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author | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2001-05-24 18:36:42 +0000 |
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committer | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2001-05-24 18:36:42 +0000 |
commit | 8bab8b19946f98d4be49345ca9c42e56674b65fb (patch) | |
tree | bd62d7b5d463fab205d08914b30ba647eb3c8bc8 /gnu/usr.bin/perl/Porting/Glossary | |
parent | 483d4e680bd2a6db14835b1b4d65be33488d532b (diff) |
merge in perl 5.6.1 with our local changes
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/usr.bin/perl/Porting/Glossary')
-rw-r--r-- | gnu/usr.bin/perl/Porting/Glossary | 299 |
1 files changed, 236 insertions, 63 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/perl/Porting/Glossary b/gnu/usr.bin/perl/Porting/Glossary index cc66d7041bd..d32c0a67895 100644 --- a/gnu/usr.bin/perl/Porting/Glossary +++ b/gnu/usr.bin/perl/Porting/Glossary @@ -174,7 +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 @@ -192,12 +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. @@ -323,6 +340,10 @@ 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__fwalk (d__fwalk.U): + This variable conditionally defines HAS__FWALK if _fwalk() is + available to apply a function to all the file handles. + 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. @@ -506,10 +527,6 @@ 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. @@ -532,6 +549,10 @@ 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 @@ -573,6 +594,10 @@ d_fpathconf (d_pathconf.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. @@ -593,6 +618,10 @@ d_fstatvfs (d_statvfs.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSTATVFS symbol, which indicates to the C program that the fstatvfs() routine is available. +d_fsync (d_fsync.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FSYNC symbol, which + indicates to the C program that the fsync() routine is available. + d_ftello (d_ftello.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTELLO symbol, which indicates to the C program that the ftello() routine is available. @@ -616,6 +645,10 @@ d_getcwd (d_getcwd.U): 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. @@ -690,6 +723,10 @@ d_getnetprotos (d_getnetprotos.U): prototypes for the various getnet*() functions. See also netdbtype.U for probing for various netdb types. +d_getpagsz (d_getpagsz.U): + This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETPAGESIZE if getpagesize() + is available to get the system page size. + d_getpbyname (d_getprotby.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETPROTOBYNAME symbol, which indicates to the C program that the @@ -735,6 +772,10 @@ 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 @@ -762,10 +803,6 @@ 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. @@ -811,6 +848,14 @@ 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 @@ -933,6 +978,10 @@ 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. @@ -1003,6 +1052,10 @@ 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. @@ -1036,6 +1089,11 @@ 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 @@ -1061,28 +1119,34 @@ d_PRId64 (quadfio.U): 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 + This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl symbol, which indiciates that stdio has a symbol to print long doubles. -d_PRIEldbl (longdblfio.U): - This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldlbl symbol, which +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_PRIfldlbl symbol, which + This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl 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 +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_PRIfldlbl symbol, which + This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIfldbl 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 +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 @@ -1101,9 +1165,11 @@ 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_PRIX64 (quadfio.U): - This variable conditionally defines the PERL_PRIX64 symbol, which +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 @@ -1185,6 +1251,12 @@ d_sanemcmp (d_sanemcmp.U): the memcpy() routine is available and can be used to compare relative magnitudes of chars with their high bits set. +d_sbrkproto (d_sbrkproto.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SBRK_PROTO symbol, + which indicates to the C program that the system provides + a prototype for the sbrk() function. Otherwise, it is + up to the program to supply one. + d_sched_yield (d_pthread_y.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SCHED_YIELD symbol if the sched_yield routine is available to yield @@ -1195,6 +1267,10 @@ 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. @@ -1287,6 +1363,11 @@ 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 @@ -1330,10 +1411,6 @@ 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 @@ -1372,6 +1449,11 @@ d_sigaction (d_sigaction.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGACTION symbol, which indicates that the Vr4 sigaction() routine is available. +d_sigprocmask (d_sigprocmask.U): + This variable conditionally defines HAS_SIGPROCMASK + if sigprocmask() is available to examine or change the signal mask + of the calling process. + d_sigsetjmp (d_sigsetjmp.