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@@ -321,12 +321,14 @@ find it. It's often a good idea to have both /usr/bin/perl and careful, however, not to overwrite a version of perl supplied by your vendor unless you are sure you know what you are doing. -By default, Configure will arrange for /usr/bin/perl to be linked to -the current version of perl. You can turn off that behavior by running +By default, Configure will not try to link /usr/bin/perl to +the current version of perl. You can turn on that behavior by running - Configure -Uinstallusrbinperl + Configure -Dinstallusrbinperl -or by answering 'no' to the appropriate Configure prompt. +or by answering 'yes' to the appropriate Configure prompt. +(Note that before perl 5.8.1, the default behavior was to create +or overwrite /usr/bin/perl even if it already existed.) In any case, system administrators are strongly encouraged to put (symlinks to) perl and its accompanying utilities, such as perldoc, |