Rebuilding perl with threads option

neeraj has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have perl 5.8.5 installation on hpux11 box. It was installed by my sys admin. but whenever i run some code which use threds it gives the fooloowing errors:-


$ /usr/local/bin/perl closure
closure line 6:

This Perl hasn't been configured and built properly for the threads
module to work.  (The 'useithreads' configuration option hasn't been u
+sed.)

Having threads support requires all of Perl and all of the XS modules 
+in
the Perl installation to be rebuilt, it is not just a question of addi
+ng
the threads module.  (In other words, threaded and non-threaded Perls
are binary incompatible.)

If you want to the use the threads module, please contact the people
who built your Perl.

Cannot continue, aborting.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.3/PA-RIS
+C2.0/threads.pm line 28.
Compilation failed in require at closure line 6.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at closure line 6.
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My question is , how can i rebuild the perl with threading enabled. will i have to install everythng from the very beggining. Or is there some simple workaround. can someone of u outline the steps involved.
Rgds, Neeraj.

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Re: Rebuilding perl with threads option by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Nov 22, 2004 at 06:41 UTC
You have to rebuild from sources. I did this yesterday on Linux and took all the default answers from Configure except I answered `y` to this question: `Build a threading Perl? [n]` [download] In summary, (as described in Perl's INSTALL file) to build perl from sources: `rm -f config.sh Policy.sh sh Configure make make test make install` [download] For the installation directory, I normally choose something under my home directory, so I don't interfere with anyone else and so I don't need root permissions.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Rebuilding perl with threads option
by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Nov 22, 2004 at 06:41 UTC

You have to rebuild from sources. I did this yesterday on Linux and took all the default answers from Configure except I answered y to this question:

Build a threading Perl? [n]
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In summary, (as described in Perl's INSTALL file) to build perl from sources:

rm -f config.sh Policy.sh
sh Configure
make
make test
make install
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For the installation directory, I normally choose something under my home directory, so I don't interfere with anyone else and so I don't need root permissions.

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