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@@ -73,9 +73,13 @@ Installation Configure supports a number of useful options. Run Configure -h to get a listing. To compile with gcc, for example, you can run - Configure -Dcc=gcc, or answer 'gcc' at the cc prompt. If you - change compilers or make other significant changes, you should - probably _not_ re-use your old config.sh. + Configure -Dcc=gcc, or answer 'gcc' at the cc prompt. This is the + preferred way to invoke an alternate compiler, since the hints + files can then set appropriate defaults. + + If you change compilers or make other significant changes, you should + probably _not_ re-use your old config.sh. Simply remove it or + rename it, e.g. mv config.sh config.sh.old. By default, perl will be installed in /usr/local/{bin, lib, man}. You can specify a different prefix for the default installation @@ -152,6 +156,10 @@ Installation If you get varags problems with gcc, be sure that gcc is installed correctly. When using gcc, you should probably have i_stdarg='define' and i_varags='undef' in config.sh. + If you wish to use dynamic loading on SunOS or Solaris, and you + have GNU as and GNU ld installed, you may need to add -B/bin/ to + your $ccflags and $ldflags so that the system's versions of as + and ld are used. 5) make test @@ -184,6 +192,9 @@ Installation s2p sed-to-perl translator find2perl find-to-perl translator h2xs Converts C .h header files to Perl extensions. + pod2html, Converters from perl's pod documentation format + pod2latex, and to other useful formats. + pod2man library files in $privlib and $archlib specified to Configure, usually under /usr/local/lib/perl5/. |