On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Geoffrey Young wrote: > MPM on a platform that does not support it, the build process silently > switches to prefork (or whatever the default is for the platform, I guess) > now, I haven't seen this myself, so I don't want to propagate FUD, but if > it's true I might suggest that halting the build process is preferable to > switching behind the scenes (or even switching with a little warning) - from
That does seem to match my memory of the situation, fwiw. I would have no problem with halting the build if they specified --with-threads and none were available, though I would have a problem with halting the build if using a threaded MPM were simply used by default and none were available. --Cliff