1*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# =========================================================================== 2*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_pthread.html 3*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# =========================================================================== 4*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# 5*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# SYNOPSIS 6*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# 7*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# AX_PTHREAD([ACTION-IF-FOUND[, ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND]]) 8*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# 9*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# DESCRIPTION 10*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# 11*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# This macro figures out how to build C programs using POSIX threads. It 12*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# sets the PTHREAD_LIBS output variable to the threads library and linker 13*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# flags, and the PTHREAD_CFLAGS output variable to any special C compiler 14*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# flags that are needed. (The user can also force certain compiler 15*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# flags/libs to be tested by setting these environment variables.) 16*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# 17*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# Also sets PTHREAD_CC and PTHREAD_CXX to any special C compiler that is 18*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# needed for multi-threaded programs (defaults to the value of CC 19*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# respectively CXX otherwise). (This is necessary on e.g. AIX to use the 20*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# special cc_r/CC_r compiler alias.) 21*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# 22*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# NOTE: You are assumed to not only compile your program with these flags, 23*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# but also to link with them as well. For example, you might link with 24*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# $PTHREAD_CC $CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS $LDFLAGS ... $PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS 25*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# $PTHREAD_CXX $CXXFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS $LDFLAGS ... $PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS 26*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# 27*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# If you are only building threaded programs, you may wish to use these 28*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# variables in your default LIBS, CFLAGS, and CC: 29*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# 30*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS" 31*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS" 32*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS" 33*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# CC="$PTHREAD_CC" 34*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# CXX="$PTHREAD_CXX" 35*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# 36*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# In addition, if the PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE thread-attribute constant 37*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# has a nonstandard name, this macro defines PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE to 38*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# that name (e.g. PTHREAD_CREATE_UNDETACHED on AIX). 39*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# 40*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# Also HAVE_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT is defined if pthread is found and the 41*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT symbol is defined when compiling with 42*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# PTHREAD_CFLAGS. 43*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# 44*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# ACTION-IF-FOUND is a list of shell commands to run if a threads library 45*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# is found, and ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND is a list of commands to run it if it 46*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# is not found. If ACTION-IF-FOUND is not specified, the default action 47*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# will define HAVE_PTHREAD. 48*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# 49*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# Please let the authors know if this macro fails on any platform, or if 50*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# you have any other suggestions or comments. This macro was based on work 51*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# by SGJ on autoconf scripts for FFTW (http://www.fftw.org/) (with help 52*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# from M. Frigo), as well as ac_pthread and hb_pthread macros posted by 53*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# Alejandro Forero Cuervo to the autoconf macro repository. We are also 54*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# grateful for the helpful feedback of numerous users. 55*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# 56*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# Updated for Autoconf 2.68 by Daniel Richard G. 57*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# 58*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# LICENSE 59*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# 60*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# Copyright (c) 2008 Steven G. Johnson <[email protected]> 61*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# Copyright (c) 2011 Daniel Richard G. <[email protected]> 62*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# Copyright (c) 2019 Marc Stevens <[email protected]> 63*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# 64*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it 65*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the 66*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your 67*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# option) any later version. 68*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# 69*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 70*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 71*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General 72*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# Public License for more details. 73*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# 74*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along 75*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. 76*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# 77*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# As a special exception, the respective Autoconf Macro's copyright owner 78*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# gives unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify the configure 79*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# scripts that are the output of Autoconf when processing the Macro. You 80*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# need not follow the terms of the GNU General Public License when using 81*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# or distributing such scripts, even though portions of the text of the 82*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# Macro appear in them. The GNU General Public License (GPL) does govern 83*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# all other use of the material that constitutes the Autoconf Macro. 84*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# 85*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# This special exception to the GPL applies to versions of the Autoconf 86*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# Macro released by the Autoconf Archive. When you make and distribute a 87*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# modified version of the Autoconf Macro, you may extend this special 88*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# exception to the GPL to apply to your modified version as well. 89*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 90*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva#serial 31 91*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 92*94c4a1e1SFrank PivaAU_ALIAS([ACX_PTHREAD], [AX_PTHREAD]) 93*94c4a1e1SFrank PivaAC_DEFUN([AX_PTHREAD], [ 94*94c4a1e1SFrank PivaAC_REQUIRE([AC_CANONICAL_HOST]) 95*94c4a1e1SFrank PivaAC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_CC]) 96*94c4a1e1SFrank PivaAC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_SED]) 97*94c4a1e1SFrank PivaAC_LANG_PUSH([C]) 98*94c4a1e1SFrank Pivaax_pthread_ok=no 99*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 100*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# We used to check for pthread.h first, but this fails if pthread.h 101*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# requires special compiler flags (e.g. on Tru64 or Sequent). 102*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# It gets checked for in the link test anyway. 103*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 104*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# First of all, check if the user has set any of the PTHREAD_LIBS, 105*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# etcetera environment variables, and if threads linking works using 106*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# them: 107*94c4a1e1SFrank Pivaif test "x$PTHREAD_CFLAGS$PTHREAD_LIBS" != "x"; then 108*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_pthread_save_CC="$CC" 109*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" 110*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_pthread_save_LIBS="$LIBS" 111*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AS_IF([test "x$PTHREAD_CC" != "x"], [CC="$PTHREAD_CC"]) 112*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AS_IF([test "x$PTHREAD_CXX" != "x"], [CXX="$PTHREAD_CXX"]) 113*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS" 114*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS" 115*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AC_MSG_CHECKING([for pthread_join using $CC $PTHREAD_CFLAGS $PTHREAD_LIBS]) 116*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_CALL([], [pthread_join])], [ax_pthread_ok=yes]) 117*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AC_MSG_RESULT([$ax_pthread_ok]) 118*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva if test "x$ax_pthread_ok" = "xno"; then 119*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva PTHREAD_LIBS="" 120*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva PTHREAD_CFLAGS="" 121*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva fi 122*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva CC="$ax_pthread_save_CC" 123*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva CFLAGS="$ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS" 124*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva LIBS="$ax_pthread_save_LIBS" 125*94c4a1e1SFrank Pivafi 126*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 127*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# We must check for the threads library under a number of different 128*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# names; the ordering is very important because some systems 129*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# (e.g. DEC) have both -lpthread and -lpthreads, where one of the 130*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# libraries is broken (non-POSIX). 131*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 132*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# Create a list of thread flags to try. Items with a "," contain both 133*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# C compiler flags (before ",") and linker flags (after ","). Other items 134*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# starting with a "-" are C compiler flags, and remaining items are 135*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# library names, except for "none" which indicates that we try without 136*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# any flags at all, and "pthread-config" which is a program returning 137*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# the flags for the Pth emulation library. 138*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 139*94c4a1e1SFrank Pivaax_pthread_flags="pthreads none -Kthread -pthread -pthreads -mthreads pthread --thread-safe -mt pthread-config" 140*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 141*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# The ordering *is* (sometimes) important. Some notes on the 142*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# individual items follow: 143*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 144*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# pthreads: AIX (must check this before -lpthread) 145*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# none: in case threads are in libc; should be tried before -Kthread and 146*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# other compiler flags to prevent continual compiler warnings 147*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# -Kthread: Sequent (threads in libc, but -Kthread needed for pthread.h) 148*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# -pthread: Linux/gcc (kernel threads), BSD/gcc (userland threads), Tru64 149*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# (Note: HP C rejects this with "bad form for `-t' option") 150*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# -pthreads: Solaris/gcc (Note: HP C also rejects) 151*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# -mt: Sun Workshop C (may only link SunOS threads [-lthread], but it 152*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# doesn't hurt to check since this sometimes defines pthreads and 153*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# -D_REENTRANT too), HP C (must be checked before -lpthread, which 154*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# is present but should not be used directly; and before -mthreads, 155*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# because the compiler interprets this as "-mt" + "-hreads") 156*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# -mthreads: Mingw32/gcc, Lynx/gcc 157*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# pthread: Linux, etcetera 158*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# --thread-safe: KAI C++ 159*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# pthread-config: use pthread-config program (for GNU Pth library) 160*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 161*94c4a1e1SFrank Pivacase $host_os in 162*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 163*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva freebsd*) 164*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 165*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # -kthread: FreeBSD kernel threads (preferred to -pthread since SMP-able) 166*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # lthread: LinuxThreads port on FreeBSD (also preferred to -pthread) 167*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 168*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_pthread_flags="-kthread lthread $ax_pthread_flags" 169*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ;; 170*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 171*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva hpux*) 172*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 173*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # From the cc(1) man page: "[-mt] Sets various -D flags to enable 174*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # multi-threading and also sets -lpthread." 