Re: Problems on Gtk2->init

[Guillaume Cottenceau <gc mandrakesoft com>]

Gavin Brown <gavin brown uk com> writes:

> > is there some reason that perl on slackware has no threading enabled?
>
> If I remember correctly, threading is not enabled in Perl by default -
> you have to ask for it when building. Since Slackware's policy in
> general is to leave packages virtually unmodified, with no special
> configuration options, that might explain it.

FYI, since Fri Aug 02 2002 Mandrake Linux ships a thread-enabled
Perl because Perl people are asking for it:

* Fri Aug 02 2002 Pixel <pixel mandrakesoft com> 5.8.0-6mdk

- enable threading 
  (rationale: as Jarkko Hietaniemi told me, debian and redhat have it)

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