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authorJim Cromie <jcromie@cpan.org>2006-03-26 15:33:23 -0500
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2006-03-29 08:42:28 +0000
commit5247441a32fa99437809b483eb208756c7ad2401 (patch)
treeca00cd92e80a7c82afb3504c2fcbe1c1fe8d00f1 /INSTALL
parent943795c2b00ef89ec677d4af7a0a6bfabab5c916 (diff)
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[doc-patch] clarify -Accflags in INSTALL
Message-ID: <442740E3.8030006@gmail.com> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@27625
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@@ -334,6 +334,11 @@ invocations:
sh Configure -Accflags="-DPERL_EXTERNAL_GLOB -DPERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC"
+To clarify, those ccflags values are not Configure options; if passed to
+Configure directly, they won't do anything useful (that will define a config.sh
+variable, but without taking any action based upon it). When passed to the
+compiler, those flags will activate #ifdefd code.
+
For more help on Configure switches, run
sh Configure -h