This variable is the same as the archlib variable, but is
filename expanded at configuration time, for convenient use.
-archname64 (use64bits.U):
- This variable is used for the 64-bitness part of $archname.
-
archname (archname.U):
This variable is a short name to characterize the current
architecture. It is used mainly to construct the default archlib.
+archname64 (use64bits.U):
+ This variable is used for the 64-bitness part of $archname.
+
archobjs (Unix.U):
This variable defines any additional objects that must be linked
in with the program on this architecture. On unix, it is usually
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ATOLL symbol, which
indicates to the C program that the atoll() routine is available.
-d_attribute_format (d_attribut_format.U):
+d_attribute_format (d_attribut.U):
This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_FORMAT, which
indicates the C compiler can check for printf-like formats.
-d_attribute_malloc (d_attribute_malloc.U):
+d_attribute_malloc (d_attribut.U):
This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_MALLOC, which
indicates the C compiler can understand functions as having
malloc-like semantics.
-d_attribute_nonnull (d_attribute_nonnull.U):
+d_attribute_nonnull (d_attribut.U):
This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_NONNULL, which
indicates that the C compiler can know that certain arguments
must not be NULL, and will check accordingly at compile time.
-d_attribute_noreturn (d_attribute_noreturn.U):
+d_attribute_noreturn (d_attribut.U):
This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_NORETURN, which
indicates that the C compiler can know that certain functions
are guaranteed never to return.
-d_attribute_pure (d_attribute_pure.U):
+d_attribute_pure (d_attribut.U):
This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_PURE, which
indicates that the C compiler can know that certain functions
are "pure" functions, meaning that they have no side effects, and
only rely on function input and/or global data for their results.
-d_attribute_unused (d_attribute_unused.U):
+d_attribute_unused (d_attribut.U):
This variable conditionally defines HASATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, which
indicates that the C compiler can know that certain variables
and arguments may not always be used, and to not throw warnings
if they don't get used.
-d_attribute_warn_unused_result (d_attribute_warn_unused_result.U):
+d_attribute_warn_unused_result (d_attribut.U):
This variable conditionally defines
HASATTRIBUTE_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT, which indicates that the C
compiler can know that certain functions have a return values
that the ftime() routine exists. The ftime() routine is basically
a sub-second accuracy clock.
-d_futimes (f_futimes.U):
+d_futimes (d_futimes.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FUTIMES symbol, which
indicates to the C program that the futimes() routine is available.
indicates to the C program that the getpgid(pid) function
is available to get the process group id.
+d_getpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
+ This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPGRP if getpgrp() is
+ available to get the current process group.
+
d_getpgrp2 (d_getpgrp2.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPGRP2 symbol, which
indicates to the C program that the getpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine
is available to get the current process group.
-d_getpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
- This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPGRP if getpgrp() is
- available to get the current process group.
-
d_getppid (d_getppid.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPPID symbol, which
indicates to the C program that the getppid() routine is available
header files provide LDBL_DIG, which is the number of significant
digits in a long double precision number.
+d_libm_lib_version (d_libm_lib_version.U):
+ This variable conditionally defines the LIBM_LIB_VERSION symbol,
+ which indicates to the C program that math.h defines _LIB_VERSION
+ being available in libm
+
d_link (d_link.U):
This variable conditionally defines HAS_LINK if link() is
available to create hard links.
This variable conditionally defines HAS_MADVISE if madvise() is
available to map a file into memory.
-d_malloc_size (d_malloc_size.U):
- This symbol, if defined, indicates that the malloc_size
+d_malloc_good_size (d_malloc_size.U):
+ This symbol, if defined, indicates that the malloc_good_size
routine is available for use.
-d_malloc_good_size (d_malloc_good_size.U):
- This symbol, if defined, indicates that the malloc_good_size
+d_malloc_size (d_malloc_size.U):
+ This symbol, if defined, indicates that the malloc_size
routine is available for use.
d_mblen (d_mblen.U):
which indicates to the C program that the random_r()
routine is available.
+d_readdir (d_readdir.U):
+ This variable conditionally defines HAS_READDIR if readdir() is
+ available to read directory entries.
+
d_readdir64_r (d_readdir64_r.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READDIR64_R symbol,
which indicates to the C program that the readdir64_r()
routine is available.
-d_readdir (d_readdir.U):
- This variable conditionally defines HAS_READDIR if readdir() is
- available to read directory entries.
-
d_readdir_r (d_readdir_r.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_READDIR_R symbol,
which indicates to the C program that the readdir_r()
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGID symbol if the
setpgid(pid, gpid) function is available to set process group ID.
+d_setpgrp (d_setpgrp.U):
+ This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPGRP if setpgrp() is
+ available to set the current process group.
+
d_setpgrp2 (d_setpgrp2.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SETPGRP2 symbol, which
indicates to the C program that the setpgrp2() (as in DG/UX) routine
is available to set the current process group.
