-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 23.11.2013 23:25, schrieb Matthew Seaman: > On 23/11/2013 22:12, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >>> and you will thus need to recompile all ports that depend on Perl. >> This is the part that is still utterly baffling. >> >> Why would _anything_ that is in any way dependent upon the Perl interpreter >> need to be rebuilt? In this switch to threads=on, has the language itself >> changed? And if not, shouldn't the change to multi-threading capability >> within the interpreter be utterly transparent to (and a non-event for) >> any and all pre-existing Perl code? >> >> Obviously, there's something that I'm missing, but I have no idea what it >> might be. > > Technically, you don't actually need to recompile something that's pure > perl, or that only requires perl to run some scripts. However > everything that has a binary interface with perl -- XS modules, software > with embedded perl interpreters -- certainly will need recompiling to > match the new threaded ABI that has now become the default. > > The advice to 'recompile everything that depends on perl' is overkill, > but it's a simple way to be sure that you have in fact recompiled > everything necessary. Picking out only those ports that really needed > to be recompiled would require a procedure too unweildy to be usefully > described in UPDATING.
Well, we might want to revive a Makefile target or script that helped with that. If we have that in place, perhaps as separate perl-upgrade-helper port, we don't need lengthy fragile explanations... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlKS7/EACgkQvmGDOQUufZXlgwCeK/ddZ9nWPVTzZltLqutKYPVH Io8AnjuXprpF3hL36Wknpi5PrKrj0a5h =du2J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
