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1 | This file contains a description of all the shell variables whose value is |
2 | determined by the Configure script. Variables intended for use in C |
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3 | programs (e.g. I_UNISTD) are already described in config_h.SH. [`configpm' |
4 | generates pod documentation for Config.pm from this file--please try to keep |
5 | the formatting regular.] |
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6 | |
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7 | _a (Unix.U): |
8 | This variable defines the extension used for ordinary libraries. |
9 | For unix, it is '.a'. The '.' is included. Other possible |
10 | values include '.lib'. |
11 | |
12 | _exe (Unix.U): |
13 | This variable defines the extension used for executable files. |
14 | For unix it is empty. Other possible values include '.exe'. |
15 | |
16 | _o (Unix.U): |
17 | This variable defines the extension used for object files. |
18 | For unix, it is '.o'. The '.' is included. Other possible |
19 | values include '.obj'. |
20 | |
21 | afs (afs.U): |
22 | This variable is set to 'true' if AFS (Andrew File System) is used |
23 | on the system, 'false' otherwise. It is possible to override this |
24 | with a hint value or command line option, but you'd better know |
25 | what you are doing. |
26 | |
27 | alignbytes (alignbytes.U): |
28 | This variable holds the number of bytes required to align a |
29 | double. Usual values are 2, 4 and 8. |
30 | |
31 | ansi2knr (ansi2knr.U): |
32 | This variable is set if the user needs to run ansi2knr. |
33 | Currently, this is not supported, so we just abort. |
34 | |
35 | aphostname (d_gethname.U): |
36 | This variable contains the command which can be used to compute the |
37 | host name. The command is fully qualified by its absolute path, to make |
38 | it safe when used by a process with super-user privileges. |
39 | |
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40 | api_revision (patchlevel.U): |
41 | The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and |
42 | api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary |
43 | compatible with the present perl. In a full version string |
44 | such as '5.6.1', api_revision is the '5'. |
45 | Prior to 5.5.640, the format was a floating point number, |
46 | like 5.00563. |
47 | perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically search in |
48 | $sitelib/.. for older directories back to the limit specified |
49 | by these api_ variables. This is only useful if you have a |
50 | perl library directory tree structured like the default one. |
51 | See INSTALL for how this works. The versioned site_perl |
52 | directory was introduced in 5.005, so that is the lowest |
53 | possible value. The version list appropriate for the current |
54 | system is determined in inc_version_list.U. |
55 | XXX To do: Since compatibility can depend on compile time |
56 | options (such as bincompat, longlong, etc.) it should |
57 | (perhaps) be set by Configure, but currently it isn't. |
58 | Currently, we read a hard-wired value from patchlevel.h. |
59 | Perhaps what we ought to do is take the hard-wired value from |
60 | patchlevel.h but then modify it if the current Configure |
61 | options warrant. patchlevel.h then would use an #ifdef guard. |
62 | |
63 | api_subversion (patchlevel.U): |
64 | The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and |
65 | api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary |
66 | compatible with the present perl. In a full version string |
67 | such as '5.6.1', api_subversion is the '1'. See api_revision for |
68 | full details. |
69 | |
70 | api_version (patchlevel.U): |
71 | The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and |
72 | api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary |
73 | compatible with the present perl. In a full version string |
74 | such as '5.6.1', api_version is the '6'. See api_revision for |
75 | full details. As a special case, 5.5.0 is rendered in the |
76 | old-style as 5.005. (In the 5.005_0x maintenance series, |
77 | this was the only versioned directory in $sitelib.) |
78 | |
79 | api_versionstring (patchlevel.U): |
80 | This variable combines api_revision, api_version, and |
81 | api_subversion in a format such as 5.6.1 (or 5_6_1) suitable |
82 | for use as a directory name. This is filesystem dependent. |
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83 | |
84 | ar (Loc.U): |
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85 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
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86 | full pathname (if any) of the ar program. After Configure runs, |
87 | the value is reset to a plain "ar" and is not useful. |
88 | |
89 | archlib (archlib.U): |
90 | This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants |
91 | to put architecture-dependent public library files for $package. |
92 | It is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/lib. |
93 | Programs using this variable must be prepared to deal |
94 | with filename expansion. |
95 | |
96 | archlibexp (archlib.U): |
97 | This variable is the same as the archlib variable, but is |
98 | filename expanded at configuration time, for convenient use. |
99 | |
100 | archname64 (use64bits.U): |
101 | This variable is used for the 64-bitness part of $archname. |
102 | |
103 | archname (archname.U): |
104 | This variable is a short name to characterize the current |
105 | architecture. It is used mainly to construct the default archlib. |
106 | |
107 | archobjs (Unix.U): |
108 | This variable defines any additional objects that must be linked |
109 | in with the program on this architecture. On unix, it is usually |
110 | empty. It is typically used to include emulations of unix calls |
111 | or other facilities. For perl on OS/2, for example, this would |
112 | include os2/os2.obj. |
113 | |
114 | awk (Loc.U): |
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115 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
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116 | full pathname (if any) of the awk program. After Configure runs, |
117 | the value is reset to a plain "awk" and is not useful. |
118 | |
119 | baserev (baserev.U): |
120 | The base revision level of this package, from the .package file. |
121 | |
122 | bash (Loc.U): |
123 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
124 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
125 | |
126 | bin (bin.U): |
127 | This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants |
128 | to put publicly executable images for the package in question. It |
129 | is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using |
130 | this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution. |
131 | |
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132 | bincompat5005 (bincompat5005.U): |
133 | This variable contains y if Perl 5.006 should be binary-compatible |
134 | with Perl 5.005. |
135 | |
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136 | binexp (bin.U): |
137 | This is the same as the bin variable, but is filename expanded at |
138 | configuration time, for use in your makefiles. |
139 | |
140 | bison (Loc.U): |
141 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
142 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
143 | |
144 | byacc (Loc.U): |
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145 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
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146 | full pathname (if any) of the byacc program. After Configure runs, |
147 | the value is reset to a plain "byacc" and is not useful. |
148 | |
149 | byteorder (byteorder.U): |
150 | This variable holds the byte order. In the following, larger digits |
151 | indicate more significance. The variable byteorder is either 4321 |
152 | on a big-endian machine, or 1234 on a little-endian, or 87654321 |
153 | on a Cray ... or 3412 with weird order ! |
154 | |
155 | c (n.U): |
156 | This variable contains the \c string if that is what causes the echo |
157 | command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is |
158 | $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c". |
159 | |
160 | castflags (d_castneg.U): |
161 | This variable contains a flag that precise difficulties the |
162 | compiler has casting odd floating values to unsigned long: |
163 | 0 = ok |
164 | 1 = couldn't cast < 0 |
165 | 2 = couldn't cast >= 0x80000000 |
166 | 4 = couldn't cast in argument expression list |
167 | |
168 | cat (Loc.U): |
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169 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
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170 | full pathname (if any) of the cat program. After Configure runs, |
171 | the value is reset to a plain "cat" and is not useful. |
172 | |
173 | cc (cc.U): |
174 | This variable holds the name of a command to execute a C compiler which |
175 | can resolve multiple global references that happen to have the same |
176 | name. Usual values are 'cc', 'Mcc', 'cc -M', and 'gcc'. |
177 | |
178 | cccdlflags (dlsrc.U): |
179 | This variable contains any special flags that might need to be |
180 | passed with 'cc -c' to compile modules to be used to create a shared |
181 | library that will be used for dynamic loading. For hpux, this |
182 | should be +z. It is up to the makefile to use it. |
183 | |
184 | ccdlflags (dlsrc.U): |
185 | This variable contains any special flags that might need to be |
186 | passed to cc to link with a shared library for dynamic loading. |
187 | It is up to the makefile to use it. For sunos 4.1, it should |
188 | be empty. |
189 | |
190 | ccflags (ccflags.U): |
191 | This variable contains any additional C compiler flags desired by |
192 | the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this. |
193 | |
194 | ccsymbols (Cppsym.U): |
195 | The variable contains the symbols defined by the C compiler alone. |
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196 | The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens. |
197 | |
198 | cf_by (cf_who.U): |
199 | Login name of the person who ran the Configure script and answered the |
200 | questions. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH. |
201 | |
202 | cf_email (cf_email.U): |
203 | Electronic mail address of the person who ran Configure. This can be |
204 | used by units that require the user's e-mail, like MailList.U. |
205 | |
206 | cf_time (cf_who.U): |
207 | Holds the output of the "date" command when the configuration file was |
208 | produced. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH. |
209 | |
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210 | charsize (charsize.U): |
211 | This variable contains the value of the CHARSIZE symbol, which |
212 | indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a character. |
213 | |
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214 | chgrp (Loc.U): |
215 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
216 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
217 | |
218 | chmod (Loc.U): |
219 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
220 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
221 | |
222 | chown (Loc.U): |
223 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
224 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
225 | |
226 | clocktype (d_times.U): |
227 | This variable holds the type returned by times(). It can be long, |
228 | or clock_t on BSD sites (in which case <sys/types.h> should be |
229 | included). |
230 | |
231 | comm (Loc.U): |
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232 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
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233 | full pathname (if any) of the comm program. After Configure runs, |
234 | the value is reset to a plain "comm" and is not useful. |
235 | |
236 | compress (Loc.U): |
237 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
238 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
239 | |
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240 | CONFIGDOTSH (Oldsyms.U): |
241 | This is set to 'true' in config.sh so that a shell script |
242 | sourcing config.sh can tell if it has been sourced already. |
243 | |
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244 | contains (contains.U): |
245 | This variable holds the command to do a grep with a proper return |
246 | status. On most sane systems it is simply "grep". On insane systems |
247 | it is a grep followed by a cat followed by a test. This variable |
248 | is primarily for the use of other Configure units. |
249 | |
250 | cp (Loc.U): |
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251 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
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252 | full pathname (if any) of the cp program. After Configure runs, |
253 | the value is reset to a plain "cp" and is not useful. |
254 | |
255 | cpio (Loc.U): |
256 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
257 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
258 | |
259 | cpp (Loc.U): |
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260 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
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261 | full pathname (if any) of the cpp program. After Configure runs, |
262 | the value is reset to a plain "cpp" and is not useful. |
263 | |
264 | cpp_stuff (cpp_stuff.U): |
265 | This variable contains an identification of the catenation mechanism |
266 | used by the C preprocessor. |
267 | |
268 | cppccsymbols (Cppsym.U): |
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269 | The variable contains the symbols defined by both |
270 | the bare C compiler and during a compilation that |
271 | includes stdio.h. |
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272 | The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens. |
273 | |
274 | cppflags (ccflags.U): |
275 | This variable holds the flags that will be passed to the C pre- |
276 | processor. It is up to the Makefile to use it. |
277 | |
278 | cpplast (cppstdin.U): |
279 | This variable has the same functionality as cppminus, only it applies |
280 | to cpprun and not cppstdin. |
281 | |
282 | cppminus (cppstdin.U): |
283 | This variable contains the second part of the string which will invoke |
284 | the C preprocessor on the standard input and produce to standard |
285 | output. This variable will have the value "-" if cppstdin needs |
286 | a minus to specify standard input, otherwise the value is "". |
287 | |
288 | cpprun (cppstdin.U): |
289 | This variable contains the command which will invoke a C preprocessor |
290 | on standard input and put the output to stdout. It is guaranteed not |
291 | to be a wrapper and may be a null string if no preprocessor can be |
292 | made directly available. This preprocessor might be different from the |
293 | one used by the C compiler. Don't forget to append cpplast after the |
294 | preprocessor options. |
295 | |
296 | cppstdin (cppstdin.U): |
297 | This variable contains the command which will invoke the C |
298 | preprocessor on standard input and put the output to stdout. |
299 | It is primarily used by other Configure units that ask about |
300 | preprocessor symbols. |
301 | |
302 | cppsymbols (Cppsym.U): |
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303 | The variable contains the symbols during a compilation |
304 | that includes stdio.h. |
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305 | The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens. |
306 | |
307 | crosscompile (crosscompile.U): |
308 | This variable conditionally defines the CROSSCOMPILE symbol |
309 | which signifies that the build process is be a cross-compilation. |
310 | This is normally set by hints files or from Configure command line. |
311 | |
312 | cryptlib (d_crypt.U): |
313 | This variable holds -lcrypt or the path to a libcrypt.a archive if |
314 | the crypt() function is not defined in the standard C library. It is |
315 | up to the Makefile to use this. |
316 | |
317 | csh (Loc.U): |
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318 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
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319 | full pathname (if any) of the csh program. After Configure runs, |
320 | the value is reset to a plain "csh" and is not useful. |
321 | |
322 | d_access (d_access.U): |
323 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_ACCESS if the access() system |
324 | call is available to check for access permissions using real IDs. |
325 | |
326 | d_accessx (d_accessx.U): |
327 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ACCESSX symbol, which |
328 | indicates to the C program that the accessx() routine is available. |
329 | |
330 | d_alarm (d_alarm.U): |
331 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ALARM symbol, which |
332 | indicates to the C program that the alarm() routine is available. |
333 | |
334 | d_archlib (archlib.U): |
335 | This variable conditionally defines ARCHLIB to hold the pathname |
336 | of architecture-dependent library files for $package. If |
337 | $archlib is the same as $privlib, then this is set to undef. |
338 | |
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339 | d_atolf (atolf.U): |
340 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ATOLF symbol, which |
341 | indicates to the C program that the atolf() routine is available. |
342 | |
343 | d_atoll (atoll.U): |
344 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ATOLL symbol, which |
345 | indicates to the C program that the atoll() routine is available. |
346 | |
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347 | d_attribut (d_attribut.U): |
348 | This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE, which |
349 | indicates the C compiler can check for function attributes, |
350 | such as printf formats. |
351 | |
352 | d_bcmp (d_bcmp.U): |
353 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BCMP symbol if |
354 | the bcmp() routine is available to compare strings. |
355 | |
356 | d_bcopy (d_bcopy.U): |
357 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BCOPY symbol if |
358 | the bcopy() routine is available to copy strings. |
359 | |
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360 | d_bincompat5005 (bincompat5005.U): |
361 | This variable conditionally defines BINCOMPAT5005 so that embed.h |
362 | can take special action if Perl 5.006 should be binary-compatible |
363 | with Perl 5.005. This is impossible for builds that use features |
364 | like threads and multiplicity it is always $undef for those versions. |
365 | |
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366 | d_bsd (Guess.U): |
367 | This symbol conditionally defines the symbol BSD when running on a |
368 | BSD system. |
369 | |
370 | d_bsdgetpgrp (d_getpgrp.U): |
371 | This variable conditionally defines USE_BSD_GETPGRP if |
372 | getpgrp needs one arguments whereas USG one needs none. |
373 | |
374 | d_bsdsetpgrp (d_setpgrp.U): |
375 | This variable conditionally defines USE_BSD_SETPGRP if |
376 | setpgrp needs two arguments whereas USG one needs none. |
377 | See also d_setpgid for a POSIX interface. |
378 | |
379 | d_bzero (d_bzero.U): |
380 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BZERO symbol if |
381 | the bzero() routine is available to set memory to 0. |
382 | |
383 | d_casti32 (d_casti32.U): |
384 | This variable conditionally defines CASTI32, which indicates |
385 | whether the C compiler can cast large floats to 32-bit ints. |
386 | |
387 | d_castneg (d_castneg.U): |
388 | This variable conditionally defines CASTNEG, which indicates |
389 | wether the C compiler can cast negative float to unsigned. |
390 | |
391 | d_charvspr (d_vprintf.U): |
392 | This variable conditionally defines CHARVSPRINTF if this system |
393 | has vsprintf returning type (char*). The trend seems to be to |
394 | declare it as "int vsprintf()". |
395 | |
396 | d_chown (d_chown.U): |
397 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CHOWN symbol, which |
398 | indicates to the C program that the chown() routine is available. |
399 | |
400 | d_chroot (d_chroot.U): |
401 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CHROOT symbol, which |
402 | indicates to the C program that the chroot() routine is available. |
403 | |
404 | d_chsize (d_chsize.U): |
405 | This variable conditionally defines the CHSIZE symbol, which |
406 | indicates to the C program that the chsize() routine is available |
407 | to truncate files. You might need a -lx to get this routine. |
408 | |
409 | d_closedir (d_closedir.U): |
410 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_CLOSEDIR if closedir() is |
411 | available. |
412 | |
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413 | d_const (d_const.U): |
414 | This variable conditionally defines the HASCONST symbol, which |
415 | indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows about the |
416 | const type. |
417 | |
418 | d_crypt (d_crypt.U): |
419 | This variable conditionally defines the CRYPT symbol, which |
420 | indicates to the C program that the crypt() routine is available |
421 | to encrypt passwords and the like. |
422 | |
423 | d_csh (d_csh.U): |
424 | This variable conditionally defines the CSH symbol, which |
