(Replaced by #4265.)

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / lib / ExtUtils / MakeMaker.pm

diff --git a/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm b/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
index 6fe9339..0f00e39 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+++ b/lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
@@ -250,6 +250,7 @@ sub full_setup {
     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
@@ -481,7 +482,7 @@ sub ExtUtils::MakeMaker::new {
            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]
@@ -1480,10 +1481,38 @@ Directory to hold the man pages at 'make' time
 =item INST_SCRIPT
 
 Directory, where executable files should be installed during
-'make'. Defaults to "./blib/bin", just to have a dummy location during
+'make'. Defaults to "./blib/script", just to have a dummy location during
 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