Re: dependence on threads.pm?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Eric,

* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:09:45AM CET:
> 
> Is it intentional that automake now requires threads.pm to build?

No, that should be strictly optional.

> Attempts to bootstrap on a Solaris 10 box are failing with:
> 
> Can't locate threads.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ./automake-1.10a

Looks like my try at optional use of threads.pm does not work.
'use' seems to be evaluated even in false branches.  If that
can't be worked around with some perl fu, then it either needs
to be @substed@ everywhere threads.pm is needed, or we need to
provide a replacement threads module.

> Do you want 'perl -V' output?

Yes, please.

> This is relatively recent (built Feb 2006),
> so it seems like we should still cater to it.

Of course; the hard version requirements should not have changed at all.

Thanks for the bug report!  Might be a couple of days until I get to it,
so if you beat me with a patch, be my guest.

Cheers,
Ralf