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-rw-r--r--README.hpux16
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 57ac8813b2..52ae8b612d 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1285,20 +1285,6 @@ system's peculiarities. See Porting/pumpkin.pod for more information.
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
diff --git a/README.hpux b/README.hpux
index 4c173ab2ed..49c4ad4bb8 100644
--- a/README.hpux
+++ b/README.hpux
@@ -540,10 +540,18 @@ it is known to fail with 64-bit versions of GCC.
=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