From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 22:40:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Remove CONFIG item, add Digital UNIX 'ld' bug.
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Remove CONFIG item, add Digital UNIX 'ld' bug.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@3338
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index acb9efd..6ba5b37 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -874,13 +874,6 @@ If none of them help, then see L<"Reporting Problems"> below.
 
 =over 4
 
-=item Environment variable clashes
-
-Configure uses a CONFIG variable that is reported to cause trouble on
-ReliantUnix 5.44.  If your system sets this variable, you can try
-unsetting it before you run Configure.  Configure should eventually
-be fixed to avoid polluting the namespace of the environment.
-
 =item Running Configure Interactively
 
 If Configure runs into trouble, remember that you can always run
@@ -1300,6 +1293,14 @@ 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 miniperl coredumps in Digital UNIX 4.0D
+
+In Digital UNIX 4.0D /bin/ld has a bug that may cause the resulting
+executable (here, miniperl) dump core if shared libraries are being
+used (here, libperl.so).  A workaround is to change the -O4 in the
+ld flags to be -O0.  The solution is either to ask for a patch to
+"QAR 56761", or to upgrade to 4.0E or better.
+
 =item Miscellaneous
 
 Some additional things that have been reported for either perl4 or perl5: