Re: Configure with thread sanitizer fails the thread test

On 2021-Jul-23, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> On 2021-Jul-23, Mikhail Matrosov wrote:
>
> > I am not sure what is the proper fix for the issue, but I at least suggest
> > to disable this test when building with thread sanitizer:
> > https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/pull/6472/files#diff-b8639f81e30f36c8ba29a0878f1ef4d9f1552293bc9098ebb9b429ddb1f0935f
>
> Here's the proposed patch. Patches posted to the mailing list by their
> authors proposed for inclusion are considered to be under the PostgreSQL
> license, but this patch hasn't been posted by the author so let's assume
> they're not authorizing them to use it. (Otherwise, why wouldn't they
> just post it here instead of doing the absurdly convoluted dance of a
> github PR?)

... that said, I wonder why would we do this in the thread_test program
rather than in configure itself. Wouldn't it make more sense for the
configure test to be skipped altogether (marking the result as
thread-safe) when running under thread sanitizer, if there's a way to
detect that?

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