From 24f415b42b16ca2ea955d5f4fc7cc29cb1fc7054 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Dougherty Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 05:13:29 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] document how to set APPLLIB_EXP Subject: Re: [perl #15957] error installing perl 5.8.0 Message-ID: p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17957 --- Porting/pumpkin.pod | 18 ++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Porting/pumpkin.pod b/Porting/pumpkin.pod index a000108..efb9d26 100644 --- a/Porting/pumpkin.pod +++ b/Porting/pumpkin.pod @@ -1258,12 +1258,18 @@ a mail message from Larry: probably have been named something to do with overriding though. Since it's undocumented we could still change it... :-) -Given that it's already there, you can use it to override -distribution modules. If you do - - sh Configure -Dccflags='-DAPPLLIB_EXP=/my/override' - -then perl.c will put /my/override ahead of ARCHLIB and PRIVLIB. +Given that it's already there, you can use it to override distribution modules. +One way to do that is to add + + ccflags="$ccflags -DAPPLLIB_EXP='"/my/override"' + +to your config.over file. (You have to be particularly careful to get the +double quotes in. It might actually be easier to just #define it +yourself in perl.c.) + +Then perl.c will put /my/override ahead of ARCHLIB and PRIVLIB. Perl will +also search architecture-specific and version-specific subdirectories of +APPLLIB_EXP. =head2 Shared libperl.so location -- 2.7.4