425 | indicates to the C program that the C-shell exists. |
426 | |
427 | d_cuserid (d_cuserid.U): |
428 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CUSERID symbol, which |
429 | indicates to the C program that the cuserid() routine is available |
430 | to get character login names. |
431 | |
432 | d_dbl_dig (d_dbl_dig.U): |
433 | This variable conditionally defines d_dbl_dig if this system's |
434 | header files provide DBL_DIG, which is the number of significant |
435 | digits in a double precision number. |
436 | |
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437 | d_difftime (d_difftime.U): |
438 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIFFTIME symbol, which |
439 | indicates to the C program that the difftime() routine is available. |
440 | |
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441 | d_dirnamlen (i_dirent.U): |
442 | This variable conditionally defines DIRNAMLEN, which indicates |
443 | to the C program that the length of directory entry names is |
444 | provided by a d_namelen field. |
445 | |
446 | d_dlerror (d_dlerror.U): |
447 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLERROR symbol, which |
448 | indicates to the C program that the dlerror() routine is available. |
449 | |
450 | d_dlopen (d_dlopen.U): |
451 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLOPEN symbol, which |
452 | indicates to the C program that the dlopen() routine is available. |
453 | |
454 | d_dlsymun (d_dlsymun.U): |
455 | This variable conditionally defines DLSYM_NEEDS_UNDERSCORE, which |
456 | indicates that we need to prepend an underscore to the symbol |
457 | name before calling dlsym(). |
458 | |
459 | d_dosuid (d_dosuid.U): |
460 | This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOSUID, which |
461 | tells the C program that it should insert setuid emulation code |
462 | on hosts which have setuid #! scripts disabled. |
463 | |
464 | d_drand48proto (d_drand48proto.U): |
465 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DRAND48_PROTO symbol, |
466 | which indicates to the C program that the system provides |
467 | a prototype for the drand48() function. Otherwise, it is |
468 | up to the program to supply one. |
469 | |
470 | d_dup2 (d_dup2.U): |
471 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_DUP2 if dup2() is |
472 | available to duplicate file descriptors. |
473 | |
474 | d_eaccess (d_eaccess.U): |
475 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_EACCESS symbol, which |
476 | indicates to the C program that the eaccess() routine is available. |
477 | |
478 | d_endgrent (d_endgrent.U): |
479 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDGRENT symbol, which |
480 | indicates to the C program that the endgrent() routine is available |
481 | for sequential access of the group database. |
482 | |
483 | d_endhent (d_endhent.U): |
484 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDHOSTENT if endhostent() is |
485 | available to close whatever was being used for host queries. |
486 | |
487 | d_endnent (d_endnent.U): |
488 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDNETENT if endnetent() is |
489 | available to close whatever was being used for network queries. |
490 | |
491 | d_endpent (d_endpent.U): |
492 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDPROTOENT if endprotoent() is |
493 | available to close whatever was being used for protocol queries. |
494 | |
495 | d_endpwent (d_endpwent.U): |
496 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPWENT symbol, which |
497 | indicates to the C program that the endpwent() routine is available |
498 | for sequential access of the passwd database. |
499 | |
500 | d_endsent (d_endsent.U): |
501 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDSERVENT if endservent() is |
502 | available to close whatever was being used for service queries. |
503 | |
504 | d_endspent (d_endspent.U): |
505 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDSPENT if endspent() is |
506 | available to finalize the scan of SysV shadow password entries. |
507 | |
508 | d_eofnblk (nblock_io.U): |
509 | This variable conditionally defines EOF_NONBLOCK if EOF can be seen |
510 | when reading from a non-blocking I/O source. |
511 | |
512 | d_eunice (Guess.U): |
513 | This variable conditionally defines the symbols EUNICE and VAX, which |
514 | alerts the C program that it must deal with ideosyncracies of VMS. |
515 | |
516 | d_fchmod (d_fchmod.U): |
517 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHMOD symbol, which |
518 | indicates to the C program that the fchmod() routine is available |
519 | to change mode of opened files. |
520 | |
521 | d_fchown (d_fchown.U): |
522 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHOWN symbol, which |
523 | indicates to the C program that the fchown() routine is available |
524 | to change ownership of opened files. |
525 | |
526 | d_fcntl (d_fcntl.U): |
527 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCNTL symbol, and indicates |
528 | whether the fcntl() function exists |
529 | |
530 | d_fd_macros (d_fd_set.U): |
531 | This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FD_MACROS symbol, |
532 | which indicates if your C compiler knows about the macros which |
533 | manipulate an fd_set. |
534 | |
535 | d_fd_set (d_fd_set.U): |
536 | This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FD_SET symbol, |
537 | which indicates if your C compiler knows about the fd_set typedef. |
538 | |
539 | d_fds_bits (d_fd_set.U): |
540 | This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FDS_BITS symbol, |
541 | which indicates if your fd_set typedef contains the fds_bits member. |
542 | If you have an fd_set typedef, but the dweebs who installed it did |
543 | a half-fast job and neglected to provide the macros to manipulate |
544 | an fd_set, HAS_FDS_BITS will let us know how to fix the gaffe. |
545 | |
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546 | d_fgetpos (d_fgetpos.U): |
547 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_FGETPOS if fgetpos() is |
548 | available to get the file position indicator. |
549 | |
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550 | d_flexfnam (d_flexfnam.U): |
551 | This variable conditionally defines the FLEXFILENAMES symbol, which |
552 | indicates that the system supports filenames longer than 14 characters. |
553 | |
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554 | d_flock (d_flock.U): |
555 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_FLOCK if flock() is |
556 | available to do file locking. |
557 | |
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558 | d_fork (d_fork.U): |
559 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FORK symbol, which |
560 | indicates to the C program that the fork() routine is available. |
561 | |
562 | d_fpathconf (d_pathconf.U): |
563 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPATHCONF symbol, which |
564 | indicates to the C program that the pathconf() routine is available |
565 | to determine file-system related limits and options associated |
566 | with a given open file descriptor. |
567 | |
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568 | d_fpos64_t (io64.U): |
569 | This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports fpos64_t. |
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570 | |
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571 | d_fs_data_s (d_fs_data_s.U): |
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572 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_FS_DATA symbol, |
573 | which indicates that the struct fs_data is supported. |
574 | |
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575 | d_fseeko (d_fseeko.U): |
576 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSEEKO symbol, which |
577 | indicates to the C program that the fseeko() routine is available. |
578 | |
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579 | d_fsetpos (d_fsetpos.U): |
580 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_FSETPOS if fsetpos() is |
581 | available to set the file position indicator. |
582 | |
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583 | d_fstatfs (d_fstatfs.U): |
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584 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSTATFS symbol, which |
585 | indicates to the C program that the fstatfs() routine is available. |
586 | |
587 | d_fstatvfs (d_statvfs.U): |
588 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSTATVFS symbol, which |
589 | indicates to the C program that the fstatvfs() routine is available. |
590 | |
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591 | d_ftello (d_ftello.U): |
592 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTELLO symbol, which |
593 | indicates to the C program that the ftello() routine is available. |
594 | |
595 | d_ftime (d_ftime.U): |
596 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTIME symbol, which indicates |
597 | that the ftime() routine exists. The ftime() routine is basically |
598 | a sub-second accuracy clock. |
599 | |
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600 | d_Gconvert (d_gconvert.U): |
601 | This variable holds what Gconvert is defined as to convert |
602 | floating point numbers into strings. It could be 'gconvert' |
603 | or a more complex macro emulating gconvert with gcvt() or sprintf. |
604 | Possible values are: |
605 | d_Gconvert='gconvert((x),(n),(t),(b))' |
606 | d_Gconvert='gcvt((x),(n),(b))' |
607 | d_Gconvert='sprintf((b),"%.*g",(n),(x))' |
608 | |
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609 | d_getgrent (d_getgrent.U): |
610 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRENT symbol, which |
611 | indicates to the C program that the getgrent() routine is available |
612 | for sequential access of the group database. |
613 | |
614 | d_getgrps (d_getgrps.U): |
615 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGROUPS symbol, which |
616 | indicates to the C program that the getgroups() routine is available |
617 | to get the list of process groups. |
618 | |
619 | d_gethbyaddr (d_gethbyad.U): |
620 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYADDR symbol, which |
621 | indicates to the C program that the gethostbyaddr() routine is available |
622 | to look up hosts by their IP addresses. |
623 | |
624 | d_gethbyname (d_gethbynm.U): |
625 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYNAME symbol, which |
626 | indicates to the C program that the gethostbyname() routine is available |
627 | to look up host names in some data base or other. |
628 | |
629 | d_gethent (d_gethent.U): |
630 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETHOSTENT if gethostent() is |
631 | available to look up host names in some data base or another. |
632 | |
633 | d_gethname (d_gethname.U): |
634 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTNAME symbol, which |
635 | indicates to the C program that the gethostname() routine may be |
636 | used to derive the host name. |
637 | |
638 | d_gethostprotos (d_gethostprotos.U): |
639 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOST_PROTOS symbol, |
640 | which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies |
641 | prototypes for the various gethost*() functions. |
642 | See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types. |
643 | |
644 | d_getlogin (d_getlogin.U): |
645 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETLOGIN symbol, which |
646 | indicates to the C program that the getlogin() routine is available |
647 | to get the login name. |
648 | |
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649 | d_getmnt (d_getmnt.U): |
650 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETMNT symbol, which |
651 | indicates to the C program that the getmnt() routine is available |
652 | to retrieve one or more mount info blocks by filename. |
653 | |
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654 | d_getmntent (d_getmntent.U): |
655 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETMNTENT symbol, which |
656 | indicates to the C program that the getmntent() routine is available |
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657 | to iterate through mounted files to get their mount info. |
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658 | |
659 | d_getnbyaddr (d_getnbyad.U): |
660 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYADDR symbol, which |
661 | indicates to the C program that the getnetbyaddr() routine is available |
662 | to look up networks by their IP addresses. |
663 | |
664 | d_getnbyname (d_getnbynm.U): |
665 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYNAME symbol, which |
666 | indicates to the C program that the getnetbyname() routine is available |
667 | to look up networks by their names. |
668 | |
669 | d_getnent (d_getnent.U): |
670 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETNETENT if getnetent() is |
671 | available to look up network names in some data base or another. |
672 | |
673 | d_getnetprotos (d_getnetprotos.U): |
674 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNET_PROTOS symbol, |
675 | which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies |
676 | prototypes for the various getnet*() functions. |
677 | See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types. |
678 | |
679 | d_getpbyname (d_getprotby.U): |
680 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNAME |
681 | symbol, which indicates to the C program that the |
682 | getprotobyname() routine is available to look up protocols |
683 | by their name. |
684 | |
685 | d_getpbynumber (d_getprotby.U): |
686 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNUMBER |
687 | symbol, which indicates to the C program that the |
688 | getprotobynumber() routine is available to look up protocols |
689 | by their number. |
690 | |
691 | d_getpent (d_getpent.U): |
692 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPROTOENT if getprotoent() is |
693 | available to look up protocols in some data base or another. |
694 | |
695 | d_getpgid (d_getpgid.U): |
696 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGID symbol, which |
697 | indicates to the C program that the getpgid(pid) function |
698 | is available to get the process group id. |
699 | |
700 | d_getpgrp2 (d_getpgrp2.U): |
701 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGRP2 symbol, which |
702 | indicates to the C program that the getpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine |
703 | is available to get the current process group. |
704 | |
705 | d_getpgrp (d_getpgrp.U): |
706 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPGRP if getpgrp() is |
707 | available to get the current process group. |
708 | |
709 | d_getppid (d_getppid.U): |
710 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPPID symbol, which |
711 | indicates to the C program that the getppid() routine is available |
712 | to get the parent process ID. |
713 | |
714 | d_getprior (d_getprior.U): |
715 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPRIORITY if getpriority() |
716 | is available to get a process's priority. |
717 | |
718 | d_getprotoprotos (d_getprotoprotos.U): |
719 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTO_PROTOS symbol, |
720 | which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies |
721 | prototypes for the various getproto*() functions. |
722 | See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types. |
723 | |
724 | d_getpwent (d_getpwent.U): |
725 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWENT symbol, which |
726 | indicates to the C program that the getpwent() routine is available |
727 | for sequential access of the passwd database. |
728 | |
729 | d_getsbyname (d_getsrvby.U): |
730 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYNAME |
731 | symbol, which indicates to the C program that the |
732 | getservbyname() routine is available to look up services |
733 | by their name. |
734 | |
735 | d_getsbyport (d_getsrvby.U): |
736 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYPORT |
737 | symbol, which indicates to the C program that the |
738 | getservbyport() routine is available to look up services |
739 | by their port. |
740 | |
741 | d_getsent (d_getsent.U): |
742 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETSERVENT if getservent() is |
743 | available to look up network services in some data base or another. |
744 | |
745 | d_getservprotos (d_getservprotos.U): |
746 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERV_PROTOS symbol, |
747 | which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies |
748 | prototypes for the various getserv*() functions. |
749 | See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types. |
750 | |
751 | d_getspent (d_getspent.U): |
752 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETSPENT if getspent() is |
753 | available to retrieve SysV shadow password entries sequentially. |
754 | |
755 | d_getspnam (d_getspnam.U): |
756 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETSPNAM if getspnam() is |
757 | available to retrieve SysV shadow password entries by name. |
758 | |
759 | d_gettimeod (d_ftime.U): |
760 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY symbol, which |
761 | indicates that the gettimeofday() system call exists (to obtain a |
762 | sub-second accuracy clock). You should probably include <sys/resource.h>. |
763 | |
764 | d_gnulibc (d_gnulibc.U): |
765 | Defined if we're dealing with the GNU C Library. |
766 | |
767 | d_grpasswd (i_grp.U): |
768 | This variable conditionally defines GRPASSWD, which indicates |
769 | that struct group in <grp.h> contains gr_passwd. |
770 | |
771 | d_hasmntopt (d_hasmntopt.U): |
772 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_HASMNTOPT symbol, which |
773 | indicates to the C program that the hasmntopt() routine is available |
774 | to query the mount options of file systems. |
775 | |
776 | d_htonl (d_htonl.U): |
777 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_HTONL if htonl() and its |
778 | friends are available to do network order byte swapping. |
779 | |
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780 | d_iconv (d_iconv.U): |
781 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ICONV symbol, which |
782 | indicates to the C program that the iconv() routine is available. |
783 | |
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784 | d_index (d_strchr.U): |
785 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_INDEX if index() and |
786 | rindex() are available for string searching. |
787 | |
788 | d_inetaton (d_inetaton.U): |
789 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INET_ATON symbol, which |
790 | indicates to the C program that the inet_aton() function is available |
791 | to parse IP address "dotted-quad" strings. |
792 | |
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793 | d_int64t (d_int64t.U): |
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794 | This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports int64_t. |
795 | |
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796 | d_isascii (d_isascii.U): |
797 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISASCII constant, |
798 | which indicates to the C program that isascii() is available. |
799 | |
800 | d_killpg (d_killpg.U): |
801 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_KILLPG symbol, which |
802 | indicates to the C program that the killpg() routine is available |
803 | to kill process groups. |
804 | |
805 | d_lchown (d_lchown.U): |
806 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LCHOWN symbol, which |
807 | indicates to the C program that the lchown() routine is available |
808 | to operate on a symbolic link (instead of following the link). |
809 | |
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810 | d_ldbl_dig (d_ldbl_dig.U): |
811 | This variable conditionally defines d_ldbl_dig if this system's |
812 | header files provide LDBL_DIG, which is the number of significant |
813 | digits in a long double precision number. |
814 | |
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815 | d_link (d_link.U): |
816 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_LINK if link() is |
817 | available to create hard links. |
818 | |
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819 | d_locconv (d_locconv.U): |
820 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_LOCALECONV if localeconv() is |
821 | available for numeric and monetary formatting conventions. |
822 | |
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823 | d_lockf (d_lockf.U): |
824 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_LOCKF if lockf() is |
825 | available to do file locking. |
826 | |
827 | d_longdbl (d_longdbl.U): |
828 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_LONG_DOUBLE if |
829 | the long double type is supported. |
830 | |
831 | d_longlong (d_longlong.U): |
832 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_LONG_LONG if |
833 | the long long type is supported. |
834 | |
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835 | d_lstat (d_lstat.U): |
836 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_LSTAT if lstat() is |
837 | available to do file stats on symbolic links. |
838 | |
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839 | d_mblen (d_mblen.U): |
840 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBLEN symbol, which |
