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commit 6baaafe34b15a5bbc05abd45b1b00f684654bb25
Author: Dan Collins <dcolli...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Jul 4 15:21:05 2016 -0400
Configure: clarify "version-specific"
This has long been a confusing configure question. It sounds like
it saves time by installing /less/, but really it just installs
binaries with a version number suffix.
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Summary of changes:
Configure | 11 +++++++----
INSTALL | 9 ++++-----
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Configure b/Configure
index d634cdb..944bf66 100755
--- a/Configure
+++ b/Configure
@@ -9395,17 +9395,20 @@ rp='Perl administrator e-mail address'
. ./myread
perladmin="$ans"
-: determine whether to only install version-specific parts.
+: determine whether to use a version number suffix for installed binaries
echo " "
$cat <<EOM
-Do you want to install only the version-specific parts of the perl
-distribution? Usually you do *not* want to do this.
+Do you want to use a version number suffix for installed binaries? This
+will install 'perl$version' instead of 'perl', and likewise for other
+binaries like 'perldoc' and 'cpan'. This allows many versions of perl
+to be installed side-by-side. Unless you are a developer, you probably
+do *not* want to do this.
EOM
case "$versiononly" in
"$define"|[Yy]*|true) dflt='y' ;;
*) dflt='n';
esac
-rp="Do you want to install only the version-specific parts of perl?"
+rp="Do you want to use a version number suffix for installed binaries?"
. ./myread
case "$ans" in
[yY]*) val="$define";;
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 8c7374e..c80017b 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -2285,12 +2285,11 @@ under $archlib so that any user may later build new
modules, run the
optional Perl compiler, or embed the perl interpreter into another
program even if the Perl source is no longer available.
-=head2 Installing only version-specific parts
+=head2 Installing with a version-specific suffix
-Sometimes you only want to install the version-specific parts of the perl
-installation. For example, you may wish to install a newer version of
-perl alongside an already installed production version without
-disabling installation of new modules for the production version.
+Sometimes you only want to install the perl distribution with a
+version-specific suffix. For example, you may wish to install a newer
+version of perl alongside an already installed production version.
To only install the version-specific parts of the perl installation, run
Configure -Dversiononly
--
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