In perl.git, the branch autarch/release-5.17.7 has been updated
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commit d8fc5aa0dbe4457e272c68f21b02a57ffa4fa3b7
Author: Dave Rolsky <auta...@urth.org>
Date: Mon Dec 17 14:03:49 2012 -0600
Add more build configurations to test in the RMG
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Summary of changes:
Porting/release_managers_guide.pod | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------
1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
index 3190c21..60eabe7 100644
--- a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
+++ b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
@@ -432,15 +432,27 @@ release (so for 5.15.3 this would be 5.15.2).
=head3 Check more build configurations
-Check some more build configurations.
+Try running the full test suite against multiple Perl configurations. Here are
+some sets of Configure flags you can try:
- $ sh Configure -Dprefix=/tmp/perl-5.x.y -Uinstallusrbinperl \
- -Duseshrplib -Dusesitecustomize
- $ make
- $ make test
+=over 4
-XXX think of other configurations that need testing.
+=item *
+
+C<-Duseshrplib -Dusesitecustomize>
+
+=item *
+
+C<-Duserelocatableinc>
+
+=item *
+
+C<-Dusethreads>
+
+=back
+If you have multiple compilers on your machine, you might also consider
+compiling with C<-Dcc=$other_compiler>.
=head3 update perlport
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