[win32] merge change#985 from maintbranch

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

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index f99be4d..f62e4fd 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -170,6 +170,14 @@ be done, system administrators are strongly encouraged to put
 into a directory typically found along a user's PATH, or in another
 obvious and convenient place.
 
+It may seem obvious to say, but Perl is useful only when users can
+easily find it. When possible, it's good for both /usr/bin/perl and
+/usr/local/bin/perl to be symlinks to the actual binary. If that can't
+be done, system administrators are strongly encouraged to put
+(symlinks to) perl and its accompanying utilities, such as perldoc,
+into a directory typically found along a user's PATH, or in another
+obvious and convenient place.
+
 By default, Configure will compile perl to use dynamic loading if
 your system supports it.  If you want to force perl to be compiled
 statically, you can either choose this when Configure prompts you or
@@ -507,6 +515,14 @@ system.  For most users, the defaults are sensible and will work.
 Some users, however, may wish to further customize perl.  Here are
 some of the main things you can change.
 
+=head2 Installing perl under different names
+
+If you want to install perl under a name other than "perl" (for example,
+when installing perl with special features enabled, such as debugging),
+indicate the alternate name on the "make install" line, such as:
+
+    make install PERLNAME=myperl
+
 =head2 Threads
 
 On some platforms, perl5.005 can be compiled to use threads.  To
@@ -1225,6 +1241,8 @@ Note that you can't run the tests in background if this disables
 opening of /dev/tty. You can use 'make test-notty' in that case but
 a few tty tests will be skipped.
 
+=head2 What if make test doesn't work?
+
 If make test bombs out, just cd to the t directory and run ./TEST
 by hand to see if it makes any difference.  If individual tests
 bomb, you can run them by hand, e.g.,
@@ -1242,6 +1260,10 @@ complicated constructs).
 You should also read the individual tests to see if there are any helpful
 comments that apply to your system.
 
+=over 4
+
+=item locale
+
 Note:  One possible reason for errors is that some external programs
 may be broken due to the combination of your environment and the way
 B<make test> exercises them.  For example, this may happen if you have
@@ -1265,6 +1287,29 @@ things like:  exec, `backquoted command`, system, open("|...") or
 open("...|").  All these mean that Perl is trying to run some
 external program.
 
+=item Out of memory
+
+On some systems, particularly those with smaller amounts of RAM, some
+of the tests in t/op/pat.t may fail with an "Out of memory" message.
+Specifically, in perl5.004_64, tests 74 and 78 have been reported to
+fail on some systems.  On my SparcStation IPC with 8 MB of RAM, test 78
+will fail if the system is running any other significant tasks at the
+same time.
+
+Try stopping other jobs on the system and then running the test by itself:
+
+       cd t; ./perl op/pat.t
+
+to see if you have any better luck.  If your perl still fails this
+test, it does not necessarily mean you have a broken perl.  This test
+tries to exercise the regular expression subsystem quite thoroughly,
+and may well be far more demanding than your normal usage.
+
+You may also be able to reduce perl's memory usage by using some of
+the ideas described above in L<"Malloc Performance Flags">.
+
+=back
+
 =head1 make install
 
 This will put perl into the public directory you specified to
@@ -1543,4 +1588,4 @@ above.
 
 =head1 LAST MODIFIED
 
-$Id: INSTALL,v 1.32 1998/03/20 19:20:08 doughera Released $
+$Id: INSTALL,v 1.34 1998/04/23 18:19:41 doughera Released $