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7 # AX_PTHREAD([ACTION-IF-FOUND[, ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND]])
11 # This macro figures out how to build C programs using POSIX threads. It
12 # sets the PTHREAD_LIBS output variable to the threads library and linker
13 # flags, and the PTHREAD_CFLAGS output variable to any special C compiler
14 # flags that are needed. (The user can also force certain compiler
15 # flags/libs to be tested by setting these environment variables.)
17 # Also sets PTHREAD_CC to any special C compiler that is needed for
18 # multi-threaded programs (defaults to the value of CC otherwise). (This
19 # is necessary on AIX to use the special cc_r compiler alias.)
21 # NOTE: You are assumed to not only compile your program with these flags,
22 # but also link it with them as well. e.g. you should link with
23 # $PTHREAD_CC $CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS $LDFLAGS ... $PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS
25 # If you are only building threads programs, you may wish to use these
26 # variables in your default LIBS, CFLAGS, and CC:
28 # LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS"
29 # CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
32 # In addition, if the PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE thread-attribute constant
33 # has a nonstandard name, defines PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE to that name
34 # (e.g. PTHREAD_CREATE_UNDETACHED on AIX).
36 # Also HAVE_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT is defined if pthread is found and the
37 # PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT symbol is defined when compiling with
40 # ACTION-IF-FOUND is a list of shell commands to run if a threads library
41 # is found, and ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND is a list of commands to run it if it
42 # is not found. If ACTION-IF-FOUND is not specified, the default action
43 # will define HAVE_PTHREAD.
45 # Please let the authors know if this macro fails on any platform, or if
46 # you have any other suggestions or comments. This macro was based on work
47 # by SGJ on autoconf scripts for FFTW (http://www.fftw.org/) (with help
48 # from M. Frigo), as well as ac_pthread and hb_pthread macros posted by
49 # Alejandro Forero Cuervo to the autoconf macro repository. We are also
50 # grateful for the helpful feedback of numerous users.
52 # Updated for Autoconf 2.68 by Daniel Richard G.
56 # Copyright (c) 2008 Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
57 # Copyright (c) 2011 Daniel Richard G. <skunk@iSKUNK.ORG>
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87 AU_ALIAS([ACX_PTHREAD], [AX_PTHREAD])
88 AC_DEFUN([AX_PTHREAD], [
89 AC_REQUIRE([AC_CANONICAL_HOST])
90 AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_CC])
94 # We used to check for pthread.h first, but this fails if pthread.h
95 # requires special compiler flags (e.g. on Tru64 or Sequent).
96 # It gets checked for in the link test anyway.
98 # First of all, check if the user has set any of the PTHREAD_LIBS,
99 # etcetera environment variables, and if threads linking works using
101 if test x"$PTHREAD_LIBS$PTHREAD_CFLAGS" != x; then
102 save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
103 CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
105 LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS"
106 AC_MSG_CHECKING([for pthread_join using $CC $PTHREAD_CFLAGS $PTHREAD_LIBS])
107 AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_CALL([], [pthread_join])], [ax_pthread_ok=yes])
108 AC_MSG_RESULT([$ax_pthread_ok])
109 if test x"$ax_pthread_ok" = xno; then
114 CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS"
117 # We must check for the threads library under a number of different
118 # names; the ordering is very important because some systems
119 # (e.g. DEC) have both -lpthread and -lpthreads, where one of the
120 # libraries is broken (non-POSIX).
122 # Create a list of thread flags to try. Items starting with a "-" are
123 # C compiler flags, and other items are library names, except for "none"
124 # which indicates that we try without any flags at all, and "pthread-config"
125 # which is a program returning the flags for the Pth emulation library.
