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@@ -19,11 +19,12 @@ The basic steps to build and install perl5 on a Unix system are: Each of these is explained in further detail below. -For information on non-Unix systems, see L<"Porting information"> below. +For information on non-Unix systems, see the section on +L<"Porting information"> below. -For information on what's new in this release, see the pod/perldelta.pod -file. For more detailed information about specific changes, see the -Changes file. +For information on what's new in this release, see the +pod/perldelta.pod file. For more detailed information about specific +changes, see the Changes file. =head1 DESCRIPTION @@ -299,10 +300,10 @@ The installation directories can all be changed by answering the appropriate questions in Configure. For convenience, all the installation questions are near the beginning of Configure. -It is highly recommend that you running Configure interactively -to be sure it puts everything where you want it. At any point -during the Configure process, you can answer a question with -C<&-d> and Configure will use the defaults from then on. +I highly recommend running Configure interactively to be sure it puts +everything where you want it. At any point during the Configure +process, you can answer a question with &-d and Configure +will use the defaults from then on. By default, Configure uses the following directories for library files (archname is a string like sun4-sunos, determined @@ -617,7 +618,9 @@ libperl.so.4 rather with the installed libperl.so.4? The answer is that you might not be able to. The installation directory is encoded in the perl binary with the LD_RUN_PATH environment variable (or equivalent ld command-line option). On Solaris, you can override that -with LD_LIBRARY_PATH; on Linux you can't. +with LD_LIBRARY_PATH; on Linux you can't. On Digital Unix, you can +ovveride LD_LIBRARY_PATH by setting the _RLD_ROOT environment variable +to point to the perl build directory. The only reliable answer is that you should specify a different directory for the architecture-dependent library for your -DDEBUGGING @@ -977,6 +980,14 @@ environment variable to ensure that Sun's as and ld are used. Consult your gcc documentation for further information on the -B option and the GCC_EXEC_PREFIX variable. +One convenient way to ensure you are not using GNU as and ld is to +invoke Configure with + + sh Configure -Dcc='gcc -B/usr/ccs/bin/' + +for Solaris systems. For a SunOS system, you must use -B/bin/ +instead. + =item ld.so.1: ./perl: fatal: relocation error: If you get this message on SunOS or Solaris, and you're using gcc, @@ -1384,4 +1395,4 @@ feedback from the perl5-porters@perl.org folks. =head1 LAST MODIFIED -$Id: INSTALL,v 1.15 1997/04/16 20:49:24 doughera Exp $ +$Id: INSTALL,v 1.17 1997/05/08 21:08:15 doughera Released $ |