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Date:      Sun, 21 Mar 1999 23:02:42 -0700
From:      Peter J Jones <p@dancris.com>
To:        Anton Berezin <tobez@plab.ku.dk>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: undefined reference to
Message-ID:  <36F5DD00.14654B0A@dancris.com>
References:  <36F36AEA.F08D644D@dancris.com> <86iubvgbq1.fsf@lion.plab.ku.dk> <36F44255.739D6EC1@dancris.com> <861ziig63q.fsf@lion.plab.ku.dk>

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Anton Berezin wrote:

> Ahhha!  That's a different story.  I must say that I am unfortunately
> not aware about any successful compilations of 5.005_02 on FreeBSD
> with threads enabled.  I suspect it is next to impossible unless
> you'll tweak hints/freebsd.sh _a_lot_.  I know what I am talking about
> because my patches to this file went into 5.005_03-MAINT_TRIAL_6 and
> into 5.005_56.
>
> So, if you _really_ need threaded Perl on FreeBSD (btw, why?  FreeBSD
> has only user level threads so don't expect any perfomance gain;
> threads support in recent and decent Perls is still considered to be
> an experimental feature; there are certain problems with them), I
> would recommend you to try 5.005_03_MT6, which _does_ compile with
> threads support, out-of-the-box, on FreeBSD 2.2.8, 3.0, 3.1 & 4.0.
>
> Though this release is just ``maintenance trial'', it is anyway more
> stable than 5.005_02, with quite a bunch of problems fixed.  Or,
> alternatively, wait a couple of weeks until real 5.005_03 will be
> released.

Thanks, that worked great.

Just for reference, Perl 5.005_002 gave me those errors even when I did
not try to use threads. It did no matter what config options that I used
it always got all those linker errors when linking the B libs.

Thanks again...

Peter



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