If there is a hint file for your system (in the hints/ directory) you
should also read that hint file for specific information for your
-system. (Unixware users should use the svr4.sh hint file.)
+system. (Unixware users should use the svr4.sh or the svr5.sh hint file.)
Additional information is in the Porting/ directory.
=head1 WARNING: This version requires an extra step to build old extensions.
find it. It's often a good idea to have both /usr/bin/perl and
/usr/local/bin/perl be symlinks to the actual binary. Be especially
careful, however, not to overwrite a version of perl supplied by your
-vendor unless you are sure you know what you are doing.
+vendor unless you are sure you know what you are doing. If you insist
+on replacing your vendor's perl, useful information on how it was
+configured may be found with
+
+ perl -V:config_args
+
+(Check the output carefully, however, since this doesn't preserve
+spaces in arguments to Configure. For that, you have to look
+carefully at config_arg1, config_arg2, etc.)
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