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| author | Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk> | 1998-05-15 16:28:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk> | 1998-05-15 16:28:08 +0000 |
| commit | 4682965a1447ea44ca0e54daf6511745b18aef6c (patch) | |
| tree | 16a22da461acabb6195ecc6ed170c84a5ee5ea85 /INSTALL | |
| parent | 3acd27eec7b2f3a97d98cb76eaeef38ac289882b (diff) | |
| download | perl-4682965a1447ea44ca0e54daf6511745b18aef6c.tar.gz | |
Patch from Sarathy to fix up win32 integration. Patch from Jarkko
(manually applied and tweaked) to fix up SysV IPC semaphores for
Solaris and Linux (pre-glibc and glibc). Fix up t/op/ipcmsg.t and
t/op/ipcsem.t for platforms which wanted to skip test. Completely
disable ipcsem.t since it doesn't seem to work properly even when
not skipped. This is _65.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@988
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@@ -170,6 +170,14 @@ be done, system administrators are strongly encouraged to put into a directory typically found along a user's PATH, or in another obvious and convenient place. +It may seem obvious to say, but Perl is useful only when users can +easily find it. When possible, it's good for both /usr/bin/perl and +/usr/local/bin/perl to be symlinks to the actual binary. If that can't +be done, system administrators are strongly encouraged to put +(symlinks to) perl and its accompanying utilities, such as perldoc, +into a directory typically found along a user's PATH, or in another +obvious and convenient place. + By default, Configure will compile perl to use dynamic loading if your system supports it. If you want to force perl to be compiled statically, you can either choose this when Configure prompts you or |