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
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.]
8 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
9 full pathname (if any) of the Mcc program. After Configure runs,
10 the value is reset to a plain "Mcc" and is not useful.
13 This variable defines the extension used for ordinary libraries.
14 For unix, it is '.a'. The '.' is included. Other possible
15 values include '.lib'.
18 This variable defines the extension used for executable files.
19 For unix it is empty. Other possible values include '.exe'.
22 This variable defines the extension used for object files.
23 For unix, it is '.o'. The '.' is included. Other possible
24 values include '.obj'.
27 This variable is set to 'true' if AFS (Andrew File System) is used
28 on the system, 'false' otherwise. It is possible to override this
29 with a hint value or command line option, but you'd better know
32 alignbytes (alignbytes.U):
33 This variable holds the number of bytes required to align a
34 double. Usual values are 2, 4 and 8.
36 ansi2knr (ansi2knr.U):
37 This variable is set if the user needs to run ansi2knr.
38 Currently, this is not supported, so we just abort.
40 aphostname (d_gethname.U):
41 Thie variable contains the command which can be used to compute the
42 host name. The command is fully qualified by its absolute path, to make
43 it safe when used by a process with super-user privileges.
45 apiversion (patchlevel.U):
46 This is a number which identifies the lowest version of perl
47 to have an API (for XS extensions) compatible with the present
48 version. For example, for 5.005_01, the apiversion should be
49 5.005, since 5.005_01 should be binary compatible with 5.005.
50 This should probably be incremented manually somehow, perhaps
51 from patchlevel.h. For now, we'll guess maintenance subversions
52 will retain binary compatibility.
55 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
56 full pathname (if any) of the ar program. After Configure runs,
57 the value is reset to a plain "ar" and is not useful.
60 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
61 to put architecture-dependent public library files for $package.
62 It is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/lib.
63 Programs using this variable must be prepared to deal
64 with filename expansion.
66 archlibexp (archlib.U):
67 This variable is the same as the archlib variable, but is
68 filename expanded at configuration time, for convenient use.
70 archname (archname.U):
71 This variable is a short name to characterize the current
72 architecture. It is used mainly to construct the default archlib.
75 This variable defines any additional objects that must be linked
76 in with the program on this architecture. On unix, it is usually
77 empty. It is typically used to include emulations of unix calls
78 or other facilities. For perl on OS/2, for example, this would
82 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
83 full pathname (if any) of the awk program. After Configure runs,
84 the value is reset to a plain "awk" and is not useful.
87 The base revision level of this package, from the .package file.
90 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
91 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
94 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
95 to put publicly executable images for the package in question. It
96 is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
97 this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
100 This is the same as the bin variable, but is filename expanded at
101 configuration time, for use in your makefiles.
104 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
105 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
108 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
109 full pathname (if any) of the byacc program. After Configure runs,
110 the value is reset to a plain "byacc" and is not useful.
112 byteorder (byteorder.U):
113 This variable holds the byte order. In the following, larger digits
114 indicate more significance. The variable byteorder is either 4321
115 on a big-endian machine, or 1234 on a little-endian, or 87654321
116 on a Cray ... or 3412 with weird order !
119 This variable contains the \c string if that is what causes the echo
120 command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is
121 $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
123 castflags (d_castneg.U):
124 This variable contains a flag that precise difficulties the
125 compiler has casting odd floating values to unsigned long:
127 1 = couldn't cast < 0
128 2 = couldn't cast >= 0x80000000
129 4 = couldn't cast in argument expression list
132 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
133 full pathname (if any) of the cat program. After Configure runs,
134 the value is reset to a plain "cat" and is not useful.
137 This variable holds the name of a command to execute a C compiler which
138 can resolve multiple global references that happen to have the same
139 name. Usual values are 'cc', 'Mcc', 'cc -M', and 'gcc'.
141 cccdlflags (dlsrc.U):
142 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
143 passed with 'cc -c' to compile modules to be used to create a shared
144 library that will be used for dynamic loading. For hpux, this
145 should be +z. It is up to the makefile to use it.
148 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
149 passed to cc to link with a shared library for dynamic loading.
150 It is up to the makefile to use it. For sunos 4.1, it should
154 This variable contains any additional C compiler flags desired by
155 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
158 Login name of the person who ran the Configure script and answered the
159 questions. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH.
161 cf_email (cf_email.U):
162 Electronic mail address of the person who ran Configure. This can be
163 used by units that require the user's e-mail, like MailList.U.
166 Holds the output of the "date" command when the configuration file was
167 produced. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH.
170 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
171 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
174 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
175 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
178 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
179 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
181 clocktype (d_times.U):
182 This variable holds the type returned by times(). It can be long,
183 or clock_t on BSD sites (in which case <sys/types.h> should be
187 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
188 full pathname (if any) of the comm program. After Configure runs,
189 the value is reset to a plain "comm" and is not useful.
192 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
193 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
195 contains (contains.U):
196 This variable holds the command to do a grep with a proper return
197 status. On most sane systems it is simply "grep". On insane systems
198 it is a grep followed by a cat followed by a test. This variable
199 is primarily for the use of other Configure units.
202 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
203 full pathname (if any) of the cp program. After Configure runs,
204 the value is reset to a plain "cp" and is not useful.
207 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
208 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
211 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
212 full pathname (if any) of the cpp program. After Configure runs,
213 the value is reset to a plain "cpp" and is not useful.
215 cpp_stuff (cpp_stuff.U):
216 This variable contains an identification of the catenation mechanism
217 used by the C preprocessor.
219 cppflags (ccflags.U):
220 This variable holds the flags that will be passed to the C pre-
221 processor. It is up to the Makefile to use it.
223 cpplast (cppstdin.U):
224 This variable has the same functionality as cppminus, only it applies to
225 cpprun and not cppstdin.
227 cppminus (cppstdin.U):
228 This variable contains the second part of the string which will invoke
229 the C preprocessor on the standard input and produce to standard
230 output. This variable will have the value "-" if cppstdin needs a minus
231 to specify standard input, otherwise the value is "".
234 This variable contains the command which will invoke a C preprocessor
235 on standard input and put the output to stdout. It is guaranteed not
236 to be a wrapper and may be a null string if no preprocessor can be
237 made directly available. This preprocessor might be different from the
238 one used by the C compiler. Don't forget to append cpplast after the
239 preprocessor options.
241 cppstdin (cppstdin.U):
242 This variable contains the command which will invoke the C
243 preprocessor on standard input and put the output to stdout.
244 It is primarily used by other Configure units that ask about
245 preprocessor symbols.
247 cryptlib (d_crypt.U):
248 This variable holds -lcrypt or the path to a libcrypt.a archive if
249 the crypt() function is not defined in the standard C library. It is
250 up to the Makefile to use this.
253 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
254 full pathname (if any) of the csh program. After Configure runs,
255 the value is reset to a plain "csh" and is not useful.
257 d_Gconvert (d_gconvert.U):
258 This variable holds what Gconvert is defined as to convert
259 floating point numbers into strings. It could be 'gconvert'
260 or a more complex macro emulating gconvert with gcvt() or sprintf.
262 d_access (d_access.U):
263 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ACCESS if the access() system
264 call is available to check for access permissions using real IDs.
267 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ALARM symbol, which
268 indicates to the C program that the alarm() routine is available.
270 d_archlib (archlib.U):
271 This variable conditionally defines ARCHLIB to hold the pathname
272 of architecture-dependent library files for $package. If
273 $archlib is the same as $privlib, then this is set to undef.
275 d_attribut (d_attribut.U):
276 This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE, which
277 indicates the C compiler can check for function attributes,
278 such as printf formats.
281 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BCMP symbol if
282 the bcmp() routine is available to compare strings.
285 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BCOPY symbol if
286 the bcopy() routine is available to copy strings.
289 This symbol conditionally defines the symbol BSD when running on a
292 d_bsdgetpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
293 This variable conditionally defines USE_BSD_GETPGRP if
294 getpgrp needs one arguments whereas USG one needs none.
296 d_bsdsetpgrp (d_setpgrp.U):
297 This variable conditionally defines USE_BSD_SETPGRP if
298 setpgrp needs two arguments whereas USG one needs none.
299 See also d_setpgid for a POSIX interface.
302 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BZERO symbol if
303 the bzero() routine is available to set memory to 0.
305 d_casti32 (d_casti32.U):
306 This variable conditionally defines CASTI32, which indicates
307 whether the C compiler can cast large floats to 32-bit ints.
309 d_castneg (d_castneg.U):
310 This variable conditionally defines CASTNEG, which indicates
311 wether the C compiler can cast negative float to unsigned.
313 d_charvspr (d_vprintf.U):
314 This variable conditionally defines CHARVSPRINTF if this system
315 has vsprintf returning type (char*). The trend seems to be to
316 declare it as "int vsprintf()".
319 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CHOWN symbol, which
320 indicates to the C program that the chown() routine is available.
322 d_chroot (d_chroot.U):
323 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CHROOT symbol, which
324 indicates to the C program that the chroot() routine is available.
326 d_chsize (d_chsize.U):
327 This variable conditionally defines the CHSIZE symbol, which
328 indicates to the C program that the chsize() routine is available
329 to truncate files. You might need a -lx to get this routine.
331 d_closedir (d_closedir.U):
332 This variable conditionally defines HAS_CLOSEDIR if closedir() is
336 This variable conditionally defines the HASCONST symbol, which
337 indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows about the
341 This variable conditionally defines the CRYPT symbol, which
342 indicates to the C program that the crypt() routine is available
343 to encrypt passwords and the like.
346 This variable conditionally defines the CSH symbol, which
347 indicates to the C program that the C-shell exists.
349 d_cuserid (d_cuserid.U):
350 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_CUSERID symbol, which
351 indicates to the C program that the cuserid() routine is available
352 to get character login names.
354 d_dbl_dig (d_dbl_dig.U):
355 This variable conditionally defines d_dbl_dig if this system's
356 header files provide DBL_DIG, which is the number of significant
357 digits in a double precision number.
359 d_difftime (d_difftime.U):
360 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DIFFTIME symbol, which
361 indicates to the C program that the difftime() routine is available.
363 d_dirnamlen (i_dirent.U):
364 This variable conditionally defines DIRNAMLEN, which indicates
365 to the C program that the length of directory entry names is
366 provided by a d_namelen field.
