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

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

  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.

  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"), i got the error:

In file included from ./gthr-default.h:1, from
/home/rpjday/results/edge/build-tools/gcc-4.1-20051022/gcc/gthr.h:114,
                 from
/home/rpjday/results/edge/build-tools/gcc-4.1-20051022/gcc/unwind-dw2.c:42:
/home/rpjday/results/edge/build-tools/gcc-4.1-20051022/gcc/gthr-posix.h:43:21:
error: pthread.h: No such file or directory

   hmmm ... no file "pthread.h"?  check all of the glibc header files
installed by the previous step under sys-root and, sure enough, no
pthread.h, so i'm assuming i didn't configure that previous step
properly to install pthread.h along with everything else.

  so how do i configure the glibc-headers step to install pthread.h?
as a wild guess, i'll add "--enable-add-ons=nptl" to the configure
step for the glibc headers, and re-run the build from scratch, at
which point i get:

...
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... sh3-unknown-linux-gnu
running configure fragment for add-on nptl
...
checking for SH TLS support... yes
running configure fragment for nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux
running configure fragment for nptl/sysdeps/pthread
checking for forced unwind support... yes
checking for C cleanup handling... no
configure: error: the compiler must support C cleanup handling
make[1]: ***
[/home/rpjday/results/edge/build-tools/build-glibc-headers/config.status]
Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/rpjday/results/edge/build-tools/glibc-20051024'
make: *** [install-headers] Error 2


  "the compiler must support C cleanup handling"?   a quick google
session brings me to this:

http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/glibc/patches/5070_all_cross-compile-nptl.patch

a quick recursive grep of the entire patches directory shows no patch
that refers to "libc_cv_c_cleanup" so i'm initially assuming that
there is no patch to handle this yet.

  time for more research.  thoughts?  is that gentoo patch a candidate
for fixing this?  mike?

rday

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