Thread: Threaded Python on BSD ...

Threaded Python on BSD ...

From
Hans-Juergen Schoenig
Date:
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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Re: Threaded Python on BSD ...

From
"Marko Kreen"
Date:
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


Re: Threaded Python on BSD ...

From
Hans-Juergen Schoenig
Date:

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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