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| author | H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> | 2004-01-19 16:05:50 +0000 |
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| committer | H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> | 2004-01-19 16:05:50 +0000 |
| commit | b6936f8e1a63757d500c4b5074b9679964040d3d (patch) | |
| tree | 0bec8462579e274a19c465775cd616174f3fcbdb /INSTALL | |
| parent | 246ba7ea7aaf42b98324bb43e87ff42b3741d53b (diff) | |
| download | perl-b6936f8e1a63757d500c4b5074b9679964040d3d.tar.gz | |
Describe how to limit the perl's default @INC during Configure
to _not_ include older versions
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@22175
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -238,6 +238,20 @@ defaults from then on. After it runs, Configure will perform variable substitution on all the *.SH files and offer to run make depend. +=head2 Disabling older versions of Perl + +Configure will search for binary compatible versions of previously +installed perl binaries in the tree that is specified as target tree +and these will be used by the perl being built. + +To disable use of older perl modules, even completely valid pure perl +modules, you can specify to not include the pathes found: + + sh Configure -Dinc_version_list=none ... + +When using the newer perl, you can add these pathes again in the +$PERL5LIB environment variable or with perl's -I runtime option. + =head2 Altering config.sh variables for C compiler switches etc. For most users, all of the Configure defaults are fine. Configure |