Re: no pthreads on RH 7.0

[James Peregrino <james_peregrino@harvard.edu>]

Been there, done that. It's buried in the FAQ.  See 
http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/546.html.

short answer: upgrade your glibc or upgrade to Red Hat 7.1.

At 8:06 AM -0400 8/7/01, cderr@simons-rock.edu wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	I'm trying to build the openldap package on a RH 7.0 box (and I have
> fixed the gcc there).  When running ./configure, here is the end of my
> output:
>
> 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
>
>
> when i tried ./configure --without-threads --with-tls   it seemed to go
> okay, and make depend and make seemed to complete without any obvious
> problems, but when i run make test i get:
>
>
> Initiating LDAP tests for LDBM...
> > > > > > >  Executing all LDAP tests...
> > > > > > >  Test Directory: .
> > > > > > >  Backend: ldbm
> > > > > > >  Starting test000-rootdse ...
> running defines.sh . ldbm
> Datadir is ./data
> Cleaning up in ./test-db...
> Starting slapd on TCP/IP port 9009...
> Using ldapsearch to retrieve all the entries...
> Waiting 5 seconds for slapd to start...
> Waiting 5 seconds for slapd to start...
> Waiting 5 seconds for slapd to start...
> Waiting 5 seconds for slapd to start...
> Waiting 5 seconds for slapd to start...
> Waiting 5 seconds for slapd to start...
> ./scripts/test000-rootdse: kill: (2521) - No such pid
> ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server
> > > > > > >  Test failed
> > > > > > >  ./scripts/test000-rootdse failed (exit 1)
> make[1]: *** [test-ldbm] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/installs/openldap-2.0.11/tests'
> make: *** [test] Error 2
>
>
> please advise as to what i need to install (or what flag i need to pass
> configure) to get pthread support
>
> 	thanx much in advance,
> 		~c


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