Python Coredump on FreeBSD

[Harald Schneider]

OK .. this seems to work!
Thanks a lot for these investigations ...
--Harald


"Andrew MacIntyre" <andymac at bullseye.apana.org.au> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:mailman.1055339538.2010.python-list at python.org...
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Harald Schneider wrote:
>
> > Sorry for the huge delay ... if I compile with this option, my app fails
> > with a missing 'import thread' in line 5 of threading.py ....
>
> > "Andrew MacIntyre" <andymac at bullseye.apana.org.au> schrieb im
Newsbeitrag
>
> {...}
>
> > > ./configure --without-threads
>
> Ok, so you're using threads...
>
> I have verified that:
> - FreeBSD's pthreads implementation (libc_r) has a hard coded 1MB stack
>   for the "initial" thread (the one that starts all other threads), that
>   cannot be changed without rebuilding the library;
> - the Linuxthreads port doesn't have the same limitation, and appears to
>   function sufficiently similarly to libc_r that the regression test
>   doesn't fail.
>
> You should be able to try the linuxthreads build out by:
> - install the linuxthreads port
> - configure Python as normal
> - modify the Makefile as follows:
>   + remove any "-pthread" from the CC variable;
>   + remove any "-lc_r" from the LIBS variable;
>   + add "-I/usr/local/include/pthread/linuxthreads" to the CPPFLAGS
>     variable;
>   + add "-L/usr/local/lib -llthread" to the LIBC variable.
> - make
> - make test
>
> I've just checked this recipe with a 2.2.3 build; it should also work with
> a recent CVS sourcebase.
>
> The sre recursion limits have been tweaked again in the current CVS tree
> for FreeBSD, to reduce the risk of hitting the stack size limit.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew.
>
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