Comments? --- INSTALL 2003-11-05 19:11:18.000000000 +0100 +++ INSTALL.new 2004-01-15 14:38:00.000000000 +0100 @@ -238,6 +238,20 @@ defaults from then on. After it runs, Configure will perform variable substitution on all the *.SH files and offer to run make depend.
+=head2 Disabling older versions of Perl + +Configure will search for binary compatible versions of previously +installed perl binaries in the tree that is specified as target tree +and these will be use by the perl being built. + +To disable use of older perl modules, even completely valid pure perl +modules, you can specify to not include the pathes found: + + sh Configure -Dinc_version_list=none ... + +When using the newer perl, you can add these pathes again in the +$PERL5LIB environment variable or with perl's -I runtime option. + =head2 Altering config.sh variables for C compiler switches etc. For most users, all of the Configure defaults are fine. Configure -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.0, & 5.9.x, and 806 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, 11i, AIX 4.3, SuSE 8.2, and Win2k. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/ http://archives.develooper.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] send smoke reports to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], QA: http://qa.perl.org
