joblib/joblib — pull request #39 by yarikoptic (2012-07-12 22:08:34+00:00)
Title: do not enable Parallel if multiprocessing.synchronize is N/A

Having finally tracked down not working multiprocessing.cpu_count on kfreebsd debian systems I ended up with
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=statsmodels&arch=kfreebsd-i386&ver=0.4.2-1&stamp=1342080335
(look in the bottom)

So I wondered, shouldn't I just patch joblib also to require 'import multiprocessing.synchronize' to complete correctly for the check of multiprocessing existence