Threaded Python on BSD ...
hello all ...
does anybody remember why threaded python is not allowed on some
flavors of BSD?
i was surprised to read this in the configure script ...
# threaded python is not supported on bsd's
echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking whether Python is compiled with thread
support" >&5
echo $ECHO_N "checking whether Python is compiled with thread
support... $ECHO_C" >&6
pythreads=`${PYTHON} -c "import sys; print int('thread' in
sys.builtin_module_names)"`
if test "$pythreads" = "1"; then
echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: yes" >&5
echo "${ECHO_T}yes" >&6
case $host_os in
openbsd*|freebsd*)
{ { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: threaded Python not supported
on this platform" >&5
echo "$as_me: error: threaded Python not supported on this platform"
&2;}
{ (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
is there an issue with BSD itself or is it just a matter of linking
the backend against pthreads?
the problem is that this is a bit of a showstopper for skytools on
BSD ...
many thanks,
hans
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On 7/9/07, Hans-Juergen Schoenig <postgres@cybertec.at> wrote:
does anybody remember why threaded python is not allowed on some flavors of BSD?
AFAIR the problem is they use separate libc for threaded things,
and main postgres is (and will be) linked with non-threaded libc.
--
marko
On Jul 9, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Marko Kreen wrote:
On 7/9/07, Hans-Juergen Schoenig <postgres@cybertec.at> wrote:
does anybody remember why threaded python is not allowed on some
flavors of BSD?AFAIR the problem is they use separate libc for threaded things,
and main postgres is (and will be) linked with non-threaded libc.--
marko
ok, so some linking tweaks should be enough to make this work.
this is doable (to make BSD fundamentalists happy here). i was just
thinking of some BSD compliance thing which would be worse ...
many thanks,
hans
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