3 If you read this file _as_is_, just ignore the funny characters you
4 see. It is written in the POD format (see pod/perlpod.pod) which is
5 specifically designed to be readable as is.
9 PACKAGING - notes and best practice for packaging perl 5
13 This document is aimed at anyone who is producing their own version of
14 perl for distribution to other users. It is intended as a collection
15 of useful tips, advice and best practice, rather than being a complete
16 packaging manual. The starting point for installing perl remains
19 =head1 Customizing test running
21 A small number of porting tests (those in t/porting) are not well suited
22 to typical distribution packaging scenarios. For example, they assume
23 they are working in a git clone of the upstream Perl repository, or
24 enforce rules which are not relevant to downstream packagers. These can
25 be skipped by setting the environment variable PERL_BUILD_PACKAGING.
26 A complete list of tests which this applied to can be found by searching
27 the codebase for this string.
29 An alternative strategy would be to skip all porting tests, but many of
30 them are useful if additional patches might be applied.
32 =head1 Customizing patchlevel to advertise your local patches
34 You can advertise your custom local patches by using patchlevel.h as a
35 standalone Perl script.
39 perl -x patchlevel.h "This is a custom patch"
41 =head1 Disabling known flapping tests
43 Some tests could fail under heavy load, whereas in most cases
44 they would simply succeed. Usually, continuous integration systems
45 will at one point or the other reach that problem.
47 To disable these known tests, please set the environment