configure failure os x

[Matthias Andree]

Michael Kenneth Ter Louw <mterlo1 at uic.edu> writes:

> I had the same problem when running Bogofilter configure on an AIX
> machine.  The config.log showed that gcc was returning errors related to
> the pthread library.

Can you quote from that file?

> I could try it again and post the exact error messages if it would
> help.  BerkeleyDB built fine, so I looked in its configure file and
> there was extensive checking for thread-related stuff.  I manually
> edited Bogofilter's configure file to use xlc_r with the -pthread
> option instead of gcc

Hum, I'm ignorant about xlc_r, but bogofilter does not make use of
(POSIX) threads.

> (I don't know where I saw this, it might have
> been from BerkeleyDB's generated Makefile) and I got configure to run
> successfully, but then I would get errors when running make.

Can you remember these? Do these occur without the -pthread option to
xlc_r? what is this xlc_r anyways?

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Matthias Andree