Re: pkg/40302: Compiling pkgsrc perl on linux-amd64 with support for threads

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 05:30:06AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 >  On the Linux box I have accessible right now, some pthread functions
 >  are in libc but pthread_getspecific apparently requires -pthread or
 >  -lpthread. Since neither of those appears on the link line above, it's
 >  not surprising that it fails.
 >  
 >  Probably the configure script is checking for pthread_self or
 >  pthread_mutex_init or something that's in libc to figure out whether
 >  it needs -pthread, and getting the wrong answer.
 >  
 >  Can you paste the sections from the build log that report what it's
 >  doing/finding about compiler flags for threads?
 >  
 >  (Also, check with the latest perl just in case this was fixed in 5.10.1)

On the machine I cited, 5.10.1 comes up with -lpthread and miniperl
links ok. FWIW.

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David A. Holland
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