On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 06:01:46PM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 06:40:35PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > I think someone mentioned this already, but it'd be a good idea to
> > compare the python situation to plperl. On my Linux box, libperl.so
> > shows several references to pthread_xxx symbols ... not the same ones
> > libpython.so depends on, but pthread symbols none the less. I'd kind
> > of expect them both to fail if the problem is that the stock libc
> > doesn't include pthreads.
>
> I have a FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE box with Perl 5.8.7 built from the
> ports collection, and "nm libperl.so" shows no pthread functions.
> The port's Makefile has a WITH_THREADS option that I don't think is
> enabled by default. The Python port's Makefile, however, has a
> WITHOUT_THREADS option, so I think it *does* build a threaded Python
> by default.
FWIW, AFAICT I did build the port with default options. Though, nm shows
no symbols for my libpython(s)...
decibel@flake.2[16:38]~:47>nm `locate libpython|grep .so`
/usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libpython2.3.so.1:
/usr/libexec/elf/nm: /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libpython2.3.so.1: no symbols
/usr/local/lib/libpython2.4.so:
/usr/libexec/elf/nm: /usr/local/lib/libpython2.4.so: no symbols
/usr/local/lib/libpython2.4.so.1:
/usr/libexec/elf/nm: /usr/local/lib/libpython2.4.so.1: no symbols
/usr/local/lib/python2.4/config/libpython2.4.so:
/usr/libexec/elf/nm: /usr/local/lib/python2.4/config/libpython2.4.so: no symbols
decibel@flake.2[16:39]~:48>
But I do have a /usr/local/lib/python2.4/config/libpython2.4.a that has
a bunch of symbols, though I'm not sure if that means anything or what
I'm looking for in the nm output.
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