175*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 176*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_pthread_flags="-mt -pthread pthread $ax_pthread_flags" 177*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ;; 178*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 179*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva openedition*) 180*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 181*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # IBM z/OS requires a feature-test macro to be defined in order to 182*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # enable POSIX threads at all, so give the user a hint if this is 183*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # not set. (We don't define these ourselves, as they can affect 184*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # other portions of the system API in unpredictable ways.) 185*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 186*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AC_EGREP_CPP([AX_PTHREAD_ZOS_MISSING], 187*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [ 188*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# if !defined(_OPEN_THREADS) && !defined(_UNIX03_THREADS) 189*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AX_PTHREAD_ZOS_MISSING 190*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# endif 191*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ], 192*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [AC_MSG_WARN([IBM z/OS requires -D_OPEN_THREADS or -D_UNIX03_THREADS to enable pthreads support.])]) 193*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ;; 194*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 195*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva solaris*) 196*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 197*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # On Solaris (at least, for some versions), libc contains stubbed 198*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # (non-functional) versions of the pthreads routines, so link-based 199*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # tests will erroneously succeed. (N.B.: The stubs are missing 200*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # pthread_cleanup_push, or rather a function called by this macro, 201*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # so we could check for that, but who knows whether they'll stub 202*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # that too in a future libc.) So we'll check first for the 203*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # standard Solaris way of linking pthreads (-mt -lpthread). 204*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 205*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_pthread_flags="-mt,-lpthread pthread $ax_pthread_flags" 206*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ;; 207*94c4a1e1SFrank Pivaesac 208*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 209*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# Are we compiling with Clang? 210*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 211*94c4a1e1SFrank PivaAC_CACHE_CHECK([whether $CC is Clang], 212*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG], 213*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG=no 214*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # Note that Autoconf sets GCC=yes for Clang as well as GCC 215*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva if test "x$GCC" = "xyes"; then 216*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AC_EGREP_CPP([AX_PTHREAD_CC_IS_CLANG], 217*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [/* Note: Clang 2.7 lacks __clang_[a-z]+__ */ 218*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# if defined(__clang__) && defined(__llvm__) 219*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AX_PTHREAD_CC_IS_CLANG 220*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# endif 221*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ], 222*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG=yes]) 223*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva fi 224*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ]) 225*94c4a1e1SFrank Pivaax_pthread_clang="$ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG" 226*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 227*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 228*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# GCC generally uses -pthread, or -pthreads on some platforms (e.g. SPARC) 229*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 230*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# Note that for GCC and Clang -pthread generally implies -lpthread, 231*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# except when -nostdlib is passed. 232*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# This is problematic using libtool to build C++ shared libraries with pthread: 233*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25460 234*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661333 235*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=468555 236*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# To solve this, first try -pthread together with -lpthread for GCC 237*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 238*94c4a1e1SFrank PivaAS_IF([test "x$GCC" = "xyes"], 239*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [ax_pthread_flags="-pthread,-lpthread -pthread -pthreads $ax_pthread_flags"]) 240*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 241*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# Clang takes -pthread (never supported any other flag), but we'll try with -lpthread first 242*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 243*94c4a1e1SFrank PivaAS_IF([test "x$ax_pthread_clang" = "xyes"], 244*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [ax_pthread_flags="-pthread,-lpthread -pthread"]) 245*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 246*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 247*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# The presence of a feature test macro requesting re-entrant function 248*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# definitions is, on some systems, a strong hint that pthreads support is 249*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# correctly enabled 250*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 251*94c4a1e1SFrank Pivacase $host_os in 252*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva darwin* | hpux* | linux* | osf* | solaris*) 253*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_pthread_check_macro="_REENTRANT" 254*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ;; 