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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1998-05-12 15:29:18 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1998-05-12 15:29:18 (GMT) |
| commit | dc8a3cb06dc376387e91b7a9372e9c9ebffa0e3c (patch) | |
| tree | a9b7590dcf1b6444e66027723d12826a721b46a8 | |
| parent | b41addf6a6dca8ea2183f91a9fb9f8eee3d1ff0a (diff) | |
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Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads.
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@@ -304,6 +304,62 @@ OS/2: If you are running Warp3 or Warp4 and have IBM's VisualAge C/C++ in the resulting binaries of PYTHON15.DLL and PYTHON.EXE. +Configuring threads +------------------- + +The main switch to configure threads is to run the configure script +(see below) with the --with-thread switch (on DEC, use +--with-dec-threads). Unfortunately, on some platforms, additional +compiler and/or linker options are required. Below is a table of +those options, collected by Bill Janssen. I would love to automate +this process more, but the information below is not enough to write a +patch for the configure.in file, so manual intervention is required. +If you patch the configure.in file and are confident that the patch +works, please send me the patch. (Don't bother patching the configure +script itself -- it is regenerated each the configure.in file +changes.) + +Compiler switches for threads +............................. + + OS/Compiler/threads Switches for use with threads + (POSIX is draft 10, DCE is draft 4) (1) compile only (2) compile & link + + SunOS 5.{1-5}/{gcc,SunPro cc}/solaris (1) -D_REENTRANT (2) -mt + SunOS 5.5/{gcc,SunPro cc}/POSIX (1) -D_REENTRANT + DEC OSF/1 3.x/cc/DCE (1) -D_REENTRANT (2) -threads + (butenhof@zko.dec.com) + Digital UNIX 4.x/cc/DCE (1) -D_REENTRANT (2) -threads + (butenhof@zko.dec.com) + Digital UNIX 4.x/cc/POSIX (1) -D_REENTRANT (2) -pthread + (butenhof@zko.dec.com) + AIX 4.1.4/cc_r/d7 (nothing) + (buhrt@iquest.net) + AIX 4.1.4/cc_r4/DCE (nothing) + (buhrt@iquest.net) + IRIX 6.2/cc/POSIX (nothing) + (robertl@cwi.nl) + + +Linker (ld) libraries and flags for threads +........................................... + + OS/threads Libraries/switches for use with threads + + SunOS 5.{1-5}/solaris -lthread + SunOS 5.5/POSIX -lpthread + DEC OSF/1 3.x/DCE -lpthreads -lmach -lc_r -lc + (butenhof@zko.dec.com) + Digital UNIX 4.x/DCE -lpthreads -lpthread -lmach -lexc -lc + (butenhof@zko.dec.com) + Digital UNIX 4.x/POSIX -lpthread -lmach -lexc -lc + (butenhof@zko.dec.com) + AIX 4.1.4/{draft7,DCE} (nothing) + (buhrt@iquest.net) + IRIX 6.2/POSIX -lpthread + (jph@emilia.engr.sgi.com) + + Configuring additional built-in modules --------------------------------------- |