On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 09:30:44AM -0500, Gustafson, Tim wrote: > Is there any way to turn on threaded Perl in the base system, instead of > using the Perl port? I need to use p5-Sendmail-Milter which requires > threads, but I would rather not install the Perl port over the base Perl > installation. Is there any flag I can set in /etc/make.conf that will > configure the base system to install a threaded Perl instead of a > non-threaded one?
No, unfortunately there isn't (at least, not without delving into the
code). Your best and simplest option really is to install
lang/perl5.8. Remember that you need to install it with the
WITH_THREADS make option in order to get a threaded perl. Threading
support in perl-5.005.03 was still quite experimental. Support in a
recent version, like 5.8.5 is much better
Cheers,
Matthew
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