perl WITH_THREADS= yes or no?

[Roberto Nunnari]

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
>  
>