Mono 5 on Solaris Build issues - mono

Question

I am trying to build Mono on Solaris 10 and have ran into an issue with error "Posix system lacks support for recursive mutexes". I am trying to build this with gcc 3.4.3 and I have installed gmake, gar, granlib, and gstrip to replace their Solaris alternatives. I have found a possible solution, but I can not locate the blog that references this line "1) patch /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gthread-2.0.pc to replace the -mt option (see Jonel's blog)" located at https://lists.dot.net/pipermail/mono-list/2007-January/034101.html. The blog is no longer active. Does anyone have any ideas what the patch they are referring to may be? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Solaris 10 does support recursive mutexes.
Per the Solaris 10 pthread_mutexattr_settype man page:
PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE
A thread attempting to relock this mutex without first unlocking it
will succeed in locking the mutex. The relocking deadlock that can
occur with mutexes of type PTHREAD_MUTEX_NORMAL cannot occur with
this type of mutex. Multiple locks of this mutex require the same
number of unlocks to release the mutex before another thread can
acquire the mutex. A thread attempting to unlock a mutex that another
thread has locked will return with an error. A thread attempting to
unlock an unlocked mutex will return with an error. This type of mutex
is only supported for mutexes whose process shared attribute is
PTHREAD_PROCESS_PRIVATE.
Also per the man page, the required compile/link options, and the proper #include statement:
cc –mt [ flag... ] file... –lpthread [ library... ]
#include <pthread.h>
Note the addition of -lpthread. I suspect the blog you're referring to said to replace -mt with -mt -lpthread.

