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authorLars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯 <daxim@cpan.org>2010-07-21 10:53:50 +0200
committerCraig A. Berry <craigberry@mac.com>2010-08-22 09:59:42 -0500
commit4159e58391a03f23a86a00e978cc2bf3a3219996 (patch)
treef3348e1053ad5761837fd9d48dade9305a5552e4
parentc9967a7f1535df046a0e67efb3ce8f456a7ce269 (diff)
downloadperl-4159e58391a03f23a86a00e978cc2bf3a3219996.tar.gz
clarify how to enable -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV
-rw-r--r--INSTALL7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 1b4f4c9786..0bc0eefdcc 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -500,9 +500,10 @@ to avoid these leaks. The default is now to perform direct manipulation
whenever perl is running as a stand alone interpreter, and to call the safe
but potentially leaky C<putenv()> function when the perl interpreter is
embedded in another application. You can force perl to always use C<putenv()>
-by compiling with -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV. You can force an embedded perl to
-use direct manipulation by setting C<PL_use_safe_putenv = 0;> after the
-C<perl_construct()> call.
+by compiling with C<-Accflags="-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV">, see section
+L</"Altering Configure variables for C compiler switches etc.">.
+You can force an embedded perl to use direct manipulation by setting
+C<PL_use_safe_putenv = 0;> after the C<perl_construct()> call.
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