[ic] RHEL3.0/Interchange5.0 Build Question

Bob Puff at NLE bob at nleaudio.com
Fri Mar 12 16:42:49 EST 2004


Hi Mike,

Is this something I can try?  I'm trying to get IC 5.0 working on a Mandrake 9.2 system, which I 
believe has the threads enabled.  What would need to be modified?

Bob

Mike Heins wrote:
> Quoting Jon Jensen (jon at endpoint.com):
> 
>>On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Bob Puff at NLE wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Why is it that Interchange doesn't run with Perl Threads?
>>
>>http://www.icdevgroup.org/pipermail/interchange-users/2003-April/032700.html
>>
> 
> 
> Most of this is still valid. In the interim, though, Perl has gotten
> better and so has IC.
> 
> As before, the major problems we have are due to XS modules like
> DBI, DBD::mysql, and Storable. Since that post, my understanding
> is that DBI, DBD::mysql, and DBD::Pg have no known thread problems.
> 
> The major remaining thread problem I know about is in the Storable
> module. This is a known problem affecting not just Interchange.
> 
> It is quite possible that IC would run just fine with a threaded
> Perl module if you don't use Storable. To do this, just remove
> the _session_storable file and possibly the _db_storable file from
> the interchange software directory.
> 



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