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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2003-03-29 07:23:00 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2003-03-29 07:23:00 +0000
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It seems that in Tru64 V5 gcc cannot be used to
compile a threaded Perl because <pthread.h> explicitly checks for supported compilers (gcc not being one of them). This is not so bad since the system C compiler is always there. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19078
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@@ -50,6 +50,11 @@ Perl threading is going to work only in Tru64 4.0 and newer releases,
older operating releases like 3.2 aren't probably going to work
properly with threads.
+In Tru64 V5 (at least V5.1A, V5.1B) you cannot build threaded Perl with gcc
+because the system header <pthread.h> explicitly checks for supported
+C compilers, gcc (at least 3.2.2) not being one of them. But the
+system C compiler should work just fine.
+
=head2 Long Doubles on Tru64
You cannot Configure Perl to use long doubles unless you have at least