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authorAndy Lester <andy@petdance.com>2005-06-02 11:19:54 -0500
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2005-06-03 08:04:25 +0000
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downloadperl-b432a67249666bce4aa3385263660dc667d150d7.tar.gz
Quotes in pod/*.pod
Message-ID: <20050602211954.GA22107@petdance.com> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@24686
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@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ Configure will B<not> prompt you to install I<man> pages.
On WinNT with either the I<ntea> or I<ntsec> C<CYGWIN> settings, directory
and file permissions may not be set correctly. Since the build process
-creates directories and files, to be safe you may want to run a `C<chmod
--R +w *>' on the entire Perl source tree.
+creates directories and files, to be safe you may want to run a
+C<chmod -R +w *> on the entire Perl source tree.
Also, it is a well known WinNT "feature" that files created by a login
that is a member of the I<Administrators> group will be owned by the
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ You may see some messages during Configure that seem suspicious.
=item * I<dlsym()>
I<ld2> is needed to build dynamic libraries, but it does not exist
-when C<dlsym()> checking occurs (it is not created until `C<make>' runs).
+when C<dlsym()> checking occurs (it is not created until C<make> runs).
You will see the following message:
Checking whether your C<dlsym()> needs a leading underscore ...
@@ -287,13 +287,13 @@ Errors like these are normal:
=head2 ld2 on Cygwin
-During `C<make>', I<ld2> will be created and installed in your $installbin
+During C<make>, I<ld2> will be created and installed in your $installbin
directory (where you said to put public executables). It does not
-wait until the `C<make install>' process to install the I<ld2> script,
-this is because the remainder of the `C<make>' refers to I<ld2> without
+wait until the C<make install> process to install the I<ld2> script,
+this is because the remainder of the C<make> refers to I<ld2> without
fully specifying its path and does this from multiple subdirectories.
The assumption is that $installbin is in your current C<PATH>. If this
-is not the case `C<make>' will fail at some point. If this happens,
+is not the case C<make> will fail at some point. If this happens,
just manually copy I<ld2> from the source directory to somewhere in
your C<PATH>.
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ There are two steps to running the test suite:
cd t;./perl harness 2>&1 | tee ../log.harness
The same tests are run both times, but more information is provided when
-running as `C<./perl harness>'.
+running as C<./perl harness>.
Test results vary depending on your host system and your Cygwin
configuration. If a test can pass in some Cygwin setup, it is always
@@ -506,10 +506,10 @@ This will install Perl, including I<man> pages.
make install 2>&1 | tee log.make-install
-NOTE: If C<STDERR> is redirected `C<make install>' will B<not> prompt
+NOTE: If C<STDERR> is redirected C<make install> will B<not> prompt
you to install I<perl> into F</usr/bin>.
-You may need to be I<Administrator> to run `C<make install>'. If you
+You may need to be I<Administrator> to run C<make install>. If you
are not, you must have write access to the directories in question.
Information on installing the Perl documentation in HTML format can be