[OE-core] [PATCH v1] site: enable pthread support for x86_64 APR builds

[Khem Raj]

On Mar 18, 2016 4:38 AM, "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
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> On 18 March 2016 at 00:22, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Which is interesting as building apr-native (so the site files don't
get used) for x86-64 gives:
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>>> apr_cv_process_shared_works=yes
>>>
>>> Can we not go around disabling stuff when it actually does work?
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>> No it really doesnt work. its running a configure time test on your
build host ( which I assume is x86_64 mostly now
>> a days) and then deciding that process shared mutexes work, which is not
correct.
>>
>> If we think that it should work on x86_64 then lets cache the value to
‘yes’ but not leave it
>> at the mercy of configure.
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> That was my point: the patch was to add works=no to x86-64 target builds,
but if I run the same test on x86-64 hardware directly then the result is
works=yes.

Actually it depends on libc implementation of process shared mutexes. So
glibc for most arches should set it yes. Musl doesnt have it. So that
should be no mostly
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> Ross
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