255*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 256*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva aix*) 257*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_pthread_check_macro="_THREAD_SAFE" 258*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ;; 259*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 260*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva *) 261*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_pthread_check_macro="--" 262*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ;; 263*94c4a1e1SFrank Pivaesac 264*94c4a1e1SFrank PivaAS_IF([test "x$ax_pthread_check_macro" = "x--"], 265*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [ax_pthread_check_cond=0], 266*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [ax_pthread_check_cond="!defined($ax_pthread_check_macro)"]) 267*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 268*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 269*94c4a1e1SFrank Pivaif test "x$ax_pthread_ok" = "xno"; then 270*94c4a1e1SFrank Pivafor ax_pthread_try_flag in $ax_pthread_flags; do 271*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 272*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva case $ax_pthread_try_flag in 273*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva none) 274*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether pthreads work without any flags]) 275*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ;; 276*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 277*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva *,*) 278*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva PTHREAD_CFLAGS=`echo $ax_pthread_try_flag | sed "s/^\(.*\),\(.*\)$/\1/"` 279*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva PTHREAD_LIBS=`echo $ax_pthread_try_flag | sed "s/^\(.*\),\(.*\)$/\2/"` 280*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether pthreads work with "$PTHREAD_CFLAGS" and "$PTHREAD_LIBS"]) 281*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ;; 282*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 283*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva -*) 284*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether pthreads work with $ax_pthread_try_flag]) 285*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva PTHREAD_CFLAGS="$ax_pthread_try_flag" 286*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ;; 287*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 288*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva pthread-config) 289*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AC_CHECK_PROG([ax_pthread_config], [pthread-config], [yes], [no]) 290*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AS_IF([test "x$ax_pthread_config" = "xno"], [continue]) 291*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva PTHREAD_CFLAGS="`pthread-config --cflags`" 292*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva PTHREAD_LIBS="`pthread-config --ldflags` `pthread-config --libs`" 293*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ;; 294*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 295*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva *) 296*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AC_MSG_CHECKING([for the pthreads library -l$ax_pthread_try_flag]) 297*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva PTHREAD_LIBS="-l$ax_pthread_try_flag" 298*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ;; 299*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva esac 300*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 301*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" 302*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_pthread_save_LIBS="$LIBS" 303*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS" 304*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS" 305*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 306*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # Check for various functions. We must include pthread.h, 307*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # since some functions may be macros. (On the Sequent, we 308*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # need a special flag -Kthread to make this header compile.) 309*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # We check for pthread_join because it is in -lpthread on IRIX 310*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # while pthread_create is in libc. We check for pthread_attr_init 311*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # due to DEC craziness with -lpthreads. We check for 312*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # pthread_cleanup_push because it is one of the few pthread 313*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # functions on Solaris that doesn't have a non-functional libc stub. 314*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # We try pthread_create on general principles. 315*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 316*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([#include <pthread.h> 317*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# if $ax_pthread_check_cond 318*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# error "$ax_pthread_check_macro must be defined" 319*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# endif 320*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva static void *some_global = NULL; 321*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva static void routine(void *a) 322*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva { 323*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva /* To avoid any unused-parameter or 324*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva unused-but-set-parameter warning. */ 325*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva some_global = a; 326*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva } 327*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva static void *start_routine(void *a) { return a; }], 328*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [pthread_t th; pthread_attr_t attr; 329*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva pthread_create(&th, 0, start_routine, 0); 330*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva pthread_join(th, 0); 331*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva pthread_attr_init(&attr); 332*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva pthread_cleanup_push(routine, 0); 333*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva pthread_cleanup_pop(0) /* ; */])], 334*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [ax_pthread_ok=yes], 335*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva []) 336*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 337*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva CFLAGS="$ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS" 338*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva LIBS="$ax_pthread_save_LIBS" 339*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 340*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AC_MSG_RESULT([$ax_pthread_ok]) 341*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AS_IF([test "x$ax_pthread_ok" = "xyes"], [break]) 342*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 343*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva PTHREAD_LIBS="" 344*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva PTHREAD_CFLAGS="" 345*94c4a1e1SFrank Pivadone 346*94c4a1e1SFrank Pivafi 347*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 348*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 349*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# Clang needs special handling, because older versions handle the -pthread 350*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# option in a rather... idiosyncratic way 351*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 352*94c4a1e1SFrank Pivaif test "x$ax_pthread_clang" = "xyes"; then 353*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 354*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # Clang takes -pthread; it has never supported any other flag 355*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 356*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # (Note 1: This will need to be revisited if a system that Clang 357*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # supports has POSIX threads in a separate library. This tends not 358*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # to be the way of modern systems, but it's conceivable.) 