Threading legality/morality

[Andrew Kuchling]

hungjunglu at yahoo.com writes:
> For whatever it's worth, I tried to build Python2.0 from source on 
> cygwin, and it has problem with some pthread thing. I had to disable 
> thread support when doing ./configure. If I have to guess, cygwin may 
> have problems with thread support.

Jason Tishler submitted a truckload of patches for Cygwin
compatibility that went into 2.1; you could try 2.1b2 and see if it
works better.

--amk