X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Porting%2FGlossary;h=3c51bef7b6ada70a2c08b7add043f8566e099073;hb=3e148164f5f2c2b3bff3571c0083097006822b57;hp=371a2a133530f5b739076c12a4872f7f1669a57b;hpb=1d7c184104c076988718a01b77c8706aae05b092;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary index 371a2a1..3c51bef 100644 --- a/Porting/Glossary +++ b/Porting/Glossary @@ -4,33 +4,6 @@ programs (e.g. I_UNISTD) are already described in config_h.SH. [`configpm' generates pod documentation for Config.pm from this file--please try to keep the formatting regular.] -CONFIGDOTSH (Oldsyms.U): - This is set to 'true' in config.sh so that a shell script - sourcing config.sh can tell if it has been sourced already. - -Mcc (Loc.U): - This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the - full pathname (if any) of the Mcc program. After Configure runs, - the value is reset to a plain "Mcc" and is not useful. - -PERL_APIVERSION (Oldsyms.U): - This value is manually set in patchlevel.h and is used - to set the Configure apiversion variable. - -PERL_REVISION (Oldsyms.U): - In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 5. - This value is manually set in patchlevel.h - -PERL_SUBVERSION (Oldsyms.U): - In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 2. - Values greater than 50 represent potentially unstable - development subversions. - This value is manually set in patchlevel.h - -PERL_VERSION (Oldsyms.U): - In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 6. - This value is manually set in patchlevel.h - _a (Unix.U): This variable defines the extension used for ordinary libraries. For unix, it is '.a'. The '.' is included. Other possible @@ -53,7 +26,8 @@ afs (afs.U): alignbytes (alignbytes.U): This variable holds the number of bytes required to align a - double. Usual values are 2, 4 and 8. + double-- or a long double when applicable. Usual values are + 2, 4 and 8. The default is eight, for safety. ansi2knr (ansi2knr.U): This variable is set if the user needs to run ansi2knr. @@ -64,16 +38,49 @@ aphostname (d_gethname.U): host name. The command is fully qualified by its absolute path, to make it safe when used by a process with super-user privileges. -apiversion (patchlevel.U): - MakeMaker will install add-on modules in a directory with the - PERL_APIVERSION version number. The value is set manually in - patchlevel.h. Normally, for maintenance releases, this is - just something like 5.005 or 5.6 or 5.7. That is, it does not - include the subversion number and does not change across - maintenance releases. This is so that add-on extensions can - be shared across maintenance versions. It is unclear how this - ought to work for developer versions. If a release breaks - binary compatibility, this number should be increased. +api_revision (patchlevel.U): + The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and + api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary + compatible with the present perl. In a full version string + such as '5.6.1', api_revision is the '5'. + Prior to 5.5.640, the format was a floating point number, + like 5.00563. + perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically search in + $sitelib/.. for older directories back to the limit specified + by these api_ variables. This is only useful if you have a + perl library directory tree structured like the default one. + See INSTALL for how this works. The versioned site_perl + directory was introduced in 5.005, so that is the lowest + possible value. The version list appropriate for the current + system is determined in inc_version_list.U. + XXX To do: Since compatibility can depend on compile time + options (such as bincompat, longlong, etc.) it should + (perhaps) be set by Configure, but currently it isn't. + Currently, we read a hard-wired value from patchlevel.h. + Perhaps what we ought to do is take the hard-wired value from + patchlevel.h but then modify it if the current Configure + options warrant. patchlevel.h then would use an #ifdef guard. + +api_subversion (patchlevel.U): + The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and + api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary + compatible with the present perl. In a full version string + such as '5.6.1', api_subversion is the '1'. See api_revision for + full details. + +api_version (patchlevel.U): + The three variables, api_revision, api_version, and + api_subversion, specify the version of the oldest perl binary + compatible with the present perl. In a full version string + such as '5.6.1', api_version is the '6'. See api_revision for + full details. As a special case, 5.5.0 is rendered in the + old-style as 5.005. (In the 5.005_0x maintenance series, + this was the only versioned directory in $sitelib.) + +api_versionstring (patchlevel.U): + This variable combines api_revision, api_version, and + api_subversion in a format such as 5.6.1 (or 5_6_1) suitable + for use as a directory name. This is filesystem dependent. ar (Loc.U): This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the @@ -124,8 +131,8 @@ bin (bin.U): this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution. bincompat5005 (bincompat5005.U): - This variable contains y if Perl 5.006 should be binary-compatible - with Perl 5.005. + This variable contains y if this version of Perl should be + binary-compatible with Perl 5.005. binexp (bin.U): This is the same as the bin variable, but is filename expanded at @@ -167,7 +174,8 @@ cat (Loc.U): cc (cc.U): This variable holds the name of a command to execute a C compiler which can resolve multiple global references that happen to have the same - name. Usual values are 'cc', 'Mcc', 'cc -M', and 'gcc'. + name. Usual values are 'cc' and 'gcc'. + Fervent ANSI compilers may be called 'c89'. AIX has xlc. cccdlflags (dlsrc.U): This variable contains any special flags that might need to be @@ -185,12 +193,28 @@ ccflags (ccflags.U): This variable contains any additional C compiler flags desired by the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this. +ccflags_uselargefiles (uselfs.U): + This variable contains the compiler flags needed by large file builds + and added to ccflags by hints files. + +ccname (Checkcc.U): + This can set either by hints files or by Configure. If using + gcc, this is gcc, and if not, usually equal to cc, unimpressive, no? + Some platforms, however, make good use of this by storing the + flavor of the C compiler being used here. For example if using + the Sun WorkShop suite, ccname will be 'workshop'. + ccsymbols (Cppsym.U): The variable contains the symbols defined by the C compiler alone. The symbols defined by cpp or by cc when it calls cpp are not in this list, see cppsymbols and cppccsymbols. The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens. +ccversion (Checkcc.U): + This can set either by hints files or by Configure. If using + a (non-gcc) vendor cc, this variable may contain a version for + the compiler. + cf_by (cf_who.U): Login name of the person who ran the Configure script and answered the questions. