Every so often I install perl locally, using more or less the folllowing thread, minus the -Duseithreads bit.

Now I want to compile perl with threads, so the -Duseithreads bit is in there. But doesn't work. I've tried this a couple ways: -Dusethreads and -Duseithreads. It compiles, but when I try to use it with threads, it says I didn't compile it with threads. After like half an hour of churning.

What am I doing wrong? Am I not supposed to repeat the "-D" bit (right now I have it twice, once for specifying the local directory, once for the ithreads bit).

Also, is there a difference between -Dusethreads and -Duseithreads?

Thanks! 

angebote@debian:/usr/angebote/thartman$ cat install-local-threaded-per
+l.sh
(
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.8.ta
+r.gz
tar -xzvf perl-5.8.8.tar.gz
cd perl-5.8.8
sh Configure -Dprefix=/usr/angebote/thartman/perlroot/perl -Duseithrea
+ds -des #make this your home directory
make test
make install
) | tee perlinstall.out
angebote@debian:/usr/angebote/thartman$

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In reply to configuration options for local perl install with threads by tphyahoo

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