Re: [xml] Problem building libxml2-2.6.20

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 12:27:23PM +0200, Cesar Ortiz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The platform used for the building is: Linux  2.4.21-20.ELsmp #1 SMP. It is
> a Red Hat EAS.
[...]
> ./.libs/libxml2.so: undefined reference to `pthread_getspecific'
> ./.libs/libxml2.so: undefined reference to `pthread_once'
> ./.libs/libxml2.so: undefined reference to `pthread_key_create'
> ./.libs/libxml2.so: undefined reference to `pthread_setspecific'
[...]
> Is it a configuration error? How could I add manualy the pthread library?

  that should come automatically. Retry with -2.6.26 , I assume it is
RHEL4 I used RHEL4 as my development platform until 6 months ago, so
2.6.20 was developped on that platform, and always with threads.
  In general use RPMs to manage a RHEL setup don't recompile from tarballs

> *****
> But when I do make tests in [1] I get:
>
> ## running Python regression tests
>        ./nsdel.py:15: Warning: 'yield' will become a reserved keyword in
> the future
>      File "./nsdel.py", line 15
>        yield n
>          ^
>        SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>        -- nsdel.py
>
> May it be because the default configure uses python 2.2?

  No idea where this come from.

> A last question....
> We´ve been using libxml2 for a while, but compiled without-threads and for
> python 2.3.5. And now I have noticed that 'make tests' fails:
>
> ## running Python regression tests
> -- thread2.py
> FAILED to obtain correct value for lineNumbersDefault in thread 56966064
>
> Is this failing ok? I might be, because the 'without-threads' flag.

  compiling without threads support is risky, especially when using with
python, some library may use threads while you may not be immediately aware
of it.

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