Apparently on AIX when using gcc you need to call pthread_init()

(which is not a POSIX threads call!).  Reported and confirmed by Brad
Howes.

diff --git a/Python/thread_pthread.h b/Python/thread_pthread.h
index 995ef51dc52cb42cd0011b278be13fbd195f7038..24f8f4e368b391daca993f1b4c239a6fc59e400e 100644 (file)
--- a/Python/thread_pthread.h
+++ b/Python/thread_pthread.h
@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ typedef struct {
  */
 static void _init_thread _P0()
 {
+#if defined(_AIX) && defined(__GNUC__)
+       pthread_init();
+#endif
 }
 
 /*