Problem with install

[Matthew Nobes]

On Mon, 14 May 2001, Gerhard [iso-8859-1] Häring wrote:

> On Mon, 14 May 2001 15:42:22 -0700, Matthew Nobes <manobes at fraser.sfu.ca> wrote:
> >Hello all,
> >
> >I'm attempting to upgrade my Python installation on an older machine at
> >work.  I run configure, and it seems okay, but when I try "make install" I
> >get the following
> >
> >In file included from /usr/include/pthread.h:28,
> >                 from thread_pthread.h:6,
> >                 from thread.c:118:
> >/usr/include/sched.h:36: parse error before `_P'
> >make[1]: *** [thread.o] Error 1
> >make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/matt/Python-2.0/Python'
> >make: *** [Python] Error 2
> >
> >Does anybody know what this means?
>
> Looks like an error during the build of Python's threading facilities. If you
> can live without threads, then you could try
>
> ./configure --without-threads
> make

Thanks, that worked fine.  What exactly did I lose doing this?

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