Howdy,

Can someone think up a test case that will fail if parrot is compiled
using the --without-threads flag but still has threads? I am willing
to write it, just tell me the best way to go about it.

Duke


On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:29 PM, NotFound <[email protected]> wrote:
>> also remains single-threaded. So I compiled Parrot using the 
>> --without-threads
>> configure argument, and gdb tells me this when the Parrot interpreter starts
>> up:
>>
>> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
>> Error while reading shared library symbols:
>> Cannot find new threads: generic error
>> Cannot find new threads: generic error
>>
>> I admit not knowing what that message means, precisely, but it sure looks 
>> like
>> Parrot's doing something with threads, and this despite the --without-threads
>
> I configured --without-threads and it builds a runs, just fails tests
> in t/src/atomic.t, not unexpectedly. However ldd shows that the parrot
> executable links libpthread so, yes, is doing something that it
> shouldn't.
>
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