perl: Enable threading on darwin

Perl on darwin (and any other sane platform) has a pretty good threading
support, enable it.

As it turns out, we were building non-multithreaded perl on all systems,
since glibc was not part of the stdenv anymore:

    nix-repl> pkgs = import <nixpkgs> {}

    nix-repl> pkgs.stdenv ? glibc
    false

meaning that the comments were incorrect. Thus, clear up the confusion
and remove the misleading comments, while enabling multithreading by
default. The builds will fail on unsupported platforms, and in this case
the only place is the bootstrap, where we already force
non-multithreaded perl.

As a consequence of the above, this change will cause the full rebuild
of stdenv on all platforms, including linux.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/default.nix
index 751b9667a1f..8f8b63a261e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/default.nix
@@ -1,21 +1,9 @@
 { config, lib, stdenv, fetchurl, pkgs, buildPackages, callPackage
-, enableThreading ? stdenv ? glibc, coreutils, makeWrapper
+, enableThreading ? true, coreutils, makeWrapper
 }:
 
 with lib;
 
-# We can only compile perl with threading on platforms where we have a
-# real glibc in the stdenv.
-#
-# Instead of silently building an unthreaded perl if this is not the
-# case, we force callers to disableThreading explicitly, therefore
-# documenting the platforms where the perl is not threaded.
-#
-# In the case of stdenv linux boot stage1 it's not possible to use
-# threading because of the simpleness of the bootstrap glibc, so we
-# use enableThreading = false there.
-assert enableThreading -> (stdenv ? glibc);
-
 let
 
   libc = if stdenv.cc.libc or null != null then stdenv.cc.libc else "/usr";