Add a few glibc cpp symbols to probe for.

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / Porting / pumpkin.pod

diff --git a/Porting/pumpkin.pod b/Porting/pumpkin.pod
index 3bc9d09..44fde71 100644 (file)
--- a/Porting/pumpkin.pod
+++ b/Porting/pumpkin.pod
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ settled elsewhere.
 
 If feasible, try to keep filenames 8.3-compliant to humor those poor
 souls that get joy from running Perl under such dire limitations.
+There's a script, check83.pl, for keeping your nose 8.3-clean.
 
 =head2 Seek consensus on major changes
 
@@ -729,15 +730,33 @@ produced by this process.
 
 A more accurate approach is the following commands:
 
-    sh Configure -des -Dccflags=-Wformat ...
-    make miniperl              # without -DCHECK_FORMAT
-    perl -i.orig -pwe 's/-Wformat/-DCHECK_FORMAT $&/' config.sh
-    sh Configure -S
-    make >& make.log           # build from correct miniperl
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+build miniperl with -DCHECK_FORMAT 
+
+    make clean
+    make miniperl OPTIMIZE=-DCHECK_FORMAT >& mini.log  
+
+=item *
+
+build a clean miniperl,
+and build everything else from that with -DCHECK_FORMAT
+
     make clean
-    make miniperl >& mini.log  # build miniperl with -DCHECK_FORMAT 
-    perl -nwe 'print if /^\S+:/ and not /^make\b/' mini.log make.log
+    make miniperl      
+    make all OPTIMIZE=-DCHECK_FORMAT >& make.log  
+               
+=item *
+
+clean up, and print warnings from the log files
+
     make clean
+    perl -nwe 'print if /^\S+:/ and not /^make\b/' \
+       mini.log make.log
+
+=back
 
 (-Wformat support by Robin Barker.)
 
@@ -757,7 +776,7 @@ Use the following commands to test perl with Purify:
        make all pureperl
        cd t
        ln -s ../pureperl perl
-       setenv PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL 5
+       setenv PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL 2
        ./perl TEST
 
 Disabling Perl's malloc allows Purify to monitor allocations and leaks