[ic] interchange and thread enabled Perl

[Toni Mueller]

Hello,

I just wanted to play with the latest interchange nightly, and got
an error message from 'configure':

	"Interchange will not work with a thread-enabled perl."

Tested with Interchange 4.9.7-200304140658 and perl 5.8.0-17 (on i386).

Digging in the mailing list archives revealed that there was a
discussion about this around September last year, but there
was little in the way of real reasoning and/or results explaining
_why_ the problems occur, or where.
Also, there seems to be no Perl 5.8.1, which was recommended
to use, available...

I guess that thread enabled Perl will become more common in the
near future.

Before grabbing the Perl source and rolling my own, what is the
suggested course of action here?

A quick overview on the current state of affairs would be very nice.

Thank you!


Best,
--Toni++