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authorLars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯 <daxim@cpan.org>2010-07-21 10:53:50 +0200
committerFlorian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>2010-07-26 12:47:25 +0200
commit33bb4a44218ade1a7fe78a286569fafa4ab02b7d (patch)
tree7bb98a251498c8acf56902d41b4d08a88b9b9dfe /INSTALL
parent278372729622ff1b3dfc1ecbf1efe8abb7f5b3fa (diff)
downloadperl-33bb4a44218ade1a7fe78a286569fafa4ab02b7d.tar.gz
clarify how to enable -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV
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@@ -500,9 +500,10 @@ to avoid these leaks. The default is now to perform direct manipulation
whenever perl is running as a stand alone interpreter, and to call the safe
but potentially leaky C<putenv()> function when the perl interpreter is
embedded in another application. You can force perl to always use C<putenv()>
-by compiling with -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV. You can force an embedded perl to
-use direct manipulation by setting C<PL_use_safe_putenv = 0;> after the
-C<perl_construct()> call.
+by compiling with C<-Accflags="-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV">, see section
+L</"Altering Configure variables for C compiler switches etc.">.
+You can force an embedded perl to use direct manipulation by setting
+C<PL_use_safe_putenv = 0;> after the C<perl_construct()> call.
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