Question about Perl5

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Jun 29, 2012, at 5:27 p.m., Rodolfo Aramayo wrote:

> What magical properties are acquired by Perl when it is compiled as:
> 
> perl5.12+shared +threads
> 
> versus as
> 
> perl5.12+threads
> 
> or
> 
> perl5.12+shared??

As Ryan said, it's kind of a moot point, since the perl5.xy ports all build with those options now. But they're described here, if you're still curious.

Threads: http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob/HEAD:/INSTALL#l243
Shared: http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob/HEAD:/INSTALL#l398


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