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@@ -641,6 +641,23 @@ various other operating systems. =back +=head1 Binary Compatibility With 5.003 + +Perl 5.003 turned on the EMBED feature by default, which tries to +avoid possible symbol name conflict by prefixing all global symbols +with "Perl_". However, its list of global symbols was incomplete. +This error has been rectified in Perl 5.004. + +However, some sites may need to maintain complete binary compatibility +with Perl 5.003. If you are building Perl for such a site, then after +B<Configure> you should run these two commands: + + perl old_embed.pl + sh old_perl_exp.SH + +These commands will make your new Perl as binary-compatible with +version 5.003 as possible. + =head1 make depend This will look for all the includes. |