[#include <dirent.h>])
GIT_CONF_SUBST([NO_D_TYPE_IN_DIRENT])
#
+# Define NO_GECOS_IN_PWENT if you don't have pw_gecos in struct passwd
+# in the C library.
+AC_CHECK_MEMBER(struct passwd.pw_gecos,
+[NO_GECOS_IN_PWENT=],
+[NO_GECOS_IN_PWENT=YesPlease],
+[#include <pwd.h>])
+GIT_CONF_SUBST([NO_GECOS_IN_PWENT])
+#
# Define NO_SOCKADDR_STORAGE if your platform does not have struct
# sockaddr_storage.
AC_CHECK_TYPE(struct sockaddr_storage,
[HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H=YesPlease],
[HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H=])
GIT_CONF_SUBST([HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H])
+#
+# Define HAVE_STRINGS_H if you have strings.h
+AC_CHECK_HEADER([strings.h],
+[HAVE_STRINGS_H=YesPlease],
+[HAVE_STRINGS_H=])
+GIT_CONF_SUBST([HAVE_STRINGS_H])
# Define CHARSET_LIB if libiconv does not export the locale_charset symbol
# and libcharset does
CHARSET_LIB=
# -D_REENTRANT' or some such.
elif test -z "$PTHREAD_CFLAGS"; then
threads_found=no
- for opt in -mt -pthread -lpthread; do
+ # Attempt to compile and link some code using pthreads to determine
+ # required linker flags. The order is somewhat important here: We
+ # first try it without any extra flags, to catch systems where
+ # pthreads are part of the C library, then go on testing various other
+ # flags. We do so to avoid false positives. For example, on Mac OS X
+ # pthreads are part of the C library; moreover, the compiler allows us
+ # to add "-mt" to the CFLAGS (although it will do nothing except
+ # trigger a warning about an unused flag). Hence if we checked for
+ # "-mt" before "" we would end up picking it. But unfortunately this
+ # would then trigger compiler warnings on every single file we compile.
+ for opt in "" -mt -pthread -lpthread; do
old_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
CFLAGS="$opt $CFLAGS"
AC_MSG_CHECKING([for POSIX Threads with '$opt'])