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,
cd /opt/perl # Or wherever you specified as $prefix
tar xvf perl5-archive.tar
-Alternatively, perl honors the DESTDIR variable in the make install
-call. DESTDIR is automatically prepended to all the installation paths.
-With DESTDIR, the above example can we written as:
+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