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@@ -319,7 +319,15 @@ It may seem obvious, but Perl is useful only when users can easily find it. It's often a good idea to have both /usr/bin/perl and /usr/local/bin/perl be symlinks to the actual binary. Be especially careful, however, not to overwrite a version of perl supplied by your -vendor unless you are sure you know what you are doing. +vendor unless you are sure you know what you are doing. If you insist +on replacing your vendor's perl, useful information on how it was +configured may be found with + + perl -V:config_args + +(Check the output carefully, however, since this doesn't preserve +spaces in arguments to Configure. For that, you have to look +carefully at config_arg1, config_arg2, etc.) By default, Configure will not try to link /usr/bin/perl to the current version of perl. You can turn on that behavior by running |