If Pyton is configured without thread support (--without-threads), the compilation fails on OpenBSD :

$ make
[...]
./Modules/posixmodule.c:4582: undefined reference to `sched_get_priority_min'
libpython3.3m.a(posixmodule.o)(.text+0x430b): In function `posix_sched_get_priority_max':
./Modules/posixmodule.c:4565: undefined reference to `sched_get_priority_max'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
*** Error code 1

I didn't try on Linux, but I suppose that the issue is not specific to OpenBSD.

I haven't been able to reproduce this on Linux (2.6.38; Ubuntu 11.04).
Some searching around seems to suggest that OpenBSD doesn't provide
those functions (or didn't until recently). Modules/posixmodule.c and
configure.in seem to assume that these functions are available if
sched.h exists. Adding an explicit check for them should solve the
problem.

There's no reason to disable sched_get_priority_(min|max) when Python is built without threads: those libraries control the scheduling policy, and should be available even without pthread.
However, it's really likely that pthread has its own implementation (especially since OpenBSD's threads are implemented in user-space), and it seems that OpenBSD sched_get_priority() is only defined for threads:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sched_get_priority_max&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html
"""
This implementation does not support process scheduling.
"""

For example, the following snippet builds correctly on Linux:

"""
#include <sched.h>


int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    int (*fp)(int) = sched_get_priority_max;

    return 0;
}
"""

So this should be skipped only on OpenBSD, or we should add some checks to the configure script.

> For example, the following snippet builds correctly on Linux

It builds correctly with -pthread or -lpthread, but it fails to build without these options.

sched_get_priority_max() and sched_get_priority_min() come from libpthread on OpenBSD, whereas Python only checks for "#ifdef HAVE_SCHED_H".

> It builds correctly with -pthread or -lpthread, but it fails to build without these options.
>

Not on Linux: this is specific to OpenBSD.

> sched_get_priority_max() and sched_get_priority_min() come from libpthread on OpenBSD, whereas Python only checks for "#ifdef HAVE_SCHED_H".
>

That's exactly what I said in my previous message ;-)
I'll post a patch later.

>> It builds correctly with -pthread or -lpthread, but it fails to build without these options.
>>
>
> Not on Linux: this is specific to OpenBSD.

Oh, I forgot to specify: yes, I tested on OpenBSD (5.0).

>> sched_get_priority_max() and sched_get_priority_min() come from libpthread on OpenBSD, whereas Python only checks for "#ifdef HAVE_SCHED_H".
>>
>
> That's exactly what I said in my previous message ;-)
> I'll post a patch later.

Yep, it's just that I have the confirmation with my tests.

Here's a patch adding a configure-time check. Since the functions are
checked without being linked explicitely with pthread, it should do
the trick (I couldn't test it on OpenBSD though).
I also added a skipTest to test_posix.test_sched_priority().

Hi,

it seems to solve the problem (tested on OpenBSD 4.9 and OpenBSD-current).

* test_posix.py on OpenBSD 4.9:
[...]
Ran 79 tests in 0.508s
OK (skipped=35)

* test_posix.py on OpenBSD-current:
it continues to segfault, but I have opened an other ticket for this problem (issue 12852).

Thanks a lot,

Remi.

New changeset 5c8b6e03ebfe by Charles-François Natali in branch 'default':
Issue #12871: sched_get_priority_(min|max) might not be defined even though
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/5c8b6e03ebfe