Add note to README.md re locally applied patches

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Peter Martini 2015-04-11 14:54:24 -07:00
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The individual Dockerfiles are generated via 'generate.pl', which uses
Releases.yaml to populate the individual files.
For older versions of Perl, some patches may be necessary to build properly on
a current base OS. In those cases, perl -V will show the locally applied patches.
These changes should be limited to Configure rather than to code itself, and
will be a cherry pick or back port of a patch from the mainline perl branch
whenever possible.