Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

[zentara <zentara@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 11:42:33 +0200
Kaare Rasmussen <kar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I have a program that needs Perl with no thread support. SuSE Linux 8.2 ships 
>with Perl thread enabled.
>
>What can I do to get a Perl w/o threads. Do I have to install it from scratch, 
>or does SuSE have a rpm ?

If you install a Perl w/o threads you may break (probably will) other
perl scripts which need it.

You best bet is to install a second perl installation from scratch,
and keep it separate from the suse perl.  SuSE's Perl is in /usr/bin/perl
and /usr/lib/perl5  and the scripts are called with #!/usr/bin/perl at the top.

If you compile Perl yourself from scratch , it will go into /usr/local/bin
and /usr/local/lib/perl5 by default, and at the top of the scripts, you
call it with #!/usr/local/bin/perl

So you can have it both ways, one threaded and the other not.


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