This variable is the same as the archlib variable, but is
filename expanded at configuration time, for convenient use.
-archname64 (use64bits.U):
- This variable is used for the 64-bitness part of $archname.
-
archname (archname.U):
This variable is a short name to characterize the current
architecture. It is used mainly to construct the default archlib.
+archname64 (use64bits.U):
+ This variable is used for the 64-bitness part of $archname.
+
archobjs (Unix.U):
This variable defines any additional objects that must be linked
in with the program on this architecture. On unix, it is usually
This variable conditionally defines HAS__FWALK if _fwalk() is
available to apply a function to all the file handles.
+d_accept4 (d_accept4.U):
+ This variable conditionally defines HAS_ACCEPT4 if accept4() is
+ available to accept socket connections.
+
d_access (d_access.U):
This variable conditionally defines HAS_ACCESS if the access() system
call is available to check for access permissions using real IDs.
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_CMSGHDR symbol,
which indicates that the struct cmsghdr is supported.
-d_const (d_const.U):
- This variable conditionally defines the HASCONST symbol, which
- indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows about the
- const type.
-
d_copysign (d_copysign.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_COPYSIGN symbol, which
indicates to the C program that the copysign() routine is available.
a prototype for the dbminit() function. Otherwise, it is
up to the program to supply one.
-d_difftime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
- This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIFFTIME64 symbol, which
- indicates to the C program that the difftime64 () routine is available.
-
d_difftime (d_difftime.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIFFTIME symbol, which
indicates to the C program that the difftime() routine is available.
+d_difftime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
+ This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIFFTIME64 symbol, which
+ indicates to the C program that the difftime64 () routine is available.
+
d_dir_dd_fd (d_dir_dd_fd.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIR_DD_FD symbol, which
indicates that the DIR directory stream type contains a member
This variable conditionally defines HAS_DUP2 if dup2() is
available to duplicate file descriptors.
+d_dup3 (d_dup3.U):
+ This variable conditionally defines HAS_DUP3 if dup3() is
+ available to duplicate file descriptors.
+
d_duplocale (d_newlocale.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DUPLOCALE symbol, which
indicates to the C program that the duplocale() routine is available
indicates to the C program that the getpgid(pid) function
is available to get the process group id.
+d_getpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
+ This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPGRP if getpgrp() is
+ available to get the current process group.
+
d_getpgrp2 (d_getpgrp2.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGRP2 symbol, which
indicates to the C program that the getpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine
is available to get the current process group.
-d_getpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
- This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPGRP if getpgrp() is
- available to get the current process group.
-
d_getppid (d_getppid.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPPID symbol, which
indicates to the C program that the getppid() routine is available
This variable conditionally defines GRPASSWD, which indicates
that struct group in <grp.h> contains gr_passwd.
+d_has_C_UTF8 (d_setlocale.U):
+ This variable is set to either "true" or "false" depending on
+ whether the compilation system supports the C.UTF-8 locale.
+
d_hasmntopt (d_hasmntopt.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_HASMNTOPT symbol, which
indicates to the C program that the hasmntopt() routine is available
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKFIFO symbol, which
indicates to the C program that the mkfifo() routine is available.
+d_mkostemp (d_mkostemp.U):
+ This variable conditionally defines HAS_MKOSTEMP if mkostemp() is
+ available to exclusively create and open a uniquely named (with a
+ suffix) temporary file.
+
d_mkstemp (d_mkstemp.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKSTEMP symbol, which
indicates to the C program that the mkstemp() routine is available
to exclusively create and open a uniquely named (with a suffix)
temporary file.
-d_mktime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
- This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKTIME64 symbol, which
- indicates to the C program that the mktime64 () routine is available.
-
d_mktime (d_mktime.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKTIME symbol, which
indicates to the C program that the mktime() routine is available.
+d_mktime64 (d_timefuncs64.U):
+ This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKTIME64 symbol, which
+ indicates to the C program that the mktime64 () routine is available.
