[Gdal-dev] threads support?

[William K]

I never really payed attention to threads vs. no threads.  I've  
always built my GDAL with threads.  I recently started looking at the  
CVS snapshots, and a few weeks ago one build worked briefly, then  
stopped working at all - gdalinfo and gdal_translate would just sit  
there idling, doing nothing (processor idle, no disk activity), but  
the ogr utilities were not affected.  It affected the libraries, so  
that GRASS would do the same (r.in.gdal, not v.in.ogr).

Reconfiguring and rebuilding, and newer snapshots, did not help.   
Happens on Mac OS 10.4 and 10.3.

Today I thought to build it without thread support, and bingo! it's  
working again.

So, did something change in the thread support in GDAL since 1.2.6?   
If I leave out thread support, how adversely would it affect other  
software, like MapServer and GRASS?

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