Well, when I try to "use threads;" in my program, I get an error saying it can not find the threads.pm module. Isn't that installed normally with Perl if ithreads is compiled with it? Below is the info on my setting. 
$ perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuratio
+n:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.6, archname=sun4-solaris-thread-multi
    uname='sunos sparky 5.6 generic_105181-35 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-5
+_10 '
    config_args='-des -Dcc=gcc -Dcf_by=ActiveState -Dcf_email=ActivePe
+rl@ActiveState.com -Uinstallusrbinperl -Ud_sigsetjmp -Dusethreads -Du
+seithreads -Ulocincpth= -Uloclibpth= -Dprefix=/usr/local/ActivePerl-5
+.6 -Dinc_version_list=5.6.0/$archname 5.6.0'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemulti
+plicity=define
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags ='-DUSE_REENTRANT_API -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS
+ -D_REENTRANT -fno-strict-aliasing -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET
+_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O',
    cppflags='-DUSE_REENTRANT_API -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -D_REENTR
+ANT -fno-strict-aliasing'
    ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.2 19991024 (release)', gccosandvers
+='solaris2.6'
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1
+6
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
+ lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc', ldflags =' '
    libpth=/usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib /usr/local/lib
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lposix4 -lpthread -lc
    perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lposix4 -lpthread -lc
    libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-G'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES PERL
+_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
  Locally applied patches:
        ActivePerl Build 638
  Built under solaris
  Compiled at Apr 13 2004 17:52:47
  @INC:
    /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.6/lib/5.6.1/sun4-solaris-thread-multi
    /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.6/lib/5.6.1
    /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.6/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris-thread-
+multi
    /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.6/lib/site_perl/5.6.1
    /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.6/lib/site_perl
    .
$

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