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Re: AC_TRY_LINK


> Those tests are necessary to ensure that you have everything you need for
> libpthread to work right.  If you need to get around them for bootstrapping
> purposes, you can hand-prime a config.cache file to preempt the test.  You
> only have to do this in the very first glibc build.  After that you should
> be able to have enough installed for a vanilla configure and build to work
> right.

Assuming a non NPTL build will continue to work (either no threads or
linuxthreads), we could make the first pass use it. Still, it would be
nice to fix those 2 NPTL tests to not requiring linking.

Anton


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