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| author | Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com> | 2020-02-06 08:08:24 -0500 |
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| committer | James E Keenan <jkeenan@cpan.org> | 2020-02-09 19:16:51 -0500 |
| commit | f9d2c26d7d4dcb4bedbd57fa433fb75d9cc13926 (patch) | |
| tree | e2f6b471bd667b65da51e8dacfd526cfb5b64397 /pod/perlhack.pod | |
| parent | ff788636f09adb53adea8e508908f6497206b574 (diff) | |
| download | perl-f9d2c26d7d4dcb4bedbd57fa433fb75d9cc13926.tar.gz | |
Document purpose of miniperl
For: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/16158
(formerly RT 132137).
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diff --git a/pod/perlhack.pod b/pod/perlhack.pod index 8d5fa003ee..b4122e3940 100644 --- a/pod/perlhack.pod +++ b/pod/perlhack.pod @@ -863,6 +863,12 @@ basic errors before you submit a patch. Run F<miniperl> on F<t/base>, F<t/comp>, F<t/cmd>, F<t/run>, F<t/io>, F<t/op>, F<t/uni> and F<t/mro> tests. +F<miniperl> is a minimalistic perl built to bootstrap building +extensions, utilties, documentation etc. It doesn't support dynamic +loading and depending on the point in the build process will only have +access to a limited set of core modules. F<miniperl> is not intended +for day to day use. + =item * test.valgrind check.valgrind (Only in Linux) Run all the tests using the memory leak + naughty |