[oe] Thread-support in perl-native often breaks libintl-perl

Paul Sokolovsky pmiscml at gmail.com
Mon Feb 19 11:27:28 UTC 2007


Hello Jamie,

Wednesday, February 14, 2007, 3:34:42 AM, you wrote:

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> For sh4 I turned on threading for perl which is probably why I didn't
> have this issue. I can't remember if I turned it on because of this
> issue or if I needed it for somethings else. It probably doesn't
> matter much anymore for my situation because I've since rewrote the
> perl management application I was working on in C, so I only use perl
> a lot of simpler things now.

> I agree that we probably need to make perl and perl-native agree on
> this. If everything appears to be ok with it turned off in
> perl-native then I'd be fine with that (and would turn it of for the
> sh4 perl as well.)

  Maybe make that some "global" config option, and have it on by
default after all (after bit of QA of course)? These days, lack of
multithreadedness is a defect, and even while it's Perl, maybe it
shouldn't be crippled such? ;-)  (No, I don't volunteer to do QA on it
;-) ).


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