dnl PGSGL: When updating, comment out port-specific part below; dnl see the comment below with the word "PostgreSQL". dnl dnl Available from the GNU Autoconf Macro Archive at: dnl http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/htmldoc/acx_pthread.html dnl AC_DEFUN([ACX_PTHREAD], [ AC_REQUIRE([AC_CANONICAL_HOST]) AC_LANG_SAVE AC_LANG_C acx_pthread_ok=no # We used to check for pthread.h first, but this fails if pthread.h # requires special compiler flags (e.g. on True64 or Sequent). # It gets checked for in the link test anyway. # First of all, check if the user has set any of the PTHREAD_LIBS, # etcetera environment variables, and if threads linking works using # them: if test x"$PTHREAD_LIBS$PTHREAD_CFLAGS" != x; then save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS" save_LIBS="$LIBS" LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS" AC_MSG_CHECKING([for pthread_join in LIBS=$PTHREAD_LIBS with CFLAGS=$PTHREAD_CFLAGS]) AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC(pthread_join, acx_pthread_ok=yes) AC_MSG_RESULT($acx_pthread_ok) if test x"$acx_pthread_ok" = xno; then PTHREAD_LIBS="" PTHREAD_CFLAGS="" fi LIBS="$save_LIBS" CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS" fi # We must check for the threads library under a number of different # names; the ordering is very important because some systems # (e.g. DEC) have both -lpthread and -lpthreads, where one of the # libraries is broken (non-POSIX). # Create a list of thread flags to try. Items starting with a "-" are # C compiler flags, and other items are library names, except for "none" # which indicates that we try without any flags at all, and "pthread-config" # which is a program returning the flags for the Pth emulation library. acx_pthread_flags="pthreads none -Kthread -kthread lthread -pthread -pthreads -mthreads pthread --thread-safe -mt pthread-config" # The ordering *is* (sometimes) important. Some notes on the # individual items follow: # pthreads: AIX (must check this before -lpthread) # none: in case threads are in libc; should be tried before -Kthread and # other compiler flags to prevent continual compiler warnings # -Kthread: Sequent (threads in libc, but -Kthread needed for pthread.h) # -kthread: FreeBSD kernel threads (preferred to -pthread since SMP-able) # lthread: LinuxThreads port on FreeBSD (also preferred to -pthread) # -pthread: Linux/gcc (kernel threads), BSD/gcc (userland threads) # -pthreads: Solaris/gcc # -mthreads: Mingw32/gcc, Lynx/gcc # -mt: Sun Workshop C (may only link SunOS threads [-lthread], but it # doesn't hurt to check since this sometimes defines pthreads too; # also defines -D_REENTRANT) # pthread: Linux, etcetera # --thread-safe: KAI C++ # pthread-config: use pthread-config program (for GNU Pth library) case "${host_cpu}-${host_os}" in *solaris*) # On Solaris (at least, for some versions), libc contains stubbed # (non-functional) versions of the pthreads routines, so link-based # tests will erroneously succeed. (We need to link with -pthread or # -lpthread.) (The stubs are missing pthread_cleanup_push, or rather # a function called by this macro, so we could check for that, but # who knows whether they'll stub that too in a future libc.) 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AC_TRY_LINK([#include ], [pthread_t th; pthread_join(th, 0); pthread_attr_init(0); pthread_cleanup_push(0, 0); pthread_create(0,0,0,0); pthread_cleanup_pop(0); ], [acx_pthread_ok=yes], [acx_pthread_ok=no]) if test "x$acx_pthread_ok" = xyes; then # Don't use options that are ignored by the compiler. # We find them by checking stderror. cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF int main () { return 0; } _ACEOF rm -f conftest.$ac_objext conftest$ac_exeext if test "`(eval $ac_link 2>&1 >/dev/null)`" = ""; then # we continue with more flags because Linux needs -lpthread # for libpq builds on PostgreSQL. The test above only # tests for building binaries, not shared libraries. PTHREAD_LIBS=" $tryPTHREAD_LIBS $PTHREAD_LIBS" PTHREAD_CFLAGS="$PTHREAD_CFLAGS $tryPTHREAD_CFLAGS" else acx_pthread_ok=no fi fi LIBS="$save_LIBS" CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS" AC_MSG_RESULT($acx_pthread_ok) done fi # Various other checks: if test "x$acx_pthread_ok" = xyes; then save_LIBS="$LIBS" LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS" save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS" # Detect AIX lossage: threads are created detached by default # and the JOINABLE attribute has a nonstandard name (UNDETACHED). AC_MSG_CHECKING([for joinable pthread attribute]) AC_TRY_LINK([#include ], [int attr=PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE;], ok=PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE, ok=unknown) if test x"$ok" = xunknown; then AC_TRY_LINK([#include ], [int attr=PTHREAD_CREATE_UNDETACHED;], ok=PTHREAD_CREATE_UNDETACHED, ok=unknown) fi if test x"$ok" != xPTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE; then AC_DEFINE(PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE, $ok, [Define to the necessary symbol if this constant uses a non-standard name on your system.]) fi AC_MSG_RESULT(${ok}) if test x"$ok" = xunknown; then AC_MSG_WARN([we do not know how to create joinable pthreads]) fi AC_MSG_CHECKING([if more special flags are required for pthreads]) flag=no # We always add these in PostgreSQL # case "${host_cpu}-${host_os}" in # *-aix* | *-freebsd* | *-darwin*) flag="-D_THREAD_SAFE";; # *solaris* | *-osf* | *-hpux*) flag="-D_REENTRANT";; # esac AC_MSG_RESULT(${flag}) if test "x$flag" != xno; then PTHREAD_CFLAGS="$flag $PTHREAD_CFLAGS" fi LIBS="$save_LIBS" CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS" # More AIX lossage: must compile with cc_r AC_CHECK_PROG(PTHREAD_CC, cc_r, cc_r, ${CC}) else PTHREAD_CC="$CC" fi AC_SUBST(PTHREAD_LIBS) AC_SUBST(PTHREAD_CFLAGS) AC_SUBST(PTHREAD_CC) # Finally, execute ACTION-IF-FOUND/ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND: if test x"$acx_pthread_ok" = xyes; then ifelse([$1],,AC_DEFINE(HAVE_PTHREAD,1,[Define if you have POSIX threads libraries and header files.]),[$1]) : else acx_pthread_ok=no $2 fi AC_LANG_RESTORE ])dnl ACX_PTHREAD