multiple perl versions

[Dan Ports]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 02:41:57PM -0500, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> +1 from me. It would probably also be a good idea to make it perl5.14 +threads (and if a non-threaded perl is needed, it should probably be a separate port) at the same time.

Good point about: +threads. As Eric Cronin pointed out yesterday in 
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/33105#comment:5
because the modules are installed in a different place for perl5
+threads, any perl modules installed using binary packages won't work
correctly if perl is built with +threads.

That seems like a fairly serious problem. If we're OK with only
providing perl +threads, we wouldn't have to worry about it.

(I don't know enough about perl to know if there's anything that needs
a non-threaded perl -- I got the impression that it was important in
the past but is rarely if ever needed these days.)

Dan

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