[ Weird, I can't see your original e-mail Antoine; hijacking Yury's reply instead. ] On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 01:28:25AM -0800, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 21:49 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
I guess a long time ago, threading support in operating systems wasn't very widespread, but these days all our supported platforms have it. Is it still useful for production purposes to configure --without-threads? Do people use this option for something else than curiosity of mind?
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. Trent.