ML mail wrote:
> I am not really a programmer and have not much clues about 
> C/C++/Makefiles so I thought I may attach you the config.log file which 
> the configure script generated. Could you maybe have a quick look if you 
> can see where the problem is ? I've attached it as gzip to this mail.

Uhhh... looking at the output of config.log, I'm not sure I trust this 
output to mean "your platform is not thread safe" - more like "something 
went spoink, and that's what we were doing at the time".

I've just tried CC=gcc ./configure --enable-thread-safety 
--without-readline on a Solaris9 sparc box here, and I don't get the 
same issue.

What I find really odd in your results is this:
configure:22452: checking thread safety of required library functions
configure:22480: gcc -o conftest -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes 
-Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing  -pthreads 
   -pthreads  -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS 
-DIN_CONFIGURE -I/opt/sfw/include  -I/opt/sfw/include -L/opt/sfw/lib 
-R/opt/sfw/lib  -L/opt/sfw/lib conftest.c -lz -lreadline -ltermcap -lrt 
-lresolv -lgen -lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm   -lpthread      -lpthread    >&5
conftest.c:135:44: ./src/tools/thread/thread_test.c: No such file or 
directory

 From the location where you ran configure, can you check that 
./src/tools/thread/thread_test.c actually exists? It certainly does 
here. If that's missing, perhaps your source is incomplete?

Regards, Philip.