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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-11-05 14:53:14 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-11-05 14:53:14 +0000
commit48370efcca9e507f1a6469e04f98fc208af66403 (patch)
treee080b9daecb49ff947ebf38eae4d3c49697f60f7 /INSTALL
parentc74f62b55c858d7cf9ed72589c05484ffce727b0 (diff)
downloadperl-48370efcca9e507f1a6469e04f98fc208af66403.tar.gz
Support a config.arch file, similar to config.over,
but loaded just before it. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@12851
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@@ -1315,12 +1315,18 @@ You will then have to rebuild by running
make depend
make
-=item config.over
-
-You can also supply a shell script config.over to over-ride Configure's
-guesses. It will get loaded up at the very end, just before config.sh
-is created. You have to be careful with this, however, as Configure
-does no checking that your changes make sense.
+=item config.over and config.arch
+
+You can also supply a shell script config.over to over-ride
+Configure's guesses. It will get loaded up at the very end, just
+before config.sh is created. You have to be careful with this,
+however, as Configure does no checking that your changes make sense.
+This file is usually good for site-specific customizations.
+
+There is also another file that, if it exists, is loaded before the
+config.over, called config.arch. This file is intended to be per
+architecture, not per site, and usually it's the architecture-specific
+hints file that creates the config.arch.
=item config.h