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH. @@ -233,6 +257,10 @@ compress (Loc.U): This variable is defined but not used by Configure. The value is a plain '' and is not useful. +CONFIGDOTSH (Oldsyms.U): + This is set to 'true' in config.sh so that a shell script + sourcing config.sh can tell if it has been sourced already. + contains (contains.U): This variable holds the command to do a grep with a proper return status. On most sane systems it is simply "grep". On insane systems @@ -258,7 +286,7 @@ cpp_stuff (cpp_stuff.U): used by the C preprocessor. cppccsymbols (Cppsym.U): - The variable contains the symbols defined by the C compiler when + The variable contains the symbols defined by the C compiler when it calls cpp. The symbols defined by the cc alone or cpp alone are not in this list, see ccsymbols and cppsymbols. The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens. @@ -312,64 +340,6 @@ csh (Loc.U): full pathname (if any) of the csh program. After Configure runs, the value is reset to a plain "csh" and is not useful. -d_Gconvert (d_gconvert.U): - This variable holds what Gconvert is defined as to convert - floating point numbers into strings. It could be 'gconvert' - or a more complex macro emulating gconvert with gcvt() or sprintf. - Possible values are: - d_Gconvert='gconvert((x),(n),(t),(b))' - d_Gconvert='gcvt((x),(n),(b))' - d_Gconvert='sprintf((b),"%.*g",(n),(x))' - -d_PRIEldbl (longdblfio.U): - This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldlbl symbol, which - indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles. - -d_PRIFldbl (longdblfio.U): - This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldlbl symbol, which - indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles. - -d_PRIGldbl (longdblfio.U): - This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldlbl symbol, which - indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles. - -d_PRIX64 (quadfio.U): - This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIX64 symbol, which - indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit hExADECimAl numbers. - -d_PRId64 (quadfio.U): - This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRId64 symbol, which - indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit decimal numbers. - -d_PRIeldbl (longdblfio.U): - This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldlbl symbol, which - indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles. - -d_PRIfldbl (longdblfio.U): - This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldlbl symbol, which - indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles. - -d_PRIgldbl (longdblfio.U): - This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldlbl symbol, which - indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles. - -d_PRIi64 (quadfio.U): - This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIi64 symbol, which - indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit decimal numbers. - -d_PRIo64 (quadfio.U): - This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIo64 symbol, which - indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit octal numbers. - -d_PRIu64 (quadfio.U): - This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIu64 symbol, which - indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit unsigned decimal - numbers. - -d_PRIx64 (quadfio.U): - This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIx64 symbol, which - indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit hexadecimal numbers. - d_access (d_access.U): This variable conditionally defines HAS_ACCESS if the access() system call is available to check for access permissions using real IDs. @@ -410,9 +380,10 @@ d_bcopy (d_bcopy.U): d_bincompat5005 (bincompat5005.U): This variable conditionally defines BINCOMPAT5005 so that embed.h - can take special action if Perl 5.006 should be binary-compatible - with Perl 5.005. This is impossible for builds that use features - like threads and multiplicity it is always $undef for those versions. + can take special action if this version of Perl should be + binary-compatible with Perl 5.005. This is impossible for builds + that use features like threads and multiplicity it is always $undef + for those versions. d_bsd (Guess.U): This symbol conditionally defines the symbol BSD when running on a @@ -552,10 +523,6 @@ d_endsent (d_endsent.U): This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDSERVENT if endservent() is available to close whatever was being used for service queries. -d_endspent (d_endspent.U): - This variable conditionally defines HAS_ENDSPENT if endspent() is - available to finalize the scan of SysV shadow password entries. - d_eofnblk (nblock_io.U): This variable conditionally defines EOF_NONBLOCK if EOF can be seen when reading from a non-blocking I/O source. @@ -578,6 +545,10 @@ d_fcntl (d_fcntl.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FCNTL symbol, and indicates whether the fcntl() function exists +d_fcntl_can_lock (d_fcntl_can_lock.U): + This variable conditionally defines the FCNTL_CAN_LOCK symbol + and indicates whether file locking with fcntl() works. + d_fd_macros (d_fd_set.U): This variable contains the eventual value of the HAS_FD_MACROS symbol, which indicates if your C compiler knows about the macros which @@ -616,9 +587,13 @@ d_fpathconf (d_pathconf.U): to determine file-system related limits and options associated with a given open file descriptor. -d_fpos64_t (io64.U): +d_fpos64_t (d_fpos64_t.U): This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports fpos64_t. +d_frexpl (d_frexpl.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FREXPL symbol, which + indicates to the C program that the frexpl() routine is available. + d_fs_data_s (d_fs_data_s.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRUCT_FS_DATA symbol, which indicates that the struct fs_data is supported. @@ -648,6 +623,28 @@ d_ftime (d_ftime.U): that the ftime() routine exists. The ftime() routine is basically a sub-second accuracy clock. +d_Gconvert (d_gconvert.U): + This variable holds what Gconvert is defined as to convert + floating point numbers into strings. It could be 'gconvert' + or a more complex macro emulating gconvert with gcvt() or sprintf. + Possible values are: + d_Gconvert='gconvert((x),(n),(t),(b))' + d_Gconvert='gcvt((x),(n),(b))' + d_Gconvert='sprintf((b),"%.*g",(n),(x))' + +d_getcwd (d_getcwd.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETCWD symbol, which + indicates to the C program that the getcwd() routine is available + to get the current working directory. + +d_getespwnam (d_getespwnam.U): + This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETESPWNAM if getespwnam() is + available to retrieve enchanced (shadow) password entries by name. + +d_getfsstat (d_getfsstat.