esac
;;
threads|threads/shared)
- case "$usethreads" in
- true|$define|y)
- case "$useithreads" in
- $define|true|[yY]*) avail_ext="$avail_ext $xxx" ;;
- esac
- esac
+ # threads and threads::shared are special cases.
+ # To stop people from asking "Perl 5.8.0 was supposed
+ # to have this new fancy threads implementation but my
+ # perl doesn't have it" and from people trying to
+ # (re)install the threads module using CPAN.pm and
+ # CPAN.pm then offering to reinstall Perl 5.8.0,
+ # the threads.pm and threads/shared.pm will always be
+ # there, croaking informatively ("you need to rebuild
+ # all of Perl with threads, sorry") when threads haven't
+ # been compiled in.
+ # --jhi
+ avail_ext="$avail_ext $xxx"
;;
IPC/SysV|ipc/sysv)
: XXX Do we need a useipcsysv variable here