2 !!!!!!! DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE !!!!!!!
3 This file is built by metaconfig.
5 This file contains a description of all the shell variables whose value is
6 determined by the Configure script. Variables intended for use in C
7 programs (e.g. I_UNISTD) are already described in config_h.SH. [`configpm'
8 generates pod documentation for Config.pm from this file--please try to keep
9 the formatting regular.]
12 This variable defines the extension used for ordinary library files.
13 For unix, it is '.a'. The '.' is included. Other possible
14 values include '.lib'.
17 This variable defines the extension used for executable files.
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.
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'.
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
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
37 tests for AFSness in the configure and test process.
39 alignbytes (alignbytes.U):
40 This variable holds the number of bytes required to align a
41 double-- or a long double when applicable. Usual values are
42 2, 4 and 8. The default is eight, for safety.
44 ansi2knr (ansi2knr.U):
45 This variable is set if the user needs to run ansi2knr.
46 Currently, this is not supported, so we just abort.
48 aphostname (d_gethname.U):
49 This variable contains the command which can be used to compute the
50 host name. The command is fully qualified by its absolute path, to make
51 it safe when used by a process with super-user privileges.
53 api_revision (patchlevel.U):
54 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
55 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
56 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
57 such as '5.6.1', api_revision is the '5'.
58 Prior to 5.5.640, the format was a floating point number,
61 perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically search in
62 $sitelib/.. for older directories back to the limit specified
63 by these api_ variables. This is only useful if you have a
64 perl library directory tree structured like the default one.
65 See INSTALL for how this works. The versioned site_perl
66 directory was introduced in 5.005, so that is the lowest
67 possible value. The version list appropriate for the current
68 system is determined in inc_version_list.U.
70 XXX To do: Since compatibility can depend on compile time
71 options (such as bincompat, longlong, etc.) it should
72 (perhaps) be set by Configure, but currently it isn't.
73 Currently, we read a hard-wired value from patchlevel.h.
74 Perhaps what we ought to do is take the hard-wired value from
75 patchlevel.h but then modify it if the current Configure
76 options warrant. patchlevel.h then would use an #ifdef guard.
78 api_subversion (patchlevel.U):
79 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
80 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
81 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
82 such as '5.6.1', api_subversion is the '1'. See api_revision for
85 api_version (patchlevel.U):
86 The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and
87 api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary
88 compatible with the present perl. In a full version string
89 such as '5.6.1', api_version is the '6'. See api_revision for
90 full details. As a special case, 5.5.0 is rendered in the
91 old-style as 5.005. (In the 5.005_0x maintenance series,
92 this was the only versioned directory in $sitelib.)
94 api_versionstring (patchlevel.U):
95 This variable combines api_revision, api_version, and
96 api_subversion in a format such as 5.6.1 (or 5_6_1) suitable
97 for use as a directory name. This is filesystem dependent.
100 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
101 full pathname (if any) of the ar program. After Configure runs,
102 the value is reset to a plain "ar" and is not useful.
105 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
106 to put architecture-dependent public library files for $package.
107 It is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/lib.
108 Programs using this variable must be prepared to deal
109 with filename expansion.
111 archlibexp (archlib.U):
112 This variable is the same as the archlib variable, but is
113 filename expanded at configuration time, for convenient use.
115 archname (archname.U):
116 This variable is a short name to characterize the current
117 architecture. It is used mainly to construct the default archlib.
119 archname64 (use64bits.U):
120 This variable is used for the 64-bitness part of $archname.
123 This variable defines any additional objects that must be linked
124 in with the program on this architecture. On unix, it is usually
125 empty. It is typically used to include emulations of unix calls
126 or other facilities. For perl on OS/2, for example, this would
129 asctime_r_proto (d_asctime_r.U):
130 This variable encodes the prototype of asctime_r.
131 It is zero if d_asctime_r is undef, and one of the
132 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_asctime_r
136 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
137 full pathname (if any) of the awk program. After Configure runs,
138 the value is reset to a plain "awk" and is not useful.
141 The base revision level of this package, from the .package file.
144 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
145 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
148 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
149 to put publicly executable images for the package in question. It
150 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
151 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
154 This variable saves the result from configure if generated binaries
155 are in ELF format. Only set to defined when the test has actually
156 been performed, and the result was positive.
159 This is the same as the bin variable, but is filename expanded at
160 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
163 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
164 full pathname (if any) of the bison program. After Configure runs,
165 the value is reset to a plain "bison" and is not useful.
168 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
169 full pathname (if any) of the byacc program. After Configure runs,
170 the value is reset to a plain "byacc" and is not useful.
172 byteorder (byteorder.U):
173 This variable holds the byte order in a UV. In the following,
174 larger digits indicate more significance. The variable byteorder
175 is either 4321 on a big-endian machine, or 1234 on a little-endian,
176 or 87654321 on a Cray ... or 3412 with weird order !
179 This variable contains the \c string if that is what causes the echo
180 command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is
181 $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
183 castflags (d_castneg.U):
184 This variable contains a flag that precise difficulties the
185 compiler has casting odd floating values to unsigned long:
187 1 = couldn't cast < 0
188 2 = couldn't cast >= 0x80000000
189 4 = couldn't cast in argument expression list
192 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
193 full pathname (if any) of the cat program. After Configure runs,
194 the value is reset to a plain "cat" and is not useful.
197 This variable holds the name of a command to execute a C compiler which
198 can resolve multiple global references that happen to have the same
199 name. Usual values are 'cc' and 'gcc'.
200 Fervent ANSI compilers may be called 'c89'. AIX has xlc.
202 cccdlflags (dlsrc.U):
203 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
204 passed with 'cc -c' to compile modules to be used to create a shared
205 library that will be used for dynamic loading. For hpux, this
206 should be +z. It is up to the makefile to use it.
209 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
210 passed to cc to link with a shared library for dynamic loading.
211 It is up to the makefile to use it. For sunos 4.1, it should
215 This variable contains any additional C compiler flags desired by
216 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
218 ccflags_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
219 This variable contains the compiler flags needed by large file builds
220 and added to ccflags by hints files.
223 This can set either by hints files or by Configure. If using
224 gcc, this is gcc, and if not, usually equal to cc, unimpressive, no?
225 Some platforms, however, make good use of this by storing the
226 flavor of the C compiler being used here. For example if using
227 the Sun WorkShop suite, ccname will be 'workshop'.
229 ccsymbols (Cppsym.U):
230 The variable contains the symbols defined by the C compiler alone.
231 The symbols defined by cpp or by cc when it calls cpp are not in
232 this list, see cppsymbols and cppccsymbols.
233 The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
235 ccversion (Checkcc.U):
236 This can set either by hints files or by Configure. If using
237 a (non-gcc) vendor cc, this variable may contain a version for
241 Login name of the person who ran the Configure script and answered the
242 questions. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH.
244 cf_email (cf_email.U):
245 Electronic mail address of the person who ran Configure. This can be
246 used by units that require the user's e-mail, like MailList.U.
249 Holds the output of the "date" command when the configuration file was
250 produced. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH.
252 charbits (charsize.U):
253 This variable contains the value of the CHARBITS symbol, which
254 indicates to the C program how many bits there are in a character.
256 charsize (charsize.U):
257 This variable contains the value of the CHARSIZE symbol, which
258 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a character.
261 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
262 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
265 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
266 full pathname (if any) of the chmod program. After Configure runs,
267 the value is reset to a plain "chmod" and is not useful.
270 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
271 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
273 clocktype (d_times.U):
274 This variable holds the type returned by times(). It can be long,
275 or clock_t on BSD sites (in which case <sys/types.h> should be
279 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
280 full pathname (if any) of the comm program. After Configure runs,
281 the value is reset to a plain "comm" and is not useful.
284 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
285 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
287 config_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.
291 config_argc (Options.U):
292 This variable contains the number of command-line arguments
293 passed to Configure, as reported by the shell in the $# variable.
294 The individual arguments are stored as variables config_arg1,
297 config_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]*.
304 contains (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.
311 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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.
316 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
317 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
320 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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.
324 cpp_stuff (cpp_stuff.U):
325 This variable contains an identification of the concatenation mechanism
326 used by the C preprocessor.
328 cppccsymbols (Cppsym.U):
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.
332 The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
334 cppflags (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.
338 cpplast (cppstdin.U):
339 This variable has the same functionality as cppminus, only it applies
340 to cpprun and not cppstdin.
342 cppminus (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 "".
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.
356 cppstdin (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.
362 cppsymbols (Cppsym.U):
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.
366 The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
368 crypt_r_proto (d_crypt_r.U):
369 This variable encodes the prototype of crypt_r.
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
374 cryptlib (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.
380 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
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.
384 ctermid_r_proto (d_ctermid_r.U):
385 This variable encodes the prototype of ctermid_r.
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
390 ctime_r_proto (d_ctime_r.U):
391 This variable encodes the prototype of ctime_r.
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
396 d__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.
400 d_access (d_access.U):
401 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ACCESS if the access() system
402 call is available to check for access permissions using real IDs.
404 d_accessx (d_accessx.U):
405 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ACCESSX symbol, which
406 indicates to the C program that the accessx() routine is available.
409 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ACOSH symbol, which
410 indicates to the C program that the acosh() routine is available.
413 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_AINTL symbol, which
414 indicates to the C program that the aintl() routine is available.
415 If copysignl is also present we can emulate modfl.
418 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ALARM symbol, which
419 indicates to the C program that the alarm() routine is available.
421 d_archlib (archlib.U):
422 This variable conditionally defines ARCHLIB to hold the pathname
423 of architecture-dependent library files for $package. If
424 $archlib is the same as $privlib, then this is set to undef.
426 d_asctime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
427 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ASCTIME64 symbol, which
428 indicates to the C program that the asctime64 () routine is available.
430 d_asctime_r (d_asctime_r.U):
431 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ASCTIME_R symbol,
432 which indicates to the C program that the asctime_r()
433 routine is available.
436 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ASINH symbol, which
437 indicates to the C program that the asinh() routine is available.
440 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ATANH symbol, which
441 indicates to the C program that the atanh() routine is available.
444 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ATOLF symbol, which
445 indicates to the C program that the atolf() routine is available.
448 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ATOLL symbol, which
449 indicates to the C program that the atoll() routine is available.
451 d_attribute_deprecated (d_attribut.U):
452 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_DEPRECATED, which
453 indicates that GCC can handle the attribute for marking deprecated
456 d_attribute_format (d_attribut.U):
457 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_FORMAT, which
458 indicates the C compiler can check for printf-like formats.
460 d_attribute_malloc (d_attribut.U):
461 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_MALLOC, which
462 indicates the C compiler can understand functions as having
463 malloc-like semantics.
465 d_attribute_nonnull (d_attribut.U):
466 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_NONNULL, which
467 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain arguments
468 must not be NULL, and will check accordingly at compile time.
470 d_attribute_noreturn (d_attribut.U):
471 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_NORETURN, which
472 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain functions
473 are guaranteed never to return.
475 d_attribute_pure (d_attribut.U):
476 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_PURE, which
477 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain functions
478 are "pure" functions, meaning that they have no side effects, and
479 only rely on function input and/or global data for their results.
481 d_attribute_unused (d_attribut.U):
482 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, which
483 indicates that the C compiler can know that certain variables
484 and arguments may not always be used, and to not throw warnings
485 if they don't get used.
487 d_attribute_warn_unused_result (d_attribut.U):
488 This variable conditionally defines
489 HASATTRIBUTE_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT, which indicates that the C
490 compiler can know that certain functions have a return values
491 that must not be ignored, such as malloc() or open().
493 d_backtrace (d_backtrace.U):
494 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BACKTRACE symbol, which
495 indicates to the C program that the backtrace() routine is available
496 to get a stack trace.
499 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BCMP symbol if
500 the bcmp() routine is available to compare strings.
503 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BCOPY symbol if
504 the bcopy() routine is available to copy strings.
507 This symbol conditionally defines the symbol BSD when running on a
510 d_bsdgetpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
511 This variable conditionally defines USE_BSD_GETPGRP if
512 getpgrp needs one arguments whereas USG one needs none.
514 d_bsdsetpgrp (d_setpgrp.U):
515 This variable conditionally defines USE_BSD_SETPGRP if
516 setpgrp needs two arguments whereas USG one needs none.
517 See also d_setpgid for a POSIX interface.
519 d_builtin_choose_expr (d_builtin.U):
520 This conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_CHOOSE_EXPR, which
521 indicates that the compiler supports __builtin_choose_expr(x,y,z).
522 This built-in function is analogous to the "x?y:z" operator in C,
523 except that the expression returned has its type unaltered by
524 promotion rules. Also, the built-in function does not evaluate
525 the expression that was not chosen.
527 d_builtin_expect (d_builtin.U):
528 This conditionally defines HAS_BUILTIN_EXPECT, which indicates
529 that the compiler supports __builtin_expect(exp,c). You may use
530 __builtin_expect to provide the compiler with branch prediction
534 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BZERO symbol if
535 the bzero() routine is available to set memory to 0.
537 d_c99_variadic_macros (d_c99_variadic.U):
538 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_C99_VARIADIC_MACROS
539 symbol, which indicates to the C program that C99 variadic macros
542 d_casti32 (d_casti32.U):
543 This variable conditionally defines CASTI32, which indicates
544 whether the C compiler can cast large floats to 32-bit ints.
546 d_castneg (d_castneg.U):
547 This variable conditionally defines CASTNEG, which indicates
548 whether the C compiler can cast negative float to unsigned.
551 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CBRT symbol, which
552 indicates to the C program that the cbrt() routine is available.
554 d_charvspr (d_vprintf.U):
555 This variable conditionally defines CHARVSPRINTF if this system
556 has vsprintf returning type (char*). The trend seems to be to
557 declare it as "int vsprintf()".
560 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CHOWN symbol, which
561 indicates to the C program that the chown() routine is available.
563 d_chroot (d_chroot.U):
564 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CHROOT symbol, which
565 indicates to the C program that the chroot() routine is available.
567 d_chsize (d_chsize.U):
568 This variable conditionally defines the CHSIZE symbol, which
569 indicates to the C program that the chsize() routine is available
570 to truncate files. You might need a -lx to get this routine.
572 d_copysign (d_copysign.U):
573 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_COPYSIGN symbol, which
574 indicates to the C program that the copysign() routine is available.
577 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CLASS symbol, which
578 indicates to the C program that the class() routine is available.
580 d_clearenv (d_clearenv.U):
581 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CLEARENV symbol, which
582 indicates to the C program that the clearenv () routine is available.
584 d_closedir (d_closedir.U):
585 This variable conditionally defines HAS_CLOSEDIR if closedir() is
588 d_cmsghdr_s (d_cmsghdr_s.U):
589 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_CMSGHDR symbol,
590 which indicates that the struct cmsghdr is supported.
593 This variable conditionally defines the HASCONST symbol, which
594 indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows about the
597 d_copysignl (d_copysignl.U):
598 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_COPYSIGNL symbol, which
599 indicates to the C program that the copysignl() routine is available.
600 If aintl is also present we can emulate modfl.
602 d_cplusplus (d_cplusplus.U):
603 This variable conditionally defines the USE_CPLUSPLUS symbol, which
604 indicates that a C++ compiler was used to compiled Perl and will be
605 used to compile extensions.
608 This variable conditionally defines the CRYPT symbol, which
609 indicates to the C program that the crypt() routine is available
610 to encrypt passwords and the like.
612 d_crypt_r (d_crypt_r.U):
613 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CRYPT_R symbol,
614 which indicates to the C program that the crypt_r()
615 routine is available.
618 This variable conditionally defines the CSH symbol, which
619 indicates to the C program that the C-shell exists.
621 d_ctermid (d_ctermid.U):
622 This variable conditionally defines CTERMID if ctermid() is
623 available to generate filename for terminal.
625 d_ctermid_r (d_ctermid_r.U):
626 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTERMID_R symbol,
627 which indicates to the C program that the ctermid_r()
628 routine is available.
630 d_ctime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
631 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTIME64 symbol, which
632 indicates to the C program that the ctime64 () routine is available.
634 d_ctime_r (d_ctime_r.U):
635 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CTIME_R symbol,
636 which indicates to the C program that the ctime_r()
637 routine is available.
639 d_cuserid (d_cuserid.U):
640 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CUSERID symbol, which
641 indicates to the C program that the cuserid() routine is available
642 to get character login names.
644 d_dbl_dig (d_dbl_dig.U):
645 This variable conditionally defines d_dbl_dig if this system's
646 header files provide DBL_DIG, which is the number of significant
647 digits in a double precision number.
649 d_dbminitproto (d_dbminitproto.U):
650 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DBMINIT_PROTO symbol,
651 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
652 a prototype for the dbminit() function. Otherwise, it is
653 up to the program to supply one.
655 d_difftime (d_difftime.U):
656 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIFFTIME symbol, which
657 indicates to the C program that the difftime() routine is available.
659 d_difftime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
660 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIFFTIME64 symbol, which
661 indicates to the C program that the difftime64 () routine is available.
663 d_dir_dd_fd (d_dir_dd_fd.U):
664 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIR_DD_FD symbol, which
665 indicates that the DIR directory stream type contains a member
666 variable called dd_fd.
669 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIRFD constant,
670 which indicates to the C program that dirfd() is available
671 to return the file descriptor of a directory stream.
673 d_dirnamlen (i_dirent.U):
674 This variable conditionally defines DIRNAMLEN, which indicates
675 to the C program that the length of directory entry names is
676 provided by a d_namelen field.
678 d_dladdr (d_dladdr.U):
679 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLADDR symbol, which
680 indicates to the C program that the dladdr() routine is available
681 to get a stack trace.
683 d_dlerror (d_dlerror.U):
684 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLERROR symbol, which
685 indicates to the C program that the dlerror() routine is available.
687 d_dlopen (d_dlopen.U):
688 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLOPEN symbol, which
689 indicates to the C program that the dlopen() routine is available.
691 d_dlsymun (d_dlsymun.U):
692 This variable conditionally defines DLSYM_NEEDS_UNDERSCORE, which
693 indicates that we need to prepend an underscore to the symbol
694 name before calling dlsym().
696 d_dosuid (d_dosuid.U):
697 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOSUID, which
698 tells the C program that it should insert setuid emulation code
699 on hosts which have setuid #! scripts disabled.
701 d_drand48_r (d_drand48_r.U):
702 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DRAND48_R symbol,
703 which indicates to the C program that the drand48_r()
704 routine is available.
706 d_drand48proto (d_drand48proto.U):
707 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DRAND48_PROTO symbol,
708 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
709 a prototype for the drand48() function. Otherwise, it is
710 up to the program to supply one.
713 This variable conditionally defines HAS_DUP2 if dup2() is
714 available to duplicate file descriptors.
716 d_eaccess (d_eaccess.U):
717 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_EACCESS symbol, which
718 indicates to the C program that the eaccess() routine is available.
720 d_endgrent (d_endgrent.U):
721 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDGRENT symbol, which
722 indicates to the C program that the endgrent() routine is available
723 for sequential access of the group database.
725 d_endgrent_r (d_endgrent_r.U):
726 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDGRENT_R symbol,
727 which indicates to the C program that the endgrent_r()
728 routine is available.
730 d_endhent (d_endhent.U):
731 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDHOSTENT if endhostent() is
732 available to close whatever was being used for host queries.
734 d_endhostent_r (d_endhostent_r.U):
735 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDHOSTENT_R symbol,
736 which indicates to the C program that the endhostent_r()
737 routine is available.
739 d_endnent (d_endnent.U):
740 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDNETENT if endnetent() is
741 available to close whatever was being used for network queries.
743 d_endnetent_r (d_endnetent_r.U):
744 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDNETENT_R symbol,
745 which indicates to the C program that the endnetent_r()
746 routine is available.
748 d_endpent (d_endpent.U):
749 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDPROTOENT if endprotoent() is
750 available to close whatever was being used for protocol queries.
752 d_endprotoent_r (d_endprotoent_r.U):
753 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPROTOENT_R symbol,
754 which indicates to the C program that the endprotoent_r()
755 routine is available.
757 d_endpwent (d_endpwent.U):
758 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPWENT symbol, which
759 indicates to the C program that the endpwent() routine is available
760 for sequential access of the passwd database.
762 d_endpwent_r (d_endpwent_r.U):
763 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPWENT_R symbol,
764 which indicates to the C program that the endpwent_r()
765 routine is available.
767 d_endsent (d_endsent.U):
768 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDSERVENT if endservent() is
769 available to close whatever was being used for service queries.
771 d_endservent_r (d_endservent_r.U):
772 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDSERVENT_R symbol,
773 which indicates to the C program that the endservent_r()
774 routine is available.
776 d_eofnblk (nblock_io.U):
777 This variable conditionally defines EOF_NONBLOCK if EOF can be seen
778 when reading from a non-blocking I/O source.
781 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ERF symbol, which
782 indicates to the C program that the erf() routine is available.
785 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ERFC symbol, which
786 indicates to the C program that the erfc() routine is available.
789 This variable conditionally defines the symbols EUNICE and VAX, which
790 alerts the C program that it must deal with idiosyncrasies of VMS.
793 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_EXP2 symbol, which
794 indicates to the C program that the exp2() routine is available.
797 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_EXPM1 symbol, which
798 indicates to the C program that the expm1() routine is available.
800 d_faststdio (d_faststdio.U):
801 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FAST_STDIO symbol,
802 which indicates to the C program that the "fast stdio" is available
803 to manipulate the stdio buffers directly.
805 d_fchdir (d_fchdir.U):
806 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHDIR symbol, which
807 indicates to the C program that the fchdir() routine is available.
809 d_fchmod (d_fchmod.U):
810 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHMOD symbol, which
811 indicates to the C program that the fchmod() routine is available
812 to change mode of opened files.
814 d_fchown (d_fchown.U):
815 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHOWN symbol, which
816 indicates to the C program that the fchown() routine is available
817 to change ownership of opened files.
820 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCNTL symbol, and indicates
821 whether the fcntl() function exists
823 d_fcntl_can_lock (d_fcntl_can_lock.U):
824 This variable conditionally defines the FCNTL_CAN_LOCK symbol
825 and indicates whether file locking with fcntl() works.
828 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FDIM symbol, which
829 indicates to the C program that the fdim() routine is available.
831 d_fd_macros (d_fd_set.U):
832 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FD_MACROS symbol,
833 which indicates if your C compiler knows about the macros which
834 manipulate an fd_set.
836 d_fd_set (d_fd_set.U):
837 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FD_SET symbol,
838 which indicates if your C compiler knows about the fd_set typedef.
840 d_fds_bits (d_fd_set.U):
841 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FDS_BITS symbol,
842 which indicates if your fd_set typedef contains the fds_bits member.
843 If you have an fd_set typedef, but the dweebs who installed it did
844 a half-fast job and neglected to provide the macros to manipulate
845 an fd_set, HAS_FDS_BITS will let us know how to fix the gaffe.
847 d_fegetround (d_fegetround.U):
848 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FEGETROUND if fegetround() is
849 available to get the floating point rounding mode.
851 d_fgetpos (d_fgetpos.U):
852 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FGETPOS if fgetpos() is
853 available to get the file position indicator.
855 d_finite (d_finite.U):
856 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FINITE symbol, which
857 indicates to the C program that the finite() routine is available.
859 d_finitel (d_finitel.U):
860 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FINITEL symbol, which
861 indicates to the C program that the finitel() routine is available.
863 d_flexfnam (d_flexfnam.U):
864 This variable conditionally defines the FLEXFILENAMES symbol, which
865 indicates that the system supports filenames longer than 14 characters.
868 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FLOCK if flock() is
869 available to do file locking.
871 d_flockproto (d_flockproto.U):
872 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FLOCK_PROTO symbol,
873 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
874 a prototype for the flock() function. Otherwise, it is
875 up to the program to supply one.
878 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FMA symbol, which
879 indicates to the C program that the fma() routine is available.
882 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FMAX symbol, which
883 indicates to the C program that the fmax() routine is available.
886 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FMIN symbol, which
887 indicates to the C program that the fmin() routine is available.
890 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FORK symbol, which
891 indicates to the C program that the fork() routine is available.
893 d_fp_class (d_fp_class.U):
894 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FP_CLASS symbol, which
895 indicates to the C program that the fp_class() routine is available.
897 d_fp_classify (d_fpclassify.U):
898 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FP_CLASSIFY symbol, which
899 indicates to the C program that the fp_classify() routine is available.
901 d_fp_classl (d_fp_classl.U):
902 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FP_CLASSL symbol, which
903 indicates to the C program that the fp_classl() routine is available.
905 d_fpathconf (d_pathconf.U):
906 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPATHCONF symbol, which
907 indicates to the C program that the pathconf() routine is available
908 to determine file-system related limits and options associated
909 with a given open file descriptor.
911 d_fpclass (d_fpclass.U):
912 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASS symbol, which
913 indicates to the C program that the fpclass() routine is available.
915 d_fpclassify (d_fpclassify.U):
916 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASSIFY symbol, which
917 indicates to the C program that the fpclassify() routine is available.
919 d_fpclassl (d_fpclassl.U):
920 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPCLASSL symbol, which
921 indicates to the C program that the fpclassl() routine is available.
923 d_fpgetround (d_fpgetround.U):
924 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FPGETROUND if fpgetround()
925 is available to get the floating point rounding mode.
927 d_fpos64_t (d_fpos64_t.U):
928 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports fpos64_t.
930 d_frexpl (d_frexpl.U):
931 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FREXPL symbol, which
932 indicates to the C program that the frexpl() routine is available.
934 d_fs_data_s (d_fs_data_s.U):
935 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_FS_DATA symbol,
936 which indicates that the struct fs_data is supported.
938 d_fseeko (d_fseeko.U):
939 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSEEKO symbol, which
940 indicates to the C program that the fseeko() routine is available.
942 d_fsetpos (d_fsetpos.U):
943 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FSETPOS if fsetpos() is
944 available to set the file position indicator.
946 d_fstatfs (d_fstatfs.U):
947 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSTATFS symbol, which
948 indicates to the C program that the fstatfs() routine is available.
950 d_fstatvfs (d_statvfs.U):
951 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSTATVFS symbol, which
952 indicates to the C program that the fstatvfs() routine is available.
955 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSYNC symbol, which
956 indicates to the C program that the fsync() routine is available.
958 d_ftello (d_ftello.U):
959 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTELLO symbol, which
960 indicates to the C program that the ftello() routine is available.
963 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTIME symbol, which indicates
964 that the ftime() routine exists. The ftime() routine is basically
965 a sub-second accuracy clock.
967 d_futimes (d_futimes.U):
968 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FUTIMES symbol, which
969 indicates to the C program that the futimes() routine is available.
971 d_Gconvert (d_gconvert.U):
972 This variable holds what Gconvert is defined as to convert
973 floating point numbers into strings. By default, Configure
974 sets this macro to use the first of gconvert, gcvt, or sprintf
975 that pass sprintf-%g-like behavior tests. If perl is using
976 long doubles, the macro uses the first of the following
977 functions that pass Configure's tests: qgcvt, sprintf (if
978 Configure knows how to make sprintf format long doubles--see
979 sPRIgldbl), gconvert, gcvt, and sprintf (casting to double).
980 The gconvert_preference and gconvert_ld_preference variables
981 can be used to alter Configure's preferences, for doubles and
982 long doubles, respectively. If present, they contain a
983 space-separated list of one or more of the above function
984 names in the order they should be tried.
986 d_Gconvert may be set to override Configure with a platform-
987 specific function. If this function expects a double, a
988 different value may need to be set by the uselongdouble.cbu
989 call-back unit so that long doubles can be formatted without
992 d_gdbm_ndbm_h_uses_prototypes (i_ndbm.U):
993 This variable conditionally defines the NDBM_H_USES_PROTOTYPES symbol,
994 which indicates that the gdbm-ndbm.h include file uses real ANSI C
995 prototypes instead of K&R style function declarations. K&R style
996 declarations are unsupported in C++, so the include file requires
997 special handling when using a C++ compiler and this variable is
998 undefined. Consult the different d_*ndbm_h_uses_prototypes variables
999 to get the same information for alternative ndbm.h include files.
1001 d_gdbmndbm_h_uses_prototypes (i_ndbm.U):
1002 This variable conditionally defines the NDBM_H_USES_PROTOTYPES symbol,
1003 which indicates that the gdbm/ndbm.h include file uses real ANSI C
1004 prototypes instead of K&R style function declarations. K&R style
1005 declarations are unsupported in C++, so the include file requires
1006 special handling when using a C++ compiler and this variable is
1007 undefined. Consult the different d_*ndbm_h_uses_prototypes variables
1008 to get the same information for alternative ndbm.h include files.
1010 d_getaddrinfo (d_getaddrinfo.U):
1011 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETADDRINFO symbol,
1012 which indicates to the C program that the getaddrinfo() function
1015 d_getcwd (d_getcwd.U):
1016 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETCWD symbol, which
1017 indicates to the C program that the getcwd() routine is available
1018 to get the current working directory.
1020 d_getespwnam (d_getespwnam.U):
1021 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETESPWNAM if getespwnam() is
1022 available to retrieve enhanced (shadow) password entries by name.
1024 d_getfsstat (d_getfsstat.U):
1025 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETFSSTAT symbol, which
1026 indicates to the C program that the getfsstat() routine is available.
1028 d_getgrent (d_getgrent.U):
1029 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRENT symbol, which
1030 indicates to the C program that the getgrent() routine is available
1031 for sequential access of the group database.
1033 d_getgrent_r (d_getgrent_r.U):
1034 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRENT_R symbol,
1035 which indicates to the C program that the getgrent_r()
1036 routine is available.
1038 d_getgrgid_r (d_getgrgid_r.U):
1039 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRGID_R symbol,
1040 which indicates to the C program that the getgrgid_r()
1041 routine is available.
1043 d_getgrnam_r (d_getgrnam_r.U):
1044 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRNAM_R symbol,
1045 which indicates to the C program that the getgrnam_r()
1046 routine is available.
1048 d_getgrps (d_getgrps.U):
1049 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGROUPS symbol, which
1050 indicates to the C program that the getgroups() routine is available
1051 to get the list of process groups.
1053 d_gethbyaddr (d_gethbyad.U):
1054 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYADDR symbol, which
1055 indicates to the C program that the gethostbyaddr() routine is available
1056 to look up hosts by their IP addresses.
1058 d_gethbyname (d_gethbynm.U):
1059 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYNAME symbol, which
1060 indicates to the C program that the gethostbyname() routine is available
1061 to look up host names in some data base or other.
1063 d_gethent (d_gethent.U):
1064 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETHOSTENT if gethostent() is
1065 available to look up host names in some data base or another.
1067 d_gethname (d_gethname.U):
1068 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTNAME symbol, which
1069 indicates to the C program that the gethostname() routine may be
1070 used to derive the host name.
1072 d_gethostbyaddr_r (d_gethostbyaddr_r.U):
1073 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYADDR_R symbol,
1074 which indicates to the C program that the gethostbyaddr_r()
1075 routine is available.
1077 d_gethostbyname_r (d_gethostbyname_r.U):
1078 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYNAME_R symbol,
1079 which indicates to the C program that the gethostbyname_r()
1080 routine is available.
1082 d_gethostent_r (d_gethostent_r.U):
1083 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTENT_R symbol,
1084 which indicates to the C program that the gethostent_r()
1085 routine is available.
1087 d_gethostprotos (d_gethostprotos.U):
1088 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOST_PROTOS symbol,
1089 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
1090 prototypes for the various gethost*() functions.
1091 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1093 d_getitimer (d_getitimer.U):
1094 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETITIMER symbol, which
1095 indicates to the C program that the getitimer() routine is available.
1097 d_getlogin (d_getlogin.U):
1098 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETLOGIN symbol, which
1099 indicates to the C program that the getlogin() routine is available
1100 to get the login name.
1102 d_getlogin_r (d_getlogin_r.U):
1103 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETLOGIN_R symbol,
1104 which indicates to the C program that the getlogin_r()
1105 routine is available.
1107 d_getmnt (d_getmnt.U):
1108 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETMNT symbol, which
1109 indicates to the C program that the getmnt() routine is available
1110 to retrieve one or more mount info blocks by filename.
1112 d_getmntent (d_getmntent.U):
1113 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETMNTENT symbol, which
1114 indicates to the C program that the getmntent() routine is available
1115 to iterate through mounted files to get their mount info.
1117 d_getnameinfo (d_getnameinfo.U):
1118 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNAMEINFO symbol,
1119 which indicates to the C program that the getnameinfo() function
1122 d_getnbyaddr (d_getnbyad.U):
1123 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYADDR symbol, which
1124 indicates to the C program that the getnetbyaddr() routine is available
1125 to look up networks by their IP addresses.
1127 d_getnbyname (d_getnbynm.U):
1128 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYNAME symbol, which
1129 indicates to the C program that the getnetbyname() routine is available
1130 to look up networks by their names.
1132 d_getnent (d_getnent.U):
1133 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETNETENT if getnetent() is
1134 available to look up network names in some data base or another.
1136 d_getnetbyaddr_r (d_getnetbyaddr_r.U):
1137 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYADDR_R symbol,
1138 which indicates to the C program that the getnetbyaddr_r()
1139 routine is available.
1141 d_getnetbyname_r (d_getnetbyname_r.U):
1142 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYNAME_R symbol,
1143 which indicates to the C program that the getnetbyname_r()
1144 routine is available.
1146 d_getnetent_r (d_getnetent_r.U):
1147 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETENT_R symbol,
1148 which indicates to the C program that the getnetent_r()
1149 routine is available.
1151 d_getnetprotos (d_getnetprotos.U):
1152 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNET_PROTOS symbol,
1153 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
1154 prototypes for the various getnet*() functions.
1155 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1157 d_getpagsz (d_getpagsz.U):
1158 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPAGESIZE if getpagesize()
1159 is available to get the system page size.
1161 d_getpbyname (d_getprotby.U):
1162 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNAME
1163 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
1164 getprotobyname() routine is available to look up protocols
1167 d_getpbynumber (d_getprotby.U):
1168 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNUMBER
1169 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
1170 getprotobynumber() routine is available to look up protocols
1173 d_getpent (d_getpent.U):
1174 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPROTOENT if getprotoent() is
1175 available to look up protocols in some data base or another.
1177 d_getpgid (d_getpgid.U):
1178 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGID symbol, which
1179 indicates to the C program that the getpgid(pid) function
1180 is available to get the process group id.
1182 d_getpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
1183 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPGRP if getpgrp() is
1184 available to get the current process group.
1186 d_getpgrp2 (d_getpgrp2.U):
1187 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGRP2 symbol, which
1188 indicates to the C program that the getpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine
1189 is available to get the current process group.
1191 d_getppid (d_getppid.U):
1192 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPPID symbol, which
1193 indicates to the C program that the getppid() routine is available
1194 to get the parent process ID.
1196 d_getprior (d_getprior.U):
1197 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPRIORITY if getpriority()
1198 is available to get a process's priority.
1200 d_getprotobyname_r (d_getprotobyname_r.U):
1201 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNAME_R symbol,
1202 which indicates to the C program that the getprotobyname_r()
1203 routine is available.
1205 d_getprotobynumber_r (d_getprotobynumber_r.U):
1206 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNUMBER_R symbol,
1207 which indicates to the C program that the getprotobynumber_r()
1208 routine is available.
1210 d_getprotoent_r (d_getprotoent_r.U):
1211 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOENT_R symbol,
1212 which indicates to the C program that the getprotoent_r()
1213 routine is available.
1215 d_getprotoprotos (d_getprotoprotos.U):
1216 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTO_PROTOS symbol,
1217 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
1218 prototypes for the various getproto*() functions.
1219 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1221 d_getprpwnam (d_getprpwnam.U):
1222 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPRPWNAM if getprpwnam() is
1223 available to retrieve protected (shadow) password entries by name.
1225 d_getpwent (d_getpwent.U):
1226 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWENT symbol, which
1227 indicates to the C program that the getpwent() routine is available
1228 for sequential access of the passwd database.
1230 d_getpwent_r (d_getpwent_r.U):
1231 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWENT_R symbol,
1232 which indicates to the C program that the getpwent_r()
1233 routine is available.
1235 d_getpwnam_r (d_getpwnam_r.U):
1236 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWNAM_R symbol,
1237 which indicates to the C program that the getpwnam_r()
1238 routine is available.
1240 d_getpwuid_r (d_getpwuid_r.U):
1241 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWUID_R symbol,
1242 which indicates to the C program that the getpwuid_r()
1243 routine is available.
1245 d_getsbyname (d_getsrvby.U):
1246 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYNAME
1247 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
1248 getservbyname() routine is available to look up services
1251 d_getsbyport (d_getsrvby.U):
1252 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYPORT
1253 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
1254 getservbyport() routine is available to look up services
1257 d_getsent (d_getsent.U):
1258 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETSERVENT if getservent() is
1259 available to look up network services in some data base or another.
1261 d_getservbyname_r (d_getservbyname_r.U):
1262 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYNAME_R symbol,
1263 which indicates to the C program that the getservbyname_r()
1264 routine is available.
1266 d_getservbyport_r (d_getservbyport_r.U):
1267 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYPORT_R symbol,
1268 which indicates to the C program that the getservbyport_r()
1269 routine is available.
1271 d_getservent_r (d_getservent_r.U):
1272 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVENT_R symbol,
1273 which indicates to the C program that the getservent_r()
1274 routine is available.
1276 d_getservprotos (d_getservprotos.U):
1277 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERV_PROTOS symbol,
1278 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
1279 prototypes for the various getserv*() functions.
1280 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
1282 d_getspnam (d_getspnam.U):
1283 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETSPNAM if getspnam() is
1284 available to retrieve SysV shadow password entries by name.
1286 d_getspnam_r (d_getspnam_r.U):
1287 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSPNAM_R symbol,
1288 which indicates to the C program that the getspnam_r()
1289 routine is available.
1291 d_gettimeod (d_ftime.U):
1292 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY symbol, which
1293 indicates that the gettimeofday() system call exists (to obtain a
1294 sub-second accuracy clock). You should probably include <sys/resource.h>.
1296 d_gmtime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
1297 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GMTIME64 symbol, which
1298 indicates to the C program that the gmtime64 () routine is available.
1300 d_gmtime_r (d_gmtime_r.U):
1301 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GMTIME_R symbol,
1302 which indicates to the C program that the gmtime_r()
1303 routine is available.
1305 d_gnulibc (d_gnulibc.U):
1306 Defined if we're dealing with the GNU C Library.
1308 d_grpasswd (i_grp.U):
1309 This variable conditionally defines GRPASSWD, which indicates
1310 that struct group in <grp.h> contains gr_passwd.
1312 d_hasmntopt (d_hasmntopt.U):
1313 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_HASMNTOPT symbol, which
1314 indicates to the C program that the hasmntopt() routine is available
1315 to query the mount options of file systems.
1317 d_htonl (d_htonl.U):
1318 This variable conditionally defines HAS_HTONL if htonl() and its
1319 friends are available to do network order byte swapping.
1321 d_hypot (d_hypot.U):
1322 This variable conditionally defines HAS_HYPOT if hypot is available
1323 for numerically stable hypotenuse function.
1325 d_ilogb (d_ilogb.U):
1326 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ILOGB symbol, which
1327 indicates to the C program that the ilogb() routine is available
1328 for extracting the exponent of double x as a signed integer.
1330 d_ilogbl (d_ilogbl.U):
1331 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ILOGBL symbol, which
1332 indicates to the C program that the ilogbl() routine is available
1333 for extracting the exponent of long double x as a signed integer.
1334 If scalbnl is also present we can emulate frexpl.
1336 d_inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U):
1337 This variable conditionally defines PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST.
1338 It is set to undef when PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST is empty.
1340 d_index (d_strchr.U):
1341 This variable conditionally defines HAS_INDEX if index() and
1342 rindex() are available for string searching.
1344 d_inetaton (d_inetaton.U):
1345 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INET_ATON symbol, which
1346 indicates to the C program that the inet_aton() function is available
1347 to parse IP address "dotted-quad" strings.
1349 d_inetntop (d_inetntop.U):
1350 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INETNTOP symbol,
1351 which indicates to the C program that the inet_ntop() function
1354 d_inetpton (d_inetpton.U):
1355 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INETPTON symbol,
1356 which indicates to the C program that the inet_pton() function
1359 d_int64_t (d_int64_t.U):
1360 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports int64_t.
1362 d_ip_mreq (d_socket.U):
1363 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IP_MREQ symbol, which
1364 indicates the availability of a struct ip_mreq.
1366 d_ip_mreq_source (d_socket.U):
1367 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IP_MREQ_SOURCE symbol,
1368 which indicates the availability of a struct ip_mreq_source.
1370 d_ipv6_mreq (d_socket.U):
1371 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IPV6_MREQ symbol, which
1372 indicates the availability of a struct ipv6_mreq.
1374 d_ipv6_mreq_source (d_socket.U):
1375 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_IPV6_MREQ_SOURCE symbol,
1376 which indicates the availability of a struct ipv6_mreq_source.
1378 d_isascii (d_isascii.U):
1379 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISASCII constant,
1380 which indicates to the C program that isascii() is available.
1382 d_isblank (d_isblank.U):
1383 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISBLANK constant,
1384 which indicates to the C program that isblank() is available.
1386 d_isfinite (d_isfinite.U):
1387 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISFINITE symbol, which
1388 indicates to the C program that the isfinite() routine is available.
1390 d_isfinitel (d_isfinitel.U):
1391 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISFINITEL symbol, which
1392 indicates to the C program that the isfinitel() routine is available.
1394 d_isinf (d_isinf.U):
1395 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISINF symbol, which
1396 indicates to the C program that the isinf() routine is available.
1398 d_isinfl (d_isinfl.U):
1399 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISINFL symbol, which
1400 indicates to the C program that the isinfl() routine is available.
1402 d_isnan (d_isnan.U):
1403 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNAN symbol, which
1404 indicates to the C program that the isnan() routine is available.
1406 d_isnanl (d_isnanl.U):
1407 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNANL symbol, which
1408 indicates to the C program that the isnanl() routine is available.
1411 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_J0 symbol, which
1412 indicates to the C program that the j0() routine is available.
1415 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_J0L symbol, which
1416 indicates to the C program that the j0l() routine is available.
1418 d_killpg (d_killpg.U):
1419 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_KILLPG symbol, which
1420 indicates to the C program that the killpg() routine is available
1421 to kill process groups.
1423 d_lc_monetary_2008 (d_lc_monetary_2008.U):
1424 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LC_MONETARY_2008 if libc
1425 has the international currency locale rules from POSIX
1428 d_lchown (d_lchown.U):
1429 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LCHOWN symbol, which
1430 indicates to the C program that the lchown() routine is available
1431 to operate on a symbolic link (instead of following the link).
1433 d_ldbl_dig (d_ldbl_dig.U):
1434 This variable conditionally defines d_ldbl_dig if this system's
1435 header files provide LDBL_DIG, which is the number of significant
1436 digits in a long double precision number.
1438 d_ldexpl (d_longdbl.U):
1439 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LDEXPL symbol, which
1440 indicates to the C program that the ldexpl() routine is available.
1442 d_lgamma (d_lgamma.U):
1443 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LGAMMA symbol, which
1444 indicates to the C program that the lgamma() routine is available
1445 for the log gamma function. See also d_tgamma and d_lgamma_r.
1447 d_lgamma_r (d_lgamma_r.U):
1448 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LGAMMA_R symbol, which
1449 indicates to the C program that the lgamma() routine is available
1450 for the log gamma function, without using the global signgam variable.
1452 d_libm_lib_version (d_libm_lib_version.U):
1453 This variable conditionally defines the LIBM_LIB_VERSION symbol,
1454 which indicates to the C program that math.h defines _LIB_VERSION
1455 being available in libm
1457 d_libname_unique (so.U):
1458 This variable is defined if the target system insists on unique
1459 basenames for shared library files. This is currently true on Android,
1460 false everywhere else we know of.
1461 Defaults to 'undef'.
1464 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LINK if link() is
1465 available to create hard links.
1467 d_llrint (d_llrint.U):
1468 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLRINT symbol, which
1469 indicates to the C program that the llrint() routine is available
1470 to return the long long value closest to (according to the current
1471 rounding mode) to x.
1473 d_llround (d_llround.U):
1474 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LLROUND symbol, which
1475 indicates to the C program that the llround() routine is available
1476 to return the long long value nearest to x.
1478 d_localtime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
1479 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOCALTIME64 symbol, which
1480 indicates to the C program that the localtime64 () routine is available.
1482 d_localtime_r (d_localtime_r.U):
1483 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOCALTIME_R symbol,
1484 which indicates to the C program that the localtime_r()
1485 routine is available.
1487 d_localtime_r_needs_tzset (d_localtime_r.U):
1488 This variable conditionally defines the LOCALTIME_R_NEEDS_TZSET
1489 symbol, which makes us call tzset before localtime_r()
1491 d_locconv (d_locconv.U):
1492 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LOCALECONV if localeconv() is
1493 available for numeric and monetary formatting conventions.
1495 d_lockf (d_lockf.U):
1496 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LOCKF if lockf() is
1497 available to do file locking.
