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| author | Ricardo Signes <rjbs@semiotic.systems> | 2022-05-27 22:01:00 -0400 |
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| committer | Ricardo Signes <rjbs@semiotic.systems> | 2022-05-27 22:27:58 -0400 |
| commit | 7e8b7ced7aa62256ed0dc102113a58bf1c271d77 (patch) | |
| tree | cd9a31ea0c66bfcecf69427433876bb588910ae9 /INSTALL | |
| parent | 2c8fc00e10c85d241338e71377aff04f4f7a7b6f (diff) | |
| download | perl-7e8b7ced7aa62256ed0dc102113a58bf1c271d77.tar.gz | |
bump version to v5.37.1: now open for business
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| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 28 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
@@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ 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 5.37.0. +By default, Configure will use the following directories for 5.37.1. $version is the full perl version number, including subversion, e.g. 5.12.3, and $archname is a string like sun4-sunos, determined by Configure. The full definitions of all Configure @@ -2506,7 +2506,7 @@ L<https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html> =head1 Coexistence with earlier versions of perl 5 -Perl 5.37.0 is not binary compatible with earlier versions of Perl. +Perl 5.37.1 is not binary compatible with earlier versions of Perl. In other words, you will have to recompile your XS modules. In general, you can usually safely upgrade from one stable version of Perl @@ -2581,9 +2581,9 @@ won't interfere with another version. (The defaults guarantee this for libraries after 5.6.0, but not for executables. TODO?) One convenient way to do this is by using a separate prefix for each version, such as - sh Configure -Dprefix=/opt/perl5.37.0 + sh Configure -Dprefix=/opt/perl5.37.1 -and adding /opt/perl5.37.0/bin to the shell PATH variable. Such users +and adding /opt/perl5.37.1/bin to the shell PATH variable. Such users may also wish to add a symbolic link /usr/local/bin/perl so that scripts can still start with #!/usr/local/bin/perl. @@ -2598,11 +2598,11 @@ yet. =head2 Upgrading from 5.36.0 or earlier -B<Perl 5.37.0 may not be binary compatible with Perl 5.36.0 or +B<Perl 5.37.1 may not be binary compatible with Perl 5.36.0 or earlier Perl releases.> Perl modules having binary parts (meaning that a C compiler is used) will have to be recompiled to be -used with 5.37.0. If you find you do need to rebuild an extension with -5.37.0, you may safely do so without disturbing the older +used with 5.37.1. If you find you do need to rebuild an extension with +5.37.1, you may safely do so without disturbing the older installations. (See L<"Coexistence with earlier versions of perl 5"> above.) @@ -2635,15 +2635,15 @@ Firstly, the bare minimum to run this script print("$f\n"); } -in Linux with perl-5.37.0 is as follows (under $Config{prefix}): +in Linux with perl-5.37.1 is as follows (under $Config{prefix}): ./bin/perl - ./lib/perl5/5.37.0/strict.pm - ./lib/perl5/5.37.0/warnings.pm - ./lib/perl5/5.37.0/i686-linux/File/Glob.pm - ./lib/perl5/5.37.0/feature.pm - ./lib/perl5/5.37.0/XSLoader.pm - ./lib/perl5/5.37.0/i686-linux/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so + ./lib/perl5/5.37.1/strict.pm + ./lib/perl5/5.37.1/warnings.pm + ./lib/perl5/5.37.1/i686-linux/File/Glob.pm + ./lib/perl5/5.37.1/feature.pm + ./lib/perl5/5.37.1/XSLoader.pm + ./lib/perl5/5.37.1/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 |