Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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:


# check if python is compiled with threads
AC_MSG_CHECKING(whether Python is compiled with thread support)
PyTHREADS=`$PYTHON_BIN -c "import sys; print \"thread\" in
sys.builtin_module_names"`
if test "$PyTHREADS" = "1"; then
  AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
  echo
  echo "  ****** WARNING ******"
  echo "  Python is compiled with thread support. Apache 1.3 does not
use threads."
  echo "  On some systems this will cause problems during compilation,
on others "
  echo "  it may result in unpredictable behaviour of your Apache
server. Yet on"
  echo "  others it will work just fine. The recommended approach is to
compile"
  echo "  Python without thread support in a separate location and
specify it with"
  echo "  --with-python option to this ./configure script."
  echo
else
  AC_MSG_RESULT([no threads, good])
fi


Stefan

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