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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2003-07-29 13:26:26 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2003-07-29 13:26:26 +0000
commit5c8863fab8f0a8ad1440a1f005c87e9f3ab24a3d (patch)
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Slight rewording on the destdir.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@20314
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@@ -650,9 +650,10 @@ Here's one way to do that:
cd /opt/perl # Or wherever you specified as $prefix
tar xvf perl5-archive.tar
-Alternatively, perl honors the DESTDIR variable in the make install
-call. DESTDIR is automatically prepended to all the installation paths.
-With DESTDIR, the above example can we written as:
+Alternatively, the DESTDIR variable is honored during C<make install>.
+The DESTDIR is automatically prepended to all the installation paths
+(and there is no need to edit anything). With DESTDIR, the above
+example can we written as:
sh Configure -Dprefix=/opt/perl -des
make