Mon Jun 14 18:38:34 CEST 2004 Paolo Molaro <lupus@ximian.com>

	* configure.in: better explain that --with-nptl is not related to
	NPTL, but to __thread support. Set sigaltstack support to off by
	default.

svn path=/trunk/mono/; revision=29509

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+
+Mon Jun 14 18:38:34 CEST 2004 Paolo Molaro <lupus@ximian.com>
+
+	* configure.in: better explain that --with-nptl is not related to
+	NPTL, but to __thread support. Set sigaltstack support to off by
+	default.
+
 2004-06-12  Raja R Harinath  <harinath@acm.org>
 
 	* Makefile.am (populate-runtime-subdir): Add _tmpinst directory

configure.in

@@ -246,14 +246,15 @@ AC_SUBST(GMODULE_LIBS)
 
 AC_ARG_WITH(gc, [  --with-gc=boehm,included,none],[gc=$with_gc],[gc=$gc_default])
 
-# Enable support for NPTL only features like fast thread-local storage
-# We can't reliably detect nptl at compile & run time
-# so this option will stay until nptl becomes more widespread
-AC_ARG_WITH(nptl, [  --with-nptl=yes,no      enable/disable support for NPTL],[],[with_nptl=yes])
+# Enable support for fast thread-local storage
+# Some systems have broken support, so we allow to disable it.
+# This is misnamed: __thread support has no relation to NPTL,
+# but people already use it...
+AC_ARG_WITH(nptl, [  --with-nptl=yes,no      enable/disable support for __thread support],[],[with_nptl=yes])
 
 # Enable support for using sigaltstack for SIGSEGV and stack overflow handling
 # This does not work on some platforms (bug #55253)
-AC_ARG_WITH(sigaltstack, [  --with-sigaltstack=yes,no      enable/disable support for sigaltstack],[],[with_sigaltstack=yes])
+AC_ARG_WITH(sigaltstack, [  --with-sigaltstack=yes,no      enable/disable support for sigaltstack],[],[with_sigaltstack=no])
 
 # assembly bundle support, see metadata/make-bundle.pl for more info
 AC_ARG_WITH(bundle, [  --with-bundle=bundle_template],[
@@ -1258,7 +1259,7 @@ echo "
 
 	GC:	     $gc
 	ICU:	     $enable_icu
-	NPTL:        $with_nptl
+	__thread:    $with_nptl
 	SIGALTSTACK: $with_sigaltstack
 	Engine:      $jit_status
 	2.0 Alpha:   $PREVIEW