Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <20020730215831.57236.qmail@web21010.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 14:58:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicholas Wourms Subject: Re: Updated: perl-5.8.0-1 To: "Gerrit P. Haase" , Waldemar Rachwal , tpfaff AT gmx DOT net Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: <190170235004.20020730213759@familiehaase.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote: [SNIP] > You asked: > > Have you compiled this new perl with threading? > > There is no threading in Cygwin Perl. > > > In your excerpt of Perl 5.8.0 there is no mention of thread > support > > that itself seems to be the most visible in new perl. > > Unfortunately this doesn't work (yet?). If you are a threads > expert > please help to debug why we cannot build Perl with threading. Gerrit, I suspect either Robert Collins or Thomas Pfaff could answer your question, as they appear to be the resident threads experts. Perhaps they can suggest a way or improve the cygwin dll in a way which would support a threaded perl. Cheers, Nicholas __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/