1499 d_log1p (d_log1p.U):
1500 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOG1P symbol, which
1501 indicates to the C program that the logp1() routine is available
1502 to compute log(1 + x) for values of x close to zero.
1505 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOG2 symbol, which
1506 indicates to the C program that the log2() routine is available
1507 to compute log base two.
1510 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LOGB symbol, which
1511 indicates to the C program that the logb() routine is available
1512 to extract the exponent of x.
1514 d_longdbl (d_longdbl.U):
1515 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LONG_DOUBLE if
1516 the long double type is supported.
1518 d_longlong (d_longlong.U):
1519 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LONG_LONG if
1520 the long long type is supported.
1522 d_lrint (d_lrint.U):
1523 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LRINT symbol, which
1524 indicates to the C program that the lrint() routine is available
1525 to return the integral value closest to (according to the current
1526 rounding mode) to x.
1528 d_lround (d_lround.U):
1529 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LROUND symbol, which
1530 indicates to the C program that the lround() routine is available
1531 to return the integral value nearest to x.
1533 d_lseekproto (d_lseekproto.U):
1534 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LSEEK_PROTO symbol,
1535 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
1536 a prototype for the lseek() function. Otherwise, it is
1537 up to the program to supply one.
1539 d_lstat (d_lstat.U):
1540 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LSTAT if lstat() is
1541 available to do file stats on symbolic links.
1543 d_madvise (d_madvise.U):
1544 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MADVISE if madvise() is
1545 available to map a file into memory.
1547 d_malloc_good_size (d_malloc_size.U):
1548 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the malloc_good_size
1549 routine is available for use.
1551 d_malloc_size (d_malloc_size.U):
1552 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the malloc_size
1553 routine is available for use.
1555 d_mblen (d_mblen.U):
1556 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBLEN symbol, which
1557 indicates to the C program that the mblen() routine is available
1558 to find the number of bytes in a multibye character.
1560 d_mbstowcs (d_mbstowcs.U):
1561 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBSTOWCS symbol, which
1562 indicates to the C program that the mbstowcs() routine is available
1563 to convert a multibyte string into a wide character string.
1565 d_mbtowc (d_mbtowc.U):
1566 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBTOWC symbol, which
1567 indicates to the C program that the mbtowc() routine is available
1568 to convert multibyte to a wide character.
1570 d_memchr (d_memchr.U):
1571 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMCHR symbol, which
1572 indicates to the C program that the memchr() routine is available
1573 to locate characters within a C string.
1575 d_memcmp (d_memcmp.U):
1576 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMCMP symbol, which
1577 indicates to the C program that the memcmp() routine is available
1578 to compare blocks of memory.
1580 d_memcpy (d_memcpy.U):
1581 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMCPY symbol, which
1582 indicates to the C program that the memcpy() routine is available
1583 to copy blocks of memory.
1585 d_memmove (d_memmove.U):
1586 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMMOVE symbol, which
1587 indicates to the C program that the memmove() routine is available
1588 to copy potentially overlapping blocks of memory.
1590 d_memset (d_memset.U):
1591 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMSET symbol, which
1592 indicates to the C program that the memset() routine is available
1593 to set blocks of memory.
1595 d_mkdir (d_mkdir.U):
1596 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKDIR symbol, which
1597 indicates to the C program that the mkdir() routine is available
1598 to create directories..
1600 d_mkdtemp (d_mkdtemp.U):
1601 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKDTEMP symbol, which
1602 indicates to the C program that the mkdtemp() routine is available
1603 to exclusively create a uniquely named temporary directory.
1605 d_mkfifo (d_mkfifo.U):
1606 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKFIFO symbol, which
1607 indicates to the C program that the mkfifo() routine is available.
1609 d_mkstemp (d_mkstemp.U):
1610 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKSTEMP symbol, which
1611 indicates to the C program that the mkstemp() routine is available
1612 to exclusively create and open a uniquely named temporary file.
1614 d_mkstemps (d_mkstemps.U):
1615 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKSTEMPS symbol, which
1616 indicates to the C program that the mkstemps() routine is available
1617 to exclusively create and open a uniquely named (with a suffix)
1620 d_mktime (d_mktime.U):
1621 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKTIME symbol, which
1622 indicates to the C program that the mktime() routine is available.
1624 d_mktime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
1625 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKTIME64 symbol, which
1626 indicates to the C program that the mktime64 () routine is available.
1629 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MMAP if mmap() is
1630 available to map a file into memory.
1632 d_modfl (d_modfl.U):
1633 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MODFL symbol, which
1634 indicates to the C program that the modfl() routine is available.
1636 d_modfl_pow32_bug (d_modfl.U):
1637 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MODFL_POW32_BUG symbol,
1638 which indicates that modfl() is broken for long doubles >= pow(2, 32).
1639 For example from 4294967303.150000 one would get 4294967302.000000
1640 and 1.150000. The bug has been seen in certain versions of glibc,
1641 release 2.2.2 is known to be okay.
1643 d_modflproto (d_modfl.U):
1644 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the system provides
1645 a prototype for the modfl() function. Otherwise, it is up
1646 to the program to supply one. C99 says it should be
1647 long double modfl(long double, long double *);
1649 d_mprotect (d_mprotect.U):
1650 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MPROTECT if mprotect() is
1651 available to modify the access protection of a memory mapped file.
1654 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG symbol, which
1655 indicates that the entire msg*(2) library is present.
1657 d_msg_ctrunc (d_socket.U):
1658 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_CTRUNC symbol,
1659 which indicates that the MSG_CTRUNC is available. #ifdef is
1660 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1662 d_msg_dontroute (d_socket.U):
1663 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_DONTROUTE symbol,
1664 which indicates that the MSG_DONTROUTE is available. #ifdef is
1665 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1667 d_msg_oob (d_socket.U):
1668 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_OOB symbol,
1669 which indicates that the MSG_OOB is available. #ifdef is
1670 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1672 d_msg_peek (d_socket.U):
1673 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_PEEK symbol,
1674 which indicates that the MSG_PEEK is available. #ifdef is
1675 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1677 d_msg_proxy (d_socket.U):
1678 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_PROXY symbol,
1679 which indicates that the MSG_PROXY is available. #ifdef is
1680 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
1682 d_msgctl (d_msgctl.U):
1683 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGCTL symbol, which
1684 indicates to the C program that the msgctl() routine is available.
1686 d_msgget (d_msgget.U):
1687 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGGET symbol, which
1688 indicates to the C program that the msgget() routine is available.
1690 d_msghdr_s (d_msghdr_s.U):
1691 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_MSGHDR symbol,
1692 which indicates that the struct msghdr is supported.
1694 d_msgrcv (d_msgrcv.U):
1695 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGRCV symbol, which
1696 indicates to the C program that the msgrcv() routine is available.
1698 d_msgsnd (d_msgsnd.U):
1699 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGSND symbol, which
1700 indicates to the C program that the msgsnd() routine is available.
1702 d_msync (d_msync.U):
1703 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MSYNC if msync() is
1704 available to synchronize a mapped file.
1706 d_munmap (d_munmap.U):
1707 This variable conditionally defines HAS_MUNMAP if munmap() is
1708 available to unmap a region mapped by mmap().
1710 d_mymalloc (mallocsrc.U):
1711 This variable conditionally defines MYMALLOC in case other parts
1712 of the source want to take special action if MYMALLOC is used.
1713 This may include different sorts of profiling or error detection.
1716 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NAN if nan() is
1717 available to generate NaN.
1720 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NDBM symbol, which
1721 indicates that both the ndbm.h include file and an appropriate ndbm
1722 library exist. Consult the different i_*ndbm variables
1723 to find out the actual include location. Sometimes, a system has the
1724 header file but not the library. This variable will only be set if
1725 the system has both.
1727 d_ndbm_h_uses_prototypes (i_ndbm.U):
1728 This variable conditionally defines the NDBM_H_USES_PROTOTYPES symbol,
1729 which indicates that the ndbm.h include file uses real ANSI C
1730 prototypes instead of K&R style function declarations. K&R style
1731 declarations are unsupported in C++, so the include file requires
1732 special handling when using a C++ compiler and this variable is
1733 undefined. Consult the different d_*ndbm_h_uses_prototypes variables
1734 to get the same information for alternative ndbm.h include files.
1736 d_nearbyint (d_nearbyint.U):
1737 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NEARBYINT if nearbyint()
1738 is available to return the integral value closest to (according to
1739 the current rounding mode) to x.
1741 d_nextafter (d_nextafter.U):
1742 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NEXTAFTER if nextafter()
1743 is available to return the next machine representable double from
1746 d_nexttoward (d_nexttoward.U):
1747 This variable conditionally defines HAS_NEXTTOWARD if nexttoward()
1748 is available to return the next machine representable long double from
1752 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NICE symbol, which
1753 indicates to the C program that the nice() routine is available.
1755 d_nl_langinfo (d_nl_langinfo.U):
1756 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NL_LANGINFO symbol, which
1757 indicates to the C program that the nl_langinfo() routine is available.
1759 d_nv_preserves_uv (perlxv.U):
1760 This variable indicates whether a variable of type nvtype
1761 can preserve all the bits a variable of type uvtype.
1763 d_nv_zero_is_allbits_zero (perlxv.U):
1764 This variable indicates whether a variable of type nvtype
1765 stores 0.0 in memory as all bits zero.
1767 d_off64_t (d_off64_t.U):
1768 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports off64_t.
1770 d_old_pthread_create_joinable (d_pthrattrj.U):
1771 This variable conditionally defines pthread_create_joinable.
1772 undef if pthread.h defines PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE.
1774 d_oldpthreads (usethreads.U):
1775 This variable conditionally defines the OLD_PTHREADS_API symbol,
1776 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the old
1777 draft POSIX threads API. This is only potentially meaningful if
1780 d_oldsock (d_socket.U):
1781 This variable conditionally defines the OLDSOCKET symbol, which
1782 indicates that the BSD socket interface is based on 4.1c and not 4.2.
1784 d_open3 (d_open3.U):
1785 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_OPEN3 manifest constant,
1786 which indicates to the C program that the 3 argument version of
1787 the open(2) function is available.
1789 d_pathconf (d_pathconf.U):
1790 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PATHCONF symbol, which
1791 indicates to the C program that the pathconf() routine is available
1792 to determine file-system related limits and options associated
1793 with a given filename.
1795 d_pause (d_pause.U):
1796 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PAUSE symbol, which
1797 indicates to the C program that the pause() routine is available
1798 to suspend a process until a signal is received.
1800 d_perl_otherlibdirs (otherlibdirs.U):
1801 This variable conditionally defines PERL_OTHERLIBDIRS, which
1802 contains a colon-separated set of paths for the perl binary to
1803 include in @INC. See also otherlibdirs.
1805 d_phostname (d_gethname.U):
1806 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PHOSTNAME symbol, which
1807 contains the shell command which, when fed to popen(), may be
1808 used to derive the host name.
1811 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PIPE symbol, which
1812 indicates to the C program that the pipe() routine is available
1813 to create an inter-process channel.
1816 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_POLL symbol, which
1817 indicates to the C program that the poll() routine is available
1818 to poll active file descriptors.
1820 d_portable (d_portable.U):
1821 This variable conditionally defines the PORTABLE symbol, which
1822 indicates to the C program that it should not assume that it is
1823 running on the machine it was compiled on.
1825 d_prctl (d_prctl.U):
1826 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PRCTL symbol, which
1827 indicates to the C program that the prctl() routine is available.
1828 Note that there are at least two prctl variants: Linux and Irix.
1829 While they are somewhat similar, they are incompatible.
1831 d_prctl_set_name (d_prctl.U):
1832 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PRCTL_SET_NAME symbol,
1833 which indicates to the C program that the prctl() routine supports
1834 the PR_SET_NAME option.
1836 d_PRId64 (quadfio.U):
1837 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRId64 symbol, which
1838 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit decimal numbers.
1840 d_PRIeldbl (longdblfio.U):
1841 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
1842 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
1844 d_PRIEUldbl (longdblfio.U):
1845 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
1846 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
1847 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIeldbl so that even
1848 case-blind systems can see the difference.
1850 d_PRIfldbl (longdblfio.U):
1851 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
1852 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
1854 d_PRIFUldbl (longdblfio.U):
1855 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
1856 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
1857 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIfldbl so that even
1858 case-blind systems can see the difference.
1860 d_PRIgldbl (longdblfio.U):
1861 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
1862 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
1864 d_PRIGUldbl (longdblfio.U):
1865 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
1866 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles.
1867 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIgldbl so that even
1868 case-blind systems can see the difference.
1870 d_PRIi64 (quadfio.U):
1871 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIi64 symbol, which
1872 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit decimal numbers.
1874 d_printf_format_null (d_attribut.U):
1875 This variable conditionally defines PRINTF_FORMAT_NULL_OK, which
1876 indicates the C compiler allows printf-like formats to be null.
1878 d_PRIo64 (quadfio.U):
1879 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIo64 symbol, which
1880 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit octal numbers.
1882 d_PRIu64 (quadfio.U):
1883 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIu64 symbol, which
1884 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit unsigned decimal
1887 d_PRIx64 (quadfio.U):
1888 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIx64 symbol, which
1889 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit hexadecimal numbers.
1891 d_PRIXU64 (quadfio.U):
1892 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIXU64 symbol, which
1893 indicates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit hExADECimAl numbers.
1894 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIx64 so that even
1895 case-blind systems can see the difference.
1897 d_procselfexe (d_procselfexe.U):
1898 Defined if $procselfexe is symlink to the absolute
1899 pathname of the executing program.
1901 d_pseudofork (d_vfork.U):
1902 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PSEUDOFORK symbol,
1903 which indicates that an emulation of the fork routine is available.
1905 d_pthread_atfork (d_pthread_atfork.U):
1906 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PTHREAD_ATFORK symbol,
1907 which indicates to the C program that the pthread_atfork()
1908 routine is available.
1910 d_pthread_attr_setscope (d_pthread_attr_ss.U):
1911 This variable conditionally defines HAS_PTHREAD_ATTR_SETSCOPE if
1912 pthread_attr_setscope() is available to set the contention scope
1913 attribute of a thread attribute object.
1915 d_pthread_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
1916 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PTHREAD_YIELD
1917 symbol if the pthread_yield routine is available to yield
1918 the execution of the current thread.
1920 d_ptrdiff_t (d_ptrdiff_t.U):
1921 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports ptrdiff_t.
1924 This variable conditionally defines PWAGE, which indicates
1925 that struct passwd contains pw_age.
1927 d_pwchange (i_pwd.U):
1928 This variable conditionally defines PWCHANGE, which indicates
1929 that struct passwd contains pw_change.
1931 d_pwclass (i_pwd.U):
1932 This variable conditionally defines PWCLASS, which indicates
1933 that struct passwd contains pw_class.
1935 d_pwcomment (i_pwd.U):
1936 This variable conditionally defines PWCOMMENT, which indicates
1937 that struct passwd contains pw_comment.
1939 d_pwexpire (i_pwd.U):
1940 This variable conditionally defines PWEXPIRE, which indicates
1941 that struct passwd contains pw_expire.
1943 d_pwgecos (i_pwd.U):
1944 This variable conditionally defines PWGECOS, which indicates
1945 that struct passwd contains pw_gecos.
1947 d_pwpasswd (i_pwd.U):
1948 This variable conditionally defines PWPASSWD, which indicates
1949 that struct passwd contains pw_passwd.
1951 d_pwquota (i_pwd.U):
1952 This variable conditionally defines PWQUOTA, which indicates
1953 that struct passwd contains pw_quota.
1955 d_qgcvt (d_qgcvt.U):
1956 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_QGCVT symbol, which
1957 indicates to the C program that the qgcvt() routine is available.
1959 d_quad (quadtype.U):
1960 This variable, if defined, tells that there's a 64-bit integer type,
1963 d_random_r (d_random_r.U):
1964 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RANDOM_R symbol,
1965 which indicates to the C program that the random_r()
1966 routine is available.
1968 d_readdir (d_readdir.U):
1969 This variable conditionally defines HAS_READDIR if readdir() is
1970 available to read directory entries.
1972 d_readdir64_r (d_readdir64_r.U):
1973 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READDIR64_R symbol,
1974 which indicates to the C program that the readdir64_r()
1975 routine is available.
1977 d_readdir_r (d_readdir_r.U):
1978 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READDIR_R symbol,
1979 which indicates to the C program that the readdir_r()
1980 routine is available.
1982 d_readlink (d_readlink.U):
1983 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READLINK symbol, which
1984 indicates to the C program that the readlink() routine is available
1985 to read the value of a symbolic link.
1987 d_readv (d_readv.U):
1988 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READV symbol, which
1989 indicates to the C program that the readv() routine is available.
1991 d_recvmsg (d_recvmsg.U):
1992 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RECVMSG symbol, which
1993 indicates to the C program that the recvmsg() routine is available.
1995 d_remainder (d_remainder.U):
1996 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_REMAINDER symbol, which
1997 indicates to the C program that the remainder() routine is available.
1999 d_remquo (d_remquo.U):
2000 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_REMQUO symbol, which
2001 indicates to the C program that the remquo() routine is available.
2003 d_rename (d_rename.U):
2004 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RENAME symbol, which
2005 indicates to the C program that the rename() routine is available
2008 d_rewinddir (d_readdir.U):
2009 This variable conditionally defines HAS_REWINDDIR if rewinddir() is
2013 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RINT symbol, which
2014 indicates to the C program that the rint() routine is available.
2016 d_rmdir (d_rmdir.U):
2017 This variable conditionally defines HAS_RMDIR if rmdir() is
2018 available to remove directories.
2020 d_round (d_round.U):
2021 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ROUND symbol, which
2022 indicates to the C program that the round() routine is available.
2024 d_safebcpy (d_safebcpy.U):
2025 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SAFE_BCOPY symbol if
2026 the bcopy() routine can do overlapping copies. Normally, you
2027 should probably use memmove().
2029 d_safemcpy (d_safemcpy.U):
2030 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SAFE_MEMCPY symbol if
2031 the memcpy() routine can do overlapping copies.
2032 For overlapping copies, memmove() should be used, if available.
2034 d_sanemcmp (d_sanemcmp.U):
2035 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SANE_MEMCMP symbol if
2036 the memcpy() routine is available and can be used to compare relative
2037 magnitudes of chars with their high bits set.
2039 d_sbrkproto (d_sbrkproto.U):
2040 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SBRK_PROTO symbol,
2041 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2042 a prototype for the sbrk() function. Otherwise, it is
2043 up to the program to supply one.
2045 d_scalbn (d_scalbn.U):
2046 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCALBN symbol, which
2047 indicates to the C program that the scalbn() routine is available.
2049 d_scalbnl (d_scalbnl.U):
2050 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCALBNL symbol, which
2051 indicates to the C program that the scalbnl() routine is available.
2052 If ilogbl is also present we can emulate frexpl.
2054 d_sched_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
2055 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCHED_YIELD
2056 symbol if the sched_yield routine is available to yield
2057 the execution of the current thread.
2059 d_scm_rights (d_socket.U):
2060 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCM_RIGHTS symbol,
2061 which indicates that the SCM_RIGHTS is available. #ifdef is
2062 not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this.
2064 d_SCNfldbl (longdblfio.U):
2065 This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which
2066 indicates that stdio has a symbol to scan long doubles.
2068 d_seekdir (d_readdir.U):
2069 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SEEKDIR if seekdir() is
2072 d_select (d_select.U):
2073 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SELECT if select() is
2074 available to select active file descriptors. A <sys/time.h>
2075 inclusion may be necessary for the timeout field.
2078 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEM symbol, which
2079 indicates that the entire sem*(2) library is present.
2081 d_semctl (d_semctl.U):
2082 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMCTL symbol, which
2083 indicates to the C program that the semctl() routine is available.
2085 d_semctl_semid_ds (d_union_semun.U):
2086 This variable conditionally defines USE_SEMCTL_SEMID_DS, which
2087 indicates that struct semid_ds * is to be used for semctl IPC_STAT.
2089 d_semctl_semun (d_union_semun.U):
2090 This variable conditionally defines USE_SEMCTL_SEMUN, which
2091 indicates that union semun is to be used for semctl IPC_STAT.
2093 d_semget (d_semget.U):
2094 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMGET symbol, which
2095 indicates to the C program that the semget() routine is available.
2097 d_semop (d_semop.U):
2098 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMOP symbol, which
2099 indicates to the C program that the semop() routine is available.
2101 d_sendmsg (d_sendmsg.U):
2102 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SENDMSG symbol, which
2103 indicates to the C program that the sendmsg() routine is available.
2105 d_setegid (d_setegid.U):
2106 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETEGID symbol, which
2107 indicates to the C program that the setegid() routine is available
2108 to change the effective gid of the current program.
2110 d_seteuid (d_seteuid.U):
2111 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETEUID symbol, which
2112 indicates to the C program that the seteuid() routine is available
2113 to change the effective uid of the current program.
2115 d_setgrent (d_setgrent.U):
2116 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGRENT symbol, which
2117 indicates to the C program that the setgrent() routine is available
2118 for initializing sequential access to the group database.
2120 d_setgrent_r (d_setgrent_r.U):
2121 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGRENT_R symbol,
2122 which indicates to the C program that the setgrent_r()
2123 routine is available.
2125 d_setgrps (d_setgrps.U):
2126 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGROUPS symbol, which
2127 indicates to the C program that the setgroups() routine is available
2128 to set the list of process groups.
2130 d_sethent (d_sethent.U):
2131 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETHOSTENT if sethostent() is
2134 d_sethostent_r (d_sethostent_r.U):
2135 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETHOSTENT_R symbol,
2136 which indicates to the C program that the sethostent_r()
2137 routine is available.
2139 d_setitimer (d_setitimer.U):
2140 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETITIMER symbol, which
2141 indicates to the C program that the setitimer() routine is available.
2143 d_setlinebuf (d_setlnbuf.U):
2144 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETLINEBUF symbol, which
2145 indicates to the C program that the setlinebuf() routine is available
2146 to change stderr or stdout from block-buffered or unbuffered to a
2149 d_setlocale (d_setlocale.U):
2150 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETLOCALE if setlocale() is
2151 available to handle locale-specific ctype implementations.
2153 d_setlocale_r (d_setlocale_r.U):
2154 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETLOCALE_R symbol,
2155 which indicates to the C program that the setlocale_r()
2156 routine is available.
2158 d_setnent (d_setnent.U):
2159 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETNETENT if setnetent() is
2162 d_setnetent_r (d_setnetent_r.U):
2163 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETNETENT_R symbol,
2164 which indicates to the C program that the setnetent_r()
2165 routine is available.
