[Python-Dev] Re: RELEASED Python 2.3.1 (original) (raw)

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Fri Sep 26 13:42:45 EDT 2003

"Tim Peters" wrote That sounds dangerous to me: there's always an HP/UX build problem, if you count (as I do) getting threads to work. Every release, some HP/UX user submits a patch that breaks the build for other HP/UX users. So unless we've got a bona fide HP/UX expert on tap now (do we? that would be way cool ), don't hold up solving a clear and widespread Linux problem by waiting for one to appear.

On the scale of "HP/UX build problems we've known and loved", this one's a trivial one. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=811160&group_id=5470 has a patch (from the gcc bugtracker - they ran into the exact same problem)

Now, the readline+no-threads=boom coredump, well, that involves threads, and the original reporter even mentions HP/UX, but it's more a simple-ish one - missing #ifdef WITH_THREAD calls, as far as I can see. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=811844&group_id=5470

(Someone should probably do a scan of the code in Modules to make sure all the threading API calls are wrapped in WITH_THREAD #ifdefs. Not me, now, though - way past bedtime).

-- Anthony Baxter <anthony at interlink.com.au>
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