Change 34740 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2008/11/05 21:56:10
But I can always wordsmith it further.
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--- perl/pod/perl589delta.pod#19~34739~ 2008-11-05 13:50:10.000000000 -0800
+++ perl/pod/perl589delta.pod 2008-11-05 13:56:10.000000000 -0800
@@ -1134,8 +1134,8 @@
=head2 Relocatable installations
There is now Configure support for creating a relocatable perl tree. If
-you Configure with C<-Duserelocatableinc>, then the paths in @INC (and
-everything else in %Config) can be optionally located via the path of the
+you Configure with C<-Duserelocatableinc>, then the paths in C<@INC> (and
+everything else in C<%Config>) can be optionally located via the path of the
F<perl> executable.
At start time, if any paths in C<@INC> or C<Config> that C<Configure> marked
@@ -1149,7 +1149,7 @@
C<Configure> is now better at removing temporary files. Tom Callaway
(from RedHat) also contributed patches that completes the set of flags
-passed to the compiler and the linker. Especially, C<-fPIC> is now
+passed to the compiler and the linker, in particular that C<-fPIC> is now
enabled on Linux. It will also croak when your F</dev/null> isn't a device.
A new configutation variable C<d_pseudofork> has been to C<Configure>, and is
@@ -1171,7 +1171,7 @@
warning in C<S_emulate_eaccess()> was killed after six attempts.
F<g++> support has been tuned, especially for FreeBSD.
-mkppport has been integrated, and all F<ppport.h> files in the core will now
+F<mkppport> has been integrated, and all F<ppport.h> files in the core will now
be autogenerated at build time (and removed during cleanup).
=head2 Installation improvements.
@@ -1185,7 +1185,7 @@
=item *
static library files of statically linked extensions when a shared perl library
-is being used. (They are not needed, also see L<Windows> specific reasons).
+is being used. (They are not needed. See L</Windows> below).
=item *
@@ -1213,10 +1213,9 @@
=item *
-Drop C<-std=c89> and C<-ansi> if using C<long long> as the main integral type.
-
-In FreeBSD 6.2 (and perhaps other releases), headers do not declare a required
-function if this is not done.
+Drop C<-std=c89> and C<-ansi> if using C<long long> as the main integral type,
+else in FreeBSD 6.2 (and perhaps other releases), headers do not declare some
+functions required required by perl.
=back
@@ -1228,9 +1227,8 @@
Starting with Solaris 10, we do not want versioned shared libraries, because
those often indicate a private use only library. These problems could often
-be triggered when L<SUNWbdb> (Berkeley DB) was installed.
-
-If Solaris 10 is detected set C<ignore_versioned_solibs=y>.
+be triggered when L<SUNWbdb> (Berkeley DB) was installed. Hence if Solaris 10
+is detected set C<ignore_versioned_solibs=y>.
=back
End of Patch.
