FD 4 is not (yet) open at this stage.

Regenerated after backporting 88a6f4fc380d30c40
Please *do* remember to notify the metaconfig folk when directly patching Configure
Bring back Missing parts

diff --git a/Configure b/Configure
index bc78997..ed29551 100755 (executable)
--- a/Configure
+++ b/Configure
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 
 # $Id: Head.U 6 2006-08-25 22:21:46Z rmanfredi $
 #
-# Generated on Fri Nov  6 07:43:05 CET 2009 [metaconfig 3.5 PL0]
+# Generated on Tue Jan  5 09:34:08 CET 2010 [metaconfig 3.5 PL0]
 # (with additional metaconfig patches by perlbug@perl.org)
 
 cat >c1$$ <<EOF
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ true || exec sh $0 $argv:q
 rm -f c1$$ c2$$
 
 if test -f /dev/cputype -a -f /dev/drivers -a -f /dev/osversion; then
-       cat >&4 <<EOF
+       cat <<EOF
 ***
 *** I'm sorry but this system looks like Plan 9 and Plan 9 doesn't do
 *** Configure that well.  (Plan 9 is close to UNIX but not close enough.)
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ EOF
 fi
 
 if test ! -c /dev/null ; then
-       cat >&4 <<EOF
+       cat <<EOF
 ***
 *** I'm sorry, but /dev/null appears to be a file rather than a device.
 *** Please consult your operating sytem's notes for making a device
@@ -1232,6 +1232,7 @@ usethreads=''
 incpath=''
 mips_type=''
 usrinc=''
+vaproto=''
 d_vendorarch=''
 installvendorarch=''
 vendorarch=''
@@ -21210,6 +21211,21 @@ case "$usesitecustomize" in
        ;;
     esac
 
+: see if prototypes support variable argument declarations
+echo " "
+case "$prototype$i_stdarg" in
+$define$define)
+       echo "It appears we'll be able to prototype varargs functions." >&4
+       val="$define"
+       ;;
+*)
+       echo "Too bad... We won't be using prototyped varargs functions..." >&4
+       val="$undef"
+       ;;
+esac
+set vaproto
+eval $setvar
+
 : determine compiler compiler
 case "$yacc" in
 '')
@@ -23279,6 +23295,7 @@ uvsize='$uvsize'
 uvtype='$uvtype'
 uvuformat='$uvuformat'
 uvxformat='$uvxformat'
+vaproto='$vaproto'
 vendorarch='$vendorarch'
 vendorarchexp='$vendorarchexp'
 vendorbin='$vendorbin'

diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary
index 8a40c32..e43fa89 100644 (file)
--- a/Porting/Glossary
+++ b/Porting/Glossary
@@ -5096,6 +5096,11 @@ uvXUformat (perlxvf.U):
        This variable contains the format string used for printing
        a Perl UV as an unsigned hexadecimal integer in uppercase ABCDEF.
 
+vaproto (vaproto.U):
+       This variable conditionally defines CAN_VAPROTO on systems supporting
+       prototype declaration of functions with a variable number of
+       arguments. See also prototype.
+
 vendorarch (vendorarch.U):
        This variable contains the value of the PERL_VENDORARCH symbol.
        It may have a ~ on the front.

diff --git a/config_h.SH b/config_h.SH
index ff4c860..8392c60 100755 (executable)
--- a/config_h.SH
+++ b/config_h.SH
@@ -894,6 +894,28 @@ sed <<!GROK!THIS! >$CONFIG_H -e 's!^#undef\(.*/\)\*!/\*#define\1 \*!' -e 's!^#un
  */
 #$i_vfork I_VFORK      /**/
 
+/* CAN_VAPROTO:
+ *     This variable is defined on systems supporting prototype declaration
+ *     of functions with a variable number of arguments.
+ */
+/* _V:
+ *     This macro is used to declare function parameters in prototypes for
+ *     functions with a variable number of parameters. Use double parentheses.
+ *     For example:
+ *
+ *             int printf _V((char *fmt, ...));
+ *
+ *     Remember to use the plain simple _() macro when declaring a function
+ *     with no variable number of arguments, since it might be possible to
+ *     have a non-effect _V() macro and still get prototypes via _().
+ */
+#$vaproto CAN_VAPROTO  /**/
+#ifdef CAN_VAPROTO
+#define        _V(args) args
+#else
+#define        _V(args) ()
+#endif
+
 /* INTSIZE:
  *     This symbol contains the value of sizeof(int) so that the C
  *     preprocessor can make decisions based on it.

diff --git a/handy.h b/handy.h
index 848cc0e..63f7fd8 100644 (file)
--- a/handy.h
+++ b/handy.h
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ typedef U64TYPE U64;
  * GMTIME_MAX  GMTIME_MIN      LOCALTIME_MAX   LOCALTIME_MIN
  * HAS_CTIME64 HAS_LOCALTIME64 HAS_GMTIME64    HAS_DIFFTIME64
  * HAS_MKTIME64        HAS_ASCTIME64   HAS_GETADDRINFO HAS_GETNAMEINFO
- * HAS_INETNTOP        HAS_INETPTON
+ * HAS_INETNTOP        HAS_INETPTON    CHARBITS
  * Not (yet) used at top level, but mention them for metaconfig
  */