reword release announcement template

[perl5.git] / Porting / release_managers_guide.pod

diff --git a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
index 3190c21..206887d 100644 (file)
--- 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
+
+=item *
+
+C<-Duseshrplib -Dusesitecustomize>
+
+=item *
 
-XXX think of other configurations that need testing.
+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
 
@@ -687,6 +699,13 @@ Be sure to commit your change:
 
     $ git commit -m 'bump version to RCnnn' patchlevel.h
 
+=head3 run makemeta to update META files
+
+    $ perl Porting/makemeta
+
+Be sure to commit any changes (if applicable):
+
+    $ git commit -m 'Update META files' META.*
 
 =head3 build, test and check a fresh perl