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@@ -1261,11 +1261,11 @@ a mail message from Larry:
Given that it's already there, you can use it to override distribution modules.
One way to do that is to add
- ccflags="$ccflags -DAPPLLIB_EXP='"/my/override"'"
+ ccflags="$ccflags -DAPPLLIB_EXP=\"/my/override\""
to your config.over file. (You have to be particularly careful to get the
-double quotes in. It might actually be easier to just #define it
-yourself in perl.c.)
+double quotes in. APPLLIB_EXP must be a valid C string. It might
+actually be easier to just #define it yourself in perl.c.)
Then perl.c will put /my/override ahead of ARCHLIB and PRIVLIB. Perl will
also search architecture-specific and version-specific subdirectories of