[Python-Dev] Point of building without threads?

[Trent Nelson]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:15:45AM -0800, Stefan Krah wrote:
> 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.

    Interesting!  I'll look into upgrading the existing Snakebite
    OpenBSD slaves (they're both at 5.1).

        Trent.