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETFSSTAT symbol, which + indicates to the C program that the getfsstat() routine is available. + d_getgrent (d_getgrent.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETGRENT symbol, which indicates to the C program that the getgrent() routine is available @@ -763,6 +760,10 @@ d_getprotoprotos (d_getprotoprotos.U): prototypes for the various getproto*() functions. See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types. +d_getprpwnam (d_getprpwnam.U): + This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPRPWNAM if getprpwnam() is + available to retrieve protected (shadow) password entries by name. + d_getpwent (d_getpwent.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPWENT symbol, which indicates to the C program that the getpwent() routine is available @@ -790,10 +791,6 @@ d_getservprotos (d_getservprotos.U): prototypes for the various getserv*() functions. See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types. -d_getspent (d_getspent.U): - This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETSPENT if getspent() is - available to retrieve SysV shadow password entries sequentially. - d_getspnam (d_getspnam.U): This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETSPNAM if getspnam() is available to retrieve SysV shadow password entries by name. @@ -819,6 +816,10 @@ d_htonl (d_htonl.U): This variable conditionally defines HAS_HTONL if htonl() and its friends are available to do network order byte swapping. +d_iconv (d_iconv.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ICONV symbol, which + indicates to the C program that the iconv() routine is available. + d_index (d_strchr.U): This variable conditionally defines HAS_INDEX if index() and rindex() are available for string searching. @@ -828,13 +829,21 @@ d_inetaton (d_inetaton.U): indicates to the C program that the inet_aton() function is available to parse IP address "dotted-quad" strings. -d_int64t (d_int64t.U): +d_int64_t (d_int64_t.U): This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports int64_t. d_isascii (d_isascii.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISASCII constant, which indicates to the C program that isascii() is available. +d_isnan (d_isnan.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNAN symbol, which + indicates to the C program that the isnan() routine is available. + +d_isnanl (d_isnanl.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISNANL symbol, which + indicates to the C program that the isnanl() routine is available. + d_killpg (d_killpg.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_KILLPG symbol, which indicates to the C program that the killpg() routine is available @@ -870,10 +879,20 @@ d_longlong (d_longlong.U): This variable conditionally defines HAS_LONG_LONG if the long long type is supported. +d_lseekproto (d_lseekproto.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_LSEEK_PROTO symbol, + which indicates to the C program that the system provides + a prototype for the lseek() function. Otherwise, it is + up to the program to supply one. + d_lstat (d_lstat.U): This variable conditionally defines HAS_LSTAT if lstat() is available to do file stats on symbolic links. +d_madvise (d_madvise.U): + This variable conditionally defines HAS_MADVISE if madvise() is + available to map a file into memory. + d_mblen (d_mblen.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MBLEN symbol, which indicates to the C program that the mblen() routine is available @@ -919,14 +938,42 @@ d_mkdir (d_mkdir.U): indicates to the C program that the mkdir() routine is available to create directories.. +d_mkdtemp (d_mkdtemp.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKDTEMP symbol, which + indicates to the C program that the mkdtemp() routine is available + to exclusively create a uniquely named temporary directory. + d_mkfifo (d_mkfifo.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKFIFO symbol, which indicates to the C program that the mkfifo() routine is available. +d_mkstemp (d_mkstemp.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKSTEMP symbol, which + indicates to the C program that the mkstemp() routine is available + to exclusively create and open a uniquely named temporary file. + +d_mkstemps (d_mkstemps.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKSTEMPS symbol, which + indicates to the C program that the mkstemps() routine is available + to exclusively create and open a uniquely named (with a suffix) + temporary file. + d_mktime (d_mktime.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MKTIME symbol, which indicates to the C program that the mktime() routine is available. +d_mmap (d_mmap.U): + This variable conditionally defines HAS_MMAP if mmap() is + available to map a file into memory. + +d_modfl (d_modfl.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MODFL symbol, which + indicates to the C program that the modfl() routine is available. + +d_mprotect (d_mprotect.U): + This variable conditionally defines HAS_MPROTECT if mprotect() is + available to modify the access protection of a memory mapped file. + d_msg (d_msg.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSG symbol, which indicates that the entire msg*(2) library is present. @@ -972,6 +1019,14 @@ d_msgsnd (d_msgsnd.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_MSGSND symbol, which indicates to the C program that the msgsnd() routine is available. +d_msync (d_msync.U): + This variable conditionally defines HAS_MSYNC if msync() is + available to synchronize a mapped file. + +d_munmap (d_munmap.U): + This variable conditionally defines HAS_MUNMAP if munmap() is + available to unmap a region mapped by mmap(). + d_mymalloc (mallocsrc.U): This variable conditionally defines MYMALLOC in case other parts of the source want to take special action if MYMALLOC is used. @@ -981,7 +1036,15 @@ d_nice (d_nice.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_NICE symbol, which indicates to the C program that the nice() routine is available. -d_off64_t (io64.U): +d_nv_preserves_uv (perlxv.U): + This variable indicates whether a variable of type nvtype + can preserve all the bits a variable of type uvtype. + +d_nv_preserves_uv_bits (perlxv.U): + This variable indicates how many of bits type uvtype + a variable nvtype can preserve. + +d_off64_t (d_off64_t.U): This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports off64_t. d_old_pthread_create_joinable (d_pthrattrj.U): @@ -1014,6 +1077,11 @@ d_pause (d_pause.U): indicates to the C program that the pause() routine is available to suspend a process until a signal is received. +d_perl_otherlibdirs (otherlibdirs.U): + This variable conditionally defines PERL_OTHERLIBDIRS, which + contains a colon-separated set of paths for the perl binary to + include in @INC. See also otherlibdirs. + d_phostname (d_gethname.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PHOSTNAME symbol, which contains the shell command which, when fed to popen(), may be @@ -1034,6 +1102,63 @@ d_portable (d_portable.U): indicates to the C program that it should not assume that it is running on the machine it was compiled on. +d_PRId64 (quadfio.U): + This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRId64 symbol, which + indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit decimal numbers. + +d_PRIeldbl (longdblfio.U): + This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which + indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles. + +d_PRIEUldbl (longdblfio.U): + This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which + indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles. + The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIeldbl so that even + case-blind systems can see the difference. + +d_PRIfldbl (longdblfio.U): + This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which + indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles. + +d_PRIFUldbl (longdblfio.U): + This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which + indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles. + The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIfldbl so that even + case-blind systems can see the difference. + +d_PRIgldbl (longdblfio.U): + This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which + indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles. + +d_PRIGUldbl (longdblfio.U): + This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which + indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles. + The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIgldbl so that even + case-blind systems can see the difference. + +d_PRIi64 (quadfio.U): + This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIi64 symbol, which + indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit decimal numbers. + +d_PRIo64 (quadfio.U): + This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIo64 symbol, which + indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit octal numbers. + +d_PRIu64 (quadfio.U): + This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIu64 symbol, which + indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit unsigned decimal + numbers. + +d_PRIx64 (quadfio.U): + This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIx64 symbol, which + indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit hexadecimal numbers. + +d_PRIXU64 (quadfio.U): + This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIXU64 symbol, which + indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print 64-bit hExADECimAl numbers. + The 'U' in the name is to separate this from d_PRIx64 so that even + case-blind systems can see the difference. + d_pthread_yield (d_pthread_y.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_PTHREAD_YIELD symbol if the pthread_yield routine is available to yield @@ -1071,6 +1196,10 @@ d_pwquota (i_pwd.U): This variable conditionally defines PWQUOTA, which indicates that struct passwd contains pw_quota. +d_qgcvt (d_qgcvt.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_QGCVT symbol, which + indicates to the C program that the qgcvt() routine is available. + d_quad (quadtype.U): This variable, if defined, tells that there's a 64-bit integer type, quadtype. @@ -1120,6 +1249,10 @@ d_scm_rights (d_socket.U): which indicates that the SCM_RIGHTS is available. #ifdef is not enough because it may be an enum, glibc has been known to do this. +d_SCNfldbl (longdblfio.U): + This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which + indiciates that stdio has a symbol to scan long doubles. + d_seekdir (d_readdir.U): This variable conditionally defines HAS_SEEKDIR if seekdir() is available. @@ -1212,6 +1345,11 @@ d_setprior (d_setprior.U): This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPRIORITY if setpriority() is available to set a process's priority. +d_setproctitle (d_setproctitle.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPROCTITLE symbol, + which indicates to the C program that the setproctitle() routine + is available. + d_setpwent (d_setpwent.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPWENT symbol, which indicates to the C program that the setpwent() routine is available @@ -1255,10 +1393,6 @@ d_setsid (d_setsid.U): This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSID if setsid() is available to set the process group ID. -d_setspent (d_setspent.U): - This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETSPENT if setspent() is - available to initialize the scan of SysV shadow password entries. - d_setvbuf (d_setvbuf.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETVBUF symbol, which indicates to the C program that the setvbuf() routine is available @@ -1306,10 +1440,17 @@ d_socket (d_socket.U): This variable conditionally defines HAS_SOCKET, which indicates that the BSD socket interface is supported. +d_socklen_t (d_socklen_t.U): + This symbol will be defined if the C compiler supports socklen_t. + d_sockpair (d_socket.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKETPAIR symbol, which indicates that the BSD socketpair() is supported. +d_socks5_init (d_socks5_init.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKS5_INIT symbol, which + indicates to the C program that the socks5_init() routine is available. + d_sqrtl (d_sqrtl.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SQRTL symbol, which indicates to the C program that the sqrtl() routine is available. @@ -1341,6 +1482,15 @@ d_stdio_ptr_lval (d_stdstdio.U): This variable conditionally defines STDIO_PTR_LVALUE if the FILE_ptr macro can be used as an lvalue. +d_stdio_ptr_lval_nochange_cnt (d_stdstdio.U): + This symbol is defined if using the FILE_ptr macro as an lvalue + to increase the pointer by n leaves File_cnt(fp) unchanged. + +d_stdio_ptr_lval_sets_cnt (d_stdstdio.U): + This symbol is defined if using the FILE_ptr macro as an lvalue + to increase the pointer by n has the side effect of decreasing the + value of File_cnt(fp) by n. + d_stdio_stream_array (stdio_streams.U): This variable tells whether there is an array holding the stdio streams. @@ -1388,15 +1538,27 @@ d_strtol (d_strtol.U): indicates to the C program that the strtol() routine is available to provide better numeric string conversion than atoi() and friends. +d_strtold (d_strtold.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLD symbol, which + indicates to the C program that the strtold() routine is available. + +d_strtoll (d_strtoll.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOLL symbol, which + indicates to the C program that the strtoll() routine is available. + d_strtoul (d_strtoul.