841 | indicates to the C program that the mblen() routine is available |
842 | to find the number of bytes in a multibye character. |
843 | |
844 | d_mbstowcs (d_mbstowcs.U): |
845 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBSTOWCS symbol, which |
846 | indicates to the C program that the mbstowcs() routine is available |
847 | to convert a multibyte string into a wide character string. |
848 | |
849 | d_mbtowc (d_mbtowc.U): |
850 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBTOWC symbol, which |
851 | indicates to the C program that the mbtowc() routine is available |
852 | to convert multibyte to a wide character. |
853 | |
854 | d_memchr (d_memchr.U): |
855 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMCHR symbol, which |
856 | indicates to the C program that the memchr() routine is available |
857 | to locate characters within a C string. |
858 | |
859 | d_memcmp (d_memcmp.U): |
860 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMCMP symbol, which |
861 | indicates to the C program that the memcmp() routine is available |
862 | to compare blocks of memory. |
863 | |
864 | d_memcpy (d_memcpy.U): |
865 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMCPY symbol, which |
866 | indicates to the C program that the memcpy() routine is available |
867 | to copy blocks of memory. |
868 | |
869 | d_memmove (d_memmove.U): |
870 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMMOVE symbol, which |
871 | indicates to the C program that the memmove() routine is available |
872 | to copy potentatially overlapping blocks of memory. |
873 | |
874 | d_memset (d_memset.U): |
875 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMSET symbol, which |
876 | indicates to the C program that the memset() routine is available |
877 | to set blocks of memory. |
878 | |
879 | d_mkdir (d_mkdir.U): |
880 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKDIR symbol, which |
881 | indicates to the C program that the mkdir() routine is available |
882 | to create directories.. |
883 | |
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884 | d_mkdtemp (d_mkdtemp.U): |
885 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKDTEMP symbol, which |
886 | indicates to the C program that the mkdtemp() routine is available |
887 | to exclusively create a uniquely named temporary directory. |
888 | |
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889 | d_mkfifo (d_mkfifo.U): |
890 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKFIFO symbol, which |
891 | indicates to the C program that the mkfifo() routine is available. |
892 | |
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893 | d_mkstemp (d_mkstemp.U): |
894 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKSTEMP symbol, which |
895 | indicates to the C program that the mkstemp() routine is available |
896 | to exclusively create and open a uniquely named temporary file. |
897 | |
898 | d_mkstemps (d_mkstemps.U): |
899 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKSTEMPS symbol, which |
900 | indicates to the C program that the mkstemps() routine is available |
901 | to exclusively create and open a uniquely named (with a suffix) |
902 | temporary file. |
903 | |
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904 | d_mktime (d_mktime.U): |
905 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKTIME symbol, which |
906 | indicates to the C program that the mktime() routine is available. |
907 | |
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908 | d_mmap (d_mmap.U): |
909 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_MMAP if mmap() is |
910 | available to map a file into memory. |
911 | |
912 | d_mprotect (d_mprotect.U): |
913 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_MPROTECT if mprotect() is |
914 | available to modify the access protection of a memory mapped file. |
915 | |
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916 | d_msg (d_msg.U): |
917 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG symbol, which |
918 | indicates that the entire msg*(2) library is present. |
919 | |
920 | d_msg_ctrunc (d_socket.U): |
921 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_CTRUNC symbol, |
922 | which indicates that the MSG_CTRUNC is available. #ifdef is |
923 | not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this. |
924 | |
925 | d_msg_dontroute (d_socket.U): |
926 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_DONTROUTE symbol, |
927 | which indicates that the MSG_DONTROUTE is available. #ifdef is |
928 | not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this. |
929 | |
930 | d_msg_oob (d_socket.U): |
931 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_OOB symbol, |
932 | which indicates that the MSG_OOB is available. #ifdef is |
933 | not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this. |
934 | |
935 | d_msg_peek (d_socket.U): |
936 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_PEEK symbol, |
937 | which indicates that the MSG_PEEK is available. #ifdef is |
938 | not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this. |
939 | |
940 | d_msg_proxy (d_socket.U): |
941 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG_PROXY symbol, |
942 | which indicates that the MSG_PROXY is available. #ifdef is |
943 | not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this. |
944 | |
945 | d_msgctl (d_msgctl.U): |
946 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGCTL symbol, which |
947 | indicates to the C program that the msgctl() routine is available. |
948 | |
949 | d_msgget (d_msgget.U): |
950 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGGET symbol, which |
951 | indicates to the C program that the msgget() routine is available. |
952 | |
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953 | d_msgrcv (d_msgrcv.U): |
954 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGRCV symbol, which |
955 | indicates to the C program that the msgrcv() routine is available. |
956 | |
957 | d_msgsnd (d_msgsnd.U): |
958 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGSND symbol, which |
959 | indicates to the C program that the msgsnd() routine is available. |
960 | |
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961 | d_msync (d_msync.U): |
962 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_MSYNC if msync() is |
963 | available to synchronize a mapped file. |
964 | |
965 | d_munmap (d_munmap.U): |
966 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_MUNMAP if munmap() is |
967 | available to unmap a region mapped by mmap(). |
968 | |
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969 | d_mymalloc (mallocsrc.U): |
970 | This variable conditionally defines MYMALLOC in case other parts |
971 | of the source want to take special action if MYMALLOC is used. |
972 | This may include different sorts of profiling or error detection. |
973 | |
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974 | d_nice (d_nice.U): |
975 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NICE symbol, which |
976 | indicates to the C program that the nice() routine is available. |
977 | |
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978 | d_nv_preserves_uv (perlxv.U): |
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979 | This variable indicates whether a variable of type nvtype |
980 | can preserve all the bits a variable of type uvtype. |
981 | |
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982 | d_off64_t (io64.U): |
983 | This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports off64_t. |
984 | |
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985 | d_old_pthread_create_joinable (d_pthrattrj.U): |
986 | This variable conditionally defines pthread_create_joinable. |
987 | undef if pthread.h defines PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE. |
988 | |
989 | d_oldpthreads (usethreads.U): |
990 | This variable conditionally defines the OLD_PTHREADS_API symbol, |
991 | and indicates that Perl should be built to use the old |
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992 | draft POSIX threads API. This is only potentially meaningful if |
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993 | usethreads is set. |
994 | |
995 | d_oldsock (d_socket.U): |
996 | This variable conditionally defines the OLDSOCKET symbol, which |
997 | indicates that the BSD socket interface is based on 4.1c and not 4.2. |
998 | |
999 | d_open3 (d_open3.U): |
1000 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_OPEN3 manifest constant, |
1001 | which indicates to the C program that the 3 argument version of |
1002 | the open(2) function is available. |
1003 | |
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1004 | d_pathconf (d_pathconf.U): |
1005 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PATHCONF symbol, which |
1006 | indicates to the C program that the pathconf() routine is available |
1007 | to determine file-system related limits and options associated |
1008 | with a given filename. |
1009 | |
1010 | d_pause (d_pause.U): |
1011 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PAUSE symbol, which |
1012 | indicates to the C program that the pause() routine is available |
1013 | to suspend a process until a signal is received. |
1014 | |
1015 | d_phostname (d_gethname.U): |
1016 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PHOSTNAME symbol, which |
1017 | contains the shell command which, when fed to popen(), may be |
1018 | used to derive the host name. |
1019 | |
1020 | d_pipe (d_pipe.U): |
1021 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PIPE symbol, which |
1022 | indicates to the C program that the pipe() routine is available |
1023 | to create an inter-process channel. |
1024 | |
1025 | d_poll (d_poll.U): |
1026 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_POLL symbol, which |
1027 | indicates to the C program that the poll() routine is available |
1028 | to poll active file descriptors. |
1029 | |
1030 | d_portable (d_portable.U): |
1031 | This variable conditionally defines the PORTABLE symbol, which |
1032 | indicates to the C program that it should not assume that it is |
1033 | running on the machine it was compiled on. |
1034 | |
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1035 | d_PRId64 (quadfio.U): |
1036 | This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRId64 symbol, which |
1037 | indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit decimal numbers. |
1038 | |
1039 | d_PRIeldbl (longdblfio.U): |
1040 | This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldlbl symbol, which |
1041 | indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles. |
1042 | |
1043 | d_PRIEldbl (longdblfio.U): |
1044 | This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldlbl symbol, which |
1045 | indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles. |
1046 | |
1047 | d_PRIfldbl (longdblfio.U): |
1048 | This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldlbl symbol, which |
1049 | indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles. |
1050 | |
1051 | d_PRIFldbl (longdblfio.U): |
1052 | This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldlbl symbol, which |
1053 | indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles. |
1054 | |
1055 | d_PRIgldbl (longdblfio.U): |
1056 | This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldlbl symbol, which |
1057 | indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles. |
1058 | |
1059 | d_PRIGldbl (longdblfio.U): |
1060 | This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldlbl symbol, which |
1061 | indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles. |
1062 | |
1063 | d_PRIi64 (quadfio.U): |
1064 | This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIi64 symbol, which |
1065 | indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit decimal numbers. |
1066 | |
1067 | d_PRIo64 (quadfio.U): |
1068 | This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIo64 symbol, which |
1069 | indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit octal numbers. |
1070 | |
1071 | d_PRIu64 (quadfio.U): |
1072 | This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIu64 symbol, which |
1073 | indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit unsigned decimal |
1074 | numbers. |
1075 | |
1076 | d_PRIx64 (quadfio.U): |
1077 | This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIx64 symbol, which |
1078 | indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit hexadecimal numbers. |
1079 | |
1080 | d_PRIX64 (quadfio.U): |
1081 | This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIX64 symbol, which |
1082 | indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit hExADECimAl numbers. |
1083 | |
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1084 | d_pthread_yield (d_pthread_y.U): |
1085 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PTHREAD_YIELD |
1086 | symbol if the pthread_yield routine is available to yield |
1087 | the execution of the current thread. |
1088 | |
1089 | d_pwage (i_pwd.U): |
1090 | This variable conditionally defines PWAGE, which indicates |
1091 | that struct passwd contains pw_age. |
1092 | |
1093 | d_pwchange (i_pwd.U): |
1094 | This variable conditionally defines PWCHANGE, which indicates |
1095 | that struct passwd contains pw_change. |
1096 | |
1097 | d_pwclass (i_pwd.U): |
1098 | This variable conditionally defines PWCLASS, which indicates |
1099 | that struct passwd contains pw_class. |
1100 | |
1101 | d_pwcomment (i_pwd.U): |
1102 | This variable conditionally defines PWCOMMENT, which indicates |
1103 | that struct passwd contains pw_comment. |
1104 | |
1105 | d_pwexpire (i_pwd.U): |
1106 | This variable conditionally defines PWEXPIRE, which indicates |
1107 | that struct passwd contains pw_expire. |
1108 | |
1109 | d_pwgecos (i_pwd.U): |
1110 | This variable conditionally defines PWGECOS, which indicates |
1111 | that struct passwd contains pw_gecos. |
1112 | |
1113 | d_pwpasswd (i_pwd.U): |
1114 | This variable conditionally defines PWPASSWD, which indicates |
1115 | that struct passwd contains pw_passwd. |
1116 | |
1117 | d_pwquota (i_pwd.U): |
1118 | This variable conditionally defines PWQUOTA, which indicates |
1119 | that struct passwd contains pw_quota. |
1120 | |
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1121 | d_quad (quadtype.U): |
1122 | This variable, if defined, tells that there's a 64-bit integer type, |
1123 | quadtype. |
1124 | |
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1125 | d_readdir (d_readdir.U): |
1126 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_READDIR if readdir() is |
1127 | available to read directory entries. |
1128 | |
1129 | d_readlink (d_readlink.U): |
1130 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READLINK symbol, which |
1131 | indicates to the C program that the readlink() routine is available |
1132 | to read the value of a symbolic link. |
1133 | |
781b178c |
1134 | d_rename (d_rename.U): |
1135 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RENAME symbol, which |
1136 | indicates to the C program that the rename() routine is available |
1137 | to rename files. |
1138 | |
1139 | d_rewinddir (d_readdir.U): |
1140 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_REWINDDIR if rewinddir() is |
1141 | available. |
1142 | |
1143 | d_rmdir (d_rmdir.U): |
1144 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_RMDIR if rmdir() is |
1145 | available to remove directories. |
1146 | |
1147 | d_safebcpy (d_safebcpy.U): |
1148 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SAFE_BCOPY symbol if |
1149 | the bcopy() routine can do overlapping copies. |
1150 | |
1151 | d_safemcpy (d_safemcpy.U): |
1152 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SAFE_MEMCPY symbol if |
1153 | the memcpy() routine can do overlapping copies. |
1154 | |
1155 | d_sanemcmp (d_sanemcmp.U): |
1156 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SANE_MEMCMP symbol if |
1157 | the memcpy() routine is available and can be used to compare relative |
1158 | magnitudes of chars with their high bits set. |
1159 | |
1160 | d_sched_yield (d_pthread_y.U): |
1161 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCHED_YIELD |
1162 | symbol if the sched_yield routine is available to yield |
1163 | the execution of the current thread. |
1164 | |
1165 | d_scm_rights (d_socket.U): |
1166 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCM_RIGHTS symbol, |
1167 | which indicates that the SCM_RIGHTS is available. #ifdef is |
1168 | not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this. |
1169 | |
781b178c |
1170 | d_seekdir (d_readdir.U): |
1171 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_SEEKDIR if seekdir() is |
1172 | available. |
1173 | |
1174 | d_select (d_select.U): |
1175 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_SELECT if select() is |
1176 | available to select active file descriptors. A <sys/time.h> |
1177 | inclusion may be necessary for the timeout field. |
1178 | |
1179 | d_sem (d_sem.U): |
1180 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEM symbol, which |
1181 | indicates that the entire sem*(2) library is present. |
1182 | |
1183 | d_semctl (d_semctl.U): |
1184 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMCTL symbol, which |
1185 | indicates to the C program that the semctl() routine is available. |
1186 | |
1187 | d_semctl_semid_ds (d_union_semun.U): |
1188 | This variable conditionally defines USE_SEMCTL_SEMID_DS, which |
1189 | indicates that struct semid_ds * is to be used for semctl IPC_STAT. |
1190 | |
1191 | d_semctl_semun (d_union_semun.U): |
1192 | This variable conditionally defines USE_SEMCTL_SEMUN, which |
1193 | indicates that union semun is to be used for semctl IPC_STAT. |
1194 | |
1195 | d_semget (d_semget.U): |
1196 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMGET symbol, which |
1197 | indicates to the C program that the semget() routine is available. |
1198 | |
1199 | d_semop (d_semop.U): |
1200 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMOP symbol, which |
1201 | indicates to the C program that the semop() routine is available. |
1202 | |
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1203 | d_setegid (d_setegid.U): |
1204 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETEGID symbol, which |
1205 | indicates to the C program that the setegid() routine is available |
1206 | to change the effective gid of the current program. |
1207 | |
1208 | d_seteuid (d_seteuid.U): |
1209 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETEUID symbol, which |
1210 | indicates to the C program that the seteuid() routine is available |
1211 | to change the effective uid of the current program. |
1212 | |
1213 | d_setgrent (d_setgrent.U): |
1214 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGRENT symbol, which |
1215 | indicates to the C program that the setgrent() routine is available |
1216 | for initializing sequential access to the group database. |
1217 | |
1218 | d_setgrps (d_setgrps.U): |
1219 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGROUPS symbol, which |
1220 | indicates to the C program that the setgroups() routine is available |
1221 | to set the list of process groups. |
1222 | |
1223 | d_sethent (d_sethent.U): |
1224 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETHOSTENT if sethostent() is |
1225 | available. |
1226 | |
1227 | d_setlinebuf (d_setlnbuf.U): |
1228 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETLINEBUF symbol, which |
1229 | indicates to the C program that the setlinebuf() routine is available |
1230 | to change stderr or stdout from block-buffered or unbuffered to a |
1231 | line-buffered mode. |
1232 | |
1233 | d_setlocale (d_setlocale.U): |
1234 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETLOCALE if setlocale() is |
1235 | available to handle locale-specific ctype implementations. |
1236 | |
1237 | d_setnent (d_setnent.U): |
1238 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETNETENT if setnetent() is |
1239 | available. |
1240 | |
1241 | d_setpent (d_setpent.U): |
1242 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPROTOENT if setprotoent() is |
1243 | available. |
1244 | |
1245 | d_setpgid (d_setpgid.U): |
1246 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGID symbol if the |
1247 | setpgid(pid, gpid) function is available to set process group ID. |
1248 | |
1249 | d_setpgrp2 (d_setpgrp2.U): |
1250 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGRP2 symbol, which |
1251 | indicates to the C program that the setpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine |
1252 | is available to set the current process group. |
1253 | |
1254 | d_setpgrp (d_setpgrp.U): |
1255 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPGRP if setpgrp() is |
1256 | available to set the current process group. |
1257 | |
1258 | d_setprior (d_setprior.U): |
1259 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPRIORITY if setpriority() |
1260 | is available to set a process's priority. |
1261 | |
1262 | d_setpwent (d_setpwent.U): |
1263 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPWENT symbol, which |
1264 | indicates to the C program that the setpwent() routine is available |
1265 | for initializing sequential access to the passwd database. |
1266 | |
1267 | d_setregid (d_setregid.U): |
1268 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREGID if setregid() is |
