Merged duplicate info about GDBM/threads on HP-UX 11

from INSTALL to README.hpux

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@31831

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 57ac881..52ae8b6 100644 (file)
--- 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 4c173ab..49c4ad4 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