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perl: Enable threading
authorSaul Wold <Saul.Wold@windriver.com>
Thu, 6 Jan 2022 20:12:34 +0000 (12:12 -0800)
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 7 Jan 2022 14:37:50 +0000 (14:37 +0000)
commitb9fd7cd319a1d8f0ddf5ea60710b015e9afb588c
treeee5fd455d18f50874d677c7c8620743a87209675
parent52d5f76f54eac384f9480dffe96df089d9ee8f33
perl: Enable threading

When the tranisiton to perl-cross occured, the threading define
seems to have been missed.  The perl tests for threading where
simply skipped, so there was no direct failures.  This was verified
by running perl ptest before and after the change to see PASS vs SKIP
results of threaded related tests.

NOTE: Perl officially discourges the use of threads, so this
functionality maybe depercated in the future [0][1]

v2: adds the usethreads to native and nativesdk. This was tested by
builing postresql and rrdtool which use perl and automake.

[0] https://perldoc.perl.org/5.34.0-RC2/threads#WARNING
[1] https://perldoc.perl.org/perlpolicy#discouraged

Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <saul.wold@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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