Hello fellow Monks,

Whilst I realise this request for help is not a "pure" Perl question per se I hope I do not encourage the wrath of my peers. I have tried Super Search and not surprisingly received no usable answers.

I am running a server using Debian (2.4.20-1-686 Sarge) with Perl 5.8.0, whilst trying to install another bit of needed software for a project the 'configure' installation script aborts when it checks to see if Perl is "thread-enabled": 

wcms:/home/barrd/interchange-4.9.8# ./configure
[..] (working fine, then...)
Interchange will not work with a thread-enabled perl.
[..] (more errors various but non related)

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Whilst being able to code Perl I have no inkling at all of how to manipulate what's "under the hood" and believe I need to recompile Perl with "threading" off. I have checked both Google and the software in question's websites to no avail (as well as many others). It appears to be something "you either know how to do", or "don't". Unfortuantley I fall squarely in the latter. ;)

A quick look at perl -V produced: 

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuratio
+n:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.4.19, archname=i386-linux-thread-multi
    uname='linux cyberhq 2.4.19 #1 smp sun aug 4 11:30:45 pdt 2002 i68
+6 unknown unknown gnulinux '
    config_args='-Dusethreads...
[..]
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES PERL
+_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
[..]

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All well and good, but how (and where) do I turn threading off? Any help/pointers would be very much appreciated at this point.

barrd

In reply to Recompiling a non 'thread-enabled' version of Perl (5.8.0) by barrd

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