From: Jim Cromie <jcromie@cpan.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:33:23 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: [doc-patch] clarify -Accflags in INSTALL
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[doc-patch] clarify -Accflags in INSTALL
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 95c8033..1b36454 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -334,6 +334,11 @@ invocations:
 
 	sh Configure -Accflags="-DPERL_EXTERNAL_GLOB -DPERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC"
 
+To clarify, those ccflags values are not Configure options; if passed to
+Configure directly, they won't do anything useful (that will define a config.sh
+variable, but without taking any action based upon it).  When passed to the
+compiler, those flags will activate #ifdefd code.
+
 For more help on Configure switches, run
 
 	sh Configure -h