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

[Rainer Groesslinger]

> 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.
> 

I didn't claim that they are valid solutions, that's why I called them
"work around" (as in "both ways at least let you use pnet and you aren't
stuck with a compile error").

If you remember, I mailed this problem to the list a few weeks ago(based
on the reports some people made) but different glibc version etc. don't
seem to make a difference and since I recompiled my glibc with nptl and
I can reproduce the problem now I reported this as a bug. (As of yet, I
couldn't find anyone who has glibc+nptl and can compile pnet, for all
the people I asked it fails with the error written in the bug).

I am using glibc-2.3.2 with a branch update from 20031115 and thus, NPTL
0.60.

Feel free to close the bug with "worksforme" (or whatever it's called on
savannah ;), perhaps all the people I talked to about this are just
using (the same?) faulty pthread.h (which means it'd be broken for some
time now :).

But we'll see, if I hear anything new about this, I'll let the list know
again ;)

-- 
Rainer