
4612
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4613package (package.U):
4614 This variable contains the name of the package being constructed.
4615 It is primarily intended for the use of later Configure units.
4616
4617pager (pager.U):
4618 This variable contains the name of the preferred pager on the system.
4619 Usual values are (the full pathnames of) more, less, pg, or cat.
4620
4621passcat (nis.U):
4622 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
4623 /etc/passwd file. This is normally "cat /etc/passwd", but can be
4624 "ypcat passwd" when NIS is used.
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4625 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
4626 command, in which case this variable is unset.
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4627
4628patchlevel (patchlevel.U):
4629 The patchlevel level of this package.
4630 The value of patchlevel comes from the patchlevel.h file.
ff935051 4631 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "6".
c890dc6c 4632 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_VERSION".
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4633
4634path_sep (Unix.U):
4635 This is an old synonym for p_ in Head.U, the character
4636 used to separate elements in the command shell search PATH.
4637
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4638perl (Loc.U):
4639 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
4640 full pathname (if any) of the perl program. After Configure runs,
4641 the value is reset to a plain "perl" and is not useful.
4642
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4643perl5 (perl5.U):
4644 This variable contains the full path (if any) to a previously
4645 installed perl5.005 or later suitable for running the script
4646 to determine inc_version_list.
4647
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4648PERL_API_REVISION (patchlevel.h):
4649 This number describes the earliest compatible PERL_REVISION of
4650 Perl ("compatibility" here being defined as sufficient binary/API
4651 compatibility to run XS code built with the older version).
4652 Normally this does not change across maintenance releases.
4653 Please read the comment in patchlevel.h.
4654
4655PERL_API_SUBVERSION (patchlevel.h):
4656 This number describes the earliest compatible PERL_SUBVERSION of
4657 Perl ("compatibility" here being defined as sufficient binary/API
4658 compatibility to run XS code built with the older version).
4659 Normally this does not change across maintenance releases.
4660 Please read the comment in patchlevel.h.
4661
4662PERL_API_VERSION (patchlevel.h):
4663 This number describes the earliest compatible PERL_VERSION of
4664 Perl ("compatibility" here being defined as sufficient binary/API
4665 compatibility to run XS code built with the older version).
4666 Normally this does not change across maintenance releases.
4667 Please read the comment in patchlevel.h.
4668
4669PERL_CONFIG_SH (Oldsyms.U):
4670 This is set to 'true' in config.sh so that a shell script
4671 sourcing config.sh can tell if it has been sourced already.
4672
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4673PERL_PATCHLEVEL (Oldsyms.U):
4674 This symbol reflects the patchlevel, if available. Will usually
4675 come from the .patch file, which is available when the perl
4676 source tree was fetched with rsync.
4677
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4678perl_patchlevel (patchlevel.U):
4679 This is the Perl patch level, a numeric change identifier,
4680 as defined by whichever source code maintenance system
4681 is used to maintain the patches; currently Perforce.
4682 It does not correlate with the Perl version numbers or
4683 the maintenance versus development dichotomy except
4684 by also being increasing.
4685
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4686PERL_REVISION (Oldsyms.U):
4687 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 5.
4688 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
4689
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4690perl_static_inline (d_static_inline.U):
4691 This variable defines the PERL_STATIC_INLINE symbol to
4692 the best-guess incantation to use for static inline functions.
4693 Possibilities include
4694 static inline (c99)
4695 static __inline__ (gcc -ansi)
4696 static __inline (MSVC)
4697 static _inline (older MSVC)
4698 static (c89 compilers)
4699
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4700PERL_SUBVERSION (Oldsyms.U):
4701 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 2.
4702 Values greater than 50 represent potentially unstable
4703 development subversions.
4704 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
4705
4706PERL_VERSION (Oldsyms.U):
4707 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 6.
4708 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
4709
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4710perladmin (perladmin.U):
4711 Electronic mail address of the perl5 administrator.
4712
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4713perllibs (End.U):
4714 The list of libraries needed by Perl only (any libraries needed
4715 by extensions only will by dropped, if using dynamic loading).
4716
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4717perlpath (perlpath.U):
4718 This variable contains the eventual value of the PERLPATH symbol,
4719 which contains the name of the perl interpreter to be used in
4720 shell scripts and in the "eval 'exec'" idiom. This variable is
4721 not necessarily the pathname of the file containing the perl
4722 interpreter; you must append the executable extension (_exe) if
4723 it is not already present. Note that Perl code that runs during
4724 the Perl build process cannot reference this variable, as Perl
4725 may not have been installed, or even if installed, may be a
4726 different version of Perl.
4727
781b178c 4728pg (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4729 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4730 full pathname (if any) of the pg program. After Configure runs,
4731 the value is reset to a plain "pg" and is not useful.
4732
4733phostname (myhostname.U):
4734 This variable contains the eventual value of the PHOSTNAME symbol,
4735 which is a command that can be fed to popen() to get the host name.
4736 The program should probably not presume that the domain is or isn't
4737 there already.
4738
4739pidtype (pidtype.U):
635aebb7 4740 This variable defines PIDTYPE to be something like pid_t, int,
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4741 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare process ids in the kernel.
4742
4743plibpth (libpth.U):
4744 Holds the private path used by Configure to find out the libraries.
4745 Its value is prepend to libpth. This variable takes care of special
4746 machines, like the mips. Usually, it should be empty.
4747
4748pmake (Loc.U):
4749 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4750 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4751
4752pr (Loc.U):
4753 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4754 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4755
4756prefix (prefix.U):
4757 This variable holds the name of the directory below which the
4758 user will install the package. Usually, this is /usr/local, and
4759 executables go in /usr/local/bin, library stuff in /usr/local/lib,
4760 man pages in /usr/local/man, etc. It is only used to set defaults
4761 for things in bin.U, mansrc.U, privlib.U, or scriptdir.U.
4762
4763prefixexp (prefix.U):
4764 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
4765 which the user will install the package. Derived from prefix.
4766
4767privlib (privlib.U):
4768 This variable contains the eventual value of the PRIVLIB symbol,
4769 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
4770 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
4771 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
4772
4773privlibexp (privlib.U):
4774 This variable is the ~name expanded version of privlib, so that you
4775 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
4776
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4777procselfexe (d_procselfexe.U):
4778 If d_procselfexe is defined, $procselfexe is the filename
4779 of the symbolic link pointing to the absolute pathname of
4780 the executing program.
4781
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4782ptrsize (ptrsize.U):
4783 This variable contains the value of the PTRSIZE symbol, which
4784 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a pointer.
4785
e0a10278 4786quadkind (quadtype.U):
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4787 This variable, if defined, encodes the type of a quad:
4788 1 = int, 2 = long, 3 = long long, 4 = int64_t.
4789
4790quadtype (quadtype.U):
635aebb7 4791 This variable defines Quad_t to be something like long, int,
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4792 long long, int64_t, or whatever type is used for 64-bit integers.
4793
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4794randbits (randfunc.U):
4795 Indicates how many bits are produced by the function used to
4796 generate normalized random numbers.
4797
4798randfunc (randfunc.U):
4799 Indicates the name of the random number function to use.
4800 Values include drand48, random, and rand. In C programs,
4801 the 'Drand01' macro is defined to generate uniformly distributed
4802 random numbers over the range [0., 1.[ (see drand01 and nrand).
4803
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4804random_r_proto (d_random_r.U):
4805 This variable encodes the prototype of random_r.
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4806 It is zero if d_random_r is undef, and one of the
4807 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_random_r
4808 is defined.
10bc17b6 4809
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4810randseedtype (randfunc.U):
4811 Indicates the type of the argument of the seedfunc.
4812
4813ranlib (orderlib.U):
4814 This variable is set to the pathname of the ranlib program, if it is
4815 needed to generate random libraries. Set to ":" if ar can generate
4816 random libraries or if random libraries are not supported
4817
4818rd_nodata (nblock_io.U):
4819 This variable holds the return code from read() when no data is
4820 present. It should be -1, but some systems return 0 when O_NDELAY is
4821 used, which is a shame because you cannot make the difference between
209e5c0a 4822 no data and an EOF.. Sigh!
781b178c 4823
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4824readdir64_r_proto (d_readdir64_r.U):
4825 This variable encodes the prototype of readdir64_r.
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4826 It is zero if d_readdir64_r is undef, and one of the
4827 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_readdir64_r
4828 is defined.
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4829
4830readdir_r_proto (d_readdir_r.U):
4831 This variable encodes the prototype of readdir_r.
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4832 It is zero if d_readdir_r is undef, and one of the
4833 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_readdir_r
4834 is defined.
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4836revision (patchlevel.U):
4837 The value of revision comes from the patchlevel.h file.
4838 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "5".
4839 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_REVISION".
4840
781b178c 4841rm (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4842 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4843 full pathname (if any) of the rm program. After Configure runs,
4844 the value is reset to a plain "rm" and is not useful.
4845
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4846rm_try (Unix.U):
4847 This is a cleanup variable for try test programs.
4848 Internal Configure use only.
4849
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4850rmail (Loc.U):
4851 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4852 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 4853
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4854run (Cross.U):
4855 This variable contains the command used by Configure
4856 to copy and execute a cross-compiled executable in the
4857 target host. Useful and available only during Perl build.
4858 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
4859
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4860runnm (usenm.U):
4861 This variable contains 'true' or 'false' depending whether the
4862 nm extraction should be performed or not, according to the value
4863 of usenm and the flags on the Configure command line.
4864
4865sched_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
4866 This variable defines the way to yield the execution
4867 of the current thread.
4868
4869scriptdir (scriptdir.U):
4870 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
4871 to put publicly scripts for the package in question. It is either
4872 the same directory as for binaries, or a special one that can be
4873 mounted across different architectures, like /usr/share. Programs
4874 must be prepared to deal with ~name expansion.
4875
4876scriptdirexp (scriptdir.U):
4877 This variable is the same as scriptdir, but is filename expanded
4878 at configuration time, for programs not wanting to bother with it.
4879
4880sed (Loc.U):
5bf26616 4881 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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4882 full pathname (if any) of the sed program. After Configure runs,
4883 the value is reset to a plain "sed" and is not useful.
4884
4885seedfunc (randfunc.U):
4886 Indicates the random number generating seed function.
4887 Values include srand48, srandom, and srand.
4888
4889selectminbits (selectminbits.U):
4890 This variable holds the minimum number of bits operated by select.
4891 That is, if you do select(n, ...), how many bits at least will be
4892 cleared in the masks if some activity is detected. Usually this
4893 is either n or 32*ceil(n/32), especially many little-endians do
4894 the latter. This is only useful if you have select(), naturally.
4895
4896selecttype (selecttype.U):
4897 This variable holds the type used for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th
4898 arguments to select. Usually, this is 'fd_set *', if HAS_FD_SET
635aebb7 4899 is defined, and 'int *' otherwise. This is only useful if you
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4900 have select(), naturally.
4901
4902sendmail (Loc.U):
ff935051 4903 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4904 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 4905
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4906setgrent_r_proto (d_setgrent_r.U):
4907 This variable encodes the prototype of setgrent_r.
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4908 It is zero if d_setgrent_r is undef, and one of the
4909 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setgrent_r
4910 is defined.
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4911
4912sethostent_r_proto (d_sethostent_r.U):
4913 This variable encodes the prototype of sethostent_r.
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4914 It is zero if d_sethostent_r is undef, and one of the
4915 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_sethostent_r
4916 is defined.
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4917
4918setlocale_r_proto (d_setlocale_r.U):
4919 This variable encodes the prototype of setlocale_r.
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4920 It is zero if d_setlocale_r is undef, and one of the
4921 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setlocale_r
4922 is defined.
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4923
4924setnetent_r_proto (d_setnetent_r.U):
4925 This variable encodes the prototype of setnetent_r.
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4926 It is zero if d_setnetent_r is undef, and one of the
4927 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setnetent_r
4928 is defined.
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4929
4930setprotoent_r_proto (d_setprotoent_r.U):
4931 This variable encodes the prototype of setprotoent_r.
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4932 It is zero if d_setprotoent_r is undef, and one of the
4933 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setprotoent_r
4934 is defined.
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4935
4936setpwent_r_proto (d_setpwent_r.U):
4937 This variable encodes the prototype of setpwent_r.
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4938 It is zero if d_setpwent_r is undef, and one of the
4939 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setpwent_r
4940 is defined.
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4941
4942setservent_r_proto (d_setservent_r.U):
4943 This variable encodes the prototype of setservent_r.
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4944 It is zero if d_setservent_r is undef, and one of the
4945 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setservent_r
4946 is defined.
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4948sGMTIME_max (time_size.U):
4949 This variable defines the maximum value of the time_t offset that
4950 the system function gmtime () accepts
4951
4952sGMTIME_min (time_size.U):
4953 This variable defines the minimum value of the time_t offset that
4954 the system function gmtime () accepts
4955
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4956sh (sh.U):
4957 This variable contains the full pathname of the shell used
4958 on this system to execute Bourne shell scripts. Usually, this will be
4959 /bin/sh, though it's possible that some systems will have /bin/ksh,
4960 /bin/pdksh, /bin/ash, /bin/bash, or even something such as
4961 D:/bin/sh.exe.
1a474c3e 4962 This unit comes before Options.U, so you can't set sh with a '-D'
781b178c 4963 option, though you can override this (and startsh)
1a474c3e 4964 with '-O -Dsh=/bin/whatever -Dstartsh=whatever'
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4965
4966shar (Loc.U):
4967 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 4968 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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4969
4970sharpbang (spitshell.U):
4971 This variable contains the string #! if this system supports that
4972 construct.
4973
4974shmattype (d_shmat.U):
4975 This symbol contains the type of pointer returned by shmat().
4976 It can be 'void *' or 'char *'.
4977
4978shortsize (intsize.U):
4979 This variable contains the value of the SHORTSIZE symbol which
4980 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a short.
4981
4982shrpenv (libperl.U):
4983 If the user builds a shared libperl.so, then we need to tell the
635aebb7 4984 'perl' executable where it will be able to find the installed libperl.so.
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4985 One way to do this on some systems is to set the environment variable
4986 LD_RUN_PATH to the directory that will be the final location of the
4987 shared libperl.so. The makefile can use this with something like
4988 $shrpenv $(CC) -o perl perlmain.o $libperl $libs
4989 Typical values are
4990 shrpenv="env LD_RUN_PATH=$archlibexp/CORE"
4991 or
4992 shrpenv=''
4993 See the main perl Makefile.SH for actual working usage.
dfaa7b30 4994
781b178c 4995 Alternatively, we might be able to use a command line option such
c68a00c0 4996 as -R $archlibexp/CORE (Solaris) or -Wl,-rpath
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4997 $archlibexp/CORE (Linux).
4998
4999shsharp (spitshell.U):
5000 This variable tells further Configure units whether your sh can
5001 handle # comments.
5002
5003sig_count (sig_name.U):
5004 This variable holds a number larger than the largest valid
5005 signal number. This is usually the same as the NSIG macro.
5006
5007sig_name (sig_name.U):
5008 This variable holds the signal names, space separated. The leading
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5009 SIG in signal name is removed. A ZERO is prepended to the list.
5010 This is currently not used, sig_name_init is used instead.
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5011
5012sig_name_init (sig_name.U):
5013 This variable holds the signal names, enclosed in double quotes and
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5014 separated by commas, suitable for use in the SIG_NAME definition
5015 below. A "ZERO" is prepended to the list, and the list is
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5016 terminated with a plain 0. The leading SIG in signal names
5017 is removed. See sig_num.
5018
5019sig_num (sig_name.U):
5020 This variable holds the signal numbers, space separated. A ZERO is
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5021 prepended to the list (corresponding to the fake SIGZERO).
5022 Those numbers correspond to the value of the signal listed
5023 in the same place within the sig_name list.
5024 This is currently not used, sig_num_init is used instead.
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5025
5026sig_num_init (sig_name.U):
5027 This variable holds the signal numbers, enclosed in double quotes and
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5028 separated by commas, suitable for use in the SIG_NUM definition
5029 below. A "ZERO" is prepended to the list, and the list is
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5030 terminated with a plain 0.
5031
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5032sig_size (sig_name.U):
5033 This variable contains the number of elements of the sig_name
f05fc11d 5034 and sig_num arrays.
76d3c696 5035
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5036signal_t (d_voidsig.U):
5037 This variable holds the type of the signal handler (void or int).
5038
5039sitearch (sitearch.U):
5040 This variable contains the eventual value of the SITEARCH symbol,
5041 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
5042 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
5043 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
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5044 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5045 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5046 architecture-dependent modules in this directory with
5047 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5048 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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5049
5050sitearchexp (sitearch.U):
5051 This variable is the ~name expanded version of sitearch, so that you
5052 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5053
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5054sitebin (sitebin.U):
5055 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
5056 to put add-on publicly executable files for the package in question. It
5057 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
5058 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
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5059 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5060 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5061 executables in this directory with
5062 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5063 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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5064
5065sitebinexp (sitebin.U):
5066 This is the same as the sitebin variable, but is filename expanded at
5067 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
5068
e755722e 5069sitehtml1dir (sitehtml1dir.U):
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5070 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
5071 html source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
5072 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
5073 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
5074 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5075 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5076 html pages in this directory with
5077 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5078 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5079
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5080sitehtml1direxp (sitehtml1dir.U):
5081 This variable is the same as the sitehtml1dir variable, but is filename
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5082 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
5083
e755722e 5084sitehtml3dir (sitehtml3dir.U):
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5085 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
5086 library html source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
5087 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
5088 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
5089 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5090 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5091 library html pages in this directory with
5092 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5093 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5094
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5095sitehtml3direxp (sitehtml3dir.U):
5096 This variable is the same as the sitehtml3dir variable, but is filename
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5097 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
5098
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5099sitelib (sitelib.U):
5100 This variable contains the eventual value of the SITELIB symbol,
5101 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
5102 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
5103 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
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5104 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5105 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5106 architecture-independent modules in this directory with
5107 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5108 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
781b178c 5109
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5110sitelib_stem (sitelib.U):
5111 This variable is $sitelibexp with any trailing version-specific component
5112 removed. The elements in inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U) can
5113 be tacked onto this variable to generate a list of directories to search.
