From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 20:37:50 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Document in INSTALL that -Uinstallusrbinperl is now the default. X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7d56c9621621869050678bf37a642f7af3dae319;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Document in INSTALL that -Uinstallusrbinperl is now the default. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@20396 --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index f3238c2..200041e 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -321,12 +321,14 @@ find it. It's often a good idea to have both /usr/bin/perl and careful, however, not to overwrite a version of perl supplied by your vendor unless you are sure you know what you are doing. -By default, Configure will arrange for /usr/bin/perl to be linked to -the current version of perl. You can turn off that behavior by running +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 - Configure -Uinstallusrbinperl + Configure -Dinstallusrbinperl -or by answering 'no' to the appropriate Configure prompt. +or by answering 'yes' to the appropriate Configure prompt. +(Note that before perl 5.8.1, the default behavior was to create +or overwrite /usr/bin/perl even if it already existed.) In any case, system administrators are strongly encouraged to put (symlinks to) perl and its accompanying utilities, such as perldoc,