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authorJesse Luehrs <doy@tozt.net>2012-06-19 21:01:44 -0500
committerJesse Luehrs <doy@tozt.net>2012-06-19 21:11:21 -0500
commit4683a5d7cdb32ed2af60a28a12123d5c199e7bbf (patch)
treeae6fac2bdbf28dc84a7afab5a3e1f72b75e40bea /INSTALL
parent5302eb956426919b510855d0023d63e3523015da (diff)
downloadperl-4683a5d7cdb32ed2af60a28a12123d5c199e7bbf.tar.gz
bump version to 5.17.1
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 333e80940c..1445cd9a6d 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -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.