From: John L. Allen Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 14:55:05 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Update README and INSTALL; partly based on the message X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=491517e03c6a5df5aef649456de95bc218ced051;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Update README and INSTALL; partly based on the message To: Jarkko Hietaniemi cc: perl5-porters@perl.org Subject: Re: Perl Installation Problem Message-ID: and private email from Andy Dougherty. p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@3900 --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index c2953b8..4647002 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Install - Build and Installation guide for perl5. The basic steps to build and install perl5 on a Unix system are: rm -f config.sh Policy.sh - sh Configure + sh Configure -de make make test make install @@ -19,6 +19,17 @@ The basic steps to build and install perl5 on a Unix system are: Each of these is explained in further detail below. +The above commands will install Perl to /usr/local or /opt, depending +on the platform. If that's not okay with you, use + + rm -f config.sh Policy.sh + sh Configure + make + make test + make install + +Full configuration instructions can be found in the INSTALL file. + For information on non-Unix systems, see the section on L<"Porting information"> below. @@ -1119,12 +1130,17 @@ libgdbm under HP-UX 11. Specific information for the OS/2, Plan9, VMS and Win32 ports is in the corresponding README files and subdirectories. Additional information, including a glossary of all those config.sh variables, is in the Porting -subdirectory. +subdirectory. Especially Porting/Glossary should come in handy. Ports for other systems may also be available. You should check out http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports for current information on ports to various other operating systems. +If you plan to port Perl to a new architecture study carefully the +section titled "Philosophical Issues in Patching and Porting Perl" +in the file Porting/pumpkin.pod and the file Porting/patching.pod. +Study also how other non-UNIX ports have solved problems. + =back =head1 make depend diff --git a/README b/README index e3ccad4..63ae2e3 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -64,14 +64,27 @@ Installation 1) Detailed instructions are in the file INSTALL which you should read. In brief, the following should work on most systems: - rm -f config.sh - sh Configure + + rm -f config.sh Policy.sh + sh Configure -de make make test make install + For most systems, it should be safe to accept all the Configure defaults. -(It is recommended that you accept the defaults the first time you build -or if you have any problems building.) +It is recommended that you accept the defaults the first time you build +or if you have any problems building. + +The above commands will install Perl to /usr/local or /opt, depending +on the platform. If that's not okay with you, use + + rm -f config.sh Policy.sh + sh Configure + make + make test + make install + +Full configuration instructions can be found in the INSTALL file. 2) Read the manual entries before running perl.