/usr/include/bits/initspin.h empty?

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 16:14 -0800, vincent stay wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using a fedora 6 installation which I upgraded from fedora 5. I'm
> trying to run a cadence tool (NCSC) which comes with its own gnu
> compiler but it seems to need this file (/usr/include/bits/initspin.h)
> and mine says "No thread support". ncsc seems to need a
> LOCK_INITIALIZER to be defined in this file. Any ideas what's wrong?
> Under a redhat setup I have this include file has the right stuff in
> it but I'm really hesitant to go through another install cycle on this
> machine not to mention the expense. Where does
> the /usr/include/bits/initspin.h come from and why is mine currently
> saying no thread support ? My current setup seems to like the dual
> core cpu I have. 

FC 4, 5 and 6 use pthread (POSIX thread)support, not the old nptl
thread stuff found in earlier releases.  You may need to redo your
"./configure" to have it recognize pthread support or update your
cadence tool.

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