Re: configure issue with pthread

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

IIRC, the configure script is detects the failure of pthreads
on Redhat 7.0 to behave correctly and hence doesn't consider
it a viable threading system for OpenLDAP.

At 06:02 PM 1/10/01 -0500, Doug Bible 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