Re: linuxthreads/malloc problem

[Charles G Waldman]

Wolfram Gloger writes:

 > I remember a series of rather similar postings with respect to Perl
 > recently.  It was suggested that perl was dlopen()ing libpthread at
 > runtime when threads were in use.

This is definitely not the case with Python.

 >  IMHO that cannot possibly work, at
 > least on Linux.  If you want to use threads in an application, the
 > whole application (in this case: the perl/python interpreter
 > executable) _must_ be linked against libpthread.

Yes, clearly.  This is how Python is built.

 > If it is not the above `problem', I'd appreciate a pointer to the
 > Python sources (without the workarounds).

OK, I will gladly pass this along.  I will have to do a little work to
recreate this though... I need to go into CVS and extract the correct
historical version...