In metaconfig.git, the branch master has been updated <http://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git/commitdiff/0b7e7a7b778dc7d1d4b04d8743903e8bb138dd05?hp=e12008a583a53f636ff09b735d6251da11eccf15>
- Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- commit 0b7e7a7b778dc7d1d4b04d8743903e8bb138dd05 Author: H.Merijn Brand - Tux <[email protected]> Date: Thu Jul 28 17:37:13 2016 +0200 Configure: clarify "version-specific" Backport of commit 6baaafe34b15a5bbc05abd45b1b00f684654bb25 Author: Dan Collins <[email protected]> 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: U/perl/versiononly.U | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/U/perl/versiononly.U b/U/perl/versiononly.U index 340b113..fb4752d 100644 --- a/U/perl/versiononly.U +++ b/U/perl/versiononly.U @@ -28,17 +28,21 @@ ?LINT:change inc_version_list ?LINT:extern inc_version_list_init ?LINT:change inc_version_list_init -: determine whether to only install version-specific parts. +?LINT:extern version +: 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";; -- perl5 metaconfig repository
