additional INSTALL notes from Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>

on semget failure in t/lib/ipc_sysv.t

p4raw-id: //depot/maint-5.005/perl@1742

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 8360e1d..a892e7d 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1210,6 +1210,14 @@ V IPC may be broken.  The XX typically is 20, and that is what ZZZ
 also should be.  Consider upgrading your OS, or reconfiguring your OS
 to include the System V semaphores.
 
+=item lib/ipc_sysv........semget: No space left on device
+
+Either your account or the whole system has run out of semaphores.  Or
+both.  Either list the semaphores with "ipcs" and remove the unneeded
+ones (which ones these are depends on your system and applications)
+with "ipcrm -s SEMAPHORE_ID_HERE" or configure more semaphores to your
+system.
+
 =item Miscellaneous
 
 Some additional things that have been reported for either perl4 or perl5:
@@ -1220,8 +1228,9 @@ NCR Tower 32 (OS 2.01.01) may need -W2,-Sl,2000 and #undef MKDIR.
 
 UTS may need one or more of -DCRIPPLED_CC, -K or -g, and undef LSTAT.
 
-FreeBSD will fail the lib/ipc_sysv.t test if SysV IPC has not been
-configured to the kernel.
+FreeBSD can fail the lib/ipc_sysv.t test if SysV IPC has not been
+configured to the kernel.  Perl tries to detect this, though, and
+you will get a message telling what to do.
 
 If you get syntax errors on '(', try -DCRIPPLED_CC.