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diff --git a/Configure b/Configure
index 57e166c..7225e61 100755
--- a/Configure
+++ b/Configure
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 # $Id: Head.U,v 3.0.1.9 1997/02/28 15:02:09 ram Exp $
 #
-# Generated on Wed Apr 17 02:10:04 EET DST 2002 [metaconfig 3.0 PL70]
+# Generated on Wed Apr 17 17:49:13 EET DST 2002 [metaconfig 3.0 PL70]
 # (with additional metaconfig patches by perlbug@perl.org)
 
 cat >c1$$ <<EOF
@@ -19327,12 +19327,18 @@ for xxx in $known_extensions ; do
 		esac
 		;;
 	threads|threads/shared)
-                case "$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