[patch] Re: Disable -lmcheck when Python has threads (Re: [BUG] gdb crash when "python import gtk")
Jan Kratochvil
jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
Thu Aug 30 19:05:00 GMT 2012
Hi David,
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:58:21 +0200, Khoo Yit Phang wrote:
> On Aug 30, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:05:01 +0200, Khoo Yit Phang wrote:
> >> 1) I reverted python-config.py and used a different method to test for
> >> threads ("python -m threading");
> >
> > Unfortunately it does not work for me with python-2.7, only with python-3.3,
> > tested on Fedora 18 x86_64:
> >
> > $ python3 -m threading;echo $?
> > 0
> > $ python3 -m threadin;echo $?
> > /usr/bin/python3: No module named threadin
> > 1
> >
> > but:
> >
> > $ python2 -m threading;echo $?
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
> > "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
> > File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
> > exec code in run_globals
> > File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 985, in <module>
> > _test()
> > File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 969, in _test
> > Q = BoundedQueue(QL)
> > File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 912, in __init__
> > self.queue = deque()
> > NameError: global name 'deque' is not defined
> > 255
> >
> > python3-3.3.0-0.3.b2.fc18.x86_64
> > python-2.7.3-13.fc18.x86_64
> >
> > GDB moveover currently is not compatible with python3.x at all.
> >
> > I do not know much Python but I would guess thread-less Pythons are rare,
> > aren't they? There would be also a possibility to assume Python is threaded,
> > if one already links with Python.
>
> That's strange, it works for me under Ubuntu 11.04 with Python 2.7.1 and
> RHEL5 with Python 2.6.6. I suppose it would be easier to just assume Python
> is threaded, this new patch does that.
On RHEL-5.8 I have python-2.4.3-46.el5 (not Python 2.6.6) although I can
confirm it works there:
$ python -m threading; echo $?
Producer-1.1
[...]
Producer-3.5
0
> I'll check it in if it looks alright.
Please wait till Python experts will comment it.
Thanks,
Jan
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