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authorDavid Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>2010-01-22 13:16:27 +0000
committerDavid Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>2010-01-22 13:16:27 +0000
commit47bd56ab669218f71586b01b08c680861542c90b (patch)
tree4e1e427fb690d461712b56b5544e365abbd5dd25 /INSTALL
parent2628941b2d252f43f51dd0bcf09e95facb046886 (diff)
downloadperl-47bd56ab669218f71586b01b08c680861542c90b.tar.gz
Clarify in INSTALL what an extension name looks like:
is it IPC::SysV or IPC/SysV, or... ?
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@@ -932,7 +932,8 @@ only if it is able to find the gdbm library.
To disable certain extensions so that they are not built, use the
-Dnoextensions=... and -Donlyextensions=... options. They both accept
-a space-separated list of extensions. The extensions listed in
+a space-separated list of extensions, such as C<IPC/SysV>. The extensions
+listed in
C<noextensions> are removed from the list of extensions to build, while
the C<onlyextensions> is rather more severe and builds only the listed
extensions. The latter should be used with extreme caution since