368 d_dlerror (d_dlerror.U):
369 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLERROR symbol, which
370 indicates to the C program that the dlerror() routine is available.
372 d_dlopen (d_dlopen.U):
373 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_DLOPEN symbol, which
374 indicates to the C program that the dlopen() routine is available.
376 d_dlsymun (d_dlsymun.U):
377 This variable conditionally defines DLSYM_NEEDS_UNDERSCORE, which
378 indicates that we need to prepend an underscore to the symbol
379 name before calling dlsym().
381 d_dosuid (d_dosuid.U):
382 This variable conditionally defines the symbol DOSUID, which
383 tells the C program that it should insert setuid emulation code
384 on hosts which have setuid #! scripts disabled.
387 This variable conditionally defines HAS_DUP2 if dup2() is
388 available to duplicate file descriptors.
390 d_endgrent (d_endgrent.U):
391 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDGRENT symbol, which
392 indicates to the C program that the endgrent() routine is available
393 for sequential access of the group database.
395 d_endhent (d_endhent.U):
396 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDHOSTENT if endhostent() is
397 available to close whatever was being used for host queries.
399 d_endnent (d_endnent.U):
400 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDNETENT if endnetent() is
401 available to close whatever was being used for network queries.
403 d_endpent (d_endpent.U):
404 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDPROTOENT if endprotoent() is
405 available to close whatever was being used for protocol queries.
407 d_endpwent (d_endpwent.U):
408 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ENDPWENT symbol, which
409 indicates to the C program that the endpwent() routine is available
410 for sequential access of the passwd database.
412 d_endsent (d_endsent.U):
413 This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDSERVENT if endservent() is
414 available to close whatever was being used for service queries.
416 d_eofnblk (nblock_io.U):
417 This variable conditionally defines EOF_NONBLOCK if EOF can be seen
418 when reading from a non-blocking I/O source.
421 This variable conditionally defines the symbols EUNICE and VAX, which
422 alerts the C program that it must deal with ideosyncracies of VMS.
424 d_fchmod (d_fchmod.U):
425 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHMOD symbol, which
426 indicates to the C program that the fchmod() routine is available
427 to change mode of opened files.
429 d_fchown (d_fchown.U):
430 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCHOWN symbol, which
431 indicates to the C program that the fchown() routine is available
432 to change ownership of opened files.
435 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCNTL symbol, and indicates
436 whether the fcntl() function exists
438 d_fd_macros (d_fd_set.U):
439 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FD_MACROS symbol,
440 which indicates if your C compiler knows about the macros which
441 manipulate an fd_set.
443 d_fd_set (d_fd_set.U):
444 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FD_SET symbol,
445 which indicates if your C compiler knows about the fd_set typedef.
447 d_fds_bits (d_fd_set.U):
448 This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FDS_BITS symbol,
449 which indicates if your fd_set typedef contains the fds_bits member.
450 If you have an fd_set typedef, but the dweebs who installed it did
451 a half-fast job and neglected to provide the macros to manipulate
452 an fd_set, HAS_FDS_BITS will let us know how to fix the gaffe.
454 d_fgetpos (d_fgetpos.U):
455 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FGETPOS if fgetpos() is
456 available to get the file position indicator.
458 d_flexfnam (d_flexfnam.U):
459 This variable conditionally defines the FLEXFILENAMES symbol, which
460 indicates that the system supports filenames longer than 14 characters.
463 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FLOCK if flock() is
464 available to do file locking.
467 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FORK symbol, which
468 indicates to the C program that the fork() routine is available.
470 d_fpathconf (d_pathconf.U):
471 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FPATHCONF symbol, which
472 indicates to the C program that the pathconf() routine is available
473 to determine file-system related limits and options associated
474 with a given open file descriptor.
476 d_fsetpos (d_fsetpos.U):
477 This variable conditionally defines HAS_FSETPOS if fsetpos() is
478 available to set the file position indicator.
481 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTIME symbol, which indicates
482 that the ftime() routine exists. The ftime() routine is basically
483 a sub-second accuracy clock.
485 d_getgrent (d_getgrent.U):
486 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRENT symbol, which
487 indicates to the C program that the getgrent() routine is available
488 for sequential access of the group database.
490 d_getgrps (d_getgrps.U):
491 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGROUPS symbol, which
492 indicates to the C program that the getgroups() routine is available
493 to get the list of process groups.
495 d_gethbyaddr (d_gethbyad.U):
496 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYADDR symbol, which
497 indicates to the C program that the gethostbyaddr() routine is available
498 to look up hosts by their IP addresses.
500 d_gethbyname (d_gethbynm.U):
501 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTBYNAME symbol, which
502 indicates to the C program that the gethostbyname() routine is available
503 to look up host names in some data base or other.
505 d_gethent (d_gethent.U):
506 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETHOSTENT if gethostent() is
507 available to look up host names in some data base or another.
509 d_gethname (d_gethname.U):
510 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOSTNAME symbol, which
511 indicates to the C program that the gethostname() routine may be
512 used to derive the host name.
514 d_gethostprotos (d_gethostprotos.U):
515 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETHOST_PROTOS symbol,
516 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
517 prototypes for the various gethost*() functions.
518 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
520 d_getlogin (d_getlogin.U):
521 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETLOGIN symbol, which
522 indicates to the C program that the getlogin() routine is available
523 to get the login name.
525 d_getnbyaddr (d_getnbyad.U):
526 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYADDR symbol, which
527 indicates to the C program that the getnetbyaddr() routine is available
528 to look up networks by their IP addresses.
530 d_getnbyname (d_getnbynm.U):
531 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNETBYNAME symbol, which
532 indicates to the C program that the getnetbyname() routine is available
533 to look up networks by their names.
535 d_getnent (d_getnent.U):
536 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETNETENT if getnetent() is
537 available to look up network names in some data base or another.
539 d_getnetprotos (d_getnetprotos.U):
540 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETNET_PROTOS symbol,
541 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
542 prototypes for the various getnet*() functions.
543 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
545 d_getpbyname (d_getprotby.U):
546 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNAME
547 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
548 getprotobyname() routine is available to look up protocols
551 d_getpbynumber (d_getprotby.U):
552 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNUMBER
553 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
554 getprotobynumber() routine is available to look up protocols
557 d_getpent (d_getpent.U):
558 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPROTOENT if getprotoent() is
559 available to look up protocols in some data base or another.
561 d_getpgid (d_getpgid.U):
562 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGID symbol, which
563 indicates to the C program that the getpgid(pid) function
564 is available to get the process group id.
566 d_getpgrp2 (d_getpgrp2.U):
567 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGRP2 symbol, which
568 indicates to the C program that the getpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine
569 is available to get the current process group.
571 d_getpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
572 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPGRP if getpgrp() is
573 available to get the current process group.
575 d_getppid (d_getppid.U):
576 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPPID symbol, which
577 indicates to the C program that the getppid() routine is available
578 to get the parent process ID.
580 d_getprior (d_getprior.U):
581 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPRIORITY if getpriority()
582 is available to get a process's priority.
584 d_getprotoprotos (d_getprotoprotos.U):
585 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTO_PROTOS symbol,
586 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
587 prototypes for the various getproto*() functions.
588 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
590 d_getpwent (d_getpwent.U):
591 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWENT symbol, which
592 indicates to the C program that the getpwent() routine is available
593 for sequential access of the passwd database.
595 d_getsbyname (d_getsrvby.U):
596 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYNAME
597 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
598 getservbyname() routine is available to look up services
601 d_getsbyport (d_getsrvby.U):
602 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERVBYPORT
603 symbol, which indicates to the C program that the
604 getservbyport() routine is available to look up services
607 d_getsent (d_getsent.U):
608 This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETSERVENT if getservent() is
609 available to look up network services in some data base or another.
611 d_getservprotos (d_getservprotos.U):
612 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETSERV_PROTOS symbol,
613 which indicates to the C program that <netdb.h> supplies
614 prototypes for the various getserv*() functions.
615 See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types.
617 d_gettimeod (d_ftime.U):
618 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY symbol, which
619 indicates that the gettimeofday() system call exists (to obtain a
620 sub-second accuracy clock). You should probably include <sys/resource.h>.
622 d_gnulibc (d_gnulibc.U):
623 Defined if we're dealing with the GNU C Library.
625 d_grpasswd (i_grp.U):
626 This variable conditionally defines GRPASSWD, which indicates
627 that struct group in <grp.h> contains gr_passwd.
630 This variable conditionally defines HAS_HTONL if htonl() and its
631 friends are available to do network order byte swapping.
633 d_index (d_strchr.U):
634 This variable conditionally defines HAS_INDEX if index() and
635 rindex() are available for string searching.
637 d_inetaton (d_inetaton.U):
638 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INET_ATON symbol, which
639 indicates to the C program that the inet_aton() function is available
640 to parse IP address "dotted-quad" strings.
642 d_isascii (d_isascii.U):
643 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISASCII constant,
644 which indicates to the C program that isascii() is available.
646 d_killpg (d_killpg.U):
647 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_KILLPG symbol, which
648 indicates to the C program that the killpg() routine is available
649 to kill process groups.
651 d_lchown (d_lchown.U):
652 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LCHOWN symbol, which
653 indicates to the C program that the lchown() routine is available
654 to operate on a symbolic link (instead of following the link).
657 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LINK if link() is
658 available to create hard links.
660 d_locconv (d_locconv.U):
661 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LOCALECONV if localeconv() is
662 available for numeric and monetary formatting conventions.
665 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LOCKF if lockf() is
666 available to do file locking.
668 d_longdbl (d_longdbl.U):
669 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LONG_DOUBLE if
670 the long double type is supported.
672 d_longlong (d_longlong.U):
673 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LONG_LONG if
674 the long long type is supported.
677 This variable conditionally defines HAS_LSTAT if lstat() is
678 available to do file stats on symbolic links.
681 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBLEN symbol, which
682 indicates to the C program that the mblen() routine is available
683 to find the number of bytes in a multibye character.
685 d_mbstowcs (d_mbstowcs.U):
686 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBSTOWCS symbol, which
687 indicates to the C program that the mbstowcs() routine is available
688 to convert a multibyte string into a wide character string.
