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Bohan, Larry wrote:
> while we're here, could one of y'all perhaps
> elaborate on the choice of "-Dusedevel" ?
>
> Is it mostly to step past/skip warnings inre
> "this is a dev kit, beware"? or ....?
Yes it does that when we are in a dev release, but as Peter pointed out, we are
technically in Release Candidate territory, so that is no longer valid. Under a
more *nix-like environment, "Dusedevel" also sets some flags so that if you
'make install' it won't stomp all over your existing installation; it installs
everything in version specific directories and does not update the main
executable 'perl' to point at the new install. For VMS, however, this is a moot
point ('mmk install' is not implemented like that), so it is not needed at all now.
John
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