From: H.Merijn Brand Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 10:09:34 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Moved really outdated Y2K comment from INSTALL to README.hpux X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bbe8372978680ed3788dc9752a23b00b0bca8736;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Moved really outdated Y2K comment from INSTALL to README.hpux p4raw-id: //depot/perl@31832 --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 52ae8b6..4987f73 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1675,12 +1675,6 @@ FreeBSD can fail the ext/IPC/SysV/t/sem.t test if SysV IPC has not been configured in the kernel. Perl tries to detect this, though, and you will get a message telling you what to do. -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). - Building Perl on a system that has also BIND (headers and libraries) installed may run into troubles because BIND installs its own netdb.h and socket.h, which may not agree with the operating system's ideas of diff --git a/README.hpux b/README.hpux index 49c4ad4..f1e1fea 100644 --- a/README.hpux +++ b/README.hpux @@ -622,15 +622,24 @@ bug seems to be to create add to the file F 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 H.Merijn Brand +Jeff Okamoto 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