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Re: Is it safe to rebuild perl with thread support ?

From: Todd C. Miller (Todd.Millercourtesan.com)
Date: Mon Nov 01 2004 - 15:37:47 CST


In message <41857653.3080805coolspot.de>
        so spake Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens (ssc):

> Is it safe to enable thread support for perl
> in it's makefile and simple over-install it ?

Yes, if you don't mind rebuilding any perl xs modules you
have installed.

> Is threaded perl on i386 stable ?

Seems to be for me. However, you will likely need to edit
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/hints/openbsd.sh and change the
    d_getservbyname_r=$undef
line to match OpenBSD 3.6 unless you are running -current.

 - todd