236695 - nspr does not compile with --enable-user-pthreads

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(NSPR :: NSPR, defect)

Description

[Hubert Chathi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040122 Epiphany/1.0.7
Build Identifier: 

When I try to build nspr (4.4.1) using --enable-user-pthreads, compilation fails
on prlog.c.  (May be the same as Bug 190531, or related to that bug.)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. ./configure --with-mozilla --enable-user-pthreads
2. make

Actual Results:  
...
gcc -o prlog.o -c     -pipe -ansi -Wall -g -fno-inline -fPIC  -UNDEBUG
-DDEBUG_root  -DMOZILLA_CLIENT=1 -DDEBUG=1 -DXP_UNIX=1 -D_POSIX_SOURCE=1
-D_BSD_SOURCE=1 -D_SVID_SOURCE=1 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE=1
-DHAVE_FCNTL_FILE_LOCKING=1 -DLINUX=1 -Di386=1 -DHAVE_LCHOWN=1 -DHAVE_STRERROR=1
 -DFORCE_PR_LOG -DPTHREADS_USER -UHAVE_CVAR_BUILT_ON_SEM -D_NSPR_BUILD_
-I/usr/local/home/hubert/documents/src/cluster/nspr-4.4.1/debian/tmp/usr/include/nspr
-I../../../pr/include -I../../../pr/include/private  prlog.c
prlog.c: In function `PR_LogPrint':
prlog.c:445: warning: implicit declaration of function `_MD_CURRENT_THREAD'
prlog.c:445: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
prlog.c:445: warning: implicit declaration of function `_MD_GET_INTSOFF'
prlog.c:445: warning: implicit declaration of function `_MD_SET_INTSOFF'
prlog.c:463: warning: comparison between pointer and integer
prlog.c:463: warning: implicit declaration of function `_MD_CURRENT_CPU'
prlog.c:463: error: invalid type argument of `->'
prlog.c:463: warning: passing arg 1 of `_PR_IntsOn' makes pointer from integer
without a cast
prlog.c: In function `PR_LogFlush':
prlog.c:470: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
prlog.c:475: warning: comparison between pointer and integer
prlog.c:475: error: invalid type argument of `->'
prlog.c:475: warning: passing arg 1 of `_PR_IntsOn' makes pointer from integer
without a cast
make[4]: *** [prlog.o] Error 1
...

Comment 1

[Wan-Teh Chang]

The --enable-user-pthreads configure option is no
longer supported.  (It was only supported on HP-UX
and AIX before and was never ported to Linux.)

You should configure NSPR without any thread-related
options on Linux.  It'll default to using pthreads.

Comment 2

[Hubert Chathi]

Thanks for the info.  In that case, IMHO, that option should be removed from
configure, or at the very least, it should output an error/warning message.