2167 d_setpent (d_setpent.U):
2168 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPROTOENT if setprotoent() is
2171 d_setpgid (d_setpgid.U):
2172 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGID symbol if the
2173 setpgid(pid, gpid) function is available to set process group ID.
2175 d_setpgrp (d_setpgrp.U):
2176 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPGRP if setpgrp() is
2177 available to set the current process group.
2179 d_setpgrp2 (d_setpgrp2.U):
2180 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGRP2 symbol, which
2181 indicates to the C program that the setpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine
2182 is available to set the current process group.
2184 d_setprior (d_setprior.U):
2185 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPRIORITY if setpriority()
2186 is available to set a process's priority.
2188 d_setproctitle (d_setproctitle.U):
2189 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPROCTITLE symbol,
2190 which indicates to the C program that the setproctitle() routine
2193 d_setprotoent_r (d_setprotoent_r.U):
2194 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPROTOENT_R symbol,
2195 which indicates to the C program that the setprotoent_r()
2196 routine is available.
2198 d_setpwent (d_setpwent.U):
2199 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPWENT symbol, which
2200 indicates to the C program that the setpwent() routine is available
2201 for initializing sequential access to the passwd database.
2203 d_setpwent_r (d_setpwent_r.U):
2204 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPWENT_R symbol,
2205 which indicates to the C program that the setpwent_r()
2206 routine is available.
2208 d_setregid (d_setregid.U):
2209 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREGID if setregid() is
2210 available to change the real and effective gid of the current
2213 d_setresgid (d_setregid.U):
2214 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETRESGID if setresgid() is
2215 available to change the real, effective and saved gid of the current
2218 d_setresuid (d_setreuid.U):
2219 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREUID if setresuid() is
2220 available to change the real, effective and saved uid of the current
2223 d_setreuid (d_setreuid.U):
2224 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREUID if setreuid() is
2225 available to change the real and effective uid of the current
2228 d_setrgid (d_setrgid.U):
2229 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRGID symbol, which
2230 indicates to the C program that the setrgid() routine is available
2231 to change the real gid of the current program.
2233 d_setruid (d_setruid.U):
2234 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRUID symbol, which
2235 indicates to the C program that the setruid() routine is available
2236 to change the real uid of the current program.
2238 d_setsent (d_setsent.U):
2239 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSERVENT if setservent() is
2242 d_setservent_r (d_setservent_r.U):
2243 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETSERVENT_R symbol,
2244 which indicates to the C program that the setservent_r()
2245 routine is available.
2247 d_setsid (d_setsid.U):
2248 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSID if setsid() is
2249 available to set the process group ID.
2251 d_setvbuf (d_setvbuf.U):
2252 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETVBUF symbol, which
2253 indicates to the C program that the setvbuf() routine is available
2254 to change buffering on an open stdio stream.
2257 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHM symbol, which
2258 indicates that the entire shm*(2) library is present.
2260 d_shmat (d_shmat.U):
2261 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMAT symbol, which
2262 indicates to the C program that the shmat() routine is available.
2264 d_shmatprototype (d_shmat.U):
2265 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMAT_PROTOTYPE
2266 symbol, which indicates that sys/shm.h has a prototype for
2269 d_shmctl (d_shmctl.U):
2270 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMCTL symbol, which
2271 indicates to the C program that the shmctl() routine is available.
2273 d_shmdt (d_shmdt.U):
2274 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMDT symbol, which
2275 indicates to the C program that the shmdt() routine is available.
2277 d_shmget (d_shmget.U):
2278 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMGET symbol, which
2279 indicates to the C program that the shmget() routine is available.
2281 d_sigaction (d_sigaction.U):
2282 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGACTION symbol, which
2283 indicates that the Vr4 sigaction() routine is available.
2285 d_signbit (d_signbit.U):
2286 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGNBIT symbol, which
2287 indicates to the C program that the signbit() routine is available
2288 and safe to use with perl's intern NV type.
2290 d_sigprocmask (d_sigprocmask.U):
2291 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SIGPROCMASK
2292 if sigprocmask() is available to examine or change the signal mask
2293 of the calling process.
2295 d_sigsetjmp (d_sigsetjmp.U):
2296 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGSETJMP symbol,
2297 which indicates that the sigsetjmp() routine is available to
2298 call setjmp() and optionally save the process's signal mask.
2300 d_sin6_scope_id (d_socket.U):
2301 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIN6_SCOPE_ID symbol, which
2302 indicates that a struct sockaddr_in6 structure has the sin6_scope_id
2305 d_sitearch (sitearch.U):
2306 This variable conditionally defines SITEARCH to hold the pathname
2307 of architecture-dependent library files for $package. If
2308 $sitearch is the same as $archlib, then this is set to undef.
2310 d_snprintf (d_snprintf.U):
2311 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SNPRINTF symbol, which
2312 indicates to the C program that the snprintf () library function
2315 d_sockaddr_in6 (d_socket.U):
2316 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKADDR_IN6 symbol, which
2317 indicates the availability of a struct sockaddr_in6.
2319 d_sockaddr_sa_len (d_socket.U):
2320 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKADDR_SA_LEN symbol,
2321 which indicates that a struct sockaddr structure has the sa_len
2324 d_sockatmark (d_sockatmark.U):
2325 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKATMARK symbol, which
2326 indicates to the C program that the sockatmark() routine is available.
2328 d_sockatmarkproto (d_sockatmarkproto.U):
2329 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKATMARK_PROTO symbol,
2330 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2331 a prototype for the sockatmark() function. Otherwise, it is
2332 up to the program to supply one.
2334 d_socket (d_socket.U):
2335 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SOCKET, which indicates
2336 that the BSD socket interface is supported.
2338 d_socklen_t (d_socklen_t.U):
2339 This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports socklen_t.
2341 d_sockpair (d_socket.U):
2342 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKETPAIR symbol, which
2343 indicates that the BSD socketpair() is supported.
2345 d_socks5_init (d_socks5_init.U):
2346 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKS5_INIT symbol, which
2347 indicates to the C program that the socks5_init() routine is available.
2349 d_sprintf_returns_strlen (d_sprintf_len.U):
2350 This variable defines whether sprintf returns the length of the string
2351 (as per the ANSI spec). Some C libraries retain compatibility with
2352 pre-ANSI C and return a pointer to the passed in buffer; for these
2353 this variable will be undef.
2355 d_sqrtl (d_sqrtl.U):
2356 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SQRTL symbol, which
2357 indicates to the C program that the sqrtl() routine is available.
2359 d_srand48_r (d_srand48_r.U):
2360 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SRAND48_R symbol,
2361 which indicates to the C program that the srand48_r()
2362 routine is available.
2364 d_srandom_r (d_srandom_r.U):
2365 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SRANDOM_R symbol,
2366 which indicates to the C program that the srandom_r()
2367 routine is available.
2369 d_sresgproto (d_sresgproto.U):
2370 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRESGID_PROTO symbol,
2371 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2372 a prototype for the setresgid() function. Otherwise, it is
2373 up to the program to supply one.
2375 d_sresuproto (d_sresuproto.U):
2376 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRESUID_PROTO symbol,
2377 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2378 a prototype for the setresuid() function. Otherwise, it is
2379 up to the program to supply one.
2381 d_statblks (d_statblks.U):
2382 This variable conditionally defines USE_STAT_BLOCKS
2383 if this system has a stat structure declaring
2384 st_blksize and st_blocks.
2386 d_statfs_f_flags (d_statfs_f_flags.U):
2387 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_STATFS_F_FLAGS
2388 symbol, which indicates to struct statfs from has f_flags member.
2389 This kind of struct statfs is coming from sys/mount.h (BSD),
2390 not from sys/statfs.h (SYSV).
2392 d_statfs_s (d_statfs_s.U):
2393 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_STATFS symbol,
2394 which indicates that the struct statfs is supported.
2396 d_static_inline (d_static_inline.U):
2397 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STATIC_INLINE symbol,
2398 which indicates that the C compiler supports C99-style static
2399 inline. That is, the function can't be called from another
2402 d_statvfs (d_statvfs.U):
2403 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STATVFS symbol, which
2404 indicates to the C program that the statvfs() routine is available.
2406 d_stdio_cnt_lval (d_stdstdio.U):
2407 This variable conditionally defines STDIO_CNT_LVALUE if the
2408 FILE_cnt macro can be used as an lvalue.
2410 d_stdio_ptr_lval (d_stdstdio.U):
2411 This variable conditionally defines STDIO_PTR_LVALUE if the
2412 FILE_ptr macro can be used as an lvalue.
2414 d_stdio_ptr_lval_nochange_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
2415 This symbol is defined if using the FILE_ptr macro as an lvalue
2416 to increase the pointer by n leaves File_cnt(fp) unchanged.
2418 d_stdio_ptr_lval_sets_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
2419 This symbol is defined if using the FILE_ptr macro as an lvalue
2420 to increase the pointer by n has the side effect of decreasing the
2421 value of File_cnt(fp) by n.
2423 d_stdio_stream_array (stdio_streams.U):
2424 This variable tells whether there is an array holding
2427 d_stdiobase (d_stdstdio.U):
2428 This variable conditionally defines USE_STDIO_BASE if this system
2429 has a FILE structure declaring a usable _base field (or equivalent)
2432 d_stdstdio (d_stdstdio.U):
2433 This variable conditionally defines USE_STDIO_PTR if this system
2434 has a FILE structure declaring usable _ptr and _cnt fields (or
2435 equivalent) in stdio.h.
2437 d_strchr (d_strchr.U):
2438 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRCHR if strchr() and
2439 strrchr() are available for string searching.
2441 d_strcoll (d_strcoll.U):
2442 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRCOLL if strcoll() is
2443 available to compare strings using collating information.
2445 d_strctcpy (d_strctcpy.U):
2446 This variable conditionally defines the USE_STRUCT_COPY symbol, which
2447 indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows how to copy
2450 d_strerrm (d_strerror.U):
2451 This variable holds what Strerror is defined as to translate an error
2452 code condition into an error message string. It could be 'strerror'
2453 or a more complex macro emulating strerror with sys_errlist[], or the
2454 "unknown" string when both strerror and sys_errlist are missing.
2456 d_strerror (d_strerror.U):
2457 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRERROR if strerror() is
2458 available to translate error numbers to strings.
2460 d_strerror_r (d_strerror_r.U):
2461 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRERROR_R symbol,
2462 which indicates to the C program that the strerror_r()
2463 routine is available.
2465 d_strftime (d_strftime.U):
2466 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRFTIME symbol, which
2467 indicates to the C program that the strftime() routine is available.
2469 d_strlcat (d_strlcat.U):
2470 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRLCAT symbol, which
2471 indicates to the C program that the strlcat () routine is available.
2473 d_strlcpy (d_strlcpy.U):
2474 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRLCPY symbol, which
2475 indicates to the C program that the strlcpy () routine is available.
2477 d_strtod (d_strtod.U):
2478 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOD symbol, which
2479 indicates to the C program that the strtod() routine is available
2480 to provide better numeric string conversion than atof().
2482 d_strtol (d_strtol.U):
2483 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOL symbol, which
2484 indicates to the C program that the strtol() routine is available
2485 to provide better numeric string conversion than atoi() and friends.
2487 d_strtold (d_strtold.U):
2488 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLD symbol, which
2489 indicates to the C program that the strtold() routine is available.
2491 d_strtoll (d_strtoll.U):
2492 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLL symbol, which
2493 indicates to the C program that the strtoll() routine is available.
2495 d_strtoq (d_strtoq.U):
2496 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOQ symbol, which
2497 indicates to the C program that the strtoq() routine is available.
2499 d_strtoul (d_strtoul.U):
2500 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUL symbol, which
2501 indicates to the C program that the strtoul() routine is available
2502 to provide conversion of strings to unsigned long.
2504 d_strtoull (d_strtoull.U):
2505 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOULL symbol, which
2506 indicates to the C program that the strtoull() routine is available.
2508 d_strtouq (d_strtouq.U):
2509 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUQ symbol, which
2510 indicates to the C program that the strtouq() routine is available.
2512 d_strxfrm (d_strxfrm.U):
2513 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRXFRM if strxfrm() is
2514 available to transform strings.
2516 d_suidsafe (d_dosuid.U):
2517 This variable conditionally defines SETUID_SCRIPTS_ARE_SECURE_NOW
2518 if setuid scripts can be secure. This test looks in /dev/fd/.
2520 d_symlink (d_symlink.U):
2521 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYMLINK symbol, which
2522 indicates to the C program that the symlink() routine is available
2523 to create symbolic links.
2525 d_syscall (d_syscall.U):
2526 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYSCALL if syscall() is
2527 available call arbitrary system calls.
2529 d_syscallproto (d_syscallproto.U):
2530 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYSCALL_PROTO symbol,
2531 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2532 a prototype for the syscall() function. Otherwise, it is
2533 up to the program to supply one.
2535 d_sysconf (d_sysconf.U):
2536 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYSCONF symbol, which
2537 indicates to the C program that the sysconf() routine is available
2538 to determine system related limits and options.
2540 d_sysernlst (d_strerror.U):
2541 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYS_ERRNOLIST if sys_errnolist[]
2542 is available to translate error numbers to the symbolic name.
2544 d_syserrlst (d_strerror.U):
2545 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYS_ERRLIST if sys_errlist[] is
2546 available to translate error numbers to strings.
2548 d_system (d_system.U):
2549 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYSTEM if system() is
2550 available to issue a shell command.
2552 d_tcgetpgrp (d_tcgtpgrp.U):
2553 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TCGETPGRP symbol, which
2554 indicates to the C program that the tcgetpgrp() routine is available.
2555 to get foreground process group ID.
2557 d_tcsetpgrp (d_tcstpgrp.U):
2558 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TCSETPGRP symbol, which
2559 indicates to the C program that the tcsetpgrp() routine is available
2560 to set foreground process group ID.
2562 d_telldir (d_readdir.U):
2563 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TELLDIR if telldir() is
2566 d_telldirproto (d_telldirproto.U):
2567 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TELLDIR_PROTO symbol,
2568 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2569 a prototype for the telldir() function. Otherwise, it is
2570 up to the program to supply one.
2572 d_tgamma (d_tgamma.U):
2573 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TGAMMA symbol, which
2574 indicates to the C program that the tgamma() routine is available
2575 for the gamma function. See also d_lgamma.
2578 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIME symbol, which indicates
2579 that the time() routine exists. The time() routine is normally
2580 provided on UNIX systems.
2582 d_timegm (d_timegm.U):
2583 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIMEGM symbol, which
2584 indicates to the C program that the timegm () routine is available.
2586 d_times (d_times.U):
2587 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIMES symbol, which indicates
2588 that the times() routine exists. The times() routine is normally
2589 provided on UNIX systems. You may have to include <sys/times.h>.
2591 d_tm_tm_gmtoff (i_time.U):
2592 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TM_TM_GMTOFF, which indicates
2593 indicates to the C program that the struct tm has the tm_gmtoff field.
2595 d_tm_tm_zone (i_time.U):
2596 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TM_TM_ZONE, which indicates
2597 indicates to the C program that the struct tm has the tm_zone field.
2599 d_tmpnam_r (d_tmpnam_r.U):
2600 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TMPNAM_R symbol,
2601 which indicates to the C program that the tmpnam_r()
2602 routine is available.
2604 d_truncate (d_truncate.U):
2605 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TRUNCATE if truncate() is
2606 available to truncate files.
2608 d_trunc (d_trunc.U):
2609 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TRUNCL symbol, which
2610 indicates to the C program that the trunc() routine is available
2611 to round doubles towards zero.
2613 d_truncl (d_truncl.U):
2614 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TRUNCL symbol, which
2615 indicates to the C program that the truncl() routine is available
2616 to round long doubles towards zero. If copysignl is also present,
2617 we can emulate modfl.
2619 d_ttyname_r (d_ttyname_r.U):
2620 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TTYNAME_R symbol,
2621 which indicates to the C program that the ttyname_r()
2622 routine is available.
2624 d_tzname (d_tzname.U):
2625 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TZNAME if tzname[] is
2626 available to access timezone names.
2628 d_u32align (d_u32align.U):
2629 This variable tells whether you must access character data
2630 through U32-aligned pointers.
2632 d_ualarm (d_ualarm.U):
2633 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UALARM symbol, which
2634 indicates to the C program that the ualarm() routine is available.
2636 d_umask (d_umask.U):
2637 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UMASK symbol, which
2638 indicates to the C program that the umask() routine is available.
2639 to set and get the value of the file creation mask.
2641 d_uname (d_gethname.U):
2642 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNAME symbol, which
2643 indicates to the C program that the uname() routine may be
2644 used to derive the host name.
2646 d_union_semun (d_union_semun.U):
2647 This variable conditionally defines HAS_UNION_SEMUN if the
2648 union semun is defined by including <sys/sem.h>.
2650 d_unordered (d_unordered.U):
2651 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNORDERED symbol, which
2652 indicates to the C program that the unordered() routine is available.
2654 d_unsetenv (d_unsetenv.U):
2655 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNSETENV symbol, which
2656 indicates to the C program that the unsetenv () routine is available.
2658 d_usleep (d_usleep.U):
2659 This variable conditionally defines HAS_USLEEP if usleep() is
2660 available to do high granularity sleeps.
2662 d_usleepproto (d_usleepproto.U):
2663 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_USLEEP_PROTO symbol,
2664 which indicates to the C program that the system provides
2665 a prototype for the usleep() function. Otherwise, it is
2666 up to the program to supply one.
2668 d_ustat (d_ustat.U):
2669 This variable conditionally defines HAS_USTAT if ustat() is
2670 available to query file system statistics by dev_t.
2672 d_vendorarch (vendorarch.U):
2673 This variable conditionally defined PERL_VENDORARCH.
2675 d_vendorbin (vendorbin.U):
2676 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORBIN.
2678 d_vendorlib (vendorlib.U):
2679 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORLIB.
2681 d_vendorscript (vendorscript.U):
2682 This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORSCRIPT.
2684 d_vfork (d_vfork.U):
2685 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VFORK symbol, which
2686 indicates the vfork() routine is available.
2688 d_void_closedir (d_closedir.U):
2689 This variable conditionally defines VOID_CLOSEDIR if closedir()
2690 does not return a value.
2692 d_voidsig (d_voidsig.U):
2693 This variable conditionally defines VOIDSIG if this system
2694 declares "void (*signal(...))()" in signal.h. The old way was to
2695 declare it as "int (*signal(...))()".
2697 d_voidtty (i_sysioctl.U):
2698 This variable conditionally defines USE_IOCNOTTY to indicate that the
2699 ioctl() call with TIOCNOTTY should be used to void tty association.
2700 Otherwise (on USG probably), it is enough to close the standard file
2701 descriptors and do a setpgrp().
2703 d_volatile (d_volatile.U):
2704 This variable conditionally defines the HASVOLATILE symbol, which
2705 indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows about the
2706 volatile declaration.
2708 d_vprintf (d_vprintf.U):
2709 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VPRINTF symbol, which
2710 indicates to the C program that the vprintf() routine is available
2711 to printf with a pointer to an argument list.
2713 d_vsnprintf (d_snprintf.U):
2714 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VSNPRINTF symbol, which
2715 indicates to the C program that the vsnprintf () library function
2718 d_wait4 (d_wait4.U):
2719 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WAIT4 symbol, which
2720 indicates the wait4() routine is available.
2722 d_waitpid (d_waitpid.U):
2723 This variable conditionally defines HAS_WAITPID if waitpid() is
2724 available to wait for child process.
2726 d_wcscmp (d_wcscmp.U):
2727 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSCMP symbol if the
2728 wcscmp() routine is available and can be used to compare wide
2731 d_wcstombs (d_wcstombs.U):
2732 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSTOMBS symbol, which
2733 indicates to the C program that the wcstombs() routine is available
2734 to convert wide character strings to multibyte strings.
2736 d_wcsxfrm (d_wcsxfrm.U):
2737 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSXFRM symbol if the
2738 wcsxfrm() routine is available and can be used to compare wide
2741 d_wctomb (d_wctomb.U):
2742 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCTOMB symbol, which
2743 indicates to the C program that the wctomb() routine is available
2744 to convert a wide character to a multibyte.
2746 d_writev (d_writev.U):
2747 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WRITEV symbol, which
2748 indicates to the C program that the writev() routine is available.
2751 This variable conditionally defines the symbol XENIX, which alerts
2752 the C program that it runs under Xenix.
2755 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
2756 full pathname (if any) of the date program. After Configure runs,
2757 the value is reset to a plain "date" and is not useful.
2759 db_hashtype (i_db.U):
2760 This variable contains the type of the hash structure element
2761 in the <db.h> header file. In older versions of DB, it was
2762 int, while in newer ones it is u_int32_t.
2764 db_prefixtype (i_db.U):
2765 This variable contains the type of the prefix structure element
2766 in the <db.h> header file. In older versions of DB, it was
2767 int, while in newer ones it is size_t.
2769 db_version_major (i_db.U):
2770 This variable contains the major version number of
2771 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
2773 db_version_minor (i_db.U):
2774 This variable contains the minor version number of
2775 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
2776 For DB version 1 this is always 0.
2778 db_version_patch (i_db.U):
2779 This variable contains the patch version number of
2780 Berkeley DB found in the <db.h> header file.
2781 For DB version 1 this is always 0.
2783 direntrytype (i_dirent.U):
2784 This symbol is set to 'struct direct' or 'struct dirent' depending on
2785 whether dirent is available or not. You should use this pseudo type to
2786 portably declare your directory entries.
2789 This variable contains the extension that is to be used for the
2790 dynamically loaded modules that perl generates.
2793 This variable contains the name of the dynamic loading file that
2794 will be used with the package.
2796 doublekind (doublekind.U):
2797 This variable, if defined, encodes the type of a double:
2798 1 = IEEE 754 32-bit big little endian,
2799 2 = IEEE 754 32-bit big big endian,
2800 3 = IEEE 754 64-bit big little endian,
2801 4 = IEEE 754 64-bit big big endian,
2802 5 = IEEE 754 128-bit big little endian,
2803 6 = IEEE 754 128-bit big big endian,
2804 7 = IEEE 754 64-bit big mixed endian le-be,
2805 8 = IEEE 754 64-bit big mixed endian be-le,
2806 -1 = unknown format.
2808 doublesize (doublesize.U):
2809 This variable contains the value of the DOUBLESIZE symbol, which
2810 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a double.
2812 drand01 (randfunc.U):
2813 Indicates the macro to be used to generate normalized
2814 random numbers. Uses randfunc, often divided by
2815 (double) (((unsigned long) 1 << randbits)) in order to
2816 normalize the result.
