[PORTS] ./configure problems on Fedora Core 8

I've asked on the Fedora Forums and the postgres IRC channel but haven't received any feedback. I'm guessing there's just a library I'm missing and I've tried this in 8.1.x, 8.2.6 and now 8.3.0 with the same result so at least that's consistent. But when I do a './configure --enable-thread-safety', it eventually bombs out saying:

   ...
   checking for sgmlspl... sgmlspl
   checking thread safety of required library functions... no    configure: error: thread test program failed    This platform is not thread-safe. Check the file 'config.log'for the exact reason.

Upon checking the config.log, it says:

| #define MEMSET_LOOP_LIMIT 1024

   | /* end confdefs.h. */
| #include "./src/test/thread/thread_test.c"
   configure:22450: result: no
   configure:22459: error: thread test program failed    This platform is not thread-safe. Check the file 'config.log'for the exact reason.

Google searches show some posts where there have been instances where thread_test.c doesn't actually exist but this isn't the case here. This completes successfully on an old and obsolete FC4 system so I think it's just that I'm missing a particular safe thread library or something. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

Carlos

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               http://archives.postgresql.org Received on Wed Feb 6 11:54:19 2008

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