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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2006-11-21 10:17:36 +0000
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2006-11-21 10:17:36 +0000
commit82c11e952a81290003492eb45d32ae6de010ce12 (patch)
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parentdc7c9462e9e5f949918c27caba80e4eb195b09ef (diff)
downloadperl-82c11e952a81290003492eb45d32ae6de010ce12.tar.gz
Remove description of WHOA THERE messages for recommended hint values,
removed by change #29288. p4raw-link: @29288 on //depot/perl: dcb594bcd7c2ac9f0d01eff34aab9c6bb8e972c1 p4raw-id: //depot/perl@29334
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@@ -1366,23 +1366,10 @@ Policy overrides hints -- see L</Site-wide Policy settings>.
=item *** WHOA THERE!!! ***
-Occasionally, Configure makes a wrong guess. For example, on SunOS
-4.1.3, Configure incorrectly concludes that tzname[] is in the
-standard C library. The hint file is set up to correct for this. You
-will see a message:
-
- *** WHOA THERE!!! ***
- The recommended value for $d_tzname on this machine was "undef"!
- Keep the recommended value? [y]
-
-You should always keep the recommended value unless, after reading the
-relevant section of the hint file, you are sure you want to try
-overriding it.
-
-If you are re-using an old config.sh, the word "previous" will be
-used instead of "recommended". Again, you will almost always want
-to keep the previous value, unless you have changed something on your
-system.
+If you are re-using an old config.sh, it's possible that Configure detects
+different values from the ones specified in this file. You will almost
+always want to keep the previous value, unless you have changed something
+on your system.
For example, suppose you have added libgdbm.a to your system
and you decide to reconfigure perl to use GDBM_File. When you run