[svn-r21722] Reverted part of 20894. Due to big test failure on an older CentOS 4.6 system (compiled with gcc 4.6.2), we will no longer link to the bsd-compat library. Tested on jam (32-bit linux) and koala (64-bit linux). Threadsafe and parallel were also tested on both platforms.

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 3f7c653..afafc15 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #! /bin/sh
-# From configure.in Id: configure.in 21692 2011-10-30 14:39:32Z hdftest .
+# From configure.in Id: configure.in 21721 2011-11-06 14:02:33Z hdftest .
 # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
 # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.68 for HDF5 1.9.98.
 #
@@ -22666,8 +22666,7 @@ case "$host_cpu-$host_vendor-$host_os" in
 
                                                                 H5_CPPFLAGS="-D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L $H5_CPPFLAGS"
 
-                            AM_CPPFLAGS="-D_BSD_SOURCE $AM_CPPFLAGS"
-    AM_LDFLAGS="-lbsd-compat $AM_LDFLAGS"
+                                    AM_CPPFLAGS="-D_BSD_SOURCE $AM_CPPFLAGS"
     ;;
 esac
 
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 00ceb07..3992711 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1463,8 +1463,9 @@ case "$host_cpu-$host_vendor-$host_os" in
     dnl correctly in <stdio.h>
     dnl Linking to the bsd-compat library is required as per the gcc manual:
     dnl http://www.gnu.org/s/libc/manual/html_node/Feature-Test-Macros.html
+    dnl however, we do not do this since it breaks the big test on some 
+    dnl older platforms.
     AM_CPPFLAGS="-D_BSD_SOURCE $AM_CPPFLAGS"
-    AM_LDFLAGS="-lbsd-compat $AM_LDFLAGS"
     ;;
 esac