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authorJames E Keenan <jkeenan@cpan.org>2020-03-01 17:52:49 -0500
committerKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>2020-03-02 09:48:07 -0700
commit0a790ceb1585b217676dbc0be64edacab704172b (patch)
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parent3a6446ca87a7cba325026e8bce83115f0d495699 (diff)
downloadperl-0a790ceb1585b217676dbc0be64edacab704172b.tar.gz
csh shell needed to build with PERL_EXTERNAL_GLOB defined
For: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/16733
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@@ -584,6 +584,12 @@ 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.
+=head3 External glob
+
+Before File::Glob entered core in 5.6.0 globbing was implemented by shelling
+out. If the environmental variable PERL_EXTERNAL_GLOB is defined and if the
+F<csh> shell is available, perl will still do this the old way.
+
=head2 Installation Directories
The installation directories can all be changed by answering the