2817 In C programs, the macro 'Drand01' is mapped to drand01.
2819 drand48_r_proto (d_drand48_r.U):
2820 This variable encodes the prototype of drand48_r.
2821 It is zero if d_drand48_r is undef, and one of the
2822 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_drand48_r
2825 dtrace (usedtrace.U):
2826 This variable holds the location of the dtrace executable.
2828 dynamic_ext (Extensions.U):
2829 This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to
2830 link dynamically into the package. It is used by Makefile.
2832 eagain (nblock_io.U):
2833 This variable bears the symbolic errno code set by read() when no
2834 data is present on the file and non-blocking I/O was enabled (otherwise,
2835 read() blocks naturally).
2838 This variable conditionally defines EBCDIC if this
2839 system uses EBCDIC encoding.
2842 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
2843 full pathname (if any) of the echo program. After Configure runs,
2844 the value is reset to a plain "echo" and is not useful.
2847 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
2848 full pathname (if any) of the egrep program. After Configure runs,
2849 the value is reset to a plain "egrep" and is not useful.
2852 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
2853 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
2855 ddgrent_r_proto (d_endgrent_r.U):
2856 This variable encodes the prototype of endgrent_r.
2857 It is zero if d_endgrent_r is undef, and one of the
2858 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endgrent_r
2861 endhostent_r_proto (d_endhostent_r.U):
2862 This variable encodes the prototype of endhostent_r.
2863 It is zero if d_endhostent_r is undef, and one of the
2864 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endhostent_r
2867 endnetent_r_proto (d_endnetent_r.U):
2868 This variable encodes the prototype of endnetent_r.
2869 It is zero if d_endnetent_r is undef, and one of the
2870 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endnetent_r
2873 endprotoent_r_proto (d_endprotoent_r.U):
2874 This variable encodes the prototype of endprotoent_r.
2875 It is zero if d_endprotoent_r is undef, and one of the
2876 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endprotoent_r
2879 endpwent_r_proto (d_endpwent_r.U):
2880 This variable encodes the prototype of endpwent_r.
2881 It is zero if d_endpwent_r is undef, and one of the
2882 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endpwent_r
2885 endservent_r_proto (d_endservent_r.U):
2886 This variable encodes the prototype of endservent_r.
2887 It is zero if d_endservent_r is undef, and one of the
2888 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_endservent_r
2892 When running under Eunice this variable contains a command which will
2893 convert a shell script to the proper form of text file for it to be
2894 executable by the shell. On other systems it is a no-op.
2897 This is an old synonym for _exe.
2900 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
2901 full pathname (if any) of the expr program. After Configure runs,
2902 the value is reset to a plain "expr" and is not useful.
2904 extensions (Extensions.U):
2905 This variable holds a list of all extension files (both XS and
2906 non-xs) installed with the package. It is propagated to Config.pm
2907 and is typically used to test whether a particular extension
2911 ANSI C requires 'extern' where C++ requires 'extern "C"'. This
2912 variable can be used in Configure to do the right thing.
2915 This variable holds a list of extra modules to install.
2917 fflushall (fflushall.U):
2918 This symbol, if defined, tells that to flush
2919 all pending stdio output one must loop through all
2920 the stdio file handles stored in an array and fflush them.
2921 Note that if fflushNULL is defined, fflushall will not
2922 even be probed for and will be left undefined.
2924 fflushNULL (fflushall.U):
2925 This symbol, if defined, tells that fflush(NULL) correctly
2926 flushes all pending stdio output without side effects. In
2927 particular, on some platforms calling fflush(NULL) *still*
2928 corrupts STDIN if it is a pipe.
2931 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
2932 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
2934 firstmakefile (Unix.U):
2935 This variable defines the first file searched by make. On unix,
2936 it is makefile (then Makefile). On case-insensitive systems,
2937 it might be something else. This is only used to deal with
2938 convoluted make depend tricks.
2941 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
2942 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
2944 fpossize (fpossize.U):
2945 This variable contains the size of a fpostype in bytes.
2947 fpostype (fpostype.U):
2948 This variable defines Fpos_t to be something like fpos_t, long,
2949 uint, or whatever type is used to declare file positions in libc.
2951 freetype (mallocsrc.U):
2952 This variable contains the return type of free(). It is usually
2953 void, but occasionally int.
2956 This variable contains the command used by Configure
2957 to copy files from the target host. Useful and available
2958 only during Perl build.
2959 The string ':' if not cross-compiling.
2962 This variable contains the full pathname to 'ar', whether or
2963 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
2967 This variable contains the full pathname to 'csh', whether or
2968 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
2969 in the compiled C program, and we assume that all systems which
2970 can share this executable will have the same full pathname to
2973 full_sed (Loc_sed.U):
2974 This variable contains the full pathname to 'sed', whether or
2975 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
2976 in the compiled C program, and we assume that all systems which
2977 can share this executable will have the same full pathname to
2980 gccansipedantic (gccvers.U):
2981 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable will enable (if set) the
2982 -ansi and -pedantic ccflags for building core files (through
2983 cflags script). (See Porting/pumpkin.pod for full description).
2985 gccosandvers (gccvers.U):
2986 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable holds the operating system
2987 and version used to compile gcc. It is set to '' if not gcc,
2988 or if nothing useful can be parsed as the os version.
2990 gccversion (gccvers.U):
2991 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable holds '1' or '2' to
2992 indicate whether the compiler is version 1 or 2. This is used in
2993 setting some of the default cflags. It is set to '' if not gcc.
2995 getgrent_r_proto (d_getgrent_r.U):
2996 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrent_r.
2997 It is zero if d_getgrent_r is undef, and one of the
2998 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getgrent_r
3001 getgrgid_r_proto (d_getgrgid_r.U):
3002 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrgid_r.
3003 It is zero if d_getgrgid_r is undef, and one of the
3004 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getgrgid_r
3007 getgrnam_r_proto (d_getgrnam_r.U):
3008 This variable encodes the prototype of getgrnam_r.
3009 It is zero if d_getgrnam_r is undef, and one of the
3010 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getgrnam_r
3013 gethostbyaddr_r_proto (d_gethostbyaddr_r.U):
3014 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostbyaddr_r.
3015 It is zero if d_gethostbyaddr_r is undef, and one of the
3016 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gethostbyaddr_r
3019 gethostbyname_r_proto (d_gethostbyname_r.U):
3020 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostbyname_r.
3021 It is zero if d_gethostbyname_r is undef, and one of the
3022 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gethostbyname_r
3025 gethostent_r_proto (d_gethostent_r.U):
3026 This variable encodes the prototype of gethostent_r.
3027 It is zero if d_gethostent_r is undef, and one of the
3028 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gethostent_r
3031 getlogin_r_proto (d_getlogin_r.U):
3032 This variable encodes the prototype of getlogin_r.
3033 It is zero if d_getlogin_r is undef, and one of the
3034 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getlogin_r
3037 getnetbyaddr_r_proto (d_getnetbyaddr_r.U):
3038 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetbyaddr_r.
3039 It is zero if d_getnetbyaddr_r is undef, and one of the
3040 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getnetbyaddr_r
3043 getnetbyname_r_proto (d_getnetbyname_r.U):
3044 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetbyname_r.
3045 It is zero if d_getnetbyname_r is undef, and one of the
3046 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getnetbyname_r
3049 getnetent_r_proto (d_getnetent_r.U):
3050 This variable encodes the prototype of getnetent_r.
3051 It is zero if d_getnetent_r is undef, and one of the
3052 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getnetent_r
3055 getprotobyname_r_proto (d_getprotobyname_r.U):
3056 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotobyname_r.
3057 It is zero if d_getprotobyname_r is undef, and one of the
3058 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getprotobyname_r
3061 getprotobynumber_r_proto (d_getprotobynumber_r.U):
3062 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotobynumber_r.
3063 It is zero if d_getprotobynumber_r is undef, and one of the
3064 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getprotobynumber_r
3067 getprotoent_r_proto (d_getprotoent_r.U):
3068 This variable encodes the prototype of getprotoent_r.
3069 It is zero if d_getprotoent_r is undef, and one of the
3070 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getprotoent_r
3073 getpwent_r_proto (d_getpwent_r.U):
3074 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwent_r.
3075 It is zero if d_getpwent_r is undef, and one of the
3076 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getpwent_r
3079 getpwnam_r_proto (d_getpwnam_r.U):
3080 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwnam_r.
3081 It is zero if d_getpwnam_r is undef, and one of the
3082 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getpwnam_r
3085 getpwuid_r_proto (d_getpwuid_r.U):
3086 This variable encodes the prototype of getpwuid_r.
3087 It is zero if d_getpwuid_r is undef, and one of the
3088 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getpwuid_r
3091 getservbyname_r_proto (d_getservbyname_r.U):
3092 This variable encodes the prototype of getservbyname_r.
3093 It is zero if d_getservbyname_r is undef, and one of the
3094 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getservbyname_r
3097 getservbyport_r_proto (d_getservbyport_r.U):
3098 This variable encodes the prototype of getservbyport_r.
3099 It is zero if d_getservbyport_r is undef, and one of the
3100 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getservbyport_r
3103 getservent_r_proto (d_getservent_r.U):
3104 This variable encodes the prototype of getservent_r.
3105 It is zero if d_getservent_r is undef, and one of the
3106 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getservent_r
3109 getspnam_r_proto (d_getspnam_r.U):
3110 This variable encodes the prototype of getspnam_r.
3111 It is zero if d_getspnam_r is undef, and one of the
3112 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_getspnam_r
3116 This variable contains the format string used for printing a Gid_t.
3118 gidsign (gidsign.U):
3119 This variable contains the signedness of a gidtype.
3120 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
3122 gidsize (gidsize.U):
3123 This variable contains the size of a gidtype in bytes.
3125 gidtype (gidtype.U):
3126 This variable defines Gid_t to be something like gid_t, int,
3127 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare the return type
3128 of getgid(). Typically, it is the type of group ids in the kernel.
3131 This variable holds the general path (space-separated) used to
3132 find libraries. It may contain directories that do not exist on
3133 this platform, libpth is the cleaned-up version.
3136 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
3137 full pathname (if any) of the gmake program. After Configure runs,
3138 the value is reset to a plain "gmake" and is not useful.
3140 gmtime_r_proto (d_gmtime_r.U):
3141 This variable encodes the prototype of gmtime_r.
3142 It is zero if d_gmtime_r is undef, and one of the
3143 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_gmtime_r
3146 gnulibc_version (d_gnulibc.U):
3147 This variable contains the version number of the GNU C library.
3148 It is usually something like '2.2.5'. It is a plain '' if this
3149 is not the GNU C library, or if the version is unknown.
3152 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
3153 full pathname (if any) of the grep program. After Configure runs,
3154 the value is reset to a plain "grep" and is not useful.
3157 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
3158 /etc/group file. This is normally "cat /etc/group", but can be
3159 "ypcat group" when NIS is used.
3160 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
3161 command, in which case this variable is unset.
3163 groupstype (groupstype.U):
3164 This variable defines Groups_t to be something like gid_t, int,
3165 ushort, or whatever type is used for the second argument to
3166 getgroups() and setgroups(). Usually, this is the same as
3167 gidtype (gid_t), but sometimes it isn't.
3170 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
3171 full pathname (if any) of the gzip program. After Configure runs,
3172 the value is reset to a plain "gzip" and is not useful.
3174 h_fcntl (h_fcntl.U):
3175 This is variable gets set in various places to tell i_fcntl that
3176 <fcntl.h> should be included.
3178 h_sysfile (h_sysfile.U):
3179 This is variable gets set in various places to tell i_sys_file that
3180 <sys/file.h> should be included.
3183 Gives the type of hints used for previous answers. May be one of
3184 "default", "recommended" or "previous".
3187 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
3188 /etc/hosts file. This is normally "cat /etc/hosts", but can be
3189 "ypcat hosts" when NIS is used.
3190 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
3191 command, in which case this variable is unset.
3193 hostgenerate (Cross.U):
3194 This variable contains the path to a generate_uudmap binary that
3195 can be run on the host OS when cross-compiling. Useful and
3196 available only during Perl build.
3197 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
3199 hostosname (Cross.U):
3200 This variable contains the original value of '$^O' for hostperl
3201 when cross-compiling. This is useful to pick the proper tools
3202 when running build code in the host.
3203 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
3206 This variable contains the path to a miniperl binary that can be
3207 run on the host OS when cross-compiling. Useful and available only
3209 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
3211 html1dir (html1dir.U):
3212 This variable contains the name of the directory in which html
3213 source pages are to be put. This directory is for pages
3214 that describe whole programs, not libraries or modules. It
3215 is intended to correspond roughly to section 1 of the Unix
3218 html1direxp (html1dir.U):
3219 This variable is the same as the html1dir variable, but is filename
3220 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
3222 html3dir (html3dir.U):
3223 This variable contains the name of the directory in which html
3224 source pages are to be put. This directory is for pages
3225 that describe libraries or modules. It is intended to
3226 correspond roughly to section 3 of the Unix manuals.
3228 html3direxp (html3dir.U):
3229 This variable is the same as the html3dir variable, but is filename
3230 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
3233 This variable is the size of an I16 in bytes.
3236 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I16.
3239 This variable is the size of an I32 in bytes.
3242 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I32.
3245 This variable is the size of an I64 in bytes.
3248 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I64.
3251 This variable is the size of an I8 in bytes.
3254 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I8.
3256 i_arpainet (i_arpainet.U):
3257 This variable conditionally defines the I_ARPA_INET symbol,
3258 and indicates whether a C program should include <arpa/inet.h>.
3260 i_assert (i_assert.U):
3261 This variable conditionally defines the I_ASSERT symbol, which
3262 indicates to the C program that <assert.h> exists and could be
3266 This variable conditionally defines the I_BFD symbol, and
3267 indicates whether a C program can include <bfd.h>.
3269 i_bsdioctl (i_sysioctl.U):
3270 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_BSDIOCTL symbol, which
3271 indicates to the C program that <sys/bsdioctl.h> exists and should
3274 i_crypt (i_crypt.U):
3275 This variable conditionally defines the I_CRYPT symbol, and indicates
3276 whether a C program should include <crypt.h>.
3279 This variable conditionally defines the I_DB symbol, and indicates
3280 whether a C program may include Berkeley's DB include file <db.h>.
3283 This variable conditionally defines the I_DBM symbol, which
3284 indicates to the C program that <dbm.h> exists and should
3287 i_dirent (i_dirent.U):
3288 This variable conditionally defines I_DIRENT, which indicates
3289 to the C program that it should include <dirent.h>.
3291 i_dlfcn (i_dlfcn.U):
3292 This variable conditionally defines the I_DLFCN symbol, which
3293 indicates to the C program that <dlfcn.h> exists and should
3296 i_execinfo (i_execinfo.U):
3297 This variable conditionally defines the I_EXECINFO symbol, and indicates
3298 whether a C program may include <execinfo.h>, for backtrace() support.
3300 i_fcntl (i_fcntl.U):
3301 This variable controls the value of I_FCNTL (which tells
3302 the C program to include <fcntl.h>).
3305 This variable conditionally defines the I_FENV symbol, which
3306 indicates to the C program that <fenv.h> exists and should
3309 i_float (i_float.U):
3310 This variable conditionally defines the I_FLOAT symbol, and indicates
3311 whether a C program may include <float.h> to get symbols like DBL_MAX
3312 or DBL_MIN, i.e. machine dependent floating point values.
3315 This variable conditionally defines the I_FP symbol, and indicates
3316 whether a C program should include <fp.h>.
3318 i_fp_class (i_fp_class.U):
3319 This variable conditionally defines the I_FP_CLASS symbol, and indicates
3320 whether a C program should include <fp_class.h>.
3323 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBM symbol, which
3324 indicates to the C program that <gdbm.h> exists and should
3327 i_gdbm_ndbm (i_ndbm.U):
3328 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBM_NDBM symbol, which
3329 indicates to the C program that <gdbm-ndbm.h> exists and should
3330 be included. This is the location of the ndbm.h compatibility file
3333 i_gdbmndbm (i_ndbm.U):
3334 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBMNDBM symbol, which
3335 indicates to the C program that <gdbm/ndbm.h> exists and should
3336 be included. This was the location of the ndbm.h compatibility file
3340 This variable conditionally defines the I_GRP symbol, and indicates
3341 whether a C program should include <grp.h>.
3343 i_ieeefp (i_ieeefp.U):
3344 This variable conditionally defines the I_IEEEFP symbol, and indicates
3345 whether a C program should include <ieeefp.h>.
3347 i_inttypes (i_inttypes.U):
3348 This variable conditionally defines the I_INTTYPES symbol,
3349 and indicates whether a C program should include <inttypes.h>.
3351 i_langinfo (i_langinfo.U):
3352 This variable conditionally defines the I_LANGINFO symbol,
3353 and indicates whether a C program should include <langinfo.h>.
3355 i_libutil (i_libutil.U):
3356 This variable conditionally defines the I_LIBUTIL symbol, and indicates
3357 whether a C program should include <libutil.h>.
3359 i_limits (i_limits.U):
3360 This variable conditionally defines the I_LIMITS symbol, and indicates
3361 whether a C program may include <limits.h> to get symbols like WORD_BIT
3364 i_locale (i_locale.U):
3365 This variable conditionally defines the I_LOCALE symbol,
3366 and indicates whether a C program should include <locale.h>.
3368 i_machcthr (i_machcthr.U):
3369 This variable conditionally defines the I_MACH_CTHREADS symbol,
3370 and indicates whether a C program should include <mach/cthreads.h>.
3372 i_malloc (i_malloc.U):
3373 This variable conditionally defines the I_MALLOC symbol, and indicates
3374 whether a C program should include <malloc.h>.
3376 i_mallocmalloc (i_mallocmalloc.U):
3377 This variable conditionally defines the I_MALLOCMALLOC symbol,
3378 and indicates whether a C program should include <malloc/malloc.h>.
3381 This variable conditionally defines the I_MATH symbol, and indicates
3382 whether a C program may include <math.h>.
3384 i_memory (i_memory.U):
3385 This variable conditionally defines the I_MEMORY symbol, and indicates
3386 whether a C program should include <memory.h>.
3388 i_mntent (i_mntent.U):
3389 This variable conditionally defines the I_MNTENT symbol, and indicates
3390 whether a C program should include <mntent.h>.
3393 This variable conditionally defines the I_NDBM symbol, which
3394 indicates to the C program that <ndbm.h> exists and should
3397 i_netdb (i_netdb.U):
3398 This variable conditionally defines the I_NETDB symbol, and indicates
3399 whether a C program should include <netdb.h>.
3401 i_neterrno (i_neterrno.U):
3402 This variable conditionally defines the I_NET_ERRNO symbol, which
3403 indicates to the C program that <net/errno.h> exists and should
3406 i_netinettcp (i_netinettcp.U):
3407 This variable conditionally defines the I_NETINET_TCP symbol,
3408 and indicates whether a C program should include <netinet/tcp.h>.
3411 This variable conditionally defines I_NETINET_IN, which indicates
3412 to the C program that it should include <netinet/in.h>. Otherwise,
3413 you may try <sys/in.h>.
3416 This variable conditionally defines the I_POLL symbol, and indicates
3417 whether a C program should include <poll.h>.
3420 This variable conditionally defines the I_PROT symbol, and indicates
3421 whether a C program should include <prot.h>.
3423 i_pthread (i_pthread.U):
3424 This variable conditionally defines the I_PTHREAD symbol,
3425 and indicates whether a C program should include <pthread.h>.
3428 This variable conditionally defines I_PWD, which indicates
3429 to the C program that it should include <pwd.h>.
3431 i_quadmath (i_quadmath.U):
3432 This variable conditionally defines I_QUADMATH, which indicates
3433 to the C program that it should include <quadmath.h>.
3435 i_rpcsvcdbm (i_dbm.U):
3436 This variable conditionally defines the I_RPCSVC_DBM symbol, which
3437 indicates to the C program that <rpcsvc/dbm.h> exists and should
3438 be included. Some System V systems might need this instead of <dbm.h>.
3440 i_sgtty (i_termio.U):
3441 This variable conditionally defines the I_SGTTY symbol, which
3442 indicates to the C program that it should include <sgtty.h> rather
3445 i_shadow (i_shadow.U):
3446 This variable conditionally defines the I_SHADOW symbol, and indicates
3447 whether a C program should include <shadow.h>.
3449 i_socks (i_socks.U):
3450 This variable conditionally defines the I_SOCKS symbol, and indicates
3451 whether a C program should include <socks.h>.
3453 i_stdarg (i_varhdr.U):
3454 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDARG symbol, which
3455 indicates to the C program that <stdarg.h> exists and should
3458 i_stdbool (i_stdbool.U):
3459 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDBOOL symbol, which
3460 indicates to the C program that <stdbool.h> exists and should
3463 i_stddef (i_stddef.U):
3464 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDDEF symbol, which
3465 indicates to the C program that <stddef.h> exists and should
3468 i_stdint (i_stdint.U):
3469 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDINT symbol, which
3470 indicates to the C program that <stdint.h> exists and should
3473 i_stdlib (i_stdlib.U):
3474 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDLIB symbol, which
3475 indicates to the C program that <stdlib.h> exists and should
3478 i_string (i_string.U):
3479 This variable conditionally defines the I_STRING symbol, which
3480 indicates that <string.h> should be included rather than <strings.h>.
3482 i_sunmath (i_sunmath.U):
3483 This variable conditionally defines the I_SUNMATH symbol, and indicates
3484 whether a C program should include <sunmath.h>.
3486 i_sysaccess (i_sysaccess.U):
3487 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_ACCESS symbol,
3488 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/access.h>.
3490 i_sysdir (i_sysdir.U):
3491 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_DIR symbol, and indicates
3492 whether a C program should include <sys/dir.h>.
3494 i_sysfile (i_sysfile.U):
3495 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_FILE symbol, and indicates
3496 whether a C program should include <sys/file.h> to get R_OK and friends.
3498 i_sysfilio (i_sysioctl.U):
3499 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_FILIO symbol, which
3500 indicates to the C program that <sys/filio.h> exists and should
3501 be included in preference to <sys/ioctl.h>.
3504 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_IN, which indicates
3505 to the C program that it should include <sys/in.h> instead of
3508 i_sysioctl (i_sysioctl.U):
3509 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_IOCTL symbol, which
3510 indicates to the C program that <sys/ioctl.h> exists and should
3513 i_syslog (i_syslog.U):
3514 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSLOG symbol,
3515 and indicates whether a C program should include <syslog.h>.
3517 i_sysmman (i_sysmman.U):
3518 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_MMAN symbol, and
3519 indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mman.h>.
3521 i_sysmode (i_sysmode.U):
3522 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSMODE symbol,
3523 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mode.h>.
