Re: 8.3beta2 fails to compile on Centos5 x86_64

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

"Marcel Gsteiger" <Marcel(dot)Gsteiger(at)milprog(dot)ch> writes:
> Trying to rebuild postgresql-8.3beta2-1PGDG.f7.src.rpm on my Centos 5.0 x86_64, I get the error "your platform is not thread safe" during config. When I use the --enable-thread-safety-force option, the build fails with the message
> undefined reference to pthread_sigmask
> during the libpq compile.

Do you have glibc-devel installed?  It sounds like you might be missing
/usr/lib64/libpthread.so, which is in that RPM.  However, we do
BuildRequire glibc-devel, so I'm not sure how you managed to try to
build the RPM without it.

			regards, tom lane