At Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:16:43 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm setting up a new server on 5.4 and noticed this in the perl.spec file: > > > * Mon Jul 21 2008 Stepan Kasal - 4:5.8.8-14.el5 > - add two patches, which... > - Resolves: #435505, #431041 > - remove %%define threading, the non-threading variant is not supported, > Related: 435376 > > > That comment wasn't there when I set up a server on 5.2 a few months > back and the %define threading option was still in the perl.spec file, > making it easy for me to create my own non-threaded perl. > > I want a non-threaded perl because the mod_perl folks say that the > performance is better on a non-threaded perl. > > I believe I can compare the spec files and figure out where to edit the > new spec file, but I wondered about that "not supported" comment. > > Is there something "bad" about the non-threading variant? Probably the same thing that is bad about a single core processor. Which are pretty much no longer available (except for processors meant for little SBC/Embedded systems). I suspect that either RH or (more likely) the Perl people don't want to have to support two versions of Perl, one with and one without threading. > > Thanks! > > Take care, > > Kurt Hansen > khansen at charityweb.net > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/