--without-threads and its effect on threading

NotFound julian.notfound at gmail.com
Fri Jan 29 20:29:29 UTC 2010


> 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.

-- 
Salu2


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