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

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index f5c2f2f..01a7e79 100644 (file)
--- 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 (file)
--- 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