INST_HTMLLIBDIR INST_HTMLSCRIPTDIR
INST_MAN1DIR INST_MAN3DIR INST_SCRIPT LDFROM LIB LIBPERL_A LIBS
LINKTYPE MAKEAPERL MAKEFILE MAN1PODS MAN3PODS MAP_TARGET MYEXTLIB
+ PERL_MALLOC_OK
NAME NEEDS_LINKING NOECHO NORECURS NO_VC OBJECT OPTIMIZE PERL PERLMAINCC
PERL_ARCHLIB PERL_LIB PERL_SRC PERM_RW PERM_RWX
PL_FILES PM PMLIBDIRS POLLUTE PPM_INSTALL_EXEC PPM_INSTALL_SCRIPT PREFIX
else {
$pthinks =~ s!/Config\.pm$!!; $pthinks =~ s!.*/!!;
}
- print STDOUT <<END;
+ print STDOUT <<END unless $self->{UNINSTALLED_PERL};
Your perl and your Config.pm seem to have different ideas about the architecture
they are running on.
Perl thinks: [$pthinks]
testing. make install will copy the files in INST_SCRIPT to
INSTALLSCRIPT.
+=item PERL_MALLOC_OK
+
+defaults to 0. Should be set to TRUE if the extension can work with
+the memory allocation routines substituted by the Perl malloc() subsystem.
+This should be applicable to most extensions with exceptions of those
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+with bugs in memory allocations which are caught by Perl's malloc();
+
+=item *
+
+which interact with the memory allocator in other ways than via
+malloc(), realloc(), free(), calloc(), sbrk() and brk();
+
+=item *
+
+which rely on special alignment which is not provided by Perl's malloc().
+
+=back
+
+B<NOTE.> Negligence to set this flag in I<any one> of loaded extension
+nullifies many advantages of Perl's malloc(), such as better usage of
+system resources, error detection, memory usage reporting, catchable failure
+of memory allocations, etc.
+
=item LDFROM
defaults to "$(OBJECT)" and is used in the ld command to specify