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author | Jesse Luehrs <doy@tozt.net> | 2012-06-19 21:01:44 -0500 |
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committer | Jesse Luehrs <doy@tozt.net> | 2012-06-19 21:11:21 -0500 |
commit | 4683a5d7cdb32ed2af60a28a12123d5c199e7bbf (patch) | |
tree | ae6fac2bdbf28dc84a7afab5a3e1f72b75e40bea /INSTALL | |
parent | 5302eb956426919b510855d0023d63e3523015da (diff) | |
download | perl-4683a5d7cdb32ed2af60a28a12123d5c199e7bbf.tar.gz |
bump version to 5.17.1
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-rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 32 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 16 deletions
@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ The directories set up by Configure fall into three broad categories. =item Directories for the perl distribution -By default, Configure will use the following directories for 5.17.0. +By default, Configure will use the following directories for 5.17.1. $version is the full perl version number, including subversion, e.g. 5.12.3, and $archname is a string like sun4-sunos, determined by Configure. The full definitions of all Configure @@ -845,7 +845,7 @@ must contain a space separated list of directories under the site_perl directory, and has to include architecture-dependent directories separately, eg. - sh Configure -Dinc_version_list="5.17.0/x86_64-linux 5.14.0" ... + sh Configure -Dinc_version_list="5.16.0/x86_64-linux 5.16.0" ... When using the newer perl, you can add these paths again in the PERL5LIB environment variable or with perl's -I runtime option. @@ -2387,9 +2387,9 @@ won't interfere with another version. (The defaults guarantee this for libraries after 5.6.0, but not for executables. TODO?) One convenient way to do this is by using a separate prefix for each version, such as - sh Configure -Dprefix=/opt/perl5.17.0 + sh Configure -Dprefix=/opt/perl5.17.1 -and adding /opt/perl5.17.0/bin to the shell PATH variable. Such users +and adding /opt/perl5.17.1/bin to the shell PATH variable. Such users may also wish to add a symbolic link /usr/local/bin/perl so that scripts can still start with #!/usr/local/bin/perl. @@ -2402,13 +2402,13 @@ seriously consider using a separate directory, since development subversions may not have all the compatibility wrinkles ironed out yet. -=head2 Upgrading from 5.16.0 or earlier +=head2 Upgrading from 5.17.0 or earlier -B<Perl 5.17.0 may not be is binary incompatible with Perl 5.16.0 or -earlier Perl release.> Perl modules having binary parts +B<Perl 5.17.1 may not be binary compatible with Perl 5.17.0 or +earlier Perl releases.> Perl modules having binary parts (meaning that a C compiler is used) will have to be recompiled to be -used with 5.17.0. If you find you do need to rebuild an extension with -5.17.0, you may safely do so without disturbing the older +used with 5.17.1. If you find you do need to rebuild an extension with +5.17.1, you may safely do so without disturbing the older installations. (See L<"Coexistence with earlier versions of perl 5"> above.) @@ -2441,15 +2441,15 @@ Firstly, the bare minimum to run this script print("$f\n"); } -in Linux with perl-5.17.0 is as follows (under $Config{prefix}): +in Linux with perl-5.17.1 is as follows (under $Config{prefix}): ./bin/perl - ./lib/perl5/5.17.0/strict.pm - ./lib/perl5/5.17.0/warnings.pm - ./lib/perl5/5.17.0/i686-linux/File/Glob.pm - ./lib/perl5/5.17.0/feature.pm - ./lib/perl5/5.17.0/XSLoader.pm - ./lib/perl5/5.17.0/i686-linux/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so + ./lib/perl5/5.17.1/strict.pm + ./lib/perl5/5.17.1/warnings.pm + ./lib/perl5/5.17.1/i686-linux/File/Glob.pm + ./lib/perl5/5.17.1/feature.pm + ./lib/perl5/5.17.1/XSLoader.pm + ./lib/perl5/5.17.1/i686-linux/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so Secondly, for perl-5.10.1, the Debian perl-base package contains 591 files, (of which 510 are for lib/unicore) totaling about 3.5MB in its i386 version. |