[odb-users] Build error on CentOS 6

[Dave Johansen]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Boris Kolpackov <boris at codesynthesis.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> Boris Kolpackov <boris at codesynthesis.com> writes:
>
> > I am trying to confirm this on FC17 right now.
>
> I tried it on FC17 and everything builds fine, no undefined
> pthread_cancel symbol. I also read that mailing list thread
> further and it seems that they finally realized it is a bug
> in the toolchain. See this post:
>
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-January/129131.html
>
> So I guess it has been fixed in later FC versions. Can you
> confirm that everything builds fine on CentOS 6 if you pass
> the --disable-threads option to libcutl configure?

It did build just fine with the --disable-threads option, but I have
two questions:
1) Does this disable any features or change any functionality?
2) Why wasn't this necessary with 1.7.0? It seems like a point release
shouldn't have such big changes in the build behavior.