127 ax_pthread_flags="pthreads none -Kthread -kthread lthread -pthread -pthreads -mt -mthreads pthread --thread-safe pthread-config"
129 # The ordering *is* (sometimes) important. Some notes on the
130 # individual items follow:
132 # pthreads: AIX (must check this before -lpthread)
133 # none: in case threads are in libc; should be tried before -Kthread and
134 # other compiler flags to prevent continual compiler warnings
135 # -Kthread: Sequent (threads in libc, but -Kthread needed for pthread.h)
136 # -kthread: FreeBSD kernel threads (preferred to -pthread since SMP-able)
137 # lthread: LinuxThreads port on FreeBSD (also preferred to -pthread)
138 # -pthread: Linux/gcc (kernel threads), BSD/gcc (userland threads), Tru64
139 # -pthreads: Solaris/gcc
140 # -mt: Sun Workshop C (may only link SunOS threads [-lthread], but it
141 # doesn't hurt to check since this sometimes defines pthreads and
142 # -D_REENTRANT too), HP C (must be checked before -lpthread, which
143 # is present but should not be used directly)
144 # -mthreads: Mingw32/gcc, Lynx/gcc
145 # pthread: Linux, etcetera
146 # --thread-safe: KAI C++
147 # pthread-config: use pthread-config program (for GNU Pth library)
153 # From the cc(1) man page: "[-mt] Sets various -D flags to enable
154 # multi-threading and also sets -lpthread."
156 ax_pthread_flags="-mt -pthread pthread $ax_pthread_flags"
161 # IBM z/OS requires a feature-test macro to be defined in order to
162 # enable POSIX threads at all, so give the user a hint if this is
163 # not set. (We don't define these ourselves, as they can affect
164 # other portions of the system API in unpredictable ways.)
166 AC_EGREP_CPP([AX_PTHREAD_ZOS_MISSING],
168 # if !defined(_OPEN_THREADS) && !defined(_UNIX03_THREADS)
169 AX_PTHREAD_ZOS_MISSING
172 [AC_MSG_WARN([IBM z/OS requires -D_OPEN_THREADS or -D_UNIX03_THREADS to enable pthreads support.])])
177 # Newer versions of Solaris require the "-mt -lpthread" pair, and we
178 # check that first. On some older versions, libc contains stubbed
179 # (non-functional) versions of the pthreads routines, so link-based
180 # tests will erroneously succeed. (We need to link with -pthreads/-mt/
181 # -lpthread.) (The stubs are missing pthread_cleanup_push, or rather
182 # a function called by this macro, so we could check for that, but
183 # who knows whether they'll stub that too in a future libc.) So
184 # we'll look for -pthreads and -lpthread shortly thereafter.
186 ax_pthread_flags="-mt,pthread -pthreads -pthread pthread $ax_pthread_flags"
190 # Older versions of Clang only give a warning instead of an error for an
191 # unrecognized option, unless we specify -Werror. (We throw in some extra
192 # Clang warning flags for good measure.)
194 AC_CACHE_CHECK([if compiler needs certain flags to reject unknown flags],
195 [ax_cv_PTHREAD_REJECT_UNKNOWN],
196 [ax_cv_PTHREAD_REJECT_UNKNOWN=unknown
197 save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
198 ax_pthread_extra_flags="-Wunknown-warning-option -Wunused-command-line-argument"
199 CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $ax_pthread_extra_flags -Wfoobaz -foobaz"
200 AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([int foo(void);],[foo()])],
201 [ax_cv_PTHREAD_REJECT_UNKNOWN="-Werror $ax_pthread_extra_flags"],
202 [ax_cv_PTHREAD_REJECT_UNKNOWN=no])
203 CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS"
205 ax_pthread_extra_flags=
206 AS_IF([test "x$ax_cv_PTHREAD_REJECT_UNKNOWN" != "xno"],
207 [ax_pthread_extra_flags="$ax_cv_PTHREAD_REJECT_UNKNOWN"])
209 if test x"$ax_pthread_ok" = xno; then
210 for flag in $ax_pthread_flags; do
214 AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether pthreads work without any flags])
218 AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether pthreads work with -mt -lpthread])
220 PTHREAD_LIBS="-lpthread"
224 AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether pthreads work with $flag])
225 PTHREAD_CFLAGS="$flag"
229 AC_CHECK_PROG([ax_pthread_config], [pthread-config], [yes], [no])
230 if test x"$ax_pthread_config" = xno; then continue; fi
231 PTHREAD_CFLAGS="`pthread-config --cflags`"
232 PTHREAD_LIBS="`pthread-config --ldflags` `pthread-config --libs`"
236 AC_MSG_CHECKING([for the pthreads library -l$flag])
237 PTHREAD_LIBS="-l$flag"
242 save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
243 LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS"
244 CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS $ax_pthread_extra_flags"
246 # Check for various functions. We must include pthread.h,
247 # since some functions may be macros. (On the Sequent, we
248 # need a special flag -Kthread to make this header compile.)