1269 | available to change the real and effective gid of the current |
1270 | process. |
1271 | |
1272 | d_setresgid (d_setregid.U): |
1273 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETRESGID if setresgid() is |
1274 | available to change the real, effective and saved gid of the current |
1275 | process. |
1276 | |
1277 | d_setresuid (d_setreuid.U): |
1278 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREUID if setresuid() is |
1279 | available to change the real, effective and saved uid of the current |
1280 | process. |
1281 | |
1282 | d_setreuid (d_setreuid.U): |
1283 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREUID if setreuid() is |
1284 | available to change the real and effective uid of the current |
1285 | process. |
1286 | |
1287 | d_setrgid (d_setrgid.U): |
1288 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRGID symbol, which |
1289 | indicates to the C program that the setrgid() routine is available |
1290 | to change the real gid of the current program. |
1291 | |
1292 | d_setruid (d_setruid.U): |
1293 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRUID symbol, which |
1294 | indicates to the C program that the setruid() routine is available |
1295 | to change the real uid of the current program. |
1296 | |
1297 | d_setsent (d_setsent.U): |
1298 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSERVENT if setservent() is |
1299 | available. |
1300 | |
1301 | d_setsid (d_setsid.U): |
1302 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSID if setsid() is |
1303 | available to set the process group ID. |
1304 | |
1305 | d_setspent (d_setspent.U): |
1306 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSPENT if setspent() is |
1307 | available to initialize the scan of SysV shadow password entries. |
1308 | |
1309 | d_setvbuf (d_setvbuf.U): |
1310 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETVBUF symbol, which |
1311 | indicates to the C program that the setvbuf() routine is available |
1312 | to change buffering on an open stdio stream. |
1313 | |
1314 | d_sfio (d_sfio.U): |
1315 | This variable conditionally defines the USE_SFIO symbol, |
1316 | and indicates whether sfio is available (and should be used). |
1317 | |
1318 | d_shm (d_shm.U): |
1319 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHM symbol, which |
1320 | indicates that the entire shm*(2) library is present. |
1321 | |
1322 | d_shmat (d_shmat.U): |
1323 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMAT symbol, which |
1324 | indicates to the C program that the shmat() routine is available. |
1325 | |
1326 | d_shmatprototype (d_shmat.U): |
1327 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMAT_PROTOTYPE |
1328 | symbol, which indicates that sys/shm.h has a prototype for |
1329 | shmat. |
1330 | |
1331 | d_shmctl (d_shmctl.U): |
1332 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMCTL symbol, which |
1333 | indicates to the C program that the shmctl() routine is available. |
1334 | |
1335 | d_shmdt (d_shmdt.U): |
1336 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMDT symbol, which |
1337 | indicates to the C program that the shmdt() routine is available. |
1338 | |
1339 | d_shmget (d_shmget.U): |
1340 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMGET symbol, which |
1341 | indicates to the C program that the shmget() routine is available. |
1342 | |
1343 | d_sigaction (d_sigaction.U): |
1344 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGACTION symbol, which |
1345 | indicates that the Vr4 sigaction() routine is available. |
1346 | |
1347 | d_sigsetjmp (d_sigsetjmp.U): |
1348 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGSETJMP symbol, |
1349 | which indicates that the sigsetjmp() routine is available to |
1350 | call setjmp() and optionally save the process's signal mask. |
1351 | |
1352 | d_socket (d_socket.U): |
1353 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_SOCKET, which indicates |
1354 | that the BSD socket interface is supported. |
1355 | |
1356 | d_sockpair (d_socket.U): |
1357 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKETPAIR symbol, which |
1358 | indicates that the BSD socketpair() is supported. |
1359 | |
68d4903c |
1360 | d_sqrtl (d_sqrtl.U): |
1361 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SQRTL symbol, which |
1362 | indicates to the C program that the sqrtl() routine is available. |
1363 | |
781b178c |
1364 | d_statblks (d_statblks.U): |
1365 | This variable conditionally defines USE_STAT_BLOCKS |
1366 | if this system has a stat structure declaring |
1367 | st_blksize and st_blocks. |
1368 | |
ad27e871 |
1369 | d_statfs_f_flags (d_statfs_f_flags.U): |
0545a864 |
1370 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_STATFS_F_FLAGS |
781b178c |
1371 | symbol, which indicates to struct statfs from has f_flags member. |
1372 | This kind of struct statfs is coming from sys/mount.h (BSD), |
1373 | not from sys/statfs.h (SYSV). |
1374 | |
ad27e871 |
1375 | d_statfs_s (d_statfs_s.U): |
0545a864 |
1376 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_STATFS symbol, |
1377 | which indicates that the struct statfs is supported. |
1378 | |
781b178c |
1379 | d_statvfs (d_statvfs.U): |
1380 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STATVFS symbol, which |
1381 | indicates to the C program that the statvfs() routine is available. |
1382 | |
1383 | d_stdio_cnt_lval (d_stdstdio.U): |
1384 | This variable conditionally defines STDIO_CNT_LVALUE if the |
1385 | FILE_cnt macro can be used as an lvalue. |
1386 | |
1387 | d_stdio_ptr_lval (d_stdstdio.U): |
1388 | This variable conditionally defines STDIO_PTR_LVALUE if the |
1389 | FILE_ptr macro can be used as an lvalue. |
1390 | |
1391 | d_stdio_stream_array (stdio_streams.U): |
1392 | This variable tells whether there is an array holding |
1393 | the stdio streams. |
1394 | |
1395 | d_stdiobase (d_stdstdio.U): |
1396 | This variable conditionally defines USE_STDIO_BASE if this system |
1397 | has a FILE structure declaring a usable _base field (or equivalent) |
1398 | in stdio.h. |
1399 | |
1400 | d_stdstdio (d_stdstdio.U): |
1401 | This variable conditionally defines USE_STDIO_PTR if this system |
1402 | has a FILE structure declaring usable _ptr and _cnt fields (or |
1403 | equivalent) in stdio.h. |
1404 | |
781b178c |
1405 | d_strchr (d_strchr.U): |
1406 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRCHR if strchr() and |
1407 | strrchr() are available for string searching. |
1408 | |
1409 | d_strcoll (d_strcoll.U): |
1410 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRCOLL if strcoll() is |
1411 | available to compare strings using collating information. |
1412 | |
1413 | d_strctcpy (d_strctcpy.U): |
1414 | This variable conditionally defines the USE_STRUCT_COPY symbol, which |
1415 | indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows how to copy |
1416 | structures. |
1417 | |
1418 | d_strerrm (d_strerror.U): |
1419 | This variable holds what Strerrr is defined as to translate an error |
1420 | code condition into an error message string. It could be 'strerror' |
1421 | or a more complex macro emulating strrror with sys_errlist[], or the |
1422 | "unknown" string when both strerror and sys_errlist are missing. |
1423 | |
1424 | d_strerror (d_strerror.U): |
1425 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRERROR if strerror() is |
1426 | available to translate error numbers to strings. |
1427 | |
1428 | d_strtod (d_strtod.U): |
1429 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOD symbol, which |
1430 | indicates to the C program that the strtod() routine is available |
1431 | to provide better numeric string conversion than atof(). |
1432 | |
1433 | d_strtol (d_strtol.U): |
1434 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOL symbol, which |
1435 | indicates to the C program that the strtol() routine is available |
1436 | to provide better numeric string conversion than atoi() and friends. |
1437 | |
ff935051 |
1438 | d_strtold (d_strtold.U): |
1439 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLD symbol, which |
1440 | indicates to the C program that the strtold() routine is available. |
1441 | |
76d49b1c |
1442 | d_strtoll (d_strtoll.U): |
1443 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLL symbol, which |
1444 | indicates to the C program that the strtoll() routine is available. |
1445 | |
781b178c |
1446 | d_strtoul (d_strtoul.U): |
1447 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUL symbol, which |
1448 | indicates to the C program that the strtoul() routine is available |
1449 | to provide conversion of strings to unsigned long. |
1450 | |
ff935051 |
1451 | d_strtoull (d_strtoull.U): |
11dc3f68 |
1452 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOULL symbol, which |
1453 | indicates to the C program that the strtoull() routine is available. |
1454 | |
ff935051 |
1455 | d_strtouq (d_strtouq.U): |
1456 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUQ symbol, which |
1457 | indicates to the C program that the strtouq() routine is available. |
1458 | |
781b178c |
1459 | d_strxfrm (d_strxfrm.U): |
1460 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRXFRM if strxfrm() is |
1461 | available to transform strings. |
1462 | |
1463 | d_suidsafe (d_dosuid.U): |
1464 | This variable conditionally defines SETUID_SCRIPTS_ARE_SECURE_NOW |
1465 | if setuid scripts can be secure. This test looks in /dev/fd/. |
1466 | |
1467 | d_symlink (d_symlink.U): |
1468 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYMLINK symbol, which |
1469 | indicates to the C program that the symlink() routine is available |
1470 | to create symbolic links. |
1471 | |
1472 | d_syscall (d_syscall.U): |
1473 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYSCALL if syscall() is |
1474 | available call arbitrary system calls. |
1475 | |
1476 | d_sysconf (d_sysconf.U): |
1477 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYSCONF symbol, which |
1478 | indicates to the C program that the sysconf() routine is available |
1479 | to determine system related limits and options. |
1480 | |
1481 | d_sysernlst (d_strerror.U): |
1482 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYS_ERRNOLIST if sys_errnolist[] |
1483 | is available to translate error numbers to the symbolic name. |
1484 | |
1485 | d_syserrlst (d_strerror.U): |
1486 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYS_ERRLIST if sys_errlist[] is |
1487 | available to translate error numbers to strings. |
1488 | |
1489 | d_system (d_system.U): |
1490 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYSTEM if system() is |
1491 | available to issue a shell command. |
1492 | |
1493 | d_tcgetpgrp (d_tcgtpgrp.U): |
1494 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TCGETPGRP symbol, which |
1495 | indicates to the C program that the tcgetpgrp() routine is available. |
1496 | to get foreground process group ID. |
1497 | |
1498 | d_tcsetpgrp (d_tcstpgrp.U): |
1499 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TCSETPGRP symbol, which |
1500 | indicates to the C program that the tcsetpgrp() routine is available |
1501 | to set foreground process group ID. |
1502 | |
781b178c |
1503 | d_telldir (d_readdir.U): |
1504 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_TELLDIR if telldir() is |
1505 | available. |
1506 | |
1507 | d_telldirproto (d_telldirproto.U): |
1508 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TELLDIR_PROTO symbol, |
1509 | which indicates to the C program that the system provides |
1510 | a prototype for the telldir() function. Otherwise, it is |
1511 | up to the program to supply one. |
1512 | |
1513 | d_time (d_time.U): |
1514 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIME symbol, which indicates |
1515 | that the time() routine exists. The time() routine is normaly |
1516 | provided on UNIX systems. |
1517 | |
1518 | d_times (d_times.U): |
1519 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIMES symbol, which indicates |
1520 | that the times() routine exists. The times() routine is normaly |
1521 | provided on UNIX systems. You may have to include <sys/times.h>. |
1522 | |
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1523 | d_truncate (d_truncate.U): |
1524 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_TRUNCATE if truncate() is |
1525 | available to truncate files. |
1526 | |
1527 | d_tzname (d_tzname.U): |
1528 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_TZNAME if tzname[] is |
1529 | available to access timezone names. |
1530 | |
1531 | d_umask (d_umask.U): |
1532 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UMASK symbol, which |
1533 | indicates to the C program that the umask() routine is available. |
1534 | to set and get the value of the file creation mask. |
1535 | |
1536 | d_uname (d_gethname.U): |
1537 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNAME symbol, which |
1538 | indicates to the C program that the uname() routine may be |
1539 | used to derive the host name. |
1540 | |
1541 | d_union_semun (d_union_semun.U): |
1542 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_UNION_SEMUN if the |
1543 | union semun is defined by including <sys/sem.h>. |
1544 | |
0545a864 |
1545 | d_ustat (d_ustat.U): |
1546 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_USTAT if ustat() is |
1547 | available to query file system statistics by dev_t. |
1548 | |
0617aed7 |
1549 | d_vendorbin (vendorbin.U): |
1550 | This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORBIN. |
1551 | |
a3635516 |
1552 | d_vendorlib (vendorlib.U): |
1553 | This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORLIB. |
1554 | |
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1555 | d_vfork (d_vfork.U): |
1556 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VFORK symbol, which |
1557 | indicates the vfork() routine is available. |
1558 | |
1559 | d_void_closedir (d_closedir.U): |
1560 | This variable conditionally defines VOID_CLOSEDIR if closedir() |
1561 | does not return a value. |
1562 | |
1563 | d_voidsig (d_voidsig.U): |
1564 | This variable conditionally defines VOIDSIG if this system |
1565 | declares "void (*signal(...))()" in signal.h. The old way was to |
1566 | declare it as "int (*signal(...))()". |
1567 | |
1568 | d_voidtty (i_sysioctl.U): |
1569 | This variable conditionally defines USE_IOCNOTTY to indicate that the |
1570 | ioctl() call with TIOCNOTTY should be used to void tty association. |
1571 | Otherwise (on USG probably), it is enough to close the standard file |
1572 | decriptors and do a setpgrp(). |
1573 | |
1574 | d_volatile (d_volatile.U): |
1575 | This variable conditionally defines the HASVOLATILE symbol, which |
1576 | indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows about the |
1577 | volatile declaration. |
1578 | |
1579 | d_vprintf (d_vprintf.U): |
1580 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VPRINTF symbol, which |
1581 | indicates to the C program that the vprintf() routine is available |
1582 | to printf with a pointer to an argument list. |
1583 | |
1584 | d_wait4 (d_wait4.U): |
1585 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WAIT4 symbol, which |
1586 | indicates the wait4() routine is available. |
1587 | |
1588 | d_waitpid (d_waitpid.U): |
1589 | This variable conditionally defines HAS_WAITPID if waitpid() is |
1590 | available to wait for child process. |
1591 | |
1592 | d_wcstombs (d_wcstombs.U): |
1593 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSTOMBS symbol, which |
1594 | indicates to the C program that the wcstombs() routine is available |
1595 | to convert wide character strings to multibyte strings. |
1596 | |
1597 | d_wctomb (d_wctomb.U): |
1598 | This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCTOMB symbol, which |
1599 | indicates to the C program that the wctomb() routine is available |
1600 | to convert a wide character to a multibyte. |
1601 | |
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1602 | d_xenix (Guess.U): |
1603 | This variable conditionally defines the symbol XENIX, which alerts |
1604 | the C program that it runs under Xenix. |
1605 | |
1606 | date (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
1607 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
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1608 | full pathname (if any) of the date program. After Configure runs, |
1609 | the value is reset to a plain "date" and is not useful. |
1610 | |
1611 | db_hashtype (i_db.U): |
1612 | This variable contains the type of the hash structure element |
1613 | in the <db.h> header file. In older versions of DB, it was |
1614 | int, while in newer ones it is u_int32_t. |
1615 | |
1616 | db_prefixtype (i_db.U): |
1617 | This variable contains the type of the prefix structure element |
1618 | in the <db.h> header file. In older versions of DB, it was |
1619 | int, while in newer ones it is size_t. |
1620 | |
1621 | defvoidused (voidflags.U): |
1622 | This variable contains the default value of the VOIDUSED symbol (15). |
1623 | |
1624 | direntrytype (i_dirent.U): |
1625 | This symbol is set to 'struct direct' or 'struct dirent' depending on |
1626 | whether dirent is available or not. You should use this pseudo type to |
1627 | portably declare your directory entries. |
1628 | |
1629 | dlext (dlext.U): |
1630 | This variable contains the extension that is to be used for the |
1631 | dynamically loaded modules that perl generaties. |
1632 | |
1633 | dlsrc (dlsrc.U): |
1634 | This variable contains the name of the dynamic loading file that |
1635 | will be used with the package. |
1636 | |
1637 | doublesize (doublesize.U): |
1638 | This variable contains the value of the DOUBLESIZE symbol, which |
1639 | indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a double. |
1640 | |
1641 | drand01 (randfunc.U): |
1642 | Indicates the macro to be used to generate normalized |
1643 | random numbers. Uses randfunc, often divided by |
1644 | (double) (((unsigned long) 1 << randbits)) in order to |
1645 | normalize the result. |
1646 | In C programs, the macro 'Drand01' is mapped to drand01. |
1647 | |
1648 | dynamic_ext (Extensions.U): |
1649 | This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to |
1650 | link dynamically into the package. It is used by Makefile. |
1651 | |
1652 | eagain (nblock_io.U): |
1653 | This variable bears the symbolic errno code set by read() when no |
1654 | data is present on the file and non-blocking I/O was enabled (otherwise, |
1655 | read() blocks naturally). |
1656 | |
1657 | ebcdic (ebcdic.U): |
1658 | This variable conditionally defines EBCDIC if this |
1659 | system uses EBCDIC encoding. Among other things, this |
1660 | means that the character ranges are not contiguous. |
1661 | See trnl.U |
1662 | |
1663 | echo (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
1664 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
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1665 | full pathname (if any) of the echo program. After Configure runs, |
1666 | the value is reset to a plain "echo" and is not useful. |
1667 | |
1668 | egrep (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
1669 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
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1670 | full pathname (if any) of the egrep program. After Configure runs, |
1671 | the value is reset to a plain "egrep" and is not useful. |
1672 | |
1673 | emacs (Loc.U): |
1674 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
1675 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
1676 | |
1677 | eunicefix (Init.U): |
1678 | When running under Eunice this variable contains a command which will |
1679 | convert a shell script to the proper form of text file for it to be |
1680 | executable by the shell. On other systems it is a no-op. |
1681 | |
1682 | exe_ext (Unix.U): |
1683 | This is an old synonym for _exe. |
1684 | |
1685 | expr (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
1686 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
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1687 | full pathname (if any) of the expr program. After Configure runs, |
1688 | the value is reset to a plain "expr" and is not useful. |
1689 | |
1690 | extensions (Extensions.U): |
1691 | This variable holds a list of all extension files (both XS and |
1692 | non-xs linked into the package. It is propagated to Config.pm |
1693 | and is typically used to test whether a particular extesion |
1694 | is available. |
1695 | |
1696 | fflushall (fflushall.U): |
1697 | This symbol, if defined, tells that to flush |
1698 | all pending stdio output one must loop through all |
1699 | the stdio file handles stored in an array and fflush them. |
1700 | Note that if fflushNULL is defined, fflushall will not |
1701 | even be probed for and will be left undefined. |
1702 | |
ff935051 |
1703 | fflushNULL (fflushall.U): |
1704 | This symbol, if defined, tells that fflush(NULL) does flush |
1705 | all pending stdio output. |
1706 | |
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1707 | find (Loc.U): |
ff935051 |
1708 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
1709 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
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1710 | |
1711 | firstmakefile (Unix.U): |
1712 | This variable defines the first file searched by make. On unix, |
1713 | it is makefile (then Makefile). On case-insensitive systems, |
