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[perl5.git] / Porting / pumpkin.pod

diff --git a/Porting/pumpkin.pod b/Porting/pumpkin.pod
index 89c5a46..69da88b 100644 (file)
--- a/Porting/pumpkin.pod
+++ b/Porting/pumpkin.pod
@@ -651,42 +651,6 @@ things.
 
 =back
 
-=head1 Running Purify
-
-Purify is a commercial tool that is helpful in identifying memory
-overruns, wild pointers, memory leaks and other such badness.  Perl
-must be compiled in a specific way for optimal testing with Purify.
-
-Use the following commands to test perl with Purify:
-
-       sh Configure -des -Doptimize=-g -Uusemymalloc \
-            -Dusemultiplicity -Accflags=-DPURIFY
-       setenv PURIFYOPTIONS "-chain-length=25"
-       make all pureperl
-       cd t
-       ln -s ../pureperl perl
-       setenv PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL 2
-       ./perl TEST
-
-Disabling Perl's malloc allows Purify to monitor allocations and leaks
-more closely; using Perl's malloc will make Purify report most leaks
-in the "potential" leaks category.  Enabling the multiplicity option
-allows perl to clean up thoroughly when the interpreter shuts down, which
-reduces the number of bogus leak reports from Purify.  The -DPURIFY
-enables any Purify-specific debugging code in the sources.
-
-Purify outputs messages in "Viewer" windows by default.  If you don't have
-a windowing environment or if you simply want the Purify output to
-unobtrusively go to a log file instead of to the interactive window,
-use the following options instead:
-
-       setenv PURIFYOPTIONS "-chain-length=25 -windows=no \
-            -log-file=perl.log -append-logfile=yes"
-
-The only currently known leaks happen when there are compile-time errors
-within eval or require.  (Fixing these is non-trivial, unfortunately, but
-they must be fixed eventually.)
-
 =head1 Common Gotchas
 
 =over 4
@@ -1165,10 +1129,6 @@ out http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html ).
 =head1 Help Save the World
 
 You should definitely announce your patch on the perl5-porters list.
-You should also consider announcing your patch on
-comp.lang.perl.announce, though you should make it quite clear that a
-subversion is not a production release, and be prepared to deal with
-people who will not read your disclaimer.
 
 =head1 Todo
 
@@ -1301,12 +1261,6 @@ I've received sensible suggestions for --exec_prefix and other
 GNU configure --options.  It's not always obvious exactly what is
 intended, but this merits investigation.
 
-=item make clean
-
-Currently, B<make clean> isn't all that useful, though
-B<make realclean> and B<make distclean> are.  This needs a bit of
-thought and documentation before it gets cleaned up.
-
 =item Try gcc if cc fails
 
 Currently, we just give up.
@@ -1423,7 +1377,7 @@ The files of Perl source code distribution do carry a lot of
 copyrights, by various people.  (There are many copyrights embedded in
 perl.c, for example.)  The most straightforward thing for pumpkings to
 do is to simply update Larry's copyrights at the beginning of the
-*.[hcy], x2p/*.[hcy], *.pl, and README files, and leave all other
+*.[hcy], *.pl, and README files, and leave all other
 copyrights alone.  Doing more than that requires quite a bit of tracking. 
 
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