Worked through some troubles on irc last night, thought I would post it in case anyone else sees something similar.
system is Slackware 8.1, Linux phppgadmin 2.4.18 #2 Fri May 31 01:21:23 PDT 2002 i586 unknown ./configure was run with '--prefix=/usr/local/pgsql-8.0.0' '--enable-debug' '--enable-depend' '--enable-cassert' '--enable-thread-safety' '--with-tcl' '--without-tk' '--with-python' which worked fine on 7.0 - 7.4, and seemed to work ok, however when running make I got the following: make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/postgresql-8.0.0beta1/src/port' gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -DFRONTEND -I../../../src/interfaces/libpq -I../../../src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -c -o initdb.o initdb.c -MMD rm -f dirmod.c && ln -s ../../../src/port/dirmod.c . gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -DFRONTEND -I../../../src/interfaces/libpq -I../../../src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -c -o dirmod.o dirmod.c -MMD rm -f exec.c && ln -s ../../../src/port/exec.c . gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -DFRONTEND -I../../../src/interfaces/libpq -I../../../src/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -c -o exec.o exec.c -MMD gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations initdb.o dirmod.o exec.o -L../../../src/interfaces/libpq -lpq -L../../../src/port -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/pgsql-8.0.0/lib -lpgport -lz -lreadline -ltermcap -lcrypt -lresolv -lnsl -ldl -lm -o initdb ../../../src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.so: undefined reference to `pthread_getspecific' ../../../src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.so: undefined reference to `pthread_once' ../../../src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.so: undefined reference to `pthread_key_create' ../../../src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.so: undefined reference to `pthread_setspecific' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [initdb] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/postgresql-8.0.0beta1/src/bin/initdb' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/postgresql-8.0.0beta1/src/bin' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/postgresql-8.0.0beta1/src' make: *** [all] Error 2 so I went back and checked the relevant parts of configure which told me: checking for the pthreads library -lpthreads... no checking whether pthreads work without any flags... no checking whether pthreads work with -Kthread... no checking whether pthreads work with -kthread... no checking for the pthreads library -llthread... no checking whether pthreads work with -pthread... yes checking for joinable pthread attribute... PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE checking if more special flags are required for pthreads... no checking for cc_r... gcc checking pthread.h usability... yes checking pthread.h presence... yes checking for pthread.h... yes but I was pretty sure I had lpthread library on my machine (and verified this with some help from irc). however Makefile.global told me PTHREAD_CFLAGS = -pthread -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS PTHREAD_LIBS = so I added -lpthread to the PTHREAD_LIBS line and it all compiled ok and passed regression. one theory of where the problem lies focused on this bit of config.log: configure:13260: checking for the pthreads library -lpthreads configure:13301: gcc -o conftest -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -g -D_GNU_SOURCE conftest.c -lpthreads -lz -lreadline -ltermcap -lcrypt -lresolv -lnsl -ldl -lm >&5 /usr/i386-slackware-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lpthreads collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:13304: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: noteably that it should have been using -lpthread not -lpthreads. that might be a typo, or might be some type of configure error since I know some platforms use -lpthreads, but I'm not sure, maybe someone else can put the info to good use. -- Robert Treat Build A Better Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly