From: Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org>
To: Ben Woodcroft <donttrustben@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Perl: Enable threading support.
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:58:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160920155806.6808df8d@openmailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160920045607.18936-1-donttrustben@gmail.com>
On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:56:05 +1000
Ben Woodcroft <donttrustben@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found that our Perl was giving "Error: This Perl not built to support
> threads" when trying to use threads. I added '-Dusethreads' to the configure
> phase, but had to copy across the old configure phase to the inheriting
> 'perl-boot0' where we cannot use threads as pthreads is apparently
> unavailable. Perhaps there is a better way than simply copying the configure
> phase code, though I did add comments pointing out the duplication.
>
> I'm a little lost as to where we are in the cycle. If the patches are OK do I
> push this 'rebuild the world' change to 'core-updates', or make a new
> 'core-updates-next'?
>
> Thanks in advance. It might help to view the second patch with 'git diff -w'.
> ben
>
> [PATCH 1/2] gnu: perl: Split configure phase.
> [PATCH 2/2] gnu: perl: Enable threading support.
>
Could you instead have perl's configure phase honor a #:threads?
keyword, and have perl-boot0 put "#:threads? #f" in its arguments?
`~Eric
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-20 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-20 4:56 [PATCH 0/2] Perl: Enable threading support Ben Woodcroft
2016-09-20 4:56 ` [PATCH 1/2] gnu: perl: Split configure phase Ben Woodcroft
2016-09-24 5:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-20 4:56 ` [PATCH 2/2] gnu: perl: Enable threading support Ben Woodcroft
2016-09-24 5:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-26 10:03 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-10-01 13:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-01 16:40 ` Core-updates timeline (was: Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: perl: Enable threading support.) Leo Famulari
2016-10-02 13:38 ` Core-updates timeline Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-02 18:50 ` Leo Famulari
2016-10-02 20:14 ` libarchive security fixes (was Re: Core-updates timeline) Leo Famulari
2016-10-03 16:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-03 18:14 ` Leo Famulari
2016-10-07 20:16 ` Core-updates timeline Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-20 20:58 ` Eric Bavier [this message]
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