# Installation prefixes. Allow a Configure -D override. You
# may wish to reinstall perl under a different prefix, perhaps
# in order to test a different configuration.
+# For an explanation of the installation directories, see the
+# INSTALL file section on "Installation Directories".
case "\$prefix" in
'') prefix='$prefix' ;;
esac
# this too is handled automatically by Configure based on
# $installprefix, so it isn't included here either.
#
+# Note also that there are three broad hierarchies of installation
+# directories, as discussed in the INSTALL file under
+# "Installation Directories":
+#
+# =item Directories for the perl distribution
+#
+# =item Directories for site-specific add-on files
+#
+# =item Directories for vendor-supplied add-on files
+#
# See Porting/Glossary for the definitions of these names, and see the
-# INSTALL file for some examples.
+# INSTALL file for further explanation and some examples.
#
# In each case, if your previous value was the default, leave it commented
# out. That way, if you override prefix, all of these will be
html1dir) dflt='' ;;
htm31dir) dflt='' ;;
- # Site-specific add-ons.
+ # Directories for site-specific add-on files
sitebin) dflt=$siteprefix/bin ;;
# The scriptdir test is more complex, but this is probably usually ok.
sitescriptdir)
sitehtml1dir) dflt='' ;;
sitehtm31dir) dflt='' ;;
- # Vendor-specific add-ons. These are all usually empty.
+ # Directories for vendor-supplied add-on files
+ # These are all usually empty.
vendor*)
if test X"$vendorprefix" = X""; then
dflt=''
# The original design for this Policy.sh file came from Wayne Davison,
# maintainer of trn.
# This version for Perl5.004_61 originally written by
-# Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>.
+# Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>.
# This file may be distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.