1714 | it might be something else. This is only used to deal with |
1715 | convoluted make depend tricks. |
1716 | |
1717 | flex (Loc.U): |
1718 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
1719 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
1720 | |
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1721 | fpossize (fpossize.U): |
1722 | This variable contains the size of a fpostype in bytes. |
1723 | |
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1724 | fpostype (fpostype.U): |
a22e52b9 |
1725 | This variable defines Fpos_t to be something like fpos_t, long, |
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1726 | uint, or whatever type is used to declare file positions in libc. |
1727 | |
1728 | freetype (mallocsrc.U): |
1729 | This variable contains the return type of free(). It is usually |
1730 | void, but occasionally int. |
1731 | |
1732 | full_ar (Loc_ar.U): |
1733 | This variable contains the full pathname to 'ar', whether or |
1734 | not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used |
1735 | in the Makefile.SH. |
1736 | |
1737 | full_csh (d_csh.U): |
1738 | This variable contains the full pathname to 'csh', whether or |
1739 | not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used |
1740 | in the compiled C program, and we assume that all systems which |
1741 | can share this executable will have the same full pathname to |
1742 | 'csh.' |
1743 | |
1744 | full_sed (Loc_sed.U): |
1745 | This variable contains the full pathname to 'sed', whether or |
1746 | not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used |
1747 | in the compiled C program, and we assume that all systems which |
1748 | can share this executable will have the same full pathname to |
1749 | 'sed.' |
1750 | |
1751 | gccversion (cc.U): |
1752 | If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable holds '1' or '2' to |
1753 | indicate whether the compiler is version 1 or 2. This is used in |
1754 | setting some of the default cflags. It is set to '' if not gcc. |
1755 | |
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1756 | gidformat (gidf.U): |
1757 | This variable contains the format string used for printing a Gid_t. |
1758 | |
785fb66b |
1759 | gidsign (gidsign.U): |
1760 | This variable contains the signedness of a gidtype. |
1761 | 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed. |
1762 | |
1763 | gidsize (gidsize.U): |
1764 | This variable contains the size of a gidtype in bytes. |
1765 | |
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1766 | gidtype (gidtype.U): |
1767 | This variable defines Gid_t to be something like gid_t, int, |
1768 | ushort, or whatever type is used to declare the return type |
1769 | of getgid(). Typically, it is the type of group ids in the kernel. |
1770 | |
1771 | glibpth (libpth.U): |
1772 | This variable holds the general path (space-separated) used to |
1773 | find libraries. It may contain directories that do not exist on |
1774 | this platform, libpth is the cleaned-up version. |
1775 | |
1776 | grep (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
1777 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
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1778 | full pathname (if any) of the grep program. After Configure runs, |
1779 | the value is reset to a plain "grep" and is not useful. |
1780 | |
1781 | groupcat (nis.U): |
1782 | This variable contains a command that produces the text of the |
1783 | /etc/group file. This is normally "cat /etc/group", but can be |
1784 | "ypcat group" when NIS is used. |
aaacdc8b |
1785 | On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent |
1786 | command, in which case this variable is unset. |
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1787 | |
1788 | groupstype (groupstype.U): |
1789 | This variable defines Groups_t to be something like gid_t, int, |
1790 | ushort, or whatever type is used for the second argument to |
1791 | getgroups() and setgroups(). Usually, this is the same as |
1792 | gidtype (gid_t), but sometimes it isn't. |
1793 | |
1794 | gzip (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
1795 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
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1796 | full pathname (if any) of the gzip program. After Configure runs, |
1797 | the value is reset to a plain "gzip" and is not useful. |
1798 | |
1799 | h_fcntl (h_fcntl.U): |
1800 | This is variable gets set in various places to tell i_fcntl that |
1801 | <fcntl.h> should be included. |
1802 | |
1803 | h_sysfile (h_sysfile.U): |
1804 | This is variable gets set in various places to tell i_sys_file that |
1805 | <sys/file.h> should be included. |
1806 | |
1807 | hint (Oldconfig.U): |
1808 | Gives the type of hints used for previous answers. May be one of |
1809 | "default", "recommended" or "previous". |
1810 | |
1811 | hostcat (nis.U): |
1812 | This variable contains a command that produces the text of the |
1813 | /etc/hosts file. This is normally "cat /etc/hosts", but can be |
1814 | "ypcat hosts" when NIS is used. |
aaacdc8b |
1815 | On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent |
1816 | command, in which case this variable is unset. |
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1817 | |
1818 | huge (models.U): |
1819 | This variable contains a flag which will tell the C compiler and loader |
1820 | to produce a program running with a huge memory model. If the |
1821 | huge model is not supported, contains the flag to produce large |
1822 | model programs. It is up to the Makefile to use this. |
1823 | |
a22e52b9 |
1824 | i16size (perlxv.U): |
1825 | This variable is the size of an I16 in bytes. |
1826 | |
1827 | i16type (perlxv.U): |
1828 | This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I16. |
1829 | |
1830 | i32size (perlxv.U): |
1831 | This variable is the size of an I32 in bytes. |
1832 | |
1833 | i32type (perlxv.U): |
1834 | This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I32. |
1835 | |
1836 | i64size (perlxv.U): |
1837 | This variable is the size of an I64 in bytes. |
1838 | |
1839 | i64type (perlxv.U): |
1840 | This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I64. |
1841 | |
1842 | i8size (perlxv.U): |
1843 | This variable is the size of an I8 in bytes. |
1844 | |
1845 | i8type (perlxv.U): |
1846 | This variable contains the C type used for Perl's I8. |
1847 | |
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1848 | i_arpainet (i_arpainet.U): |
1849 | This variable conditionally defines the I_ARPA_INET symbol, |
1850 | and indicates whether a C program should include <arpa/inet.h>. |
1851 | |
1852 | i_bsdioctl (i_sysioctl.U): |
1853 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_BSDIOCTL symbol, which |
1854 | indicates to the C program that <sys/bsdioctl.h> exists and should |
1855 | be included. |
1856 | |
1857 | i_db (i_db.U): |
1858 | This variable conditionally defines the I_DB symbol, and indicates |
1859 | whether a C program may include Berkeley's DB include file <db.h>. |
1860 | |
1861 | i_dbm (i_dbm.U): |
1862 | This variable conditionally defines the I_DBM symbol, which |
1863 | indicates to the C program that <dbm.h> exists and should |
1864 | be included. |
1865 | |
1866 | i_dirent (i_dirent.U): |
1867 | This variable conditionally defines I_DIRENT, which indicates |
1868 | to the C program that it should include <dirent.h>. |
1869 | |
1870 | i_dld (i_dld.U): |
1871 | This variable conditionally defines the I_DLD symbol, which |
1872 | indicates to the C program that <dld.h> (GNU dynamic loading) |
1873 | exists and should be included. |
1874 | |
1875 | i_dlfcn (i_dlfcn.U): |
1876 | This variable conditionally defines the I_DLFCN symbol, which |
1877 | indicates to the C program that <dlfcn.h> exists and should |
1878 | be included. |
1879 | |
1880 | i_fcntl (i_fcntl.U): |
1881 | This variable controls the value of I_FCNTL (which tells |
1882 | the C program to include <fcntl.h>). |
1883 | |
1884 | i_float (i_float.U): |
1885 | This variable conditionally defines the I_FLOAT symbol, and indicates |
1886 | whether a C program may include <float.h> to get symbols like DBL_MAX |
1887 | or DBL_MIN, i.e. machine dependent floating point values. |
1888 | |
1889 | i_gdbm (i_gdbm.U): |
1890 | This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBM symbol, which |
1891 | indicates to the C program that <gdbm.h> exists and should |
1892 | be included. |
1893 | |
1894 | i_grp (i_grp.U): |
1895 | This variable conditionally defines the I_GRP symbol, and indicates |
1896 | whether a C program should include <grp.h>. |
1897 | |
fe749a9f |
1898 | i_iconv (i_iconv.U): |
1899 | This variable conditionally defines the I_ICONV symbol, and indicates |
1900 | whether a C program should include <iconv.h>. |
1901 | |
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1902 | i_inttypes (i_inttypes.U): |
1903 | This variable conditionally defines the I_INTTYPES symbol, |
1904 | and indicates whether a C program should include <inttypes.h>. |
1905 | |
1906 | i_limits (i_limits.U): |
1907 | This variable conditionally defines the I_LIMITS symbol, and indicates |
1908 | whether a C program may include <limits.h> to get symbols like WORD_BIT |
1909 | and friends. |
1910 | |
1911 | i_locale (i_locale.U): |
1912 | This variable conditionally defines the I_LOCALE symbol, |
1913 | and indicates whether a C program should include <locale.h>. |
1914 | |
1915 | i_machcthr (i_machcthr.U): |
1916 | This variable conditionally defines the I_MACH_CTHREADS symbol, |
1917 | and indicates whether a C program should include <mach/cthreads.h>. |
1918 | |
1919 | i_malloc (i_malloc.U): |
1920 | This variable conditionally defines the I_MALLOC symbol, and indicates |
1921 | whether a C program should include <malloc.h>. |
1922 | |
1923 | i_math (i_math.U): |
1924 | This variable conditionally defines the I_MATH symbol, and indicates |
1925 | whether a C program may include <math.h>. |
1926 | |
1927 | i_memory (i_memory.U): |
1928 | This variable conditionally defines the I_MEMORY symbol, and indicates |
1929 | whether a C program should include <memory.h>. |
1930 | |
1931 | i_mntent (i_mntent.U): |
1932 | This variable conditionally defines the I_MNTENT symbol, and indicates |
1933 | whether a C program should include <mntent.h>. |
1934 | |
1935 | i_ndbm (i_ndbm.U): |
1936 | This variable conditionally defines the I_NDBM symbol, which |
1937 | indicates to the C program that <ndbm.h> exists and should |
1938 | be included. |
1939 | |
1940 | i_netdb (i_netdb.U): |
1941 | This variable conditionally defines the I_NETDB symbol, and indicates |
1942 | whether a C program should include <netdb.h>. |
1943 | |
1944 | i_neterrno (i_neterrno.U): |
1945 | This variable conditionally defines the I_NET_ERRNO symbol, which |
1946 | indicates to the C program that <net/errno.h> exists and should |
1947 | be included. |
1948 | |
1949 | i_netinettcp (i_netinettcp.U): |
1950 | This variable conditionally defines the I_NETINET_TCP symbol, |
1951 | and indicates whether a C program should include <netinet/tcp.h>. |
1952 | |
1953 | i_niin (i_niin.U): |
1954 | This variable conditionally defines I_NETINET_IN, which indicates |
1955 | to the C program that it should include <netinet/in.h>. Otherwise, |
1956 | you may try <sys/in.h>. |
1957 | |
1958 | i_poll (i_poll.U): |
1959 | This variable conditionally defines the I_POLL symbol, and indicates |
1960 | whether a C program should include <poll.h>. |
1961 | |
1962 | i_pthread (i_pthread.U): |
190b66db |
1963 | This variable conditionally defines the I_PTHREAD symbol, |
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1964 | and indicates whether a C program should include <pthread.h>. |
1965 | |
1966 | i_pwd (i_pwd.U): |
1967 | This variable conditionally defines I_PWD, which indicates |
1968 | to the C program that it should include <pwd.h>. |
1969 | |
1970 | i_rpcsvcdbm (i_dbm.U): |
1971 | This variable conditionally defines the I_RPCSVC_DBM symbol, which |
1972 | indicates to the C program that <rpcsvc/dbm.h> exists and should |
1973 | be included. Some System V systems might need this instead of <dbm.h>. |
1974 | |
1975 | i_sfio (i_sfio.U): |
1976 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SFIO symbol, |
1977 | and indicates whether a C program should include <sfio.h>. |
1978 | |
1979 | i_sgtty (i_termio.U): |
1980 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SGTTY symbol, which |
1981 | indicates to the C program that it should include <sgtty.h> rather |
1982 | than <termio.h>. |
1983 | |
1984 | i_shadow (i_shadow.U): |
1985 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SHADOW symbol, and indicates |
1986 | whether a C program should include <shadow.h>. |
1987 | |
1988 | i_socks (i_socks.U): |
1989 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SOCKS symbol, and indicates |
1990 | whether a C program should include <socks.h>. |
1991 | |
1992 | i_stdarg (i_varhdr.U): |
1993 | This variable conditionally defines the I_STDARG symbol, which |
1994 | indicates to the C program that <stdarg.h> exists and should |
1995 | be included. |
1996 | |
1997 | i_stddef (i_stddef.U): |
1998 | This variable conditionally defines the I_STDDEF symbol, which |
1999 | indicates to the C program that <stddef.h> exists and should |
2000 | be included. |
2001 | |
2002 | i_stdlib (i_stdlib.U): |
2003 | This variable conditionally defines the I_STDLIB symbol, which |
2004 | indicates to the C program that <stdlib.h> exists and should |
2005 | be included. |
2006 | |
2007 | i_string (i_string.U): |
2008 | This variable conditionally defines the I_STRING symbol, which |
2009 | indicates that <string.h> should be included rather than <strings.h>. |
2010 | |
2011 | i_sysaccess (i_sysaccess.U): |
2012 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_ACCESS symbol, |
2013 | and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/access.h>. |
2014 | |
2015 | i_sysdir (i_sysdir.U): |
2016 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_DIR symbol, and indicates |
2017 | whether a C program should include <sys/dir.h>. |
2018 | |
2019 | i_sysfile (i_sysfile.U): |
2020 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_FILE symbol, and indicates |
2021 | whether a C program should include <sys/file.h> to get R_OK and friends. |
2022 | |
2023 | i_sysfilio (i_sysioctl.U): |
2024 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_FILIO symbol, which |
2025 | indicates to the C program that <sys/filio.h> exists and should |
2026 | be included in preference to <sys/ioctl.h>. |
2027 | |
2028 | i_sysin (i_niin.U): |
2029 | This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_IN, which indicates |
2030 | to the C program that it should include <sys/in.h> instead of |
2031 | <netinet/in.h>. |
2032 | |
2033 | i_sysioctl (i_sysioctl.U): |
2034 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_IOCTL symbol, which |
2035 | indicates to the C program that <sys/ioctl.h> exists and should |
2036 | be included. |
2037 | |
fe749a9f |
2038 | i_sysmman (i_sysmman.U): |
2039 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_MMAN symbol, and |
2040 | indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mman.h>. |
2041 | |
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2042 | i_sysmount (i_sysmount.U): |
2043 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSMOUNT symbol, |
2044 | and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/mount.h>. |
2045 | |
2046 | i_sysndir (i_sysndir.U): |
2047 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_NDIR symbol, and indicates |
2048 | whether a C program should include <sys/ndir.h>. |
2049 | |
2050 | i_sysparam (i_sysparam.U): |
2051 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_PARAM symbol, and indicates |
2052 | whether a C program should include <sys/param.h>. |
2053 | |
2054 | i_sysresrc (i_sysresrc.U): |
2055 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_RESOURCE symbol, |
2056 | and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/resource.h>. |
2057 | |
2058 | i_syssecrt (i_syssecrt.U): |
2059 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_SECURITY symbol, |
2060 | and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/security.h>. |
2061 | |
2062 | i_sysselct (i_sysselct.U): |
2063 | This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_SELECT, which indicates |
2064 | to the C program that it should include <sys/select.h> in order to |
2065 | get the definition of struct timeval. |
2066 | |
2067 | i_syssockio (i_sysioctl.U): |
2068 | This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_SOCKIO to indicate to the |
2069 | C program that socket ioctl codes may be found in <sys/sockio.h> |
2070 | instead of <sys/ioctl.h>. |
2071 | |
2072 | i_sysstat (i_sysstat.U): |
2073 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_STAT symbol, |
2074 | and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/stat.h>. |
2075 | |
0545a864 |
2076 | i_sysstatfs (i_sysstatfs.U): |
2077 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSSTATFS symbol, |
2078 | and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/statfs.h>. |
2079 | |
781b178c |
2080 | i_sysstatvfs (i_sysstatvfs.U): |
2081 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSSTATVFS symbol, |
2082 | and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/statvfs.h>. |
2083 | |
2084 | i_systime (i_time.U): |
2085 | This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_TIME, which indicates |
2086 | to the C program that it should include <sys/time.h>. |
2087 | |
2088 | i_systimek (i_time.U): |
2089 | This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_TIME_KERNEL, which |
2090 | indicates to the C program that it should include <sys/time.h> |
2091 | with KERNEL defined. |
2092 | |
2093 | i_systimes (i_systimes.U): |
2094 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_TIMES symbol, and indicates |
2095 | whether a C program should include <sys/times.h>. |
2096 | |
2097 | i_systypes (i_systypes.U): |
2098 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_TYPES symbol, |
2099 | and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/types.h>. |
2100 | |
2101 | i_sysuio (i_sysuio.U): |
2102 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSUIO symbol, and indicates |
2103 | whether a C program should include <sys/uio.h>. |
2104 | |
2105 | i_sysun (i_sysun.U): |
2106 | This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_UN, which indicates |
2107 | to the C program that it should include <sys/un.h> to get UNIX |
2108 | domain socket definitions. |
2109 | |
0545a864 |
2110 | i_sysvfs (i_sysvfs.U): |
2111 | This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSVFS symbol, |
2112 | and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/vfs.h>. |
2113 | |
781b178c |
2114 | i_syswait (i_syswait.U): |
2115 | This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_WAIT, which indicates |
2116 | to the C program that it should include <sys/wait.h>. |
2117 | |
2118 | i_termio (i_termio.U): |
2119 | This variable conditionally defines the I_TERMIO symbol, which |
2120 | indicates to the C program that it should include <termio.h> rather |
2121 | than <sgtty.h>. |
2122 | |
2123 | i_termios (i_termio.U): |
2124 | This variable conditionally defines the I_TERMIOS symbol, which |
2125 | indicates to the C program that the POSIX <termios.h> file is |
2126 | to be included. |
2127 | |
2128 | i_time (i_time.U): |
2129 | This variable conditionally defines I_TIME, which indicates |
2130 | to the C program that it should include <time.h>. |
2131 | |
2132 | i_unistd (i_unistd.U): |
2133 | This variable conditionally defines the I_UNISTD symbol, and indicates |
2134 | whether a C program should include <unistd.h>. |
2135 | |
0545a864 |
2136 | i_ustat (i_ustat.U): |
2137 | This variable conditionally defines the I_USTAT symbol, and indicates |
2138 | whether a C program should include <ustat.h>. |
2139 | |
781b178c |
2140 | i_utime (i_utime.U): |
2141 | This variable conditionally defines the I_UTIME symbol, and indicates |
2142 | whether a C program should include <utime.h>. |
2143 | |
2144 | i_values (i_values.U): |
2145 | This variable conditionally defines the I_VALUES symbol, and indicates |
2146 | whether a C program may include <values.h> to get symbols like MAXLONG |
2147 | and friends. |
2148 | |
2149 | i_varargs (i_varhdr.U): |
2150 | This variable conditionally defines I_VARARGS, which indicates |
2151 | to the C program that it should include <varargs.h>. |
2152 | |
2153 | i_varhdr (i_varhdr.U): |
2154 | Contains the name of the header to be included to get va_dcl definition. |
2155 | Typically one of varargs.h or stdarg.h. |
2156 | |
2157 | i_vfork (i_vfork.U): |
2158 | This variable conditionally defines the I_VFORK symbol, and indicates |
2159 | whether a C program should include vfork.h. |
2160 | |
2161 | ignore_versioned_solibs (libs.U): |
2162 | This variable should be non-empty if non-versioned shared |
2163 | libraries (libfoo.so.x.y) are to be ignored (because they |
2164 | cannot be linked against). |
2165 | |
ff935051 |
2166 | inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U): |
2167 | This variable specifies the list of subdirectories in over |
2168 | which perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically |
3a096bf3 |
2169 | search when adding directories to @INC. The elements in |
2170 | the list are separated by spaces. This is only useful |
ff935051 |
2171 | if you have a perl library directory tree structured like the |
