Re: Adding threading support to lang/sbcl

[Kevin Bloom <ktnb%netbsd.org@localhost>]

> > I've found an issue with our current build of lang/sbcl in which it
> > isn't compiled with threading support. This means that if you attempt
> > to use the bordeaux-threads[1] library it won't work. I've tested it
> > locally and it appears to work as expected useing the attached patch.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a reason why this wasn't added before or have any
> > reason why I shouldn't add it? I don't really see the need for making
> > an option for it as it doesn't change much of anything from a
> > packaging point of view.
>
> What platform have you tried this on?

NetBSD/amd64.

> On NetBSD/amd64, the threading tests in the SBCL test suite fail.

I haven't tried the test suite. I'll give it a shot and see what happens.

> I could see a case for enabling threading by default for Linux builds
> at some point.

Ideally I'd like to have the support on NetBSD as well. I'll take a look.