359*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 360*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # (Note 2: On some systems, notably Darwin, -pthread is not needed 361*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # to get POSIX threads support; the API is always present and 362*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # active. We could reasonably leave PTHREAD_CFLAGS empty. But 363*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # -pthread does define _REENTRANT, and while the Darwin headers 364*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # ignore this macro, third-party headers might not.) 365*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 366*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # However, older versions of Clang make a point of warning the user 367*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # that, in an invocation where only linking and no compilation is 368*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # taking place, the -pthread option has no effect ("argument unused 369*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # during compilation"). They expect -pthread to be passed in only 370*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # when source code is being compiled. 371*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # 372*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # Problem is, this is at odds with the way Automake and most other 373*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # C build frameworks function, which is that the same flags used in 374*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # compilation (CFLAGS) are also used in linking. Many systems 375*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # supported by AX_PTHREAD require exactly this for POSIX threads 376*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # support, and in fact it is often not straightforward to specify a 377*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # flag that is used only in the compilation phase and not in 378*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # linking. Such a scenario is extremely rare in practice. 379*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # 380*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # Even though use of the -pthread flag in linking would only print 381*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # a warning, this can be a nuisance for well-run software projects 382*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # that build with -Werror. So if the active version of Clang has 383*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # this misfeature, we search for an option to squash it. 384*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 385*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether Clang needs flag to prevent "argument unused" warning when linking with -pthread], 386*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG_NO_WARN_FLAG], 387*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG_NO_WARN_FLAG=unknown 388*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # Create an alternate version of $ac_link that compiles and 389*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # links in two steps (.c -> .o, .o -> exe) instead of one 390*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # (.c -> exe), because the warning occurs only in the second 391*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # step 392*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_pthread_save_ac_link="$ac_link" 393*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_pthread_sed='s/conftest\.\$ac_ext/conftest.$ac_objext/g' 394*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_pthread_link_step=`AS_ECHO(["$ac_link"]) | sed "$ax_pthread_sed"` 395*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_pthread_2step_ac_link="($ac_compile) && (echo ==== >&5) && ($ax_pthread_link_step)" 396*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" 397*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva for ax_pthread_try in '' -Qunused-arguments -Wno-unused-command-line-argument unknown; do 398*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AS_IF([test "x$ax_pthread_try" = "xunknown"], [break]) 399*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva CFLAGS="-Werror -Wunknown-warning-option $ax_pthread_try -pthread $ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS" 400*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ac_link="$ax_pthread_save_ac_link" 401*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([[int main(void){return 0;}]])], 402*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [ac_link="$ax_pthread_2step_ac_link" 403*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([[int main(void){return 0;}]])], 404*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [break]) 405*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ]) 406*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva done 407*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ac_link="$ax_pthread_save_ac_link" 408*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva CFLAGS="$ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS" 409*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AS_IF([test "x$ax_pthread_try" = "x"], [ax_pthread_try=no]) 410*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG_NO_WARN_FLAG="$ax_pthread_try" 411*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ]) 412*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 413*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva case "$ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG_NO_WARN_FLAG" in 414*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva no | unknown) ;; 415*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva *) PTHREAD_CFLAGS="$ax_cv_PTHREAD_CLANG_NO_WARN_FLAG $PTHREAD_CFLAGS" ;; 416*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva esac 417*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 418*94c4a1e1SFrank Pivafi # $ax_pthread_clang = yes 419*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 420*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 421*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 422*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# Various other checks: 423*94c4a1e1SFrank Pivaif test "x$ax_pthread_ok" = "xyes"; then 424*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" 425*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_pthread_save_LIBS="$LIBS" 426*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS" 427*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS" 428*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 429*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # Detect AIX lossage: JOINABLE attribute is called UNDETACHED. 