From cd4d06f19a64e474738f1a73548c350544b56fe4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 00:45:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Move the obsolete README.threads out of sight to ext/Threads; save one part of the IRIX knowledge in INSTALL (though IRIX 6.2 is quite old...) p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16995 --- INSTALL | 12 ++++++++++++ MANIFEST | 2 +- README.threads => ext/Thread/README.threads | 0 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) rename README.threads => ext/Thread/README.threads (100%) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index f5c2f2f..01a7e79 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -727,6 +727,18 @@ If you decide to use ithreads, the 'threads' module allows their use, and the 'Thread' module offers an interface to both 5005threads and ithreads (whichever has been configured). +For IRIX 6.2, you have to have the following patches installed: + + 1404 Irix 6.2 Posix 1003.1b man pages + 1645 IRIX 6.2 & 6.3 POSIX header file updates + 2000 Irix 6.2 Posix 1003.1b support modules + 2254 Pthread library fixes + 2401 6.2 all platform kernel rollup + +IMPORTANT: Without patch 2401, a kernel bug in IRIX 6.2 will cause +your machine to panic and crash when running threaded perl. IRIX 6.3 +and later are okay. + =head2 Large file support. Since Perl 5.6.0, Perl has supported large files (files larger than diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST index efb5c20..c4d3575 100644 --- a/MANIFEST +++ b/MANIFEST @@ -649,6 +649,7 @@ ext/Thread/Makefile.PL Thread extension makefile writer ext/Thread/Notes Thread notes ext/Thread/queue.tx Test Thread::Queue module ext/Thread/README Thread README +ext/Thread/README.threads Notes about multithreading ext/Thread/specific.tx Test thread-specific user data ext/Thread/sync.tx Test thread synchronisation ext/Thread/sync2.tx Test thread synchronisation @@ -2260,7 +2261,6 @@ README.os390 Notes about OS/390 (nee MVS) port README.plan9 Notes about Plan9 port README.qnx Notes about QNX port README.solaris Notes about Solaris port -README.threads Notes about multithreading README.tru64 Notes about Tru64 README.tw About using Perl and Traditional Chinese README.uts Notes about UTS diff --git a/README.threads b/ext/Thread/README.threads similarity index 100% rename from README.threads rename to ext/Thread/README.threads -- 2.7.4