RE: "configure: error: the compiler must support C cleanup handling"

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com>]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Dave Korn wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   i *think* i'm isolating the whole threads-related issue i'm having
> > in trying to build a toolchain with NPTL support using recent versions
> > of all the GNU software.
>
> [  Caveat here: I don't use glibc much myself, so this is generic advice.  ]
>
> >   using my stripped-down version of crosstool, the first error was
> > that, in building the bootstrap-gcc (whose configuration included the
> > option "--enable-threads=yes")
>
>   Why, if you are trying to build a non-thread-supporting libc, are
> you not using --enable-threads=no?  Re your earlier post, it's
> probably not enough to simply "not select" thread support; the
> default may well be "enabled".

ok, dumb question time -- does NPTL support not imply that i'm trying
to build with "threads"?  just not "linuxthreads"?  or have i totally
misunderstood this the whole time?

rday

p.s.  the goal is, of course, to determine the incantation to build
in support for NPTL but *not* linuxthreads.

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