Change 31831 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2007/09/09 09:54:38
Merged duplicate info about GDBM/threads on HP-UX 11
from INSTALL to README.hpux
Affected files ...
... //depot/perl/INSTALL#176 edit
... //depot/perl/README.hpux#57 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/perl/INSTALL#176 (text) ====
Index: perl/INSTALL
--- perl/INSTALL#175~31828~ 2007-09-09 02:18:12.000000000 -0700
+++ perl/INSTALL 2007-09-09 02:54:38.000000000 -0700
@@ -1285,20 +1285,6 @@
You'll probably also have to extensively modify the extension building
mechanism.
-=item HP-UX 11, pthreads, and libgdbm
-
-If you are running Configure with -Dusethreads in HP-UX 11, be warned
-that POSIX threads and libgdbm (the GNU dbm library) compiled before
-HP-UX 11 do not mix. This will cause a basic test run by Configure to
-fail
-
-Pthread internal error: message: __libc_reinit() failed, file:
../pthreads/pthread.c, line: 1096
-Return Pointer is 0xc082bf33
-sh: 5345 Quit(coredump)
-
-and Configure will give up. The cure is to recompile and install
-libgdbm under HP-UX 11.
-
=item Porting information
Specific information for the OS/2, Plan 9, VMS and Win32 ports is in the
==== //depot/perl/README.hpux#57 (text) ====
Index: perl/README.hpux
--- perl/README.hpux#56~30770~ 2007-03-26 23:15:21.000000000 -0700
+++ perl/README.hpux 2007-09-09 02:54:38.000000000 -0700
@@ -540,10 +540,18 @@
=head2 GDBM and Threads on HP-UX
-If you attempt to compile Perl with threads on an 11.X system and also
-link in the GDBM library, then Perl will immediately core dump when it
-starts up. The only workaround at this point is to relink the GDBM
-library under 11.X, then relink it into Perl.
+If you attempt to compile Perl with (POSIX) threads on an 11.X system
+and also link in the GDBM library, then Perl will immediately core dump
+when it starts up. The only workaround at this point is to relink the
+GDBM library under 11.X, then relink it into Perl.
+
+the error might show something like:
+
+Pthread internal error: message: __libc_reinit() failed, file:
../pthreads/pthread.c, line: 1096
+Return Pointer is 0xc082bf33
+sh: 5345 Quit(coredump)
+
+and Configure will give up.
=head2 NFS filesystems and utime(2) on HP-UX
End of Patch.
