Re: [RFC] threading issues

["A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis gmx de>]

* muppet <scott asofyet org> [2003-10-03 19:52]:
> if so, what would be a reliable way to check?  something like
>
>       use Config;
>       $use_threads = $Config{config_args} =~ m/-Duse(i)?threads/;

    $ perl -MConfig -le'print "$a => $b" while ($a,$b) = each %Config' | grep thr       
    dynamic_ext => B [ ... ] threads threads/shared
    extensions => B [ ... ] threads threads/shared Errno
    d_old_pthread_create_joinable => 
    d_oldpthreads => 
    d_pthread_atfork => 
    d_pthread_yield => 
    i_machcthr => 
    i_pthread => define
    known_extensions => B [ ... ] threads threads/shared
    old_pthread_create_joinable => 
    use5005threads => 
    useithreads => 
    usethreads => 

I think $Config{usethreads} is the one you want.

> what do you think?  will this help?

I would say Makefile.PL should ask the user, unless they have
something set in %ENV to force the decision one way or another
silently. (Ie ``GTK2_PERL_USE_THREADS=0 perl Makefile.PL'' or
something, which would also work with
``GTK2_PERL_USE_THREADS=0 perl -MCPAN -e'install Gtk2' ''.)

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