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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: All patches applied
Keywords: perl patches configure
Message-ID: <8562@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 2 Jul 90 16:37:01 GMT
References: <541@synopsys.COM>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <541@synopsys.COM> stevej@synopsys.synopsys.com (Steven Jukoff) writes:
: 1. All kits unraveled via 'sh'
: 2. All patches applied, in order, via 'patch -p -N < patch_xx'
: 
: Each patch had instructions, none of which were followed
: as each of the eighteen patches were applied.
: 
: Is it safe to assume that I can compile 'perl' in the 
: "normal manner".  I.e. start with "README", go on to 
: configure, etc.

Should be ok.

: Or did I need to do something between each applied patch?

The directions are basically just a subset of the README file for people
upgrading from the last patchlevel.  If you're doing it from scratch, just
follow the README file.

The best test that you did it right, of course, is getting a clean compile
and clean regression tests.

Larry