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dnl PGSGL: When updating, comment out port-specific part below;
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dnl see the comment below with the word "PostgreSQL".
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dnl Available from the GNU Autoconf Macro Archive at:
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dnl http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/htmldoc/acx_pthread.html
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AC_DEFUN([ACX_PTHREAD], [
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AC_REQUIRE([AC_CANONICAL_HOST])
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# We used to check for pthread.h first, but this fails if pthread.h
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# requires special compiler flags (e.g. on True64 or Sequent).
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# It gets checked for in the link test anyway.
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# First of all, check if the user has set any of the PTHREAD_LIBS,
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# etcetera environment variables, and if threads linking works using
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if test x"$PTHREAD_LIBS$PTHREAD_CFLAGS" != x; then
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CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
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LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS"
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AC_MSG_CHECKING([for pthread_join in LIBS=$PTHREAD_LIBS with CFLAGS=$PTHREAD_CFLAGS])
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AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC(pthread_join, acx_pthread_ok=yes)
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AC_MSG_RESULT($acx_pthread_ok)
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if test x"$acx_pthread_ok" = xno; then
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# We must check for the threads library under a number of different
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# names; the ordering is very important because some systems
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# (e.g. DEC) have both -lpthread and -lpthreads, where one of the
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# libraries is broken (non-POSIX).
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# Create a list of thread flags to try. Items starting with a "-" are
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# C compiler flags, and other items are library names, except for "none"
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# which indicates that we try without any flags at all, and "pthread-config"
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# which is a program returning the flags for the Pth emulation library.
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acx_pthread_flags="pthreads none -Kthread -kthread lthread -pthread -pthreads -mthreads pthread --thread-safe -mt pthread-config pthreadGC2"
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# The ordering *is* (sometimes) important. Some notes on the
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# individual items follow:
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# pthreads: AIX (must check this before -lpthread)
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# none: in case threads are in libc; should be tried before -Kthread and
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# other compiler flags to prevent continual compiler warnings
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# -Kthread: Sequent (threads in libc, but -Kthread needed for pthread.h)
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# -kthread: FreeBSD kernel threads (preferred to -pthread since SMP-able)
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# lthread: LinuxThreads port on FreeBSD (also preferred to -pthread)
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# -pthread: Linux/gcc (kernel threads), BSD/gcc (userland threads)
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# -pthreads: Solaris/gcc
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# -mthreads: Mingw32/gcc, Lynx/gcc
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# -mt: Sun Workshop C (may only link SunOS threads [-lthread], but it
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# doesn't hurt to check since this sometimes defines pthreads too;
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# also defines -D_REENTRANT)
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# pthread: Linux, etcetera
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# --thread-safe: KAI C++
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# pthread-config: use pthread-config program (for GNU Pth library)
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case "${host_cpu}-${host_os}" in
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# On Solaris (at least, for some versions), libc contains stubbed
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# (non-functional) versions of the pthreads routines, so link-based
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# tests will erroneously succeed. (We need to link with -pthread or
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# -lpthread.) (The stubs are missing pthread_cleanup_push, or rather
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# a function called by this macro, so we could check for that, but
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# who knows whether they'll stub that too in a future libc.) So,
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# we'll just look for -pthreads and -lpthread first:
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acx_pthread_flags="-pthread -pthreads pthread -mt $acx_pthread_flags"
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if test x"$acx_pthread_ok" = xno; then
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for flag in $acx_pthread_flags; do
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AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether pthreads work without any flags])
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AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether pthreads work with $flag])
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tryPTHREAD_CFLAGS="$flag"
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# skip this if we already have flags defined, for PostgreSQL
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if test x"$PTHREAD_CFLAGS" != x -o x"$PTHREAD_LIBS" != x; then continue; fi
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AC_CHECK_PROG(acx_pthread_config, pthread-config, yes, no)
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if test x"$acx_pthread_config" = xno; then continue; fi
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tryPTHREAD_CFLAGS="`pthread-config --cflags`"
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tryPTHREAD_LIBS="`pthread-config --ldflags` `pthread-config --libs`"
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AC_MSG_CHECKING([for the pthreads library -l$flag])
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tryPTHREAD_LIBS="-l$flag"
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save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
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LIBS="$tryPTHREAD_LIBS $PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS"
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CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS $tryPTHREAD_CFLAGS"
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# Check for various functions. We must include pthread.h,
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# since some functions may be macros. (On the Sequent, we
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# need a special flag -Kthread to make this header compile.)
