[Python-Dev] Point of building without threads?

[Stefan Krah]

Trent Nelson <trent at snakebite.org> wrote:
>     All our NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD slaves use --without-thread.
>     Without it, they all wedge in some way or another.  (That should be
>     fixed*/investigated, but, until then, yeah, --without-threads allows
>     for a slightly more useful (but still broken) test suite run on
>     these platforms.)
> 
>         [*]: I suspect the problem with at least OpenBSD is that their
>              userland pthreads implementation just doesn't cut it; there
>              is no hope for the really technical tests that poke and
>              prod at things like correct signal handling and whatnot.

For OpenBSD the situation should be fixed in the latest release:

   http://www.openbsd.org/52.html#new


I haven't tried it myself though.


Stefan Krah