That depends on what you want to do.

If I were you, I'd trim it down to the simplest code that exhibits the behavior, and file a bug report with perlbug. If you were feeling especially noble, you could download the latest Perl snapshot (see perlhack) and test it there.

With 5.6.1, you might not get a lot of thread help. 5.8 will be much, much better in that regard.

If it works with threaded 5.5.3 but not 5.6.1, you're probably running into thread model differences that happened in 5.6.0. perldelta may be your friend then.

In reply to Re: Help building embedded threaded perl 5.6.1 (was: Stanley Hopcroft) by chromatic
in thread Help building embedded threaded perl 5.6.1 (was: Stanley Hopcroft) by Anonymous Monk

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