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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-01-09 18:51:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-01-09 18:51:50 +0000 |
| commit | aaacdc8b9b7d69c04e33245ec8de73f4e74bbd69 (patch) | |
| tree | 6551b80b23a99bc898b8666bdfcb9897d248587f /INSTALL | |
| parent | 76384e4ae84ed55d949d353b24577f0a3f3a082a (diff) | |
| download | perl-aaacdc8b9b7d69c04e33245ec8de73f4e74bbd69.tar.gz | |
Configure changes for new-style version numbers (from Andy Dougherty,
slightly altered)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4771
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@@ -604,6 +604,20 @@ line so that the hint files can make appropriate adjustments. The default is to compile without thread support. +As of v5.5.64, perl has two different internal threads implementations. +The 5.005 version (5005threads) and an interpreter-based implementation +(ithreads) with one interpreter per thread. By default, Configure selects +ithreads if -Dusethreads is specified. However, you can select the old +5005threads behavior instead by either + + sh Configure -Dusethreads -Duse5005threads + +or by + sh Configure -Dusethreads -Uuseithreads + +Eventually (by perl v5.6.0) this internal confusion ought to disappear, +and these options may disappear as well. + =head2 Selecting File IO mechanisms Previous versions of perl used the standard IO mechanisms as defined in |