[Padre-dev] "cpan> install Padre'" on FreeBSD 7.1: Padre requires a perl built using threads

[Oren Maurer]

Oh ...  headache

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-perl/2009-March/002094.html

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-perl/2009-March/002095.html


Maybe I'll move to NetBSD.
They do have Perl 5.10 that seems to built as threaded:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/lang/perl5/Makefile

Oren

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Shmuel Fomberg <semuelf at 012.net.il> wrote:
> Gabor Szabo wrote:
>>> -Dusethreads=n -Dusemymalloc=y -Duse64bitint'
>>>    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef
>> You need a perl that has threads. Either you can find one packaged
>> for FreeBSD or you need to compile it yourself.
>
> This is one of the problems I have with the Perl world: non-standard perl.
> When I tried to build Perl from source, the build script question me
> about a lot of things, like if I want threaded perl or not, and a lot of
> other questions.
> I think that Perl's build script need to build a standard Perl by
> default, without a single question. That will minimize the odds of
> encountering Perl 5.8 without threads, as we just saw.
> For the guys that want to speed up a little in the cost of throwing
> features, there should be a man page with a long-long and unfriendly
> list of build switches. Just to make sure that the one that tries to
> build a non-standard Perl really means it.
>
> Of course, I don't know anybody who is remotely connected to the people
> who are in charge of the build script... :-\
>
> Shmuel.
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