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUL symbol, which indicates to the C program that the strtoul() routine is available to provide conversion of strings to unsigned long. -d_strtoull (strtoull.U): +d_strtoull (d_strtoull.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOULL symbol, which indicates to the C program that the strtoull() routine is available. +d_strtouq (d_strtouq.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUQ symbol, which + indicates to the C program that the strtouq() routine is available. + d_strxfrm (d_strxfrm.U): This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRXFRM if strxfrm() is available to transform strings. @@ -1487,6 +1649,9 @@ d_ustat (d_ustat.U): This variable conditionally defines HAS_USTAT if ustat() is available to query file system statistics by dev_t. +d_vendorarch (vendorarch.U): + This variable conditionally defined PERL_VENDORARCH. + d_vendorbin (vendorbin.U): This variable conditionally defines PERL_VENDORBIN. @@ -1634,10 +1799,6 @@ extensions (Extensions.U): and is typically used to test whether a particular extesion is available. -fflushNULL (fflushall.U): - This symbol, if defined, tells that fflush(NULL) does flush - all pending stdio output. - fflushall (fflushall.U): This symbol, if defined, tells that to flush all pending stdio output one must loop through all @@ -1645,6 +1806,10 @@ fflushall (fflushall.U): Note that if fflushNULL is defined, fflushall will not even be probed for and will be left undefined. +fflushNULL (fflushall.U): + This symbol, if defined, tells that fflush(NULL) does flush + all pending stdio output. + find (Loc.U): This variable is defined but not used by Configure. The value is a plain '' and is not useful. @@ -1689,7 +1854,12 @@ full_sed (Loc_sed.U): can share this executable will have the same full pathname to 'sed.' -gccversion (cc.U): +gccosandvers (gccvers.U): + If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable the operating system and + version used to compile the gcc. It is set to '' if not gcc, + or if nothing useful can be parsed as the os version. + +gccversion (gccvers.U): If GNU cc (gcc) is used, this variable holds '1' or '2' to indicate whether the compiler is version 1 or 2. This is used in setting some of the default cflags. It is set to '' if not gcc. @@ -1723,6 +1893,8 @@ groupcat (nis.U): This variable contains a command that produces the text of the /etc/group file. This is normally "cat /etc/group", but can be "ypcat group" when NIS is used. + On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent + command, in which case this variable is unset. groupstype (groupstype.U): This variable defines Groups_t to be something like gid_t, int, @@ -1751,12 +1923,8 @@ hostcat (nis.U): This variable contains a command that produces the text of the /etc/hosts file. This is normally "cat /etc/hosts", but can be "ypcat hosts" when NIS is used. - -huge (models.U): - This variable contains a flag which will tell the C compiler and loader - to produce a program running with a huge memory model. If the - huge model is not supported, contains the flag to produce large - model programs. It is up to the Makefile to use this. + On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent + command, in which case this variable is unset. i16size (perlxv.U): This variable is the size of an I16 in bytes. @@ -1832,10 +2000,22 @@ i_grp (i_grp.U): This variable conditionally defines the I_GRP symbol, and indicates whether a C program should include . +i_iconv (i_iconv.U): + This variable conditionally defines the I_ICONV symbol, and indicates + whether a C program should include . + +i_ieeefp (i_ieeefp.U): + This variable conditionally defines the I_IEEEFP symbol, and indicates + whether a C program should include . + i_inttypes (i_inttypes.U): This variable conditionally defines the I_INTTYPES symbol, and indicates whether a C program should include . +i_libutil (i_libutil.U): + This variable conditionally defines the I_LIBUTIL symbol, and indicates + whether a C program should include . + i_limits (i_limits.U): This variable conditionally defines the I_LIMITS symbol, and indicates whether a C program may include to get symbols like WORD_BIT @@ -1892,6 +2072,10 @@ i_poll (i_poll.U): This variable conditionally defines the I_POLL symbol, and indicates whether a C program should include . +i_prot (i_prot.U): + This variable conditionally defines the I_PROT symbol, and indicates + whether a C program should include . + i_pthread (i_pthread.U): This variable conditionally defines the I_PTHREAD symbol, and indicates whether a C program should include . @@ -1941,6 +2125,10 @@ i_string (i_string.U): This variable conditionally defines the I_STRING symbol, which indicates that should be included rather than . +i_sunmath (i_sunmath.U): + This variable conditionally defines the I_SUNMATH symbol, and indicates + whether a C program should include . + i_sysaccess (i_sysaccess.U): This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_ACCESS symbol, and indicates whether a C program should include . @@ -1968,6 +2156,18 @@ i_sysioctl (i_sysioctl.U): indicates to the C program that exists and should be included. +i_syslog (i_syslog.U): + This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSLOG symbol, + and indicates whether a C program should include . + +i_sysmman (i_sysmman.U): + This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_MMAN symbol, and + indicates whether a C program should include . + +i_sysmode (i_sysmode.U): + This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSMODE symbol, + and indicates whether a C program should include . + i_sysmount (i_sysmount.U): This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSMOUNT symbol, and indicates whether a C program should include . @@ -2036,6 +2236,10 @@ i_sysun (i_sysun.U): to the C program that it should include to get UNIX domain socket definitions. +i_sysutsname (i_sysutsname.U): + This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSUTSNAME symbol, + and indicates whether a C program should include . + i_sysvfs (i_sysvfs.U): This variable conditionally defines the I_SYSVFS symbol, and indicates whether a C program should include . @@ -2092,6 +2296,21 @@ ignore_versioned_solibs (libs.U): libraries (libfoo.so.x.y) are to be ignored (because they cannot be linked against). +inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U): + This variable specifies the list of subdirectories in over + which perl.c:incpush() and lib/lib.pm will automatically + search when adding directories to @INC. The elements in + the list are separated by spaces. This is only useful + if you have a perl library directory tree structured like the + default one. See INSTALL for how this works. The versioned + site_perl directory was introduced in 5.005, so that is the + lowest possible value. + +inc_version_list_init (inc_version_list.U): + This variable holds the same list as inc_version_list, but + each item is enclosed in double quotes and separated by commas, + suitable for use in the PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST initialization. + incpath (usrinc.U): This variable must preceed the normal include path to get hte right one, as in "$incpath/usr/include" or "$incpath/usr/lib". @@ -2183,6 +2402,11 @@ installusrbinperl (instubperl.U): /usr/bin/perl in addition to $installbin/perl +installvendorarch (vendorarch.U): + This variable is really the same as vendorarchexp but may differ on + those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable + should be used in makefiles. + installvendorbin (vendorbin.U): This variable is really the same as vendorbinexp but may differ on those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable @@ -2215,11 +2439,6 @@ ksh (Loc.U): This variable is defined but not used by Configure. The value is a plain '' and is not useful. -large (models.U): - This variable contains a flag which will tell the C compiler and loader - to produce a program running with a large memory model. It is up to - the Makefile to use this. - ld (dlsrc.U): This variable indicates the program to be used to link libraries for dynamic loading. On some systems, it is 'ld'. @@ -2236,6 +2455,10 @@ ldflags (ccflags.U): This variable contains any additional C loader flags desired by the user. It is up to the Makefile to use this. +ldflags_uselargefiles (uselfs.U): + This variable contains the loader flags needed by large file builds + and added to ldflags by hints files. + ldlibpthname (libperl.U): This variable holds the name of the shared library search path, often LD_LIBRARY_PATH. To get an empty @@ -2268,11 +2491,32 @@ libs (libs.U): This variable holds the additional libraries we want to use. It is up to the Makefile to deal with it. +libsdirs (libs.U): + This variable holds the directory names aka dirnames of the libraries + we found and accepted, duplicates are removed. + +libsfiles (libs.U): + This variable holds the filenames aka basenames of the libraries + we found and accepted. + +libsfound (libs.U): + This variable holds the full pathnames of the libraries + we found and accepted. + +libspath (libs.U): + This variable holds the directory names probed for libraries. + libswanted (Myinit.U): This variable holds a list of all the libraries we want to search. The order is chosen to pick up the c library ahead of ucb or bsd libraries for SVR4. +libswanted_uselargefiles (uselfs.U): + This variable contains the libraries needed by large file builds + and added to ldflags by hints files. It is a space separated list + of the library names without the "lib" prefix or any suffix, just + like libswanted.. + line (Loc.U): This variable is defined but not used by Configure. The value is a plain '' and is not useful. @@ -2413,11 +2657,10 @@ man3ext (man3dir.U): have: one of 'n', 'l', or '3'. The Makefile must supply the '.'. See man3dir. -medium (models.U): - This variable contains a flag which will tell the C compiler and loader - to produce a program running with a medium memory model. If the - medium model is not supported, contains the flag to produce large - model programs. It is up to the Makefile to use this. +Mcc (Loc.U): + This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the + full pathname (if any) of the Mcc program. After Configure runs, + the value is reset to a plain "Mcc" and is not useful. mips_type (usrinc.U): This variable holds the environment type for the mips system. @@ -2428,10 +2671,10 @@ mkdir (Loc.U): full pathname (if any) of the mkdir program. After Configure runs, the value is reset to a plain "mkdir" and is not useful. -models (models.U): - This variable contains the list of memory models supported by this - system. Possible component values are none, split, unsplit, small, - medium, large, and huge. The component values are space separated. +mmaptype (d_mmap.U): + This symbol contains the type of pointer returned by mmap() + (and simultaneously the type of the first argument). + It can be 'void *' or 'caddr_t'. modetype (modetype.U): This variable defines modetype to be something like mode_t, @@ -2525,6 +2768,30 @@ nroff (Loc.U): full pathname (if any) of the nroff program. After Configure runs, the value is reset to a plain "nroff" and is not useful. +nveformat (perlxvf.U): + This variable contains the format string used for printing + a Perl NV using %e-ish floating point format. + +nvEUformat (perlxvf.U): + This variable contains the format string used for printing + a Perl NV using %E-ish floating point format. + +nvfformat (perlxvf.U): + This variable confains the format string used for printing + a Perl NV using %f-ish floating point format. + +nvFUformat (perlxvf.U): + This variable confains the format string used for printing + a Perl NV using %F-ish floating point format. + +nvgformat (perlxvf.U): + This variable contains the format string used for printing + a Perl NV using %g-ish floating point format. + +nvGUformat (perlxvf.U): + This variable contains the format string used for printing + a Perl NV using %G-ish floating point format. + nvsize (perlxv.U): This variable is the size of an NV in bytes. @@ -2571,6 +2838,16 @@ osvers (Oldconfig.U): same for this package, hints files might just be os_4.0 or os_4.1, etc., not keeping separate files for each little release. +otherlibdirs (otherlibdirs.U): + This variable contains a colon-separated set of paths for the perl + binary to search for additional library files or modules. + These directories will be tacked to the end of @INC. + Perl will automatically search below each path for version- + and architecture-specific directories. See inc_version_list + for more details. + A value of ' ' means 'none' and is used to preserve this value + for the next run through Configure. + package (package.U): This variable contains the name of the package being constructed. It is primarily intended for the use of later Configure units. @@ -2583,22 +2860,49 @@ passcat (nis.U): This variable contains a command that produces the text of the /etc/passwd file. This is normally "cat /etc/passwd", but can be "ypcat passwd" when NIS is used. + On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent + command, in which case this variable is unset. patchlevel (patchlevel.U): The patchlevel level of this package. The value of patchlevel comes from the patchlevel.h file. + In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "6". + In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_VERSION". path_sep (Unix.U): This is an old synonym for p_ in Head.U, the character used to separate elements in the command shell search PATH. +perl5 (perl5.U): + This variable contains the full path (if any) to a previously + installed perl5.005 or later suitable for running