How / where to get a Perl that has threads?

Anton Berezin tobez at tobez.org
Sun Mar 1 07:34:50 PST 2009


On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 10:33:52AM +0000, Matthew Seaman 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'.

Or just make Padre work with devel/p5-forks instead, which is faster, uses
an interface compatible with "use threads", and does not require threaded
Perl.

Cheers,
\Anton.
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