690 d_mbtowc (d_mbtowc.U):
691 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBTOWC symbol, which
692 indicates to the C program that the mbtowc() routine is available
693 to convert multibyte to a wide character.
695 d_memcmp (d_memcmp.U):
696 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMCMP symbol, which
697 indicates to the C program that the memcmp() routine is available
698 to compare blocks of memory.
700 d_memcpy (d_memcpy.U):
701 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMCPY symbol, which
702 indicates to the C program that the memcpy() routine is available
703 to copy blocks of memory.
705 d_memmove (d_memmove.U):
706 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMMOVE symbol, which
707 indicates to the C program that the memmove() routine is available
708 to copy potentatially overlapping blocks of memory.
710 d_memset (d_memset.U):
711 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MEMSET symbol, which
712 indicates to the C program that the memset() routine is available
713 to set blocks of memory.
716 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKDIR symbol, which
717 indicates to the C program that the mkdir() routine is available
718 to create directories..
720 d_mkfifo (d_mkfifo.U):
721 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKFIFO symbol, which
722 indicates to the C program that the mkfifo() routine is available.
724 d_mktime (d_mktime.U):
725 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKTIME symbol, which
726 indicates to the C program that the mktime() routine is available.
729 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG symbol, which
730 indicates that the entire msg*(2) library is present.
732 d_msgctl (d_msgctl.U):
733 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGCTL symbol, which
734 indicates to the C program that the msgctl() routine is available.
736 d_msgget (d_msgget.U):
737 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGGET symbol, which
738 indicates to the C program that the msgget() routine is available.
740 d_msgrcv (d_msgrcv.U):
741 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGRCV symbol, which
742 indicates to the C program that the msgrcv() routine is available.
744 d_msgsnd (d_msgsnd.U):
745 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGSND symbol, which
746 indicates to the C program that the msgsnd() routine is available.
748 d_mymalloc (mallocsrc.U):
749 This variable conditionally defines MYMALLOC in case other parts
750 of the source want to take special action if MYMALLOC is used.
751 This may include different sorts of profiling or error detection.
754 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NICE symbol, which
755 indicates to the C program that the nice() routine is available.
757 d_oldpthreads (usethreads.U):
758 This variable conditionally defines the OLD_PTHREADS_API symbol,
759 and indicates that Perl should be built to use the old
760 draft POSIX threads API. This is only potneially meaningful if
763 d_oldsock (d_socket.U):
764 This variable conditionally defines the OLDSOCKET symbol, which
765 indicates that the BSD socket interface is based on 4.1c and not 4.2.
768 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_OPEN3 manifest constant,
769 which indicates to the C program that the 3 argument version of
770 the open(2) function is available.
772 d_pathconf (d_pathconf.U):
773 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PATHCONF symbol, which
774 indicates to the C program that the pathconf() routine is available
775 to determine file-system related limits and options associated
776 with a given filename.
779 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PAUSE symbol, which
780 indicates to the C program that the pause() routine is available
781 to suspend a process until a signal is received.
783 d_phostname (d_gethname.U):
784 This variable conditionally defines the PHOSTNAME symbol, which
785 contains the shell command which, when fed to popen(), may be
786 used to derive the host name.
789 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PIPE symbol, which
790 indicates to the C program that the pipe() routine is available
791 to create an inter-process channel.
794 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_POLL symbol, which
795 indicates to the C program that the poll() routine is available
796 to poll active file descriptors.
798 d_portable (d_portable.U):
799 This variable conditionally defines the PORTABLE symbol, which
800 indicates to the C program that it should not assume that it is
801 running on the machine it was compiled on.
803 d_pthread_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
804 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PTHREAD_YIELD
805 symbol if the pthread_yield routine is available to yield
806 the execution of the current thread.
808 d_pthreads_created_joinable (d_pthreadj.U):
809 This variable conditionally defines the PTHREADS_CREATED_JOINABLE
810 symbol if pthreads are created in the joinable (aka undetached)
814 This variable conditionally defines PWAGE, which indicates
815 that struct passwd contains pw_age.
817 d_pwchange (i_pwd.U):
818 This variable conditionally defines PWCHANGE, which indicates
819 that struct passwd contains pw_change.
822 This variable conditionally defines PWCLASS, which indicates
823 that struct passwd contains pw_class.
825 d_pwcomment (i_pwd.U):
826 This variable conditionally defines PWCOMMENT, which indicates
827 that struct passwd contains pw_comment.
829 d_pwexpire (i_pwd.U):
830 This variable conditionally defines PWEXPIRE, which indicates
831 that struct passwd contains pw_expire.
834 This variable conditionally defines PWGECOS, which indicates
835 that struct passwd contains pw_gecos.
837 d_pwpasswd (i_pwd.U):
838 This variable conditionally defines PWPASSWD, which indicates
839 that struct passwd contains pw_passwd.
842 This variable conditionally defines PWQUOTA, which indicates
843 that struct passwd contains pw_quota.
845 d_readdir (d_readdir.U):
846 This variable conditionally defines HAS_READDIR if readdir() is
847 available to read directory entries.
849 d_readlink (d_readlink.U):
850 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READLINK symbol, which
851 indicates to the C program that the readlink() routine is available
852 to read the value of a symbolic link.
854 d_rename (d_rename.U):
855 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_RENAME symbol, which
856 indicates to the C program that the rename() routine is available
859 d_rewinddir (d_readdir.U):
860 This variable conditionally defines HAS_REWINDDIR if rewinddir() is
864 This variable conditionally defines HAS_RMDIR if rmdir() is
865 available to remove directories.
867 d_safebcpy (d_safebcpy.U):
868 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SAFE_BCOPY symbol if
869 the bcopy() routine can do overlapping copies.
871 d_safemcpy (d_safemcpy.U):
872 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SAFE_MEMCPY symbol if
873 the memcpy() routine can do overlapping copies.
875 d_sanemcmp (d_sanemcmp.U):
876 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SANE_MEMCMP symbol if
877 the memcpy() routine is available and can be used to compare relative
878 magnitudes of chars with their high bits set.
880 d_sched_yield (d_pthread_y.U):
881 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCHED_YIELD
882 symbol if the sched_yield routine is available to yield
883 the execution of the current thread.
885 d_seekdir (d_readdir.U):
886 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SEEKDIR if seekdir() is
889 d_select (d_select.U):
890 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SELECT if select() is
891 available to select active file descriptors. A <sys/time.h>
892 inclusion may be necessary for the timeout field.
895 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEM symbol, which
896 indicates that the entire sem*(2) library is present.
898 d_semctl (d_semctl.U):
899 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMCTL symbol, which
900 indicates to the C program that the semctl() routine is available.
902 d_semctl_semid_ds (d_union_senum.U):
903 This variable conditionally defines USE_SEMCTL_SEMID_DS, which
904 indicates that struct semid_ds * is to be used for semctl IPC_STAT.
906 d_semctl_semun (d_union_senum.U):
907 This variable conditionally defines USE_SEMCTL_SEMUN, which
908 indicates that union semun is to be used for semctl IPC_STAT.
910 d_semget (d_semget.U):
911 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMGET symbol, which
912 indicates to the C program that the semget() routine is available.
915 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SEMOP symbol, which
916 indicates to the C program that the semop() routine is available.
918 d_setegid (d_setegid.U):
919 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETEGID symbol, which
920 indicates to the C program that the setegid() routine is available
921 to change the effective gid of the current program.
923 d_seteuid (d_seteuid.U):
924 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETEUID symbol, which
925 indicates to the C program that the seteuid() routine is available
926 to change the effective uid of the current program.
928 d_setgrent (d_setgrent.U):
929 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGRENT symbol, which
930 indicates to the C program that the setgrent() routine is available
931 for initializing sequential access to the group database.
933 d_setgrps (d_setgrps.U):
934 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETGROUPS symbol, which
935 indicates to the C program that the setgroups() routine is available
936 to set the list of process groups.
938 d_sethent (d_sethent.U):
939 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETHOSTENT if sethostent() is
942 d_setlinebuf (d_setlnbuf.U):
943 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETLINEBUF symbol, which
944 indicates to the C program that the setlinebuf() routine is available
945 to change stderr or stdout from block-buffered or unbuffered to a
948 d_setlocale (d_setlocale.U):
949 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETLOCALE if setlocale() is
950 available to handle locale-specific ctype implementations.
952 d_setnent (d_setnent.U):
953 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETNETENT if setnetent() is
956 d_setpent (d_setpent.U):
957 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPROTOENT if setprotoent() is
960 d_setpgid (d_setpgid.U):
961 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGID symbol if the
962 setpgid(pid, gpid) function is available to set process group ID.
964 d_setpgrp2 (d_setpgrp2.U):
965 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGRP2 symbol, which
966 indicates to the C program that the setpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine
967 is available to set the current process group.
969 d_setpgrp (d_setpgrp.U):
970 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPGRP if setpgrp() is
971 available to set the current process group.
973 d_setprior (d_setprior.U):
974 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPRIORITY if setpriority()
975 is available to set a process's priority.
977 d_setpwent (d_setpwent.U):
978 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPWENT symbol, which
979 indicates to the C program that the setpwent() routine is available
980 for initializing sequential access to the passwd database.
982 d_setregid (d_setregid.U):
983 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREGID if setregid() is
984 available to change the real and effective gid of the current
987 d_setresgid (d_setregid.U):
988 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETRESGID if setresgid() is
989 available to change the real, effective and saved gid of the current
992 d_setresuid (d_setreuid.U):
993 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREUID if setresuid() is
994 available to change the real, effective and saved uid of the current
997 d_setreuid (d_setreuid.U):
998 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETREUID if setreuid() is
999 available to change the real and effective uid of the current
1002 d_setrgid (d_setrgid.U):
1003 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRGID symbol, which
1004 indicates to the C program that the setrgid() routine is available
1005 to change the real gid of the current program.
1007 d_setruid (d_setruid.U):
1008 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETRUID symbol, which
1009 indicates to the C program that the setruid() routine is available
1010 to change the real uid of the current program.
1012 d_setsent (d_setsent.U):
1013 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSERVENT if setservent() is
1016 d_setsid (d_setsid.U):
1017 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSID if setsid() is
1018 available to set the process group ID.
