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Hi, the text says you need perl 5.8.1 to use threads, but the perl
command uses 5.8.0.

[snip]
Require at least Perl version 5.8.0 with ithreads support built-in. That
means that it should report:

% perl5.8.0 -V:useithreads -V:usemultiplicity
useithreads='define';
usemultiplicity='define';#

If that's not what you see rebuild Perl with -Dusethreads.
o threads.pm

If you want to run applications that take benefit of Perl's threads.pm
Perl version 5.8.1 or higher w/ithreads enabled is required. Perl
5.8.0's threads.pm doesn't work with mod_perl 2.0.
[snip]


Heres a patch that fixes that

Index: user/install/install.pod
===================================================================
--- user/install/install.pod (revision 160264)
+++ user/install/install.pod (working copy)
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
You don't need to have threads-support enabled in Perl. If you do have
it, it B<must> be I<ithreads> and not I<5005threads>! If you have:

- % perl5.8.0 -V:use5005threads
+ % perl5.8.1 -V:use5005threads
use5005threads='define';

you must rebuild Perl without threads enabled or with

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