From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 21 22:11:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from user3.dancris.com (user3.dancris.com [204.177.80.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6919A14D5C for ; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 22:11:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from p@dancris.com) Received: from dancris.com (ip-81-113.phx.dialup.dancris.com [204.177.81.113]) by user3.dancris.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA15747; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 23:11:31 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <36F5DD00.14654B0A@dancris.com> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 23:02:42 -0700 From: Peter J Jones X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anton Berezin , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: undefined reference to References: <36F36AEA.F08D644D@dancris.com> <86iubvgbq1.fsf@lion.plab.ku.dk> <36F44255.739D6EC1@dancris.com> <861ziig63q.fsf@lion.plab.ku.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message