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Re: Disable lang/perl5 threads by default



Le 03/06/14 13:04, Jonathan Perkin a écrit :
> For the last couple of releases, Perl has officially discouraged
> the use of ithreads:
> 
> https://metacpan.org/changes/distribution/perl#Interpreter-based-threads-are-now-discouraged
>
>  Our options.mk enables threads by default if they are builtin,
> which is probably the vast majority of platforms by now.
> 
> I propose we remove the PKG_SUGGESTED_OPTIONS setting, and leave it
> to the user to enable them if required, so that we match the
> upstream recommendation.
> 
> Objections?
> 
Jonathan, for my part I've set 'PKG_OPTIONS.perl= -threads'  in my
mk.conf since your post and so far the only apparent issue for the
packages I use so far seems to be a 'known' install-time issue with
p5-subversion:
> => Becoming ``root'' to make su-real-package-install (pfexec) ===>
> Install binary package of p5-subversion-1.8.10 ==>
> p5-subversion-1.8.10 requires a Perl that supports threads. 
> pkg_add: install script returned error status pkg_add: 1 package
> addition failed *** Error code 1






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