# threads.m4 -- # # This file provides a set of autoconf macros to help # pilot-link find threads support # AC_DEFUN([PILOT_LINK_THREADS_SUPPORT], [ use_threads=false AC_ARG_ENABLE(threads,[ --enable-threads Add this to have built-in thread safety],use_threads=true) if $use_threads; then ACX_PTHREAD if test x"$acx_pthread_ok" = xno; then use_threads=false fi else AC_DEFINE(HAVE_PTHREADS, 0, [Define if we have pthreads]) use_threads=false fi ]) # ------------------------------------------------ # ACX_PTHREAD # Steven G. Johnson # http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/acx_pthread.html # ------------------------------------------------ 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.) So, # we'll just look for -pthreads and -lpthread first: acx_pthread_flags="-pthread -pthreads pthread -mt $acx_pthread_flags" ;; esac if test x"$acx_pthread_ok" = xno; then for flag in $acx_pthread_flags; do case $flag in none) AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether pthreads work without any flags]) ;; -*) AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether pthreads work with $flag]) PTHREAD_CFLAGS="$flag" ;; pthread-config) AC_CHECK_PROG(acx_pthread_config, pthread-config, yes, no) if test x"$acx_pthread_config" = xno; then continue; fi PTHREAD_CFLAGS="`pthread-config --cflags`" PTHREAD_LIBS="`pthread-config --ldflags` `pthread-config --libs`" ;; *) AC_MSG_CHECKING([for the pthreads library -l$flag]) PTHREAD_LIBS="-l$flag" ;; esac save_LIBS="$LIBS" save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS" CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS" # Check for various functions. We must include pthread.h, # since some functions may be macros. (On the Sequent, we # need a special flag -Kthread to make this header compile.) # We check for pthread_join because it is in -lpthread on IRIX # while pthread_create is in libc. We check for pthread_attr_init # due to DEC craziness with -lpthreads. We check for # pthread_cleanup_push because it is one of the few pthread # functions on Solaris that doesn't have a non-functional libc stub. # We try pthread_create on general principles. AC_TRY_LINK([#include ], [pthread_t th; pthread_join(th, 0); pthread_attr_init(0); pthread_cleanup_push(0, 0); pthread_create(0,0,0,0); pthread_cleanup_pop(0); ], [acx_pthread_ok=yes]) LIBS="$save_LIBS" CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS" AC_MSG_RESULT($acx_pthread_ok) if test "x$acx_pthread_ok" = xyes; then break; fi PTHREAD_LIBS="" PTHREAD_CFLAGS="" done fi # Various other checks: if test "x$acx_pthread_ok" = xyes; then save_LIBS="$LIBS" LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS" save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS" # Detect AIX lossage: JOINABLE attribute is called UNDETACHED. AC_MSG_CHECKING([for joinable pthread attribute]) attr_name=unknown for attr in PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE PTHREAD_CREATE_UNDETACHED; do AC_TRY_LINK([#include ], [int attr=$attr;], [attr_name=$attr; break]) done AC_MSG_RESULT($attr_name) if test "$attr_name" != PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE; then AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE, $attr_name, [Define to necessary symbol if this constant uses a non-standard name on your system.]) fi AC_MSG_CHECKING([if more special flags are required for pthreads]) flag=no case "${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