5114
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5115sitelibexp (sitelib.U):
5116 This variable is the ~name expanded version of sitelib, so that you
5117 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5118
e755722e 5119siteman1dir (siteman1dir.U):
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5120 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
5121 manual source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
5122 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
5123 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
5124 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5125 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5126 man1 pages in this directory with
5127 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5128 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5129
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5130siteman1direxp (siteman1dir.U):
5131 This variable is the same as the siteman1dir variable, but is filename
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5132 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
5133
e755722e 5134siteman3dir (siteman3dir.U):
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5135 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
5136 library man source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
5137 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
5138 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
5139 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5140 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5141 man3 pages in this directory with
5142 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5143 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5144
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5145siteman3direxp (siteman3dir.U):
5146 This variable is the same as the siteman3dir variable, but is filename
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5147 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
5148
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5149siteprefix (siteprefix.U):
5150 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
5151 which the user will install add-on packages.
f868067f 5152 See INSTALL for usage and examples.
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5153
5154siteprefixexp (siteprefix.U):
5155 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
5156 which the user will install add-on packages. Derived from siteprefix.
5157
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5158sitescript (sitescript.U):
5159 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
5160 to put add-on publicly executable files for the package in question. It
5161 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
5162 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
5163 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5164 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
5165 scripts in this directory with
5166 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
5167 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5168
5169sitescriptexp (sitescript.U):
5170 This is the same as the sitescript variable, but is filename expanded at
5171 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
5172
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5173sizesize (sizesize.U):
5174 This variable contains the size of a sizetype in bytes.
5175
781b178c 5176sizetype (sizetype.U):
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5177 This variable defines sizetype to be something like size_t,
5178 unsigned long, or whatever type is used to declare length
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5179 parameters for string functions.
5180
5181sleep (Loc.U):
5182 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5183 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5184
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5185sLOCALTIME_max (time_size.U):
5186 This variable defines the maximum value of the time_t offset that
5187 the system function localtime () accepts
5188
5189sLOCALTIME_min (time_size.U):
5190 This variable defines the minimum value of the time_t offset that
5191 the system function localtime () accepts
5192
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5193smail (Loc.U):
5194 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5195 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5196
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5197so (so.U):
5198 This variable holds the extension used to identify shared libraries
5199 (also known as shared objects) on the system. Usually set to 'so'.
5200
5201sockethdr (d_socket.U):
5202 This variable has any cpp '-I' flags needed for socket support.
5203
5204socketlib (d_socket.U):
5205 This variable has the names of any libraries needed for socket support.
5206
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5207socksizetype (socksizetype.U):
5208 This variable holds the type used for the size argument
5209 for various socket calls like accept. Usual values include
5210 socklen_t, size_t, and int.
5211
781b178c 5212sort (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5213 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5214 full pathname (if any) of the sort program. After Configure runs,
5215 the value is reset to a plain "sort" and is not useful.
5216
5217spackage (package.U):
5218 This variable contains the name of the package being constructed,
5219 with the first letter uppercased, i.e. suitable for starting
5220 sentences.
5221
5222spitshell (spitshell.U):
5223 This variable contains the command necessary to spit out a runnable
1a474c3e 5224 shell on this system. It is either cat or a grep '-v' for # comments.
40814d06 5225
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5226sPRId64 (quadfio.U):
5227 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5228 format 64-bit decimal numbers (format 'd') for output.
5229
5230sPRIeldbl (longdblfio.U):
5231 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5232 format long doubles (format 'e') for output.
5233
5234sPRIEUldbl (longdblfio.U):
5235 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5236 format long doubles (format 'E') for output.
5237 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIeldbl so that even
5238 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5239
5240sPRIfldbl (longdblfio.U):
5241 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5242 format long doubles (format 'f') for output.
5243
5244sPRIFUldbl (longdblfio.U):
5245 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5246 format long doubles (format 'F') for output.
5247 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIfldbl so that even
5248 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5249
5250sPRIgldbl (longdblfio.U):
5251 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5252 format long doubles (format 'g') for output.
5253
5254sPRIGUldbl (longdblfio.U):
5255 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5256 format long doubles (format 'G') for output.
5257 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIgldbl so that even
5258 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5259
5260sPRIi64 (quadfio.U):
5261 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5262 format 64-bit decimal numbers (format 'i') for output.
5263
5264sPRIo64 (quadfio.U):
5265 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5266 format 64-bit octal numbers (format 'o') for output.
5267
5268sPRIu64 (quadfio.U):
5269 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5270 format 64-bit unsigned decimal numbers (format 'u') for output.
5271
5272sPRIx64 (quadfio.U):
5273 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5274 format 64-bit hexadecimal numbers (format 'x') for output.
5275
5276sPRIXU64 (quadfio.U):
5277 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5278 format 64-bit hExADECimAl numbers (format 'X') for output.
5279 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIx64 so that even
5280 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5281
40814d06 5282srand48_r_proto (d_srand48_r.U):
10bc17b6 5283 This variable encodes the prototype of srand48_r.
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5284 It is zero if d_srand48_r is undef, and one of the
5285 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_srand48_r
5286 is defined.
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5287
5288srandom_r_proto (d_srandom_r.U):
5289 This variable encodes the prototype of srandom_r.
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5290 It is zero if d_srandom_r is undef, and one of the
5291 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_srandom_r
5292 is defined.
10bc17b6 5293
781b178c 5294src (src.U):
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5295 This variable holds the (possibly relative) path of the package source.
5296 It is up to the Makefile to use this variable and set VPATH accordingly
5297 to find the sources remotely. Use $pkgsrc to have an absolute path.
781b178c 5298
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5299sSCNfldbl (longdblfio.U):
5300 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5301 format long doubles (format 'f') for input.
5302
781b178c 5303ssizetype (ssizetype.U):
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5304 This variable defines ssizetype to be something like ssize_t,
5305 long or int. It is used by functions that return a count
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5306 of bytes or an error condition. It must be a signed type.
5307 We will pick a type such that sizeof(SSize_t) == sizeof(Size_t).
5308
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5309st_ino_sign (st_ino_def.U):
5310 This variable contains the signedness of struct stat's st_ino.
5311 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
5312
5313st_ino_size (st_ino_def.U):
5314 This variable contains the size of struct stat's st_ino in bytes.
5315
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5316startperl (startperl.U):
5317 This variable contains the string to put on the front of a perl
5318 script to make sure (hopefully) that it runs with perl and not some
5319 shell. Of course, that leading line must be followed by the classical
5320 perl idiom:
5321 eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
34050ace 5322 if $running_under_some_shell;
781b178c 5323 to guarantee perl startup should the shell execute the script. Note
47e01c32 5324 that this magic incantation is not understood by csh.
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5325
5326startsh (startsh.U):
5327 This variable contains the string to put on the front of a shell
5328 script to make sure (hopefully) that it runs with sh and not some
5329 other shell.
5330
5331static_ext (Extensions.U):
5332 This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to
5333 link statically into the package. It is used by Makefile.
5334
5335stdchar (stdchar.U):
5336 This variable conditionally defines STDCHAR to be the type of char
5337 used in stdio.h. It has the values "unsigned char" or "char".
5338
5339stdio_base (d_stdstdio.U):
5340 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
5341 _base field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5342 be used to define the macro FILE_base(fp).
5343
5344stdio_bufsiz (d_stdstdio.U):
5345 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to determine
5346 the number of bytes store in the I/O buffer pointer to by the
5347 _base field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5348 be used to define the macro FILE_bufsiz(fp).
5349
5350stdio_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
5351 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
5352 _cnt field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5353 be used to define the macro FILE_cnt(fp).
5354
5355stdio_filbuf (d_stdstdio.U):
5356 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to tell
022735b4 5357 stdio to refill its internal buffers (?). This will
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5358 be used to define the macro FILE_filbuf(fp).
5359
5360stdio_ptr (d_stdstdio.U):
5361 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
5362 _ptr field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5363 be used to define the macro FILE_ptr(fp).
5364
5365stdio_stream_array (stdio_streams.U):
5366 This variable tells the name of the array holding the stdio streams.
5367 Usual values include _iob, __iob, and __sF.
5368
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5369strerror_r_proto (d_strerror_r.U):
5370 This variable encodes the prototype of strerror_r.
39183afa
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5371 It is zero if d_strerror_r is undef, and one of the
5372 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_strerror_r
5373 is defined.
10bc17b6 5374
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5375submit (Loc.U):
5376 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5377 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5378
5379subversion (patchlevel.U):
5380 The subversion level of this package.
5381 The value of subversion comes from the patchlevel.h file.
ff935051 5382 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "1".
c890dc6c 5383 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_SUBVERSION".
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5384 This is unique to perl.
5385
5386sysman (sysman.U):
5387 This variable holds the place where the manual is located on this
5388 system. It is not the place where the user wants to put his manual
5389 pages. Rather it is the place where Configure may look to find manual
5390 for unix commands (section 1 of the manual usually). See mansrc.
5391
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5392sysroot (Sysroot.U):
5393 This variable is empty unless supplied by the Configure user.
5394 It can contain a path to an alternative root directory, under which
5395 headers and libraries for the compilation target can be found. This
5396 is generally used when cross-compiling using a gcc-like compiler.
5397
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5398tail (Loc.U):
5399 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5400 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5401
5402tar (Loc.U):
5403 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5404 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5405
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5406targetarch (Cross.U):
5407 If cross-compiling, this variable contains the target architecture.
5408 If not, this will be empty.
5409
56b575b9 5410targetdir (Cross.U):
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5411 This variable contains a path that will be created on the target
5412 host using targetmkdir, and then used to copy the cross-compiled
5413 executables to. Defaults to '/tmp' if not set.
a2c3ce73
BF
5414
5415targetenv (Cross.U):
51b4c035
KW
5416 If cross-compiling, this variable can be used to modify the
5417 environment on the target system.
5418 However, how and where it's used, and even if it's used at all, is
5419 entirely dependent on both the transport mechanism (targetrun) and
5420 what the target system is. Unless the relevant documentation says
5421 otherwise, it is genereally not useful.
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5422
5423targethost (Cross.U):
5424 This variable contains the name of a separate host machine that
5425 can be used to run compiled test programs and perl tests on.
5426 Set to empty string if not in use.
5427
5428targetmkdir (Cross.U):
5429 This variable contains the command used by Configure to create a
5430 new directory on the target host.
5431
5432targetport (Cross.U):
5433 This variable contains the number of a network port to be used to
5434 connect to the host in targethost, if unset defaults to 22 for ssh.
5435
1d38f63f 5436targetsh (sh.U):
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BF
5437 If cross-compiling, this variable contains the location of sh on the
5438 target system.
