Re: BUG #6166: configure from source fails with 'This platform is not thread-safe.' but was actually /tmp perms

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alex Soto <apsoto(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Here's the section in the config.log in case it makes a difference
>
> > configure:28808: ./conftest
> > Could not create file in /tmp or
> > Could not generate failure for create file in /tmp **
> > exiting
> > configure:28812: $? = 1
> > configure: program exited with status 1
>
> [ greps... ] Oh, that error is coming from src/test/thread/thread_test.c.
>
> I wonder why we have that trying to write to /tmp at all, when all the
> other transient junk generated by configure is in the current directory.
> Bruce, do you have a good reason for doing it that way?

No idea --- using the current directory is probably best.

> (The error message seems to be suffering from a bad case of copy-and-
> paste-itis, too.)

OK, let me see if I can fix this.

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