Re: [Pnet-developers] [bugs #8074] pnet does not build with threads support against a glibc with nptl

[Rhys Weatherley]

On Wednesday 10 March 2004 03:37 am, Rainer Groesslinger wrote:
> There are currently two work arounds for this problem:
> 1. configure with --enable-threads=none
> or
> 2. in support/pt_defs.h remove those three lines:
> (it will compile and threads seem to work then)
> -----
> #ifdef PTHREAD_RWLOCK_INITIALIZER
>        #define IL_HAVE_RWLOCKS
> #endif
> -----

Neither of these are a valid solution to the problem.  Those 3 lines detect 
the presence of read-write locks, which then don't work.  I would consider 
this to be a bug in your pthread.h file, not pnet - it should not be defining 
PTHREAD_RWLOCK_INITIALIZER if it doesn't have pthread_rwlock_t!

But if you could suggest a more robust way to detect the presense of 
read-write locks for your system, I'm all ears.

Cheers,

Rhys.