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

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@@ -128,6 +128,9 @@ If you succeed in automatically converting the sources to a K&R compatible
 form, be sure to email perlbug@perl.com to let us know the steps you
 followed.  This will enable us to officially support this option.
 
+Although Perl can be compiled using a C++ compiler, the Configure script
+does not work with some C++ compilers.
+
 =head1 Space Requirements
 
 The complete perl5 source tree takes up about 20 MB of disk space.
@@ -380,6 +383,10 @@ be used for installing those add-on modules and scripts.
 By default, ExtUtils::MakeMaker will install architecture-independent
 modules into $sitelib and architecture-dependent modules into $sitearch.
 
+NOTE:  As of 5.6.0, ExtUtils::MakeMaker will use $sitelib and $sitearch,
+but will not use the other site-specific directories.  Volunteers to
+fix this are needed.
+
 =item Directories for vendor-supplied add-on files
 
 Lastly, if you are building a binary distribution of perl for
@@ -432,6 +439,9 @@ Note how in this example, the vendor-supplied directories are in the
 /usr hierarchy, while the directories reserved for the end-user are in
 the /usr/local hierarchy.
 
+NOTE:  As of 5.6.0, ExtUtils::MakeMaker does not use these directories.
+Volunteers to fix this are needed.
+
 The entire installed library hierarchy is installed in locations with
 version numbers, keeping the installations of different versions distinct.
 However, later installations of Perl can still be configured to search the