Re: Is it safe to rebuild perl with thread support ?

Wouldn't it be a good idea
to enable threaded-perl by default on archs
which can serv that correctly via a case
in the bsd specific makefile ?
The reason is that I think that many people
(like me) need threaded perl, und perl has
no port itself, so you can't have a "system" and
a "user" perl.
Or would it be better to provide a separate port ?



Todd C. Miller wrote:

>In message <41857653.3080805@coolspot.de>
> so spake Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens (ssc):
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>>Is it safe to enable thread support for perl
>>in it's makefile and simple over-install it ?
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>Yes, if you don't mind rebuilding any perl xs modules you
>have installed.
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>>Is threaded perl on i386 stable ?
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>Seems to be for me. However, you will likely need to edit
>/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/hints/openbsd.sh and change the
> d_getservbyname_r=$undef
>line to match OpenBSD 3.6 unless you are running -current.
>
> - todd