1020 d_setvbuf (d_setvbuf.U):
1021 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETVBUF symbol, which
1022 indicates to the C program that the setvbuf() routine is available
1023 to change buffering on an open stdio stream.
1026 This variable conditionally defines the USE_SFIO symbol,
1027 and indicates whether sfio is available (and should be used).
1030 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHM symbol, which
1031 indicates that the entire shm*(2) library is present.
1033 d_shmat (d_shmat.U):
1034 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMAT symbol, which
1035 indicates to the C program that the shmat() routine is available.
1037 d_shmatprototype (d_shmat.U):
1038 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMAT_PROTOTYPE
1039 symbol, which indicates that sys/shm.h has a prototype for
1042 d_shmctl (d_shmctl.U):
1043 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMCTL symbol, which
1044 indicates to the C program that the shmctl() routine is available.
1046 d_shmdt (d_shmdt.U):
1047 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMDT symbol, which
1048 indicates to the C program that the shmdt() routine is available.
1050 d_shmget (d_shmget.U):
1051 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SHMGET symbol, which
1052 indicates to the C program that the shmget() routine is available.
1054 d_sigaction (d_sigaction.U):
1055 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGACTION symbol, which
1056 indicates that the Vr4 sigaction() routine is available.
1058 d_sigsetjmp (d_sigsetjmp.U):
1059 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGSETJMP symbol,
1060 which indicates that the sigsetjmp() routine is available to
1061 call setjmp() and optionally save the process's signal mask.
1063 d_socket (d_socket.U):
1064 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SOCKET, which indicates
1065 that the BSD socket interface is supported.
1067 d_sockpair (d_socket.U):
1068 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKETPAIR symbol, which
1069 indicates that the BSD socketpair() is supported.
1071 d_statblks (d_statblks.U):
1072 This variable conditionally defines USE_STAT_BLOCKS if this system
1073 has a stat structure declaring st_blksize and st_blocks.
1075 d_stdio_cnt_lval (d_stdstdio.U):
1076 This variable conditionally defines STDIO_CNT_LVALUE if the
1077 FILE_cnt macro can be used as an lvalue.
1079 d_stdio_ptr_lval (d_stdstdio.U):
1080 This variable conditionally defines STDIO_PTR_LVALUE if the
1081 FILE_ptr macro can be used as an lvalue.
1083 d_stdiobase (d_stdstdio.U):
1084 This variable conditionally defines USE_STDIO_BASE if this system
1085 has a FILE structure declaring a usable _base field (or equivalent)
1088 d_stdstdio (d_stdstdio.U):
1089 This variable conditionally defines USE_STDIO_PTR if this system
1090 has a FILE structure declaring usable _ptr and _cnt fields (or
1091 equivalent) in stdio.h.
1093 d_strchr (d_strchr.U):
1094 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRCHR if strchr() and
1095 strrchr() are available for string searching.
1097 d_strcoll (d_strcoll.U):
1098 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRCOLL if strcoll() is
1099 available to compare strings using collating information.
1101 d_strctcpy (d_strctcpy.U):
1102 This variable conditionally defines the USE_STRUCT_COPY symbol, which
1103 indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows how to copy
1106 d_strerrm (d_strerror.U):
1107 This variable holds what Strerrr is defined as to translate an error
1108 code condition into an error message string. It could be 'strerror'
1109 or a more complex macro emulating strrror with sys_errlist[], or the
1110 "unknown" string when both strerror and sys_errlist are missing.
1112 d_strerror (d_strerror.U):
1113 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRERROR if strerror() is
1114 available to translate error numbers to strings.
1116 d_strtod (d_strtod.U):
1117 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOD symbol, which
1118 indicates to the C program that the strtod() routine is available
1119 to provide better numeric string conversion than atof().
1121 d_strtol (d_strtol.U):
1122 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOL symbol, which
1123 indicates to the C program that the strtol() routine is available
1124 to provide better numeric string conversion than atoi() and friends.
1126 d_strtoul (d_strtoul.U):
1127 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUL symbol, which
1128 indicates to the C program that the strtoul() routine is available
1129 to provide conversion of strings to unsigned long.
1131 d_strxfrm (d_strxfrm.U):
1132 This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRXFRM if strxfrm() is
1133 available to transform strings.
1135 d_suidsafe (d_dosuid.U):
1136 This variable conditionally defines SETUID_SCRIPTS_ARE_SECURE_NOW
1137 if setuid scripts can be secure. This test looks in /dev/fd/.
1139 d_symlink (d_symlink.U):
1140 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYMLINK symbol, which
1141 indicates to the C program that the symlink() routine is available
1142 to create symbolic links.
1144 d_syscall (d_syscall.U):
1145 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYSCALL if syscall() is
1146 available call arbitrary system calls.
1148 d_sysconf (d_sysconf.U):
1149 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SYSCONF symbol, which
1150 indicates to the C program that the sysconf() routine is available
1151 to determine system related limits and options.
1153 d_sysernlst (d_strerror.U):
1154 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYS_ERRNOLIST if sys_errnolist[]
1155 is available to translate error numbers to the symbolic name.
1157 d_syserrlst (d_strerror.U):
1158 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYS_ERRLIST if sys_errlist[] is
1159 available to translate error numbers to strings.
1161 d_system (d_system.U):
1162 This variable conditionally defines HAS_SYSTEM if system() is
1163 available to issue a shell command.
1165 d_tcgetpgrp (d_tcgtpgrp.U):
1166 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TCGETPGRP symbol, which
1167 indicates to the C program that the tcgetpgrp() routine is available.
1168 to get foreground process group ID.
1170 d_tcsetpgrp (d_tcstpgrp.U):
1171 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TCSETPGRP symbol, which
1172 indicates to the C program that the tcsetpgrp() routine is available
1173 to set foreground process group ID.
1175 d_telldir (d_readdir.U):
1176 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TELLDIR if telldir() is
1180 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIME symbol, which indicates
1181 that the time() routine exists. The time() routine is normaly
1182 provided on UNIX systems.
1184 d_times (d_times.U):
1185 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_TIMES symbol, which indicates
1186 that the times() routine exists. The times() routine is normaly
1187 provided on UNIX systems. You may have to include <sys/times.h>.
1189 d_truncate (d_truncate.U):
1190 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TRUNCATE if truncate() is
1191 available to truncate files.
1193 d_tzname (d_tzname.U):
1194 This variable conditionally defines HAS_TZNAME if tzname[] is
1195 available to access timezone names.
1197 d_umask (d_umask.U):
1198 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UMASK symbol, which
1199 indicates to the C program that the umask() routine is available.
1200 to set and get the value of the file creation mask.
1202 d_uname (d_gethname.U):
1203 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_UNAME symbol, which
1204 indicates to the C program that the uname() routine may be
1205 used to derive the host name.
1207 d_union_semun (d_union_senum.U):
1208 This variable conditionally defines HAS_UNION_SEMUN if the
1209 union semun is defined by including <sys/sem.h>.
1211 d_vfork (d_vfork.U):
1212 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VFORK symbol, which
1213 indicates the vfork() routine is available.
1215 d_void_closedir (d_closedir.U):
1216 This variable conditionally defines VOID_CLOSEDIR if closedir()
1217 does not return a value.
1219 d_voidsig (d_voidsig.U):
1220 This variable conditionally defines VOIDSIG if this system
1221 declares "void (*signal(...))()" in signal.h. The old way was to
1222 declare it as "int (*signal(...))()".
1224 d_voidtty (i_sysioctl.U):
1225 This variable conditionally defines USE_IOCNOTTY to indicate that the
1226 ioctl() call with TIOCNOTTY should be used to void tty association.
1227 Otherwise (on USG probably), it is enough to close the standard file
1228 decriptors and do a setpgrp().
1230 d_volatile (d_volatile.U):
1231 This variable conditionally defines the HASVOLATILE symbol, which
1232 indicates to the C program that this C compiler knows about the
1233 volatile declaration.
1235 d_vprintf (d_vprintf.U):
1236 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VPRINTF symbol, which
1237 indicates to the C program that the vprintf() routine is available
1238 to printf with a pointer to an argument list.
1240 d_wait4 (d_wait4.U):
1241 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WAIT4 symbol, which
1242 indicates the wait4() routine is available.
1244 d_waitpid (d_waitpid.U):
1245 This variable conditionally defines HAS_WAITPID if waitpid() is
1246 available to wait for child process.
1248 d_wcstombs (d_wcstombs.U):
1249 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCSTOMBS symbol, which
1250 indicates to the C program that the wcstombs() routine is available
1251 to convert wide character strings to multibyte strings.
1253 d_wctomb (d_wctomb.U):
1254 This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WCTOMB symbol, which
1255 indicates to the C program that the wctomb() routine is available
1256 to convert a wide character to a multibyte.
1259 This variable conditionally defines the symbol XENIX, which alerts
1260 the C program that it runs under Xenix.
1263 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
1264 full pathname (if any) of the date program. After Configure runs,
1265 the value is reset to a plain "date" and is not useful.
1267 db_hashtype (i_db.U):
1268 This variable contains the type of the hash structure element
1269 in the <db.h> header file. In older versions of DB, it was
1270 int, while in newer ones it is u_int32_t.
1272 db_prefixtype (i_db.U):
1273 This variable contains the type of the prefix structure element
1274 in the <db.h> header file. In older versions of DB, it was
1275 int, while in newer ones it is size_t.
1277 direntrytype (i_dirent.U):
1278 This symbol is set to 'struct direct' or 'struct dirent' depending on
1279 whether dirent is available or not. You should use this pseudo type to
1280 portably declare your directory entries.
1283 This variable contains the extension that is to be used for the
1284 dynamically loaded modules that perl generaties.
1287 This variable contains the name of the dynamic loading file that
1288 will be used with the package.
1290 doublesize (doublesize.U):
1291 This variable contains the value of the DOUBLESIZE symbol, which
1292 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a double.
1294 dynamic_ext (Extensions.U):
1295 This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to
1296 link dynamically into the package. It is used by Makefile.
1298 eagain (nblock_io.U):
1299 This variable bears the symbolic errno code set by read() when no
1300 data is present on the file and non-blocking I/O was enabled (otherwise,
1301 read() blocks naturally).
1304 This variable conditionally defines EBCDIC if this
1305 system uses EBCDIC encoding. Among other things, this
1306 means that the character ranges are not contiguous.
