Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:56:49 +0200 From: Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl WITH_THREADS= yes or no? Message-ID: <485A81C1.8010701@supsi.ch> In-Reply-To: <20080619155210.GA68405@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20080619155210.GA68405@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk>
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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 break other applications requiring perl. So, if not a requirement, I'd stick with perl without threads. Best regards. -- Robi Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > 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 threads? > For example, can ImageMagick post-build test failures (using PerlMagick, > perl5.8.8 exited on signal 11) be related to the fact that perl is installed > with no threaded support? > > many thanks > anton > >
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