Bug 11789

Summary:	tcl compiled with threads
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	davidw
Component:	tcltk	Assignee:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	1.0
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description davidw 2000-05-31 14:41:01 UTC

This is a judgement call on Redhat's part, but there are some problems with
compiling tcl against pthreads.

To wit, with glibc2.1 (according to andreas jaeger) it is impossible to
load a shared object which is linked against pthreads.  

A bit of background:  I am the author of an Apache module, mod_dtcl, which
is a module for doing server-parsed Tcl, similar to PHP.  I had received
numerous bug reports that there were problems with this module on redhat
boxes.

So, as you can see, it's a problem if you wish to use this Apache module as
a shared object, as mod_dtcl.so is linked against tcl, which is in turn
linked against pthreads on redhat boxes.

Comments? Questions?
Thanks!

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-06-02 14:06:45 UTC

Thanks for the comment, as I turned on --enable-threads in order to get
feedback. I will revert the change in Raw Hide, as it seems the linux world is
not quite ready for --enable-threads in tcltk. Please reopen this bug when
that time comes :-)