Now the test should be really testing what it's supposed to.

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 4b20540..200041e 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -321,12 +321,14 @@ find it.  It's often a good idea to have both /usr/bin/perl and
 careful, however, not to overwrite a version of perl supplied by your
 vendor unless you are sure you know what you are doing.
 
-By default, Configure will arrange for /usr/bin/perl to be linked to
-the current version of perl.  You can turn off that behavior by running
+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
 
-       Configure -Uinstallusrbinperl
+       Configure -Dinstallusrbinperl
 
-or by answering 'no' to the appropriate Configure prompt.
+or by answering 'yes' to the appropriate Configure prompt.
+(Note that before perl 5.8.1, the default behavior was to create
+or overwrite /usr/bin/perl even if it already existed.)
 
 In any case, system administrators are strongly encouraged to
 put (symlinks to) perl and its accompanying utilities, such as perldoc,
@@ -650,6 +652,18 @@ Here's one way to do that:
     cd /opt/perl # Or wherever you specified as $prefix
     tar xvf perl5-archive.tar
 
+Alternatively, the DESTDIR variable is honored during C<make install>.
+The DESTDIR is automatically prepended to all the installation paths
+(and there is no need to edit anything).  With DESTDIR, the above
+example can we written as:
+
+    sh Configure -Dprefix=/opt/perl -des
+    make
+    make test
+    make install DESTDIR=/tmp/perl5
+    cd /tmp/perl5/opt/perl
+    tar cvf /tmp/perl5-archive.tar .
+
 =head2 Site-wide Policy settings
 
 After Configure runs, it stores a number of common site-wide "policy"