OK, I worked with Alvaro via IM and it is fixed now.
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 01:15:13PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > The thread testing program is not nice to a vpath build. I see this
> > > error:
>
> > > (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.
>
> Whoa, seems I'm the irreproducible-bug-reporter now :-(
>
> > Do you have this line at the bottom of configure.in:
> >
> > if ! $srcdir/src/tools/thread/thread_test >&5
>
> Yes:
>
> if ! $srcdir/src/tools/thread/thread_test >&5
> then rm -f $srcdir/src/Makefile.global
> echo "no"
> echo
> $srcdir/src/tools/thread/thread_test
> echo
> AC_MSG_ERROR([Thread test program failed. Your platform is not thread-safe.])
> fi
>
>
> I tried it with:
>
> mkdir /tmp/thr
> cd /tmp/thr
> ~/CVS/pgsql/source/00orig/configure --enable-thread-safety
>
> [lots of output, and then:]
> 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.
>
> --
> Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
> "No necesitamos banderas
> No reconocemos fronteras" (Jorge Gonz?lez)
>
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