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-MacOS Classic (MacPerl has of course been available since
+Mac OS Classic (MacPerl has of course been available since
perl 5.004 but now the source code bases of standard Perl
and MacPerl have been synchronised)
If your file system supports symbolic links you can build Perl outside
of the source directory by
- mkdir /tmp/perl/build/directory
- cd /tmp/perl/build/directory
+ mkdir perl/build/directory
+ cd perl/build/directory
sh /path/to/perl/source/Configure -Dmksymlinks ...
-This will create in /tmp/perl/build/directory a tree of symbolic links
+This will create in perl/build/directory a tree of symbolic links
pointing to files in /path/to/perl/source. The original files are left
unaffected. After Configure has finished you can just say
make all test
-and Perl will be built and tested, all in /tmp/perl/build/directory.
+and Perl will be built and tested, all in perl/build/directory.
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