3525 i_sysmount (i_sysmount.U):
3526 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSMOUNT symbol,
3527 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mount.h>.
3529 i_sysndir (i_sysndir.U):
3530 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_NDIR symbol, and indicates
3531 whether a C program should include <sys/ndir.h>.
3533 i_sysparam (i_sysparam.U):
3534 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_PARAM symbol, and indicates
3535 whether a C program should include <sys/param.h>.
3537 i_syspoll (i_syspoll.U):
3538 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_POLL symbol, which
3539 indicates to the C program that it should include <sys/poll.h>.
3541 i_sysresrc (i_sysresrc.U):
3542 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_RESOURCE symbol,
3543 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/resource.h>.
3545 i_syssecrt (i_syssecrt.U):
3546 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_SECURITY symbol,
3547 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/security.h>.
3549 i_sysselct (i_sysselct.U):
3550 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_SELECT, which indicates
3551 to the C program that it should include <sys/select.h> in order to
3552 get the definition of struct timeval.
3554 i_syssockio (i_sysioctl.U):
3555 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_SOCKIO to indicate to the
3556 C program that socket ioctl codes may be found in <sys/sockio.h>
3557 instead of <sys/ioctl.h>.
3559 i_sysstat (i_sysstat.U):
3560 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_STAT symbol,
3561 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/stat.h>.
3563 i_sysstatfs (i_sysstatfs.U):
3564 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSSTATFS symbol,
3565 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/statfs.h>.
3567 i_sysstatvfs (i_sysstatvfs.U):
3568 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSSTATVFS symbol,
3569 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/statvfs.h>.
3571 i_systime (i_time.U):
3572 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_TIME, which indicates
3573 to the C program that it should include <sys/time.h>.
3575 i_systimek (i_time.U):
3576 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_TIME_KERNEL, which
3577 indicates to the C program that it should include <sys/time.h>
3578 with KERNEL defined.
3580 i_systimes (i_systimes.U):
3581 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_TIMES symbol, and indicates
3582 whether a C program should include <sys/times.h>.
3584 i_systypes (i_systypes.U):
3585 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_TYPES symbol,
3586 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/types.h>.
3588 i_sysuio (i_sysuio.U):
3589 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSUIO symbol, and indicates
3590 whether a C program should include <sys/uio.h>.
3592 i_sysun (i_sysun.U):
3593 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_UN, which indicates
3594 to the C program that it should include <sys/un.h> to get UNIX
3595 domain socket definitions.
3597 i_sysutsname (i_sysutsname.U):
3598 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSUTSNAME symbol,
3599 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/utsname.h>.
3601 i_sysvfs (i_sysvfs.U):
3602 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSVFS symbol,
3603 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/vfs.h>.
3605 i_syswait (i_syswait.U):
3606 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_WAIT, which indicates
3607 to the C program that it should include <sys/wait.h>.
3609 i_termio (i_termio.U):
3610 This variable conditionally defines the I_TERMIO symbol, which
3611 indicates to the C program that it should include <termio.h> rather
3614 i_termios (i_termio.U):
3615 This variable conditionally defines the I_TERMIOS symbol, which
3616 indicates to the C program that the POSIX <termios.h> file is
3620 This variable conditionally defines I_TIME, which indicates
3621 to the C program that it should include <time.h>.
3623 i_unistd (i_unistd.U):
3624 This variable conditionally defines the I_UNISTD symbol, and indicates
3625 whether a C program should include <unistd.h>.
3627 i_ustat (i_ustat.U):
3628 This variable conditionally defines the I_USTAT symbol, and indicates
3629 whether a C program should include <ustat.h>.
3631 i_utime (i_utime.U):
3632 This variable conditionally defines the I_UTIME symbol, and indicates
3633 whether a C program should include <utime.h>.
3635 i_values (i_values.U):
3636 This variable conditionally defines the I_VALUES symbol, and indicates
3637 whether a C program may include <values.h> to get symbols like MAXLONG
3640 i_varargs (i_varhdr.U):
3641 This variable conditionally defines I_VARARGS, which indicates
3642 to the C program that it should include <varargs.h>.
3644 i_varhdr (i_varhdr.U):
3645 Contains the name of the header to be included to get va_dcl definition.
3646 Typically one of varargs.h or stdarg.h.
3648 i_vfork (i_vfork.U):
3649 This variable conditionally defines the I_VFORK symbol, and indicates
3650 whether a C program should include vfork.h.
3652 ignore_versioned_solibs (libs.U):
3653 This variable should be non-empty if non-versioned shared
3654 libraries (libfoo.so.x.y) are to be ignored (because they
3655 cannot be linked against).
3657 inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U):
3658 This variable specifies the list of subdirectories in over
3659 which perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically
3660 search when adding directories to @INC. The elements in
3661 the list are separated by spaces. This is only useful
3662 if you have a perl library directory tree structured like the
3663 default one. See INSTALL for how this works. The versioned
3664 site_perl directory was introduced in 5.005, so that is the
3665 lowest possible value.
3667 This list includes architecture-dependent directories back to
3668 version $api_versionstring (e.g. 5.5.640) and
3669 architecture-independent directories all the way back to
3672 inc_version_list_init (inc_version_list.U):
3673 This variable holds the same list as inc_version_list, but
3674 each item is enclosed in double quotes and separated by commas,
3675 suitable for use in the PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST initialization.
3678 This variable must precede the normal include path to get the
3679 right one, as in "$incpath/usr/include" or "$incpath/usr/lib".
3680 Value can be "" or "/bsd43" on mips.
3683 This variable must precede the normal include path to get the
3684 right one, as in "$incpath/usr/include" or "$incpath/usr/lib".
3685 Value can be "" or "/bsd43" on mips.
3688 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
3689 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
3691 initialinstalllocation (bin.U):
3692 When userelocatableinc is true, this variable holds the location
3693 that make install should copy the perl binary to, with all the
3694 run-time relocatable paths calculated from this at install time.
3695 When used, it is initialized to the original value of binexp, and
3696 then binexp is set to '.../', as the other binaries are found
3697 relative to the perl binary.
3699 installarchlib (archlib.U):
3700 This variable is really the same as archlibexp but may differ on
3701 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3702 should be used in makefiles.
3705 This variable is the same as binexp unless AFS is running in which case
3706 the user is explicitly prompted for it. This variable should always
3707 be used in your makefiles for maximum portability.
3709 installhtml1dir (html1dir.U):
3710 This variable is really the same as html1direxp, unless you are
3711 using a different installprefix. For extra portability, you
3712 should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3714 installhtml3dir (html3dir.U):
3715 This variable is really the same as html3direxp, unless you are
3716 using a different installprefix. For extra portability, you
3717 should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3719 installman1dir (man1dir.U):
3720 This variable is really the same as man1direxp, unless you are using
3721 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3722 man1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3723 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3725 installman3dir (man3dir.U):
3726 This variable is really the same as man3direxp, unless you are using
3727 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3728 man3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3729 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3731 installprefix (installprefix.U):
3732 This variable holds the name of the directory below which
3733 "make install" will install the package. For most users, this
3734 is the same as prefix. However, it is useful for
3735 installing the software into a different (usually temporary)
3736 location after which it can be bundled up and moved somehow
3737 to the final location specified by prefix.
3739 installprefixexp (installprefix.U):
3740 This variable holds the full absolute path of installprefix
3741 with all ~-expansion done.
3743 installprivlib (privlib.U):
3744 This variable is really the same as privlibexp but may differ on
3745 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3746 should be used in makefiles.
3748 installscript (scriptdir.U):
3749 This variable is usually the same as scriptdirexp, unless you are on
3750 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
3751 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
3753 installsitearch (sitearch.U):
3754 This variable is really the same as sitearchexp but may differ on
3755 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3756 should be used in makefiles.
3758 installsitebin (sitebin.U):
3759 This variable is usually the same as sitebinexp, unless you are on
3760 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
3761 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
3763 installsitehtml1dir (sitehtml1dir.U):
3764 This variable is really the same as sitehtml1direxp, unless you are using
3765 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3766 html1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3767 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3769 installsitehtml3dir (sitehtml3dir.U):
3770 This variable is really the same as sitehtml3direxp, unless you are using
3771 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3772 html3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3773 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3775 installsitelib (sitelib.U):
3776 This variable is really the same as sitelibexp but may differ on
3777 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3778 should be used in makefiles.
3780 installsiteman1dir (siteman1dir.U):
3781 This variable is really the same as siteman1direxp, unless you are using
3782 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3783 man1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3784 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3786 installsiteman3dir (siteman3dir.U):
3787 This variable is really the same as siteman3direxp, unless you are using
3788 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
3789 man3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
3790 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
3792 installsitescript (sitescript.U):
3793 This variable is usually the same as sitescriptexp, unless you are on
3794 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
3795 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
3797 installstyle (installstyle.U):
3798 This variable describes the "style" of the perl installation.
3799 This is intended to be useful for tools that need to
3800 manipulate entire perl distributions. Perl itself doesn't use
3801 this to find its libraries -- the library directories are
3802 stored directly in Config.pm. Currently, there are only two
3803 styles: "lib" and "lib/perl5". The default library locations
3804 (e.g. privlib, sitelib) are either $prefix/lib or
3805 $prefix/lib/perl5. The former is useful if $prefix is a
3806 directory dedicated to perl (e.g. /opt/perl), while the latter
3807 is useful if $prefix is shared by many packages, e.g. if
3810 Unfortunately, while this "style" variable is used to set
3811 defaults for all three directory hierarchies (core, vendor, and
3812 site), there is no guarantee that the same style is actually
3813 appropriate for all those directories. For example, $prefix
3814 might be /opt/perl, but $siteprefix might be /usr/local.
3815 (Perhaps, in retrospect, the "lib" style should never have been
3816 supported, but it did seem like a nice idea at the time.)
3818 The situation is even less clear for tools such as MakeMaker
3819 that can be used to install additional modules into
3820 non-standard places. For example, if a user intends to install
3821 a module into a private directory (perhaps by setting PREFIX on
3822 the Makefile.PL command line), then there is no reason to
3823 assume that the Configure-time $installstyle setting will be
3824 relevant for that PREFIX.
3826 This may later be extended to include other information, so
3827 be careful with pattern-matching on the results.
3829 For compatibility with perl5.005 and earlier, the default
3830 setting is based on whether or not $prefix contains the string
3833 installusrbinperl (instubperl.U):
3834 This variable tells whether Perl should be installed also as
3835 /usr/bin/perl in addition to
3838 installvendorarch (vendorarch.U):
3839 This variable is really the same as vendorarchexp but may differ on
3840 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3841 should be used in makefiles.
3843 installvendorbin (vendorbin.U):
3844 This variable is really the same as vendorbinexp but may differ on
3845 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3846 should be used in makefiles.
3848 installvendorhtml1dir (vendorhtml1dir.U):
3849 This variable is really the same as vendorhtml1direxp but may differ on
3850 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3851 should be used in makefiles.
3853 installvendorhtml3dir (vendorhtml3dir.U):
3854 This variable is really the same as vendorhtml3direxp but may differ on
3855 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3856 should be used in makefiles.
3858 installvendorlib (vendorlib.U):
3859 This variable is really the same as vendorlibexp but may differ on
3860 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3861 should be used in makefiles.
3863 installvendorman1dir (vendorman1dir.U):
3864 This variable is really the same as vendorman1direxp but may differ on
3865 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3866 should be used in makefiles.
3868 installvendorman3dir (vendorman3dir.U):
3869 This variable is really the same as vendorman3direxp but may differ on
3870 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3871 should be used in makefiles.
3873 installvendorscript (vendorscript.U):
3874 This variable is really the same as vendorscriptexp but may differ on
3875 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
3876 should be used in makefiles.
3878 intsize (intsize.U):
3879 This variable contains the value of the INTSIZE symbol, which
3880 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in an int.
3882 issymlink (issymlink.U):
3883 This variable holds the test command to test for a symbolic link
3884 (if they are supported). Typical values include 'test -h' and
3887 ivdformat (perlxvf.U):
3888 This variable contains the format string used for printing
3889 a Perl IV as a signed decimal integer.
3892 This variable is the size of an IV in bytes.
3895 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's IV.
3897 known_extensions (Extensions.U):
3898 This variable holds a list of all extensions (both XS and non-xs)
3899 included in the package source distribution. This information is
3900 only really of use during the Perl build, as the list makes no
3901 distinction between extensions which were build and installed, and
3902 those which where not. See "extensions" for the list of extensions
3903 actually built and available.
3906 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
3907 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
3910 This variable indicates the program to be used to link
3911 libraries for dynamic loading. On some systems, it is 'ld'.
3912 On ELF systems, it should be $cc. Mostly, we'll try to respect
3913 the hint file setting.
3915 ld_can_script (dlsrc.U):
3916 This variable shows if the loader accepts scripts in the form of
3917 -Wl,--version-script=ld.script. This is currently only supported
3918 for GNU ld on ELF in dynamic loading builds.
3920 lddlflags (dlsrc.U):
3921 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
3922 passed to $ld to create a shared library suitable for dynamic
3923 loading. It is up to the makefile to use it. For hpux, it
3924 should be '-b'. For sunos 4.1, it is empty.
3926 ldflags (ccflags.U):
3927 This variable contains any additional C loader flags desired by
3928 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
3930 ldflags_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
3931 This variable contains the loader flags needed by large file builds
3932 and added to ldflags by hints files.
3934 ldlibpthname (libperl.U):
3935 This variable holds the name of the shared library
3936 search path, often LD_LIBRARY_PATH. To get an empty
3937 string, the hints file must set this to 'none'.
3940 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
3941 full pathname (if any) of the less program. After Configure runs,
3942 the value is reset to a plain "less" and is not useful.
3945 This is an old synonym for _a.
3948 This variable contains the location of the C library.
3950 libperl (libperl.U):
3951 The perl executable is obtained by linking perlmain.c with
3952 libperl, any static extensions (usually just DynaLoader),
3953 and any other libraries needed on this system. libperl
3954 is usually libperl.a, but can also be libperl.so.xxx if
3955 the user wishes to build a perl executable with a shared
3959 This variable holds the general path (space-separated) used to find
3960 libraries. It is intended to be used by other units.
3963 This variable holds the additional libraries we want to use.
3964 It is up to the Makefile to deal with it. The list can be empty.
3967 This variable holds the directory names aka dirnames of the libraries
3968 we found and accepted, duplicates are removed.
3971 This variable holds the filenames aka basenames of the libraries
3972 we found and accepted.
3975 This variable holds the full pathnames of the libraries
3976 we found and accepted.
3979 This variable holds the directory names probed for libraries.
3981 libswanted (Myinit.U):
3982 This variable holds a list of all the libraries we want to
3983 search. The order is chosen to pick up the c library
3984 ahead of ucb or bsd libraries for SVR4.
3986 libswanted_uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
3987 This variable contains the libraries needed by large file builds
3988 and added to ldflags by hints files. It is a space separated list
3989 of the library names without the "lib" prefix or any suffix, just
3993 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
3994 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
3997 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
3998 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
4000 lkflags (ccflags.U):
4001 This variable contains any additional C partial linker flags desired by
4002 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
4005 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
4006 full pathname (if any) of the ln program. After Configure runs,
4007 the value is reset to a plain "ln" and is not useful.
4010 This variable holds the name of the command to make
4011 symbolic links (if they are supported). It can be used
4012 in the Makefile. It is either 'ln -s' or 'ln'
4014 localtime_r_proto (d_localtime_r.U):
4015 This variable encodes the prototype of localtime_r.
4016 It is zero if d_localtime_r is undef, and one of the
4017 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_localtime_r
4020 locincpth (ccflags.U):
4021 This variable contains a list of additional directories to be
4022 searched by the compiler. The appropriate '-I' directives will
4023 be added to ccflags. This is intended to simplify setting
4024 local directories from the Configure command line.
4025 It's not much, but it parallels the loclibpth stuff in libpth.U.
4027 loclibpth (libpth.U):
4028 This variable holds the paths (space-separated) used to find local
4029 libraries. It is prepended to libpth, and is intended to be easily
4030 set from the command line.
4032 longdblkind (d_longdbl.U):
4033 This variable, if defined, encodes the type of a long double:
4034 0 = double, 1 = IEEE 754 128-bit big little endian,
4035 2 = IEEE 754 128-bit big big endian, 3 = x86 80-bit little endian,
4036 4 = x86 80-bit big endian, 5 = double-double 128-bit little endian,
4037 6 = double-double 128-bit big endian, -1 = unknown format.
4039 longdblsize (d_longdbl.U):
4040 This variable contains the value of the LONG_DOUBLESIZE symbol, which
4041 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long double,
4042 if this system supports long doubles.
4044 longlongsize (d_longlong.U):
4045 This variable contains the value of the LONGLONGSIZE symbol, which
4046 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long long,
4047 if this system supports long long.
4049 longsize (intsize.U):
4050 This variable contains the value of the LONGSIZE symbol, which
4051 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long.
4054 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
4055 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
4058 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
4059 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
4062 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
4063 full pathname (if any) of the ls program. After Configure runs,
4064 the value is reset to a plain "ls" and is not useful.
4066 lseeksize (lseektype.U):
4067 This variable defines lseektype to be something like off_t, long,
4068 or whatever type is used to declare lseek offset's type in the
4069 kernel (which also appears to be lseek's return type).
4071 lseektype (lseektype.U):
4072 This variable defines lseektype to be something like off_t, long,
4073 or whatever type is used to declare lseek offset's type in the
4074 kernel (which also appears to be lseek's return type).
4077 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
4078 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
4081 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
4082 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
4085 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
4086 full pathname (if any) of the make program. After Configure runs,
4087 the value is reset to a plain "make" and is not useful.
4089 make_set_make (make.U):
4090 Some versions of 'make' set the variable MAKE. Others do not.
4091 This variable contains the string to be included in Makefile.SH
4092 so that MAKE is set if needed, and not if not needed.
4093 Possible values are:
4095 make_set_make='#' # If your make program handles this for you,
4097 make_set_make="MAKE=$make" # if it doesn't.
4099 This uses a comment character so that we can distinguish a
4100 'set' value (from a previous config.sh or Configure '-D' option)
4101 from an uncomputed value.
4103 mallocobj (mallocsrc.U):
4104 This variable contains the name of the malloc.o that this package
4105 generates, if that malloc.o is preferred over the system malloc.
4106 Otherwise the value is null. This variable is intended for generating
4107 Makefiles. See mallocsrc.
4109 mallocsrc (mallocsrc.U):
4110 This variable contains the name of the malloc.c that comes with
4111 the package, if that malloc.c is preferred over the system malloc.
4112 Otherwise the value is null. This variable is intended for generating
4115 malloctype (mallocsrc.U):
4116 This variable contains the kind of ptr returned by malloc and realloc.
4118 man1dir (man1dir.U):
4119 This variable contains the name of the directory in which manual
4120 source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4121 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4122 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4124 man1direxp (man1dir.U):
4125 This variable is the same as the man1dir variable, but is filename
4126 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4128 man1ext (man1dir.U):
4129 This variable contains the extension that the manual page should
4130 have: one of 'n', 'l', or '1'. The Makefile must supply the '.'.
4133 man3dir (man3dir.U):
4134 This variable contains the name of the directory in which manual
4135 source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4136 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4137 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4139 man3direxp (man3dir.U):
4140 This variable is the same as the man3dir variable, but is filename
4141 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4143 man3ext (man3dir.U):
4144 This variable contains the extension that the manual page should
4145 have: one of 'n', 'l', or '3'. The Makefile must supply the '.'.
4148 mips_type (usrinc.U):
4149 This variable holds the environment type for the mips system.
4150 Possible values are "BSD 4.3" and "System V".
4152 mistrustnm (Csym.U):
4153 This variable can be used to establish a fallthrough for the cases
4154 where nm fails to find a symbol. If usenm is false or usenm is true
4155 and mistrustnm is false, this variable has no effect. If usenm is true
4156 and mistrustnm is "compile", a test program will be compiled to try to
4157 find any symbol that can't be located via nm lookup. If mistrustnm is
4158 "run", the test program will be run as well as being compiled.
4161 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
4162 full pathname (if any) of the mkdir program. After Configure runs,
4163 the value is reset to a plain "mkdir" and is not useful.
4165 mmaptype (d_mmap.U):
4166 This symbol contains the type of pointer returned by mmap()
4167 (and simultaneously the type of the first argument).
4168 It can be 'void *' or 'caddr_t'.
4170 modetype (modetype.U):
4171 This variable defines modetype to be something like mode_t,
4172 int, unsigned short, or whatever type is used to declare file
4173 modes for system calls.
4176 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
4177 full pathname (if any) of the more program. After Configure runs,
4178 the value is reset to a plain "more" and is not useful.
4180 multiarch (multiarch.U):
4181 This variable conditionally defines the MULTIARCH symbol
4182 which signifies the presence of multiplatform files.
4183 This is normally set by hints files.
4186 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
4187 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
4189 myarchname (archname.U):
4190 This variable holds the architecture name computed by Configure in
4191 a previous run. It is not intended to be perused by any user and
4192 should never be set in a hint file.
4194 mydomain (myhostname.U):
4195 This variable contains the eventual value of the MYDOMAIN symbol,
4196 which is the domain of the host the program is going to run on.
4197 The domain must be appended to myhostname to form a complete host name.
4198 The dot comes with mydomain, and need not be supplied by the program.
4200 myhostname (myhostname.U):
4201 This variable contains the eventual value of the MYHOSTNAME symbol,
4202 which is the name of the host the program is going to run on.
4203 The domain is not kept with hostname, but must be gotten from mydomain.
4204 The dot comes with mydomain, and need not be supplied by the program.
4206 myuname (Oldconfig.U):
4207 The output of 'uname -a' if available, otherwise the hostname.
4208 The whole thing is then lower-cased and slashes and single quotes are
4212 This variable contains the '-n' flag if that is what causes the echo
4213 command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is
4214 $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
4216 need_va_copy (need_va_copy.U):
4217 This symbol, if defined, indicates that the system stores
4218 the variable argument list datatype, va_list, in a format
4219 that cannot be copied by simple assignment, so that some
4220 other means must be used when copying is required.
4221 As such systems vary in their provision (or non-provision)
4222 of copying mechanisms, handy.h defines a platform-
4223 independent macro, Perl_va_copy(src, dst), to do the job.
4225 netdb_hlen_type (netdbtype.U):
4226 This variable holds the type used for the 2nd argument to
4227 gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or size_t or unsigned.
4228 This is only useful if you have gethostbyaddr(), naturally.
4230 netdb_host_type (netdbtype.U):
4231 This variable holds the type used for the 1st argument to
4232 gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is char * or void *, possibly
4233 with or without a const prefix.
