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authorGabriele Svelto <gabriele.svelto@gmail.com>2012-04-15 14:11:08 +0200
committerMartin Sustrik <sustrik@250bpm.com>2012-04-16 06:11:24 +0200
commit35d748dfa5f846916c32142fc641eae0b5d9b88d (patch)
treec383c6abeb65d440a991b0336de2e471117520a0 /m4
parentcb89ca70646591a6cb29e81be43c442d6b5d653b (diff)
Improve POSIX threads detection and configuration
POSIX threads support is checked using the AX_PTHREAD macro, this provides improved support and coverage of different platforms. The M4 macros are also moved into the M4 directory. Signed-off-by: Gabriele Svelto <gabriele.svelto@gmail.com>
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+# ===========================================================================
+# http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_pthread.html
+# ===========================================================================
+#
+# SYNOPSIS
+#
+# AX_PTHREAD([ACTION-IF-FOUND[, ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND]])
+#
+# DESCRIPTION
+#
+# This macro figures out how to build C programs using POSIX threads. It
+# sets the PTHREAD_LIBS output variable to the threads library and linker
+# flags, and the PTHREAD_CFLAGS output variable to any special C compiler
+# flags that are needed. (The user can also force certain compiler
+# flags/libs to be tested by setting these environment variables.)
+#
+# Also sets PTHREAD_CC to any special C compiler that is needed for
+# multi-threaded programs (defaults to the value of CC otherwise). (This
+# is necessary on AIX to use the special cc_r compiler alias.)
+#
+# NOTE: You are assumed to not only compile your program with these flags,
+# but also link it with them as well. e.g. you should link with
+# $PTHREAD_CC $CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS $LDFLAGS ... $PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS
+#
+# If you are only building threads programs, you may wish to use these
+# variables in your default LIBS, CFLAGS, and CC:
+#
+# LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS"
+# CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
+# CC="$PTHREAD_CC"
+#
+# In addition, if the PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE thread-attribute constant
+# has a nonstandard name, defines PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE to that name
+# (e.g. PTHREAD_CREATE_UNDETACHED on AIX).
+#
+# Also HAVE_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT is defined if pthread is found and the
+# PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT symbol is defined when compiling with
+# PTHREAD_CFLAGS.
+#
+# ACTION-IF-FOUND is a list of shell commands to run if a threads library
+# is found, and ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND is a list of commands to run it if it
+# is not found. If ACTION-IF-FOUND is not specified, the default action
+# will define HAVE_PTHREAD.
+#
+# Please let the authors know if this macro fails on any platform, or if
+# you have any other suggestions or comments. This macro was based on work
+# by SGJ on autoconf scripts for FFTW (http://www.fftw.org/) (with help
+# from M. Frigo), as well as ac_pthread and hb_pthread macros posted by
+# Alejandro Forero Cuervo to the autoconf macro repository. We are also
+# grateful for the helpful feedback of numerous users.
+#
+# Updated for Autoconf 2.68 by Daniel Richard G.
+#
+# LICENSE
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2008 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
+# Copyright (c) 2011 Daniel Richard G. <skunk@iSKUNK.ORG>
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
+# Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your
+# option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
+# Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+# with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
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+# gives unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify the configure
+# scripts that are the output of Autoconf when processing the Macro. You
+# need not follow the terms of the GNU General Public License when using
+# or distributing such scripts, even though portions of the text of the
+# Macro appear in them. The GNU General Public License (GPL) does govern
+# all other use of the material that constitutes the Autoconf Macro.
+#
+# This special exception to the GPL applies to versions of the Autoconf
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+# modified version of the Autoconf Macro, you may extend this special
+# exception to the GPL to apply to your modified version as well.
+
+#serial 18
+
+AU_ALIAS([ACX_PTHREAD], [AX_PTHREAD])
+AC_DEFUN([AX_PTHREAD], [
+AC_REQUIRE([AC_CANONICAL_HOST])
+AC_LANG_PUSH([C])
+ax_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=$PTHREAD_CFLAGS])
+ AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC(pthread_join, ax_pthread_ok=yes)
+ AC_MSG_RESULT($ax_pthread_ok)
+ if test x"$ax_pthread_ok" = xno; then
+ PTHREAD_LIBS=""
+ PTHREAD_CFLAGS=""
+ fi
+ LIBS="$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.
