No perl treads builds available

[ylavoie]

Although 5.22.0-thr is documented as being available, although we can find it on https://github.com/travis-perl/builds/tree/perl/5.22.0-thr, it fails to work

5.22.0-thr is not installed; attempting download
bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
...
Setting environment variables from .travis.yml
$ perlbrew use 5.22.0-thr
ERROR: The installation "5.22.0-thr" is unknown.

All 9 latest version show the same behaviour

[HayoBaan]

If you look down the build log, you see the travis helper actually does build and install the threaded version of perl (you need to expand the step where the travis helper is called to see it).

Example:

$ eval $(curl https://travis-perl.github.io/init) --auto
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   484  100   484    0     0   8122      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 14235
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/travis-perl-helpers-4DpCQB/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 49, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (44/44), done.
remote: Total 49 (delta 0), reused 25 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (49/49), done.
From git://github.com/travis-perl/helpers
 * [new branch]      master     -> origin/master
Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin.
Already on 'master'
Perl Travis Helpers: heads/master-0-gd2b2e22
$ build-perl
Building Perl 5.22-thr .................................... Done.
$ perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 22 subversion 2) configuration:
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[ylavoie]

Exactly! What I am seeing is that Travis has to build it instead on downloading it as it does for the non threaded versions. A great time loss. Can we have them pre-built like the others?