Commit 243942a7 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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Detect AIX 4.3 or later, and if found disable the check for the thread-safe 

*_r() functions as they're not needed (and if fact mess things up for us).
Brought to our attention by the friendly Troels Walsted Hansen in bug report
#696217.
parent 8d5ac8b4

configure.in

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dnl Default is to try the thread-safe versions of a few functions

OPT_THREAD=on



dnl detect AIX 4.3 or later

dnl see full docs on this reasoning in the lib/hostip.c source file

AC_MSG_CHECKING([AIX 4.3 or later])

AC_PREPROC_IFELSE([

#if defined(_AIX) && defined(_AIX43)

printf("just fine");

#else

#error "this is not AIX 4.3 or later"

#endif

],

 [ AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])

   OPT_THREAD=off ],

 [ AC_MSG_RESULT([no]) ]

)



AC_ARG_ENABLE(thread,dnl

[  --disable-thread       tell configure to not look for thread-safe functions],

  OPT_THREAD=off