On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:54:05AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > It doesn't need to actually be built with support for threads, just to > be linked with -lpthread.
It doesn't but there is no point putting the effort in and not doing so. I have run into a few Perl projects over the years that do require it. > > Once perl is built with thread support you won't need this workaround. > > I'm not sure when this will be done though. Someone was working on this some > > time ago but I don't know how far that effort did go. > > Actual threaded perl support had issues on some arch. There were some issues with rthreads which threaded Perl exposed on alpha but that was fixed awhile ago. AFAIK all of the other archs were fine as is. Its about time this is fixed because this is just getting ridiculous. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
