Perl Kit, Version 5.0
- Copyright 1989-1997, Larry Wall
+ Copyright 1989-1999, Larry Wall
All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
Kit, in the file named "Artistic". If not, I'll be glad to provide one.
You should also have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+ along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
For those of you that choose to use the GNU General Public License,
my interpretation of the GNU General Public License is that no Perl
1) Detailed instructions are in the file INSTALL which you should read.
In brief, the following should work on most systems:
- rm -f config.sh
- sh Configure
+
+ rm -f config.sh Policy.sh
+ sh Configure -de
make
make test
make install
+
For most systems, it should be safe to accept all the Configure defaults.
-(It is recommended that you accept the defaults the first time you build
-or if you have any problems building.)
+It is recommended that you accept the defaults the first time you build
+or if you have any problems building.
+
+The above commands will install Perl to /usr/local or /opt, depending
+on the platform. If that's not okay with you, use
+
+ rm -f config.sh Policy.sh
+ sh Configure
+ make
+ make test
+ make install
+
+Full configuration instructions can be found in the INSTALL file.
2) Read the manual entries before running perl.