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Fri Dec 20 10:45:29 2002 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>
* === Released 2.2.0 ===
* INSTALL.in: --enable-included-printf, not --enable-trio.
(Matthias Clasen)
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Simple install procedure
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========================
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% gzip -cd glib-2.2.0.tar.gz | tar xvf - # unpack the sources
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% cd glib-2.2.0 # change to the toplevel directory
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% ./configure # run the `configure' script
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% make # build GLIB
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[ Become root if necessary ]
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% rm -rf /install-prefix/include/glib.h /install-prefix/include/gmodule.h
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% make install # install GLIB
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Requirements
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============
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GLib-2.0 requires pkg-config, which is tool for tracking the
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compilation flags needed for libraries. (For each library, a small .pc
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text file is installed in a standard location that contains the
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compilation flags needed for that library along with version number
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information.) Information about pkg-config can be found at:
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http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/
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GNU make (http://www.gnu.org/software/make) is also recommended.
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In order to implement conversions between character sets,
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GLib requires an implementation of the standard iconv() routine.
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Most modern systems will have a suitable implementation, however
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many older systems lack an iconv() implementation. On such systems,
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you must install the libiconv library. This can be found at:
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http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
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If your system has an iconv implementation but you want to use
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libiconv instead, you can pass the --with-libiconv option to
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configure. This forces libiconv to be used.
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Note that if you have libiconv installed in your default include
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search path (for instance, in /usr/local/), but don't enable
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it, you will get an error while compiling GTK+ because the
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iconv.h that libiconv installs hides the system iconv.
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If you are using the native iconv implementation on Solaris
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instead of libiconv, you'll need to make sure that you have
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the converters between locale encodings and UTF-8 installed.
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At a minimum you'll need the SUNWuiu8 package. You probably
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should also install the SUNWciu8, SUNWhiu8, SUNWjiu8, and
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SUNWkiu8 packages.
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The native iconv on Compaq Tru64 doesn't contain support for
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UTF-8, so you'll need to use GNU libiconv instead. (When
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using GNU libiconv for GTK+, you'll need to use GNU libiconv
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for GNU gettext as well.) This probably applies to related
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operating systems as well.
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Finally, for message catalog handling, GTK+ requires an implementation
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of gettext(). If your system doesn't provide this functionality,
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you should use the libintl library from the GNU gettext package,
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available from:
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http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
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The Nitty-Gritty
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================
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The 'configure' script can be given a number of options to enable
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and disable various features. For a complete list, type:
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./configure --help
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A few of the more important ones:
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* --prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent files in PREFIX
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[ Defaults to /usr/local ]
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* --exec-prefix=EPREFIX install architecture-dependent files in EPREFIX
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[ Defaults to the value given to --prefix ]
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* --enable-debug=[yes/no/minimum] determines the amount of debugging
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code to include. 'yes' will includes some
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extra checks and debugging features that
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may be useful for people developing with
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GLib. 'no' produces a somewhat smaller and
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faster library at the expense of reduced
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robustness.
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[ Defaults to 'minimum' for stable releases ]
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* --enable-gc-friendly When enabled all memory freed by the application,
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but retained by GLib for performance reasons
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is set to zero, thus making deployed garbage
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collection or memory profiling tools detect
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unlinked memory correctly. This will make GLib
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slightly slower.
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[ --disable-gc-friendly is default ]
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* --disable-mem-pools Do not cache freed objects. When specified,
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GLib will immediately return freed memory
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to the C library instead of keeping around
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pools of free objects such as linked list
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and hash table nodes. Specifying this
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will make GLib slower in most cases, but it
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will use less memory.
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[ --enable-mem-pools is the default ]
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* --disable-threads Do not compile GLib to be multi thread safe. GLib
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will be slightly faster then. This is however not
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recommended, as many programs rely on GLib being
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multi thread safe.
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[ --enable-threads is the default ]
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* --with-threads=[none/posix/dce/solaris/win32] Specify a thread
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implementation to use.
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* 'posix' and 'dce' can be used interchangeable
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to mean the different versions of posix
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threads. configure tries to find out, which
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one is installed.
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* 'solaris' uses the native Solaris thread
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implementation.
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* 'none' means that GLib will be thread safe,
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but does not have a default thread
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implementation. This has to be supplied to
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g_thread_init() by the programmer.
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[ Determined by configure by default ]
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* --enable-included-printf=[yes/no/auto] Specify whether to build using
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the included copy of the Trio library
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for string formatting functions like printf().
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The default is 'auto', which means that
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Trio will be used if configure detects
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missing features in your system native
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printf implementation.