+
+ax_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)
+# ... -mt is also the pthreads flag for HP/aCC
+# pthread: Linux, etcetera
+# --thread-safe: KAI C++
+# pthread-config: use pthread-config program (for GNU Pth library)
+
+case ${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 -pthreads/-mt/
+ # -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:
+
+ ax_pthread_flags="-pthreads pthread -mt -pthread $ax_pthread_flags"
+ ;;
+
+ darwin*)
+ ax_pthread_flags="-pthread $ax_pthread_flags"
+ ;;
+esac
+
+if test x"$ax_pthread_ok" = xno; then
+for flag in $ax_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(ax_pthread_config, pthread-config, yes, no)
+ if test x"$ax_pthread_config" = xno; then continue; fi
+ PTHREAD_CFLAGS="`pthread-config --cflags`"
+ PTHREAD_LIBS="`pthread-config --ldflags` `pthread-config --libs`"
+ ;;
+
+ *)
+ AC_MSG_CHECKING([for the pthreads library -l$flag])
+ PTHREAD_LIBS="-l$flag"
+ ;;
+ esac
+
+ save_LIBS="$LIBS"
+ save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
+ LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS"
+ CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
+
+ # Check for various functions. We must include pthread.h,
+ # since some functions may be macros. (On the Sequent, we
+ # need a special flag -Kthread to make this header compile.)
+ # We check for pthread_join because it is in -lpthread on IRIX
+ # while pthread_create is in libc. We check for pthread_attr_init
+ # due to DEC craziness with -lpthreads. We check for
+ # pthread_cleanup_push because it is one of the few pthread
+ # functions on Solaris that doesn't have a non-functional libc stub.
+ # We try pthread_create on general principles.
+ AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([#include <pthread.h>
+ static void routine(void *a) { a = 0; }
+ static void *start_routine(void *a) { return a; }],
+ [pthread_t th; pthread_attr_t attr;
+ pthread_create(&th, 0, start_routine, 0);
+ pthread_join(th, 0);
+ pthread_attr_init(&attr);
+ pthread_cleanup_push(routine, 0);
+ pthread_cleanup_pop(0) /* ; */])],
+ [ax_pthread_ok=yes],
+ [])
+
+ LIBS="$save_LIBS"
+ CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS"
+
+ AC_MSG_RESULT($ax_pthread_ok)
+ if test "x$ax_pthread_ok" = xyes; then
+ break;
+ fi
+
+ PTHREAD_LIBS=""
+ PTHREAD_CFLAGS=""
+done
+fi
+
+# Various other checks:
+if test "x$ax_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_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([#include <pthread.h>],
+ [int attr = $attr; return attr /* ; */])],
+ [attr_name=$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 ${host_os} in
+ aix* | freebsd* | darwin*) flag="-D_THREAD_SAFE";;
+ osf* | hpux*) flag="-D_REENTRANT";;
+ solaris*)
+ if test "$GCC" = "yes"; then
+ flag="-D_REENTRANT"
+ else
+ flag="-mt -D_REENTRANT"
+ fi
+ ;;
+ esac
+ AC_MSG_RESULT(${flag})
+ if test "x$flag" != xno; then
+ PTHREAD_CFLAGS="$flag $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
+ fi
+
+ AC_CACHE_CHECK([for PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT],
+ ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT, [
+ AC_LINK_IFELSE([
+ AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[#include <pthread.h>]], [[int i = PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT;]])],
+ [ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT=yes],
+ [ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT=no])
+ ])
+ AS_IF([test "x$ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT" = "xyes"],
+ AC_DEFINE([HAVE_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT], 1, [Have PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT.]))
+
+ LIBS="$save_LIBS"
+ CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS"
+
+ # More AIX lossage: must compile with xlc_r or cc_r
+ if test x"$GCC" != xyes; then
+ AC_CHECK_PROGS(PTHREAD_CC, xlc_r cc_r, ${CC})
+ else
+ PTHREAD_CC=$CC
+ fi
+else
+ PTHREAD_CC="$CC"
+fi
+
+AC_SUBST(PTHREAD_LIBS)
+AC_SUBST(PTHREAD_CFLAGS)
+AC_SUBST(PTHREAD_CC)
+
+# Finally, execute ACTION-IF-FOUND/ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND:
+if test x"$ax_pthread_ok" = xyes; then
+ ifelse([$1],,AC_DEFINE(HAVE_PTHREAD,1,[Define if you have POSIX threads libraries and header files.]),[$1])
+ :
+else
+ ax_pthread_ok=no
+ $2
+fi
+AC_LANG_POP
+])dnl AX_PTHREAD