Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 21:34:30 GMT From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, mexas@bristol.ac.uk, swills@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: lang/perl5.16: threaded perl vs -pthread? Message-ID: <201302092134.r19LYUoC046250@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <5115AC25.7060208@FreeBSD.org>
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From swills@freebsd.org Sat Feb 9 02:32:10 2013 On 02/08/13 20:59, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > What is the difference between building lang/perl5.16 > with > Build threaded perl > vs > Build with -pthread > > on amd64? > > What if I choose both options? > The point of the -pthread option is to ensure that perl doesn't hang when you load a perl module which dlopens a threaded lib. You really want this. Threaded perl is completely different. You probably don't want this unless you know what you're doing. The two are not incompatible. The defaults were chosen wisely, for good reasons. Steve Ok, thanks, I'll stick to the default. Anton
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