Re: perl ithreads support: why hardcode at configure time ?

2013-01-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 11 January 2013 12:21:24 Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 01/11/2013 06:11 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Friday 11 January 2013 04:08:26 Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> On 01/11/2013 05:07 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >>> i can't imagine this is a big runtime penalty, so why does configure >

Re: perl ithreads support: why hardcode at configure time ?

2013-01-11 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/11/2013 06:11 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday 11 January 2013 04:08:26 Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> On 01/11/2013 05:07 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> i can't imagine this is a big runtime penalty, so why does configure >>> check for the perl's thread settings and then hardcode that in th

Re: perl ithreads support: why hardcode at configure time ?

2013-01-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 11 January 2013 04:08:26 Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On 01/11/2013 05:07 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > i can't imagine this is a big runtime penalty, so why does configure > > check for the perl's thread settings and then hardcode that in the > > generated automake ? > > I don't know, I w

Re: perl ithreads support: why hardcode at configure time ?

2013-01-11 Thread Stefano Lattarini
[+cc automake-patches, since patches should be discussed there] On 01/11/2013 05:07 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > i can't imagine this is a big runtime penalty, so why does configure check > for > the perl's thread settings and then hardcode that in the generated automake ? > I don't know, I wasn'

perl ithreads support: why hardcode at configure time ?

2013-01-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
i can't imagine this is a big runtime penalty, so why does configure check for the perl's thread settings and then hardcode that in the generated automake ? it means if you change your perl config or deploy an automake package on a system that has threads disabled, you get errors when trying to