430*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AC_CACHE_CHECK([for joinable pthread attribute], 431*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR], 432*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR=unknown 433*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva for ax_pthread_attr in PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE PTHREAD_CREATE_UNDETACHED; do 434*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([#include <pthread.h>], 435*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [int attr = $ax_pthread_attr; return attr /* ; */])], 436*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR=$ax_pthread_attr; break], 437*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva []) 438*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva done 439*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ]) 440*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AS_IF([test "x$ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR" != "xunknown" && \ 441*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva test "x$ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR" != "xPTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE" && \ 442*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva test "x$ax_pthread_joinable_attr_defined" != "xyes"], 443*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE], 444*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [$ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR], 445*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [Define to necessary symbol if this constant 446*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva uses a non-standard name on your system.]) 447*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_pthread_joinable_attr_defined=yes 448*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ]) 449*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 450*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether more special flags are required for pthreads], 451*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS], 452*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS=no 453*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva case $host_os in 454*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva solaris*) 455*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS="-D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS" 456*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ;; 457*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva esac 458*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ]) 459*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AS_IF([test "x$ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS" != "xno" && \ 460*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva test "x$ax_pthread_special_flags_added" != "xyes"], 461*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [PTHREAD_CFLAGS="$ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS" 462*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_pthread_special_flags_added=yes]) 463*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 464*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AC_CACHE_CHECK([for PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT], 465*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT], 466*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[#include <pthread.h>]], 467*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [[int i = PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT; 468*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva return i;]])], 469*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT=yes], 470*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT=no]) 471*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ]) 472*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AS_IF([test "x$ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT" = "xyes" && \ 473*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva test "x$ax_pthread_prio_inherit_defined" != "xyes"], 474*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [AC_DEFINE([HAVE_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT], [1], [Have PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT.]) 475*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_pthread_prio_inherit_defined=yes 476*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ]) 477*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 478*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva CFLAGS="$ax_pthread_save_CFLAGS" 479*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva LIBS="$ax_pthread_save_LIBS" 480*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 481*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva # More AIX lossage: compile with *_r variant 482*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva if test "x$GCC" != "xyes"; then 483*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva case $host_os in 484*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva aix*) 485*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AS_CASE(["x/$CC"], 486*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [x*/c89|x*/c89_128|x*/c99|x*/c99_128|x*/cc|x*/cc128|x*/xlc|x*/xlc_v6|x*/xlc128|x*/xlc128_v6], 487*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [#handle absolute path differently from PATH based program lookup 488*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AS_CASE(["x$CC"], 489*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [x/*], 490*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [ 491*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AS_IF([AS_EXECUTABLE_P([${CC}_r])],[PTHREAD_CC="${CC}_r"]) 492*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AS_IF([test "x${CXX}" != "x"], [AS_IF([AS_EXECUTABLE_P([${CXX}_r])],[PTHREAD_CXX="${CXX}_r"])]) 493*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ], 494*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva [ 495*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AC_CHECK_PROGS([PTHREAD_CC],[${CC}_r],[$CC]) 496*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva AS_IF([test "x${CXX}" != "x"], [AC_CHECK_PROGS([PTHREAD_CXX],[${CXX}_r],[$CXX])]) 497*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ] 498*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ) 499*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ]) 500*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ;; 501*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva esac 502*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva fi 503*94c4a1e1SFrank Pivafi 504*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 505*94c4a1e1SFrank Pivatest -n "$PTHREAD_CC" || PTHREAD_CC="$CC" 506*94c4a1e1SFrank Pivatest -n "$PTHREAD_CXX" || PTHREAD_CXX="$CXX" 507*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 508*94c4a1e1SFrank PivaAC_SUBST([PTHREAD_LIBS]) 509*94c4a1e1SFrank PivaAC_SUBST([PTHREAD_CFLAGS]) 510*94c4a1e1SFrank PivaAC_SUBST([PTHREAD_CC]) 511*94c4a1e1SFrank PivaAC_SUBST([PTHREAD_CXX]) 512*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva 513*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva# Finally, execute ACTION-IF-FOUND/ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND: 514*94c4a1e1SFrank Pivaif test "x$ax_pthread_ok" = "xyes"; then 515*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ifelse([$1],,[AC_DEFINE([HAVE_PTHREAD],[1],[Define if you have POSIX threads libraries and header files.])],[$1]) 516*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva : 517*94c4a1e1SFrank Pivaelse 518*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva ax_pthread_ok=no 519*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva $2 520*94c4a1e1SFrank Pivafi 521*94c4a1e1SFrank PivaAC_LANG_POP 522*94c4a1e1SFrank Piva])dnl AX_PTHREAD 523