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Options can be given to the compiler and linker by setting
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environment variables before running configure. A few of the more
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important ones:
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CC : The C compiler to use
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CPPFLAGS : Flags for the C preprocesser such as -I and -D
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CFLAGS : C compiler flags
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The most important use of this is to set the
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optimization/debugging flags. For instance, to compile with no
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debugging information at all, run configure as:
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CFLAGS=-O2 ./configure # Bourne compatible shells (sh/bash/zsh)
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or,
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setenv CFLAGS -O2 ; ./configure # csh and variants
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Installation directories
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========================
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The location of the installed files is determined by the --prefix
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and --exec-prefix options given to configure. There are also more
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detailed flags to control individual directories. However, the
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use of these flags is not tested.
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One particular detail to note, is that the architecture-dependent
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include file glibconfig.h is installed in:
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$exec_prefix/lib/glib/include/
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if you have a version in $prefix/include, this is out of date
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and should be deleted.
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.pc files for the various libraries are installed in
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$exec_prefix/lib/pkgconfig to provide information when compiling
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other packages that depend on GTK+. If you set PKG_CONFIG_PATH
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so that it points to this directory, then you can get the
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correct include flags and library flags for compiling a GLib
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application with:
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pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0
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pkg-config --libs glib-2.0
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Cross-compiling GLib
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====================
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Cross-compilation is the proceess of compiling a program or
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library on a different architecture or operating system then
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it will be run upon. GLib is slightly more difficult to
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cross-compile than many packages because much of GLib is
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about hiding differences between different systems.
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These notes cover things specific to cross-compiling GLib;
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for general information about cross-compilation, see the
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autoconf info pages.
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GLib tries to detect as much information as possible about
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the target system by compiling and linking programs without
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actually running anything; however, some information GLib
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needs is not available this way. This information needs
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to be provided to the configure script via a "cache file"
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or by setting the cache variables in your environment.
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As an example of using a cache file, to cross compile for
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the "MingW32" Win32 runtine environment on a Linux system,
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create a file 'win32.cache' with the following contents:
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===
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glib_cv_long_long_format=ll
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glib_cv_stack_grows=no
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===
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Then execute the following commands:
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PATH=/path/to/mingw32-compiler/bin:$PATH
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chmod a-w win32.cache # prevent configure from changing it
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./configure --cache-file=win32.cache --host=mingw32
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===
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The complete list of cache file variables follows. Most
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of these won't need to be set in most cases.
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Cache file variables
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====================
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glib_cv_long_long_format=[ll/q/I64]
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Format used by printf and scanf for 64 bit integers. "ll" is
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the C99 standard, and what is used by the 'trio' library
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that GLib builds if your printf() is insufficiently capable.
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Doesn't need to be set if you are compiling using trio.
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glib_cv_stack_grows=[yes/no]
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Whether the stack grows up or down. Most places will want "no",
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A few architectures, such as PA-RISC need "yes".
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glib_cv_working_bcopy=[yes/no]
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Whether your bcopy can handle overlapping copies. Only needs to be set
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if you don't have memmove. (Very unlikely)
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glib_cv_sane_realloc=[yes/np]
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Whether your realloc() conforms to ANSI C and can handle NULL as
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the first argument. Defaults to "yes" and probably doesn't need to be set.
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glib_cv_have_strlcpy=[yes/no]
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Whether you have strlcpy that matches OpenBSD. Defaults to "no",
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which is safe, since GLib uses a built-in version in that case.
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glib_cv_va_val_copy=[yes/no]
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Whether va_list can be copied as a pointer. If set to "no",
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then memcopy will be used. Only matters if you don't have
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va_copy or __va_copy. (So, doesn't matter for GCC.) Defaults
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to "yes" which is slightly more common than "no".
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glib_cv_rtldglobal_broken=[yes/no]
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Whether you have a bug found in OSF/1 v5.0. Defaults to "no".
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glib_cv_uscore=[yes/no]
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Whether an underscore needs to be prepended to symbols when
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looking them up via dlsym. Only needs to be set if your system
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uses dlopen/dlsym.
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ac_cv_func_posix_getpwuid_r=[yes/no]
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Whether you have a getpwuid_r function (in your C library,
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not your thread library) that conforms to the POSIX spec.
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(Takes a 'struct passwd **' as the final argument)
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ac_cv_func_nonposix_getpwuid_r=[yes/no]
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Whether you have some variant of getpwuid_r that doesn't
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conform to to the POSIX spec, but GLib might be able to
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use (or might segfault.) Only needs to be set if
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ac_cv_func_posix_getpwuid_r is not set. It's safest to set
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this to "no".
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glib_cv_use_pid_surrogate=[yes/no]
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Whether to use a setpriority() on the PID of the thread as
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a method for setting the priority of threads. This only
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needs to be set when using POSIX threads.
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ac_cv_func_printf_unix98=[yes/no]
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Whether your printf() family supports Unix98 style %N$
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positional parameters. Defaults to "no".
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ac_cv_func_vsnprintf_c99=[yes/no]
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Whether you have a vsnprintf() with C99 semantics. (C99 semantics
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means returns the number of bytes that would have been written
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had the output buffer had enough space.). Defaults to "no".
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