On Feb 24, 2005, at 13:32, I wrote:
> (You might not need to disable the thread support; threads.c always
> gets compiled first, but just shouldn't do anything interesting after
> including some header files if the thread support is turned off, and it
> was the info on shared-library support in those headers that caused the
> failure the first time.)

(Getting this on record...)

I forgot the original message mentioned that the thread configuration 
code didn't work.

With a guest account I've looked at that and found that there is no 
pthread.h on this system, so, yeah, disabling thread support is a must. 
  (There are man pages for the thread routines; the sample code in them 
starts with including this non-existent header file.)

Testing now (running configure, as I type) with gcc (2.7!) and 
CPPFLAGS=-D__STDC_EXT__.

Ken