1310 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
1311 full pathname (if any) of the echo program. After Configure runs,
1312 the value is reset to a plain "echo" and is not useful.
1315 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
1316 full pathname (if any) of the egrep program. After Configure runs,
1317 the value is reset to a plain "egrep" and is not useful.
1320 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
1321 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
1324 When running under Eunice this variable contains a command which will
1325 convert a shell script to the proper form of text file for it to be
1326 executable by the shell. On other systems it is a no-op.
1329 This is an old synonym for _exe.
1332 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
1333 full pathname (if any) of the expr program. After Configure runs,
1334 the value is reset to a plain "expr" and is not useful.
1336 extensions (Extensions.U):
1337 This variable holds a list of all extension files (both XS and
1338 non-xs linked into the package. It is propagated to Config.pm
1339 and is typically used to test whether a particular extesion
1343 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
1344 full pathname (if any) of the find program. After Configure runs,
1345 the value is reset to a plain "find" and is not useful.
1347 firstmakefile (Unix.U):
1348 This variable defines the first file searched by make. On unix,
1349 it is makefile (then Makefile). On case-insensitive systems,
1350 it might be something else. This is only used to deal with
1351 convoluted make depend tricks.
1354 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
1355 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
1357 fpostype (fpostype.U):
1358 This variable defines Fpos_t to be something like fpost_t, long,
1359 uint, or whatever type is used to declare file positions in libc.
1361 freetype (mallocsrc.U):
1362 This variable contains the return type of free(). It is usually
1363 void, but occasionally int.
1366 This variable contains the full pathname to 'csh', whether or
1367 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
1368 in the compiled C program, and we assume that all systems which
1369 can share this executable will have the same full pathname to
1372 full_sed (Loc_sed.U):
1373 This variable contains the full pathname to 'sed', whether or
1374 not the user has specified 'portability'. This is only used
1375 in the compiled C program, and we assume that all systems which
1376 can share this executable will have the same full pathname to
1380 If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable holds '1' or '2' to
1381 indicate whether the compiler is version 1 or 2. This is used in
1382 setting some of the default cflags. It is set to '' if not gcc.
1384 gidtype (gidtype.U):
1385 This variable defines Gid_t to be something like gid_t, int,
1386 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare the return type
1387 of getgid(). Typically, it is the type of group ids in the kernel.
1390 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
1391 full pathname (if any) of the grep program. After Configure runs,
1392 the value is reset to a plain "grep" and is not useful.
1395 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
1396 /etc/group file. This is normally "cat /etc/group", but can be
1397 "ypcat group" when NIS is used.
1399 groupstype (groupstype.U):
1400 This variable defines Groups_t to be something like gid_t, int,
1401 ushort, or whatever type is used for the second argument to
1402 getgroups() and setgroups(). Usually, this is the same as
1403 gidtype (gid_t), but sometimes it isn't.
1406 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
1407 full pathname (if any) of the gzip program. After Configure runs,
1408 the value is reset to a plain "gzip" and is not useful.
1410 h_fcntl (h_fcntl.U):
1411 This is variable gets set in various places to tell i_fcntl that
1412 <fcntl.h> should be included.
1414 h_sysfile (h_sysfile.U):
1415 This is variable gets set in various places to tell i_sys_file that
1416 <sys/file.h> should be included.
1419 Gives the type of hints used for previous answers. May be one of
1420 "default", "recommended" or "previous".
1423 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
1424 /etc/hosts file. This is normally "cat /etc/hosts", but can be
1425 "ypcat hosts" when NIS is used.
1428 This variable contains a flag which will tell the C compiler and loader
1429 to produce a program running with a huge memory model. If the
1430 huge model is not supported, contains the flag to produce large
1431 model programs. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
1433 i_arpainet (i_arpainet.U):
1434 This variable conditionally defines the I_ARPA_INET symbol,
1435 and indicates whether a C program should include <arpa/inet.h>.
1437 i_bsdioctl (i_sysioctl.U):
1438 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_BSDIOCTL symbol, which
1439 indicates to the C program that <sys/bsdioctl.h> exists and should
1443 This variable conditionally defines the I_DB symbol, and indicates
1444 whether a C program may include Berkeley's DB include file <db.h>.
1447 This variable conditionally defines the I_DBM symbol, which
1448 indicates to the C program that <dbm.h> exists and should
1451 i_dirent (i_dirent.U):
1452 This variable conditionally defines I_DIRENT, which indicates
1453 to the C program that it should include <dirent.h>.
1456 This variable conditionally defines the I_DLD symbol, which
1457 indicates to the C program that <dld.h> (GNU dynamic loading)
1458 exists and should be included.
1460 i_dlfcn (i_dlfcn.U):
1461 This variable conditionally defines the I_DLFCN symbol, which
1462 indicates to the C program that <dlfcn.h> exists and should
1465 i_fcntl (i_fcntl.U):
1466 This variable controls the value of I_FCNTL (which tells
1467 the C program to include <fcntl.h>).
1469 i_float (i_float.U):
1470 This variable conditionally defines the I_FLOAT symbol, and indicates
1471 whether a C program may include <float.h> to get symbols like DBL_MAX
1472 or DBL_MIN, i.e. machine dependent floating point values.
1475 This variable conditionally defines the I_GDBM symbol, which
1476 indicates to the C program that <gdbm.h> exists and should
1480 This variable conditionally defines the I_GRP symbol, and indicates
1481 whether a C program should include <grp.h>.
1483 i_limits (i_limits.U):
1484 This variable conditionally defines the I_LIMITS symbol, and indicates
1485 whether a C program may include <limits.h> to get symbols like WORD_BIT
1488 i_locale (i_locale.U):
1489 This variable conditionally defines the I_LOCALE symbol,
1490 and indicates whether a C program should include <locale.h>.
1492 i_malloc (i_malloc.U):
1493 This variable conditionally defines the I_MALLOC symbol, and indicates
1494 whether a C program should include <malloc.h>.
1497 This variable conditionally defines the I_MATH symbol, and indicates
1498 whether a C program may include <math.h>.
1500 i_memory (i_memory.U):
1501 This variable conditionally defines the I_MEMORY symbol, and indicates
1502 whether a C program should include <memory.h>.
1505 This variable conditionally defines the I_NDBM symbol, which
1506 indicates to the C program that <ndbm.h> exists and should
1509 i_netdb (i_netdb.U):
1510 This variable conditionally defines the I_NETDB symbol, and indicates
1511 whether a C program should include <netdb.h>.
1513 i_neterrno (i_neterrno.U):
1514 This variable conditionally defines the I_NET_ERRNO symbol, which
1515 indicates to the C program that <net/errno.h> exists and should
1519 This variable conditionally defines I_NETINET_IN, which indicates
1520 to the C program that it should include <netinet/in.h>. Otherwise,
1521 you may try <sys/in.h>.
1524 This variable conditionally defines I_PWD, which indicates
1525 to the C program that it should include <pwd.h>.
1527 i_rpcsvcdbm (i_dbm.U):
1528 This variable conditionally defines the I_RPCSVC_DBM symbol, which
1529 indicates to the C program that <rpcsvc/dbm.h> exists and should
1530 be included. Some System V systems might need this instead of <dbm.h>.
1533 This variable conditionally defines the I_SFIO symbol,
1534 and indicates whether a C program should include <sfio.h>.
1536 i_sgtty (i_termio.U):
1537 This variable conditionally defines the I_SGTTY symbol, which
1538 indicates to the C program that it should include <sgtty.h> rather
1541 i_stdarg (i_varhdr.U):
1542 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDARG symbol, which
1543 indicates to the C program that <stdarg.h> exists and should
1546 i_stddef (i_stddef.U):
1547 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDDEF symbol, which
1548 indicates to the C program that <stddef.h> exists and should
1551 i_stdlib (i_stdlib.U):
1552 This variable conditionally defines the I_STDLIB symbol, which
1553 indicates to the C program that <stdlib.h> exists and should
1556 i_string (i_string.U):
1557 This variable conditionally defines the I_STRING symbol, which
1558 indicates that <string.h> should be included rather than <strings.h>.
1560 i_sysdir (i_sysdir.U):
1561 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_DIR symbol, and indicates
1562 whether a C program should include <sys/dir.h>.
1564 i_sysfile (i_sysfile.U):
1565 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_FILE symbol, and indicates
1566 whether a C program should include <sys/file.h> to get R_OK and friends.
1568 i_sysfilio (i_sysioctl.U):
1569 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_FILIO symbol, which
1570 indicates to the C program that <sys/filio.h> exists and should
1571 be included in preference to <sys/ioctl.h>.
1574 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_IN, which indicates
1575 to the C program that it should include <sys/in.h> instead of
1578 i_sysioctl (i_sysioctl.U):
1579 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_IOCTL symbol, which
1580 indicates to the C program that <sys/ioctl.h> exists and should
1583 i_sysndir (i_sysndir.U):
1584 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_NDIR symbol, and indicates
1585 whether a C program should include <sys/ndir.h>.
1587 i_sysparam (i_sysparam.U):
1588 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_PARAM symbol, and indicates
1589 whether a C program should include <sys/param.h>.
1591 i_sysresrc (i_sysresrc.U):
1592 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_RESOURCE symbol,
1593 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/resource.h>.
1595 i_sysselct (i_sysselct.U):
1596 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_SELECT, which indicates
1597 to the C program that it should include <sys/select.h> in order to
1598 get the definition of struct timeval.
1600 i_syssockio (i_sysioctl.U):
1601 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_SOCKIO to indicate to the
1602 C program that socket ioctl codes may be found in <sys/sockio.h>
1603 instead of <sys/ioctl.h>.
1605 i_sysstat (i_sysstat.U):
1606 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_STAT symbol,
1607 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/stat.h>.
1609 i_systime (i_time.U):
1610 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_TIME, which indicates
1611 to the C program that it should include <sys/time.h>.
1613 i_systimek (i_time.U):
1614 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_TIME_KERNEL, which
1615 indicates to the C program that it should include <sys/time.h>
1616 with KERNEL defined.
1618 i_systimes (i_systimes.U):
1619 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_TIMES symbol, and indicates
1620 whether a C program should include <sys/times.h>.
1622 i_systypes (i_systypes.U):
1623 This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_TYPES symbol,
1624 and indicates whether a C program should include <sys/types.h>.
1626 i_sysun (i_sysun.U):
1627 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_UN, which indicates
1628 to the C program that it should include <sys/un.h> to get UNIX
1629 domain socket definitions.
1631 i_syswait (i_syswait.U):
1632 This variable conditionally defines I_SYS_WAIT, which indicates
1633 to the C program that it should include <sys/wait.h>.
1635 i_termio (i_termio.U):
1636 This variable conditionally defines the I_TERMIO symbol, which
1637 indicates to the C program that it should include <termio.h> rather
1640 i_termios (i_termio.U):
1641 This variable conditionally defines the I_TERMIOS symbol, which
1642 indicates to the C program that the POSIX <termios.h> file is
1646 This variable conditionally defines I_TIME, which indicates
1647 to the C program that it should include <time.h>.
1649 i_unistd (i_unistd.U):
1650 This variable conditionally defines the I_UNISTD symbol, and indicates
1651 whether a C program should include <unistd.h>.
1653 i_utime (i_utime.U):
1654 This variable conditionally defines the I_UTIME symbol, and indicates
1655 whether a C program should include <utime.h>.
1657 i_values (i_values.U):
1658 This variable conditionally defines the I_VALUES symbol, and indicates
1659 whether a C program may include <values.h> to get symbols like MAXLONG
1662 i_varargs (i_varhdr.U):
1663 This variable conditionally defines I_VARARGS, which indicates
1664 to the C program that it should include <varargs.h>.
1666 i_varhdr (i_varhdr.U):
1667 Contains the name of the header to be included to get va_dcl definition.
1668 Typically one of varargs.h or stdarg.h.
1670 i_vfork (i_vfork.U):
1671 This variable conditionally defines the I_VFORK symbol, and indicates
1672 whether a C program should include vfork.h.
1675 This variable must preceed the normal include path to get hte
1676 right one, as in "$incpath/usr/include" or "$incpath/usr/lib".
1677 Value can be "" or "/bsd43" on mips.
1680 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
1681 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
1683 installarchlib (archlib.U):
1684 This variable is really the same as archlibexp but may differ on
1685 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
1686 should be used in makefiles.
1689 This variable is the same as binexp unless AFS is running in which case
1690 the user is explicitely prompted for it. This variable should always
1691 be used in your makefiles for maximum portability.
1693 installman1dir (man1dir.U):
1694 This variable is really the same as man1direxp, unless you are using
1695 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
1696 man1direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
1697 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
1699 installman3dir (man3dir.U):
1700 This variable is really the same as man3direxp, unless you are using
1701 AFS in which case it points to the read/write location whereas
1702 man3direxp only points to the read-only access location. For extra
1703 portability, you should only use this variable within your makefiles.
1705 installprivlib (privlib.U):
1706 This variable is really the same as privlibexp but may differ on
1707 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
1708 should be used in makefiles.
1710 installscript (scriptdir.U):
1711 This variable is usually the same as scriptdirexp, unless you are on
1712 a system running AFS, in which case they may differ slightly. You
1713 should always use this variable within your makefiles for portability.
1715 installsitearch (sitearch.U):
1716 This variable is really the same as sitearchexp but may differ on
1717 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
1718 should be used in makefiles.
1720 installsitelib (sitelib.U):
1721 This variable is really the same as sitelibexp but may differ on
1722 those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
1723 should be used in makefiles.
1725 intsize (intsize.U):
1726 This variable contains the value of the INTSIZE symbol, which
1727 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in an int.
1729 known_extensions (Extensions.U):
1730 This variable holds a list of all XS extensions included in
1734 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
1735 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
1738 This variable contains a flag which will tell the C compiler and loader
1739 to produce a program running with a large memory model. It is up to
1740 the Makefile to use this.
1743 This variable indicates the program to be used to link
1744 libraries for dynamic loading. On some systems, it is 'ld'.
1745 On ELF systems, it should be $cc. Mostly, we'll try to respect
1746 the hint file setting.
1748 lddlflags (dlsrc.U):
1749 This variable contains any special flags that might need to be
1750 passed to $ld to create a shared library suitable for dynamic
1751 loading. It is up to the makefile to use it. For hpux, it
1752 should be '-b'. For sunos 4.1, it is empty.
1754 ldflags (ccflags.U):
1755 This variable contains any additional C loader flags desired by
1756 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
1759 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
1760 full pathname (if any) of the less program. After Configure runs,
1761 the value is reset to a plain "less" and is not useful.
1764 This is an old synonym for _a.
1767 This variable contains the location of the C library.
1769 libperl (libperl.U):
1770 The perl executable is obtained by linking perlmain.c with
1771 libperl, any static extensions (usually just DynaLoader),
1772 and any other libraries needed on this system. libperl
1773 is usually libperl.a, but can also be libperl.so.xxx if
1774 the user wishes to build a perl executable with a shared
1778 This variable holds the general path used to find libraries. It is
1779 intended to be used by other units.
1782 This variable holds the additional libraries we want to use.
1783 It is up to the Makefile to deal with it.
1785 libswanted (Myinit.U):
1786 This variable holds a list of all the libraries we want to
1787 search. The order is chosen to pick up the c library
1788 ahead of ucb or bsd libraries for SVR4.
1791 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
1792 full pathname (if any) of the line program. After Configure runs,
1793 the value is reset to a plain "line" and is not useful.
1796 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
1797 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
1799 lkflags (ccflags.U):
1800 This variable contains any additional C partial linker flags desired by
1801 the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
1804 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
1805 full pathname (if any) of the ln program. After Configure runs,
1806 the value is reset to a plain "ln" and is not useful.
1809 This variable holds the name of the command to make
1810 symbolic links (if they are supported). It can be used
1811 in the Makefile. It is either 'ln -s' or 'ln'
1813 locincpth (ccflags.U):
1814 This variable contains a list of additional directories to be
1815 searched by the compiler. The appropriate '-I' directives will
1816 be added to ccflags. This is intended to simplify setting
1817 local directories from the Configure command line.
1818 It's not much, but it parallels the loclibpth stuff in libpth.U.
1820 loclibpth (libpth.U):
1821 This variable holds the paths used to find local libraries. It is
1822 prepended to libpth, and is intended to be easily set from the
1825 longdblsize (d_longdbl.U):
1826 This variable contains the value of the LONG_DOUBLESIZE symbol, which
1827 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long double,
1828 if this system supports long doubles.
1830 longlongsize (d_longlong.U):
1831 This variable contains the value of the LONGLONGSIZE symbol, which
1832 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long long,
1833 if this system supports long long.
1835 longsize (intsize.U):
1836 This variable contains the value of the LONGSIZE symbol, which
1837 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a long.
1840 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
1841 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
1844 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
1845 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
1848 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
1849 full pathname (if any) of the ls program. After Configure runs,
1850 the value is reset to a plain "ls" and is not useful.
1852 lseektype (lseektype.U):
1853 This variable defines lseektype to be something like off_t, long,
1854 or whatever type is used to declare lseek offset's type in the
1855 kernel (which also appears to be lseek's return type).
1858 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
1859 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
1862 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
1863 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
1866 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
1867 full pathname (if any) of the make program. After Configure runs,
1868 the value is reset to a plain "make" and is not useful.
1870 make_set_make (make.U):
1871 Some versions of 'make' set the variable MAKE. Others do not.
1872 This variable contains the string to be included in Makefile.SH
1873 so that MAKE is set if needed, and not if not needed.
1874 Possible values are:
1875 make_set_make='#' # If your make program handles this for you,
1876 make_set_make="MAKE=$make" # if it doesn't.
1877 I used a comment character so that we can distinguish a
1878 'set' value (from a previous config.sh or Configure '-D' option)
1879 from an uncomputed value.
1881 mallocobj (mallocsrc.U):
1882 This variable contains the name of the malloc.o that this package
1883 generates, if that malloc.o is preferred over the system malloc.
1884 Otherwise the value is null. This variable is intended for generating
1885 Makefiles. See mallocsrc.
1887 mallocsrc (mallocsrc.U):
1888 This variable contains the name of the malloc.c that comes with
1889 the package, if that malloc.c is preferred over the system malloc.
1890 Otherwise the value is null. This variable is intended for generating
1893 malloctype (mallocsrc.U):
1894 This variable contains the kind of ptr returned by malloc and realloc.
1896 man1dir (man1dir.U):
1897 This variable contains the name of the directory in which manual
1898 source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
1899 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
1900 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
1902 man1direxp (man1dir.U):
1903 This variable is the same as the man1dir variable, but is filename
1904 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
1906 man1ext (man1dir.U):
1907 This variable contains the extension that the manual page should
1908 have: one of 'n', 'l', or '1'. The Makefile must supply the '.'.
1911 man3dir (man3dir.U):
1912 This variable contains the name of the directory in which manual
1913 source pages are to be put. It is the responsibility of the
1914 Makefile.SH to get the value of this into the proper command.
1915 You must be prepared to do the ~name expansion yourself.
1917 man3direxp (man3dir.U):
1918 This variable is the same as the man3dir variable, but is filename
1919 expanded at configuration time, for convenient use in makefiles.
1921 man3ext (man3dir.U):
1922 This variable contains the extension that the manual page should
1923 have: one of 'n', 'l', or '3'. The Makefile must supply the '.'.
1927 This variable contains a flag which will tell the C compiler and loader
1928 to produce a program running with a medium memory model. If the
1929 medium model is not supported, contains the flag to produce large
1930 model programs. It is up to the Makefile to use this.
1932 mips_type (usrinc.U):
1933 This variable holds the environment type for the mips system.
1934 Possible values are "BSD 4.3" and "System V".
1937 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
1938 full pathname (if any) of the mkdir program. After Configure runs,
1939 the value is reset to a plain "mkdir" and is not useful.
1942 This variable contains the list of memory models supported by this
1943 system. Possible component values are none, split, unsplit, small,
1944 medium, large, and huge. The component values are space separated.
1946 modetype (modetype.U):
1947 This variable defines modetype to be something like mode_t,
1948 int, unsigned short, or whatever type is used to declare file
1949 modes for system calls.
1952 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
1953 full pathname (if any) of the more program. After Configure runs,
1954 the value is reset to a plain "more" and is not useful.
