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authorH.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>2002-10-09 04:49:06 +0000
committerH.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>2002-10-09 04:49:06 +0000
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Try #3 for Porting/pumpkin.pod APPLLIB_EXP quoting
Tue, 8 Oct 2002; Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17981
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diff --git a/Porting/pumpkin.pod b/Porting/pumpkin.pod
index 898022b19c..d0c37f745f 100644
--- a/Porting/pumpkin.pod
+++ b/Porting/pumpkin.pod
@@ -1261,11 +1261,11 @@ a mail message from Larry:
Given that it's already there, you can use it to override distribution modules.
One way to do that is to add
- ccflags="$ccflags -DAPPLLIB_EXP='"/my/override"'"
+ ccflags="$ccflags -DAPPLLIB_EXP=\"/my/override\""
to your config.over file. (You have to be particularly careful to get the
-double quotes in. It might actually be easier to just #define it
-yourself in perl.c.)
+double quotes in. APPLLIB_EXP must be a valid C string. It might
+actually be easier to just #define it yourself in perl.c.)
Then perl.c will put /my/override ahead of ARCHLIB and PRIVLIB. Perl will
also search architecture-specific and version-specific subdirectories of