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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2003-06-08 16:45:50 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2003-06-08 16:45:50 +0000
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tree941367de18f2920454624301f3f589c20fc9a298 /Porting
parentc05ae023d058dfbcc400f4f90916eb8a95daaf13 (diff)
downloadperl-5129fff43c4fe08cb17d8789b8a5c778039a25c3.tar.gz
More symbol scan logic from Alan Burlison.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19709
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@@ -3508,6 +3508,14 @@ mips_type (usrinc.U):
This variable holds the environment type for the mips system.
Possible values are "BSD 4.3" and "System V".
+mistrustnm (usenm.U):
+ This variable can be used to establish a fallthrough for the cases
+ where nm fails to find a symbol. If usenm is false or usenm is true
+ and mistrustnm is false, this variable has no effect. If usenm is true
+ and mistrustnm is "compile", a test program will be compiled to try to
+ find any symbol that can't be located via nm lookup. If mistrustnm is
+ "run", the test program will be run as well as being compiled.
+
mkdir (Loc.U):
This variable is used internally by Configure to determine the
full pathname (if any) of the mkdir program. After Configure runs,