in reply to Re^5: Uninstalling / installing perl
in thread Uninstalling / installing perl

Here is /opt/perl/bin/perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.6.20-sabayon-r3, archname=i686-linux-thread +-multi uname='linux localhost 2.6.20-sabayon-r3 #1 smp sun mar 25 10:28:5 +4 utc 2007 i686 intel(r) pentium(r) 4 cpu 3.00ghz genuineintel gnulin +ux ' config_args='-Dprefix=/opt/perl' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemulti +plicity=define useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS +-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local +/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O2', cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -fno-stri +ct-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3)', gccosandvers=' +' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1 +2 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', + lseeksize=8 alignbytes=4, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -l +c perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc libc=/lib/libc-2.5.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='2.5' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E' cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP THREADS_HAVE_PIDS USE_ITHREAD +S USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API Built under linux Compiled at Jun 21 2008 21:26:26 @INC: /opt/perl/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi /opt/perl/lib/5.8.8 /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.8 /opt/perl/lib/site_perl
and here is /usr/bin/perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.6.20-sabayon-r3, archname=i686-linux-thread +-multi uname='linux localhost 2.6.20-sabayon-r3 #1 smp sun mar 25 10:28:5 +4 utc 2007 i686 intel(r) pentium(r) 4 cpu 3.00ghz genuineintel gnulin +ux ' config_args='' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemulti +plicity=define useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS +-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local +/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O2', cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -fno-stri +ct-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3)', gccosandvers=' +' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1 +2 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', + lseeksize=8 alignbytes=4, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -l +c perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc libc=/lib/libc-2.5.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='2.5' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E' cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='/usr/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP THREADS_HAVE_PIDS USE_ITHREAD +S USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API Built under linux Compiled at Jun 21 2008 18:12:51 @INC: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .

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Re^7: Uninstalling / installing perl
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jun 20, 2008 at 12:30 UTC
    That all looks ok to me. I notice that /usr/bin/perl *does* support threads. What made you think it didn't ?

    The other problem you mentioned in your original post was that Config.pm could not be found. Has that now been resolved ? What is the output of:
    /usr/bin/perl -MConfig -e 'print $Config::VERSION'
    and of:
    /opt/perl/bin/perl -MConfig -e 'print $Config::VERSION'
    Cheers,
    Rob