Integrate:

[ 20761]
Use the base class cwd() method.

[ 20762]
Subject: [PATCH: perl@20760] clean up quotation issue for use with MMS on VMS
From: PPrymmer@factset.com
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:28:22 -0400
Message-ID: <OFAF7796C8.7F204EDE-ON85256D86.0063976D-85256D86.006578B0@factset.com>

[ 20763]
Subject: [PATCH: perl@20760] VMS specific fix for lib/ExtUtils/t/Manifest.t
From: PPrymmer@factset.com
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:57:12 -0400
Message-ID: <OF314202D4.49371ADF-ON85256D86.006CEBE2-85256D86.006D9AA7@factset.com>

[ 20764]
Typo tweaks from Gerrit P. Haase.  Fcntl, fcntl, fcntl.

[ 20765]
Pod tweaks for NEXT from Alan Ferrency.

[ 20766]
Nicholas Clark's podulator.  The win32 makefile
generation doesn't seem to be working yet.

[ 20767]
Try to unify the MANIFEST sorting.

[ 20768]
Still trying to unify MANIFEST sorting.

[ 20769]
Update the history records.

[ 20770]
Subject: [PATCH] maintperl - File::Spec cwd() stuff
From: Ken Williams <ken@mathforum.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:07:43 -0500
Message-Id: <645E5A7D-D1C8-11D7-84BF-003065F6D85A@mathforum.org>

[ 20771]
Subject: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] maintperl - File::Spec cwd() stuff
From: Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:02:08 -0700
Message-ID: <20030819010208.GI14782@windhund.schwern.org>

[ 20772]
Replace #20763 with

Subject: Re: [PATCH: perl@20760] VMS specific fix for lib/ExtUtils/t/Manifest.t
From: Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:07:30 -0700
Message-ID: <20030819000729.GG14782@windhund.schwern.org>

[ 20773]
These are kind of important.

[ 20774]
's buildtoc now.

[ 20776]
Replace #20772 with

Subject: Re: [PATCH: perl@20760] VMS specific fix for lib/ExtUtils/t/Manifest.t
From: PPrymmer@factset.com
Message-ID: <OFE22C35CE.D5CB1A7F-ON85256D87.004E3BCA-85256D87.004F9EF2@factset.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:29:44 -0400

[ 20777]
One less failure.

[ 20778]
Unnecessary whitespace diff.

[ 20779]
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] maintperl - File::Spec cwd() stuff
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@Math.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:28:14 -0700
Message-ID: <20030819152814.GA15441@math.berkeley.edu>

[ 20780]
Subject: [PATCH] Can't build thread on openbsd sparc64 => B.c:5078: virtual memory exhausted
From: alian <alian@cpan.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:18:03 +0200
Message-ID: <20030819161650.65754.qmail@onion.perl.org>

[ 20781]
Subject: Re: [perl #23304] Installing perl breaks redhat-config scripts[was: New (well  known) printer won't install in RH-9]
From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:45:24 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.53.0308191027250.6665@maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu>
p4raw-link: @20781 on //depot/perl: b66c6cec6ebda7d4920cba326c1ecf20cc6d4e5a
p4raw-link: @20780 on //depot/perl: c272d378c52f543d764909751ce708de03235bb8
p4raw-link: @20779 on //depot/perl: 3f528443b6a6bb74adb02f5c77345eadbe5a30cb
p4raw-link: @20778 on //depot/perl: 919b8535db3a1743970d092ccde72289af606b22
p4raw-link: @20777 on //depot/perl: 9d058bf8f98d1b9347cfda4ba63dd365f062001e
p4raw-link: @20776 on //depot/perl: d89514c25b731ec9e14e39a4e64f5a8251603f17
p4raw-link: @20774 on //depot/perl: 9f7e07ec929b796ce6e2669d563feb016a923cce
p4raw-link: @20773 on //depot/perl: d04e1334d05d07ca6152f732b72de81038677db5
p4raw-link: @20772 on //depot/perl: 380d553221a7b6b303e3e865f5f1192c35badf06
p4raw-link: @20771 on //depot/perl: 46aa9bac46a412aee3375d600b0915242a05b059
p4raw-link: @20770 on //depot/perl: f9fbf424fb61f97e6792e9a8ed040a85ffe5d3b2
p4raw-link: @20769 on //depot/perl: 591b4a2d55c04d7fd1536fbe03d54504cbf915b9
p4raw-link: @20768 on //depot/perl: 6578b326867c9593ed67f77d062351ca8ddf19ce
p4raw-link: @20767 on //depot/perl: f3a5d88cc446fb2973690d72d79287e2384910a7
p4raw-link: @20766 on //depot/perl: 416302502f485afad83d2cbfb0bf4c336eb95ad7
p4raw-link: @20765 on //depot/perl: e23eab12291345ee6d531ea992930dc71f52fcab
p4raw-link: @20764 on //depot/perl: 554ad1fcb1c9a72f13e2c15496f1fa2ad5b5e63c
p4raw-link: @20763 on //depot/perl: 880a76e2f35aeaa0d2eac1e5117d0f24c7256baa
p4raw-link: @20762 on //depot/perl: 1b2d76876dbac296f91bb477714fdc99f8d3f512
p4raw-link: @20761 on //depot/perl: 57db8a1156a63b084cc784787f4fbf02ce40bb10

p4raw-id: //depot/maint-5.8/perl@20782
p4raw-branched: from //depot/perl@20760 'branch in'
	ext/B/hints/openbsd.pl pod.lst pod/buildtoc (@6369..)
p4raw-deleted: from //depot/perl@20760 'delete in' pod/buildtoc.PL
	(@20654..)
p4raw-edited: from //depot/perl@20760 'edit in' pod/perltoc.pod
	(@20654..) win32/pod.mak (@20664..) vms/descrip_mms.template
	(@20671..) pod/perl.pod (@20711..) MANIFEST (@20754..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/perl@20760 'copy in' pod/Makefile.SH
	(@11061..) t/io/utf8.t (@19693..) lib/File/Spec/t/Spec.t
	(@20225..) pod/perlhist.pod (@20356..) INSTALL (@20482..)
	README.cygwin (@20665..) ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm (@20686..)
	lib/NEXT.pm (@20712..) Makefile.SH (@20737..)
	lib/File/Spec/OS2.pm lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm (@20744..)
	lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm (@20752..) lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
	lib/ExtUtils/t/Manifest.t (@20754..) 'merge in'
	pod/perlfunc.pod (@20607..)

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 719c2fef5f..e7fc6bdce1 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -319,7 +319,15 @@ It may seem obvious, but Perl is useful only when users can easily
 find it.  It's often a good idea to have both /usr/bin/perl and
 /usr/local/bin/perl be symlinks to the actual binary.  Be especially
 careful, however, not to overwrite a version of perl supplied by your
-vendor unless you are sure you know what you are doing.
+vendor unless you are sure you know what you are doing.  If you insist
+on replacing your vendor's perl, useful information on how it was
+configured may be found with
+
+	perl -V:config_args
+
+(Check the output carefully, however, since this doesn't preserve
+spaces in arguments to Configure.  For that, you have to look
+carefully at config_arg1, config_arg2, etc.)
 
 By default, Configure will not try to link /usr/bin/perl to
 the current version of perl.  You can turn on that behavior by running