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# We check for pthread_join because it is in -lpthread on IRIX
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# while pthread_create is in libc. We check for pthread_attr_init
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# due to DEC craziness with -lpthreads. We check for
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# pthread_cleanup_push because it is one of the few pthread
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# functions on Solaris that doesn't have a non-functional libc stub.
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# We try pthread_create on general principles.
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AC_TRY_LINK([#include <pthread.h>],
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[pthread_t th; pthread_join(th, 0);
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pthread_attr_init(0); pthread_cleanup_push(0, 0);
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pthread_create(0,0,0,0); pthread_cleanup_pop(0); ],
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[acx_pthread_ok=yes], [acx_pthread_ok=no])
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if test "x$acx_pthread_ok" = xyes; then
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# Don't use options that are ignored by the compiler.
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# We find them by checking stderror.
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cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
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main (int argc, char **argv)
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rm -f conftest.$ac_objext conftest$ac_exeext
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# Check both linking and compiling, because they might tolerate different options.
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if test "`(eval $ac_link 2>&1 1>&5)`" = "" && test "`(eval $ac_compile 2>&1 1>&5)`" = ""; then
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# we continue with more flags because Linux needs -lpthread
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# for libpq builds on PostgreSQL. The test above only
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# tests for building binaries, not shared libraries.
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PTHREAD_LIBS=" $tryPTHREAD_LIBS $PTHREAD_LIBS"
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PTHREAD_CFLAGS="$PTHREAD_CFLAGS $tryPTHREAD_CFLAGS"
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else acx_pthread_ok=no
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CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS"
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AC_MSG_RESULT($acx_pthread_ok)
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# Various other checks:
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if test "x$acx_pthread_ok" = xyes; then
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LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS"
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save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
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CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
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# Detect AIX lossage: threads are created detached by default
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# and the JOINABLE attribute has a nonstandard name (UNDETACHED).
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AC_MSG_CHECKING([for joinable pthread attribute])
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AC_TRY_LINK([#include <pthread.h>],
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[int attr=PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE;],
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ok=PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE, ok=unknown)
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if test x"$ok" = xunknown; then
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AC_TRY_LINK([#include <pthread.h>],
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[int attr=PTHREAD_CREATE_UNDETACHED;],
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ok=PTHREAD_CREATE_UNDETACHED, ok=unknown)
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if test x"$ok" != xPTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE; then
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AC_DEFINE(PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE, $ok,
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[Define to the necessary symbol if this constant
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uses a non-standard name on your system.])
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if test x"$ok" = xunknown; then
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AC_MSG_WARN([we do not know how to create joinable pthreads])
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AC_MSG_CHECKING([if more special flags are required for pthreads])
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# We always add these in PostgreSQL
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# case "${host_cpu}-${host_os}" in
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# *-aix* | *-freebsd* | *-darwin*) flag="-D_THREAD_SAFE";;
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# *solaris* | *-osf* | *-hpux*) flag="-D_REENTRANT";;
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AC_MSG_RESULT(${flag})
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if test "x$flag" != xno; then
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PTHREAD_CFLAGS="$flag $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
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CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS"
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# Supporting cc_r would require a special CC in all places that
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# use libpq, and that is ugly, so we don't do it. Users can still
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# define their compiler as cc_r to do thread builds of everything.
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# More AIX lossage: must compile with cc_r
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AC_CHECK_PROG(PTHREAD_CC, cc_r, cc_r, ${CC})
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AC_SUBST(PTHREAD_LIBS)
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AC_SUBST(PTHREAD_CFLAGS)
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# Finally, execute ACTION-IF-FOUND/ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND:
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if test x"$acx_pthread_ok" = xyes; then
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ifelse([$1],,AC_DEFINE(HAVE_PTHREAD,1,[Define if you have POSIX threads libraries and header files.]),[$1])