Hi,

The package perl58-thread defines

PERL5_USE_THREADS=      yes

which looks like it has additional effects than that of simply adding 
the pthread library to perl58.  The latter is sufficient to fix the GD 
issue.  Could this be a way to avoid the negative side of enabling full 
Perl threads?

Sverre

On Tuesday 22 June 2004 02:07, grant beattie wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:40:37AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, David Brownlee wrote:
> > >  	Is there any reason why perl58 should not default to being
> > >  	threaded under NetBSD 2.0?
> > 
> > Not really - 2.0 has threads, right?
> 
> the target audience for perl-threads is very, very small, and
> historically perl without threads has been much more stable than perl
> with thread support.
> 
> I'd be against changing the default because it is likely to result in
> a less stable perl and is only useful for a small number of packages.
> 
> grant.
> 
>