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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Install - Build and Installation guide for perl5. The basic steps to build and install perl5 on a Unix system are: rm -f config.sh Policy.sh - sh Configure + sh Configure -de make make test make install @@ -19,6 +19,17 @@ The basic steps to build and install perl5 on a Unix system are: Each of these is explained in further detail below. +The above commands will install Perl to /usr/local or /opt, depending +on the platform. If that's not okay with you, use + + rm -f config.sh Policy.sh + sh Configure + make + make test + make install + +Full configuration instructions can be found in the INSTALL file. + For information on non-Unix systems, see the section on L<"Porting information"> below. @@ -1119,12 +1130,17 @@ libgdbm under HP-UX 11. Specific information for the OS/2, Plan9, VMS and Win32 ports is in the corresponding README files and subdirectories. Additional information, including a glossary of all those config.sh variables, is in the Porting -subdirectory. +subdirectory. Especially Porting/Glossary should come in handy. Ports for other systems may also be available. You should check out http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports for current information on ports to various other operating systems. +If you plan to port Perl to a new architecture study carefully the +section titled "Philosophical Issues in Patching and Porting Perl" +in the file Porting/pumpkin.pod and the file Porting/patching.pod. +Study also how other non-UNIX ports have solved problems. + =back =head1 make depend |