4234 This is only useful if you have gethostbyaddr(), naturally.
4236 netdb_name_type (netdbtype.U):
4237 This variable holds the type used for the argument to
4238 gethostbyname(). Usually, this is char * or const char *.
4239 This is only useful if you have gethostbyname(), naturally.
4241 netdb_net_type (netdbtype.U):
4242 This variable holds the type used for the 1st argument to
4243 getnetbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or long.
4244 This is only useful if you have getnetbyaddr(), naturally.
4247 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
4248 full pathname (if any) of the nm program. After Configure runs,
4249 the value is reset to a plain "nm" and is not useful.
4252 This variable holds the options that may be necessary for nm.
4254 nm_so_opt (usenm.U):
4255 This variable holds the options that may be necessary for nm
4256 to work on a shared library but that can not be used on an
4257 archive library. Currently, this is only used by Linux, where
4258 nm --dynamic is *required* to get symbols from an ELF library which
4259 has been stripped, but nm --dynamic is *fatal* on an archive library.
4260 Maybe Linux should just always set usenm=false.
4262 nonxs_ext (Extensions.U):
4263 This variable holds a list of all non-xs extensions built and
4264 installed by the package. By default, all non-xs extensions
4265 distributed will be built, with the exception of platform-specific
4266 extensions (currently only one VMS specific extension).
4269 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
4270 full pathname (if any) of the nroff program. After Configure runs,
4271 the value is reset to a plain "nroff" and is not useful.
4273 nv_overflows_integers_at (perlxv.U):
4274 This variable gives the largest integer value that NVs can hold
4275 as a constant floating point expression.
4276 If it could not be determined, it holds the value 0.
4278 nv_preserves_uv_bits (perlxv.U):
4279 This variable indicates how many of bits type uvtype
4280 a variable nvtype can preserve.
4282 nveformat (perlxvf.U):
4283 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4284 a Perl NV using %e-ish floating point format.
4286 nvEUformat (perlxvf.U):
4287 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4288 a Perl NV using %E-ish floating point format.
4290 nvfformat (perlxvf.U):
4291 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4292 a Perl NV using %f-ish floating point format.
4294 nvFUformat (perlxvf.U):
4295 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4296 a Perl NV using %F-ish floating point format.
4298 nvgformat (perlxvf.U):
4299 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4300 a Perl NV using %g-ish floating point format.
4302 nvGUformat (perlxvf.U):
4303 This variable contains the format string used for printing
4304 a Perl NV using %G-ish floating point format.
4307 This variable is the size of an NV in bytes.
4310 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's NV.
4312 o_nonblock (nblock_io.U):
4313 This variable bears the symbol value to be used during open() or fcntl()
4314 to turn on non-blocking I/O for a file descriptor. If you wish to switch
4315 between blocking and non-blocking, you may try ioctl(FIOSNBIO) instead,
4316 but that is only supported by some devices.
4319 This is an old synonym for _o.
4321 old_pthread_create_joinable (d_pthrattrj.U):
4322 This variable defines the constant to use for creating joinable
4323 (aka undetached) pthreads. Unused if pthread.h defines
4324 PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE. If used, possible values are
4325 PTHREAD_CREATE_UNDETACHED and __UNDETACHED.
4327 optimize (ccflags.U):
4328 This variable contains any optimizer/debugger flag that should be used.
4329 It is up to the Makefile to use it.
4331 orderlib (orderlib.U):
4332 This variable is "true" if the components of libraries must be ordered
4333 (with `lorder $* | tsort`) before placing them in an archive. Set to
4334 "false" if ranlib or ar can generate random libraries.
4336 osname (Oldconfig.U):
4337 This variable contains the operating system name (e.g. sunos,
4338 solaris, hpux, etc.). It can be useful later on for setting
4339 defaults. Any spaces are replaced with underscores. It is set
4340 to a null string if we can't figure it out.
4342 osvers (Oldconfig.U):
4343 This variable contains the operating system version (e.g.
4344 4.1.3, 5.2, etc.). It is primarily used for helping select
4345 an appropriate hints file, but might be useful elsewhere for
4346 setting defaults. It is set to '' if we can't figure it out.
4347 We try to be flexible about how much of the version number
4348 to keep, e.g. if 4.1.1, 4.1.2, and 4.1.3 are essentially the
4349 same for this package, hints files might just be os_4.0 or
4350 os_4.1, etc., not keeping separate files for each little release.
4352 otherlibdirs (otherlibdirs.U):
4353 This variable contains a colon-separated set of paths for the perl
4354 binary to search for additional library files or modules.
4355 These directories will be tacked to the end of @INC.
4356 Perl will automatically search below each path for version-
4357 and architecture-specific directories. See inc_version_list
4359 A value of ' ' means 'none' and is used to preserve this value
4360 for the next run through Configure.
4362 package (package.U):
4363 This variable contains the name of the package being constructed.
4364 It is primarily intended for the use of later Configure units.
4367 This variable contains the name of the preferred pager on the system.
4368 Usual values are (the full pathnames of) more, less, pg, or cat.
4371 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
4372 /etc/passwd file. This is normally "cat /etc/passwd", but can be
4373 "ypcat passwd" when NIS is used.
4374 On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent
4375 command, in which case this variable is unset.
4377 patchlevel (patchlevel.U):
4378 The patchlevel level of this package.
4379 The value of patchlevel comes from the patchlevel.h file.
4380 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "6".
4381 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_VERSION".
4384 This is an old synonym for p_ in Head.U, the character
4385 used to separate elements in the command shell search PATH.
4388 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
4389 full pathname (if any) of the perl program. After Configure runs,
4390 the value is reset to a plain "perl" and is not useful.
4393 This variable contains the full path (if any) to a previously
4394 installed perl5.005 or later suitable for running the script
4395 to determine inc_version_list.
4397 PERL_API_REVISION (patchlevel.h):
4398 This number describes the earliest compatible PERL_REVISION of
4399 Perl ("compatibility" here being defined as sufficient binary/API
4400 compatibility to run XS code built with the older version).
4401 Normally this does not change across maintenance releases.
4402 Please read the comment in patchlevel.h.
4404 PERL_API_SUBVERSION (patchlevel.h):
4405 This number describes the earliest compatible PERL_SUBVERSION of
4406 Perl ("compatibility" here being defined as sufficient binary/API
4407 compatibility to run XS code built with the older version).
4408 Normally this does not change across maintenance releases.
4409 Please read the comment in patchlevel.h.
4411 PERL_API_VERSION (patchlevel.h):
4412 This number describes the earliest compatible PERL_VERSION of
4413 Perl ("compatibility" here being defined as sufficient binary/API
4414 compatibility to run XS code built with the older version).
4415 Normally this does not change across maintenance releases.
4416 Please read the comment in patchlevel.h.
4418 PERL_CONFIG_SH (Oldsyms.U):
4419 This is set to 'true' in config.sh so that a shell script
4420 sourcing config.sh can tell if it has been sourced already.
4422 PERL_PATCHLEVEL (Oldsyms.U):
4423 This symbol reflects the patchlevel, if available. Will usually
4424 come from the .patch file, which is available when the perl
4425 source tree was fetched with rsync.
4427 perl_patchlevel (patchlevel.U):
4428 This is the Perl patch level, a numeric change identifier,
4429 as defined by whichever source code maintenance system
4430 is used to maintain the patches; currently Perforce.
4431 It does not correlate with the Perl version numbers or
4432 the maintenance versus development dichotomy except
4433 by also being increasing.
4435 PERL_REVISION (Oldsyms.U):
4436 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 5.
4437 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
4439 perl_static_inline (d_static_inline.U):
4440 This variable defines the PERL_STATIC_INLINE symbol to
4441 the best-guess incantation to use for static inline functions.
4442 Possibilities include
4444 static __inline__ (gcc -ansi)
4445 static __inline (MSVC)
4446 static _inline (older MSVC)
4447 static (c89 compilers)
4449 PERL_SUBVERSION (Oldsyms.U):
4450 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 2.
4451 Values greater than 50 represent potentially unstable
4452 development subversions.
4453 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
4455 PERL_VERSION (Oldsyms.U):
4456 In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 6.
4457 This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
4459 perladmin (perladmin.U):
4460 Electronic mail address of the perl5 administrator.
4463 The list of libraries needed by Perl only (any libraries needed
4464 by extensions only will by dropped, if using dynamic loading).
4466 perlpath (perlpath.U):
4467 This variable contains the eventual value of the PERLPATH symbol,
4468 which contains the name of the perl interpreter to be used in
4469 shell scripts and in the "eval 'exec'" idiom. This variable is
4470 not necessarily the pathname of the file containing the perl
4471 interpreter; you must append the executable extension (_exe) if
4472 it is not already present. Note that Perl code that runs during
4473 the Perl build process cannot reference this variable, as Perl
4474 may not have been installed, or even if installed, may be a
4475 different version of Perl.
4478 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
4479 full pathname (if any) of the pg program. After Configure runs,
4480 the value is reset to a plain "pg" and is not useful.
4482 phostname (myhostname.U):
4483 This variable contains the eventual value of the PHOSTNAME symbol,
4484 which is a command that can be fed to popen() to get the host name.
4485 The program should probably not presume that the domain is or isn't
4488 pidtype (pidtype.U):
4489 This variable defines PIDTYPE to be something like pid_t, int,
4490 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare process ids in the kernel.
4493 Holds the private path used by Configure to find out the libraries.
4494 Its value is prepend to libpth. This variable takes care of special
4495 machines, like the mips. Usually, it should be empty.
4498 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
4499 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
4502 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
4503 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
4506 This variable holds the name of the directory below which the
4507 user will install the package. Usually, this is /usr/local, and
4508 executables go in /usr/local/bin, library stuff in /usr/local/lib,
4509 man pages in /usr/local/man, etc. It is only used to set defaults
4510 for things in bin.U, mansrc.U, privlib.U, or scriptdir.U.
4512 prefixexp (prefix.U):
4513 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
4514 which the user will install the package. Derived from prefix.
4516 privlib (privlib.U):
4517 This variable contains the eventual value of the PRIVLIB symbol,
4518 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
4519 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
4520 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
4522 privlibexp (privlib.U):
4523 This variable is the ~name expanded version of privlib, so that you
4524 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
4526 procselfexe (d_procselfexe.U):
4527 If d_procselfexe is defined, $procselfexe is the filename
4528 of the symbolic link pointing to the absolute pathname of
4529 the executing program.
4531 prototype (prototype.U):
4532 This variable holds the eventual value of CAN_PROTOTYPE, which
4533 indicates the C compiler can handle function prototypes.
4535 ptrsize (ptrsize.U):
4536 This variable contains the value of the PTRSIZE symbol, which
4537 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a pointer.
4539 quadkind (quadtype.U):
4540 This variable, if defined, encodes the type of a quad:
4541 1 = int, 2 = long, 3 = long long, 4 = int64_t.
4543 quadtype (quadtype.U):
4544 This variable defines Quad_t to be something like long, int,
4545 long long, int64_t, or whatever type is used for 64-bit integers.
4547 randbits (randfunc.U):
4548 Indicates how many bits are produced by the function used to
4549 generate normalized random numbers.
4551 randfunc (randfunc.U):
4552 Indicates the name of the random number function to use.
4553 Values include drand48, random, and rand. In C programs,
4554 the 'Drand01' macro is defined to generate uniformly distributed
4555 random numbers over the range [0., 1.[ (see drand01 and nrand).
4557 random_r_proto (d_random_r.U):
4558 This variable encodes the prototype of random_r.
4559 It is zero if d_random_r is undef, and one of the
4560 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_random_r
4563 randseedtype (randfunc.U):
4564 Indicates the type of the argument of the seedfunc.
4566 ranlib (orderlib.U):
4567 This variable is set to the pathname of the ranlib program, if it is
4568 needed to generate random libraries. Set to ":" if ar can generate
4569 random libraries or if random libraries are not supported
4571 rd_nodata (nblock_io.U):
4572 This variable holds the return code from read() when no data is
4573 present. It should be -1, but some systems return 0 when O_NDELAY is
4574 used, which is a shame because you cannot make the difference between
4575 no data and an EOF.. Sigh!
4577 readdir64_r_proto (d_readdir64_r.U):
4578 This variable encodes the prototype of readdir64_r.
4579 It is zero if d_readdir64_r is undef, and one of the
4580 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_readdir64_r
4583 readdir_r_proto (d_readdir_r.U):
4584 This variable encodes the prototype of readdir_r.
4585 It is zero if d_readdir_r is undef, and one of the
4586 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_readdir_r
4589 revision (patchlevel.U):
4590 The value of revision comes from the patchlevel.h file.
4591 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "5".
4592 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_REVISION".
4595 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
4596 full pathname (if any) of the rm program. After Configure runs,
4597 the value is reset to a plain "rm" and is not useful.
4600 This is a cleanup variable for try test programs.
4601 Internal Configure use only.
4604 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
4605 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
4608 This variable contains the command used by Configure
4609 to copy and execute a cross-compiled executable in the
4610 target host. Useful and available only during Perl build.
4611 Empty string '' if not cross-compiling.
4614 This variable contains 'true' or 'false' depending whether the
4615 nm extraction should be performed or not, according to the value
4616 of usenm and the flags on the Configure command line.
4618 sched_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
4619 This variable defines the way to yield the execution
4620 of the current thread.
4622 scriptdir (scriptdir.U):
4623 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
4624 to put publicly scripts for the package in question. It is either
4625 the same directory as for binaries, or a special one that can be
4626 mounted across different architectures, like /usr/share. Programs
4627 must be prepared to deal with ~name expansion.
4629 scriptdirexp (scriptdir.U):
4630 This variable is the same as scriptdir, but is filename expanded
4631 at configuration time, for programs not wanting to bother with it.
4634 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
4635 full pathname (if any) of the sed program. After Configure runs,
4636 the value is reset to a plain "sed" and is not useful.
4638 seedfunc (randfunc.U):
4639 Indicates the random number generating seed function.
4640 Values include srand48, srandom, and srand.
4642 selectminbits (selectminbits.U):
4643 This variable holds the minimum number of bits operated by select.
4644 That is, if you do select(n, ...), how many bits at least will be
4645 cleared in the masks if some activity is detected. Usually this
4646 is either n or 32*ceil(n/32), especially many little-endians do
4647 the latter. This is only useful if you have select(), naturally.
4649 selecttype (selecttype.U):
4650 This variable holds the type used for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th
4651 arguments to select. Usually, this is 'fd_set *', if HAS_FD_SET
4652 is defined, and 'int *' otherwise. This is only useful if you
4653 have select(), naturally.
4656 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
4657 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
4659 setgrent_r_proto (d_setgrent_r.U):
4660 This variable encodes the prototype of setgrent_r.
4661 It is zero if d_setgrent_r is undef, and one of the
4662 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setgrent_r
4665 sethostent_r_proto (d_sethostent_r.U):
4666 This variable encodes the prototype of sethostent_r.
4667 It is zero if d_sethostent_r is undef, and one of the
4668 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_sethostent_r
4671 setlocale_r_proto (d_setlocale_r.U):
4672 This variable encodes the prototype of setlocale_r.
4673 It is zero if d_setlocale_r is undef, and one of the
4674 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setlocale_r
4677 setnetent_r_proto (d_setnetent_r.U):
4678 This variable encodes the prototype of setnetent_r.
4679 It is zero if d_setnetent_r is undef, and one of the
4680 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setnetent_r
4683 setprotoent_r_proto (d_setprotoent_r.U):
4684 This variable encodes the prototype of setprotoent_r.
4685 It is zero if d_setprotoent_r is undef, and one of the
4686 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setprotoent_r
4689 setpwent_r_proto (d_setpwent_r.U):
4690 This variable encodes the prototype of setpwent_r.
4691 It is zero if d_setpwent_r is undef, and one of the
4692 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setpwent_r
4695 setservent_r_proto (d_setservent_r.U):
4696 This variable encodes the prototype of setservent_r.
4697 It is zero if d_setservent_r is undef, and one of the
4698 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_setservent_r
4701 sGMTIME_max (time_size.U):
4702 This variable defines the maximum value of the time_t offset that
4703 the system function gmtime () accepts
4705 sGMTIME_min (time_size.U):
4706 This variable defines the minimum value of the time_t offset that
4707 the system function gmtime () accepts
4710 This variable contains the full pathname of the shell used
4711 on this system to execute Bourne shell scripts. Usually, this will be
4712 /bin/sh, though it's possible that some systems will have /bin/ksh,
4713 /bin/pdksh, /bin/ash, /bin/bash, or even something such as
4715 This unit comes before Options.U, so you can't set sh with a '-D'
4716 option, though you can override this (and startsh)
4717 with '-O -Dsh=/bin/whatever -Dstartsh=whatever'
4720 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
4721 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
4723 sharpbang (spitshell.U):
4724 This variable contains the string #! if this system supports that
4727 shmattype (d_shmat.U):
4728 This symbol contains the type of pointer returned by shmat().
4729 It can be 'void *' or 'char *'.
4731 shortsize (intsize.U):
4732 This variable contains the value of the SHORTSIZE symbol which
4733 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a short.
4735 shrpenv (libperl.U):
4736 If the user builds a shared libperl.so, then we need to tell the
4737 'perl' executable where it will be able to find the installed libperl.so.
4738 One way to do this on some systems is to set the environment variable
4739 LD_RUN_PATH to the directory that will be the final location of the
4740 shared libperl.so. The makefile can use this with something like
4741 $shrpenv $(CC) -o perl perlmain.o $libperl $libs
4743 shrpenv="env LD_RUN_PATH=$archlibexp/CORE"
4746 See the main perl Makefile.SH for actual working usage.
4747 Alternatively, we might be able to use a command line option such
4748 as -R $archlibexp/CORE (Solaris) or -Wl,-rpath
4749 $archlibexp/CORE (Linux).
4751 shsharp (spitshell.U):
4752 This variable tells further Configure units whether your sh can
4755 sig_count (sig_name.U):
4756 This variable holds a number larger than the largest valid
4757 signal number. This is usually the same as the NSIG macro.
4759 sig_name (sig_name.U):
4760 This variable holds the signal names, space separated. The leading
4761 SIG in signal name is removed. A ZERO is prepended to the list.
4762 This is currently not used, sig_name_init is used instead.
4764 sig_name_init (sig_name.U):
4765 This variable holds the signal names, enclosed in double quotes and
4766 separated by commas, suitable for use in the SIG_NAME definition
4767 below. A "ZERO" is prepended to the list, and the list is
4768 terminated with a plain 0. The leading SIG in signal names
4769 is removed. See sig_num.
4771 sig_num (sig_name.U):
4772 This variable holds the signal numbers, space separated. A ZERO is
4773 prepended to the list (corresponding to the fake SIGZERO).
4774 Those numbers correspond to the value of the signal listed
4775 in the same place within the sig_name list.
4776 This is currently not used, sig_num_init is used instead.
4778 sig_num_init (sig_name.U):
4779 This variable holds the signal numbers, enclosed in double quotes and
4780 separated by commas, suitable for use in the SIG_NUM definition
4781 below. A "ZERO" is prepended to the list, and the list is
4782 terminated with a plain 0.
4784 sig_size (sig_name.U):
4785 This variable contains the number of elements of the sig_name
4788 signal_t (d_voidsig.U):
4789 This variable holds the type of the signal handler (void or int).
4791 sitearch (sitearch.U):
4792 This variable contains the eventual value of the SITEARCH symbol,
4793 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
4794 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
4795 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
4796 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4797 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4798 architecture-dependent modules in this directory with
4799 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4800 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
4802 sitearchexp (sitearch.U):
4803 This variable is the ~name expanded version of sitearch, so that you
4804 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
4806 sitebin (sitebin.U):
4807 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
4808 to put add-on publicly executable files for the package in question. It
4809 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
4810 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
4811 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4812 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4813 executables in this directory with
4814 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4815 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
4817 sitebinexp (sitebin.U):
4818 This is the same as the sitebin variable, but is filename expanded at
4819 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
4821 sitehtml1dir (sitehtml1dir.U):
4822 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
4823 html source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4824 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4825 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4826 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4827 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4828 html pages in this directory with
4829 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4830 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
4832 sitehtml1direxp (sitehtml1dir.U):
4833 This variable is the same as the sitehtml1dir variable, but is filename
4834 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4836 sitehtml3dir (sitehtml3dir.U):
4837 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
4838 library html source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4839 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4840 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4841 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4842 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4843 library html pages in this directory with
4844 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4845 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
4847 sitehtml3direxp (sitehtml3dir.U):
4848 This variable is the same as the sitehtml3dir variable, but is filename
4849 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4851 sitelib (sitelib.U):
4852 This variable contains the eventual value of the SITELIB symbol,
4853 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
4854 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
4855 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
4856 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4857 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4858 architecture-independent modules in this directory with
4859 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4860 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
4862 sitelib_stem (sitelib.U):
4863 This variable is $sitelibexp with any trailing version-specific component
4864 removed. The elements in inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U) can
4865 be tacked onto this variable to generate a list of directories to search.
4867 sitelibexp (sitelib.U):
4868 This variable is the ~name expanded version of sitelib, so that you
4869 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
4871 siteman1dir (siteman1dir.U):
4872 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
4873 manual source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4874 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4875 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4876 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4877 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4878 man1 pages in this directory with
4879 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4880 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
4882 siteman1direxp (siteman1dir.U):
4883 This variable is the same as the siteman1dir variable, but is filename
4884 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4886 siteman3dir (siteman3dir.U):
4887 This variable contains the name of the directory in which site-specific
4888 library man source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
4889 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
4890 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
4891 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4892 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4893 man3 pages in this directory with
4894 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4895 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
4897 siteman3direxp (siteman3dir.U):
4898 This variable is the same as the siteman3dir variable, but is filename
4899 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
4901 siteprefix (siteprefix.U):
4902 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
4903 which the user will install add-on packages.
4904 See INSTALL for usage and examples.
4906 siteprefixexp (siteprefix.U):
4907 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
4908 which the user will install add-on packages. Derived from siteprefix.
4910 sitescript (sitescript.U):
4911 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
4912 to put add-on publicly executable files for the package in question. It
4913 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
4914 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
4915 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
4916 After perl has been installed, users may install their own local
4917 scripts in this directory with
4918 MakeMaker Makefile.PL
4919 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
4921 sitescriptexp (sitescript.U):
4922 This is the same as the sitescript variable, but is filename expanded at
4923 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
4925 sizesize (sizesize.U):
4926 This variable contains the size of a sizetype in bytes.
4928 sizetype (sizetype.U):
4929 This variable defines sizetype to be something like size_t,
4930 unsigned long, or whatever type is used to declare length
4931 parameters for string functions.
