On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 1:57 AM 岡本健二 <keokn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have to use thread on the perl5 of OpenBSD 6.4. > However, it was disabled on the distribution. > Hmm, is this something that worked in previous releases, or is something that you've only tried in OpenBSD 6.4? Off-hand, it's still disabled by default in the Configure script that perl people ship, and I don't see anything in the OpenBSD bits to override their choice. > I tried to make the thread active to recompile the perl5 with -Dusethreads, > which led me to many test fails. > Were there tests that failed with -Dusethreads that passed when that wasn't used? If so, which, and what was their output? To put it another way: if you're suggesting that we build the base perl with -Dusethreads, what are the consequences of that? Test failures? Bigger binary? pkg_add is slower? Why the thread function was disabled in this release? > Is it security reason? > Upstream has it off by default, nothing so far has needed it, and it makes things slower (or at least that's why upstream says). Why would we enable it? Philip Guenther