5439 If not, this will be the same as $sh.
5440
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5441tbl (Loc.U):
5442 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5443 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c
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5444
5445tee (Loc.U):
5446 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5447 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5448
5449test (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5450 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5451 full pathname (if any) of the test program. After Configure runs,
5452 the value is reset to a plain "test" and is not useful.
5453
5454timeincl (i_time.U):
5455 This variable holds the full path of the included time header(s).
5456
5457timetype (d_time.U):
5458 This variable holds the type returned by time(). It can be long,
5459 or time_t on BSD sites (in which case <sys/types.h> should be
5460 included). Anyway, the type Time_t should be used.
5461
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5462tmpnam_r_proto (d_tmpnam_r.U):
5463 This variable encodes the prototype of tmpnam_r.
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5464 It is zero if d_tmpnam_r is undef, and one of the
5465 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_tmpnam_r
5466 is defined.
10bc17b6 5467
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5468to (Cross.U):
5469 This variable contains the command used by Configure
5470 to copy to from the target host. Useful and available
5471 only during Perl build.
5472 The string ':' if not cross-compiling.
5473
781b178c 5474touch (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5475 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5476 full pathname (if any) of the touch program. After Configure runs,
5477 the value is reset to a plain "touch" and is not useful.
5478
5479tr (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5480 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5481 full pathname (if any) of the tr program. After Configure runs,
5482 the value is reset to a plain "tr" and is not useful.
5483
5484trnl (trnl.U):
5485 This variable contains the value to be passed to the tr(1)
5486 command to transliterate a newline. Typical values are
5487 '\012' and '\n'. This is needed for EBCDIC systems where
5488 newline is not necessarily '\012'.
5489
5490troff (Loc.U):
5491 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5492 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5493
10bc17b6
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5494ttyname_r_proto (d_ttyname_r.U):
5495 This variable encodes the prototype of ttyname_r.
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5496 It is zero if d_ttyname_r is undef, and one of the
5497 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_ttyname_r
5498 is defined.
10bc17b6 5499
a22e52b9
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5500u16size (perlxv.U):
5501 This variable is the size of an U16 in bytes.
5502
5503u16type (perlxv.U):
5504 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U16.
5505
5506u32size (perlxv.U):
5507 This variable is the size of an U32 in bytes.
5508
5509u32type (perlxv.U):
5510 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U32.
5511
5512u64size (perlxv.U):
5513 This variable is the size of an U64 in bytes.
5514
5515u64type (perlxv.U):
5516 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U64.
5517
5518u8size (perlxv.U):
5519 This variable is the size of an U8 in bytes.
5520
5521u8type (perlxv.U):
5522 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U8.
5523
5524uidformat (uidf.U):
5525 This variable contains the format string used for printing a Uid_t.
5526
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5527uidsign (uidsign.U):
5528 This variable contains the signedness of a uidtype.
5529 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
5530
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5531uidsize (uidsize.U):
5532 This variable contains the size of a uidtype in bytes.
5533
781b178c 5534uidtype (uidtype.U):
635aebb7 5535 This variable defines Uid_t to be something like uid_t, int,
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5536 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare user ids in the kernel.
5537
5538uname (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5539 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5540 full pathname (if any) of the uname program. After Configure runs,
5541 the value is reset to a plain "uname" and is not useful.
5542
5543uniq (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5544 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5545 full pathname (if any) of the uniq program. After Configure runs,
5546 the value is reset to a plain "uniq" and is not useful.
5547
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5548uquadtype (quadtype.U):
5549 This variable defines Uquad_t to be something like unsigned long,
5550 unsigned int, unsigned long long, uint64_t, or whatever type is
5551 used for 64-bit integers.
5552
10cc9d2a
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5553use64bitall (use64bits.U):
5554 This variable conditionally defines the USE_64_BIT_ALL symbol,
5555 and indicates that 64-bit integer types should be used
5556 when available. The maximal possible
5557 64-bitness is employed: LP64 or ILP64, meaning that you will
5558 be able to use more than 2 gigabytes of memory. This mode is
5559 even more binary incompatible than USE_64_BIT_INT. You may not
5560 be able to run the resulting executable in a 32-bit CPU at all or
5561 you may need at least to reboot your OS to 64-bit mode.
5562
5563use64bitint (use64bits.U):
5564 This variable conditionally defines the USE_64_BIT_INT symbol,
aaacdc8b 5565 and indicates that 64-bit integer types should be used
c890dc6c
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5566 when available. The minimal possible 64-bitness
5567 is employed, just enough to get 64-bit integers into Perl.
5568 This may mean using for example "long longs", while your memory
5569 may still be limited to 2 gigabytes.
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5571usecbacktrace (usebacktrace.U):
5572 This variable indicates whether we are compiling with backtrace
5573 support.
5574
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5575usecrosscompile (Cross.U):
5576 This variable conditionally defines the USE_CROSS_COMPILE symbol,
5577 and indicates that Perl has been cross-compiled.
5578
19aaf929
TR
5579usedefaultstrict (usedefaultstrict.U):
5580 This setting provides a mechanism for perl developers to enable
5581 strict by default. These defaults do not apply when perl is run
ab2bb8aa 5582 via -e or -E.
19aaf929 5583
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5584usedevel (Devel.U):
5585 This variable indicates that Perl was configured with development
5586 features enabled. This should not be done for production builds.
5587
781b178c 5588usedl (dlsrc.U):
ff935051 5589 This variable indicates if the system supports dynamic
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5590 loading of some sort. See also dlsrc and dlobj.
5591
34f1896b
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5592usedtrace (usedtrace.U):
5593 This variable indicates whether we are compiling with dtrace
5594 support. See also dtrace.
5ac1e9b2 5595
4d54317a
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5596usefaststdio (usefaststdio.U):
5597 This variable conditionally defines the USE_FAST_STDIO symbol,
5598 and indicates that Perl should be built to use 'fast stdio'.
5599 Defaults to define in Perls 5.8 and earlier, to undef later.
5600
aaacdc8b
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5601useithreads (usethreads.U):
5602 This variable conditionally defines the USE_ITHREADS symbol,
5603 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the interpreter-based
5604 threading implementation.