2172 | default one. See INSTALL for how this works. The versioned |
2173 | site_perl directory was introduced in 5.005, so that is the |
2174 | lowest possible value. |
2175 | |
3a096bf3 |
2176 | inc_version_list_init (inc_version_list.U): |
2177 | This variable holds the same list as inc_version_list, but |
2178 | each item is enclosed in double quotes and separated by commas, |
2179 | suitable for use in the PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST initialization. |
2180 | |
781b178c |
2181 | incpath (usrinc.U): |
2182 | This variable must preceed the normal include path to get hte |
2183 | right one, as in "$incpath/usr/include" or "$incpath/usr/lib". |
2184 | Value can be "" or "/bsd43" on mips. |
2185 | |
2186 | inews (Loc.U): |
2187 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
2188 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
2189 | |
2190 | installarchlib (archlib.U): |
2191 | This variable is really the same as archlibexp but may differ on |
2192 | those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable |
2193 | should be used in makefiles. |
2194 | |
2195 | installbin (bin.U): |
2196 | This variable is the same as binexp unless AFS is running in which case |
2197 | the user is explicitely prompted for it. This variable should always |
2198 | be used in your makefiles for maximum portability. |
2199 | |
2200 | installman1dir (man1dir.U): |
2201 | This variable is really the same as man1direxp, unless you are using |
2202 | AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas |
2203 | man1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra |
2204 | portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles. |
2205 | |
2206 | installman3dir (man3dir.U): |
2207 | This variable is really the same as man3direxp, unless you are using |
2208 | AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas |
2209 | man3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra |
2210 | portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles. |
2211 | |
2212 | installprefix (installprefix.U): |
2213 | This variable holds the name of the directory below which |
2214 | "make install" will install the package. For most users, this |
2215 | is the same as prefix. However, it is useful for |
2216 | installing the software into a different (usually temporary) |
2217 | location after which it can be bundled up and moved somehow |
2218 | to the final location specified by prefix. |
2219 | |
2220 | installprefixexp (installprefix.U): |
2221 | This variable holds the full absolute path of installprefix |
2222 | with all ~-expansion done. |
2223 | |
2224 | installprivlib (privlib.U): |
2225 | This variable is really the same as privlibexp but may differ on |
2226 | those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable |
2227 | should be used in makefiles. |
2228 | |
2229 | installscript (scriptdir.U): |
2230 | This variable is usually the same as scriptdirexp, unless you are on |
2231 | a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You |
2232 | should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability. |
2233 | |
2234 | installsitearch (sitearch.U): |
2235 | This variable is really the same as sitearchexp but may differ on |
2236 | those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable |
2237 | should be used in makefiles. |
2238 | |
0617aed7 |
2239 | installsitebin (sitebin.U): |
2240 | This variable is usually the same as sitebinexp, unless you are on |
2241 | a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You |
2242 | should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability. |
2243 | |
781b178c |
2244 | installsitelib (sitelib.U): |
2245 | This variable is really the same as sitelibexp but may differ on |
2246 | those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable |
2247 | should be used in makefiles. |
2248 | |
2249 | installstyle (installstyle.U): |
2250 | This variable describes the "style" of the perl installation. |
2251 | This is intended to be useful for tools that need to |
2252 | manipulate entire perl distributions. Perl itself doesn't use |
2253 | this to find its libraries -- the library directories are |
2254 | stored directly in Config.pm. Currently, there are only two |
2255 | styles: "lib" and "lib/perl5". The default library locations |
2256 | (e.g. privlib, sitelib) are either $prefix/lib or |
2257 | $prefix/lib/perl5. The former is useful if $prefix is a |
2258 | directory dedicated to perl (e.g. /opt/perl), while the latter |
2259 | is useful if $prefix is shared by many packages, e.g. if |
2260 | $prefix=/usr/local. |
2261 | This may later be extended to include other information, so |
2262 | be careful with pattern-matching on the results. |
2263 | For compatibility with perl5.005 and earlier, the default |
2264 | setting is based on whether or not $prefix contains the string |
2265 | "perl". |
2266 | |
2267 | installusrbinperl (instubperl.U): |
2268 | This variable tells whether Perl should be installed also as |
2269 | /usr/bin/perl in addition to |
2270 | $installbin/perl |
2271 | |
0617aed7 |
2272 | installvendorbin (vendorbin.U): |
2273 | This variable is really the same as vendorbinexp but may differ on |
2274 | those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable |
2275 | should be used in makefiles. |
2276 | |
a3635516 |
2277 | installvendorlib (vendorlib.U): |
2278 | This variable is really the same as vendorlibexp but may differ on |
2279 | those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable |
2280 | should be used in makefiles. |
2281 | |
781b178c |
2282 | intsize (intsize.U): |
2283 | This variable contains the value of the INTSIZE symbol, which |
2284 | indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in an int. |
2285 | |
a22e52b9 |
2286 | ivdformat (perlxvf.U): |
2287 | This variable contains the format string used for printing |
2288 | a Perl IV as a signed decimal integer. |
2289 | |
2290 | ivsize (perlxv.U): |
2291 | This variable is the size of an IV in bytes. |
2292 | |
2293 | ivtype (perlxv.U): |
2294 | This variable contains the C type used for Perl's IV. |
2295 | |
781b178c |
2296 | known_extensions (Extensions.U): |
2297 | This variable holds a list of all XS extensions included in |
2298 | the package. |
2299 | |
2300 | ksh (Loc.U): |
2301 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
2302 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
2303 | |
2304 | large (models.U): |
2305 | This variable contains a flag which will tell the C compiler and loader |
2306 | to produce a program running with a large memory model. It is up to |
2307 | the Makefile to use this. |
2308 | |
2309 | ld (dlsrc.U): |
2310 | This variable indicates the program to be used to link |
2311 | libraries for dynamic loading. On some systems, it is 'ld'. |
2312 | On ELF systems, it should be $cc. Mostly, we'll try to respect |
2313 | the hint file setting. |
2314 | |
2315 | lddlflags (dlsrc.U): |
2316 | This variable contains any special flags that might need to be |
2317 | passed to $ld to create a shared library suitable for dynamic |
2318 | loading. It is up to the makefile to use it. For hpux, it |
2319 | should be '-b'. For sunos 4.1, it is empty. |
2320 | |
2321 | ldflags (ccflags.U): |
2322 | This variable contains any additional C loader flags desired by |
2323 | the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this. |
2324 | |
2325 | ldlibpthname (libperl.U): |
2326 | This variable holds the name of the shared library |
2327 | search path, often LD_LIBRARY_PATH. To get an empty |
2328 | string, the hints file must set this to 'none'. |
2329 | |
2330 | less (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
2331 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
781b178c |
2332 | full pathname (if any) of the less program. After Configure runs, |
2333 | the value is reset to a plain "less" and is not useful. |
2334 | |
2335 | lib_ext (Unix.U): |
2336 | This is an old synonym for _a. |
2337 | |
2338 | libc (libc.U): |
2339 | This variable contains the location of the C library. |
2340 | |
2341 | libperl (libperl.U): |
2342 | The perl executable is obtained by linking perlmain.c with |
2343 | libperl, any static extensions (usually just DynaLoader), |
2344 | and any other libraries needed on this system. libperl |
2345 | is usually libperl.a, but can also be libperl.so.xxx if |
2346 | the user wishes to build a perl executable with a shared |
2347 | library. |
2348 | |
2349 | libpth (libpth.U): |
2350 | This variable holds the general path (space-separated) used to find |
2351 | libraries. It is intended to be used by other units. |
2352 | |
2353 | libs (libs.U): |
2354 | This variable holds the additional libraries we want to use. |
2355 | It is up to the Makefile to deal with it. |
2356 | |
fe749a9f |
2357 | libsdirs (libs.U): |
2358 | This variable holds the directory names aka dirnames of the libraries |
2359 | we found and accepted, duplicates are removed. |
2360 | |
2361 | libsfiles (libs.U): |
2362 | This variable holds the filenames aka basenames of the libraries |
2363 | we found and accepted. |
2364 | |
2365 | libsfound (libs.U): |
2366 | This variable holds the full pathnames of the libraries |
2367 | we found and accepted. |
2368 | |
781b178c |
2369 | libswanted (Myinit.U): |
2370 | This variable holds a list of all the libraries we want to |
2371 | search. The order is chosen to pick up the c library |
2372 | ahead of ucb or bsd libraries for SVR4. |
2373 | |
2374 | line (Loc.U): |
ff935051 |
2375 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
2376 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
781b178c |
2377 | |
2378 | lint (Loc.U): |
2379 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
2380 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
2381 | |
2382 | lkflags (ccflags.U): |
2383 | This variable contains any additional C partial linker flags desired by |
2384 | the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this. |
2385 | |
2386 | ln (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
2387 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
781b178c |
2388 | full pathname (if any) of the ln program. After Configure runs, |
2389 | the value is reset to a plain "ln" and is not useful. |
2390 | |
2391 | lns (lns.U): |
2392 | This variable holds the name of the command to make |
2393 | symbolic links (if they are supported). It can be used |
2394 | in the Makefile. It is either 'ln -s' or 'ln' |
2395 | |
2396 | locincpth (ccflags.U): |
2397 | This variable contains a list of additional directories to be |
2398 | searched by the compiler. The appropriate '-I' directives will |
2399 | be added to ccflags. This is intended to simplify setting |
2400 | local directories from the Configure command line. |
2401 | It's not much, but it parallels the loclibpth stuff in libpth.U. |
2402 | |
2403 | loclibpth (libpth.U): |
2404 | This variable holds the paths (space-separated) used to find local |
2405 | libraries. It is prepended to libpth, and is intended to be easily |
2406 | set from the command line. |
2407 | |
2408 | longdblsize (d_longdbl.U): |
2409 | This variable contains the value of the LONG_DOUBLESIZE symbol, which |
2410 | indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long double, |
2411 | if this system supports long doubles. |
2412 | |
2413 | longlongsize (d_longlong.U): |
2414 | This variable contains the value of the LONGLONGSIZE symbol, which |
2415 | indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long long, |
2416 | if this system supports long long. |
2417 | |
2418 | longsize (intsize.U): |
2419 | This variable contains the value of the LONGSIZE symbol, which |
2420 | indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long. |
2421 | |
2422 | lp (Loc.U): |
2423 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
2424 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
2425 | |
2426 | lpr (Loc.U): |
2427 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
2428 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
2429 | |
2430 | ls (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
2431 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
781b178c |
2432 | full pathname (if any) of the ls program. After Configure runs, |
2433 | the value is reset to a plain "ls" and is not useful. |
2434 | |
2435 | lseeksize (lseektype.U): |
2436 | This variable defines lseektype to be something like off_t, long, |
2437 | or whatever type is used to declare lseek offset's type in the |
2438 | kernel (which also appears to be lseek's return type). |
2439 | |
2440 | lseektype (lseektype.U): |
2441 | This variable defines lseektype to be something like off_t, long, |
2442 | or whatever type is used to declare lseek offset's type in the |
2443 | kernel (which also appears to be lseek's return type). |
2444 | |
2445 | mail (Loc.U): |
2446 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
2447 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
2448 | |
2449 | mailx (Loc.U): |
2450 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
2451 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
2452 | |
2453 | make (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
2454 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
781b178c |
2455 | full pathname (if any) of the make program. After Configure runs, |
2456 | the value is reset to a plain "make" and is not useful. |
2457 | |
2458 | make_set_make (make.U): |
2459 | Some versions of 'make' set the variable MAKE. Others do not. |
2460 | This variable contains the string to be included in Makefile.SH |
2461 | so that MAKE is set if needed, and not if not needed. |
2462 | Possible values are: |
2463 | make_set_make='#' # If your make program handles this for you, |
2464 | make_set_make="MAKE=$make" # if it doesn't. |
2465 | I used a comment character so that we can distinguish a |
2466 | 'set' value (from a previous config.sh or Configure '-D' option) |
2467 | from an uncomputed value. |
2468 | |
2469 | mallocobj (mallocsrc.U): |
2470 | This variable contains the name of the malloc.o that this package |
2471 | generates, if that malloc.o is preferred over the system malloc. |
2472 | Otherwise the value is null. This variable is intended for generating |
2473 | Makefiles. See mallocsrc. |
2474 | |
2475 | mallocsrc (mallocsrc.U): |
2476 | This variable contains the name of the malloc.c that comes with |
2477 | the package, if that malloc.c is preferred over the system malloc. |
2478 | Otherwise the value is null. This variable is intended for generating |
2479 | Makefiles. |
2480 | |
2481 | malloctype (mallocsrc.U): |
2482 | This variable contains the kind of ptr returned by malloc and realloc. |
2483 | |
2484 | man1dir (man1dir.U): |
2485 | This variable contains the name of the directory in which manual |
2486 | source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the |
2487 | Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command. |
2488 | You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself. |
2489 | |
2490 | man1direxp (man1dir.U): |
2491 | This variable is the same as the man1dir variable, but is filename |
2492 | expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles. |
2493 | |
2494 | man1ext (man1dir.U): |
2495 | This variable contains the extension that the manual page should |
2496 | have: one of 'n', 'l', or '1'. The Makefile must supply the '.'. |
2497 | See man1dir. |
2498 | |
2499 | man3dir (man3dir.U): |
2500 | This variable contains the name of the directory in which manual |
2501 | source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the |
2502 | Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command. |
2503 | You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself. |
2504 | |
2505 | man3direxp (man3dir.U): |
2506 | This variable is the same as the man3dir variable, but is filename |
2507 | expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles. |
2508 | |
2509 | man3ext (man3dir.U): |
2510 | This variable contains the extension that the manual page should |
2511 | have: one of 'n', 'l', or '3'. The Makefile must supply the '.'. |
2512 | See man3dir. |
2513 | |
ff935051 |
2514 | Mcc (Loc.U): |
2515 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
2516 | full pathname (if any) of the Mcc program. After Configure runs, |
2517 | the value is reset to a plain "Mcc" and is not useful. |
2518 | |
781b178c |
2519 | medium (models.U): |
2520 | This variable contains a flag which will tell the C compiler and loader |
2521 | to produce a program running with a medium memory model. If the |
2522 | medium model is not supported, contains the flag to produce large |
2523 | model programs. It is up to the Makefile to use this. |
2524 | |
2525 | mips_type (usrinc.U): |
2526 | This variable holds the environment type for the mips system. |
2527 | Possible values are "BSD 4.3" and "System V". |
2528 | |
2529 | mkdir (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
2530 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
781b178c |
2531 | full pathname (if any) of the mkdir program. After Configure runs, |
2532 | the value is reset to a plain "mkdir" and is not useful. |
2533 | |
fe749a9f |
2534 | mmaptype (d_mmap.U): |
2535 | This symbol contains the type of pointer returned by mmap() |
2536 | (and simultaneously the type of the first argument). |
2537 | It can be 'void *' or 'caddr_t'. |
2538 | |
781b178c |
2539 | models (models.U): |
2540 | This variable contains the list of memory models supported by this |
2541 | system. Possible component values are none, split, unsplit, small, |
2542 | medium, large, and huge. The component values are space separated. |
2543 | |
2544 | modetype (modetype.U): |
2545 | This variable defines modetype to be something like mode_t, |
2546 | int, unsigned short, or whatever type is used to declare file |
2547 | modes for system calls. |
2548 | |
2549 | more (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
2550 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
781b178c |
2551 | full pathname (if any) of the more program. After Configure runs, |
2552 | the value is reset to a plain "more" and is not useful. |
2553 | |
2554 | multiarch (multiarch.U): |
2555 | This variable conditionally defines the MULTIARCH symbol |
2556 | which signifies the presence of multiplatform files. |
2557 | This is normally set by hints files. |
2558 | |
2559 | mv (Loc.U): |
2560 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
2561 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
2562 | |
2563 | myarchname (archname.U): |
2564 | This variable holds the architecture name computed by Configure in |
2565 | a previous run. It is not intended to be perused by any user and |
2566 | should never be set in a hint file. |
2567 | |
2568 | mydomain (myhostname.U): |
2569 | This variable contains the eventual value of the MYDOMAIN symbol, |
2570 | which is the domain of the host the program is going to run on. |
2571 | The domain must be appended to myhostname to form a complete host name. |
2572 | The dot comes with mydomain, and need not be supplied by the program. |
2573 | |
2574 | myhostname (myhostname.U): |
2575 | This variable contains the eventual value of the MYHOSTNAME symbol, |
2576 | which is the name of the host the program is going to run on. |
2577 | The domain is not kept with hostname, but must be gotten from mydomain. |
2578 | The dot comes with mydomain, and need not be supplied by the program. |
2579 | |
2580 | myuname (Oldconfig.U): |
2581 | The output of 'uname -a' if available, otherwise the hostname. On Xenix, |
2582 | pseudo variables assignments in the output are stripped, thank you. The |
2583 | whole thing is then lower-cased. |
2584 | |
2585 | n (n.U): |
2586 | This variable contains the '-n' flag if that is what causes the echo |
2587 | command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is |
2588 | $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c". |
2589 | |
2590 | netdb_hlen_type (netdbtype.U): |
2591 | This variable holds the type used for the 2nd argument to |
2592 | gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or size_t or unsigned. |
2593 | This is only useful if you have gethostbyaddr(), naturally. |
2594 | |
2595 | netdb_host_type (netdbtype.U): |
2596 | This variable holds the type used for the 1st argument to |
2597 | gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is char * or void *, possibly |
2598 | with or without a const prefix. |
2599 | This is only useful if you have gethostbyaddr(), naturally. |
2600 | |
2601 | netdb_name_type (netdbtype.U): |
2602 | This variable holds the type used for the argument to |
2603 | gethostbyname(). Usually, this is char * or const char *. |
2604 | This is only useful if you have gethostbyname(), naturally. |
2605 | |
2606 | netdb_net_type (netdbtype.U): |
2607 | This variable holds the type used for the 1st argument to |
2608 | getnetbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or long. |
2609 | This is only useful if you have getnetbyaddr(), naturally. |
2610 | |
2611 | nm (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
2612 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
781b178c |
2613 | full pathname (if any) of the nm program. After Configure runs, |
2614 | the value is reset to a plain "nm" and is not useful. |
2615 | |
2616 | nm_opt (usenm.U): |
2617 | This variable holds the options that may be necessary for nm. |
2618 | |
