serious bug introduced by G_VOID changes in 5.003_96: scalar

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

diff --git a/README b/README
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--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
                           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
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@
     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
@@ -64,23 +64,35 @@ Installation
 
 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.
 
 3) IMPORTANT!  Help save the world!  Communicate any problems and suggested
-patches to me, larry@wall.org (Larry Wall), so we can
-keep the world in sync.  If you have a problem, there's someone else
-out there who either has had or will have the same problem.
-It's usually helpful if you send the output of the "myconfig" script
-in the main perl directory.
+patches to perlbug@perl.com so we can keep the world in sync.
+If you have a problem, there's someone else out there who either has had
+or will have the same problem.  It's usually helpful if you send the
+output of the "myconfig" script in the main perl directory.
 
 If you've succeeded in compiling perl, the perlbug script in the utils/
 subdirectory can be used to help mail in a bug report.