249 # We check for pthread_join because it is in -lpthread on IRIX
250 # while pthread_create is in libc. We check for pthread_attr_init
251 # due to DEC craziness with -lpthreads. We check for
252 # pthread_cleanup_push because it is one of the few pthread
253 # functions on Solaris that doesn't have a non-functional libc stub.
254 # We try pthread_create on general principles.
255 AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([#include <pthread.h>
256 static void routine(void *a) { a = 0; }
257 static void *start_routine(void *a) { return a; }],
258 [pthread_t th; pthread_attr_t attr;
259 pthread_create(&th, 0, start_routine, 0);
261 pthread_attr_init(&attr);
262 pthread_cleanup_push(routine, 0);
263 pthread_cleanup_pop(0) /* ; */])],
268 CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS"
270 AC_MSG_RESULT([$ax_pthread_ok])
271 if test "x$ax_pthread_ok" = xyes; then
280 # Various other checks:
281 if test "x$ax_pthread_ok" = xyes; then
283 LIBS="$PTHREAD_LIBS $LIBS"
284 save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
285 CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
287 # Detect AIX lossage: JOINABLE attribute is called UNDETACHED.
288 AC_CACHE_CHECK([for joinable pthread attribute],
289 [ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR],
290 [ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR=unknown
291 for attr in PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE PTHREAD_CREATE_UNDETACHED; do
292 AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([#include <pthread.h>],
293 [int attr = $attr; return attr /* ; */])],
294 [ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR=$attr; break],
298 AS_IF([test "$ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR" != unknown && \
299 test "$ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR" != PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE],
300 [AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE],
301 [$ax_cv_PTHREAD_JOINABLE_ATTR],
302 [Define to necessary symbol if this constant
303 uses a non-standard name on your system.])])
305 AC_CACHE_CHECK([if more special flags are required for pthreads],
306 [ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS],
307 [ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS=no
308 ax_pthread_special_flags_added=no
309 AC_EGREP_CPP([AX_PTHREAD_NEED_SPECIAL_FLAG],
311 # if !defined(_REENTRANT) && !defined(_THREAD_SAFE)
312 AX_PTHREAD_NEED_SPECIAL_FLAG
317 ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS="-D_THREAD_SAFE"
319 darwin* | hpux* | osf* | solaris*)
320 ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS="-D_REENTRANT"
325 AS_IF([test "x$ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS" != "xno" && \
326 test "x$ax_pthread_special_flags_added" != "xyes"],
327 [PTHREAD_CFLAGS="$ax_cv_PTHREAD_SPECIAL_FLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
328 ax_pthread_special_flags_added=yes])
330 AC_CACHE_CHECK([for PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT],
331 [ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT],
332 [AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[#include <pthread.h>]],
333 [[int i = PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT;]])],
334 [ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT=yes],
335 [ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT=no])
337 AS_IF([test "x$ax_cv_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT" = "xyes"],
338 [AC_DEFINE([HAVE_PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT], [1], [Have PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT.])])
341 CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS"
343 # More AIX lossage: compile with *_r variant
344 if test "x$GCC" != xyes; then
348 [x*/c89|x*/c89_128|x*/c99|x*/c99_128|x*/cc|x*/cc128|x*/xlc|x*/xlc_v6|x*/xlc128|x*/xlc128_v6],
349 [#handle absolute path differently from PATH based program lookup
352 [AS_IF([AS_EXECUTABLE_P([${CC}_r])],[PTHREAD_CC="${CC}_r"])],
353 [AC_CHECK_PROGS([PTHREAD_CC],[${CC}_r],[$CC])])])
359 test -n "$PTHREAD_CC" || PTHREAD_CC="$CC"
361 AC_SUBST([PTHREAD_LIBS])
362 AC_SUBST([PTHREAD_CFLAGS])
363 AC_SUBST([PTHREAD_CC])
365 # Finally, execute ACTION-IF-FOUND/ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND:
366 if test x"$ax_pthread_ok" = xyes; then
367 ifelse([$1],,[AC_DEFINE([HAVE_PTHREAD],[1],[Define if you have POSIX threads libraries and header files.])],[$1])