2619 | nm_so_opt (usenm.U): |
2620 | This variable holds the options that may be necessary for nm |
2621 | to work on a shared library but that can not be used on an |
2622 | archive library. Currently, this is only used by Linux, where |
2623 | nm --dynamic is *required* to get symbols from an ELF library which |
2624 | has been stripped, but nm --dynamic is *fatal* on an archive library. |
2625 | Maybe Linux should just always set usenm=false. |
2626 | |
2627 | nonxs_ext (Extensions.U): |
2628 | This variable holds a list of all non-xs extensions included |
2629 | in the package. All of them will be built. |
2630 | |
2631 | nroff (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
2632 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
781b178c |
2633 | full pathname (if any) of the nroff program. After Configure runs, |
2634 | the value is reset to a plain "nroff" and is not useful. |
2635 | |
a22e52b9 |
2636 | nvsize (perlxv.U): |
2637 | This variable is the size of an NV in bytes. |
2638 | |
2639 | nvtype (perlxv.U): |
2640 | This variable contains the C type used for Perl's NV. |
2641 | |
781b178c |
2642 | o_nonblock (nblock_io.U): |
2643 | This variable bears the symbol value to be used during open() or fcntl() |
2644 | to turn on non-blocking I/O for a file descriptor. If you wish to switch |
2645 | between blocking and non-blocking, you may try ioctl(FIOSNBIO) instead, |
2646 | but that is only supported by some devices. |
2647 | |
2648 | obj_ext (Unix.U): |
2649 | This is an old synonym for _o. |
2650 | |
2651 | old_pthread_create_joinable (d_pthrattrj.U): |
2652 | This variable defines the constant to use for creating joinable |
2653 | (aka undetached) pthreads. Unused if pthread.h defines |
2654 | PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE. If used, possible values are |
2655 | PTHREAD_CREATE_UNDETACHED and __UNDETACHED. |
2656 | |
2657 | optimize (ccflags.U): |
2658 | This variable contains any optimizer/debugger flag that should be used. |
2659 | It is up to the Makefile to use it. |
2660 | |
2661 | orderlib (orderlib.U): |
2662 | This variable is "true" if the components of libraries must be ordered |
2663 | (with `lorder $* | tsort`) before placing them in an archive. Set to |
2664 | "false" if ranlib or ar can generate random libraries. |
2665 | |
2666 | osname (Oldconfig.U): |
2667 | This variable contains the operating system name (e.g. sunos, |
2668 | solaris, hpux, etc.). It can be useful later on for setting |
2669 | defaults. Any spaces are replaced with underscores. It is set |
2670 | to a null string if we can't figure it out. |
2671 | |
2672 | osvers (Oldconfig.U): |
2673 | This variable contains the operating system version (e.g. |
2674 | 4.1.3, 5.2, etc.). It is primarily used for helping select |
2675 | an appropriate hints file, but might be useful elsewhere for |
2676 | setting defaults. It is set to '' if we can't figure it out. |
2677 | We try to be flexible about how much of the version number |
2678 | to keep, e.g. if 4.1.1, 4.1.2, and 4.1.3 are essentially the |
2679 | same for this package, hints files might just be os_4.0 or |
2680 | os_4.1, etc., not keeping separate files for each little release. |
2681 | |
2682 | package (package.U): |
2683 | This variable contains the name of the package being constructed. |
2684 | It is primarily intended for the use of later Configure units. |
2685 | |
2686 | pager (pager.U): |
2687 | This variable contains the name of the preferred pager on the system. |
2688 | Usual values are (the full pathnames of) more, less, pg, or cat. |
2689 | |
2690 | passcat (nis.U): |
2691 | This variable contains a command that produces the text of the |
2692 | /etc/passwd file. This is normally "cat /etc/passwd", but can be |
2693 | "ypcat passwd" when NIS is used. |
aaacdc8b |
2694 | On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent |
2695 | command, in which case this variable is unset. |
781b178c |
2696 | |
2697 | patchlevel (patchlevel.U): |
2698 | The patchlevel level of this package. |
2699 | The value of patchlevel comes from the patchlevel.h file. |
ff935051 |
2700 | In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "6". |
2701 | In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as the "PERL_VERSION". |
781b178c |
2702 | |
2703 | path_sep (Unix.U): |
2704 | This is an old synonym for p_ in Head.U, the character |
2705 | used to separate elements in the command shell search PATH. |
2706 | |
2707 | perl (Loc.U): |
aaacdc8b |
2708 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
2709 | full pathname (if any) of the perl program. After Configure runs, |
2710 | the value is reset to a plain "perl" and is not useful. |
781b178c |
2711 | |
ff935051 |
2712 | PERL_REVISION (Oldsyms.U): |
2713 | In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 5. |
2714 | This value is manually set in patchlevel.h |
2715 | |
2716 | PERL_SUBVERSION (Oldsyms.U): |
2717 | In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 2. |
2718 | Values greater than 50 represent potentially unstable |
2719 | development subversions. |
2720 | This value is manually set in patchlevel.h |
2721 | |
2722 | PERL_VERSION (Oldsyms.U): |
2723 | In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 6. |
2724 | This value is manually set in patchlevel.h |
2725 | |
781b178c |
2726 | perladmin (perladmin.U): |
2727 | Electronic mail address of the perl5 administrator. |
2728 | |
2729 | perlpath (perlpath.U): |
2730 | This variable contains the eventual value of the PERLPATH symbol, |
2731 | which contains the name of the perl interpreter to be used in |
2732 | shell scripts and in the "eval 'exec'" idiom. |
2733 | |
2734 | pg (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
2735 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
781b178c |
2736 | full pathname (if any) of the pg program. After Configure runs, |
2737 | the value is reset to a plain "pg" and is not useful. |
2738 | |
2739 | phostname (myhostname.U): |
2740 | This variable contains the eventual value of the PHOSTNAME symbol, |
2741 | which is a command that can be fed to popen() to get the host name. |
2742 | The program should probably not presume that the domain is or isn't |
2743 | there already. |
2744 | |
2745 | pidtype (pidtype.U): |
2746 | This variable defines PIDTYPE to be something like pid_t, int, |
2747 | ushort, or whatever type is used to declare process ids in the kernel. |
2748 | |
2749 | plibpth (libpth.U): |
2750 | Holds the private path used by Configure to find out the libraries. |
2751 | Its value is prepend to libpth. This variable takes care of special |
2752 | machines, like the mips. Usually, it should be empty. |
2753 | |
fe749a9f |
2754 | pm_apiversion (xs_apiversion.U): |
2755 | This variable contains the version of the oldest perl |
2756 | compatible with the present perl. (That is, pure perl modules |
2757 | written for $pm_apiversion will still work for the current |
2758 | version). perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically |
2759 | search in $sitelib for older directories across major versions |
2760 | back to pm_apiversion. This is only useful if you have a perl |
2761 | library directory tree structured like the default one. The |
2762 | versioned site_perl library was introduced in 5.005, so that's |
2763 | the default setting for this variable. It's hard to imagine |
2764 | it changing before Perl6. It is included here for symmetry |
2765 | with xs_apiveprsion -- the searching algorithms will |
2766 | (presumably) be similar. |
2767 | See the INSTALL file for how this works. |
2768 | |
781b178c |
2769 | pmake (Loc.U): |
2770 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
2771 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
2772 | |
2773 | pr (Loc.U): |
2774 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
2775 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
2776 | |
2777 | prefix (prefix.U): |
2778 | This variable holds the name of the directory below which the |
2779 | user will install the package. Usually, this is /usr/local, and |
2780 | executables go in /usr/local/bin, library stuff in /usr/local/lib, |
2781 | man pages in /usr/local/man, etc. It is only used to set defaults |
2782 | for things in bin.U, mansrc.U, privlib.U, or scriptdir.U. |
2783 | |
2784 | prefixexp (prefix.U): |
2785 | This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below |
2786 | which the user will install the package. Derived from prefix. |
2787 | |
2788 | privlib (privlib.U): |
2789 | This variable contains the eventual value of the PRIVLIB symbol, |
2790 | which is the name of the private library for this package. It may |
2791 | have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create |
2792 | this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution). |
2793 | |
2794 | privlibexp (privlib.U): |
2795 | This variable is the ~name expanded version of privlib, so that you |
2796 | may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts. |
2797 | |
2798 | prototype (prototype.U): |
2799 | This variable holds the eventual value of CAN_PROTOTYPE, which |
2800 | indicates the C compiler can handle funciton prototypes. |
2801 | |
2802 | ptrsize (ptrsize.U): |
2803 | This variable contains the value of the PTRSIZE symbol, which |
2804 | indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a pointer. |
2805 | |
e0a10278 |
2806 | quadkind (quadtype.U): |
0befd8de |
2807 | This variable, if defined, encodes the type of a quad: |
2808 | 1 = int, 2 = long, 3 = long long, 4 = int64_t. |
2809 | |
2810 | quadtype (quadtype.U): |
2811 | This variable defines Quad_t to be something like long, int, |
2812 | long long, int64_t, or whatever type is used for 64-bit integers. |
2813 | |
781b178c |
2814 | randbits (randfunc.U): |
2815 | Indicates how many bits are produced by the function used to |
2816 | generate normalized random numbers. |
2817 | |
2818 | randfunc (randfunc.U): |
2819 | Indicates the name of the random number function to use. |
2820 | Values include drand48, random, and rand. In C programs, |
2821 | the 'Drand01' macro is defined to generate uniformly distributed |
2822 | random numbers over the range [0., 1.[ (see drand01 and nrand). |
2823 | |
2824 | randseedtype (randfunc.U): |
2825 | Indicates the type of the argument of the seedfunc. |
2826 | |
2827 | ranlib (orderlib.U): |
2828 | This variable is set to the pathname of the ranlib program, if it is |
2829 | needed to generate random libraries. Set to ":" if ar can generate |
2830 | random libraries or if random libraries are not supported |
2831 | |
2832 | rd_nodata (nblock_io.U): |
2833 | This variable holds the return code from read() when no data is |
2834 | present. It should be -1, but some systems return 0 when O_NDELAY is |
2835 | used, which is a shame because you cannot make the difference between |
2836 | no data and an EOF.. Sigh! |
2837 | |
2838 | rm (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
2839 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
781b178c |
2840 | full pathname (if any) of the rm program. After Configure runs, |
2841 | the value is reset to a plain "rm" and is not useful. |
2842 | |
2843 | rmail (Loc.U): |
2844 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
2845 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
2846 | |
2847 | runnm (usenm.U): |
2848 | This variable contains 'true' or 'false' depending whether the |
2849 | nm extraction should be performed or not, according to the value |
2850 | of usenm and the flags on the Configure command line. |
2851 | |
2852 | sched_yield (d_pthread_y.U): |
2853 | This variable defines the way to yield the execution |
2854 | of the current thread. |
2855 | |
2856 | scriptdir (scriptdir.U): |
2857 | This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants |
2858 | to put publicly scripts for the package in question. It is either |
2859 | the same directory as for binaries, or a special one that can be |
2860 | mounted across different architectures, like /usr/share. Programs |
2861 | must be prepared to deal with ~name expansion. |
2862 | |
2863 | scriptdirexp (scriptdir.U): |
2864 | This variable is the same as scriptdir, but is filename expanded |
2865 | at configuration time, for programs not wanting to bother with it. |
2866 | |
2867 | sed (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
2868 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
781b178c |
2869 | full pathname (if any) of the sed program. After Configure runs, |
2870 | the value is reset to a plain "sed" and is not useful. |
2871 | |
2872 | seedfunc (randfunc.U): |
2873 | Indicates the random number generating seed function. |
2874 | Values include srand48, srandom, and srand. |
2875 | |
2876 | selectminbits (selectminbits.U): |
2877 | This variable holds the minimum number of bits operated by select. |
2878 | That is, if you do select(n, ...), how many bits at least will be |
2879 | cleared in the masks if some activity is detected. Usually this |
2880 | is either n or 32*ceil(n/32), especially many little-endians do |
2881 | the latter. This is only useful if you have select(), naturally. |
2882 | |
2883 | selecttype (selecttype.U): |
2884 | This variable holds the type used for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th |
2885 | arguments to select. Usually, this is 'fd_set *', if HAS_FD_SET |
2886 | is defined, and 'int *' otherwise. This is only useful if you |
2887 | have select(), naturally. |
2888 | |
2889 | sendmail (Loc.U): |
ff935051 |
2890 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
2891 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
781b178c |
2892 | |
2893 | sh (sh.U): |
2894 | This variable contains the full pathname of the shell used |
2895 | on this system to execute Bourne shell scripts. Usually, this will be |
2896 | /bin/sh, though it's possible that some systems will have /bin/ksh, |
2897 | /bin/pdksh, /bin/ash, /bin/bash, or even something such as |
2898 | D:/bin/sh.exe. |
2899 | This unit comes before Options.U, so you can't set sh with a '-D' |
2900 | option, though you can override this (and startsh) |
2901 | with '-O -Dsh=/bin/whatever -Dstartsh=whatever' |
2902 | |
2903 | shar (Loc.U): |
2904 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
2905 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
2906 | |
2907 | sharpbang (spitshell.U): |
2908 | This variable contains the string #! if this system supports that |
2909 | construct. |
2910 | |
2911 | shmattype (d_shmat.U): |
2912 | This symbol contains the type of pointer returned by shmat(). |
2913 | It can be 'void *' or 'char *'. |
2914 | |
2915 | shortsize (intsize.U): |
2916 | This variable contains the value of the SHORTSIZE symbol which |
2917 | indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a short. |
2918 | |
2919 | shrpenv (libperl.U): |
2920 | If the user builds a shared libperl.so, then we need to tell the |
2921 | 'perl' executable where it will be able to find the installed libperl.so. |
2922 | One way to do this on some systems is to set the environment variable |
2923 | LD_RUN_PATH to the directory that will be the final location of the |
2924 | shared libperl.so. The makefile can use this with something like |
2925 | $shrpenv $(CC) -o perl perlmain.o $libperl $libs |
2926 | Typical values are |
2927 | shrpenv="env LD_RUN_PATH=$archlibexp/CORE" |
2928 | or |
2929 | shrpenv='' |
2930 | See the main perl Makefile.SH for actual working usage. |
2931 | Alternatively, we might be able to use a command line option such |
2932 | as -R $archlibexp/CORE (Solaris, NetBSD) or -Wl,-rpath |
2933 | $archlibexp/CORE (Linux). |
2934 | |
2935 | shsharp (spitshell.U): |
2936 | This variable tells further Configure units whether your sh can |
2937 | handle # comments. |
2938 | |
2939 | sig_count (sig_name.U): |
2940 | This variable holds a number larger than the largest valid |
2941 | signal number. This is usually the same as the NSIG macro. |
2942 | |
2943 | sig_name (sig_name.U): |
2944 | This variable holds the signal names, space separated. The leading |
2945 | SIG in signal name is removed. A ZERO is prepended to the |
2946 | list. This is currently not used. |
2947 | |
2948 | sig_name_init (sig_name.U): |
2949 | This variable holds the signal names, enclosed in double quotes and |
2950 | separated by commas, suitable for use in the SIG_NAME definition |
2951 | below. A "ZERO" is prepended to the list, and the list is |
2952 | terminated with a plain 0. The leading SIG in signal names |
2953 | is removed. See sig_num. |
2954 | |
2955 | sig_num (sig_name.U): |
2956 | This variable holds the signal numbers, space separated. A ZERO is |
2957 | prepended to the list (corresponding to the fake SIGZERO), and |
2958 | the list is terminated with a 0. Those numbers correspond to |
2959 | the value of the signal listed in the same place within the |
2960 | sig_name list. |
2961 | |
2962 | sig_num_init (sig_name.U): |
2963 | This variable holds the signal numbers, enclosed in double quotes and |
2964 | separated by commas, suitable for use in the SIG_NUM definition |
2965 | below. A "ZERO" is prepended to the list, and the list is |
2966 | terminated with a plain 0. |
2967 | |
2968 | signal_t (d_voidsig.U): |
2969 | This variable holds the type of the signal handler (void or int). |
2970 | |
2971 | sitearch (sitearch.U): |
2972 | This variable contains the eventual value of the SITEARCH symbol, |
2973 | which is the name of the private library for this package. It may |
2974 | have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create |
2975 | this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution). |
f868067f |
2976 | The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory. |
2977 | After perl has been installed, users may install their own local |
2978 | architecture-dependent modules in this directory with |
2979 | MakeMaker Makefile.PL |
2980 | or equivalent. See INSTALL for details. |
781b178c |
2981 | |
2982 | sitearchexp (sitearch.U): |
2983 | This variable is the ~name expanded version of sitearch, so that you |
2984 | may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts. |
2985 | |
0617aed7 |
2986 | sitebin (sitebin.U): |
2987 | This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants |
2988 | to put add-on publicly executable files for the package in question. It |
2989 | is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using |
2990 | this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution. |
f868067f |
2991 | The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory. |
2992 | After perl has been installed, users may install their own local |
2993 | executables in this directory with |
2994 | MakeMaker Makefile.PL |
2995 | or equivalent. See INSTALL for details. |
0617aed7 |
2996 | |
2997 | sitebinexp (sitebin.U): |
2998 | This is the same as the sitebin variable, but is filename expanded at |
2999 | configuration time, for use in your makefiles. |
3000 | |
781b178c |
3001 | sitelib (sitelib.U): |
3002 | This variable contains the eventual value of the SITELIB symbol, |
3003 | which is the name of the private library for this package. It may |
3004 | have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create |
3005 | this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution). |
f868067f |
3006 | The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory. |
3007 | After perl has been installed, users may install their own local |
3008 | architecture-independent modules in this directory with |
3009 | MakeMaker Makefile.PL |
3010 | or equivalent. See INSTALL for details. |
781b178c |
3011 | |
3012 | sitelibexp (sitelib.U): |
3013 | This variable is the ~name expanded version of sitelib, so that you |
3014 | may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts. |
3015 | |
3016 | siteprefix (siteprefix.U): |
3017 | This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below |
3018 | which the user will install add-on packages. |
f868067f |
3019 | See INSTALL for usage and examples. |
781b178c |
3020 | |
3021 | siteprefixexp (siteprefix.U): |
3022 | This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below |
3023 | which the user will install add-on packages. Derived from siteprefix. |
3024 | |
3025 | sizetype (sizetype.U): |
3026 | This variable defines sizetype to be something like size_t, |
3027 | unsigned long, or whatever type is used to declare length |
3028 | parameters for string functions. |
3029 | |
3030 | sleep (Loc.U): |
3031 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
3032 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
3033 | |
3034 | smail (Loc.U): |
3035 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
3036 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
3037 | |
3038 | small (models.U): |
3039 | This variable contains a flag which will tell the C compiler and loader |
3040 | to produce a program running with a small memory model. It is up to |
3041 | the Makefile to use this. |
3042 | |
3043 | so (so.U): |
3044 | This variable holds the extension used to identify shared libraries |
3045 | (also known as shared objects) on the system. Usually set to 'so'. |
3046 | |
3047 | sockethdr (d_socket.U): |
3048 | This variable has any cpp '-I' flags needed for socket support. |
3049 | |
3050 | socketlib (d_socket.U): |
3051 | This variable has the names of any libraries needed for socket support. |
3052 | |
3053 | sort (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
