None that I can think of - I'd remove it

On Sep 18, 2014, at 5:23 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquy...@cisco.com> wrote:

> I'm unaware of a use case for --without-threads.
> 
> Does anyone have one?
> 
> If not, then I think removing all that dead code would be a Good Thing.
> 
> 
> On Sep 18, 2014, at 7:03 AM, Gilles Gouaillardet 
> <gilles.gouaillar...@iferc.org> wrote:
> 
>> Folks,
>> 
>> for both trunk and v1.8 branch, configure takes the --with-threads option.
>> valid usages are
>> --with-threads, --with-threads=yes, --with-threads=posix and
>> --with-threads=no
>> 
>> /* v1.6 used to support the --with-threads=solaris */
>> 
>> if we try to configure with --with-threads=no, this will result in a
>> fatal error :
>> 
>> checking for working POSIX threads package... yes
>> checking for type of thread support... none
>> configure: error: User requested MPI threads, but no threading model
>> supported
>> 
>> bottom line, the --with-threads configure option is useless in both v1.8
>> and trunk.
>> 
>> is there any plan to support --with-threads=no in the future ?
>> if no, i'd like to simply remove the --with-threads option
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for your feedback
>> 
>> Gilles
>> 
>> FYI
>> there is still some dead code / bug related to solaris threads, and this
>> will be removed / fixed
>> see https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/4911
>> 
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