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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you see. +It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is specially +designed to be readable as is. + =head1 NAME Install - Build and Installation guide for perl5. @@ -601,7 +605,7 @@ directories to add to @INC. By default, it will be empty. Perl will search these directories (including architecture and version-specific subdirectories) for add-on modules and extensions. -For example, if you have a bundle of perl libraries from a previous +For example, if you have a bundle of perl libraries from a previous installation, perhaps in a strange place: Configure -Dotherlibdirs=/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1 @@ -1343,9 +1347,9 @@ additional references (suppose you are installing DB3 with ln -s libdb-3.so /usr/lib/libdbm.so ln -s libdb-3.so /usr/lib/libndbm.so - echo '#define DB_DBM_HSEARCH 1' >dbm.h + echo '#define DB_DBM_HSEARCH 1' >dbm.h echo '#include <db.h>' >>dbm.h - install -m 0644 dbm.h /usr/include/dbm.h + install -m 0644 dbm.h /usr/include/dbm.h install -m 0644 dbm.h /usr/include/ndbm.h Optionally, if you have compiled with --enable-compat185 (not needed @@ -1750,7 +1754,7 @@ but without prototypes available, check to see if BIND 8.1 (or possibly other BIND 8 versions) is (or has been) installed. They install header files such as netdb.h into places such as /usr/local/include (or into another directory as specified at build/install time), at least optionally. -Remove them or put them in someplace that isn't in the C preprocessor's +Remove them or put them in someplace that isn't in the C preprocessor's header file include search path (determined by -I options plus defaults, normally /usr/include). |