3054 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
781b178c |
3055 | full pathname (if any) of the sort program. After Configure runs, |
3056 | the value is reset to a plain "sort" and is not useful. |
3057 | |
3058 | spackage (package.U): |
3059 | This variable contains the name of the package being constructed, |
3060 | with the first letter uppercased, i.e. suitable for starting |
3061 | sentences. |
3062 | |
3063 | spitshell (spitshell.U): |
3064 | This variable contains the command necessary to spit out a runnable |
3065 | shell on this system. It is either cat or a grep '-v' for # comments. |
3066 | |
3067 | split (models.U): |
3068 | This variable contains a flag which will tell the C compiler and loader |
3069 | to produce a program that will run in separate I and D space, for those |
3070 | machines that support separation of instruction and data space. It is |
3071 | up to the Makefile to use this. |
3072 | |
ff935051 |
3073 | sPRId64 (quadfio.U): |
3074 | This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to |
3075 | format 64-bit decimal numbers (format 'd') for output. |
3076 | |
3077 | sPRIeldbl (longdblfio.U): |
3078 | This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to |
3079 | format long doubles (format 'e') for output. |
3080 | |
3081 | sPRIEldbl (longdblfio.U): |
3082 | This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to |
3083 | format long doubles (format 'E') for output. |
3084 | |
3085 | sPRIfldbl (longdblfio.U): |
3086 | This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to |
3087 | format long doubles (format 'f') for output. |
3088 | |
3089 | sPRIFldbl (longdblfio.U): |
3090 | This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to |
3091 | format long doubles (format 'F') for output. |
3092 | |
3093 | sPRIgldbl (longdblfio.U): |
3094 | This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to |
3095 | format long doubles (format 'g') for output. |
3096 | |
3097 | sPRIGldbl (longdblfio.U): |
3098 | This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to |
3099 | format long doubles (format 'G') for output. |
3100 | |
3101 | sPRIi64 (quadfio.U): |
3102 | This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to |
3103 | format 64-bit decimal numbers (format 'i') for output. |
3104 | |
3105 | sPRIo64 (quadfio.U): |
3106 | This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to |
3107 | format 64-bit octal numbers (format 'o') for output. |
3108 | |
3109 | sPRIu64 (quadfio.U): |
3110 | This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to |
3111 | format 64-bit unsigned decimal numbers (format 'u') for output. |
3112 | |
3113 | sPRIx64 (quadfio.U): |
3114 | This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to |
3115 | format 64-bit hexadecimal numbers (format 'x') for output. |
3116 | |
3117 | sPRIX64 (quadfio.U): |
3118 | This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to |
3119 | format 64-bit hExADECimAl numbers (format 'X') for output. |
3120 | |
781b178c |
3121 | src (src.U): |
3122 | This variable holds the path to the package source. It is up to |
3123 | the Makefile to use this variable and set VPATH accordingly to |
3124 | find the sources remotely. |
3125 | |
3126 | ssizetype (ssizetype.U): |
3127 | This variable defines ssizetype to be something like ssize_t, |
3128 | long or int. It is used by functions that return a count |
3129 | of bytes or an error condition. It must be a signed type. |
3130 | We will pick a type such that sizeof(SSize_t) == sizeof(Size_t). |
3131 | |
3132 | startperl (startperl.U): |
3133 | This variable contains the string to put on the front of a perl |
3134 | script to make sure (hopefully) that it runs with perl and not some |
3135 | shell. Of course, that leading line must be followed by the classical |
3136 | perl idiom: |
3137 | eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}' |
3138 | if $running_under_some_shell; |
3139 | to guarantee perl startup should the shell execute the script. Note |
3140 | that this magic incatation is not understood by csh. |
3141 | |
3142 | startsh (startsh.U): |
3143 | This variable contains the string to put on the front of a shell |
3144 | script to make sure (hopefully) that it runs with sh and not some |
3145 | other shell. |
3146 | |
3147 | static_ext (Extensions.U): |
3148 | This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to |
3149 | link statically into the package. It is used by Makefile. |
3150 | |
3151 | stdchar (stdchar.U): |
3152 | This variable conditionally defines STDCHAR to be the type of char |
3153 | used in stdio.h. It has the values "unsigned char" or "char". |
3154 | |
3155 | stdio_base (d_stdstdio.U): |
3156 | This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the |
3157 | _base field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will |
3158 | be used to define the macro FILE_base(fp). |
3159 | |
3160 | stdio_bufsiz (d_stdstdio.U): |
3161 | This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to determine |
3162 | the number of bytes store in the I/O buffer pointer to by the |
3163 | _base field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will |
3164 | be used to define the macro FILE_bufsiz(fp). |
3165 | |
3166 | stdio_cnt (d_stdstdio.U): |
3167 | This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the |
3168 | _cnt field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will |
3169 | be used to define the macro FILE_cnt(fp). |
3170 | |
3171 | stdio_filbuf (d_stdstdio.U): |
3172 | This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to tell |
3173 | stdio to refill it's internal buffers (?). This will |
3174 | be used to define the macro FILE_filbuf(fp). |
3175 | |
3176 | stdio_ptr (d_stdstdio.U): |
3177 | This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the |
3178 | _ptr field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will |
3179 | be used to define the macro FILE_ptr(fp). |
3180 | |
3181 | stdio_stream_array (stdio_streams.U): |
3182 | This variable tells the name of the array holding the stdio streams. |
3183 | Usual values include _iob, __iob, and __sF. |
3184 | |
3185 | strings (i_string.U): |
3186 | This variable holds the full path of the string header that will be |
3187 | used. Typically /usr/include/string.h or /usr/include/strings.h. |
3188 | |
3189 | submit (Loc.U): |
3190 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
3191 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
3192 | |
3193 | subversion (patchlevel.U): |
3194 | The subversion level of this package. |
3195 | The value of subversion comes from the patchlevel.h file. |
ff935051 |
3196 | In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "1". |
781b178c |
3197 | This is unique to perl. |
3198 | |
3199 | sysman (sysman.U): |
3200 | This variable holds the place where the manual is located on this |
3201 | system. It is not the place where the user wants to put his manual |
3202 | pages. Rather it is the place where Configure may look to find manual |
3203 | for unix commands (section 1 of the manual usually). See mansrc. |
3204 | |
3205 | tail (Loc.U): |
3206 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
3207 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
3208 | |
3209 | tar (Loc.U): |
3210 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
3211 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
3212 | |
3213 | tbl (Loc.U): |
3214 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
3215 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
3216 | |
3217 | tee (Loc.U): |
3218 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
3219 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
3220 | |
3221 | test (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
3222 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
781b178c |
3223 | full pathname (if any) of the test program. After Configure runs, |
3224 | the value is reset to a plain "test" and is not useful. |
3225 | |
3226 | timeincl (i_time.U): |
3227 | This variable holds the full path of the included time header(s). |
3228 | |
3229 | timetype (d_time.U): |
3230 | This variable holds the type returned by time(). It can be long, |
3231 | or time_t on BSD sites (in which case <sys/types.h> should be |
3232 | included). Anyway, the type Time_t should be used. |
3233 | |
3234 | touch (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
3235 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
781b178c |
3236 | full pathname (if any) of the touch program. After Configure runs, |
3237 | the value is reset to a plain "touch" and is not useful. |
3238 | |
3239 | tr (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
3240 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
781b178c |
3241 | full pathname (if any) of the tr program. After Configure runs, |
3242 | the value is reset to a plain "tr" and is not useful. |
3243 | |
3244 | trnl (trnl.U): |
3245 | This variable contains the value to be passed to the tr(1) |
3246 | command to transliterate a newline. Typical values are |
3247 | '\012' and '\n'. This is needed for EBCDIC systems where |
3248 | newline is not necessarily '\012'. |
3249 | |
3250 | troff (Loc.U): |
3251 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
3252 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
3253 | |
a22e52b9 |
3254 | u16size (perlxv.U): |
3255 | This variable is the size of an U16 in bytes. |
3256 | |
3257 | u16type (perlxv.U): |
3258 | This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U16. |
3259 | |
3260 | u32size (perlxv.U): |
3261 | This variable is the size of an U32 in bytes. |
3262 | |
3263 | u32type (perlxv.U): |
3264 | This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U32. |
3265 | |
3266 | u64size (perlxv.U): |
3267 | This variable is the size of an U64 in bytes. |
3268 | |
3269 | u64type (perlxv.U): |
3270 | This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U64. |
3271 | |
3272 | u8size (perlxv.U): |
3273 | This variable is the size of an U8 in bytes. |
3274 | |
3275 | u8type (perlxv.U): |
3276 | This variable contains the C type used for Perl's U8. |
3277 | |
3278 | uidformat (uidf.U): |
3279 | This variable contains the format string used for printing a Uid_t. |
3280 | |
2d228ff3 |
3281 | uidsign (uidsign.U): |
3282 | This variable contains the signedness of a uidtype. |
3283 | 1 for unsigned, -1 for signed. |
3284 | |
785fb66b |
3285 | uidsize (uidsize.U): |
3286 | This variable contains the size of a uidtype in bytes. |
3287 | |
781b178c |
3288 | uidtype (uidtype.U): |
3289 | This variable defines Uid_t to be something like uid_t, int, |
3290 | ushort, or whatever type is used to declare user ids in the kernel. |
3291 | |
3292 | uname (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
3293 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
781b178c |
3294 | full pathname (if any) of the uname program. After Configure runs, |
3295 | the value is reset to a plain "uname" and is not useful. |
3296 | |
3297 | uniq (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
3298 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
781b178c |
3299 | full pathname (if any) of the uniq program. After Configure runs, |
3300 | the value is reset to a plain "uniq" and is not useful. |
3301 | |
0befd8de |
3302 | uquadtype (quadtype.U): |
3303 | This variable defines Uquad_t to be something like unsigned long, |
3304 | unsigned int, unsigned long long, uint64_t, or whatever type is |
3305 | used for 64-bit integers. |
3306 | |
aaacdc8b |
3307 | use5005threads (usethreads.U): |
3308 | This variable conditionally defines the USE_5005THREADS symbol, |
3309 | and indicates that Perl should be built to use the 5.005-based |
3310 | threading implementation. |
3311 | |
781b178c |
3312 | use64bits (use64bits.U): |
3313 | This variable conditionally defines the USE_64_BITS symbol, |
aaacdc8b |
3314 | and indicates that 64-bit integer types should be used |
781b178c |
3315 | when available. |
3316 | |
3317 | usedl (dlsrc.U): |
ff935051 |
3318 | This variable indicates if the system supports dynamic |
781b178c |
3319 | loading of some sort. See also dlsrc and dlobj. |
3320 | |
aaacdc8b |
3321 | useithreads (usethreads.U): |
3322 | This variable conditionally defines the USE_ITHREADS symbol, |
3323 | and indicates that Perl should be built to use the interpreter-based |
3324 | threading implementation. |
3325 | |
5bf26616 |
3326 | uselargefiles (uselfs.U): |
1baac590 |
3327 | This variable conditionally defines the USE_LARGE_FILES symbol, |
3328 | and indicates that large file interfaces should be used when |
3329 | available. The use64bits symbol will also be turned on if necessary. |
3330 | |
ca24dfc6 |
3331 | uselongdouble (uselongdbl.U): |
3332 | This variable conditionally defines the USE_LONG_DOUBLE symbol, |
3333 | and indicates that long doubles should be used when available. |
3334 | |
0befd8de |
3335 | uselonglong (uselonglong.U): |
3336 | This variable conditionally defines the USE_LONG_LONG symbol, |
3337 | and indicates that long longs should be used when available. |
3338 | |
1baac590 |
3339 | usemorebits (usemorebits.U): |
3340 | This variable conditionally defines the USE_MORE_BITS symbol, |
3341 | and indicates that explicit 64-bit interfaces and long doubles |
3342 | should be used when available. |
3343 | |
781b178c |
3344 | usemultiplicity (usemultiplicity.U): |
3345 | This variable conditionally defines the MULTIPLICITY symbol, |
3346 | and indicates that Perl should be built to use multiplicity. |
3347 | |
3348 | usemymalloc (mallocsrc.U): |
3349 | This variable contains y if the malloc that comes with this package |
3350 | is desired over the system's version of malloc. People often include |
3351 | special versions of malloc for effiency, but such versions are often |
3352 | less portable. See also mallocsrc and mallocobj. |
3353 | If this is 'y', then -lmalloc is removed from $libs. |
3354 | |
3355 | usenm (usenm.U): |
3356 | This variable contains 'true' or 'false' depending whether the |
3357 | nm extraction is wanted or not. |
3358 | |
3359 | useopcode (Extensions.U): |
3360 | This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate |
3361 | whether the Opcode extension should be used. The sole |
3362 | use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism |
3363 | for users to skip the Opcode extension from the Configure |
3364 | command line. |
3365 | |
3366 | useperlio (useperlio.U): |
3367 | This variable conditionally defines the USE_PERLIO symbol, |
3368 | and indicates that the PerlIO abstraction should be |
3369 | used throughout. |
3370 | |
3371 | useposix (Extensions.U): |
3372 | This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate |
3373 | whether the POSIX extension should be used. The sole |
3374 | use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism |
3375 | for hints files to indicate that POSIX will not compile |
3376 | on a particular system. |
3377 | |
3378 | usesfio (d_sfio.U): |
3379 | This variable is set to true when the user agrees to use sfio. |
3380 | It is set to false when sfio is not available or when the user |
3381 | explicitely requests not to use sfio. It is here primarily so |
3382 | that command-line settings can override the auto-detection of |
3383 | d_sfio without running into a "WHOA THERE". |
3384 | |
3385 | useshrplib (libperl.U): |
3386 | This variable is set to 'yes' if the user wishes |
3387 | to build a shared libperl, and 'no' otherwise. |
3388 | |
3389 | usesocks (usesocks.U): |
3390 | This variable conditionally defines the USE_SOCKS symbol, |
3391 | and indicates that Perl should be built to use SOCKS. |
3392 | |
3393 | usethreads (usethreads.U): |
3394 | This variable conditionally defines the USE_THREADS symbol, |
3395 | and indicates that Perl should be built to use threads. |
3396 | |
9f50e519 |
3397 | usevendorprefix (vendorprefix.U): |
3398 | This variable tells whether the vendorprefix |
3399 | and consequently other vendor* paths are in use. |
3400 | |
781b178c |
3401 | usevfork (d_vfork.U): |
3402 | This variable is set to true when the user accepts to use vfork. |
3403 | It is set to false when no vfork is available or when the user |
3404 | explicitely requests not to use vfork. |
3405 | |
3406 | usrinc (usrinc.U): |
3407 | This variable holds the path of the include files, which is |
3408 | usually /usr/include. It is mainly used by other Configure units. |
3409 | |
3410 | uuname (Loc.U): |
3411 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
3412 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
3413 | |
a22e52b9 |
3414 | uvoformat (perlxvf.U): |
3415 | This variable contains the format string used for printing |
3416 | a Perl UV as an unsigned octal integer. |
3417 | |
3418 | uvsize (perlxv.U): |
3419 | This variable is the size of a UV in bytes. |
3420 | |
3421 | uvtype (perlxv.U): |
3422 | This variable contains the C type used for Perl's UV. |
3423 | |
3424 | uvuformat (perlxvf.U): |
3425 | This variable contains the format string used for printing |
3426 | a Perl UV as an unsigned decimal integer. |
3427 | |
3428 | uvxformat (perlxvf.U): |
3429 | This variable contains the format string used for printing |
3430 | a Perl UV as an unsigned hexadecimal integer. |
3431 | |
0617aed7 |
3432 | vendorbin (vendorbin.U): |
f868067f |
3433 | This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORBIN symbol. |
3434 | It may have a ~ on the front. |
3435 | The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory. |
3436 | Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place additional |
3437 | binaries in this directory with |
3438 | MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor |
3439 | or equivalent. See INSTALL for details. |
0617aed7 |
3440 | |
3441 | vendorbinexp (vendorbin.U): |
3442 | This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorbin, so that you |
3443 | may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts. |
3444 | |
a3635516 |
3445 | vendorlib (vendorlib.U): |
3446 | This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORLIB symbol, |
f868067f |
3447 | which is the name of the private library for this package. |
3448 | The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory. |
3449 | Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own |
3450 | modules in this directory with |
3451 | MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor |
3452 | or equivalent. See INSTALL for details. |
a3635516 |
3453 | |
3454 | vendorlibexp (vendorlib.U): |
3455 | This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorlib, so that you |
3456 | may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts. |
3457 | |
3458 | vendorprefix (vendorprefix.U): |
3459 | This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below |
3460 | which the vendor will install add-on packages. |
f868067f |
3461 | See INSTALL for usage and examples. |
a3635516 |
3462 | |
3463 | vendorprefixexp (vendorprefix.U): |
3464 | This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below |
3465 | which the vendor will install add-on packages. Derived from vendorprefix. |
3466 | |
781b178c |
3467 | version (patchlevel.U): |
ff935051 |
3468 | The full version number of this package, such as 5.6.1 (or 5_6_1). |
3469 | This combines baserev, patchlevel, and subversion to get the |
3470 | full version number, including any possible subversions. |
3471 | This is suitable for use as a directory name, and hence is |
3472 | filesystem dependent. |
781b178c |
3473 | |
3474 | vi (Loc.U): |
3475 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
3476 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
3477 | |
3478 | voidflags (voidflags.U): |
3479 | This variable contains the eventual value of the VOIDFLAGS symbol, |
3480 | which indicates how much support of the void type is given by this |
3481 | compiler. See VOIDFLAGS for more info. |
3482 | |
3483 | xlibpth (libpth.U): |
3484 | This variable holds extra path (space-separated) used to find |
3485 | libraries on this platform, for example CPU-specific libraries |
3486 | (on multi-CPU platforms) may be listed here. |
3487 | |
fe749a9f |
3488 | xs_apiversion (xs_apiversion.U): |
3489 | This variable contains the version of the oldest perl binary |
3490 | compatible with the present perl. perl.c:incpush() and |
3491 | lib/lib.pm will automatically search in $sitearch for older |
3492 | directories across major versions back to xs_apiversion. |
3493 | This is only useful if you have a perl library directory tree |
3494 | structured like the default one. |
3495 | See INSTALL for how this works. |
3496 | The versioned site_perl directory was introduced in 5.005, |
3497 | so that is the lowest possible value. |
3498 | Since this can depend on compile time options (such as |
3499 | bincompat) it is set by Configure. Other non-default sources |
3500 | of potential incompatibility, such as multiplicity, threads, |
3501 | debugging, 64bits, sfio, etc., are not checked for currently, |
3502 | though in principle we could go snooping around in old |
3503 | Config.pm files. |
3504 | |
781b178c |
3505 | zcat (Loc.U): |
3506 | This variable is defined but not used by Configure. |
3507 | The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |
3508 | |
3509 | zip (Loc.U): |
5bf26616 |
3510 | This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the |
781b178c |
3511 | full pathname (if any) of the zip program. After Configure runs, |
3512 | the value is reset to a plain "zip" and is not useful. |
3513 | |