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authorJames E Keenan <jkeenan@cpan.org>2021-02-14 20:52:46 +0000
committerJames E Keenan <jkeenan@cpan.org>2021-02-18 07:45:33 -0500
commit8c165c7a4d2c8cb843ef68eb96315d9ea3393cca (patch)
tree3c7ad4881a6a25d432b90b65063a0ec2fb6269af
parent83af6b626c6925bf6b3b47699049003954c1aa56 (diff)
downloadperl-8c165c7a4d2c8cb843ef68eb96315d9ea3393cca.tar.gz
Provide examples for quoting shell words
Per suggestion by Andy Dougherty. For: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18573
-rwxr-xr-xConfigure4
-rw-r--r--configure.com4
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Configure b/Configure
index 3fd076682a..c82ffe5da5 100755
--- a/Configure
+++ b/Configure
@@ -1834,8 +1834,8 @@ Usage: $me [-dehrsEKOSV] [-f config.sh] [-D symbol] [-D symbol=value]
-r : reuse C symbols value if possible (skips costly nm extraction).
-s : silent mode, only echoes questions and essential information.
-D : define symbol to have some value:
- -D symbol symbol gets the value 'define'
- -D symbol=value symbol gets the value 'value'
+ -D symbol symbol gets the value 'define'
+ -D symbol='some value' symbol gets the 'some value'
common used examples (see INSTALL for more info):
-Duse64bitint use 64bit integers
-Duse64bitall use 64bit integers and pointers
diff --git a/configure.com b/configure.com
index 4b106751df..158e27a122 100644
--- a/configure.com
+++ b/configure.com
@@ -341,8 +341,8 @@ $ DECK
"-r" : reuse C symbols value if possible (skips costly nm extraction).*
"-s" : silent mode, only echoes questions and essential information.
-"D" : define symbol to have some value: *
- -"Dsymbol" symbol gets the value 'define'
- -"Dsymbol=value" symbol gets the value 'value'
+ -"Dsymbol" symbol gets the value 'define'
+ -"Dsymbol=some value" symbol gets the value "some value"
-E : stop at the end of questions, after having produced config.sh. *
-K : do not use unless you know what you are doing.
-O : let -D and -U override definitions from loaded configuration file. *