1957 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
1958 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
1960 myarchname (archname.U):
1961 This variable holds the architecture name computed by Configure in
1962 a previous run. It is not intended to be perused by any user and
1963 should never be set in a hint file.
1965 mydomain (myhostname.U):
1966 This variable contains the eventual value of the MYDOMAIN symbol,
1967 which is the domain of the host the program is going to run on.
1968 The domain must be appended to myhostname to form a complete host name.
1969 The dot comes with mydomain, and need not be supplied by the program.
1971 myhostname (myhostname.U):
1972 This variable contains the eventual value of the MYHOSTNAME symbol,
1973 which is the name of the host the program is going to run on.
1974 The domain is not kept with hostname, but must be gotten from mydomain.
1975 The dot comes with mydomain, and need not be supplied by the program.
1977 myuname (Oldconfig.U):
1978 The output of 'uname -a' if available, otherwise the hostname. On Xenix,
1979 pseudo variables assignments in the output are stripped, thank you. The
1980 whole thing is then lower-cased.
1983 This variable contains the '-n' flag if that is what causes the echo
1984 command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is
1985 $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
1987 netdb_hlen_type (netdbtype.U):
1988 This variable holds the type used for the 2nd argument to
1989 gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or size_t or unsigned.
1990 This is only useful if you have gethostbyaddr(), naturally.
1992 netdb_host_type (netdbtype.U):
1993 This variable holds the type used for the 1st argument to
1994 gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is char * or void *, possibly
1995 with or without a const prefix.
1996 This is only useful if you have gethostbyaddr(), naturally.
1998 netdb_name_type (netdbtype.U):
1999 This variable holds the type used for the argument to
2000 gethostbyname(). Usually, this is char * or const char *.
2001 This is only useful if you have gethostbyname(), naturally.
2003 netdb_net_type (netdbtype.U):
2004 This variable holds the type used for the 1st argument to
2005 getnetbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or long.
2006 This is only useful if you have getnetbyaddr(), naturally.
2009 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
2010 full pathname (if any) of the nm program. After Configure runs,
2011 the value is reset to a plain "nm" and is not useful.
2014 This variable holds the options that may be necessary for nm.
2016 nm_so_opt (usenm.U):
2017 This variable holds the options that may be necessary for nm
2018 to work on a shared library but that can not be used on an
2019 archive library. Currently, this is only used by Linux, where
2020 nm --dynamic is *required* to get symbols from an ELF library which
2021 has been stripped, but nm --dynamic is *fatal* on an archive library.
2022 Maybe Linux should just always set usenm=false.
2024 nonxs_ext (Extensions.U):
2025 This variable holds a list of all non-xs extensions included
2026 in the package. All of them will be built.
2029 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
2030 full pathname (if any) of the nroff program. After Configure runs,
2031 the value is reset to a plain "nroff" and is not useful.
2033 o_nonblock (nblock_io.U):
2034 This variable bears the symbol value to be used during open() or fcntl()
2035 to turn on non-blocking I/O for a file descriptor. If you wish to switch
2036 between blocking and non-blocking, you may try ioctl(FIOSNBIO) instead,
2037 but that is only supported by some devices.
2040 This is an old synonym for _o.
2042 optimize (ccflags.U):
2043 This variable contains any optimizer/debugger flag that should be used.
2044 It is up to the Makefile to use it.
2046 orderlib (orderlib.U):
2047 This variable is "true" if the components of libraries must be ordered
2048 (with `lorder $* | tsort`) before placing them in an archive. Set to
2049 "false" if ranlib or ar can generate random libraries.
2051 osname (Oldconfig.U):
2052 This variable contains the operating system name (e.g. sunos,
2053 solaris, hpux, etc.). It can be useful later on for setting
2054 defaults. Any spaces are replaced with underscores. It is set
2055 to a null string if we can't figure it out.
2057 osvers (Oldconfig.U):
2058 This variable contains the operating system version (e.g.
2059 4.1.3, 5.2, etc.). It is primarily used for helping select
2060 an appropriate hints file, but might be useful elsewhere for
2061 setting defaults. It is set to '' if we can't figure it out.
2062 We try to be flexible about how much of the version number
2063 to keep, e.g. if 4.1.1, 4.1.2, and 4.1.3 are essentially the
2064 same for this package, hints files might just be os_4.0 or
2065 os_4.1, etc., not keeping separate files for each little release.
2067 package (package.U):
2068 This variable contains the name of the package being constructed.
2069 It is primarily intended for the use of later Configure units.
2072 This variable contains the name of the preferred pager on the system.
2073 Usual values are (the full pathnames of) more, less, pg, or cat.
2076 This variable contains a command that produces the text of the
2077 /etc/passwd file. This is normally "cat /etc/passwd", but can be
2078 "ypcat passwd" when NIS is used.
2080 patchlevel (patchlevel.U):
2081 The patchlevel level of this package.
2082 The value of patchlevel comes from the patchlevel.h file.
2085 This is an old synonym for p_ in Head.U, the character
2086 used to separate elements in the command shell search PATH.
2089 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
2090 full pathname (if any) of the perl program. After Configure runs,
2091 the value is reset to a plain "perl" and is not useful.
2093 perladmin (perladmin.U):
2094 Electronic mail address of the perl5 administrator.
2096 perlpath (perlpath.U):
2097 This variable contains the eventual value of the PERLPATH symbol,
2098 which contains the name of the perl interpreter to be used in
2099 shell scripts and in the "eval 'exec'" idiom.
2102 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
2103 full pathname (if any) of the pg program. After Configure runs,
2104 the value is reset to a plain "pg" and is not useful.
2106 phostname (myhostname.U):
2107 This variable contains the eventual value of the PHOSTNAME symbol,
2108 which is a command that can be fed to popen() to get the host name.
2109 The program should probably not presume that the domain is or isn't
2112 pidtype (pidtype.U):
2113 This variable defines PIDTYPE to be something like pid_t, int,
2114 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare process ids in the kernel.
2117 Holds the private path used by Configure to find out the libraries.
2118 Its value is prepend to libpth. This variable takes care of special
2119 machines, like the mips. Usually, it should be empty.
2122 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
2123 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
2126 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
2127 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
2130 This variable holds the name of the directory below which the
2131 user will install the package. Usually, this is /usr/local, and
2132 executables go in /usr/local/bin, library stuff in /usr/local/lib,
2133 man pages in /usr/local/man, etc. It is only used to set defaults
2134 for things in bin.U, mansrc.U, privlib.U, or scriptdir.U.
2136 prefixexp (prefix.U):
2137 This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
2138 which the user will install the package. Derived from prefix.
2140 privlib (privlib.U):
2141 This variable contains the eventual value of the PRIVLIB symbol,
2142 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
2143 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
2144 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
2146 privlibexp (privlib.U):
2147 This variable is the ~name expanded version of privlib, so that you
2148 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
2150 prototype (prototype.U):
2151 This variable holds the eventual value of CAN_PROTOTYPE, which
2152 indicates the C compiler can handle funciton prototypes.
2154 ptrsize (ptrsize.U):
2155 This variable contains the value of the PTRSIZE symbol, which
2156 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a pointer.
2158 randbits (randbits.U):
2159 This variable contains the eventual value of the RANDBITS symbol,
2160 which indicates to the C program how many bits of random number
2161 the rand() function produces.
2163 ranlib (orderlib.U):
2164 This variable is set to the pathname of the ranlib program, if it is
2165 needed to generate random libraries. Set to ":" if ar can generate
2166 random libraries or if random libraries are not supported
2168 rd_nodata (nblock_io.U):
2169 This variable holds the return code from read() when no data is
2170 present. It should be -1, but some systems return 0 when O_NDELAY is
2171 used, which is a shame because you cannot make the difference between
2172 no data and an EOF.. Sigh!
2175 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
2176 full pathname (if any) of the rm program. After Configure runs,
2177 the value is reset to a plain "rm" and is not useful.
2180 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
2181 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
2184 This variable contains 'true' or 'false' depending whether the
2185 nm extraction should be performed or not, according to the value
2186 of usenm and the flags on the Configure command line.
2188 scriptdir (scriptdir.U):
2189 This variable holds the name of the directory in which the user wants
2190 to put publicly scripts for the package in question. It is either
2191 the same directory as for binaries, or a special one that can be
2192 mounted across different architectures, like /usr/share. Programs
2193 must be prepared to deal with ~name expansion.
2195 scriptdirexp (scriptdir.U):
2196 This variable is the same as scriptdir, but is filename expanded
2197 at configuration time, for programs not wanting to bother with it.
2200 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
2201 full pathname (if any) of the sed program. After Configure runs,
2202 the value is reset to a plain "sed" and is not useful.
2204 selecttype (selecttype.U):
2205 This variable holds the type used for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th
2206 arguments to select. Usually, this is 'fd_set *', if HAS_FD_SET
2207 is defined, and 'int *' otherwise. This is only useful if you
2208 have select(), naturally.
2211 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
2212 full pathname (if any) of the sendmail program. After Configure runs,
2213 the value is reset to a plain "sendmail" and is not useful.
2216 This variable contains the full pathname of the shell used
2217 on this system to execute Bourne shell scripts. Usually, this will be
2218 /bin/sh, though it's possible that some systems will have /bin/ksh,
2219 /bin/pdksh, /bin/ash, /bin/bash, or even something such as
2221 This unit comes before Options.U, so you can't set sh with a '-D'
2222 option, though you can override this (and startsh)
2223 with '-O -Dsh=/bin/whatever -Dstartsh=whatever'
2226 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
2227 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
2229 sharpbang (spitshell.U):
2230 This variable contains the string #! if this system supports that
2233 shmattype (d_shmat.U):
2234 This symbol contains the type of pointer returned by shmat().
2235 It can be 'void *' or 'char *'.
2237 shortsize (intsize.U):
2238 This variable contains the value of the SHORTSIZE symbol which
2239 indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a short.
2241 shrpenv (libperl.U):
2242 If the user builds a shared libperl.so, then we need to tell the
2243 'perl' executable where it will be able to find the installed libperl.so.
