Re: Call for port reports

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr wrote:
> >> UX:acomp: ERREUR: "fe-secure.c", ligne 1316 : prototype mismatch: 2 args passed, 1 expected: sigwait()
>
> > What is your prototype for sigwait()?
>
> Whatever it is, it doesn't agree with the Single Unix Spec:
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/sigwait.html
>
> On HPUX 10.20 I see
>
> #include <pthread.h>
>
> int sigwait(sigset_t *set);
>
> and indeed --enable-thread-safety doesn't work on this platform,
> although we fail the thread safety configure test so there are other
> problems beside sigwait().
>
> My feeling about this is "too bad, we are not supporting threading on
> platforms whose pthread.h doesn't follow SUS".

I think we have to at least test for this in configure and give them an
error message there rather than generating a compile error later.

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