From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 15:52:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAD59106566C for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:52:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B7EC8FC28 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:52:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from isis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.63]) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1K9MQl-0004wB-UT for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:52:15 +0100 Received: from mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.184.33]) by isis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1K9MQl-0000zV-2K for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:52:11 +0100 Received: from mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m5JFqAbW068465 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:52:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m5JFqAc0068464 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:52:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:52:10 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080619155210.GA68405@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Spam-Score: -1.4 X-Spam-Level: - Subject: perl WITH_THREADS= yes or no? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:52:16 -0000 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 -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423