From 712c74cfe1c28eb36a3719bda662274eb549451f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Martini Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 00:53:03 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Added more detail to the README --- README.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 14febb5..abf419b 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2,3 +2,14 @@ docker-perl =========== Dockerfiles for Perl5 + +The structure of this repo is to use the full version ID of each Perl version, +plus a comma separate list of extensions. Every directory is expected to have +at least the bit specification (32bit or 64bit), and at the moment the only +other extension is threaded. + +There are currently no 32bit extensions as Docker does not (yet?) support 32-bit +builds. + +The 64bit builds specify use64bitall despite this being largely redundant +(Configure would properly detect this) to make the desired bit size explicit.