[racket] Racket without thread-local storage?

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 25 20:17:15 EST 2013

At Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:30:18 +0100, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote:
> Hi. I have this issue when I compile racket with GCC 4.2 on OpenBSD:
> 
> cd ../foreign; make all
> make foreign.lo
> /usr/bin/libtool --mode=compile --tag=CC cc -O2 -pipe -g 
> -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -DMZ_USE_JIT_SSE 
> -I/usr/local/include -pthread    -DMZ_USES_SHARED_LIB  -I./../racket 
> -I/usr/ports/pobj/racket-5.3.3/racket-5.3.3/src/foreign/../racket/include 
> -I/usr/ports/pobj/racket-5.3.3/racket-5.3.3/src/foreign/../racket/src 
>    -c /usr/ports/pobj/racket-5.3.3/racket-5.3.3/src/foreign/foreign.c -o 
> foreign.lo
> cc -O2 -pipe -g -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include 
> -DMZ_USE_JIT_SSE -I/usr/local/include -pthread -DMZ_USES_SHARED_LIB 
> -I./../racket 
> -I/usr/ports/pobj/racket-5.3.3/racket-5.3.3/src/foreign/../racket/include 
> -I/usr/ports/pobj/racket-5.3.3/racket-5.3.3/src/foreign/../racket/src 
> -c /usr/ports/pobj/racket-5.3.3/racket-5.3.3/src/foreign/foreign.c -fPIC 
> -DPIC -o .libs/foreign.o
> In file included from 
> /usr/ports/pobj/racket-5.3.3/racket-5.3.3/src/foreign/../racket/include/scheme.
> h:1169,
>                   from 
> /usr/ports/pobj/racket-5.3.3/racket-5.3.3/src/foreign/../racket/src/schpriv.h:2
> 2,
>                   from 
> /usr/ports/pobj/racket-5.3.3/racket-5.3.3/src/foreign/foreign.c:10:
> /usr/ports/pobj/racket-5.3.3/racket-5.3.3/src/foreign/../racket/include/schthre
> ad.h:483: 
> error: thread-local storage not supported for this target
> Error while executing cc -O2 -pipe -g -I/usr/local/include 
> -I/usr/X11R6/include -DMZ_USE_JIT_SSE -I/usr/local/include -pthread 
> -DMZ_USES_SHARED_LIB -I./../racket 
> -I/usr/ports/pobj/racket-5.3.3/racket-5.3.3/src/foreign/../racket/include 
> -I/usr/ports/pobj/racket-5.3.3/racket-5.3.3/src/foreign/../racket/src 
> -c /usr/ports/pobj/racket-5.3.3/racket-5.3.3/src/foreign/foreign.c -fPIC 
> -DPIC -o .libs/foreign.o
> *** Error 2 in foreign (Makefile:43 'foreign.lo')
> *** Error 1 in foreign (Makefile:18 'all')
> *** Error 1 in racket (Makefile:130 'foreign-stuff')
> *** Error 1 in racket (Makefile:76 'common')
> *** Error 1 in racket (Makefile:79 'cgc')
> *** Error 1 in racket (Makefile:85 '3m')
> *** Error 1 in . (Makefile:40 '3m')
> *** Error 1 in /usr/ports/pobj/racket-5.3.3/build-amd64 (Makefile:37 'all')
> 
> 
> I know the problem is the lack of support for TLS on OpenBSD/GCC. Now I 
> compile racket with GCC 4.6 because this version has TLS support 
> emulated but I think this workaround is adding other bugs to racket. Is 
> it possible to compile racket in a OS/compiler without thread-local 
> storage?.
> 
> My configure options: --enable-libffi --enable-gracket --enable-jit 
> --enable-foreign --enable-places --enable-float --enable-docs 
> --enable-pthread --enable-lt=/usr/bin/libtool --enable-futures

Thread-local storage is needed for `--enable-places' and
`--enable-futures', so you just have to leave those out to compile
without it.


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