On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 11:42:33 +0200 Kaare Rasmussen <kar@kakidata.dk> 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. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation