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| -rw-r--r-- | Porting/release_managers_guide.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod index a1680ec22e..ab5380d474 100644 --- a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod +++ b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod @@ -674,7 +674,13 @@ C</tmp/perl-5.x.y-pretest/bin/perl -V> are as expected, especially as regards version numbers, patch and/or RC levels, and @INC paths. Note that as they have been been built from a git working directory, they will still identify themselves using git tags and -commits. +commits. (Note that for an odd-numbered version, perl will install +itself as C<perl5.x.y>). C<perl -v> will identify itself as: + + This is perl 5, version X, subversion Y (v5.X.Y (v5.X.Z-NNN-deadbeef)) + +where 5.X.Z is the latest tag, Z the number of commits since this tag, +and C<< deadbeef >> commit of that tag. Then delete the temporary installation. |