HP-UX, PyThread_* missing

[cmkl]

HP-UX 10.20 has user threads, HP-UX 11 has kernel threads (a POSIX threads 
implementation by HP) -  and AFAIK HP-UX 10.30 has it.
HP-UX 10.20 has located s subset of pthread call's in libcma - not enough
for Python2.2. But I can remember, that prior python versions (2.0, 1.5.2 ??)
could configured with threads. I can't test it anymore, because I have only
access to HP-UX 11.00 at the moment.
Another problem is, that the dynamic loader is not thread-safe in 10.20
(but it is in 10.30 and above) - see 'HP-UX Linker and Libraries Users's Guide'

But in principle HP-UX 10.20 supports threads (user threads or green threads)
and it is used i.e. with Java for HP-UX.

Carl


martin at v.loewis.de (Martin v. Loewis) wrote in message news:<m3n0x7po0e.fsf at mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>...
> weeks at vitus.scs.agilent.com (Greg Weeks) writes:
> 
> > In either case, though, "make test" fails at test_threads with:
> > 
> >     test_thread
> >     *** Termination signal 14
> > 
> > That was where I got stuck, and I'm *still* stuck.
> 
> Does the test also fail if run on its own? I.e. what happens if you do
> 
> ./python Lib/test/regrtest.py test_thread
> 
> Also, since you said that threads work fine in 1.5.2 for you, what
> happens if you run this test in Python 1.5.2?
> 
> Regards,
> Martin