in unpack, () groups in scalar context were still returning a list,

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / README.hpux

diff --git a/README.hpux b/README.hpux
index 4c173ab..d95d5eb 100644 (file)
--- 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
 
@@ -551,25 +559,6 @@ If you are compiling Perl on a remotely-mounted NFS filesystem, the test
 io/fs.t may fail on test #18.  This appears to be a bug in HP-UX and no
 fix is currently available.
 
-=head2 perl -P and // and HP-UX
-
-If HP-UX Perl is compiled with flags that will cause problems if the
--P flag of Perl (preprocess Perl code with the C preprocessor before
-perl sees it) is used.  The problem is that C<//>, being a C++-style
-until-end-of-line comment, will disappear along with the remainder
-of the line.  This means that common Perl constructs like
-
-  s/foo//;
-
-will turn into illegal code
-
-  s/foo
-
-The workaround is to use some other quoting separator than C<"/">,
-like for example C<"!">:
-
-  s!foo!!;
-
 =head2 HP-UX Kernel Parameters (maxdsiz) for Compiling Perl
 
 By default, HP-UX comes configured with a maximum data segment size of
@@ -614,15 +603,24 @@ bug seems to be to create add to the file F</etc/nsswitch.conf>
 Whether you are using NIS does not matter.  Amazingly enough,
 the same bug also affects Solaris.
 
+=head1 Miscellaneous
+
+HP-UX 11 Y2K patch "Y2K-1100 B.11.00.B0125 HP-UX Core OS Year 2000
+Patch Bundle" has been reported to break the io/fs test #18 which
+tests whether utime() can change timestamps.  The Y2K patch seems to
+break utime() so that over NFS the timestamps do not get changed
+(on local filesystems utime() still works). This has probably been
+fixed on your system by now.
+
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
-Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@corp.hp.com>
 H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
+Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@corp.hp.com>
 
 With much assistance regarding shared libraries from Marc Sabatella.
 
 =head1 DATE
 
-Version 0.7.9: 2007-03-14
+Version 0.8.0: 2007-09-09
 
 =cut