X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=1ea3e7b96792f79ddbc80ce3aeea3db60a3a351f;hb=73c20b238d7378e539b3486e16ad5c6e46696374;hp=719c2fef5fbe19663397ade51596cfaf5923fe21;hpb=2ab493b8297d62f141e099bcdc3d15cfe86fccfd;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 719c2fe..1ea3e7b 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -319,7 +319,15 @@ It may seem obvious, but Perl is useful only when users can easily find it. It's often a good idea to have both /usr/bin/perl and /usr/local/bin/perl be symlinks to the actual binary. Be especially careful, however, not to overwrite a version of perl supplied by your -vendor unless you are sure you know what you are doing. +vendor unless you are sure you know what you are doing. If you insist +on replacing your vendor's perl, useful information on how it was +configured may be found with + + perl -V:config_args + +(Check the output carefully, however, since this doesn't preserve +spaces in arguments to Configure. For that, you have to look +carefully at config_arg1, config_arg2, etc.) By default, Configure will not try to link /usr/bin/perl to the current version of perl. You can turn on that behavior by running @@ -1512,6 +1520,15 @@ explicitly above. This will attempt to make perl in the current directory. +=head2 Expected errors + +These errors are normal, and can be ignored: + + ... + make: [extra.pods] Error 1 (ignored) + ... + make: [extras.make] Error 1 (ignored) + =head2 What if it doesn't work? If you can't compile successfully, try some of the following ideas.