From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 1 15:34:50 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26D901065675 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 15:34:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tobez@tobez.org) Received: from heechee.tobez.org (heechee.tobez.org [194.255.56.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB3948FC15 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 15:34:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tobez@tobez.org) Received: by heechee.tobez.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7E3796D400; Sun, 1 Mar 2009 16:34:48 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 16:34:48 +0100 From: Anton Berezin To: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <20090301153448.GA94320@heechee.tobez.org> References: <49AA6490.7080305@infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49AA6490.7080305@infracaninophile.co.uk> X-Powered-By: FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Cc: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How / where to get a Perl that has threads? X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: maintainer of a number of perl-related ports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:34:50 -0000 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. -- There is no beauty in entropy. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky