How / where to get a Perl that has threads?

[Oren Maurer]

Is there a reason for not having threaded Perl as the default?
Is it matter of History (compatibility with past code)?
Or internal FreeBSD reason (memory)?

I have seen other OS's - that do use threaded Perl as default (Linux, MSWin32).

But in all of those OS's I have Perl 5.10. (hint .... hint....)

I hope that when Perl 5.10 port will be available for FreeBSD - It
will be threaded.

      Oren.

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Matthew Seaman
<m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> Oren Maurer wrote:
>>
>> Hello all.
>>
>> As I'm new to this list - please forgive me for a newbie questions
>> (but I promise to at least try to first Google and search this list
>> archives).
>>
>> In short:
>> I have FreeBSD 7.1.
>>
>> It seems to have Perl without threads . And I do need threads.
>> How can I get it?
>
> You have to re-install perl from ports and you have to select the config
> option that says 'build a perl with threads'.  Note that if you're using
> other applications that embed a perl interpreter (mod_perl, snmpd) they
> may not work correctly with a threaded perl.  At minimum you'll have to
> recompile them.  Similarly perl modules that use .xs to generate compiled
> loadable objects may also need recompilation or may not work at all. Best to
> test this out thoroughly on a spare machine before you put it on
> anything production.
>
>   # cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8
>   # make config
>          Ensure the THREADS option is checked in the dialogue:
>         [X] THREADS        Build threaded perl
>   # portupgrade -f lang/perl5.8
>
> To ensure *everything* is recompiled against the new threaded perl, you
> can do:
>
>   # portupgrade -fr lang/perl5.8
>
> but be warned: that is basically going to recompile virtually every port
> you've got installed which will take approximately forever and is really
> overkill.  There's no reason to recompile ports whose only dependency on
> perl is because they use automake at compile time.  Nor is there any reason
> to reinstall pure-perl modules.
>
>        Cheers,
>
>        Matthew
>
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