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| author | Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu> | 1997-04-17 00:00:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> | 1997-04-17 00:00:00 +0000 |
| commit | 6877a1cf6ff3f0f711772ea75e579e2e7219cc46 (patch) | |
| tree | 1d24805913b45b4a69b9e332e9e1b7cf2fe72158 | |
| parent | 936c88379edb0f52f0303aeb6882907ebed01976 (diff) | |
| download | perl-6877a1cf6ff3f0f711772ea75e579e2e7219cc46.tar.gz | |
Doc updates: INSTALL-1.13, pumpkin.pod-1.9
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Porting/pumpkin.pod | 14 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -971,7 +971,8 @@ If you have problems with dynamic loading using gcc on SunOS or Solaris, and you are using GNU as and GNU ld, you may need to add -B/bin/ (for SunOS) or -B/usr/ccs/bin/ (for Solaris) to your $ccflags, $ldflags, and $lddlflags so that the system's versions of as -and ld are used. Alternatively, you can use the GCC_EXEC_PREFIX +and ld are used. Note that the trailing '/' is required. +Alternatively, you can use the GCC_EXEC_PREFIX environment variable to ensure that Sun's as and ld are used. Consult your gcc documentation for further information on the -B option and the GCC_EXEC_PREFIX variable. @@ -1283,6 +1284,11 @@ and adding /opt/perl5.004/bin to the shell PATH variable. Such users may also wish to add a symbolic link /usr/local/bin/perl so that scripts can still start with #!/usr/local/bin/perl. +If you are installing a development subversion, you probably ought to +seriously consider using a separate directory, since development +subversions may not have all the compatibility wrinkles ironed out +yet. + =head1 Coexistence with perl4 You can safely install perl5 even if you want to keep perl4 around. @@ -1378,4 +1384,4 @@ feedback from the perl5-porters@perl.org folks. =head1 LAST MODIFIED -$Id: INSTALL,v 1.13 1997/04/03 18:29:14 doughera Released $ +$Id: INSTALL,v 1.15 1997/04/16 20:49:24 doughera Exp $ diff --git a/Porting/pumpkin.pod b/Porting/pumpkin.pod index 5804a4f990..d047d928bd 100644 --- a/Porting/pumpkin.pod +++ b/Porting/pumpkin.pod @@ -189,6 +189,16 @@ may help out folks on another platform who have the same problem. We should never release a main version without testing it as a subversion first. +=head2 Test popular applications and modules. + +We should never release a main version without testing whether or not +it breaks various popular modules and applications. A partial list of +such things would include majordomo, metaconfig, apache, Tk, CGI, +libnet, and libwww, to name just a few. Of course it's quite possible +that some of those things will be just plain broken and need to be fixed, +but, in general, we ought to try to avoid breaking widely-installed +things. + =head2 Automate generation of derivative files The F<embed.h>, F<keywords.h>, F<opcode.h>, and F<perltoc.pod> files @@ -1150,10 +1160,10 @@ and/or fcntl() file locking. It's a mess. Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>. -Additions by Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>. +Additions by Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>. All opinions expressed herein are those of the authorZ<>(s). =head1 LAST MODIFIED -$Id: pumpkin.pod,v 1.9 1997/02/24 20:37:43 doughera Released $ +$Id: pumpkin.pod,v 1.10 1997/04/16 20:46:47 doughera Released $ |