L<"Reporting Problems"> below.
For information on what's new in this release, see the
-pod/perl5100delta.pod file. For more detailed information about specific
+pod/perl5110delta.pod file. For more detailed information about specific
changes, see the Changes file.
=head1 DESCRIPTION
=head2 Changes and Incompatibilities
-Please see pod/perl5100delta.pod for a description of the changes and
+Please see pod/perl5110delta.pod for a description of the changes and
potential incompatibilities introduced with this release. A few of
the most important issues are listed below, but you should refer
-to pod/perl5100delta.pod for more detailed information.
+to pod/perl5110delta.pod for more detailed information.
B<WARNING:> This version is not binary compatible with prior releases of Perl.
If you have built extensions (i.e. modules that include C code)
On a related issue, old modules may possibly be affected by the changes
in the Perl language in the current release. Please see
-pod/perl5100delta.pod for a description of what's changed. See your
+pod/perl5110delta.pod for a description of what's changed. See your
installed copy of the perllocal.pod file for a (possibly incomplete)
list of locally installed modules. Also see CPAN::autobundle for one
way to make a "bundle" of your currently installed modules.
then don't worry about the warning message. The extension
Makefile.PL goes looking for various libraries needed on various
systems; few systems will need all the possible libraries listed.
-For example, a system may have -lcposix or -lposix, but it's
-unlikely to have both, so most users will see warnings for the one
-they don't have. The phrase 'probably harmless' is intended to
-reassure you that nothing unusual is happening, and the build
-process is continuing.
+Most users will see warnings for the ones they don't have. The
+phrase 'probably harmless' is intended to reassure you that nothing
+unusual is happening, and the build process is continuing.
On the other hand, if you are building GDBM_File and you get the
message
tries to exercise the regular expression subsystem quite thoroughly,
and may well be far more demanding than your normal usage.
+=item libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file
+
+This message has been reported on gcc-3.2.3 and earlier installed with
+a non-standard prefix. Setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable
+(or equivalent) to include gcc's lib/ directory with the libgcc_s.so.1
+shared library should fix the problem.
+
=item Failures from lib/File/Temp/t/security saying "system possibly insecure"
First, such warnings are not necessarily serious or indicative of a
(The 'strace' is Linux-specific, other similar utilities include 'truss'
and 'ktrace'.)
+=head2 C<-DNO_MATHOMS>
+
+If you configure perl with C<-Accflags=-DNO_MATHOMS>, the functions from
+F<mathoms.c> will not be compiled in. Those functions are no longer used
+by perl itself; for source compatibility reasons, though, they weren't
+completely removed.
+
=head1 DOCUMENTATION
Read the manual entries before running perl. The main documentation