[ic] Threaded Perl

Mike Heins interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Jul 2 18:22:00 EDT 2003


Quoting cfm@maine.com (cfm@maine.com):
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 04:04:34PM -0400, Philip S. Hempel wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 11:56, Stefan Hornburg wrote:
> > 
> > <snip>
> > > > 
> > > > I am trying to find if there could be a way that the Perl maintainer for
> > > > Debian would be willing to create at a build with no threads as a
> > > > standard in addition to the threaded version. Hopefully he may go for
> > > > it.
> > > 
> > > Yes, please do this. And report back any results.
> > > 
> > 
> > Bug#199718 is the Debian bug I have put in today.
> > 
> > I hope others who use Debian and IC are willing to do the same. If
> > anyone kkonws of other apps that are affected by the threaded perl in
> > Debian please those of you using Debian please put in a bug report as
> > well.
> 
> 
> It is not that hard to build the debian src package.  It might be a 
> quicker fix to make a small *.deb repository for IC rather than to try
> to get a different version of perl into debian.
> 
> I'd also suggest that if you are not comfortable with above, you are
> asking for a world of hurt trying to maintain a non-standard perl
> in the middle of a packaged system.
> 
> FWIW, minivend 4.03 runs just fine with debian's stock threaded perl.  :-)

So will Interchange if all of the modules you install play nice
with threads...

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Mike Heins
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