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@@ -1401,6 +1401,18 @@ The latter is especially useful if you see something like this at Perl startup. +=item other environment variables + +Configure does not check for environment variables that can sometimes +have a major influence on how perl is built or tested. For example, +OBJECT_MODE on AIX determines the way the compiler and linker deal with +their objects, but this is a variable that only influences build-time +behaviour, and should not affect the perl scripts that are eventually +executed by the perl binary. Other variables, like PERL_UNICODE, +PERL5LIB, and PERL5OPTS will influence the behaviour of the test suite. +So if you are getting strange test failures, you may want to try +retesting with the various PERL variables unset. + =item varargs If you get varargs problems with gcc, be sure that gcc is installed |