Re: openbsd, plpython, missing threading symbols

Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>

From: Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>
To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2005-08-04T19:52:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 08:14:51PM +0200, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> >Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> >>Tom Lane wrote:
> >>>The alternative is to say that plpython isn't supported on BSDen unless
> >>>you choose to build an unthreaded libpython.
> >>I'm OK with that, but if that's what's done I think we should check for 
> >>it up front at configure time and not let it fail at run time like we do 
> >>now.
> > 
> > If you can create a suitable configure test, it'd be fine with me.
> 
> Not sure if it is of any help but mod_python seems to be using this
> configure.in snippet to detect (and reject) a threaded python installation:

Ok, I converted this to patch against config/python.m4.

Also made it work  with python 2.3, 2.4 that return 'True' not '1'.

The error is thrown only on BSD's.  As I understand threaded
python works fine on other OS'es?

Error message may need clarifying.

-- 
marko