perl WITH_THREADS= yes or no?

2008-06-19 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Should I build ports/lang/perl5.8 WITH_THREADS=yes ? I run FreeBSD-7.0-stable on old compaq armada1700 laptop. I don't use perl myself much, but many ports I use rely on it. How will this affect performance of perl on my laptop? More to the point, are there any ports which require perl with

Re: perl WITH_THREADS= yes or no?

2008-06-19 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Hi Anton. I'm no expert here, but I found that installing perl without threads works for the vast majority of ports. In one occasion I needed to recompile perl with thread because another port required so. Also, I remember that using WITH_THREADS=yes came together with a warning that it could