the script + to determine inc_version_list. + perl (Loc.U): This variable is defined but not used by Configure. The value is a plain '' and is not useful. +PERL_REVISION (Oldsyms.U): + In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 5. + This value is manually set in patchlevel.h + +PERL_SUBVERSION (Oldsyms.U): + In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 2. + Values greater than 50 represent potentially unstable + development subversions. + This value is manually set in patchlevel.h + +PERL_VERSION (Oldsyms.U): + In a Perl version number such as 5.6.2, this is the 6. + This value is manually set in patchlevel.h + perladmin (perladmin.U): Electronic mail address of the perl5 administrator. +perllibs (End.U): + The list of libraries needed by Perl only (any libraries needed + by extensions only will by dropped, if using dynamic loading). + perlpath (perlpath.U): This variable contains the eventual value of the PERLPATH symbol, which contains the name of the perl interpreter to be used in @@ -2708,6 +3012,11 @@ rd_nodata (nblock_io.U): used, which is a shame because you cannot make the difference between no data and an EOF.. Sigh! +revision (patchlevel.U): + The value of revision comes from the patchlevel.h file. + In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "5". + In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_REVISION". + rm (Loc.U): This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the full pathname (if any) of the rm program. After Configure runs, @@ -2722,54 +3031,6 @@ runnm (usenm.U): nm extraction should be performed or not, according to the value of usenm and the flags on the Configure command line. -sPRIEldbl (longdblfio.U): - This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to - format long doubles (format 'E') for output. - -sPRIFldbl (longdblfio.U): - This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to - format long doubles (format 'F') for output. - -sPRIGldbl (longdblfio.U): - This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to - format long doubles (format 'G') for output. - -sPRIX64 (quadfio.U): - This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to - format 64-bit hExADECimAl numbers (format 'X') for output. - -sPRId64 (quadfio.U): - This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to - format 64-bit decimal numbers (format 'd') for output. - -sPRIeldbl (longdblfio.U): - This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to - format long doubles (format 'e') for output. - -sPRIfldbl (longdblfio.U): - This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to - format long doubles (format 'f') for output. - -sPRIgldbl (longdblfio.U): - This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to - format long doubles (format 'g') for output. - -sPRIi64 (quadfio.U): - This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to - format 64-bit decimal numbers (format 'i') for output. - -sPRIo64 (quadfio.U): - This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to - format 64-bit octal numbers (format 'o') for output. - -sPRIu64 (quadfio.U): - This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to - format 64-bit unsigned decimal numbers (format 'u') for output. - -sPRIx64 (quadfio.U): - This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to - format 64-bit hexadecimal numbers (format 'x') for output. - sched_yield (d_pthread_y.U): This variable defines the way to yield the execution of the current thread. @@ -2930,6 +3191,11 @@ sitelib (sitelib.U): MakeMaker Makefile.PL or equivalent. See INSTALL for details. +sitelib_stem (sitelib.U): + This variable is $sitelibexp with any trailing version-specific component + removed. The elements in inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U) can + be tacked onto this variable to generate a list of directories to search. + sitelibexp (sitelib.U): This variable is the ~name expanded version of sitelib, so that you may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts. @@ -2959,11 +3225,6 @@ smail (Loc.U): This variable is defined but not used by Configure. The value is a plain '' and is not useful. -small (models.U): - This variable contains a flag which will tell the C compiler and loader - to produce a program running with a small memory model. It is up to - the Makefile to use this. - so (so.U): This variable holds the extension used to identify shared libraries (also known as shared objects) on the system. Usually set to 'so'. @@ -2974,6 +3235,11 @@ sockethdr (d_socket.U): socketlib (d_socket.U): This variable has the names of any libraries needed for socket support. +socksizetype (socksizetype.U): + This variable holds the type used for the size argument + for various socket calls like accept. Usual values include + socklen_t, size_t, and int. + sort (Loc.U): This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the full pathname (if any) of the sort program. After Configure runs, @@ -2988,17 +3254,71 @@ spitshell (spitshell.U): This variable contains the command necessary to spit out a runnable shell on this system. It is either cat or a grep '-v' for # comments. -split (models.U): - This variable contains a flag which will tell the C compiler and loader - to produce a program that will run in separate I and D space, for those - machines that support separation of instruction and data space. It is - up to the Makefile to use this. +sPRId64 (quadfio.U): + This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to + format 64-bit decimal numbers (format 'd') for output. + +sPRIeldbl (longdblfio.U): + This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to + format long doubles (format 'e') for output. + +sPRIEUldbl (longdblfio.U): + This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to + format long doubles (format 'E') for output. + The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIeldbl so that even + case-blind systems can see the difference. + +sPRIfldbl (longdblfio.U): + This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to + format long doubles (format 'f') for output. + +sPRIFUldbl (longdblfio.U): + This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to + format long doubles (format 'F') for output. + The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIfldbl so that even + case-blind systems can see the difference. + +sPRIgldbl (longdblfio.U): + This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to + format long doubles (format 'g') for output. + +sPRIGUldbl (longdblfio.U): + This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to + format long doubles (format 'G') for output. + The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIgldbl so that even + case-blind systems can see the difference. + +sPRIi64 (quadfio.U): + This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to + format 64-bit decimal numbers (format 'i') for output. + +sPRIo64 (quadfio.U): + This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to + format 64-bit octal numbers (format 'o') for output. + +sPRIu64 (quadfio.U): + This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to + format 64-bit unsigned decimal numbers (format 'u') for output. + +sPRIx64 (quadfio.U): + This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to + format 64-bit hexadecimal numbers (format 'x') for output. + +sPRIXU64 (quadfio.U): + This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to + format 64-bit hExADECimAl numbers (format 'X') for output. + The 'U' in the name is to separate this from sPRIx64 so that even + case-blind systems can see the difference. src (src.U): This variable holds the path to the package source. It is up to the Makefile to use this variable and set VPATH accordingly to find the sources remotely. +sSCNfldbl (longdblfio.U): + This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to + format long doubles (format 'f') for input. + ssizetype (ssizetype.U): This variable defines ssizetype to be something like ssize_t, long or int. It is used by functions that return a count @@ -3069,6 +3389,8 @@ submit (Loc.U): subversion (patchlevel.U): The subversion level of this package. The value of subversion comes from the patchlevel.h file. + In a version number such as 5.6.1, this is the "1". + In patchlevel.h, this is referred to as "PERL_SUBVERSION". This is unique to perl. sysman (sysman.U): @@ -3179,28 +3501,47 @@ uquadtype (quadtype.U): unsigned int, unsigned long long, uint64_t, or whatever type is used for 64-bit integers. -use64bits (use64bits.U): - This variable conditionally defines the USE_64_BITS symbol, - and indicates that explicit 64-bit interfaces should be used - when available. +use5005threads (usethreads.U): + This variable conditionally defines the USE_5005THREADS symbol, + and indicates that Perl should be built to use the 5.005-based + threading implementation. + +use64bitall (use64bits.U): + This variable conditionally defines the USE_64_BIT_ALL symbol, + and indicates that 64-bit integer types should be used + when available. The maximal possible + 64-bitness is employed: LP64 or ILP64, meaning that you will + be able to use more than 2 gigabytes of memory. This mode is + even more binary incompatible than USE_64_BIT_INT. You may not + be able to run the resulting executable in a 32-bit CPU at all or + you may need at least to reboot your OS to 64-bit mode. + +use64bitint (use64bits.U): + This variable conditionally defines the USE_64_BIT_INT symbol, + and indicates that 64-bit integer types should be used + when available. The minimal possible 64-bitness + is employed, just enough to get 64-bit integers into Perl. + This may mean using for example "long longs", while your memory + may still be limited to 2 gigabytes. usedl (dlsrc.U): - This variable indicates if the the system supports dynamic + This variable indicates if the system supports dynamic loading of some sort. See also dlsrc and dlobj. +useithreads (usethreads.U): + This variable conditionally defines the USE_ITHREADS symbol, + and indicates that Perl should be built to use the interpreter-based + threading implementation. + uselargefiles (uselfs.U): This variable conditionally defines the USE_LARGE_FILES symbol, and indicates that large file interfaces should be used when - available. The use64bits symbol will also be turned on if necessary. + available. uselongdouble (uselongdbl.U): This variable conditionally defines the USE_LONG_DOUBLE symbol, and indicates that long doubles should be used when available. -uselonglong (uselonglong.U): - This variable conditionally defines the USE_LONG_LONG symbol, - and indicates that long longs should be used when available. - usemorebits (usemorebits.U): This variable conditionally defines the USE_MORE_BITS symbol, and indicates that explicit 64-bit interfaces and long doubles @@ -3292,7 +3633,24 @@ uvuformat (perlxvf.U): uvxformat (perlxvf.U): This variable contains the format string used for printing - a Perl UV as an unsigned hexadecimal integer. + a Perl UV as an unsigned hexadecimal integer in lowercase abcdef. + +uvXUformat (perlxvf.U): + This variable contains the format string used for printing + a Perl UV as an unsigned hexadecimal integer in uppercase ABCDEF. + +vendorarch (vendorarch.U): + This variable contains the value of the PERL_VENDORARCH symbol. + It may have a ~ on the front. + The standard distribution will put nothing in this directory. + Vendors who distribute perl may wish to place their own + architecture-dependent modules and extensions in this directory with + MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor + or equivalent. See INSTALL for details. + +vendorarchexp (vendorarch.U): + This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorarch, so that you + may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts. vendorbin (vendorbin.U): This variable contains the eventual value of the VENDORBIN symbol. @@ -3316,6 +3674,11 @@ vendorlib (vendorlib.U): MakeMaker Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor or equivalent. See INSTALL for details. +vendorlib_stem (vendorlib.U): + This variable is $vendorlibexp with any trailing version-specific component + removed. The elements in inc_version_list (inc_version_list.U) can + be tacked onto this variable to generate a list of directories to search. + vendorlibexp (vendorlib.U): This variable is the ~name expanded version of vendorlib, so that you may use it directly in Makefiles or shell scripts. @@ -3330,11 +3693,23 @@ vendorprefixexp (vendorprefix.U): which the vendor will install add-on packages. Derived from vendorprefix. version (patchlevel.U): - The full version number of this package. This combines - baserev, patchlevel, and subversion to get the full - version number, including any possible subversions. Care - is taken to use the C locale in order to get something - like 5.004 instead of 5,004. This is unique to perl. + The full version number of this package, such as 5.6.1 (or 5_6_1). + This combines revision, patchlevel, and subversion to get the + full version number, including any possible subversions. + This is suitable for use as a directory name, and hence is + filesystem dependent. + +versiononly (versiononly.U): + If set, this symbol indicates that only the version-specific + components of a perl installation should be installed. + This may be useful for making a test installation of a new + version without disturbing the existing installation. + Setting versiononly is equivalent to setting installperl's -v option. + In particular, the non-versioned scripts and programs such as + a2p, c2ph, h2xs, pod2*, and perldoc are not installed + (see INSTALL for a more complete list). Nor are the man + pages installed. + Usually, this is undef. vi (Loc.U): This variable is defined but not used by Configure.