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 the

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't

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 wasn't

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 the

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 check

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