4934 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
4935 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
4937 sLOCALTIME_max (time_size.U):
4938 This variable defines the maximum value of the time_t offset that
4939 the system function localtime () accepts
4941 sLOCALTIME_min (time_size.U):
4942 This variable defines the minimum value of the time_t offset that
4943 the system function localtime () accepts
4946 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
4947 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
4950 This variable holds the extension used to identify shared libraries
4951 (also known as shared objects) on the system. Usually set to 'so'.
4953 sockethdr (d_socket.U):
4954 This variable has any cpp '-I' flags needed for socket support.
4956 socketlib (d_socket.U):
4957 This variable has the names of any libraries needed for socket support.
4959 socksizetype (socksizetype.U):
4960 This variable holds the type used for the size argument
4961 for various socket calls like accept. Usual values include
4962 socklen_t, size_t, and int.
4965 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
4966 full pathname (if any) of the sort program. After Configure runs,
4967 the value is reset to a plain "sort" and is not useful.
4969 spackage (package.U):
4970 This variable contains the name of the package being constructed,
4971 with the first letter uppercased, i.e. suitable for starting
4974 spitshell (spitshell.U):
4975 This variable contains the command necessary to spit out a runnable
4976 shell on this system. It is either cat or a grep '-v' for # comments.
4978 sPRId64 (quadfio.U):
4979 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
4980 format 64-bit decimal numbers (format 'd') for output.
4982 sPRIeldbl (longdblfio.U):
4983 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
4984 format long doubles (format 'e') for output.
4986 sPRIEUldbl (longdblfio.U):
4987 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
4988 format long doubles (format 'E') for output.
4989 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIeldbl so that even
4990 case-blind systems can see the difference.
4992 sPRIfldbl (longdblfio.U):
4993 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
4994 format long doubles (format 'f') for output.
4996 sPRIFUldbl (longdblfio.U):
4997 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
4998 format long doubles (format 'F') for output.
4999 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIfldbl so that even
5000 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5002 sPRIgldbl (longdblfio.U):
5003 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5004 format long doubles (format 'g') for output.
5006 sPRIGUldbl (longdblfio.U):
5007 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5008 format long doubles (format 'G') for output.
5009 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIgldbl so that even
5010 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5012 sPRIi64 (quadfio.U):
5013 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5014 format 64-bit decimal numbers (format 'i') for output.
5016 sPRIo64 (quadfio.U):
5017 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5018 format 64-bit octal numbers (format 'o') for output.
5020 sPRIu64 (quadfio.U):
5021 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5022 format 64-bit unsigned decimal numbers (format 'u') for output.
5024 sPRIx64 (quadfio.U):
5025 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5026 format 64-bit hexadecimal numbers (format 'x') for output.
5028 sPRIXU64 (quadfio.U):
5029 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5030 format 64-bit hExADECimAl numbers (format 'X') for output.
5031 The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIx64 so that even
5032 case-blind systems can see the difference.
5034 srand48_r_proto (d_srand48_r.U):
5035 This variable encodes the prototype of srand48_r.
5036 It is zero if d_srand48_r is undef, and one of the
5037 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_srand48_r
5040 srandom_r_proto (d_srandom_r.U):
5041 This variable encodes the prototype of srandom_r.
5042 It is zero if d_srandom_r is undef, and one of the
5043 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_srandom_r
5047 This variable holds the (possibly relative) path of the package source.
5048 It is up to the Makefile to use this variable and set VPATH accordingly
5049 to find the sources remotely. Use $pkgsrc to have an absolute path.
5051 sSCNfldbl (longdblfio.U):
5052 This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
5053 format long doubles (format 'f') for input.
5055 ssizetype (ssizetype.U):
5056 This variable defines ssizetype to be something like ssize_t,
5057 long or int. It is used by functions that return a count
5058 of bytes or an error condition. It must be a signed type.
5059 We will pick a type such that sizeof(SSize_t) == sizeof(Size_t).
5061 st_ino_sign (st_ino_def.U):
5062 This variable contains the signedness of struct stat's st_ino.
5063 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
5065 st_ino_size (st_ino_def.U):
5066 This variable contains the size of struct stat's st_ino in bytes.
5068 startperl (startperl.U):
5069 This variable contains the string to put on the front of a perl
5070 script to make sure (hopefully) that it runs with perl and not some
5071 shell. Of course, that leading line must be followed by the classical
5073 eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
5074 if $running_under_some_shell;
5075 to guarantee perl startup should the shell execute the script. Note
5076 that this magic incantation is not understood by csh.
5078 startsh (startsh.U):
5079 This variable contains the string to put on the front of a shell
5080 script to make sure (hopefully) that it runs with sh and not some
5083 static_ext (Extensions.U):
5084 This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to
5085 link statically into the package. It is used by Makefile.
5087 stdchar (stdchar.U):
5088 This variable conditionally defines STDCHAR to be the type of char
5089 used in stdio.h. It has the values "unsigned char" or "char".
5091 stdio_base (d_stdstdio.U):
5092 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
5093 _base field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5094 be used to define the macro FILE_base(fp).
5096 stdio_bufsiz (d_stdstdio.U):
5097 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to determine
5098 the number of bytes store in the I/O buffer pointer to by the
5099 _base field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5100 be used to define the macro FILE_bufsiz(fp).
5102 stdio_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
5103 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
5104 _cnt field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5105 be used to define the macro FILE_cnt(fp).
5107 stdio_filbuf (d_stdstdio.U):
5108 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to tell
5109 stdio to refill its internal buffers (?). This will
5110 be used to define the macro FILE_filbuf(fp).
5112 stdio_ptr (d_stdstdio.U):
5113 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
5114 _ptr field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
5115 be used to define the macro FILE_ptr(fp).
5117 stdio_stream_array (stdio_streams.U):
5118 This variable tells the name of the array holding the stdio streams.
5119 Usual values include _iob, __iob, and __sF.
5121 strerror_r_proto (d_strerror_r.U):
5122 This variable encodes the prototype of strerror_r.
5123 It is zero if d_strerror_r is undef, and one of the
5124 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_strerror_r
5127 strings (i_string.U):
5128 This variable holds the full path of the string header that will be
5129 used. Typically /usr/include/string.h or /usr/include/strings.h.
5132 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
5133 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
5135 subversion (patchlevel.U):
5136 The subversion level of this package.
5137 The value of subversion comes from the patchlevel.h file.
5138 In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "1".
5139 In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_SUBVERSION".
5140 This is unique to perl.
5143 This variable holds the place where the manual is located on this
5144 system. It is not the place where the user wants to put his manual
5145 pages. Rather it is the place where Configure may look to find manual
5146 for unix commands (section 1 of the manual usually). See mansrc.
5148 sysroot (Sysroot.U):
5149 This variable is empty unless supplied by the Configure user.
5150 It can contain a path to an alternative root directory, under which
5151 headers and libraries for the compilation target can be found. This
5152 is generally used when cross-compiling using a gcc-like compiler.
5155 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
5156 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
5159 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
5160 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
5162 targetarch (Cross.U):
5163 If cross-compiling, this variable contains the target architecture.
5164 If not, this will be empty.
5166 targetdir (Cross.U):
5167 This variable contains a path that will be created on the target
5168 host using targetmkdir, and then used to copy the cross-compiled
5169 executables to. Defaults to '/tmp' if not set.
5171 targetenv (Cross.U):
5172 If cross-compiling, this variable can be used to modify the
5173 environment on the target system.
5174 However, how and where it's used, and even if it's used at all, is
5175 entirely dependent on both the transport mechanism (targetrun) and
5176 what the target system is. Unless the relevant documentation says
5177 otherwise, it is genereally not useful.
5179 targethost (Cross.U):
5180 This variable contains the name of a separate host machine that
5181 can be used to run compiled test programs and perl tests on.
5182 Set to empty string if not in use.
5184 targetmkdir (Cross.U):
5185 This variable contains the command used by Configure to create a
5186 new directory on the target host.
5188 targetport (Cross.U):
5189 This variable contains the number of a network port to be used to
5190 connect to the host in targethost, if unset defaults to 22 for ssh.
5193 If cross-compiling, this variable contains the location of sh on the
5195 If not, this will be the same as $sh.
5198 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
5199 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
5202 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
5203 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
5206 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
5207 full pathname (if any) of the test program. After Configure runs,
5208 the value is reset to a plain "test" and is not useful.
5210 timeincl (i_time.U):
5211 This variable holds the full path of the included time header(s).
5213 timetype (d_time.U):
5214 This variable holds the type returned by time(). It can be long,
5215 or time_t on BSD sites (in which case <sys/types.h> should be
5216 included). Anyway, the type Time_t should be used.
5218 tmpnam_r_proto (d_tmpnam_r.U):
5219 This variable encodes the prototype of tmpnam_r.
5220 It is zero if d_tmpnam_r is undef, and one of the
5221 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_tmpnam_r
5225 This variable contains the command used by Configure
5226 to copy to from the target host. Useful and available
5227 only during Perl build.
5228 The string ':' if not cross-compiling.
5231 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
5232 full pathname (if any) of the touch program. After Configure runs,
5233 the value is reset to a plain "touch" and is not useful.
5236 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
5237 full pathname (if any) of the tr program. After Configure runs,
5238 the value is reset to a plain "tr" and is not useful.
5241 This variable contains the value to be passed to the tr(1)
5242 command to transliterate a newline. Typical values are
5243 '\012' and '\n'. This is needed for EBCDIC systems where
5244 newline is not necessarily '\012'.
5247 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
5248 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
5250 ttyname_r_proto (d_ttyname_r.U):
5251 This variable encodes the prototype of ttyname_r.
5252 It is zero if d_ttyname_r is undef, and one of the
5253 REENTRANT_PROTO_T_ABC macros of reentr.h if d_ttyname_r
5257 This variable is the size of an U16 in bytes.
5260 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U16.
5263 This variable is the size of an U32 in bytes.
5266 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U32.
5269 This variable is the size of an U64 in bytes.
5272 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U64.
5275 This variable is the size of an U8 in bytes.
5278 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U8.
5281 This variable contains the format string used for printing a Uid_t.
5283 uidsign (uidsign.U):
5284 This variable contains the signedness of a uidtype.
5285 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed.
5287 uidsize (uidsize.U):
5288 This variable contains the size of a uidtype in bytes.
5290 uidtype (uidtype.U):
5291 This variable defines Uid_t to be something like uid_t, int,
5292 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare user ids in the kernel.
5295 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
5296 full pathname (if any) of the uname program. After Configure runs,
5297 the value is reset to a plain "uname" and is not useful.
5300 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
5301 full pathname (if any) of the uniq program. After Configure runs,
5302 the value is reset to a plain "uniq" and is not useful.
5304 uquadtype (quadtype.U):
5305 This variable defines Uquad_t to be something like unsigned long,
5306 unsigned int, unsigned long long, uint64_t, or whatever type is
5307 used for 64-bit integers.
5309 use5005threads (usethreads.U):
5310 This variable conditionally defines the USE_5005THREADS symbol,
5311 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the 5.005-based
5312 threading implementation. Only valid up to 5.8.x.
5314 use64bitall (use64bits.U):
5315 This variable conditionally defines the USE_64_BIT_ALL symbol,
5316 and indicates that 64-bit integer types should be used
5317 when available. The maximal possible
5318 64-bitness is employed: LP64 or ILP64, meaning that you will
5319 be able to use more than 2 gigabytes of memory. This mode is
5320 even more binary incompatible than USE_64_BIT_INT. You may not
5321 be able to run the resulting executable in a 32-bit CPU at all or
5322 you may need at least to reboot your OS to 64-bit mode.
5324 use64bitint (use64bits.U):
5325 This variable conditionally defines the USE_64_BIT_INT symbol,
5326 and indicates that 64-bit integer types should be used
5327 when available. The minimal possible 64-bitness
5328 is employed, just enough to get 64-bit integers into Perl.
5329 This may mean using for example "long longs", while your memory
5330 may still be limited to 2 gigabytes.
5332 usecbacktrace (usebacktrace.U):
5333 This variable indicates whether we are compiling with backtrace
5336 usecrosscompile (Cross.U):
5337 This variable conditionally defines the USE_CROSS_COMPILE symbol,
5338 and indicates that Perl has been cross-compiled.
5341 This variable indicates that Perl was configured with development
5342 features enabled. This should not be done for production builds.
5345 This variable indicates if the system supports dynamic
5346 loading of some sort. See also dlsrc and dlobj.
5348 usedtrace (usedtrace.U):
5349 This variable indicates whether we are compiling with dtrace
5350 support. See also dtrace.
5352 usefaststdio (usefaststdio.U):
5353 This variable conditionally defines the USE_FAST_STDIO symbol,
5354 and indicates that Perl should be built to use 'fast stdio'.
5355 Defaults to define in Perls 5.8 and earlier, to undef later.
5357 useithreads (usethreads.U):
5358 This variable conditionally defines the USE_ITHREADS symbol,
5359 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the interpreter-based
5360 threading implementation.
5362 usekernprocpathname (usekernprocpathname.U):
5363 This variable, indicates that we can use sysctl with
5364 KERN_PROC_PATHNAME to get a full path for the executable, and hence
5365 convert $^X to an absolute path.
5367 uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
5368 This variable conditionally defines the USE_LARGE_FILES symbol,
5369 and indicates that large file interfaces should be used when
5372 uselongdouble (uselongdbl.U):
5373 This variable conditionally defines the USE_LONG_DOUBLE symbol,
5374 and indicates that long doubles should be used when available.
5376 usemallocwrap (mallocsrc.U):
5377 This variable contains y if we are wrapping malloc to prevent
5378 integer overflow during size calculations.
5380 usemorebits (usemorebits.U):
5381 This variable conditionally defines the USE_MORE_BITS symbol,
5382 and indicates that explicit 64-bit interfaces and long doubles
5383 should be used when available.
5385 usemultiplicity (usemultiplicity.U):
5386 This variable conditionally defines the MULTIPLICITY symbol,
5387 and indicates that Perl should be built to use multiplicity.
5389 usemymalloc (mallocsrc.U):
5390 This variable contains y if the malloc that comes with this package
5391 is desired over the system's version of malloc. People often include
5392 special versions of malloc for efficiency, but such versions are often
5393 less portable. See also mallocsrc and mallocobj.
5394 If this is 'y', then -lmalloc is removed from $libs.
5397 This variable contains 'true' or 'false' depending whether the
5398 nm extraction is wanted or not.
5400 usensgetexecutablepath (usensgetexecutablepath.U):
5401 This symbol, if defined, indicates that we can use _NSGetExecutablePath
5402 and realpath to get a full path for the executable, and hence convert
5403 $^X to an absolute path.
5405 useopcode (Extensions.U):
5406 This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate
5407 whether the Opcode extension should be used. The sole
5408 use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism
5409 for users to skip the Opcode extension from the Configure
5412 useperlio (useperlio.U):
5413 This variable conditionally defines the USE_PERLIO symbol,
5414 and indicates that the PerlIO abstraction should be
5417 useposix (Extensions.U):
5418 This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate
5419 whether the POSIX extension should be used. The sole
5420 use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism
5421 for hints files to indicate that POSIX will not compile
5422 on a particular system.
5424 usequadmath (usequadmath.U):
5425 This variable conditionally defines the USE_QUADMATH symbol,
5426 and indicates that the quadmath library __float128 long doubles
5427 should be used when available.
5429 usereentrant (usethreads.U):
5430 This variable conditionally defines the USE_REENTRANT_API symbol,
5431 which indicates that the thread code may try to use the various
5432 _r versions of library functions. This is only potentially
5433 meaningful if usethreads is set and is very experimental, it is
5434 not even prompted for.
5436 userelocatableinc (bin.U):
5437 This variable is set to true to indicate that perl should relocate
5438 @INC entries at runtime based on the path to the perl binary.
5439 Any @INC paths starting ".../" are relocated relative to the directory
5440 containing the perl binary, and a logical cleanup of the path is then
5441 made around the join point (removing "dir/../" pairs)
5443 useshrplib (libperl.U):
5444 This variable is set to 'true' if the user wishes
5445 to build a shared libperl, and 'false' otherwise.
5447 usesitecustomize (d_sitecustomize.U):
5448 This variable is set to true when the user requires a mechanism that
5449 allows the sysadmin to add entries to @INC at runtime. This variable
5450 being set, makes perl run '$sitelib/sitecustomize.pl' at startup.
5452 usesocks (usesocks.U):
5453 This variable conditionally defines the USE_SOCKS symbol,
5454 and indicates that Perl should be built to use SOCKS.
5456 usethreads (usethreads.U):
5457 This variable conditionally defines the USE_THREADS symbol,
5458 and indicates that Perl should be built to use threads.
5460 usevendorprefix (vendorprefix.U):
5461 This variable tells whether the vendorprefix
5462 and consequently other vendor* paths are in use.
5464 useversionedarchname (archname.U):
5465 This variable indicates whether to include the $api_versionstring
5466 as a component of the $archname.
5468 usevfork (d_vfork.U):
5469 This variable is set to true when the user accepts to use vfork.
5470 It is set to false when no vfork is available or when the user
5471 explicitly requests not to use vfork.
5474 This variable holds the path of the include files, which is
5475 usually /usr/include. It is mainly used by other Configure units.
5478 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
5479 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
5481 uvoformat (perlxvf.U):
5482 This variable contains the format string used for printing
5483 a Perl UV as an unsigned octal integer.
5486 This variable is the size of a UV in bytes.
5489 This variable contains the C type used for Perl's UV.
5491 uvuformat (perlxvf.U):
5492 This variable contains the format string used for printing
5493 a Perl UV as an unsigned decimal integer.
5495 uvxformat (perlxvf.U):
5496 This variable contains the format string used for printing
5497 a Perl UV as an unsigned hexadecimal integer in lowercase abcdef.
5499 uvXUformat (perlxvf.U):
5500 This variable contains the format string used for printing
5501 a Perl UV as an unsigned hexadecimal integer in uppercase ABCDEF.
5503 vaproto (vaproto.U):
5504 This variable conditionally defines CAN_VAPROTO on systems supporting
5505 prototype declaration of functions with a variable number of
5506 arguments. See also prototype.
5508 vendorarch (vendorarch.U):
5509 This variable contains the value of the PERL_VENDORARCH symbol.
5510 It may have a ~ on the front.
5511 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5512 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5513 architecture-dependent modules and extensions in this directory with
5514 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
5515 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5517 vendorarchexp (vendorarch.U):
5518 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorarch, so that you
5519 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5521 vendorbin (vendorbin.U):
5522 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORBIN symbol.
5523 It may have a ~ on the front.
5524 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5525 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place additional
5526 binaries in this directory with
5527 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
5528 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5530 vendorbinexp (vendorbin.U):
5531 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorbin, so that you
5532 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5534 vendorhtml1dir (vendorhtml1dir.U):
5535 This variable contains the name of the directory for html
5536 pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5537 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5538 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5539 html pages in this directory with
5540 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
5541 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5543 vendorhtml1direxp (vendorhtml1dir.U):
5544 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorhtml1dir, so that you
5545 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5547 vendorhtml3dir (vendorhtml3dir.U):
5548 This variable contains the name of the directory for html
5549 library pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5550 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5551 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5552 html pages for modules and extensions in this directory with
5553 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
5554 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5556 vendorhtml3direxp (vendorhtml3dir.U):
5557 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorhtml3dir, so that you
5558 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5560 vendorlib (vendorlib.U):
5561 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORLIB symbol,
5562 which is the name of the private library for this package.
5563 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5564 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5565 modules in this directory with
5566 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
5567 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5569 vendorlib_stem (vendorlib.U):
5570 This variable is $vendorlibexp with any trailing version-specific component
5571 removed. The elements in inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U) can
5572 be tacked onto this variable to generate a list of directories to search.
5574 vendorlibexp (vendorlib.U):
5575 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorlib, so that you
5576 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5578 vendorman1dir (vendorman1dir.U):
5579 This variable contains the name of the directory for man1
5580 pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5581 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5582 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5583 man1 pages in this directory with
5584 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
5585 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5587 vendorman1direxp (vendorman1dir.U):
5588 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorman1dir, so that you
5589 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5591 vendorman3dir (vendorman3dir.U):
5592 This variable contains the name of the directory for man3
5593 pages. It may have a ~ on the front.
5594 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5595 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own
5596 man3 pages in this directory with
5597 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
5598 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5600 vendorman3direxp (vendorman3dir.U):
5601 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorman3dir, so that you
5602 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5604 vendorprefix (vendorprefix.U):
5605 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
5606 which the vendor will install add-on packages.
5607 See INSTALL for usage and examples.
5609 vendorprefixexp (vendorprefix.U):
5610 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
5611 which the vendor will install add-on packages. Derived from vendorprefix.
5613 vendorscript (vendorscript.U):
5614 This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORSCRIPT symbol.
5615 It may have a ~ on the front.
5616 The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory.
5617 Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place additional
5618 executable scripts in this directory with
5619 MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
5620 or equivalent. See INSTALL for details.
5622 vendorscriptexp (vendorscript.U):
5623 This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorscript, so that you
5624 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
5626 version (patchlevel.U):
5627 The full version number of this package, such as 5.6.1 (or 5_6_1).
5628 This combines revision, patchlevel, and subversion to get the
5629 full version number, including any possible subversions.
5630 This is suitable for use as a directory name, and hence is
5631 filesystem dependent.
5633 version_patchlevel_string (patchlevel.U):
5634 This is a string combining version, subversion and
5635 perl_patchlevel (if perl_patchlevel is non-zero).
5636 It is typically something like
5637 'version 7 subversion 1' or
5638 'version 7 subversion 1 patchlevel 11224'
5639 It is computed here to avoid duplication of code in myconfig.SH
5642 versiononly (versiononly.U):
5643 If set, this symbol indicates that only the version-specific
5644 components of a perl installation should be installed.
5645 This may be useful for making a test installation of a new
5646 version without disturbing the existing installation.
5647 Setting versiononly is equivalent to setting installperl's -v option.
5648 In particular, the non-versioned scripts and programs such as
5649 a2p, c2ph, h2xs, pod2*, and perldoc are not installed
5650 (see INSTALL for a more complete list). Nor are the man
5652 Usually, this is undef.
5655 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
5656 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
5659 This variable holds extra path (space-separated) used to find
5660 libraries on this platform, for example CPU-specific libraries
5661 (on multi-CPU platforms) may be listed here.
5664 This variable holds the name of the compiler compiler we
5665 want to use in the Makefile. It can be yacc, byacc, or bison -y.
5668 This variable contains any additional yacc flags desired by the
5669 user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
5672 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
5673 The value is the empty string and is not useful.
5676 This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
5677 full pathname (if any) of the zip program. After Configure runs,
5678 the value is reset to a plain "zip" and is not useful.