[PATCH 5.004_60] Fix to MM_VMS.PM

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

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index f8931ae..782cd94 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -363,17 +363,12 @@ above.
 
 The  directories site_perl and site_perl/archname are empty, but are
 intended to be used for installing local or site-wide extensions.  Perl
-will automatically look in these directories.  Previously, most sites
-just put their local extensions in with the standard distribution.
+will automatically look in these directories. 
 
 In order to support using things like #!/usr/local/bin/perl5.004 after
 a later version is released, architecture-dependent libraries are
 stored in a version-specific directory, such as
-/usr/local/lib/perl5/archname/5.004/.  In Perl 5.000 and 5.001, these
-files were just stored in /usr/local/lib/perl5/archname/.  If you will
-not be using 5.001 binaries, you can delete the standard extensions from
-the /usr/local/lib/perl5/archname/ directory.  Locally-added extensions
-can be moved to the site_perl and site_perl/archname directories.
+/usr/local/lib/perl5/archname/5.004/.  
 
 Again, these are just the defaults, and can be changed as you run
 Configure.
@@ -866,8 +861,8 @@ and then re-run
 
 =item No sh
 
-If you don't have sh, you'll have to copy the sample file config_H to
-config.h and edit the config.h to reflect your system's peculiarities.
+If you don't have sh, you'll have to copy the sample file Porting/config_H
+to config.h and edit the config.h to reflect your system's peculiarities.
 You'll probably also have to extensively modify the extension building
 mechanism.
 
@@ -930,7 +925,18 @@ to test your version of miniperl.
 If you have any locale-related environment variables set, try
 unsetting them.  I have some reports that some versions of IRIX hang
 while running B<./miniperl configpm> with locales other than the C
-locale.  See the discussion under L<make test> below about locales.
+locale.  See the discussion under L<"make test"> below about locales
+and the whole L<Locale problems> section in the file pod/perllocale.pod.
+The latter is especially useful if you see something like this
+
+       perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
+       perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
+               LC_ALL = "En_US",
+               LANG = (unset)
+           are supported and installed on your system.
+       perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
+
+at Perl startup.
 
 =item malloc duplicates