From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 15:58:07 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 E68D21065671 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:58:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch) Received: from ti-edu.ch (posta.ti-edu.ch [195.176.176.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C3358FC1B for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:58:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch) X-Virus-Scanned: by cgpav Received: from [193.5.152.27] (HELO [127.0.0.1]) by ti-edu.ch (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.3) with ESMTP id 26734090 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:58:04 +0200 Message-ID: <485A81C1.8010701@supsi.ch> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:56:49 +0200 From: Roberto Nunnari User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20080619155210.GA68405@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080619155210.GA68405@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 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 15:58:08 -0000 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 > >