Answer 2

(A bit more research into this problem, prodded by the Unix question How to install .net Mono on Solaris 11 (source code compile)? produced this answer, which I'm repeating here.)
The exact value that you set _XOPEN_SOURCE to doesn't matter. Mono is incorrectly defining the _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED macro:
case "${host}" in
*solaris* )
AC_MSG_CHECKING(for Solaris XPG4 support)
if test -f /usr/lib/libxnet.so; then
CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600"
CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -D__EXTENSIONS__"
CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED=1" <-- WRONG
LIBS="$LIBS -lxnet"
The _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED macro does not exist in either the POSIX 6 or the POSIX 7 standard.
Even Linux agrees that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED should not be defined here. Per the Linux feature_test_macros man page:
_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
If this macro is defined, and _XOPEN_SOURCE is defined, then expose definitions corresponding to the XPG4v2 (SUSv1) UNIX extensions (UNIX 95). Defining _XOPEN_SOURCE with a value of 500 or more also produces the same effect as defining _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED. Use of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED in new source code should be avoided.
Since defining _XOPEN_SOURCE with a value of 500 or more has the same effect as defining _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, the latter (obsolete) feature test macro is generally not described in the SYNOPSIS in man pages.
Note the precise wording:
If this macro (_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED) is defined, and _XOPEN_SOURCE is defined, then expose definitions corresponding to the XPG4v2 (SUSv1) UNIX extensions (UNIX 95). ...
Defining _XOPEN_SOURCE to any value while also defining _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED results in XPG4v2, and that's NOT the XPG6 necessary to get recursive mutexes.
You're likely running into this check in the Solaris 11 /usr/include/sys/feature_tests.h:
/*
* It is invalid to compile an XPG3, XPG4, XPG4v2, or XPG5 application
* using c99. The same is true for POSIX.1-1990, POSIX.2-1992, POSIX.1b,
* and POSIX.1c applications. Likewise, it is invalid to compile an XPG6
* or a POSIX.1-2001 application with anything other than a c99 or later
* compiler. Therefore, we force an error in both cases.
*/
#if defined(_STDC_C99) && (defined(__XOPEN_OR_POSIX) && !defined(_XPG6))
#error "Compiler or options invalid for pre-UNIX 03 X/Open applications \
and pre-2001 POSIX applications"
#elif !defined(_STDC_C99) && \
(defined(__XOPEN_OR_POSIX) && defined(_XPG6))
#error "Compiler or options invalid; UNIX 03 and POSIX.1-2001 applications \
require the use of c99"
#endif
_XPG6 gets defined earlier in the file, in this block:
/*
* Use of _XOPEN_SOURCE
*
* The following X/Open specifications are supported:
*
* X/Open Portability Guide, Issue 3 (XPG3)
* X/Open CAE Specification, Issue 4 (XPG4)
* X/Open CAE Specification, Issue 4, Version 2 (XPG4v2)
* X/Open CAE Specification, Issue 5 (XPG5)
* Open Group Technical Standard, Issue 6 (XPG6), also referred to as
* IEEE Std. 1003.1-2001 and ISO/IEC 9945:2002.
*
* XPG4v2 is also referred to as UNIX 95 (SUS or SUSv1).
* XPG5 is also referred to as UNIX 98 or the Single Unix Specification,
* Version 2 (SUSv2)
* XPG6 is the result of a merge of the X/Open and POSIX specifications
* and as such is also referred to as IEEE Std. 1003.1-2001 in
* addition to UNIX 03 and SUSv3.
*
* When writing a conforming X/Open application, as per the specification
* requirements, the appropriate feature test macros must be defined at
* compile time. These are as follows. For more info, see standards(5).
*
* Feature Test Macro Specification
* ------------------------------------------------ -------------
* _XOPEN_SOURCE XPG3
* _XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_VERSION = 4 XPG4
* _XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED = 1 XPG4v2
* _XOPEN_SOURCE = 500 XPG5
* _XOPEN_SOURCE = 600 (or POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112L) XPG6
*
* In order to simplify the guards within the headers, the following
* implementation private test macros have been created. Applications
* must NOT use these private test macros as unexpected results will
* occur.
*
* Note that in general, the use of these private macros is cumulative.
* For example, the use of _XPG3 with no other restrictions on the X/Open
* namespace will make the symbols visible for XPG3 through XPG6
* compilation environments. The use of _XPG4_2 with no other X/Open
* namespace restrictions indicates that the symbols were introduced in
* XPG4v2 and are therefore visible for XPG4v2 through XPG6 compilation
* environments, but not for XPG3 or XPG4 compilation environments.
*
* _XPG3 X/Open Portability Guide, Issue 3 (XPG3)
* _XPG4 X/Open CAE Specification, Issue 4 (XPG4)
* _XPG4_2 X/Open CAE Specification, Issue 4, Version 2 (XPG4v2/UNIX 95/SUS)
* _XPG5 X/Open CAE Specification, Issue 5 (XPG5/UNIX 98/SUSv2)
* _XPG6 Open Group Technical Standard, Issue 6 (XPG6/UNIX 03/SUSv3)
*/
/* X/Open Portability Guide, Issue 3 */
#if defined(_XOPEN_SOURCE) && (_XOPEN_SOURCE - 0 < 500) && \
(_XOPEN_VERSION - 0 < 4) && !defined(_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED)
#define _XPG3
/* X/Open CAE Specification, Issue 4 */
#elif (defined(_XOPEN_SOURCE) && _XOPEN_VERSION - 0 == 4)
#define _XPG4
#define _XPG3
/* X/Open CAE Specification, Issue 4, Version 2 */
#elif (defined(_XOPEN_SOURCE) && _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED - 0 == 1)
#define _XPG4_2
#define _XPG4
#define _XPG3
/* X/Open CAE Specification, Issue 5 */
#elif (_XOPEN_SOURCE - 0 == 500)
#define _XPG5
#define _XPG4_2
#define _XPG4
#define _XPG3
#undef _POSIX_C_SOURCE
#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 199506L
/* Open Group Technical Standard , Issue 6 */
#elif (_XOPEN_SOURCE - 0 == 600) || (_POSIX_C_SOURCE - 0 == 200112L)
#define _XPG6
#define _XPG5
#define _XPG4_2
#define _XPG4
#define _XPG3
#undef _POSIX_C_SOURCE
#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200112L
#undef _XOPEN_SOURCE
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600
#endif