On Sunday, February 03, 2013 02:20:10 PM James Peach wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> If you are trying to build ATS on Mac OS X using clang, then you are likely
> to get the following error:
> 
>       clang: error: argument unused during compilation: '-pthread'


On Solaris *our* buildsystem (not libtool, or pcre, or autoconf, our own 
configure.ac) always adds -mt to the the compiler options if it's unable to 
determine that the compiler is EXACTLY "gcc".

> After spending an thoroughly enjoyable afternoon grovelling around libtool
> internals, it turns out that this is caused by a build error that libtool
> propagates from libpcre. If you are on a recent Mac Ports, then you will
> find that the inherited_linker_flags line of /opt/local/lib/libpcre.la sets
> the -pthread option. Comment out this line to make the build work.
> 
> I filed https://trac.macports.org/ticket/37916
> 
> J

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