Re: configure issue with pthread

[Jens Vagelpohl <jens@digicool.com>]

Redhat 7.0 has a *lot* of issues relating to its version of GCC. even linus
torvalds is saying it is "unusable" for software development.

i suggest you "upgrade" to 6.2

jens


on 1/10/01 18:02, Doug Bible at dbible@tennessee.edu wrote:

> Hello,
> I just now joined the list to see if anyone can assist me with the issue I
> am having in configuring the openldap-2.0.7 source code.  I am currently
> running Redhat 7.0.  I do not want to use the rpm openldap package.  When
> I run './configure --enable-slurpd', this is the result:
> 
> checking for pthread.h... yes
> checking POSIX thread version... final
> checking for LinuxThreads pthread.h... yes
> checking for GNU Pth pthread.h... no
> checking for sched.h... yes
> checking for pthread_create in default libraries... no
> checking for pthread link with -kthread... no
> checking for pthread link with -pthread... no
> checking for pthread link with -pthreads... no
> checking for pthread link with -mthreads... no
> checking for pthread link with -thread... no
> checking for pthread link with -lpthread -lmach -lexc -lc_r... no
> checking for pthread link with -lpthread -lmach -lexc... no
> checking for pthread link with -lpthread -Wl,-woff,85... no
> checking for pthread link with -lpthread... no
> checking for pthread link with -lc_r... no
> checking for pthread link with -threads... no
> checking for pthread link with -lpthreads -lmach -lexc -lc_r... no
> checking for pthread link with -lpthreads -lmach -lexc... no
> checking for pthread link with -lpthreads -lexc... no
> checking for pthread link with -lpthreads... no
> configure: error: could not link with POSIX Threads
> 
> I have gotten the sourcecode for GNU Pth and tried to compile/install
> it.  The compile fails.  Therefore I cannot get around whatever issue
> Redhat seems to have in its configuration of LinuxThreads.  I do not want
> to use any of the rpm packages due to the versions and due to the fact
> that I never really trust what is done to the sourcecode in those
> packages.  
> 
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
> 
> Doug Bible
> 
>