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While I was re-reading INSTALL, I noticed the recommendation to read the README file specific to "your [non-Unix] operating system". There are also several READMEs for Unix operating systems. Here's a suggestion for an addition. Or perhaps the paragraph should just be re- worded (perhaps by changing "If you're building Perl on a non-Unix system" to something like "If you're building Perl on a system that we have a README for"). I wasn't sure whether to give examples of READMEs for Unix systems; I picked three that I thought might be likely to occur in practice. Maybe tru64 could also go there, but I'd imagine that e.g. DG/UX is less common. Maybe it's best to leave the example out: s/, such as Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX//. I used the spelling "flavor" to match the other occurrence of "flavor" in INSTALL, even though I'd spell it "flavour" otherwise. --- INSTALL.orig Fri Jul 20 16:20:24 2001 +++ INSTALL Wed Jul 25 07:12:42 2001 @@ -74,7 +74,10 @@ If you're building Perl on a non-Unix system, you should also read the README file specific to your operating system, since this may -provide additional or different instructions for building Perl. +provide additional or different instructions for building Perl. There +are also README files for several flavors of Unix systems, such as +Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX; if you have one of those systems, you should +also read the README file specific to that system. If there is a hint file for your system (in the hints/ directory) you should also read that hint file for specific information for your End of patch. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@gmx.net>Thread Next