On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Tor Arntsen wrote:

> It's not dectecting it, and worse -- it doesn't even try. I can't figure
> out why. The same 'configure' script that did 'checking for strerror_r' on
> my Linux box doesn't do that check when executed on AIX, and I can't figure
> out why.

It is rather simple, since the check for the function fails, the second check
doesn't run. That additional check is only to detect if we need a define to
get the function declared in the headers.

If the test fails, we need an additional test to define _THREAD_SAFE and see
if it can link with the strerror_r() then.

Eeeeeek. No!

Now I remember why this happens.

Gee, and this _after_ I wrote an additional and more advanced configure test!

For AIX "4.3 or later" we don't check for thread-safe versions of functions
since AIX since then have the "original" functions remade in a thread-safe
manner!

So, strerror() it is for AIX!

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