+
d_mmap (d_mmap.U):
This variable conditionally defines HAS_MMAP if mmap() is
available to map a file into memory.
indicates to the C program that the pipe() routine is available
to create an inter-process channel.
+d_pipe2 (d_pipe2.U):
+ This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PIPE2 symbol, which
+ indicates to the C program that the pipe2() routine is available
+ to create an inter-process channel.
+
d_poll (d_poll.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_POLL symbol, which
indicates to the C program that the poll() routine is available
for regular patern matching (usally on BSD). If so, it is likely that
re_exec() exists.
+d_readdir (d_readdir.U):
+ This variable conditionally defines HAS_READDIR if readdir() is
+ available to read directory entries.
+
d_readdir64_r (d_readdir64_r.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READDIR64_R symbol,
which indicates to the C program that the readdir64_r()
routine is available.
-d_readdir (d_readdir.U):
- This variable conditionally defines HAS_READDIR if readdir() is
- available to read directory entries.
-
d_readdir_r (d_readdir_r.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READDIR_R symbol,
which indicates to the C program that the readdir_r()
This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETLOCALE if setlocale() is
available to handle locale-specific ctype implementations.
+d_setlocale_accepts_any_locale_name (d_setlocale.U):
+ This variable conditionally defines SETLOCALE_ACCEPTS_ANY_LOCALE_NAME
+ if setlocale() accepts any locale name.
+
d_setlocale_r (d_setlocale_r.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETLOCALE_R symbol,
which indicates to the C program that the setlocale_r()
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGID symbol if the
setpgid(pid, gpid) function is available to set process group ID.
+d_setpgrp (d_setpgrp.U):
+ This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPGRP if setpgrp() is
+ available to set the current process group.
+
d_setpgrp2 (d_setpgrp2.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGRP2 symbol, which
indicates to the C program that the setpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine
is available to set the current process group.
-d_setpgrp (d_setpgrp.U):
- This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPGRP if setpgrp() is
- available to set the current process group.
-
d_setprior (d_setprior.U):
This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPRIORITY if setpriority()
is available to set a process's priority.
of architecture-dependent library files for $package. If
$sitearch is the same as $archlib, then this is set to undef.
+d_snprintf (d_snprintf.U):
+ This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SNPRINTF symbol, which
+ indicates to the C program that the snprintf () library function
+ is available.
+
d_sockaddr_in6 (d_socket.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKADDR_IN6 symbol, which
indicates the availability of a struct sockaddr_in6.
indicates to the C program that the strtod() routine is available
to provide better numeric string conversion than atof().
+d_strtod_l (d_strtod_l.U):
+ This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOD_L symbol, which
+ indicates to the C program that the strtod_l() routine is available.
+
d_strtol (d_strtol.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOL symbol, which
indicates to the C program that the strtol() routine is available
which indicates to the C program that the tmpnam_r()
routine is available.
+d_towlower (d_towlower.U):
+ This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TOWLOWER symbol, which
+ indicates to the C program that the towlower() routine is available.
+
+d_towupper (d_towupper.U):
+ This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TOWUPPER symbol, which
+ indicates to the C program that the towupper() routine is available.
+
d_trunc (d_trunc.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TRUNC symbol, which
indicates to the C program that the trunc() routine is available
Otherwise (on USG probably), it is enough to close the standard file
descriptors and do a setpgrp().
+d_vsnprintf (d_snprintf.U):
+ This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VSNPRINTF symbol, which
+ indicates to the C program that the vsnprintf () library function
+ is available.
+
d_wait4 (d_wait4.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WAIT4 symbol, which
indicates the wait4() routine is available.
and indicates whether a C program should include <syslog.h>.
i_sysmman (i_sysmman.U):
- This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_MMAN symbol, and
- indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mman.h>.
