From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:17:36 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Remove description of WHOA THERE messages for recommended hint values, X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=82c11e952a81290003492eb45d32ae6de010ce12;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Remove description of WHOA THERE messages for recommended hint values, removed by change #29288. p4raw-link: @29288 on //depot/perl: dcb594bcd7c2ac9f0d01eff34aab9c6bb8e972c1 p4raw-id: //depot/perl@29334 --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 6fb6665..ff79648 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1366,23 +1366,10 @@ Policy overrides hints -- see L. =item *** WHOA THERE!!! *** -Occasionally, Configure makes a wrong guess. For example, on SunOS -4.1.3, Configure incorrectly concludes that tzname[] is in the -standard C library. The hint file is set up to correct for this. You -will see a message: - - *** WHOA THERE!!! *** - The recommended value for $d_tzname on this machine was "undef"! - Keep the recommended value? [y] - -You should always keep the recommended value unless, after reading the -relevant section of the hint file, you are sure you want to try -overriding it. - -If you are re-using an old config.sh, the word "previous" will be -used instead of "recommended". Again, you will almost always want -to keep the previous value, unless you have changed something on your -system. +If you are re-using an old config.sh, it's possible that Configure detects +different values from the ones specified in this file. You will almost +always want to keep the previous value, unless you have changed something +on your system. For example, suppose you have added libgdbm.a to your system and you decide to reconfigure perl to use GDBM_File. When you run