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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2009-08-12 16:25:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2009-08-12 16:25:16 +0200 |
| commit | 0bbe86c750876216735f7fc0436e6b68c3523519 (patch) | |
| tree | 0333fd2ed523e26d0f8fd5519e54a34b96ac1ffa /m4/threadlib.m4 | |
| parent | b8521e81e705f88784e7a6709bcd6c5a3ea440e0 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-0bbe86c750876216735f7fc0436e6b68c3523519.tar.gz | |
Disable multithread support by default on Cygwin 1.5.x.
Diffstat (limited to 'm4/threadlib.m4')
| -rw-r--r-- | m4/threadlib.m4 | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/m4/threadlib.m4 b/m4/threadlib.m4 index 3dd38aa877..34998d41c5 100644 --- a/m4/threadlib.m4 +++ b/m4/threadlib.m4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# threadlib.m4 serial 3 (gettext-0.18) +# threadlib.m4 serial 4 (gettext-0.18) dnl Copyright (C) 2005-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, @@ -56,7 +56,16 @@ AC_HELP_STRING([--disable-threads], [build without multithread safety]), dnl Disable multithreading by default on OSF/1, because it interferes dnl with fork()/exec(): When msgexec is linked with -lpthread, its dnl child process gets an endless segmentation fault inside execvp(). + dnl Disable multithreading by default on Cygwin 1.5.x, because it has + dnl bugs that lead to endless loops or crashes. See + dnl <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-08/msg00283.html>. osf*) gl_use_threads=no ;; + cygwin*) + case `uname -r` in + 1.[0-5].*) gl_use_threads=no ;; + *) gl_use_threads=yes ;; + esac + ;; *) gl_use_threads=yes ;; esac fi |