[RFC] threading issues

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

thinking about the troubles people have had compiling gtk2-perl on 
non-threaded perls since the Glib config defaults to enabling thread 
safety support....

would it be reliable or advisable to attempt to determine whether 
thread safety should be enabled by checking %Config in Makefile.PL?  if 
so, what would be a reliable way to check?  something like

        use Config;
        $use_threads = $Config{config_args} =~ m/-Duse(i)?threads/;

is this a good thing?  this will require that you build the extension 
with a perl configured the same way as the one with which you want to 
use it.

what do you think?  will this help?

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muppet <scott at asofyet dot org>