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| author | Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org> | 1999-04-07 11:34:56 -0400 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1999-05-07 08:52:14 +0000 |
| commit | beb13193c046c5af0b3d82b63bab87b266b7697c (patch) | |
| tree | 226565da260f5584a9c4c383dcc04e65feaf8a3c /INSTALL | |
| parent | 4c5a6083a6f92a8003034d6119c72e8d828e4613 (diff) | |
| download | perl-beb13193c046c5af0b3d82b63bab87b266b7697c.tar.gz | |
allow distinct prefix for versioned executables
Message-ID: <3003.923513696@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Subject: perl55.00503 -> perl5.00503 patch for installperl
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@3320
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@@ -1414,6 +1414,15 @@ indicate the alternate name on the "make install" line, such as: make install PERLNAME=myperl +You can separately change the base used for versioned names (like +"perl5.005") by setting PERLNAME_VERBASE, like + + make install PERLNAME=perl5 PERLNAME_VERBASE=perl + +This can be useful if you have to install perl as "perl5" (due to an +ancient version in /usr/bin supplied by your vendor, eg). Without this +the versioned binary would be called "perl55.005". + =head2 Installed files If you want to see exactly what will happen without installing |