ach ... I actually installed 5.6, not 5.8 ... that kind of explains things.
Many thanks for pointing me the right way!
On 9/1/06, Jan Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Daniel McBrearty wrote:
> > I have a short program that runs OK on a win xp box at work, with
> > latest AS perl ... it starts like this:
> >
> > <snip>
> [...]
> > use Config;
> [...]
> > die "no thread support : $!" unless ($Config{usethreads});
>
> This code should *never* die: $Config{usethreads} should always be
> "define" for ActivePerl, but even when you use a version of Perl
> compiled without threads the value should be "undef" (as a string,
> not the undef value), which also evaluates to true...
>
> > </snip>
> >
> > now I just installed the same build of AS perl on my home laptop, also
> > winxp, and run the program ... I get
> >
> > no thread support :
> >
> > when I run it.
>
> That is really weird. Check what
>
> perl -V:usethreads
> and
> perl -V
>
> are printing to see if you may be running a totally different version
> of Perl than you expect.
>
> Also run
>
> perl -MConfig -eprint$INC{'Config.pm'}
>
> to check if maybe you are picking up a different Config.pm module than
> you think you are.
>
> Cheers,
> -Jan
>
> > Isn't $Config{usethreads} on or off in the actual build of AS perl?
> > WHy would I get an error on one install, not the other?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> >
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