How to enable thread-local storage?

How does one enable thread-local storage?

I'm in the process of adding an updated glibc to my system (with prefix
/usr/local/glibc2.4/, so not to break anything using the old glibc that
came with this redhat box.)

First, I had to get the newest GCC, version 4.1.1, so I compiled it with
this configure line:

../gcc/configure --prefix=/usr/local/gcc4 --enable-threads=posix

It built, and make install then succeeded and from there, I went to
build glibc 2.4:

../glibc-2.4/configure --prefix=/usr/local/glibc2.4 --enable-addons
CC=/usr/local/gcc4/bin/gcc

In the the middle of the "checking" list I noticed "checking for
__thread... no" but it keeps going until this:


checking for __thread... no

Stan R. <stan@invalid.blz/hmrprint/com.com> wrote:
[...]

Please don't multipost (post the same question in more than one newsgroup).

I wrote an answer in comp.os.linux.misc

Laurenz Albe

Laurenz Albe wrote:[color=blue]
> Stan R. <stan@invalid.blz/hmrprint/com.com> wrote:
> [...]
>
> Please don't multipost (post the same question in more than one
> newsgroup).
>
> I wrote an answer in comp.os.linux.misc
>
> Laurenz Albe[/color]

Sorry I've been having problems with my news server (it keeps telling me
the posting failed, never saw it show up, so I tried another group
(sorry), got same results, and low and behold they both show up today...
normally it shows up with in 5 minutes... oh well. My apologies.

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Stan