2244 One way to do this on some systems is to set the environment variable
2245 LD_RUN_PATH to the directory that will be the final location of the
2246 shared libperl.so. The makefile can use this with something like
2247 $shrpenv $(CC) -o perl perlmain.o $libperl $libs
2249 shrpenv="env LD_RUN_PATH=$archlibexp/CORE"
2252 See the main perl Makefile.SH for actual working usage.
2253 Alternatively, we might be able to use a command line option such
2254 as -R $archlibexp/CORE (Solaris, NetBSD) or -Wl,-rpath
2255 $archlibexp/CORE (Linux).
2257 shsharp (spitshell.U):
2258 This variable tells further Configure units whether your sh can
2261 sig_name (sig_name.U):
2262 This variable holds the signal names, space separated. The leading
2263 SIG in signal name is removed. A ZERO is prepended to the
2264 list. This is currently not used.
2266 sig_name_init (sig_name.U):
2267 This variable holds the signal names, enclosed in double quotes and
2268 separated by commas, suitable for use in the SIG_NAME definition
2269 below. A "ZERO" is prepended to the list, and the list is
2270 terminated with a plain 0. The leading SIG in signal names
2271 is removed. See sig_num.
2273 sig_num (sig_name.U):
2274 This variable holds the signal numbers, comma separated. A 0 is
2275 prepended to the list (corresponding to the fake SIGZERO), and
2276 the list is terminated with a 0. Those numbers correspond to
2277 the value of the signal listed in the same place within the
2280 signal_t (d_voidsig.U):
2281 This variable holds the type of the signal handler (void or int).
2283 sitearch (sitearch.U):
2284 This variable contains the eventual value of the SITEARCH symbol,
2285 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
2286 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
2287 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
2289 sitearchexp (sitearch.U):
2290 This variable is the ~name expanded version of sitearch, so that you
2291 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
2293 sitelib (sitelib.U):
2294 This variable contains the eventual value of the SITELIB symbol,
2295 which is the name of the private library for this package. It may
2296 have a ~ on the front. It is up to the makefile to eventually create
2297 this directory while performing installation (with ~ substitution).
2299 sitelibexp (sitelib.U):
2300 This variable is the ~name expanded version of sitelib, so that you
2301 may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts.
2303 sizetype (sizetype.U):
2304 This variable defines sizetype to be something like size_t,
2305 unsigned long, or whatever type is used to declare length
2306 parameters for string functions.
2309 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
2310 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
2313 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
2314 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
2317 This variable contains a flag which will tell the C compiler and loader
2318 to produce a program running with a small memory model. It is up to
2319 the Makefile to use this.
2322 This variable holds the extension used to identify shared libraries
2323 (also known as shared objects) on the system. Usually set to 'so'.
2325 sockethdr (d_socket.U):
2326 This variable has any cpp '-I' flags needed for socket support.
2328 socketlib (d_socket.U):
2329 This variable has the names of any libraries needed for socket support.
2332 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
2333 full pathname (if any) of the sort program. After Configure runs,
2334 the value is reset to a plain "sort" and is not useful.
2336 spackage (package.U):
2337 This variable contains the name of the package being constructed,
2338 with the first letter uppercased, i.e. suitable for starting
2341 spitshell (spitshell.U):
2342 This variable contains the command necessary to spit out a runnable
2343 shell on this system. It is either cat or a grep '-v' for # comments.
2346 This variable contains a flag which will tell the C compiler and loader
2347 to produce a program that will run in separate I and D space, for those
2348 machines that support separation of instruction and data space. It is
2349 up to the Makefile to use this.
2352 This variable holds the path to the package source. It is up to
2353 the Makefile to use this variable and set VPATH accordingly to
2354 find the sources remotely.
2356 ssizetype (ssizetype.U):
2357 This variable defines ssizetype to be something like ssize_t,
2358 long or int. It is used by functions that return a count
2359 of bytes or an error condition. It must be a signed type.
2360 We will pick a type such that sizeof(SSize_t) == sizeof(Size_t).
2362 startperl (startperl.U):
2363 This variable contains the string to put on the front of a perl
2364 script to make sure (hopefully) that it runs with perl and not some
2365 shell. Of course, that leading line must be followed by the classical
2367 eval 'exec perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
2368 if $running_under_some_shell;
2369 to guarantee perl startup should the shell execute the script. Note
2370 that this magic incatation is not understood by csh.
2372 startsh (startsh.U):
2373 This variable contains the string to put on the front of a shell
2374 script to make sure (hopefully) that it runs with sh and not some
2377 static_ext (Extensions.U):
2378 This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to
2379 link statically into the package. It is used by Makefile.
2381 stdchar (stdchar.U):
2382 This variable conditionally defines STDCHAR to be the type of char
2383 used in stdio.h. It has the values "unsigned char" or "char".
2385 stdio_base (d_stdstdio.U):
2386 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
2387 _base field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
2388 be used to define the macro FILE_base(fp).
2390 stdio_bufsiz (d_stdstdio.U):
2391 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to determine
2392 the number of bytes store in the I/O buffer pointer to by the
2393 _base field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
2394 be used to define the macro FILE_bufsiz(fp).
2396 stdio_cnt (d_stdstdio.U):
2397 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
2398 _cnt field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
2399 be used to define the macro FILE_cnt(fp).
2401 stdio_filbuf (d_stdstdio.U):
2402 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to tell
2403 stdio to refill it's internal buffers (?). This will
2404 be used to define the macro FILE_filbuf(fp).
2406 stdio_ptr (d_stdstdio.U):
2407 This variable defines how, given a FILE pointer, fp, to access the
2408 _ptr field (or equivalent) of stdio.h's FILE structure. This will
2409 be used to define the macro FILE_ptr(fp).
2411 strings (i_string.U):
2412 This variable holds the full path of the string header that will be
2413 used. Typically /usr/include/string.h or /usr/include/strings.h.
2416 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
2417 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
2419 subversion (patchlevel.U):
2420 The subversion level of this package.
2421 The value of subversion comes from the patchlevel.h file.
2422 This is unique to perl.
2425 This variable holds the place where the manual is located on this
2426 system. It is not the place where the user wants to put his manual
2427 pages. Rather it is the place where Configure may look to find manual
2428 for unix commands (section 1 of the manual usually). See mansrc.
2431 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
2432 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
2435 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
2436 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
2439 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
2440 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
2443 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
2444 full pathname (if any) of the tee program. After Configure runs,
2445 the value is reset to a plain "tee" and is not useful.
2448 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
2449 full pathname (if any) of the test program. After Configure runs,
2450 the value is reset to a plain "test" and is not useful.
2452 timeincl (i_time.U):
2453 This variable holds the full path of the included time header(s).
2455 timetype (d_time.U):
2456 This variable holds the type returned by time(). It can be long,
2457 or time_t on BSD sites (in which case <sys/types.h> should be
2458 included). Anyway, the type Time_t should be used.
2461 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
2462 full pathname (if any) of the touch program. After Configure runs,
2463 the value is reset to a plain "touch" and is not useful.
2466 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
2467 full pathname (if any) of the tr program. After Configure runs,
2468 the value is reset to a plain "tr" and is not useful.
2471 This variable contains the value to be passed to the tr(1)
2472 command to transliterate a newline. Typical values are
2473 '\012' and '\n'. This is needed for EBCDIC systems where
2474 newline is not necessarily '\012'.
2477 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
2478 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
2480 uidtype (uidtype.U):
2481 This variable defines Uid_t to be something like uid_t, int,
2482 ushort, or whatever type is used to declare user ids in the kernel.
2485 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
2486 full pathname (if any) of the uname program. After Configure runs,
2487 the value is reset to a plain "uname" and is not useful.
2490 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
2491 full pathname (if any) of the uniq program. After Configure runs,
2492 the value is reset to a plain "uniq" and is not useful.
2495 This variable indicates if the the system supports dynamic
2496 loading of some sort. See also dlsrc and dlobj.
2498 usemymalloc (mallocsrc.U):
2499 This variable contains y if the malloc that comes with this package
2500 is desired over the system's version of malloc. People often include
2501 special versions of malloc for effiency, but such versions are often
2502 less portable. See also mallocsrc and mallocobj.
2503 If this is 'y', then -lmalloc is removed from $libs.
2506 This variable contains 'true' or 'false' depending whether the
2507 nm extraction is wanted or not.
2509 useopcode (Extensions.U):
2510 This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate
2511 whether the Opcode extension should be used. The sole
2512 use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism
2513 for users to skip the Opcode extension from the Configure
2516 useperlio (useperlio.U):
2517 This variable conditionally defines the USE_PERLIO symbol,
2518 and indicates that the PerlIO abstraction should be
2521 useposix (Extensions.U):
2522 This variable holds either 'true' or 'false' to indicate
2523 whether the POSIX extension should be used. The sole
2524 use for this currently is to allow an easy mechanism
2525 for hints files to indicate that POSIX will not compile
2526 on a particular system.
2529 This variable is set to true when the user agrees to use sfio.
2530 It is set to false when sfio is not available or when the user
2531 explicitely requests not to use sfio. It is here primarily so
2532 that command-line settings can override the auto-detection of
2533 d_sfio without running into a "WHOA THERE".
2535 useshrplib (libperl.U):
2536 This variable is set to 'yes' if the user wishes
2537 to build a shared libperl, and 'no' otherwise.
2539 usethreads (usethreads.U):
2540 This variable conditionally defines the USE_THREADS symbol,
2541 and indicates that Perl should be built to use threads.
2543 usevfork (d_vfork.U):
2544 This variable is set to true when the user accepts to use vfork.
2545 It is set to false when no vfork is available or when the user
2546 explicitely requests not to use vfork.
2549 This variable holds the path of the include files, which is
2550 usually /usr/include. It is mainly used by other Configure units.
2553 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
2554 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
2556 version (patchlevel.U):
2557 The full version number of this package. This combines
2558 baserev, patchlevel, and subversion to get the full
2559 version number, including any possible subversions. Care
2560 is taken to use the C locale in order to get something
2561 like 5.004 instead of 5,004. This is unique to perl.
2564 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
2565 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
2567 voidflags (voidflags.U):
2568 This variable contains the eventual value of the VOIDFLAGS symbol,
2569 which indicates how much support of the void type is given by this
2570 compiler. See VOIDFLAGS for more info.
2573 This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
2574 The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
2577 This variable is be used internally by Configure to determine the
2578 full pathname (if any) of the zip program. After Configure runs,
2579 the value is reset to a plain "zip" and is not useful.