Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:26:05 -0500 From: Brian Ford Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ./configure and pthreads In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Herb Martin wrote: > I am attempting to ./configure 'dspam' for make > on CygWin 1.5.18 (release with most all updates). > > ./configure --version > dspam configure 3.6.rc3 > generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59 > > ./configure gives this pthreads related error message: > > checking how you like your pthreads... unknown > configure: error: Unable to determine how to compile with pthreads > > Sure I would love someone to just 'solve' this for me > but what is the most useful way to diagnose (or learn > to diagnose) this problem so that I may create a more > useful report? > > (Although a developer, I admit to being mostly > ignorant of make/configure issues...but I can learn.) Look in the build directory for the file config.log, search for pthreads, and find out what failed. Sounds like their pthread detection macro is broken. I have one that works fine on Cygwin. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/