[Python-Dev] Point of building without threads?

Tue Jan 8 16:15:11 CET 2013

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.