5605
269a7913 5606usekernprocpathname (usekernprocpathname.U):
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NC
5607 This variable, indicates that we can use sysctl with
5608 KERN_PROC_PATHNAME to get a full path for the executable, and hence
5609 convert $^X to an absolute path.
5610
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5611uselanginfo (Extensions.U):
5612 This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate
5613 whether the I18N::Langinfo extension should be used. The sole
5614 use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism for users to skip
5615 this extension from the Configure command line.
5616
5bf26616 5617uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
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5618 This variable conditionally defines the USE_LARGE_FILES symbol,
5619 and indicates that large file interfaces should be used when
c890dc6c 5620 available.
1baac590 5621
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5622uselongdouble (uselongdbl.U):
5623 This variable conditionally defines the USE_LONG_DOUBLE symbol,
5624 and indicates that long doubles should be used when available.
5625
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5626usemallocwrap (mallocsrc.U):
5627 This variable contains y if we are wrapping malloc to prevent
5628 integer overflow during size calculations.
5629
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5630usemorebits (usemorebits.U):
5631 This variable conditionally defines the USE_MORE_BITS symbol,
5632 and indicates that explicit 64-bit interfaces and long doubles
5633 should be used when available.
5634
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5635usemultiplicity (usemultiplicity.U):
5636 This variable conditionally defines the MULTIPLICITY symbol,
5637 and indicates that Perl should be built to use multiplicity.
5638
5639usemymalloc (mallocsrc.U):
5640 This variable contains y if the malloc that comes with this package
5641 is desired over the system's version of malloc. People often include
47e01c32 5642 special versions of malloc for efficiency, but such versions are often
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5643 less portable. See also mallocsrc and mallocobj.
5644 If this is 'y', then -lmalloc is removed from $libs.
5645
5646usenm (usenm.U):
5647 This variable contains 'true' or 'false' depending whether the
5648 nm extraction is wanted or not.
5649
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5650usensgetexecutablepath (usensgetexecutablepath.U):
5651 This symbol, if defined, indicates that we can use _NSGetExecutablePath
5652 and realpath to get a full path for the executable, and hence convert
5653 $^X to an absolute path.
5654
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5655useopcode (Extensions.U):
5656 This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate
5657 whether the Opcode extension should be used. The sole
5658 use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism
5659 for users to skip the Opcode extension from the Configure
5660 command line.
5661
5662useperlio (useperlio.U):
5663 This variable conditionally defines the USE_PERLIO symbol,
5664 and indicates that the PerlIO abstraction should be
5665 used throughout.
5666
5667useposix (Extensions.U):
5668 This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate
5669 whether the POSIX extension should be used. The sole
5670 use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism
5671 for hints files to indicate that POSIX will not compile
5672 on a particular system.
5673
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5674usequadmath (usequadmath.U):
5675 This variable conditionally defines the USE_QUADMATH symbol,
5676 and indicates that the quadmath library __float128 long doubles
5677 should be used when available.
5678
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5679usereentrant (usethreads.U):
5680 This variable conditionally defines the USE_REENTRANT_API symbol,
5681 which indicates that the thread code may try to use the various
5682 _r versions of library functions. This is only potentially
5683 meaningful if usethreads is set and is very experimental, it is
5684 not even prompted for.
5685
df4c34dc 5686userelocatableinc (bin.U):
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5687 This variable is set to true to indicate that perl should relocate
5688 @INC entries at runtime based on the path to the perl binary.
5689 Any @INC paths starting ".../" are relocated relative to the directory
5690 containing the perl binary, and a logical cleanup of the path is then
5691 made around the join point (removing "dir/../" pairs)
5692
781b178c 5693useshrplib (libperl.U):
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5694 This variable is set to 'true' if the user wishes
5695 to build a shared libperl, and 'false' otherwise.
781b178c 5696
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5697usesitecustomize (d_sitecustomize.U):
5698 This variable is set to true when the user requires a mechanism that
5699 allows the sysadmin to add entries to @INC at runtime. This variable
5700 being set, makes perl run '$sitelib/sitecustomize.pl' at startup.
5701
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5702usesocks (usesocks.U):
5703 This variable conditionally defines the USE_SOCKS symbol,
5704 and indicates that Perl should be built to use SOCKS.
5705
5706usethreads (usethreads.U):
b99a9337 5707 This variable conditionally defines the USE_THREADS symbol,
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5708 and indicates that Perl should be built to use threads.
5709
9f50e519
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5710usevendorprefix (vendorprefix.U):
5711 This variable tells whether the vendorprefix
5712 and consequently other vendor* paths are in use.
5713
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5714useversionedarchname (archname.U):
5715 This variable indicates whether to include the $api_versionstring
5716 as a component of the $archname.
5717
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5718usevfork (d_vfork.U):
5719 This variable is set to true when the user accepts to use vfork.
5720 It is set to false when no vfork is available or when the user
47e01c32 5721 explicitly requests not to use vfork.
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5722
5723usrinc (usrinc.U):
5724 This variable holds the path of the include files, which is
5725 usually /usr/include. It is mainly used by other Configure units.
5726
5727uuname (Loc.U):
5728 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5729 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5730
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5731uvoformat (perlxvf.U):
5732 This variable contains the format string used for printing
635aebb7 5733 a Perl UV as an unsigned octal integer.
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5734
5735uvsize (perlxv.U):
5736 This variable is the size of a UV in bytes.
5737
5738uvtype (perlxv.U):
5739 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's UV.
5740
5741uvuformat (perlxvf.U):
5742 This variable contains the format string used for printing
635aebb7 5743 a Perl UV as an unsigned decimal integer.
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5744
5745uvxformat (perlxvf.U):
5746 This variable contains the format string used for printing
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5747 a Perl UV as an unsigned hexadecimal integer in lowercase abcdef.
