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new snapshot available: grep-2.14.51-7a35

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Message #62 received at 15690 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 15690 <15690 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, platform-testers <at> gnu.org,
 Ineiev <ineiev <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#15690: [platform-testers] new snapshot available:
 grep-2.14.51-7a35
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 22:50:51 -0700

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Ineiev wrote:
>>         gcc -std=gnu11   -g -O2   -o grep grep.o libgrep.a  ../lib/libgreputils.a -lintl ../lib/libgreputils.a -liconv
>> ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .pthread_mutex_init
>> and so on.
>
> Yeowch.  This looks like a serious problem on AIX -- grep won't
> build at at all.  And it's in the pthreadlib configuration code,
> which I don't pretend to understand.  Why does grep care about
> pthreadlib at all?

Yes, that is unfortunate for a package with only single-theaded
programs, like grep.
The "lock" module depends on threadlib, which checks for pthread.h and
may add -pthread.
Several gnulib modules depend on "lock".

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