+ This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_MMAN symbol,
+ and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mman.h>.
i_sysmode (i_sysmode.U):
This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSMODE symbol,
This variable conditionally defines the I_WCHAR symbol,
that indicates whether a C program may include <wchar.h>.
+i_wctype (i_wctype.U):
+ This variable conditionally defines the I_WCTYPE symbol,
+ that indicates whether a C program may include <wctype.h>.
+
i_xlocale (d_newlocale.U):
This symbol, if defined, indicates to the C program that it should
include <xlocale.h> to get uselocale() and its friends
make_set_make="MAKE=$make" # if it doesn't.
This uses a comment character so that we can distinguish a
- 'set' value (from a previous config.sh or Configure -D option)
+ 'set' value (from a previous config.sh or Configure '-D' option)
from an uncomputed value.
mallocobj (mallocsrc.U):
removed.
n (n.U):
- This variable contains the -n flag if that is what causes the echo
+ This variable contains the '-n' flag if that is what causes the echo
command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is
$echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
This is an old synonym for p_ in Head.U, the character
used to separate elements in the command shell search PATH.
-perl5 (perl5.U):
- This variable contains the full path (if any) to a previously
- installed perl5.005 or later suitable for running the script
- to determine inc_version_list.
-
perl (Loc.U):
This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
full pathname (if any) of the perl program. After Configure runs,
the value is reset to a plain "perl" and is not useful.
+perl5 (perl5.U):
+ This variable contains the full path (if any) to a previously
+ installed perl5.005 or later suitable for running the script
+ to determine inc_version_list.
+
PERL_API_REVISION (patchlevel.h):
This number describes the earliest compatible PERL_REVISION of
Perl ("compatibility" here being defined as sufficient binary/API
This is set to 'true' in config.sh so that a shell script
sourcing config.sh can tell if it has been sourced already.
+PERL_PATCHLEVEL (Oldsyms.U):
+ This symbol reflects the patchlevel, if available. Will usually
+ come from the .patch file, which is available when the perl
+ source tree was fetched with rsync.
+
perl_patchlevel (patchlevel.U):
This is the Perl patch level, a numeric change identifier,
as defined by whichever source code maintenance system
the maintenance versus development dichotomy except
by also being increasing.
-PERL_PATCHLEVEL (Oldsyms.U):
- This symbol reflects the patchlevel, if available. Will usually
- come from the .patch file, which is available when the perl
- source tree was fetched with rsync.
-
PERL_REVISION (Oldsyms.U):
In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 5.
This value is manually set in patchlevel.h
/bin/sh, though it's possible that some systems will have /bin/ksh,
/bin/pdksh, /bin/ash, /bin/bash, or even something such as
D:/bin/sh.exe.
- This unit comes before Options.U, so you can't set sh with a -D
+ This unit comes before Options.U, so you can't set sh with a '-D'
option, though you can override this (and startsh)
- with -O -Dsh=/bin/whatever -Dstartsh=whatever
+ with '-O -Dsh=/bin/whatever -Dstartsh=whatever'
shar (Loc.U):
This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
or
shrpenv=''
See the main perl Makefile.SH for actual working usage.
+
Alternatively, we might be able to use a command line option such
as -R $archlibexp/CORE (Solaris) or -Wl,-rpath
$archlibexp/CORE (Linux).
spitshell (spitshell.U):
This variable contains the command necessary to spit out a runnable
- shell on this system. It is either cat or a grep -v for # comments.
+ shell on this system. It is either cat or a grep '-v' for # comments.
sPRId64 (quadfio.U):
This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
KERN_PROC_PATHNAME to get a full path for the executable, and hence
convert $^X to an absolute path.
+uselanginfo (Extensions.U):
+ This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate
+ whether the I18N::Langinfo extension should be used. The sole
+ use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism for users to skip
+ this extension from the Configure command line.
+
uselargefiles (uselfs.U):
This variable conditionally defines the USE_LARGE_FILES symbol,
and indicates that large file interfaces should be used when
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