> OK, we now have thread compile failure reports on Debian and Slackware.
>
> The config/acx_pthread.m4 script basically tests these:
>
> acx_pthread_flags=3D"pthreads none -Kthread -kthread lthread -pthread
> -pthreads -mthreads pthread --thread-safe -mt pthread-config"
> =09
> in that order and exits once it finds the first one that can
> compile/link this:
>
> AC_TRY_LINK([#include <pthread.h>],
> [pthread_t th; pthread_join(th, 0);
> pthread_attr_init(0); pthread_cleanup_push(0, 0);
> pthread_create(0,0,0,0); pthread_cleanup_pop(0); ],
> [acx_pthread_ok=3Dyes])
>
> Now, the big question is why -pthread can compile/link this successfully
> but -pthread isn't enough to build a library that uses threads.
I suspect that on Solaris, without "-lpthread" the pthread-stubs in
/usr/lib/libc.so might be called at runtime instead of the functional
ones in libpthread.so.
Could this easily be checked?
Martin