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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2003-07-31 20:37:50 +0000
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2003-07-31 20:37:50 +0000
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Document in INSTALL that -Uinstallusrbinperl is now the default.
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@@ -321,12 +321,14 @@ find it. It's often a good idea to have both /usr/bin/perl and
careful, however, not to overwrite a version of perl supplied by your
vendor unless you are sure you know what you are doing.
-By default, Configure will arrange for /usr/bin/perl to be linked to
-the current version of perl. You can turn off that behavior by running
+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
- Configure -Uinstallusrbinperl
+ Configure -Dinstallusrbinperl
-or by answering 'no' to the appropriate Configure prompt.
+or by answering 'yes' to the appropriate Configure prompt.
+(Note that before perl 5.8.1, the default behavior was to create
+or overwrite /usr/bin/perl even if it already existed.)
In any case, system administrators are strongly encouraged to
put (symlinks to) perl and its accompanying utilities, such as perldoc,