configure: require __thread support
The codebase doesn't build without __thread support.
Formalise this requirement by adding a check for it in the
configure script.
Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 75a4def..40bc49a 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1556,6 +1556,17 @@
fi
fi
+# Unconditional check for compiler __thread support
+ cat > $TMPC << EOF
+static __thread int tls_var;
+int main(void) { return tls_var; }
+EOF
+
+if ! compile_prog "-Werror" "" ; then
+ error_exit "Your compiler does not support the __thread specifier for " \
+ "Thread-Local Storage (TLS). Please upgrade to a version that does."
+fi
+
if test "$pie" = ""; then
case "$cpu-$targetos" in
i386-Linux|x86_64-Linux|x32-Linux|i386-OpenBSD|x86_64-OpenBSD)
