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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2000-10-10 21:40:49 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2000-10-10 21:40:49 +0000
commitd56c570797c673478b3a116a0ec3f47317f46643 (patch)
treecec689f40716ba301b2ac6a035c384765004032f /INSTALL
parent22e779421fc9644bbe208a576056f86ee9e45388 (diff)
downloadperl-d56c570797c673478b3a116a0ec3f47317f46643.tar.gz
Reapply Andy's patch and regen Configure.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@7196
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@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ extensions that have not been updated for the new naming convention
with:
perl Makefile.PL POLLUTE=1
-
+
Alternatively, you can enable CPP symbol pollution wholesale by
building perl itself with:
@@ -1831,12 +1831,17 @@ anything, you can run
make install will install the following:
+ binaries
+
perl,
perl5.nnn where nnn is the current release number. This
will be a link to perl.
suidperl,
sperl5.nnn If you requested setuid emulation.
a2p awk-to-perl translator
+
+ scripts
+
cppstdin This is used by perl -P, if your cc -E can't
read from stdin.
c2ph, pstruct Scripts for handling C structures in header files.
@@ -1849,13 +1854,21 @@ make install will install the following:
pl2pm Convert Perl 4 .pl files to Perl 5 .pm modules
pod2html, Converters from perl's pod documentation format
pod2latex, to other useful formats.
- pod2man, and
- pod2text
+ pod2man,
+ pod2text,
+ pod2checker,
+ pod2select,
+ pod2usage
splain Describe Perl warnings and errors
dprofpp Perl code profile post-processor
- library files in $privlib and $archlib specified to
+ library files
+
+ in $privlib and $archlib specified to
Configure, usually under /usr/local/lib/perl5/.
+
+ documentation
+
man pages in $man1dir, usually /usr/local/man/man1.
module man
pages in $man3dir, usually /usr/local/man/man3.
@@ -1864,11 +1877,28 @@ make install will install the following:
Installperl will also create the directories listed above
in L<"Installation Directories">.
-Perl's *.h header files and the libperl.a library are also installed
+Perl's *.h header files and the libperl library are also installed
under $archlib so that any user may later build new modules, run the
optional Perl compiler, or embed the perl interpreter into another
program even if the Perl source is no longer available.
+Sometimes you only want to install the version-specific parts of the perl
+installation. For example, you may wish to install a newer version of
+perl alongside an already installed production version of perl without
+disabling installation of new modules for the production version.
+To only install the version-specific parts of the perl installation, run
+
+ Configure -Dversiononly
+
+or answer 'y' to the appropriate Configure prompt. Alternatively,
+you can just manually run
+
+ ./perl installperl -v
+
+and skip installman altogether.
+See also L<"Maintaining completely separate versions"> for another
+approach.
+
=head1 Coexistence with earlier versions of perl5
In general, you can usually safely upgrade from one version of Perl (e.g.