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@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/misc/ancient/tutorial/eg/itimers.pl .
In general, you may not be able to. The Time::HiRes module (available
from CPAN) provides this functionality for some systems.
-In general, you may not be able to. But if you system supports both the
+In general, you may not be able to. But if your system supports both the
syscall() function in Perl as well as a system call like gettimeofday(2),
then you may be able to do something like this:
@@ -758,8 +758,9 @@ If your version of perl is compiled without dynamic loading, then you
just need to replace step 3 (B<make>) with B<make perl> and you will
get a new F<perl> binary with your extension linked in.
-See L<ExtUtils::MakeMaker> for more details on building extensions,
-the question "How do I keep my own module/library directory?"
+See L<ExtUtils::MakeMaker> for more details on building extensions
+and an answer to the question "How do I keep my own module/library
+directory?"
=head2 How do I keep my own module/library directory?
@@ -778,7 +779,7 @@ See Perl's L<lib> for more information.
=head2 How do I add the directory my program lives in to the module/library search path?
use FindBin;
- use lib "$FindBin:Bin";
+ use lib "$FindBin::Bin";
use your_own_modules;
=head2 How do I add a directory to my include path at runtime?