[qmtest] sigmask.so

[Mark Mitchell]

Christians, Daniel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am considering using QMTest for a test project but I am
> having a problem with finding a library file after installing 
> the rpm.   

I'm a bit surprised; that file should be built when the RPM is 
installed, I think.  Stefan, can you clarify?

> The systems this failed on are an Itanium and AMD opteron.

> Without a 'sigmask.so' we would be able to run QMTest everwhere we
> have Python installed, right?

Yes.  But, assuming your operating system is GNU/Linux, or something 
else UNIX-like, you can probably get sigmask.so working on your systems 
too.  You can also, as a quick hack, comment amount the references to 
sigmask in executable.py and qmtest.py.  (Basically, just grep the 
sources for "sigmask").  If you do that, you'll get somewhat inferior 
functionality, in that signals in spawned threads will not work as well, 
but using ProcessTarget instead of ThreadTarget can work around that issue.

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