[ Weird, I can't see your original e-mail Antoine; hijacking Yury's
reply instead. ]
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 01:28:25AM -0800, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 21:49 +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> >
> > I guess a long time ago, threading support in operating systems wasn't
> > very widespread, but these days all our supported platforms have it.
> > Is it still useful for production purposes to configure
> > --without-threads? Do people use this option for something else than
> > curiosity of mind?
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.
Trent.
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