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@@ -1366,23 +1366,10 @@ Policy overrides hints -- see L</Site-wide Policy settings>. =item *** WHOA THERE!!! *** -Occasionally, Configure makes a wrong guess. For example, on SunOS -4.1.3, Configure incorrectly concludes that tzname[] is in the -standard C library. The hint file is set up to correct for this. You -will see a message: - - *** WHOA THERE!!! *** - The recommended value for $d_tzname on this machine was "undef"! - Keep the recommended value? [y] - -You should always keep the recommended value unless, after reading the -relevant section of the hint file, you are sure you want to try -overriding it. - -If you are re-using an old config.sh, the word "previous" will be -used instead of "recommended". Again, you will almost always want -to keep the previous value, unless you have changed something on your -system. +If you are re-using an old config.sh, it's possible that Configure detects +different values from the ones specified in this file. You will almost +always want to keep the previous value, unless you have changed something +on your system. For example, suppose you have added libgdbm.a to your system and you decide to reconfigure perl to use GDBM_File. When you run |