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGSETJMP symbol, which indicates that the sigsetjmp() routine is available to @@ -1388,6 +1470,10 @@ 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. @@ -1419,6 +1505,15 @@ 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. @@ -1474,6 +1569,10 @@ 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_strtoq (d_strtoq.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOQ symbol, which + indicates to the C program that the strtoq() 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 @@ -1782,7 +1881,12 @@ 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. @@ -1849,12 +1953,6 @@ hostcat (nis.U): On some systems, such as os390, there may be no equivalent command, in which case this variable is unset. -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. - i16size (perlxv.U): This variable is the size of an I16 in bytes. @@ -1941,6 +2039,10 @@ i_inttypes (i_inttypes.U): This variable conditionally defines the I_INTTYPES symbol, and indicates whether a C program should include <inttypes.h>. +i_libutil (i_libutil.U): + This variable conditionally defines the I_LIBUTIL symbol, and indicates + whether a C program should include <libutil.h>. + i_limits (i_limits.U): This variable conditionally defines the I_LIMITS symbol, and indicates whether a C program may include <limits.h> to get symbols like WORD_BIT @@ -1997,6 +2099,10 @@ i_poll (i_poll.U): This variable conditionally defines the I_POLL symbol, and indicates whether a C program should include <poll.h>. +i_prot (i_prot.U): + This variable conditionally defines the I_PROT symbol, and indicates + whether a C program should include <prot.h>. + i_pthread (i_pthread.U): This variable conditionally defines the I_PTHREAD symbol, and indicates whether a C program should include <pthread.h>. @@ -2342,6 +2448,11 @@ intsize (intsize.U): This variable contains the value of the INTSIZE symbol, which indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in an int. +issymlink (issymlink.U): + This variable holds the test command to test for a symbolic link + (if they are supported). Typical values include 'test -h' and + 'test -L'. + ivdformat (perlxvf.U): This variable contains the format string used for printing a Perl IV as a signed decimal integer. @@ -2360,11 +2471,6 @@ 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'. @@ -2381,6 +2487,10 @@ 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 @@ -2433,6 +2543,12 @@ libswanted (Myinit.U): 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. @@ -2578,12 +2694,6 @@ Mcc (Loc.U): full pathname (if any) of the Mcc program. After Configure runs, the value is reset to a plain "Mcc" and is not useful. -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. - mips_type (usrinc.U): This variable holds the environment type for the mips system. Possible values are "BSD 4.3" and "System V". @@ -2598,11 +2708,6 @@ mmaptype (d_mmap.U): (and simultaneously the type of the first argument). It can be 'void *' or 'caddr_t'. -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. - modetype (modetype.U): This variable defines modetype to be something like mode_t, int, unsigned short, or whatever type is used to declare file @@ -2649,6 +2754,15 @@ n (n.U): command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c". +need_va_copy (need_va_copy.U): + This symbol, if defined, indicates that the system stores + the variable argument list datatype, va_list, in a format + that cannot be copied by simple assignment, so that some + other means must be used when copying is required. + As such systems vary in their provision (or non-provision) + of copying mechanisms, handy.h defines a platform- + independent macro, Perl_va_copy(src, dst), to do the job. + netdb_hlen_type (netdbtype.U): This variable holds the type used for the 2nd argument to gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or size_t or unsigned. @@ -2695,6 +2809,30 @@ 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. @@ -2741,6 +2879,16 @@ 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. @@ -2792,6 +2940,10 @@ PERL_VERSION (Oldsyms.U): 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 @@ -3036,6 +3188,10 @@ sig_num_init (sig_name.U): below. A "ZERO" is prepended to the list, and the list is terminated with a plain 0. +sig_size (sig_name.U): + This variable contains the number of elements of the sig_name + and sig_num arrays, excluding the final NULL entry. + signal_t (d_voidsig.U): This variable holds the type of the signal handler (void or int). @@ -3114,11 +3270,6 @@ 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'. @@ -3148,12 +3299,6 @@ 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. @@ -3162,25 +3307,31 @@ sPRIeldbl (longdblfio.U): This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to format long doubles (format 'e') for output. -sPRIEldbl (longdblfio.U): +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. -sPRIFldbl (longdblfio.U): +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. -sPRIGldbl (longdblfio.U): +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 @@ -3198,15 +3349,21 @@ sPRIx64 (quadfio.U): This variable, if defined, contains the string used by stdio to format 64-bit hexadecimal numbers (format 'x') for output. -sPRIX64 (quadfio.U): +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 @@ -3521,7 +3678,11 @@ 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. @@ -3583,6 +3744,18 @@ version (patchlevel.U): 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. The value is a plain '' and is not useful. |