5748
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5749uvXUformat (perlxvf.U):
5750 This variable contains the format string used for printing
5751 a Perl UV as an unsigned hexadecimal integer in uppercase ABCDEF.
5752
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5753vendorarch (vendorarch.U):
5754 This variable contains the value of the PERL_VENDORARCH symbol.
635aebb7 5755 It may have a ~ on the front.
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5756 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5757 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5758 architecture-dependent modules and extensions in this directory with
635aebb7 5759 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5760 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5761
5762vendorarchexp (vendorarch.U):
5763 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorarch, so that you
5764 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5765
0617aed7 5766vendorbin (vendorbin.U):
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5767 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORBIN symbol.
5768 It may have a ~ on the front.
5769 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5770 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place additional
5771 binaries in this directory with
635aebb7 5772 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
f868067f 5773 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
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5774
5775vendorbinexp (vendorbin.U):
5776 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorbin, so that you
5777 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5778
e755722e 5779vendorhtml1dir (vendorhtml1dir.U):
635aebb7 5780 This variable contains the name of the directory for html
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5781 pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5782 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5783 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5784 html pages in this directory with
635aebb7 5785 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5786 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5787
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5788vendorhtml1direxp (vendorhtml1dir.U):
5789 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorhtml1dir, so that you
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5790 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5791
e755722e 5792vendorhtml3dir (vendorhtml3dir.U):
635aebb7 5793 This variable contains the name of the directory for html
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5794 library pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5795 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5796 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5797 html pages for modules and extensions in this directory with
635aebb7 5798 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5799 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5800
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5801vendorhtml3direxp (vendorhtml3dir.U):
5802 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorhtml3dir, so that you
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5803 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5804
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5805vendorlib (vendorlib.U):
5806 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORLIB symbol,
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5807 which is the name of the private library for this package.
5808 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5809 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5810 modules in this directory with
635aebb7 5811 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
f868067f 5812 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
a3635516 5813
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5814vendorlib_stem (vendorlib.U):
5815 This variable is $vendorlibexp with any trailing version-specific component
5816 removed. The elements in inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U) can
5817 be tacked onto this variable to generate a list of directories to search.
5818
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5819vendorlibexp (vendorlib.U):
5820 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorlib, so that you
5821 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5822
e755722e 5823vendorman1dir (vendorman1dir.U):
635aebb7 5824 This variable contains the name of the directory for man1
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5825 pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5826 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5827 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5828 man1 pages in this directory with
635aebb7 5829 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5830 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5831
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5832vendorman1direxp (vendorman1dir.U):
5833 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorman1dir, so that you
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5834 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5835
e755722e 5836vendorman3dir (vendorman3dir.U):
635aebb7 5837 This variable contains the name of the directory for man3
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5838 pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5839 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5840 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5841 man3 pages in this directory with
635aebb7 5842 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5843 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5844
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5845vendorman3direxp (vendorman3dir.U):
5846 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorman3dir, so that you
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5847 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5848
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5849vendorprefix (vendorprefix.U):
5850 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
5851 which the vendor will install add-on packages.
f868067f 5852 See INSTALL for usage and examples.
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5853
5854vendorprefixexp (vendorprefix.U):
5855 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
5856 which the vendor will install add-on packages. Derived from vendorprefix.
5857
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5858vendorscript (vendorscript.U):
5859 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORSCRIPT symbol.
5860 It may have a ~ on the front.
5861 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5862 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place additional
5863 executable scripts in this directory with
635aebb7 5864 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
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5865 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5866
5867vendorscriptexp (vendorscript.U):
5868 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorscript, so that you
5869 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5870
781b178c 5871version (patchlevel.U):
ff935051 5872 The full version number of this package, such as 5.6.1 (or 5_6_1).
c890dc6c 5873 This combines revision, patchlevel, and subversion to get the
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5874 full version number, including any possible subversions.
5875 This is suitable for use as a directory name, and hence is
5876 filesystem dependent.
781b178c 5877
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5878version_patchlevel_string (patchlevel.U):
5879 This is a string combining version, subversion and
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AL
5880 perl_patchlevel (if perl_patchlevel is non-zero).
5881 It is typically something like
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5882 'version 7 subversion 1' or
5883 'version 7 subversion 1 patchlevel 11224'
5884 It is computed here to avoid duplication of code in myconfig.SH
635aebb7 5885 and lib/Config.pm.
27713a04 5886
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5887versiononly (versiononly.U):
5888 If set, this symbol indicates that only the version-specific
5889 components of a perl installation should be installed.
5890 This may be useful for making a test installation of a new
5891 version without disturbing the existing installation.
5892 Setting versiononly is equivalent to setting installperl's -v option.
5893 In particular, the non-versioned scripts and programs such as
5894 a2p, c2ph, h2xs, pod2*, and perldoc are not installed
5895 (see INSTALL for a more complete list). Nor are the man
5896 pages installed.
5897 Usually, this is undef.
5898
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5899vi (Loc.U):
5900 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5901 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
781b178c 5902
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5903xlibpth (libpth.U):
5904 This variable holds extra path (space-separated) used to find
5905 libraries on this platform, for example CPU-specific libraries
5906 (on multi-CPU platforms) may be listed here.
5907
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5908xlocale_needed (d_newlocale.U):
5909 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the C program should
5910 include <xlocale.h> to get newlocale() and its friends.
5911
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5912yacc (yacc.U):
5913 This variable holds the name of the compiler compiler we
5914 want to use in the Makefile. It can be yacc, byacc, or bison -y.
5915
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5916yaccflags (yacc.U):
5917 This variable contains any additional yacc flags desired by the
5918 user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
5919
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5920zcat (Loc.U):
5921 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
fcdf39cf 5922 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
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5923
5924zip (Loc.U):
5bf26616 5925 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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5926 full pathname (if any) of the zip program. After Configure runs,
5927 the value is reset to a plain "zip" and is not useful.
5928