Thread: Re: [Pgbuildfarm] buildfarm olinguito vs python

On 05/25/2015 12:38 PM, Davin M. Potts wrote:
> At Alvaro's suggestion, I'm forwarding my questions (see email thread
> further below) to this list.
>
> In short, building of PL/Python has been disabled on OpenBSD since 2005.
> The errors seen at the time (on OpenBSD and FreeBSD, both) may or may
> not still be an issue with modern builds of Python.  Can someone point
> me to examples of how these errors manifested themselves?  Has Peter
> Eisentraut or others poked at this recently enough to tell me this is
> not worth chasing down?
>
>
> Thanks for any and all pointers.


I'm inclined just to remove this in config/python.m4 and see what happens:
   case $host_os in      openbsd*)        AC_MSG_ERROR([threaded Python not supported on this platform])        ;;
esac

cheers

andrew

On 05/25/2015 03:35 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 05/25/2015 12:38 PM, Davin M. Potts wrote:
>> At Alvaro's suggestion, I'm forwarding my questions (see email thread
>> further below) to this list.
>>
>> In short, building of PL/Python has been disabled on OpenBSD since 2005.
>> The errors seen at the time (on OpenBSD and FreeBSD, both) may or may
>> not still be an issue with modern builds of Python.  Can someone point
>> me to examples of how these errors manifested themselves?  Has Peter
>> Eisentraut or others poked at this recently enough to tell me this is
>> not worth chasing down?
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any and all pointers.
>
>
> I'm inclined just to remove this in config/python.m4 and see what 
> happens:
>
>    case $host_os in
>       openbsd*)
>         AC_MSG_ERROR([threaded Python not supported on this platform])
>         ;;
>    esac
>
>

Oh, I see see what's happening, kinda. Is your threaded python linked 
against libc or libc_r?

cheers

andrew

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 04:26:02PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> On 05/25/2015 03:35 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >
> >On 05/25/2015 12:38 PM, Davin M. Potts wrote:
> >>At Alvaro's suggestion, I'm forwarding my questions (see email thread
> >>further below) to this list.
> >>
> >>In short, building of PL/Python has been disabled on OpenBSD since 2005.
> >>The errors seen at the time (on OpenBSD and FreeBSD, both) may or may
> >>not still be an issue with modern builds of Python.  Can someone point
> >>me to examples of how these errors manifested themselves?  Has Peter
> >>Eisentraut or others poked at this recently enough to tell me this is
> >>not worth chasing down?
> >>
> >>
> >>Thanks for any and all pointers.
> >
> >
> >I'm inclined just to remove this in config/python.m4 and see what
> >happens:
> >
> >   case $host_os in
> >      openbsd*)
> >        AC_MSG_ERROR([threaded Python not supported on this platform])
> >        ;;
> >   esac
> >
> >
> 
> Oh, I see see what's happening, kinda. Is your threaded python
> linked against libc or libc_r?

It's built against libc -- I don't think we have libc_r on OpenBSD or if
it used to be there, it looks to be gone now.


Davin