build mysql with uclibc-nptl fails due to missing getconf

Bernhard Reutner-Fischer rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Tue Apr 6 14:52:09 UTC 2010


On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 02:39:53PM +0000, Natanael Copa wrote:
>building mysql with uclibc-pthread fails with:
>
>checking "getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION"... ./configure: line 25331:
>getconf: command not found
>"unknown"
>checking "LinuxThreads in header file comment"... "Not found"
>configure: error: This is a Linux system without a working getconf,
>and Linuxthreads was not found. Please install it (or a new glibc) and
>try again.
>
>Looks like it tries getconf to detect nptl version and if it fails it
>tries to fall back to linuxthreads (which worked in uclibc-0.9.30.x).
>
>I dont know if there are more of those configure scripts out there,
>but it seem slike the getconf utility is specified in posix.
>
>at some point we might want make a getconf utility for uclibc. I
>suppose a tool like that could be hosted outside uclibc in a separate
>project too.

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Patches to make confstr useful are welcome.


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