[PORTS] ./configure problems on Fedora Core 8

[Carlos Picazzo]

I've asked on the Fedora Forums and the postgres IRC channel but haven't
received any feedback. I'm guessing there's just a library I'm missing
and I've tried this in 8.1.x, 8.2.6 and now 8.3.0 with the same result
so at least that's consistent. But when I do a './configure
--enable-thread-safety', it eventually bombs out saying:

...
checking for sgmlspl... sgmlspl
checking thread safety of required library functions... no
configure: error: thread test program failed
This platform is not thread-safe. Check the file 'config.log'for the
exact reason.

Upon checking the config.log, it says:

| #define MEMSET_LOOP_LIMIT 1024
| /* end confdefs.h. */
| #include "./src/test/thread/thread_test.c"
configure:22450: result: no
configure:22459: error: thread test program failed
This platform is not thread-safe. Check the file 'config.log'for the
exact reason.

Google searches show some posts where there have been instances where
thread_test.c doesn't actually exist but this isn't the case here. This
completes successfully on an old and obsolete FC4 system so I think it's
just that I'm missing a particular safe thread library or something.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

Carlos

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[Tom Lane]

Post by Carlos Picazzo
| #define MEMSET_LOOP_LIMIT 1024
| /* end confdefs.h. */
| #include "./src/test/thread/thread_test.c"
configure:22450: result: no
configure:22459: error: thread test program failed
This platform is not thread-safe. Check the file 'config.log'for the
exact reason.

The relevant error message is probably in the lines before where it
prints the failing test program.

regards, tom lane

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[Tom Lane]

I've attached the both the output of './configure
----enable-thread-safety' and the config.log from 8.3.0. Naturally, the
config.log was a bit big so I've gzipped it. Hopefully it will contain
the important information.

I think the problem is that every single one of the test compilations
produces this error message:

/usr/bin/ld: error in /usr/lib/gcc/i686-redhat-linux/4.2.2/crtend.o(.eh_frame); no .eh_frame_hdr table will be created.

Apparently it is just a warning because the compiler returns status
zero anyway, but nonetheless it will confuse our configure script ---
in particular, I think what's biting you is that the test to see which
threads flags to use can't tell that this isn't a complaint about a
bogus thread switch, so it omits to use -pthread which is necessary.
There are some other tests that might be going wrong too.

I see that the gcc on my stock Fedora 8 machine is 4.1.2, so I suppose
that this 4.2.2 you are using came from someplace other than Red Hat.
I fear it's a bit broken :-(

regards, tom lane

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