-d_setpgrp (d_setpgrp.U):
- This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPGRP if setpgrp() is
- available to set the current process group.
-
d_setprior (d_setprior.U):
This variable conditionally defines HAS_SETPRIORITY if setpriority()
is available to set a process's priority.
of architecture-dependent library files for $package. If
$sitearch is the same as $archlib, then this is set to undef.
+d_snprintf (d_snprintf.U):
+ This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SNPRINTF symbol, which
+ indicates to the C program that the snprintf () library function
+ is available.
+
d_sockatmark (d_sockatmark.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKATMARK symbol, which
indicates to the C program that the sockatmark() routine is available.
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SOCKS5_INIT symbol, which
indicates to the C program that the socks5_init() routine is available.
-d_sprintf_returns_strlen (d_sprintf_returns_strlen.U):
+d_sprintf_returns_strlen (d_sprintf_len.U):
This variable defines whether sprintf returns the length of the string
(as per the ANSI spec). Some C libraries retain compatibility with
pre-ANSI C and return a pointer to the passed in buffer; for these
indicates to the C program that the vprintf() routine is available
to printf with a pointer to an argument list.
+d_vsnprintf (d_snprintf.U):
+ This variable conditionally defines the HAS_VSNPRINTF symbol, which
+ indicates to the C program that the vsnprintf () library function
+ is available.
+
d_wait4 (d_wait4.U):
This variable conditionally defines the HAS_WAIT4 symbol, which
indicates the wait4() routine is available.
site_perl directory was introduced in 5.005, so that is the
lowest possible value.
+ This list includes architecture-dependent directories back to
+ version $api_versionstring (e.g. 5.5.640) and
+ architecture-independent directories all the way back to
+ 5.005.
+
inc_version_list_init (inc_version_list.U):
This variable holds the same list as inc_version_list, but
each item is enclosed in double quotes and separated by commas,
This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
+initialinstalllocation (bin.U):
+ When userelocatableinc is true, this variable holds the location
+ that make install should copy the perl binary to, with all the
+ run-time relocatable paths calculated from this at install time.
+ When used, it is initialised to the original value of binexp, and
+ then binexp is set to '.../', as the other binaries are found
+ relative to the perl binary.
+
installarchlib (archlib.U):
This variable is really the same as archlibexp but may differ on
those systems using AFS. For extra portability, only this variable
make_set_make="MAKE=$make" # if it doesn't.
This uses a comment character to distinguish a
- 'set' value (from a previous config.sh or Configure '-D' option)
+ 'set' value (from a previous config.sh or Configure -D option)
from an uncomputed value.
mallocobj (mallocsrc.U):
whole thing is then lower-cased.
n (n.U):
- This variable contains the '-n' flag if that is what causes the echo
+ This variable contains the -n flag if that is what causes the echo
command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is
$echo $n "prompt for a question: $c".
This is an old synonym for p_ in Head.U, the character
used to separate elements in the command shell search PATH.
+perl (Loc.U):
+ This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
+ The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
+
perl5 (perl5.U):
This variable contains the full path (if any) to a previously
installed perl5.005 or later suitable for running the script
to determine inc_version_list.
-perl (Loc.U):
- This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
- The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
-
perl_patchlevel (patchlevel.U):
This is the Perl patch level, a numeric change identifier,
as defined by whichever source code maintenance system
/bin/sh, though it's possible that some systems will have /bin/ksh,
/bin/pdksh, /bin/ash, /bin/bash, or even something such as
D:/bin/sh.exe.
- This unit comes before Options.U, so you can't set sh with a '-D'
+ This unit comes before Options.U, so you can't set sh with a -D
option, though you can override this (and startsh)
- with '-O -Dsh=/bin/whatever -Dstartsh=whatever'
+ with -O -Dsh=/bin/whatever -Dstartsh=whatever
shar (Loc.U):
This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
spitshell (spitshell.U):
This variable contains the command necessary to spit out a runnable
- shell on this system. It is either cat or a grep '-v' for # comments.
+ shell on this system. It is either cat or a grep -v for # comments.
sPRId64 (quadfio.U):
This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to
meaningful if usethreads is set and is very experimental, it is
not even prompted for.
-userelocatableinc (XXX.U):
+userelocatableinc (bin.U):
This variable is set to true to indicate that perl should relocate
@INC entries at runtime based on the path to the perl binary.
Any @INC paths starting ".../" are relocated relative to the directory
This variable is set to 'true' if the user wishes
to build a shared libperl, and 'false' otherwise.
+usesitecustomize (d_sitecustomize.U):
+ This variable is set to true when the user requires a mechanism that
+ allows the sysadmin to add entries to @INC at runtime. This variable
+ being set, makes perl run '$sitelib/sitecustomize.pl' at startup.
+
usesocks (usesocks.U):
This variable conditionally defines the USE_SOCKS symbol,
and indicates that Perl should be built to use SOCKS.
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