As suggested by Arthur: the threads and threads::shared

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index ed8060d..1d27d65 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -328,7 +328,8 @@ If your prefix contains the string "perl", then the suggested
 directory structure is simplified.  For example, if you use
 prefix=/opt/perl, then Configure will suggest /opt/perl/lib instead of
 /opt/perl/lib/perl5/.  Again, see L<"Installation Directories"> below
-for more details.
+for more details.  Do not include a trailing slash, (i.e. /opt/perl/)
+or you may experience odd test failures.
 
 NOTE:  You must not specify an installation directory that is the same
 as or below your perl source directory.  If you do, installperl will
@@ -403,7 +404,8 @@ appropriate questions in Configure.  For convenience, all the
 installation questions are near the beginning of Configure.
 Further, there are a number of additions to the installation
 directories since 5.005, so reusing your old config.sh may not
-be sufficient to put everything where you want it.
+be sufficient to put everything where you want it.  Do not include
+trailing slashes on directory names.
 
 I highly recommend running Configure interactively to be sure it puts
 everything where you want it.  At any point during the Configure
@@ -1918,10 +1920,12 @@ external program.
 
 Several tests in the test suite check timing functions, such as
 sleep(), and see if they return in a reasonable amount of time.
-If your system is quite busy and doesn't return quickly enough,
-these tests might fail.  If possible, try running the tests again with
-the system under a lighter load.  These tests include F<t/op/alarm.t>,
-F<ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.t>, and F<lib/Benchmark.t>.
+If your system is quite busy and doesn't respond quickly enough,
+these tests might fail.  If possible, try running the tests again
+with the system under a lighter load.  These timing-sensitive
+and load-sensitive tests include F<t/op/alarm.t>,
+F<ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.t>, F<lib/Benchmark.t>,
+F<lib/Memoize/t/expmod_t.t>, and F<lib/Memoize/t/speed.t>.
 
 =item Out of memory
 
@@ -2277,6 +2281,13 @@ The following section is meant for people worrying about squeezing the
 Perl installation into minimal systems (for example when installing
 operating systems, or in really small filesystems).
 
+Leaving out as many extensions as possible is an obvious way:
+especially the Encode with its big conversion tables consumes a lot of
+space.  On the other hand, you cannot throw away everything, especially
+the Fcntl module is pretty essential.  If you need to do network
+programming, you'll appreciate the Socket module, and so forth: it all
+depends on what do you need to do.
+
 In the following we offer two different slimmed down installation
 recipes.  They are informative, not normative: the choice of files
 depends on what you need.