configure failure os x

[Michael K. Ter Louw]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, David Relson wrote:

> I gather that "cc" is a different compiler than xlc_r and that there's no
> gcc on your system.  Correct?

I forgot to mention, I tried cc and c89 and neither setting would enable
configure to finish successfully.  gcc appears to be there, running 'gcc'
returns 'gcc: No input files'.  Bogofilter's configure would successfully
compile some small programs using gcc, but would cause an error when
compiling the BerkeleyDB test app (which is just a simple call to
db_create() and then exit).  I have a feeling that BerkeleyDB's configure
detected some kind of multi-threading support on this system, and then
enabled it, causing anything that linked to BerkeleyDB to require the
threading dependency to be resolved (which, to my knowledge, could only be
done by using the xlc_r compiler).  Maybe this could have been worked
around by configuring Berkeley with --without=pthread or something...

Mike