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| author | Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu> | 1997-03-25 13:52:53 -0500 |
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| committer | Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> | 1997-03-22 15:34:25 +1200 |
| commit | 9b1ae96a0b4301a9588f62b3175bc0312302f4b9 (patch) | |
| tree | 1587d6a413975de13f49058165c58753564d1eb5 | |
| parent | 9a2c4ce3a0904191a580ec822adeb696331d31ce (diff) | |
| download | perl-9b1ae96a0b4301a9588f62b3175bc0312302f4b9.tar.gz | |
INSTALL-1.8 to INSTALL-1.9 updates
A few more updates to INSTALL, inspired by a note here about -DDEBUGGING
and by a few recent posts to comp.lang.perl.misc about problems Solaris
folks were having with nm extraction.
p5p-msgid: Pine.SOL.3.95q.970325135138.3374A-100000@fractal.lafayette.edu
private-msgid: Pine.SOL.3.95q.970325135138.3374A-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 17 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ negligible. =head2 Building a debugging perl You can run perl scripts under the perl debugger at any time with -B<perl -d>. If, however, you want to debug perl itself, +B<perl -d your_script>. If, however, you want to debug perl itself, you probably want to do sh Configure -Doptimize='-g' @@ -671,7 +671,11 @@ This will do two things: First, it will force compilation to use B<cc -g> so that you can use your system's debugger on the executable. Second, it will add a C<-DDEBUGGING> to your ccflags variable in F<config.sh> so that you can use B<perl -D> to access perl's internal -state. +state. Note, however, that Configure will only add -DDEBUGGING by +default if you are not reusing your old F<config.sh>. If you want to +reuse your old F<config.sh>, then you can just edit it and change the +optimize and ccflags variables by hand and then propagate your changes +as shown in L<"Propagating your changes to config.sh"> below. If you are using a shared libperl, see the warnings about multiple versions of perl under L<Building a shared libperl.so Perl library>. @@ -964,6 +968,13 @@ If Configure guessed wrong, it is likely that Configure guessed wrong on a number of other common functions too. You are probably better off re-running Configure without using nm extraction (see previous item). +=item do_aspawn + +If you run into problems relating to do_aspawn or do_spawn, the +problem is probably that Configure failed to detect your system's +fork() function. Follow the procedure in the previous items +on L<"vsprintf"> and L<"nm extraction">. + =item Optimizer If you can't compile successfully, try turning off your compiler's @@ -1302,4 +1313,4 @@ from the original README by Larry Wall. =head1 LAST MODIFIED -$Id: INSTALL,v 1.8 1997/03/21 16:21:53 doughera Released $ +$Id: INSTALL,v 1.9 1997/03/25 18:50:19 doughera Released $ |