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Perl is always configured for AFS on RHEL9 and derivatives #22522

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@Grinnz

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@Grinnz

Description
When building Perl on Rocky Linux 9, the "afs" configuration is always set to true, due to the root-level '/afs' directory always being present.

Ref: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/z090bw/whats_the_afs_dir_on_my_f37_system_its_empty/

Steps to Reproduce
Install Perl on RHEL/CentOS/Rocky Linux 9 or recent versions of Fedora Linux. The configure script will ask AFS-related questions and the 'afs' configuration will be set to true.

$ perl -V:afs
afs='true';

Expected behavior
Possibly there is some better way to detect if AFS is actually installed/in use? On CentOS 7:

$ perl -V:afs
afs='false';

Perl configuration

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 40 subversion 0) configuration:
   
  Platform:
    osname=linux
    osvers=5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2.x86_64
    archname=x86_64-linux
    uname='linux beta.perldoc.pl 5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2.x86_64 #1 smp preempt_dynamic tue may 9 17:09:15 utc 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 gnulinux '
    config_args='-Dprefix=/opt/perl-5.40.0 -de -A'eval:scriptdir=/opt/perl-5.40.0/bin''
    hint=recommended
    useposix=true
    d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=undef
    usemultiplicity=undef
    use64bitint=define
    use64bitall=define
    uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n
    default_inc_excludes_dot=define
  Compiler:
    cc='cc'
    ccflags ='-fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2'
    optimize='-O2'
    cppflags='-fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion=''
    gccversion='11.4.1 20231218 (Red Hat 11.4.1-3)'
    gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4
    longsize=8
    ptrsize=8
    doublesize=8
    byteorder=12345678
    doublekind=3
    d_longlong=define
    longlongsize=8
    d_longdbl=define
    longdblsize=16
    longdblkind=3
    ivtype='long'
    ivsize=8
    nvtype='double'
    nvsize=8
    Off_t='off_t'
    lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8
    prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc'
    ldflags =' -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /usr/lib64 /usr/local/lib64
    libs=-lpthread -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    perllibs=-lpthread -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    libc=/lib/../lib64/libc.so.6
    so=so
    useshrplib=false
    libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version='2.34'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs
    dlext=so
    d_dlsymun=undef
    ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC'
    lddlflags='-shared -O2 -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector-strong'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options:
    HAS_LONG_DOUBLE
    HAS_STRTOLD
    HAS_TIMES
    PERLIO_LAYERS
    PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE
    PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
    PERL_HASH_FUNC_SIPHASH13
    PERL_HASH_USE_SBOX32
    PERL_MALLOC_WRAP
    PERL_OP_PARENT
    PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV
    PERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV
    USE_64_BIT_ALL
    USE_64_BIT_INT
    USE_LARGE_FILES
    USE_LOCALE
    USE_LOCALE_COLLATE
    USE_LOCALE_CTYPE
    USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC
    USE_LOCALE_TIME
    USE_PERLIO
    USE_PERL_ATOF
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Aug 19 2024 03:17:03
  @INC:
    /opt/perl-5.40.0/lib/site_perl/5.40.0/x86_64-linux
    /opt/perl-5.40.0/lib/site_perl/5.40.0
    /opt/perl-5.40.0/lib/5.40.0/x86_64-linux
    /opt/perl-5.40.0/lib/5.40.0

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