Re: Thread code not vpath-safe

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> The thread testing program is not nice to a vpath build.  I see this
> error:
> 
> checking for gmake... gmake
> checking thread safety of required library functions... Makefile:13: ../../../src/Makefile.global: No such file or
directory
> gmake: *** No rule to make target `../../../src/Makefile.global'.  Stop.
> configure: error: Can not clean thread test directory.
> 
> (Basically what I'm doing is create an empty directory, cd to it and
> then call ../sourcedir/configure --enable-thread-safety)

I tried and couldn't get it to fail.  Do you have this line at the
bottom of configure.in:
if ! $srcdir/src/tools/thread/thread_test >&5

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