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authorYitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>2004-05-21 04:35:34 -0700
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2004-05-24 11:23:31 +0000
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Re: [perl #29765] PERL-5.8.4 INSTALL
Message-ID: <20040521183533.GA5108@efn.org> (plus whitespace removal) p4raw-id: //depot/perl@22840
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index f9ffc27b33..b49416ef27 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you see.
+It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is specially
+designed to be readable as is.
+
=head1 NAME
Install - Build and Installation guide for perl5.
@@ -601,7 +605,7 @@ directories to add to @INC. By default, it will be empty.
Perl will search these directories (including architecture and
version-specific subdirectories) for add-on modules and extensions.
-For example, if you have a bundle of perl libraries from a previous
+For example, if you have a bundle of perl libraries from a previous
installation, perhaps in a strange place:
Configure -Dotherlibdirs=/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1
@@ -1343,9 +1347,9 @@ additional references (suppose you are installing DB3 with
ln -s libdb-3.so /usr/lib/libdbm.so
ln -s libdb-3.so /usr/lib/libndbm.so
- echo '#define DB_DBM_HSEARCH 1' >dbm.h
+ echo '#define DB_DBM_HSEARCH 1' >dbm.h
echo '#include <db.h>' >>dbm.h
- install -m 0644 dbm.h /usr/include/dbm.h
+ install -m 0644 dbm.h /usr/include/dbm.h
install -m 0644 dbm.h /usr/include/ndbm.h
Optionally, if you have compiled with --enable-compat185 (not needed
@@ -1750,7 +1754,7 @@ but without prototypes available, check to see if BIND 8.1 (or possibly
other BIND 8 versions) is (or has been) installed. They install
header files such as netdb.h into places such as /usr/local/include (or into
another directory as specified at build/install time), at least optionally.
-Remove them or put them in someplace that isn't in the C preprocessor's
+Remove them or put them in someplace that isn't in the C preprocessor's
header file include search path (determined by -I options plus defaults,
normally /usr/include).