[racket] Racket without thread-local storage?

On 02/26/13 02:17, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> 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.

It's sad. All cool things need TLS :)