RE: building a toolchain when i say i *don't* *want* *threads*

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

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Dave Korn wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   i posted on this a while back but here's a bit more detail -- i'm
> > hoping someone can clear up the confusion.  once again, just as a test
> > case building for SH3, and using some fairly stable versions of
> > software:
> >
> > 	gcc-4.0.2
> > 	glibc-2.3.5
> > 	binutils-2.16.1
> >
> > i configured all of the glibc and gcc steps to not configure thread
> > support and the build made it all the way to trying to build glibc,
> > and:
>
> > i guess the obvious question is, given that i've tried really, really
> > hard to not include thread support, it's obvious that fatal-prepare.h
> > including pthread.h is going to cause problems of some kind.
> >
> >   have i misconfigured something in an earlier stage of the build?
> > this is for SH3, i'm going to try again with, say, ppc just to see
> > what happens there.
>
>
>   I think your best bet now is probably to make inquiries on the
> glibc list as to whether it should be possible to build a completely
> thread-free version and if so how; I don't think we're going to work
> it out here, it's best to get the lowdown from the folks who really
> know.  Probably libc-ports is the one to try; you're likely to find
> the SH maintainer there.

i just tried the same build for PPC and got the exact same error so
it's not just an SH thing.  off the the libc-ports list.  thanks.

rday

p.s.  i'll post shortly about a workaround, but it's a workaround you
shouldn't need.

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