Perl Kit, Version 5.0
- Copyright (c) 1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994 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
Installation
-1) Detailed instructions are in the file INSTALL. In brief, the
-following should work on most systems:
+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
make
make test
make install
-For most systems, it should be safe to accept all the Configure
-defaults.
+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.)
2) Read the manual entries before running perl.
3) IMPORTANT! Help save the world! Communicate any problems and suggested
-patches to me, lwall@netlabs.com (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.
If possible, send in patches such that the patch program will apply them.
Context diffs are the best, then normal diffs. Don't send ed scripts--