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Hi folks,
The version of perl that I am using on my company's linux machine is
5.6.1, which does not include Thread.pm. And it happens that I need to
have some perl scripts created on my home PC to be running on that
platform, and those scripts "use Thread".

I was looking for the necessary modules from www.cpan.org to add on
and what I realize is I had to add the whole perl package to have it
included. So here is my question:
1. Is there some "patches" that just has this part included, not the
whole perl install package?
2. If I have to have the whole Perl 5.8.4 or high version installed on
linux, what the minimum installation size going to be? Also any tips
for the installation? I guess if I am going to do it, it would be done
in my home dir, otherwise the requst would take days to finish.
3. If for any reason, I have to use the existing perl, what I might do
to work around, following are the only part of code that uses Thread
in that scripts.
"
.....
use Thread;
my $thread1 = Thread->new(\&func1);
my $thread2 = Thread->new(\&func2);
my $thread3 = Thread->new(\&func3);
$_->join foreach($thread1, $thread2, $thread3);
"

thanks for the tips.



CJ

Charlie wrote:
> 1. Is there some "patches" that just has this part included, not the
> whole perl install package?

Not really, it's an option that you'd have to supply when building Perl
yourself from the source code (-DUSETHREADS IIRC). It's not just a matter
of adding a couple of modules.

Some distributions may have taken to building perl with threads enabled -
you should check to see if you've got the latest package of perl available
for your distribution, and if there's a thread-enabled version available.

hope that helps.

jack